Nettle Sans

Typeface Design

Nettle Sans Typeface. Displayed text demonstrates some different words in the typeface

Nettle Sans Typeface. Demonstration of some sample text from Homer's Odyssey, the alphabet, and some alternate character styles.

Nettle Sans Typeface. Demonstrating the typeface in use on soda/softdrink cans

Nettle Sans Typeface. Demonstrating the 18 different styles that include 9 weights in both regular and italic.

Nettle Sans Typeface. Sample text on the side of a building.

Nettle Sans Typeface. Demonstration of currency symbols, ligatures, arrow ligatures, and the shapes of select characters.

Nettle Sans Typeface. Demonstration of ligatures.

Nettle Sans Typeface. Demonstration of different stylistic sets.

Nettle Sans Typeface. Demonstration of how the arrow ligatures are composed.

A visual example of how the variable font includes many intervals of font-weight, controlled by a slider.

Character & Features

Influenced by Blackletter type and highway fonts, the Nettle Sans font family sets out to be both a quirky and confident headline font (at the heavier weights), and an easily legible body font for print or screen (at the lighter weights).

Careful attention was taken in choosing distinct shapes for each letter to maximise legibility, and to balance a daring experimental form with function. Through its brutal angled cuts out of the ends of tapered links, ink-traps, ascenders and descenders, Nettle Sans' defining motif offers a visual language that communicates speed, efficiency, advancement and the "cutting edge".

Language Support

Nettle Sans contains 275 glyphs. It serves, on the most part, Western European languages, but can serve 66 different languages in total: Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu, Basque, Bemba, Bena, Breton, Catalan, Chiga, Cornish, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, German, Gusii, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Kabuverdianu, Kalenjin, Kinyarwanda, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Manx, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyankole, Oromo, Portuguese, Quechua, Romansh, Rombo, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Scottish, Gaelic, Sena, Shambala, Shona, Soga, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Teso, Uzbek (Latin), Volapük, Vunjo, and Zulu.

Where to Buy

Available for purchase at My Fonts and Creative Market.