Sans serif · Aaron212

Nova Gothic

Q: Is Nova Gothic free for commercial use?

Yes. Nova Gothic is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use at any scale, logos, websites, apps and PDFs included.

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Case

Size72 px

Weight400 Regular

Letter spacing0 em

Line height1.10

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CSSfont-family: 'Nova Gothic', sans-serif; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; line-height: 1.1;

Nova Gothic is a free sans serif by Aaron212, from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Among the 697 sans serifs on FontKind, Nova Gothic has an average x-height, is wider than 72% and, at its regular weight, is lighter than 64%. Its thickest strokes are 1.0 times its thinnest: nearly even strokes.

Compare with VIVITA →Compare with another font

01 / Light table

Laid on top of VIVITA

Nova Gothic on one light table with its two closest fonts, VIVITA (84 out of 100) and Urbanist (81). VIVITA is 7% heavier, with an x-height 7% shorter; Urbanist is 6% narrower.

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Ink shared with Nova GothicVIVITA…

Most different letters first; the figure is the share of ink the fonts have in common. Where the fonts agree the letters cancel to black: every white sliver is a real difference.

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02 / Letters

The Nova Gothic alphabet

Capitals, lowercase, figures and signs · weight 400

Tap the letters you like, here and in other fonts, to find the fonts whose letters look most like them.

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03 / Weights

Nova Gothic in 4 weights

4 weights, 200–800

200 Extra light
400 Regular
600 Semibold
800 Extra bold

04 / Facts

Who made Nova Gothic, and can you use it?

Designer: Aaron212
Kind: Sans serif
Styles: 4 weights, 200–800
From: GitHub
Character sets: latin, latin-ext
Licence: SIL Open Font License 1.1

Can I use it?

Commercial use: Yes.
Logos: Yes.
Websites and apps: Yes. Self-hosted.
PDFs and documents: Yes.
Changes: Yes.
Sharing the files: Yes, but not for sale. With the licence.

Nova Gothic is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. This is a plain summary, not legal advice: the licence itself decides.

What each licence allows →

Read the licence

Its licence file, kept with our copy of its web fonts

Already in your apps?

Google Docs: Not verified. Docs adds Google Fonts, and Nova Gothic comes from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Google’s guide
Word, PowerPoint: Not verified. Install it from its maker’s repository on GitHub first. Microsoft’s list
Figma: Not verified. Search its font menu, or install it. Figma’s help
Canva: Not verified. Search its font menu for Nova Gothic, or upload it with Canva Pro. Canva’s help
Cricut: Once installed. Design Space lists Nova Gothic under System. Fonts for Cricut →

From each app’s own font list or help pages.

How each app gets its fonts →

Get Nova Gothic on GitHub

05 / Measurements

Nova Gothic, measured

Taken from the font file's own outlines, regular style

Hxgp in Nova Gothic. Lines at the measured heights, as a share of the em · The parts of a letter, named

x-height: 50.0% of the emlowercase x
Cap height: 70.0% of the emcapitals
x / cap: 0.71lowercase against capitals
Width: 53.4% of the emaverage lowercase
Ink: 40%letter box filled
Contrast: 1.00 : 1nearly even strokes

How we measure →

Where it stands among sans serifs

Ranked against all 697 sans serifs on FontKind

x-heightNear the middle of sans serifs
WidthWider than 72% of sans serifs
InkLighter than 64% of sans serifs
ContrastMore even than 89% of sans serifs

06 / Similar fonts

Fonts similar to Nova Gothic

Matched letter by letter · its own family apart

All 100 fonts similar to Nova Gothic →Compare side by side →Get Nova Gothic on GitHub

07 / Swap

Swap Nova Gothic without a jump

Running text within 3% of the width, x-height within 5%

Fallback while it loads

Until Nova Gothic loads, this sets Arial in its place at 110.2% of its size, so running text keeps Nova Gothic’s width and lines keep their height: nothing moves when it arrives.

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Nova Gothic Fallback';
  src: local('Arial');
  size-adjust: 110.16%;
  ascent-override: 90.77%;
  descent-override: 18.15%;
  line-gap-override: 0.00%;
}

font-family: 'Nova Gothic', 'Nova Gothic Fallback', sans-serif;

08 / Questions

Questions about Nova Gothic

Answered from its licence, GitHub and each app’s own font list

Is Nova Gothic free for commercial use?

Yes. Nova Gothic is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 , which allows commercial use at any scale, logos, websites, apps and PDFs included.

How do I download and install Nova Gothic?

Nova Gothic comes free from its maker’s repository on GitHub . On its repository there, open its latest release and download the font files from it. On Windows or a Mac, double-click each TTF or OTF file and choose Install, then restart any app that was open. The web fonts this page uses are FontKind’s own copy, kept with its licence file .

Is Nova Gothic in Google Docs?

Probably not: the More fonts list in Docs draws on Google Fonts, and Nova Gothic comes from its maker’s repository on GitHub. Docs can’t add a font of your own, so set it in an app on your computer, such as Word, instead.

How many weights does Nova Gothic have?

Nova Gothic comes in four weights: ExtraLight (200), Regular (400), SemiBold (600) and ExtraBold (800).

Who designed Nova Gothic?

Nova Gothic was designed by Aaron212.

What fonts are similar to Nova Gothic?

The closest in our letter-by-letter match are VIVITA (84), Urbanist (81) and Unageo (79), out of 100. Next to Nova Gothic, VIVITA is 7% heavier, with an x-height 7% shorter. See all 100 fonts like Nova Gothic.