A display sans family with one small arched window in every letter.
Nottano is a display sans family in three styles: Black, Outline and Light. Its name comes from night: every letter keeps one small arched window, like a quiet house where someone is still awake. Black is the heavy headline, Light the thin voice beside it, Outline the playful one with a soft shadow. Set them together on posters, covers, labels and packaging.
Buy the family of three styles or any style alone.
Nottano started from one idea, a heavy letter with only a narrow arched window left open, like a house on a dark street where someone is still awake. The Light and the Outline grew from the same window, so the three styles sit on one page as one voice.
Most heavy fonts open their round letters wide so the black can breathe. Nottano does the opposite. It keeps almost everything dark and leaves one narrow arch, the same in every round letter, so a word reads like a row of lit windows along a street at night. That small light is what makes the heavy letters feel calm rather than loud.
The Light is the quiet voice beside the Black. It keeps the same arched shapes and draws them as one thin, even line. Both styles share the height of the small letters, so a Light line can sit right under a Black name and the two still read as one family.
The Outline takes the Black's letters, empties them and lets a soft shadow fall to one side, as if a street lamp had just come on. It keeps the Black's widths, so you can swap one style for the other in a word, or print the two in different colours on top of each other.
Nottano is a headline face. The small windows need room to stay open, so the Black and the Outline look their best from about 36 pixels up, on posters, covers and labels. Let the Light carry the smaller words around them.
Nottano Black
Nottano Outline
Nottano Light
Nottano has the accented letters for 30 languages written in the Latin alphabet, in all three styles, so the same poster works in English, French, Polish, Turkish or Indonesian. Choose a language to see a line set in Nottano.
Ouvert tard, tous les vendredis soir
French letters: à â æ ç è é ê ë î ï ô ù û ü ÿ œ
Bis spät geöffnet, jeden Freitagabend
German letters: ä ö ü ß
Abierto hasta tarde, todos los viernes por la noche
Spanish letters: á é í ñ ó ú ü ¡ ¿
Aperto fino a tardi, ogni venerdì sera
Italian letters: à á è é ì í ò ó ù ú
Aberto até tarde, todas as sextas à noite
Portuguese letters: à á â ã ç è é ê í ò ó ô õ ú
Laat open, elke vrijdagavond
Dutch letters: á â ä è é ê ë í ï ó ô ö ú û ü ij
Obert fins tard, cada divendres a la nit
Catalan letters: à ç è é í ï ò ó ú ü ŀ
Öppet sent, varje fredagskväll
Swedish letters: å ä ö é
Åbent til sent, hver fredag aften
Danish letters: å æ ø é
Åpent til sent, hver fredag kveld
Norwegian letters: å æ ø é è ê ó ò ô
Auki myöhään, joka perjantai-ilta
Finnish letters: ä ö å š ž
Opið fram eftir, öll föstudagskvöld
Icelandic letters: á æ é í ð ó ö ú ý þ
Otwarte do późna, w każdy piątkowy wieczór
Polish letters: ą ć ę ł ń ó ś ź ż
Otevřeno dlouho do noci, každý pátek večer
Czech letters: á č ď é ě í ň ó ř š ť ú ů ý ž
Otvorené dlho do noci, každý piatok večer
Slovak letters: á ä č ď é í ĺ ľ ň ó ô ŕ š ť ú ý ž
Késő éjjelig nyitva, minden péntek este
Hungarian letters: á é í ó ö ő ú ü ű
Deschis până târziu, în fiecare vineri seara
Romanian letters: ă â î ș ț
Her cuma gecesi geç saate kadar açık
Turkish letters: ç ğ ı İ ö ş ü
Avatud hilisõhtuni, igal reedel
Estonian letters: ä õ ö ü š ž
Oscailte go déanach, gach oíche Aoine
Irish letters: á é í ó ú
Fosgailte gu anmoch, a h-uile oidhche Haoine
Scottish Gaelic letters: à è é ì ò ó ù
Berandu arte irekita, ostiral gau guztietan
Basque letters: ñ ü
Aberto ata tarde, todos os venres pola noite
Galician letters: á é í ñ ó ú ü
Hapur deri vonë, çdo të premte në mbrëmje
Albanian letters: ç ë
Laat oop, elke Vrydagaand
Afrikaans letters: á é è ê ë î ï ö ô û ü ý
Buka sampai larut, setiap Jumat malam
Dibuka hingga lewat malam, setiap hari Jumaat
Bukas hanggang hatinggabi, tuwing Biyernes
Filipino letters: ñ
Wazi hadi usiku, kila Ijumaa
Yes. The Desktop licence covers personal and client work: posters, album covers, labels, packaging, logos, merchandise and social media pictures.
Black for the name or the headline, Light for the smaller words around it, and Outline for a sign, a second colour or a playful line. All three share one lowercase height, so they mix on one page.
Yes. Install the OTF on your computer or iPad, and any app that uses installed fonts can set it.
Thirty languages written in the Latin alphabet, in every style, from French and Polish to Turkish and Indonesian. Each one is shown above.