Nevis

Nevis typeface

Typeface

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Price: £0

This strong, angular typeface is ideal for headings. It features 96 of the most commonly used glyphs (characters).

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130 Comments

  • 27th February 2008 at 6:27 am

    Brian Purkiss says:

    This is an incredible typeface.
    Thank you so very much for offering it to all of us mere mortals. ;-P

    I shall be using it in an upcoming design job of mine.
    Again, thanks so much!

  • 10th March 2008 at 11:02 pm

    M Gagarin says:

    Very nice work, I like it a lot. Thanks!

  • 11th March 2008 at 3:22 am

    Rahul Bhushan says:

    Thanks for Nevis. What a nice freebie. Like your general design sense too, no gratuitous junk and carefully modulated brightness. Best of luck to you.

    What is smallest px sizel you recommend using Nevis?

  • 11th March 2008 at 10:44 am

    Ed Merritt says:

    @Rahul – if you’re using lowercase characters, I’d keep the size above 12pt. If you’re just using uppercase though, they seem clear down to about 10pt.

    Thanks for the kind words folks – look out for more typefaces coming soon…

  • 17th March 2008 at 10:34 am

    daf says:

    This is an awesome font. Thank you so much!

  • 19th March 2008 at 4:22 pm

    liam says:

    Appreciate the effort you’ve put into this, thanks!

  • 23rd March 2008 at 7:45 am

    Tim Morrison says:

    Cheers dude, very much appreciated

  • 24th March 2008 at 9:56 am

    Lachlan says:

    A lovely and well proportioned sans serif font. I love the angles. Thanks for giving it to us as free. :)

  • 24th March 2008 at 4:02 pm

    Jens Alfke says:

    This is quite a nice design! It has the flavor of early 20th-century sans-serifs like Gill Sans and Futura, without being merely a clone.

    Unfortunately, it shows some significant rendering glitches on my system (Mac OS X 10.5.) The vertical stem of the “B” is completely separated from the rest of the character, and a dozen or so other characters have thin gaps inside the strokes where it looks like you’ve overlapped two paths. Here’s a screenshot:

    I used to work on font-design software a long time ago. As far as I recall, it’s not kosher to have overlapping paths, or to make a single stroke out of two paths that abut (as in the “B”). It will cause problems when outlining or shadowing the characters, in addition to possibly causing the kinds of problems I’m seeing.

    The software you’re using should have some sort of merge-paths command that would fix this; if not, you should be able to export the paths to Illustrator and fix them there.

    Now that Safari supports downloadable fonts, I’m interested in using Nevis for headlines in my blog, so I hope you can fix these problems!

  • 24th March 2008 at 4:03 pm

    Jens Alfke says:

    Oops, looks like your blog didn’t like the IMG tag in my comment. Here’s the URL of the screenshot showing the glitches:

    http://mooseyard.com/Pictures/NevisFont-glitches-20080324-085438.jpg

  • 24th March 2008 at 5:11 pm

    Marc says:

    Looks great… now it only need the “german umlauts”. You know? ä ü ö ß Ä Ö Ü
    :-)

  • 25th March 2008 at 7:34 pm

    Josh Minnich says:

    Wow, this font looks very nice! Thanks for making this available!

  • 26th March 2008 at 12:42 am

    Josh Sender says:

    This font is simply amazing. Smooth, crisp, easy on the eyes, and perfect for logos or titles. Thank you for this.

  • 27th March 2008 at 10:47 am

    Ed Merritt says:

    Thanks for all the kind words folks.

    @Jens Alfke – Thanks for the useful feedback. I’ve uploaded a new version which hopefully fixes all the bugs ie. every glyph is now a single path.

    @Marc – I’ll try and include the most commonly used accents aand umlauts in the next update.

  • 1st April 2008 at 1:54 pm

    Matt Radel says:

    Groovy font. It reminds me a bit of Trade Gothic mixed with Gotham. Beautiful and clean.

  • 5th April 2008 at 10:24 pm

    Josh McMillan says:

    This font is so awesome! Keep up the great work!

  • 9th April 2008 at 7:21 pm

    Webhome says:

    A strong impression combined with style! Nice Work!

  • 10th April 2008 at 3:53 pm

    Sangesh says:

    Awesome, just awesome. I feel it has a very corporate looks. Thanks mate.

  • 10th April 2008 at 4:30 pm

    Stewart says:

    Just wanted to say thanks for making this available, it’s a great font!

  • 10th April 2008 at 5:27 pm

    Michael S. says:

    Is it permissible to embed Nevis into web pages via CSS web fonts?

    http://www.alistapart.com/articles/cssatten

  • 10th April 2008 at 8:37 pm

    Johann says:

    I immediately liked this one. So much that I used it for my new logo that you can see at

    http://johannburkard.de

  • 10th April 2008 at 10:05 pm

    Ricardo says:

    thanks a lot. very nice website. love this font

  • 10th April 2008 at 11:13 pm

    maraba says:

    Please turkish character support!

  • 11th April 2008 at 7:14 pm

    Frank says:

    Thanks for this font. I used it in my header of my Dutch blog.

    http://aureon.nl/

  • 12th April 2008 at 12:20 pm

    Ed Merritt says:

    @Michael S.: Feel free to embed Nevis into web pages via CSS web fonts. I have…

  • 12th April 2008 at 2:37 pm

    Jon says:

    I think the makers of Gotham may regard Nevis as a breach of copyright…

    http://www.typography.com/fonts/font_overview.php?productLineID=100008

  • 14th April 2008 at 10:55 pm

    Troy Schmidt says:

    Anybody made this into sIFR yet? It looks spectacular for web headings. Great font!

  • 16th April 2008 at 6:41 am

    Vasil Tonev says:

    Wonderful typeface :-)
    congratulations for the design

  • 18th April 2008 at 8:50 pm

    Joseph Leo says:

    Wow, this is my new favorite font.

    It’s crisp, clean, and creative!

    I promise to use it with care, thanks alot

  • 22nd April 2008 at 5:49 am

    gaTO says:

    Nice font! Thanks for sharing it out for free. Appreciate it. Keep it up, dude!

  • 23rd May 2008 at 11:37 pm

    francine says:

    Thank you so much for sharing. I really appreciate it! :)

    It is a wonderful font.

  • 27th May 2008 at 8:48 am

    Jean-Sien says:

    Great font, thanx for sharing this! but I think the question mark, the exclamation mark and the apostrophe do not fit so well the rest of the characters, which are crisply and angularly drawn.

  • 12th June 2008 at 6:17 am

    STEVI3 says:

    AN AMAZING FONT

  • 23rd June 2008 at 9:16 am

    Pedro says:

    Great work! Lovely font.

  • 28th June 2008 at 12:56 am

    James Deer says:

    An absolute beauty.

  • 9th July 2008 at 2:05 pm

    matt says:

    This font is a copy of Gotham with a few mods like sharpening the ends a bit more.. looks cool though!

  • 23rd July 2008 at 11:24 pm

    Nathan A says:

    For those of you concerned about copyright, you’ve not done your research. You can’t copyright typefaces. The only way these type houses get away with charging you half your liver, a kidney and a first born is because they can copyright the binary program that is the typeface. They cannot copyright the look.

    So unless Ten by Twenty has taken and cracked Gotham…this isn’t an issue.

  • 12th August 2008 at 3:42 pm

    velvet says:

    Many thanks. Lovely typeface and just what I needed.

  • 25th August 2008 at 7:16 pm

    Fire 2R says:

    Thanks..I take too much in here.

  • 25th August 2008 at 9:07 pm

    Paul Anthony Webb says:

    This font reminds me of ice cream … it’s so smooth. Thanks for making this available, I’m gonna blog about it now. :p

  • 2nd September 2008 at 2:27 am

    ammie says:

    Thanks a lot!

  • 3rd September 2008 at 5:35 pm

    steed griffin says:

    I just love this font. Thank you so much for making it, and making it available to everyone! I use it in everything I do:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/29708298@N02/2824601582/in/photostream/
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/29708298@N02/2824601918/in/photostream/

    (btw, I think its way better than Gotham) Cheers and thanks again!

    Steed Griffin

  • 7th September 2008 at 6:42 pm

    Napolux says:

    Really awesome :)

  • 12th September 2008 at 8:44 am

    putera_aladin says:

    very nice font.i love it.thanks for sharing!

  • 18th September 2008 at 5:38 am

    Leon says:

    Hey, given you can’t copyright a “look”, have you thought about releasing this under the Open Font License (or an equivalent)? That license requires attribution.

  • 23rd September 2008 at 8:40 pm

    Michael says:

    Glad to see that there are still exceptionally designed fonts available for free.
    Thanks.

  • 6th October 2008 at 9:45 pm

    Dre Fillmore says:

    This has become my favorite font in the past week. It’s creeping into all of my work. I adore it. Thanks a million for the d/l.

  • 11th October 2008 at 8:47 am

    Bryce says:

    Fantastic font! I’d love to see it in a regular width version.

  • 30th October 2008 at 12:53 am

    andy says:

    wow…!! nice font! I’m definitely gonna need it ! thanks!!

  • 4th November 2008 at 5:00 pm

    MattZ says:

    Wow. I can see this making its way into a lot of logos. Very nice.

  • 6th November 2008 at 8:46 pm

    Chrisso says:

    Fantastic! I’ll be using this quite a lot. Thanks.

  • 16th November 2008 at 5:52 pm

    Thomas says:

    I love this font, great design as well!

  • 3rd December 2008 at 7:38 pm

    Marcos says:

    Very nice typeface. I’m going to try this out for an album packaging job. Thanks for putting it out there!

  • 16th January 2009 at 12:10 am

    Silas says:

    This font contains characters that are the exact same as Gotham Bold…. While this may or may not be illegal, its certainly something to be frowned upon as dishonest and shows a lack of creativity.

  • 24th January 2009 at 7:38 pm

    Jake G. says:

    Love it! But it could use a thinner version, in other words…it’s very nice…but as a bold.

  • 26th January 2009 at 6:11 pm

    Krusade says:

    This is a great typeface. Very nice of you to share. Thank you!

  • 6th February 2009 at 9:34 pm

    Birgit says:

    looks nice, thanks for sharing!

  • 6th February 2009 at 10:14 pm

    Abel says:

    Great work, I love it! Many thx….

  • 18th February 2009 at 1:14 pm

    micheal says:

    thanks for these nice once

  • 18th February 2009 at 10:37 pm

    yuengling says:

    Nice font – looks similiar to Avenir

  • 19th February 2009 at 5:00 am

    Sajid Iqbal says:

    This is an incredible font. I really love it. I lost it few months ago, I am happy to find it again thanks to Woork.

  • 19th February 2009 at 6:40 am

    Aaron says:

    Thank you for the Nevis font!

    I’m going use it in a personal iphone/ipod touch theme (jailbreakers can change the system fonts on their devices).

  • 19th February 2009 at 3:29 pm

    Beppone says:

    Thank you very much. Nice one.
    :D

  • 20th February 2009 at 6:52 am

    eitan ritz says:

    thank you very much great font, will be using in a few of my graphic designs

  • 2nd March 2009 at 8:38 am

    lunakizz says:

    Awesome, thanks!!

  • 10th March 2009 at 12:08 pm

    Suresh says:

    Very elegant and straight font. Thanks. I liked it.

    Suresh

  • 10th March 2009 at 5:29 pm

    Yann says:

    Really really great font, I love it !
    But… what about an update with accents ? Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease…

  • 26th March 2009 at 11:32 pm

    Pat says:

    Wow, this is very nice. Many thanks! I love nice clean type.

  • 18th April 2009 at 5:13 am

    Olli says:

    Hello!

    Can You Add ÄÖÅäöå? Thanks!

    If you add please notify me at mail ollinpostit@gmail.com

    Olli

  • 19th April 2009 at 3:46 am

    Patricia Ann says:

    I have to say, one of THE best free fonts I’ve seen it’s ridiculous. Thank you so much!

  • 22nd April 2009 at 11:21 pm

    Michael says:

    PHENOMENAL PHACE!

    As soon as I installed this typeface I used it on a personal project. This is a champion and needs to be expanded immediately. I will pay for this tenXtwenty times over

  • 7th May 2009 at 5:05 pm

    Tony says:

    Thanks for this kick a$$ font!
    This one is a clear winner amongst the load of useless fonts loaded on my machine.

  • 10th May 2009 at 3:00 pm

    Geek! says:

    Thank you it’s lovely! Used in our mini-project, Geek!.
    Greatly appreciated!

  • 13th May 2009 at 3:53 pm

    future says:

    Wow, very good!)

  • 6th June 2009 at 9:41 pm

    Ismael says:

    This is wonderful. Thank you.

    To the people comparing it to Gotham: uh, duh. Of course this looks similar to Gotham Bold, but then, Neutraface Bold could be called similar. It’s in the details where a typeface’s character lies, and Nevis has some very different details (compare the A’s, K’s, M’s, S’s and Q’s and you’ll see).

    Gotham was an involved, time consuming project, with many variations and weights. This is one free font in one weight, which looks gorgeous in certain places. Be grateful.

  • 9th June 2009 at 11:56 am

    Fredrik says:

    Thank you very much! Really nice font.

  • 14th June 2009 at 8:33 am

    вopcepдeчки says:

    Да, интернет – огромен, если и такое можно найти ;)

  • 21st June 2009 at 6:44 am

    Linus says:

    Will we have an update?

    I’d like a Nevis Pro with all the glyphs, and I would buy it.

  • 21st June 2009 at 4:57 pm

    Денис says:

    Немного провакационный пост. Поэтому такие и комменты :)

  • 22nd June 2009 at 4:21 pm

    Laguna says:

    Совсем недавно попал на Ваш блог, теперь каждое утро захожу посмотреть, не написали ли чего новенького. :) К сожалению только Вы не каждый день свой блог обновляете :(

  • 26th June 2009 at 6:15 am

    Eric says:

    Beautiful font! Thank you very much!

  • 7th July 2009 at 3:20 pm

    Debiny says:

    Jens, Rather than bitch about the software glitches, just buy the $299 version of Gotham instead. As for me, thanks very much for making this available. I appreciate not having to cough up the $299! It is a rather handsome font, as Barrack Obama will attest! :D

  • 8th July 2009 at 10:22 am

    Tsel says:

    My jaw just dropped open… incredible font!

    Thank you!

  • 8th July 2009 at 6:50 pm

    Lynette says:

    These are beautiful! Thank you so much.

  • 16th July 2009 at 7:46 pm

    ponchosqueal says:

    excellent contribution to world’s design, congratulations.

  • 20th July 2009 at 5:16 am

    Daniel Matranga says:

    flippin’ awesome, thanks! :)

  • 24th July 2009 at 12:22 pm

    пpoблeм says:

    На таких громких заголовках и подобной шумихе можно делать и не такие успехи :)

  • 14th August 2009 at 10:17 am

    Treaffibifent says:

    the fourth kind

    meteor shower august 14th meteor shower august 14th cadillac escalade cadillac escalade kaminey movie online kaminey movie online undefined undefined sarah palin facebook page sarah palin facebook page eagles football eagles football law abiding citizen law abiding citizen bam said the lady bam said the lady new england patriots new england patriots isaac redman isaac redman gina carano playboy pics gina carano playboy pics

  • 24th August 2009 at 6:09 am

    Sam says:

    Cufon’d and it’s beautiful.
    ¡But I’ve missed the written accents!

  • 27th August 2009 at 12:11 pm

    Paolo Valzania says:

    Very nice font, thank you!

  • 27th August 2009 at 6:56 pm

    David B. says:

    @Jon – While similar, you can clearly see the differences in the glyphs. Gotham has a similar feel, but a number of details are quite different. Look especially at: s, i, j, y, F, E, Q, 1, 7, @, etc… There is quite a difference in kerning as well.

    -

    Excellent set! Thanks so much :)

  • 9th September 2009 at 8:43 am

    Martin Bean says:

    Nice font.

  • 21st September 2009 at 9:21 pm

    Connor Crosby says:

    Nice, clean font. Love it! Thanks so much!

  • 29th September 2009 at 8:51 am

    Lukasz Bachur says:

    Not enough characters :( . There is no special letters like ąśźćółę… Are you planning to add it? This font is very interesting.

    Regards.

  • 29th September 2009 at 9:08 am

    zeally says:

    Thank you for the nice font

  • 13th October 2009 at 6:47 am

    Tarjetas personales says:

    Best font, use for personal card design

  • 14th October 2009 at 10:06 pm

    David S says:

    This is an outstanding font – just fabulous!

    To me, Nevis has perhaps the unique quality of being a sans-serif without losing the “warmth” of being human that seems so much more common with serif fonts. I haven’t seen very many sans serif fonts – if any – that can claim the same benefit. Very accomplished work!

    Thank you so much for this excellent resource.

  • 18th October 2009 at 3:21 am

    cool designs says:

    thnks for this true type font !

  • 25th October 2009 at 5:51 am

    Eric Taylor says:

    Hey Ed just wanted to let you know there are some technical problems with your font. Your Naming profiles in your font are all messed up, and all fields are missing from the Windows Profile. This causes an issue for web developers that wish to use the font via the @font-face.

    As your font file stands right now, using the @font-face will work on Safari on Mac, but will not work anywhere else.

    I have taken the liberty of fixing the file for my own use, and I’d be more then happy to share it with you and others so that everyone can use your wonderful font on the way. You can contact me via the contact info I provided.

    P.S. Thanks for the great font.

    -Eric

  • 26th October 2009 at 9:33 pm

    GeorgeTommo says:

    I downloaded it, but now i dont know how to install it into photoshop, please can someone help me

    my email = gerogetommo@hotmail.co.uk

    make the subject Photoshop Fonts please

    Would be very greatful for any help

    Thanks

  • 31st October 2009 at 10:12 am

    Aziz Light says:

    Thanks so much for this, this font looks amazing! It looks a little bit like Futura, which is one of my favorite fonts ever. Seriously, this font just entered my Top 10 :) Great Job.

  • 10th November 2009 at 6:29 pm

    bethany says:

    this is gorgeous! thanks for sharing it!

  • 11th November 2009 at 12:56 pm

    Signlink graphics says:

    many thanks for the free download, we’re just about to use it in some of our paper based advertising but i’ve posted a copy of it on the homepage of our website.
    http://www.signlinkgraphics.co.uk

    thanks again

    alex

  • 12th November 2009 at 9:11 am

    Caesar Aldhela says:

    Hello thanks for share the beautiful fonts :)

  • 15th November 2009 at 1:35 am

    Jeff says:

    just wanted to throw my thanks in here, great work.

  • 15th November 2009 at 6:10 am

    Arlen says:

    @Jon,

    Nevin will never be challenged by the makers of Gotham as it has no resemblance to the font whatsoever.

  • 17th November 2009 at 3:56 am

    Professional says:

    This is a great tribute to all the legends out there who are happy to share : ) THANK YOU!!!

  • 17th November 2009 at 8:25 pm

    Kirsty says:

    Really gorgeous font, thank you for sharing

  • 18th November 2009 at 3:55 pm

    Rob says:

    Beautiful font, love the clean lines.

  • 18th November 2009 at 5:12 pm

    Ahmet Kemal says:

    Thank you buddy, really nice font

  • 18th November 2009 at 7:33 pm

    apatenko says:

    THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. This is a PROFOUND Service to HUMANITY,
    You Sir, are a Mensch.

  • 23rd November 2009 at 8:51 pm

    Genduk says:

    Wow, it’s free, I love it.
    Thank you for giving it to us for free

  • 5th December 2009 at 1:20 pm

    Tony says:

    Thanks once ive graduated my design course I hope to also create fonts, brushes and things which are free, to give something back to an artform i love so much!

  • 22nd December 2009 at 5:54 am

    Paul says:

    Hello I would apreciate to use your wonderful font.
    Unfortunatally we have in germany a lot of umlauts (ÄÖÜ äöü).
    Are you planning to implement these letters?

    That’s the only reason I can’t your font in the moment.

    Best wishes from germany – Paul

    PS: I am really looking forward to use your font with the umlauts.

  • 28th December 2009 at 5:22 pm

    G says:

    Very nice font++++
    Thank you for your kindness

  • 28th December 2009 at 8:31 pm

    Media Designer says:

    A mountainous font. Rock solid! Thanks for sharing!

  • 4th January 2010 at 10:32 pm

    Hosting says:

    Awesome, just awesome.

  • 4th January 2010 at 10:33 pm

    Poljoprivreda says:

    nice work

  • 6th January 2010 at 10:18 am

    grabek says:

    Awesome job!

  • 7th January 2010 at 10:35 pm

    cucho olivares says:

    Great!
    I used it in my website!
    Hope you like it.

    Cucho.

  • 12th January 2010 at 7:39 pm

    Rob says:

    Hi, great font. Do you have other weights?

    Thanks

    Rob

  • 18th January 2010 at 10:27 pm

    BigM75 says:

    its a nice font

  • 25th January 2010 at 7:08 pm

    Lisa B says:

    I was looking for Gotham, but have decided to use Nevis instead – thanks!!!

  • 26th January 2010 at 10:17 pm

    Karen K says:

    Thank you so much. Nevis is a lovely font and pretty much saved me from admitting “I don’t have the font” to a client who wanted a 4-number replacement for a header originally in Gotham. Yeah!

  • 28th January 2010 at 1:12 am

    Kyle says:

    I’m shocked that you’re giving away such an excellent typeface for free, but very grateful. Thank you!

  • 29th January 2010 at 7:25 pm

    Enrico says:

    I think your font is strongly inspired to the work of Neville Brody (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Brody).
    Is the name a clue? Shouldn’t you declare your sources? ;)
    Anyway, very nice work!

  • 3rd February 2010 at 6:13 pm

    Ricardo Furtado says:

    Beautiful font man ! Thanks for sharing !

    Keep the great work !

  • 5th February 2010 at 7:18 pm

    The Font Police says:

    The a needs rehabilitation.
    f, t and j need to be taught some manners too.
    3 is a borderline case.

    Otherwise, P E R F E C T !

  • 6th February 2010 at 4:12 am

    Ravi Mohan says:

    Thank you for this font. I have used this font in the creation of the Logo of this website.

  • 8th February 2010 at 10:20 am

    Peter says:

    Thanks – It rules !

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