30 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!

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