Nevis
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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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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.
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 
25th June 2009 at 10:05 pm
July 2009 Wallpaper says:
[...] design uses the truly amazing Nevis font by Ed [...]
26th June 2009 at 6:15 am
Eric says:
Beautiful font! Thank you very much!