Store Norske Bass - Typeface based on Lettera alphabet, expanded for full Latin support and popular for record covers and posters.

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About

Store Norske Bass builds on a lettering alphabet found in the book Lettera (1954–72) by Armin Haab and Walter Hættenschweiler. When adapted digitally, the typeface not only reinterprets the original A–Z and 0–9, but also expands the design by generating new glyphs to support a full Latin extended character set. This digital expansion includes extra diacritics, punctuation, and various symbols previously absent from the original source. As a strictly monospaced typeface, each character serves as a uniform building block, maintaining consistent width and height. The design encourages playfulness for both the designer and the reader. Bass has proved a popular choice for record covers and posters, appreciated for its striking effect and bold visual presence.

Store Norske Bass is designed by Arve Båtevik.

Technical information

For full technical specifications and character overview, please see the technical section at the end of the specimen PDF.

Language support

Bass supports an extended Latin display character set covering Western European, Central European, South European, North European, Baltic, Turkish, Celtic, South-Eastern European, Nordic and Sami language use, with additional Latin Extended characters and expanded symbol coverage.

Supported languages include Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Bemba, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Hungarian, Icelandic, Inari Sami, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lule Sami, Luxembourgeois, Maltese, Northern Sami, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Scottish, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Southern Sami, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish and Welsh.

Character set

Bass supports an extended Latin display character set with uppercase and lowercase letters, accented Latin characters, Roman numerals, figures, tabular figures, small numbers, punctuation, selected currency symbols, mathematical symbols, spacing characters, combining marks and selected typographic symbols.

OpenType features

Bass includes OpenType features for access to alternates, glyph composition and decomposition, localised forms, subscripts, scientific inferiors, superscripts, numerators, denominators, fractions, ordinals, tabular figures and case-sensitive forms.

Feature tags: aalt, ccmp, locl, subs, sinf, sups, numr, dnom, frac, ordn, tnum, case.