Store Norske Jazz - Contrasted sans-serif balancing rationality with playfulness, ideal for digital, branding, and editorial design.

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Store Norske Jazz is a contrasted sans serif developed from a dialogue between rational modernist grotesques and warmer, more mannered lettering traditions. It carries the order and composure of a serious sans, but opens that structure with a softer tone, clearer contrast, and a more approachable rhythm. Jazz was drawn for situations where trust and clarity matter, but where the voice should not become cold.

Its forms are clean and controlled, with crisp lines, measured proportions, and a digital texture that remains clear on screen. The typeface avoids eccentric shapes and exaggerated gestures, yet does not withdraw into anonymity. Its character lies in the balance between rational structure and a warmer, more human presence.

This gives Jazz a natural place in identities, editorial work, interfaces, and cultural communication where precision and tone need to work closely together. It can also carry more demanding fields such as medicine, finance, and technology, where information has to remain clear, steady, and credible. For a monospaced companion, Jazz Mono carries the same voice into a typewriter-inspired form.

Store Norske Jazz 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

Jazz supports a broad Latin character set covering Western European, Central European, South European, North European, Baltic, Turkish, Celtic, South-Eastern European, Nordic and Sami language use.

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 sets and encodings

Jazz supports Adobe Latin 1, Adobe Latin 2, Macintosh Roman, Macintosh Central European, Macintosh Croatian, Macintosh Icelandic, Macintosh Romanian, Macintosh Turkish, ISO/IEC 8859-1, 8859-2, 8859-3, 8859-4, 8859-9, 8859-10, 8859-13, 8859-14, 8859-15, 8859-16, Windows-1250, Windows-1252, Windows-1254 and Windows-1257.

OpenType features

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

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