About
Store Norske Litteratur Mono is the monospaced companion to Litteratur. Its starting point lies in the sturdy old-style serifs found in Norwegian literary anthologies from the early twentieth century, including Nordisk Antikva and Plantin. Litteratur draws this tradition into a crisper contemporary form, and Litteratur Mono carries the same atmosphere into a typewriter-inspired format.
The family retains the pronounced serifs, generous x-height, and compact vertical proportions of Litteratur. In monospaced form, these qualities take on a firmer rhythm and a more mechanical texture, while the historical warmth of the original family remains present.
Litteratur Mono is made for branding, editorial work, digital applications, and typographic systems where a fixed-width serif can bring a distinct literary character. It can be used independently or together with Litteratur as part of the same visual identity.
The Store Norske Litteratur Mono Typeface font is designed by Arve Båtevik
Store Norske Litteratur Mono is designed by Arve Båtevik.
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Technical information
For full technical specifications and character overview, please see the technical section at the end of the specimen PDF.
Language support
Litteratur Mono supports a broad Latin character set covering Western European, Central European, South European, North European, Baltic, Turkish, Celtic, South-Eastern European, Nordic, Sami and Romanian 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, Romanian, Scottish, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Southern Sami, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish and Welsh.
Character sets and encodings
Litteratur Mono 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
Litteratur Mono includes OpenType features for access to alternates, glyph composition and decomposition, localised forms, subscripts, scientific inferiors, superscripts, numerators, denominators, fractions, ordinals, oldstyle figures, case-sensitive forms, discretionary substitutions and standard ligatures.
The font software has three stylistic sets: ss01 for alternate oldstyle one forms, ss02 for alternate lowercase a forms and ss03 for lowercase multiplier forms.
Feature tags: aalt, ccmp, locl, subs, sinf, sups, numr, dnom, frac, ordn, onum, case, dlig, liga, ss01, ss02, ss03.