Store Norske Litteratur Text - Low-contrast text version of Litteratur, designed for dense layouts and improved comfort in reading.
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About
Store Norske Litteratur began by examining anthologies from Norway’s golden age of literature. During this period, Norway produced many leading authors, including Henrik Ibsen, Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Knut Hamsun, and Sigrid Undset, several of whom received the Nobel Prize in Literature. These anthologies often featured sturdy old-style serifs, characteristic of the typographic trends of the time. Common examples included Nordisk Antikva (1907–1910) by Friedrich Bauer (with Swedish printer Waldemar Zachrisson) and Plantin (1913) by Frank Hinman Pierpont. While these typefaces were primarily intended for body text, their visual qualities also appealed to advertisers, offering a warm and inviting atmosphere. Litteratur aims to revive this atmosphere, offering a crisp modern take on the old-style serif. This brings historical warmth to contemporary text, making layouts feel both familiar and fresh. Its large x-height and short ascenders and descenders fit more text in tight spaces and improve comfort in dense layouts. The clear letterforms enhance legibility on screen and in print, supporting various output formats. Litteratur’s special ligatures enhance rhythm in Nordic languages and improve general readability. It offers both a standard and a heavier low-contrast text version, making the typeface versatile for different reading conditions.
This is the text version of the typeface; see SN Litteratur for a more contrasted version.
The Store Norske Litteratur Text Typeface font is designed by Arve Båtevik
Store Norske Litteratur Text 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 Text 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
Litteratur Text 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 Text includes OpenType features for access to alternates, glyph composition and decomposition, localised forms, subscripts, scientific inferiors, superscripts, numerators, denominators, fractions, ordinals, lining figures, proportional figures, tabular figures, oldstyle figures, small caps, small caps from capitals, case-sensitive forms, discretionary ligatures and standard ligatures.
The font software has style-specific stylistic sets. Upright styles have three stylistic sets: ss01 for alternate oldstyle one forms, ss02 for alternate lowercase a forms and ss03 for uppercase multiplier forms. Italic styles have three stylistic sets: ss01 for alternate oldstyle one forms, ss03 for uppercase multiplier forms and ss10 for lowercase multiplier forms.
Feature tags across the family: aalt, ccmp, locl, subs, sinf, sups, numr, dnom, frac, ordn, lnum, pnum, tnum, onum, c2sc, smcp, case, dlig, liga, ss01, ss02, ss03, ss10.