Store Norske Nord Plakat - Display cut of the Nord family, developed from bold 1960s poster lettering for large-scale graphic use.

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About

Store Norske Nord Plakat is the display cut of the Nord family, and its most explicitly graphic member. It was developed from the bold lettering of 1960s posters. At poster scale, the desired typefaces were not available in sizes that could be set directly. Words therefore had to be drawn, enlarged, adapted, and spaced specifically for the poster surface. Shape, weight, ascenders, descenders, and spacing were adjusted for distance, format, and composition, often by eye and through direct graphic judgement.

Nord Plakat takes cues from a wide range of poster lettering and gathers it into a unified poster cut. It keeps the northern grotesque character of Nord, but gives the forms greater weight, density, and graphic force. The letters are drawn for large words, titles, and surfaces where the type has to carry the composition rather than simply sit inside it.

The typeface has a direct and public voice. It belongs in posters, campaigns, exhibition graphics, titles, and large-scale identity work. It is drawn so that any word takes on the presence of custom lettering, as if it had been drawn for that use alone.

Store Norske Nord Plakat 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

Nord Plakat supports a broad Latin display 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, Romanian, Scottish, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Southern Sami, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish and Welsh.

Character sets and encodings

Nord Plakat 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

Nord Plakat 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.

The font software has one stylistic set: ss01 for alternate lowercase a forms.

Feature tags: aalt, ccmp, locl, subs, sinf, sups, numr, dnom, frac, ordn, pnum, tnum, case, dlig, liga, ss01.