Version 3.001 — Changelog

Novecento Sans is a contemporary sans-serif family inspired by the bold, rationalist display types that emerged across Europe during the early modernist movements of the 20th century.
These letterforms—seen on progressive posters and modern signage of the era—represented a break from tradition. Novecento Sans reinterprets this aesthetic with optical refinements and expanded versatility.

Designed primarily for headlines, branding, and visual identities, Novecento Sans performs well at any size. The family's range spans 32 styles: lighter weights feel contemporary and fresh, while bolder styles evoke a distinctly retro character.

The family comprises 32 styles across four width variations (wide, regular, narrow, condensed). Every style contains 590 glyphs, 16 OpenType features, and supports 76 Latin-based languages. Supplied in OpenType and webfont formats, with licensing for mobile apps, ebooks, and software embedding.

Six styles are available as free downloads for both commercial and personal use: Wide Light, Wide Book, Wide Normal, Wide Medium, Wide Demibold, and Wide Bold. The complete family provides comprehensive typographic control for professional projects requiring multiple widths and weights.

	Ultrabold	Bold	Demibold	Medium	Normal	Book	Light	Ultralight
wide
regular
narrow
condensed

Alternate Q (ss01) Alternate Q letter shape for ultra narrow line heights. Implemented both as Stylistic Set n°1 (ss01) and Stylistic Alternate (salt) to maximize compatibility between applications.	Alternate N (ss02) Alternate N letter shape. Implemented both as Stylistic Set n°2 (ss02) and Stylistic Alternate (salt) to maximize compatibility between applications.	Alternate I (ss03) Alternate I letter shape. Implemented both as Stylistic Set n°3 (ss03) and Stylistic Alternate (salt) to maximize compatibility between applications.	Alternate J (ss04) Alternate J letter shape. Implemented both as Stylistic Set n°4 (ss04) and Stylistic Alternate (salt) to maximize compatibility between applications.
Alternate Y (ss05) Alternate Y letter shape. Implemented both as Stylistic Set n°5 (ss05) and Stylistic Alternate (salt) to maximize compatibility between applications.	Slashed zero Slashed zero alternate glyph. Works with tabular and proportional figures, numerators, denominators and superiors. Implemented both as Zero as Salt to maximize compatibility between applications.	superiors numerators denominators Activates superior, numerator and denominator figures independently.	$fractions$ Fractions Real fractions from any [number] slash [number] sequence.
Case sensitive forms Sets All-Caps to activate case sensitive forms: transform lowercase letters, figures and the following signs to Uppercase: ª º : ; · • # ( ) { } [ ] - – — « » ‹ › + − × ÷ = ≠ > < ≥ ≤ ± ~ @ & ¶ © ® ℗ №.	Ordinals Transforms A or a into ª and O or o into º when following a number.	Lining & oldstyle figures Lining figures: displays uppercase-aligned variants of figures and of the following glyphs: ª º : ; · • # ( ) { } [ ] - – — « » ‹ › + − × ÷ = ≠ > < ≥ ≤ ± ~ @ & ¶ © ® ℗ № Oldstyle figures: displays lowercas (default) figures and glyphs.	tabular figures & symbols Makes numbers, monetary and math symbols to get the same width, also across different weights. Great for table layouts.

Advanced localisation

Novecento Sans uses the power of Opentype to overstep the current technical limitations, enriching the typesetting experience in a totally automated way. Just set your text language to activate the associated helpers.

german uppercase eszett German language helper. German “Sharp S” cannot be typed on most keyboard layouts. This helper detects when an “ß” is among uppercases and transforms it into its uppercase version. This helper is associated with the “contextual alternates” OT feature and it is often activated by default.	turkish idotaccent Turkish language helper. It correctly differentiates capital i and dotless-i. Just set your text language to Turkish to show a dot on the capital i.	polish kreska Polish language helper. It allows to display the correct diacritics (kreska’s angle differs from the acute diacritic). Just set your text language as Polish to convert acute into kreska.
catalan punt volat Catalan language helper. It helps displaying the correct punt volant (Ldot sign) when typing the “l” letter followed by the vertically centered dot. Just set your text language to Catalan to activate the l· helper.	dutch double acute ij Dutch language helper. While an accented j does not exist as a glyph on its own, this helper adds an acute accent on the j (or J) when it is following and accented i (í).	moldavian & romanian dicritics Moldavian & Romanian language helper. It allows to display the correct diacritics. Just set your text language as Moldavian or Romanian to convert cedilla into comma-accent.

Supported idioms list (76): Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Basque, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Chamorro, Chichewa, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, Flemish, Franco-Provencal, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gaelic, Gagauz (latin), Galician, German, Greenlandic Hawaiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Karelian (unified), Kashubian, Kurdish, Ladin, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Manx Gaelic, Maori, Moldavian (latin), Northern Sotho, Norwegian (Bokmål), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romance, Romanian, Romansh, Sami (Inari), Sami (Lule), Sami (Northern), Sami (Southern), Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (latin transcription), Slovak, Slovenian, Sorbian (lower), Sorbian (upper), Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Turkish, Turkmen,Tswana, Walloon, Welsh.