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Norbert
An unaffected Grotesque and everything you never needed
In colloquial language, an average is a single number taken as representative of a non-empty list of numbers. Different concepts of average are used in different contexts. Often "average" refers to the arithmetic mean, the sum of the numbers divided by how many numbers are being averaged. In statistics, mean, median, and mode are all known as measures of central tendency, and in colloquial usage any of these might be called an average value.
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Norbert is not as naive as Philipp Neumeyer expected. A collection of extremes, Norbert reflects on how the bundled-together styles of early hot metal type families were enriched by their contradictions and looks ahead. The result is an unaffected Grotesque and everything you never needed.

Harmonised without conformity, more familiar than family, Norbert’s three weights are in two widths: Condensed (Schmal) and Extended (Breit), each complemented by Kursiv and Kontra— Backslanted—styles. Intentionally, Norbert has no regular width, Variable Font, or interpolated weights. Its character and versatility in identity and editorial work is a result of its styles being individually drawn, individually considered. It is what it is. Not a workhorse, but a typeface that can be delicate and rough for special occasions. As required, or not.

As with all TypeMates fonts, Norbert comes with extensive language support. Philipp was inspired by metal letters on a building in St Petersburg, so Norbert comes with Cyrillics proofed, scrutinised and tested by native experts. Philipp hopes you care about Norbert’s extensive range of arrows because he does.

Designed by
Philipp Neumeyer
in 2021
Consulting & Help
Maria Doreuli, Daria Cohen, Ilya Ruderman & Yury Ostromentsky
Modern Cyrillic Award
TDC Award
Granshan Award
Specs
Formats
Tags
SansCondensedExtendedHeadlinesIdentityPublishingLatinCyrillicGeometricCleanExpressiveFriendlyItalicsSuper Family
Related Typefaces
Halvar, Sombra

Norbert Breit

  • Mager
  • Mager Kursiv
  • Mager Kontra
  • Normal
  • Normal Kursiv
  • Normal Kontra
  • Fett
  • Fett Kursiv
  • Fett Kontra

Norbert Schmal

  • Mager
  • Mager Kursiv
  • Mager Kontra
  • Normal
  • Normal Kursiv
  • Normal Kontra
  • Fett
  • Fett Kursiv
  • Fett Kontra
Character Set
Language Support
Supports more than 270 Languages: Abenaki, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic, Asturian, Atayal, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Cimbrian, Cofán, Cornish, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz , Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Gikuyu, Gooniyandi, Greenlandic, Guadeloupean Creole, Gwich’in, Haitian Creole, Hän, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcąk, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese, Jèrriais, Kaingang, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan, Kaqchikel, Karakalpak, Karelian, Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Kurdish, Ladin, Latin, Latino sine Flexione, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Māori, Marquesan, Megleno-Romanian, Meriam Mir, Mirandese, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinh-Patha, Nagamese Creole, Nahuatl, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Occidental, Occitan, Oshiwambo, Ossetian, Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Q’eqchi’, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami Inari , Sami Lule, Sami Northern, Sami Southern, Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Seri, Seychellois Creole, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio, Somali, Sorbian (Lower, Upper), Sotho (Northern, Southern), Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese, Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Uzbek, Venetian, Vepsian, Volapük, Võro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xavante, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zarma, Zazaki, Zulu, Zuni

Cyrillic: Abaza, Adyghe, Agul, Avar, Azerbaijani, Balkar, Belarusian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Buryat, Chechen, Crimean Tatar, Dargin, Dargwa, Dungan, Erzya, Hill Mari, Ingush, Judeo-Tat, Kabardian, Kalmyk, Karachay, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Khinalugh, Komi, Komi-Permyak, Kumyk, Kyrgyz, Lak, Lezgian, Macedonian, Meadow Mari, Moksha, Moldovan, Mongolian, Montenegrin, Muslim Tat, Nanai, Nogai, Northern Yukaghir, Russian, Rusyn, Rutul, Serbian, Southern Altai, Tabasaran, Tajik, Tat, Tatar, Tsakhur, Turkmen, Tuvan, Udi, Ukrainian, Uyghur, Uzbek
OpenType Features
All OpenType Features included: Access All Alternates, Contextual Alternates, Denominator, Fractions, Glyph Composition/Decomposition, Kerning, Lining Figures, Localized Forms, Mark to Mark Positioning, Numerators, Old style Figures, Ordinals, Proportional Figures, Scientific Inferiors, Slashed Zero, Stylistic Alternates, Stylistic Set: CYR Bulgarian Alt., Stylistic Set: CYR Serbian Alt., Stylistic Set: Smart Typography, Stylistic Set: Tabular Width Set, Subscript, Superscript, Tabular Figures