Normandia

What is the Normandia Font?

Designed over three years after the second World War, and published in 1949 by the Nebiolo foundry, Normandia was Alessandro Butti’s take on the fat face. As it usually was with Butti’s designs, this face effectively injected a catchy yet expertly calculated calligraphic spin into its source of inspiration — which was the essentially geometric/deco, thicker model of Bodoni’s very popular aesthetic.. The metal Normandia saw some widespread use for a handful of years after its publication, not least because of the multitude of sizes in which it was available. It stepped out of the limelight by the mid-1950s, due to a combination of the popularity of cold type and Nebiolo’s refusal to retool its faces for new technologies. It was copied by a few small film typesetting outfits on both sides of the Atlantic, but never really found its way back to the mainstream. By the time computer type became the norm, Normandia was pretty much relegated to a type historian’s collection of anecdotes.. This digital update of the classic series revives and refines the three original metal designs (Tonda/Regular, Corsiva/Italic, and Contornata/Outline) and expands the character set to more than 600 glyphs per font, including small caps, six types of figures, fractions and nut fractions, a full set of f-ligatures, some stylistic alternates, and other fine typography niceties.

Normandia Font Families

When you download Normandia, the family will include the following font styles:

• Normandia Regular
• Normandia Italic
• Normandia Outline

Preview of the Normandia Font

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Who Designed the Normandia Font?

Normandia was designed by Alessandro Butti, Hans van Maanen, Patrick Griffin.

This font has 3 style(s) and was published by Canada Type.

Is Normandia a Free Download?

Like all of the fonts listed here on The Font Bot, Normandia is a premium font and is not available to download for free.

Please do not try to find a free download of Normandia. If you really want this font for your new project, support the designer and the foundry and click here to purchase it officially.

I'm sure if you tried really hard, you could figure out how to download Normandia for free. You might also get a virus on your computer or get hacked as a result. Not to mention it is illegal to use Normandia if you did not pay for it.

How Much is Normandia to Buy?

If you've made it this far down the page and you are really interested to use Normandia for your new project, great!

The last time we checked the price for Normandia, it was available for as little as $30.00.