LNT Natalia Mono normal
LNT Natalia Mono Regular
LNT Natalia Mono Bold
About the typeface:
Natalia Mono is a typewriter-inspired true monospaced typeface family. The entanglement of material and immaterial memory and the interplay between forms preserved, lost and reconstructed was the inspiration for this project. Once upon a time I had a typewritten manuscript of an amateur sci-fi story, that I found on the street close to my house one day during my studies in Hungary. After moving houses and countries, the manuscript was lost without a trace, but after some years it became my obsession and inspiration for a writing project, in which I tried to recreate it. I borrowed a typewriter from my flatmate Natalia in order to reenact the gesture of typewriting the texts that I was reimagining.
I appreciated this type machine because of its dense and blocky letters that gave a friendly aura while being decidedly modernist. After moving houses and cities, I stumbled upon these manuscripts. I started analyzing the letters, sketching ideas based on them, and trying to find the typewriter. Natalia has left the country, and who knows where the typewriter went. I was left with information fragments: the typewriter was Triumph Gabriele 25, the typeface was Cubic, or rather a version of that. Instead of trying to find another version of the typewriter, I decided to build further from my limited sources, a handful of typewritten pages. I complemented this with unlimited store of my memories about my friendship with Natalia, our shared interest in typewriters, sputniks, samizdat and modernist playgrounds. Natalia is not a revival in the typographic sense, but a reconstruction of the original examples in the way memory reconstructs itself by each recalling.
Download type specimen here!
Weights:
- Regular
- Bold
Number of glyphs:
504
File formats:
.otf .woff .woff2
Language support:
Acheron, Achinese, Acholi, Afar, Afrikaans, Alekano, Aleut, Amahuaca, Amarakaeri, Amis, Anaang, Andaandi, Dongolawi, Anuta, Aragonese, Arbëreshë, Albanian, Asháninka, Ashéninka Perené, Atayal, Balinese, Banjar, Bari, Basque, Batak Dairi, Batak Karo, Batak Mandailing, Batak Simalungun, Batak Toba, Bemba (Zambia), Bena (Tanzania), Bikol, Bislama, Borana, Arsi, Guji Oromo, Bosnian, Breton, Buginese, Candoshi, Shapra, Caquinte, Caribbean Hindustani, Cashibo, Cacataibo, Catalan, Cebuano, Central Aymara, Central Kurdish, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chiga, Chiltepec Chinantec, Chokwe, Chuukese, Cimbrian, Cofán, Cook Islands Māori, Cornish, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dehu, Dutch, Eastern Arrernte, Eastern Oromo, English, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Gagauz, Galician, Ganda, Garifuna, German, Gheg Albanian, Gilbertese, Gooniyandi, Gourmanchéma, Guadeloupean Creole French, Gusii, Haitian, Hani, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Huastec, Hungarian, Icelandic, Iloko, Inari Sami, Indonesian, Irish, Istro Romanian, Italian, Ixcatlán Mazatec, Jamaican Creole English, Japanese, Javanese, Jola, Fonyi, K’iche’, Kabuverdianu, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Kamba (Kenya), Kaonde, Karelian, Kashubian, Kekchí, Kenzi, Mattokki, Khasi, Kikuyu, Kimbundu, Kinyarwanda, Kituba (DRC), Kongo, Konzo, Kven Finnish, Kölsch, Ladin, Ladino, Latgalian, Lithuanian, Lombard, Low German, Lower Sorbian, Luba, Lulua, Lule Sami, Luo (Kenya and Tanzania), Luxembourgish, Macedo, Romanian, Makonde, Malagasy, Malaysian, Maltese, Mandinka, Mandjak, Mankanya, Manx, Maore Comorian, Maori, Mapudungun, Marshallese, Matsés, Mauritian Creole, Meriam Mir, Meru, Minangkabau, Mirandese, Mohawk, Montenegrin, Munsee, Murrinh, Patha, Mwani, Mískito, Naga Pidgin, Ndonga, Neapolitan, Ngazidja Comorian, Niuean, Nobiin, Nomatsiguenga, North Ndebele, Northern Kurdish, Northern Qiandong Miao, Northern Sami, Northern Uzbek, Norwegian, Nyanja, Nyankole, Occitan, Ojitlán Chinantec, Orma, Oroqen, Palauan, Pampanga, Papantla Totonac, Papiamento, Pedi, Picard, Pichis Ashéninka, Piemontese, Pijin, Pintupi, Luritja, Pipil, Pohnpeian, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Purepecha, Quechua, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Rundi, Samoan, Sango, Sangu (Tanzania), Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Seri, Seselwa Creole French, Shawnee, Shipibo, Conibo, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, Soninke, South Ndebele, Southern Aymara, Southern Qiandong Miao, Southern Sami, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Sranan Tongo, Standard Estonian, Standard Latvian, Standard Malay, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tedim Chin, Tetum, Tetun Dili, Tok Pisin, Tokelau, Tonga (Tonga Islands), Tonga (Zambia), Tosk Albanian, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Uab Meto, Ume Sami, Upper Guinea Crioulo, Upper Sorbian, Venetian, Veps, Võro, Walloon, Walser, Waray (Philippines), Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, West Central Oromo, Western Abnaki, Western Frisian, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xhosa, Yanesha’, Yao, Yucateco, Zapotec, Zulu, Záparo,
Design:
Nóra Békés
Year:
2023-2024
Mentoring:
Ramiro Espinoza
Type specimen layout:
Nóra Békés
Cover image:
Fortepan / Budapest Főváros Levéltára. Levéltári jelzet: HU.BFL.XV.19.c.10