Foundry List
Provided Formats
Macintosh
OpenType PS (.otf)
Windows
OpenType PS (.otf)
legacy formats can be made to order
Download National specimen (PDF)
TDC2 2008
Judge's Choice
About National
"National is a deceptively simple sans serif with subtle quirks in the details that give it a distinctive - but not distracting - personality. While National travels through, and touches on, a lot of historical material, it is designed to thrive in our modern typographic climate. National's details are drawn from the best pre-Akzidenz grotesques, giving it a humble, workmanlike character with an agreeable tone of voice. Its extensive character set includes a wide array of accents, seven numeral sets, alternate forms for some base glyphs, and small caps across all styles. In short, all the good things that the exacting typographer should expect from a contemporary OpenType typeface."
Supported languages
Afrikaans, Albanian, Arumanian, Asturian, Azerbaijani, Basque, romanised Belarusian, Bislama, Breton, Bosnian, romanised Bulgarian, romanised Burmese, Catalan, Chamorro, Chichewa, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Old English, Middle English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, German, traditional German, transliterated Greek, Greenlandic, Guarani, Hawai'ian, Hungarian, Ibo, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish Gaelic, Italian, romanised Japanese, Kashubian, romanised Kazakh, romanised Korean, Kurdish, romanised Kyrgyz, romanised Laotian, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Livonian, romanised Macedonian, Malagasy, Maltese, Maori, Marshallese, Moldavian, romanised Mongolian, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Romansch, romanised Russian, Inari Saami, North Saami, Lule Saami, Skolt Saami, South Saami, Samoan, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Slovak, Slovenian, Lower Sorbian, Upper Sorbian, Spanish, Traditional Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, romanised Tajik, romanised Tatar, Tswana, Tongan, Turkish, romanised Turkmen, romanised Ukrainian, Ulithian, Uzbek, Walloon, Welsh, Wolof, Yapese, and many transliterated South Asian languages
Supported ISO codepages
8859-1 Latin 1 (West European)
8859-2 Latin 2 (Central European)
8859-3 Latin 3 (South European)
8859-4 Latin 4 (Baltic)
8859-9 Latin 5 (Turkish)
8859-10 Latin 6 (Scandinavian)
8859-13 Latin 7 (Baltic 2)
8859-15 Latin 9
8859-16 Latin 10
Glyphset contents
// Integrated Small Caps with full accents
// Seven numeral sets: Oldstyle Proportional, Oldstyle Tabular, Lining Proportional, Lining Tabular, Numerators, Denominators, Scientific Inferiors
// Extended set of prebuilt fractions in 8ths, quarters, thirds, and half
// "Schoolbook" a, g, and y in roman, and sloped a and g in italic.
// Common mathematical symbols, cap-height versions (plus, minus, multiplication, division, equals, greater than, and less than) and small versions for Numerators, etc.: plus, minus, equals, left and right parentheses
// Monetary symbols in Lining and Oldstyle for Euro, Dollar, Cent, Colon, Cruzeiro, Franc, Lira, Naira, Peseta, Rupee, Won, New Sheqel, Tugrik, Peso, Baht
// A basic set of ligatures: fb ffb ff fh ffh fi ffi fj ffj fk ffk fl ffl ft fft ftt tt
// Ordinal a, c, and o, and full superscript lowercase
// Arrows and arrowheads at 0, 90, 180, and 270 degrees
// A full complement of dashes for Ulc and UC setting: hyphen, en, em, figure
// Reversed single and double quotation marks
// Small cap ampersand
Note that National ships in cross-platform OpenType PS format only.