Bona Nova

Designed by Capitalics, Mateusz Machalski, Andrzej Heidrich

2 weights • Version 12 • On Google Fonts since 2021 • Popularity #998

Quick Summary

3

Styles · incl. italic

400-700

Weight Range

Static

Not variable

7

Languages / Subsets

Category
serif
Best for
display
Scripts
Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Vietnamese
Origin
Warsaw, Poland
License
SIL Open Font License
Last updated
Sep 2, 2025

© 2017 The Bona Nova Project Authors

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About Bona Nova Fonts

Bona Nova is a digitisation of Bona, a cursive typeface designed in 1971 by Andrzej Heidrich — the creator of Polish banknotes. Besides giving it a digital form, this project was the opportunity to expand the character set, design the small caps, alternates and opentype functions for the typeface. Two new versions has been created together with the original author; a Regular and a Bold, to give the family a form of a classical triad.

To contribute, see github.com/kosmynkab/Bona-Nova.

Who Designed Bona Nova?

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Capitalics Warsaw Type Foundry is one of the first digital type foundries in Poland. It was started as a group collective of typeface designers, out of passion for good typography. Their designs are aimed for conscious customers who look for unique and high quality typefaces. The initiating founder was Michał Jarociński.

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Mateusz Machalski, PhD, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw (PhD in Typeface Design 2020, MA in Graphic Design 2014). He works at the Faculty of Graphics in the Studio of Multimedia Artistic Creation at his alma mater. He is a member of the board of the Association of Applied Graphic Designers in Poland.

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