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Jabana

Designed by Nils Thomsen, Jabana is a hand display font family. This typeface has twenty styles and was published by TypeMates.

Jabana is inspired by having a “Schorle” at Hamburgs coffee bars.
20 super compressed and extended letter shapes in 5 widths, smooth handwritten marker curves and especially a wide range of opentype features define the large character set of Jabana.
Further family member are the more standardized Jabana Alt and the nice Jabana Extras for fancy designs.
Each letter and punctuation have three simple varieties of alternates.
This gives a nice looking handwritten nature to the font.
They will be randomly chosen by the contextual alternates feature or even by hand via stylistic set (ss01, ss02).
The complete range of characters for serious western european typography is included in Jabana.
Besides the standard accented letters, fractions, mathematical glyphs, superiors and inferiors, you will find alternates, extra bullets, different arrows, negative figures and roman numerals.
Another reason for the amount of 1500 glyphs are the numerator and denominator letters which include A-Z, punctuation and the extra bullets (ss09-16).
They are meant to be used for decoration or distinction.
Especially an opentype stylistic set gives an extra touch to it while putting a dot/line above denominators or underneath numerators (ss03+numr/dnom).
If Jabana is too unique for your purposes have a look at Jabana Alt.

Inspired by having a ’Schorle’ in Hamburg’s coffee bars, Jabana’s smooth handwritten marker curves come in 20 styles across 5 widths: from the super-compressed to the extended.

A particularly wide range of OpenType features define Jabana. Each letter, numeral and punctuation mark has three alternates and after being randomly picked by the Contextual Alternates OpenType feature (or accessed via stylistic sets ss01, ss02) they ensure text set in Jabana has a lively, handwritten appearance.

But Jabana doesn’t stop there: it comes with the character set to deliver serious European typography. Alongside standard accented letters, fractions, mathematical glyphs, superiors and inferiors, you will find alternates, extra bullets, different arrows, negative figures and roman numerals. For decoration or distinction, there are extra bullets and numerator and denominator sets that include the full A-Z, their own punctuation and, for an additional decorative touch, can stand alone, atop a dot or a line.

If Jabana is a bit too crazy for your purposes, have a look at Jabana Alt. This alternative has some more standard forms, a larger x-height and shorter descenders. And, if you need some fancy designs try the nice Jabana Extras.

The name Jabana comes from a container used to brew coffee in traditional Ethiopian, Eritrean and Eastern Sudanese coffee ceremonies. It is usually made of pottery, has a spherical base, a neck and pouring spout a handle where the neck connects to the base.

Foundry TypeMates
Fonts 20
Released 2015
Style Hand Display
Designer Nils Thomsen

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