Nimbus Sans
sans-serif typeface
Nimbus Sans is a sans-serif typeface created by URW++, based on Helvetica.
Nimbus Sans
This version uses URW++ font source and historically has three optical sizes, labelled T (Text), D (Display), and P (Poster), although the P version is generally no longer available. Some fonts in the family support Western Europe, East Europe, Turkish, Baltic, and Romanian languages.
As the labels suggest, Nimbus Sans D and P are created for larger texts, thus have lighter font weights and tighter spacing. The two optical sizes have similar designs, with Nimbus Sans P being even tighter. Nimbus Sans P includes alternate designs for currency symbols.
Florian Hardwig has described the display-oriented styles of Nimbus Sans P, with tight spacing, as more reminiscent of Helvetica as used in the 1970s from cold type than the early official Helvetica digitisations.
Nimbus Sans Diagonal
It is a version with more right lean than Nimbus Sans italic fonts. The family currently only includes 1 font, in Black weight in medium width.
Nimbus Sans Mono
It is a monospaced variant of Nimbus Sans.
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