Ibarra Real Nova
Designed By
José María Ribagorda, Octavio Pardo
8 Styles Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
Ibarra Real Nova · Regular
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8 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Ibarra Real Nova ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
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In a village of La Mancha
A Page In Ibarra Real Nova
Ibarra Real Nova · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.
A heading marks the next chapter. The margins leave room for a note while the text continues across the page.
8 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Regular400
In a village of La Mancha
Italic400
In a village of La Mancha
Medium500
In a village of La Mancha
Medium Italic500
In a village of La Mancha
Semi Bold600
In a village of La Mancha
Semi Bold Italic600
In a village of La Mancha
Bold700
In a village of La Mancha
Bold Italic700
In a village of La Mancha
In 1780 the printer Joaquín Ibarra produced an edition of Don Quixote for the Real Academia de la Lengua, and the types it was set in had been cut by Gerónimo Gil. Ibarra Real Nova brings those letters back.
The revival started in 2007, when the Calcografía Nacional Española set up a project, directed by José María Ribagorda, to make better known the type heritage that Spain’s Imprenta Real produced in the 18th century. Recovering Gil’s Quixote types was part of it, and the result was called Ibarra Real. In 2015 Ribagorda brought in Octavio Pardo as the first collaborator on the design; Pardo was also the first student on the University of Reading’s MA Typeface Design to study the project.
What you get now:
- 4 weights, Regular, Medium, Semi Bold and Bold, each with an italic, 8 styles
- small caps, old style figures, discretionary ligatures and fractions
- 375 characters, Latin with the extended accents
The project also has ornaments by Spanish and Latin American designers, held back from this release until their authors agree to share them openly.
The italics run noticeably narrower than the romans. It would be our first pick for a Spanish novel or a poetry chapbook.
Characters & Figures
375 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 371 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
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Ibarra Real Nova
8 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 306 KB ↓- Version
- 2.000
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/ibarra-real-nova-2/ibarra-real-nova-2.css">
body {
font-family: 'Ibarra Real Nova', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Ibarra Real Nova Heading · Inter Body
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.