Fonts from The Northern Block.
The Northern Block is a collaborative type foundry internationally recognised for producing modernist fonts for brands, creatives and makers.
Popular The Northern Block fonts.
Loew Next is the modern, honest and straightforward goto sans serif type family aimed at a global user. Painstakingly reworked from the original design Loew to further enhance the consistency of detail between individual weights and improve its compatibility to support non-latin script languages. Details include over 800 characters with italics, alternative lowercase a, e, g and l. Seven variations of numerals, small caps with accents, Opentype features inferiors, superiors, fractions and language support covering Cyrillic, Greek, Western, South and Central Europe
A carefully drawn geometric typeface. Exacting angles are combined with smooth corner details to form a clean, legible font with a modern appearance. The compact nature of the letterforms allows for great use of space across text layouts. Details include 6 weights with italics, extended European & Cyrillic character set, manually edited kerning and Euro symbol.
Nuber Next is a modern geometric sans influenced by the popular neo-grotesques of the 1950s including Helvetica and Univers. Carefully remastered from the original Nuber type family to improve letter shape, overall uniformity and introduce a flexible width system capable of handling a wider variety of typographic applications. Details include 750 characters per font, nine weights and five widths with matching italics. Opentype features include seven variations of numerals, fractions, case-sensitive forms, stylistic alternates, ligatures, extended monetary symbols and language support covering Cyrillic, Western, South and Central Europe.
Fonts in use.
Fonts from The Northern Block.
The Northern Block’s highly skilled and enthusiastic global team, designs and develops award-winning retail and custom typefaces, and is pushing forward the design of multi-script families, including Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek and Hebrew for Global clients.
Creative Director
Jonathan Hill
Jonathan is the founder of The Northern Block and known to wider people in the North as the ‘Fontman’. He began his type design odyssey in the industrial mill towns of Yorkshire surrounded by historic textiles, modern art and the no-nonsense voice of the people. A Draughtsmen at heart with a passion for function, modernism and the understated Jonathan has shaped out a career designing typefaces that are respected and recognised by trusted brands, leading video game developers and global manufacturing companies. Recently his type designs have received international awards as some of the most innovative work in the industry, and with his dedication to connecting, mentoring and nurturing new type design talent, his influence is set to grow stronger.
Monotype Fonts
The Northern Block fonts are included with Monotype Fonts.