Nirvana designed by Chiara Facchini
Typographic scale
Nirvana
12 pt
Is a sans-serif typeface inspired to Archer.
15 pt
It is thought as an essential font.
24 pt
It has removed serifs,
30 pt
stretched upwards,
36 pt
refused unneccessary
and so it reached
Nirvana
44 pt
60 pt
72 pt
From Archer to Nirvana
Archer uses unbracketed serifs and ball terminals. Most of lower case letters can be inscribed in a square.
Through the process of rebuilding a typeface, obtaining the skeleton of the original font is a fundamental step. It can be slightly modified.
Archer height The arc of stem of the „a“ in Nirvana is shorter
Nirvana has no serifs and the terminals are perpendicular to the angle of the stroke. The weight is vertically distributed, for this reason letters appear more high and slender.
72 pt
84 pt
28 pt
12/14,4 pt
7/8,4 pt
Heart Sutra Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva when practicing deeply the Prajna Paramita perceives that all five skandhas are empty and is saved from all suffering and distress. Shariputra, form does not differ from emptiness, emptiness does not differ from form. That which is form is emptiness, that which is emptiness form. The same is true of feelings, perceptions, impulses, consciousness. Shariputra, all dharmas are marked with emptiness; they do not appear or disappear, are not tainted or pure, do not increase or decrease. Therefore, in emptiness no form, no feelings, perceptions, impulses, consciousness. No eyes, no ears, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind; no color, no sound, no smell, no taste, no touch, no object of mind; no realm of eyes and so forth until no realm of mind consciousness. No ignorance and also no extinction of it, and so forth until no old age and death and also no extinction of them. No suffering, no origination, no stopping, no path, no cognition, also no attainment with nothing to attain. The Bodhsattva depends on Prajna Paramita and the mind is no hindrance; without any hindrance no fears exist.Far apart from every perverted view one dwells in Nirvana. The Heart Sutra is a popular sutra in Mahayana Buddhism. Its Sanskrit title, Prajaparamitahrdaya, can be translated as „The Heart of the Perfection of Wisdom“. The Heart Sutra is often cited as the best-known and most popular Buddhist scripture (along with the Diamond Sutra). It is especially popular in East Asia and is highly respected by Tibetan Buddhism. It was also highly respected during the Pala Empire (ca. 7501163 CE) located today in Bangladesh and Northern India. The standard version of the Heart Sutra in East Asia is Taisho 251 translated by Tripitaka Master Xuanzang.
The Tibetan translation is Peking (Beijing) Kangyur No. 21; which was later translated into Mongolian and the Manchu language. The text has been translated into English dozens of times from Chinese, Sanskrit and Tibetan as well as other source languages.According to Huili‘s biography, Xuanzang learned the sutra from an inhabitant of Sichuan, and subsequently chanted it during times of danger on his journey to the West (i.e. India). The earliest extant dated text of the Heart Sutra is a stone stele dated to 661 CE. It was engraved three years before the death of Tripitaka Master Xuanzang and twelve years after its translation, by patrons
Symmetry Thanks to its essential lines Nirvana is a strongly geometrical typeface. Its letters have a singular symmetry, whether between different letters or inside a single letter.
Nirvana is characterized by thin lines and a vertical weight distribution. Nothing to add and nothing to remove, just the right balance to which we should all aspire. Nirvana is not only a name, is a concept enbodied in a typeface.
177 pt
„Z“ in Nirvana has a particular feature that makes it looks like if it‘s inclinated of 7°.
Numbers
0 123 456 789
Old style figures: the best choice to use in a body of text.
x-height
also numbers need their overshoot
Nirvana’s features
Nirvana’s uppercase “M” vertex (the point where two strokes are joined) is placed higher than the baseline.
Nirvana has oval modern dots, that contrast with its straight lines.
The uppercase “Q” is follows exactly the shape of the uppercase “O”, the tall is short and thinner than the stroke.
Nirvana’s lowercase “k” has a diagonal stroke that attaches both to its stem and diagonal stroke
Skeleton Nirvana’s x-rays
49 pt
ABCDEFG HIJKLMNO PQRSTUV WXYZ 49 pt
upper case alphabet
lower case alphabet
abcdefg hijklmno pqrstuv wxyz
How does Nirvana react to your text? 14/16 pt I dare to say, it (the strife between Hindus and Muslims in India) is coeval with the British Advent, and immediately this relationship, the unfortunate, artificial, unnatural relationship between Great Britain and India is transform into a natural relationship, when it becomes, if it does become, a voluntary partnership to be given up, to be dissolved at the will of either party, when it becomes that you will find that Hindus, Mussalmans, Sikhs, Europeans, Anglo-Indians, Christians, Untouchable, will all live together as one man.
12/15 pt I dare to say, it (the strife between Hindus and Muslims in India) is coeval with the British Advent, and immediately this relationship, the unfortunate, artificial, unnatural relationship between Great Britain and India is transformed into a natural relationship, when it becomes, if it does become, a voluntary partnership to be given up, to be dissolved at the will of either party, when it becomes that you will find that Hindus, Mussalmans, Sikhs, Europeans, Anglo-Indians, Christians, Untouchable, will all live together as one man. alunt. Probatos itaque semper lege, et si quando ad alios deverti
10/14 pt I dare to say, it (the strife between Hindus and Muslims in India) is coeval with the British Advent, and immediately this relationship, the unfortunate, artificial, unnatural relationship between Great Britain and India is transformed into a natural relationship, when it becomes, if it does become, a voluntary partnership to be given up, to be dissolved at the will of either party, when it becomes that you will find that Hindus, Mussalmans, Sikhs, Europeans, Anglo-Indians, Christians, Untouchable, will all live together as one man. This is the speech that Gandhi delivered at the very first Round Table Conference. It is here that the British tried to convince Indian leaders to accept Dominion status citing communal disharmony and strife.
Cut of the terminal perpendicular to the angle of the stroke A quite large counter spacing makes Nirvana easier to read
High ascender
Shorter descender
Nirvana is a mono-weight font with no stress Sans-serif flat terminals
500 pt
like basic Nirvana is a modern typeface with the claim of being as versatile as possible.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.