Nabla Font

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About

Nabla is a groundbreaking variable color font that pushes the boundaries of typographic design. Created by Arthur Reinders Folmer of Typearture, Nabla is a multi-axis color font based on optical illusions, depth, and motion. Its layered construction and dynamic appearance make it a perfect fit for futuristic posters, vibrant headlines, and experimental digital projects.

Nabla supports both COLRv1 (for Chrome and Edge) and SVG-in-OT (for Firefox), with animation-ready variable axes that let you adjust shadow, transparency, extrusion, and gloss in real time. Whether you're going for an ultra-shiny, soft plastic look or a more restrained optical style, Nabla invites you to play, tweak, and animate.

You can test all its variable features live at nabla.typearture.com — an interactive homepage designed to showcase the font’s full potential.

Note: To see Nabla in action, use it in modern design software that supports color fonts, such as Figma, Photoshop, or browsers with COLRv1 support.

License

  • Free for personal use
  • Free for commercial use
Nabla is licensed under the SIL Open Font License (OFL)

Languages

Nabla covers 48 languages:

  • English
  • Spanish
  • French
  • Portuguese
  • Indonesian
  • German
  • Javanese
  • Turkish
  • Filipino
  • Italian
  • Polish
  • Malay
  • Uzbek
  • Azerbaijani (Latin)
  • Dutch
  • Romanian
  • Somali
  • Swedish
  • Czech
  • Hungarian
  • Kinyarwanda
  • Catalan
  • Bosnian (Latin)
  • Kurdish (Latin)
  • Danish
  • Turkmen
  • Slovak
  • Albanian
  • Croatian
  • Finnish
  • Norwegian
  • Galician
  • Lithuanian
  • Occitan
  • Slovenian
  • Nynorsk
  • Irish
  • Latvian
  • Basque
  • Welsh
  • Estonian
  • Breton
  • Maltese
  • Luxembourgish
  • Icelandic
  • Maori
  • Scottish Gaelic
  • Faroese

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