YOFonts Nord
The name Nord is, actually, my misspelling to Node (it is where plant's stem/branch starts to grow). I had not aware of it for a long time, and now I leave it misspelled. So, the image of Nord does not come from Scandinavia - Nord is an old French term for Northern, Nordique means Scandinavian. The shape with the ovals in the same proportion for the terminals/curves in letterforms, it suggested me the image from plant. That is why the name came from. I maintained the bold complement which had been completed in 1992, then exhibited it as free font.
In 1999,
Donald Beekman sent me his work of my
Nord included its thinner/thicker variations. Regular weight for
Nord had been already on drawing board, and I decided to add more complemental versions to it by seeing his work. Now its Regular and Black weights are newly available.
Later, I added more complements for Nord as Extended Family: Small Caps, Large Lows (enlarged lower cases as upper cases) and Composite (a combination of these two complements).
Nord is designed by Yamaoka Yasuhiro 1992-2001.
