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Nera

Nera commands attention with bold, distinctive characters crafted for headlines and visual impact.

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Displayby Daniele Franchi50% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Nera

01

Best Font Pairings for Nera

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Nera, including combinations with Cehua, Aspekta and Lil Grotesk.

Each pairing includes accessibility ratings, expert reasoning, and usage recommendations for web and print design.

Explore 3 Pairings for Nera
02

Test Nera Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Nera with any font combination in real-time, optimized for display characteristics.

Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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In Context

Nera Specimen Gallery

UI ComponentsPosterWordmark
Nera
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Nera Typography

A display typeface for UI components.

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Nera Specimen

Nera

Nera is a display typeface by Daniele Franchi built for display contexts.

2 WeightsDisplay Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

Nera
Nera
NERA
NERATYPE
N

Tagline Pairings

Nera— display typeface
NeraBy Daniele Franchi
NeraTYPE

UI Components

Buttons, forms, navigation, and cards

Character Set

Nera Glyphs & Characters

Size48
Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Type Scale

Display Sizes for Nera

Heading Level 1<h1>
64px
Bold
72px
Nera primary headline
Heading Level 2<h2>
48px
SemiBold
56px
Nera section heading
Heading Level 3<h3>
32px
Medium
40px
Nera subsection title
Heading Level 4<h4>
24px
Regular
32px
Nera content heading
Heading Level 5<h5>
18px
Regular
26px
Nera minor heading
Heading Level 6<h6>
14px
Medium
20px
Nera smallest heading
Font SizeWeightLine Height
Body Copy

Nera Used As Body Text

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for Nera, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

Nera demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.

When setting Nera for body copy, TypeSmith recommends these optimized specifications. The carefully tuned metrics ensure comfortable reading at extended lengths while maintaining the typeface's distinctive character.

Nera small text sizes retain legibility through well-defined letterforms. Caption and footnote applications benefit from the font's clear x-height and open counters.

ElementWeightSizeLine HeightTrackingPreview
Body TextRegular16px24px0.5pxNera delivers excellent readability for body copy
ItalicizedRegular Italic16px24px0.5pxNera italic provides elegant emphasis
BoldBold16px24px0.5pxNera bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small CapsRegular16px24px0.5pxNera typography specimen
Secondary TextMedium14px20px0.5pxNera typography specimen
.your-class { font-family: 'Nera'; }

Quick Start

Integrating Nera

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Nera:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Nera:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Nera';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Nera:wght@400;700&display=swap');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Code Snippets for Nera

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

 1.my-text {
 2  font-family: 'Nera', sans-serif;
 3  font-weight: 400;
 4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

 1$font-primary: 'Nera', sans-serif;
 2
 3.my-text {
 4  font-family: $font-primary;
 5}

Tailwind CSS

config

Configure once, apply with utility classes.

 1// tailwind.config.js
 2module.exports = {
 3  theme: {
 4    extend: {
 5      fontFamily: {
 6        'nera': ['Nera', 'sans-serif'],
 7      },
 8    },
 9  },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-nera">Your text here</p>

About

Exploring Nera's Design

Daniele Franchi
Display
Open Source

Nera font is a bold display typeface with creative details and geometric construction designed for powerful, distinctive applications. The substantial weight and creative interpretation generate commanding, memorable typography. This creative geometric bold display typeface proves valuable in distinctive bold branding, powerful creative advertising, bold geometric headlines, and applications requiring bold creative geometric distinction. The dark name suggests intensity. Nera serves designers creating powerful creative geometric experiences. Pair with lighter fonts for hierarchy.

Nera comes from the work of Daniele Franchi. The typeface brings careful attention to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Display typeface in the Vox-ATypI Graphic classification, Nera features tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for hero headlines and landing page headers.

Nera is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency spanning screen and print contexts, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

Nera

Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Nera

TypeSmith evaluates every font across classification, accessibility, and design heritage. This analysis helps designers understand Nera's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

1

Classification

Display analysis. TypeSmith classifies Nera within the Graphic (Display / Titling) tradition, characterized by Tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and Exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. Display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Key technical strength: high visual impact with minimal typographic hierarchy.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 50). Nera handles most reading scenarios adequately, with best results at sizes above 14 px on screen.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Daniele Franchi. The designer's attention to glyph proportions and optical balance produces a Display with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Nera

Nera embodies the Graphic typeface, grounded in the tradition where display type emerged alongside 19th-century poster culture, where wood type enabled massive sizes. Its distinctive tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features make it well-suited for hero headlines and landing page headers. TypeSmith catalogs Nera in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

Font Pairings Available
3 curated pairings for Nera
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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

50
Accessibility Score
Adequate Accessibility

Nera: Accessibility Considerations

Nera falls in the moderate accessibility tier, working best at medium-to-large sizes where its letterforms remain clearly differentiated. Decorative features may reduce legibility for users with cognitive disabilities. Always provide sufficient size contrast between display and body text.

How Legible is Nera?

Nera draws legibility from its tight spacing optimized for large point sizes and exaggerated contrast, weight, or decorative features. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Nera Reading Performance

Designed exclusively for sizes above 24 pt. Display faces sacrifice small-size legibility for visual impact and personality at headline scale. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Nera for Long-Form Content

Nera provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. Balanced stroke modulation keeps visual noise low during sustained reading sessions.

Nera Accessibility Recommendations

Maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text when setting Nera. Use font sizes of at least 16 px for paragraph copy and line spacing of 1.5 or greater. Test Nera at 200% browser zoom to confirm line breaks and layout integrity remain intact.

How to Use Nera Effectively

Anchor with a neutral text serif or sans-serif. The display face should carry personality while the text face carries readability. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Nera. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Nera in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

Get the Font

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Available Weights

400
Regular
Local
400
Regular Italic
Local
700
Bold
Local
700
Bold Italic
Local

Weight Reference

Aa
100
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400
Aa
500
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600
Aa
700
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800
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900

Internationalization

Nera Multilingual Support

Extended Latin Coverage
Supports 100+ languages with Latin script

Western European

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Italian
  • Portuguese
  • Dutch

Nordic

  • Swedish
  • Norwegian
  • Danish
  • Finnish
  • Icelandic

Central European

  • Polish
  • Czech
  • Hungarian
  • Romanian
  • Slovak

Baltic

  • Lithuanian
  • Latvian
  • Estonian

This font encodes 76 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Nera Licensing

SIL Open Font License (OFL) 1.1
Free for personal and commercial use
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What you can do

  • Personal projects
  • Commercial projects
  • Web embedding
  • App embedding
  • Modification
  • Redistribution

Restrictions

  • Selling as standalone

Modified versions must use a different name and be distributed under the same OFL license.

Nera is available under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), Version 1.1. This license is a free, libre, and open source license specifically designed for fonts and related software. The OFL allows the fonts to be used, studied, modified, and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. This makes Nera ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.