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ONCE JABANA WAS BORN IN HAMBURG ST.PAULI WHILE SITTING AT A BAR AND HAVING A BEER SUDDENLY SOME BEAUTIFUL MENU CARD LETTERS APPEAR. SKETCHING & OPENTYPE FEATURES HELPED TO REALIZE AN ALMOST RANDOMIZED & VARYING LETTER PARADISE SOME CALL IT TYPEFACE!?
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Jabana — inspired by having a “Schorle” in Hamburg’s coffee bars, Jabana’s smooth handwritten marker curves come in 20 styles across 5 widths: from Compressed to Extended.

A particularly wide range of OpenType features define Jabana. Each letter, numeral and punctuation mark has three alternates and after being randomly picked by the Contextual Alternates OpenType feature (or accessed via stylistic sets ss01, ss02) they ensure text set in Jabana has a lively, handwritten appearance.

But Jabana doesn’t stop there: it comes with the character set to deliver serious European typography. Alongside standard accented letters, fractions, mathematical glyphs, superiors and inferiors, you will find alternates, extra bullets, different arrows, negative figures and Roman numerals. For decoration or distinction, there are extra bullets and numerator and denominator sets that include the full A-Z, their own punctuation and, for an additional decorative touch, can stand alone, atop a dot or a line.

If Jabana is a bit too crazy for your purposes, have a look at Jabana Alt. This alternative has some more standard forms, a larger x-height and shorter descenders. And, if you need some fancy designs try the nice Jabana Extra.

The added Jabana features are hidden in 12 small fonts: The Jabana Extras! Here you can find different coffee mugs, wine glasses and lots of extras for your daily coffee consumption. This includes 1000 different banners, 700 icons and various ornaments.

The name Jabana comes from a container used to brew coffee in traditional Ethiopian, Eritrean and Eastern Sudanese coffee ceremonies. It is usually made of pottery, has a spherical base, a neck and pouring spout a handle where the neck connects to the base.

Designed by
Nils Thomsen
in 2014
Specs
Providing 20 styles in 4 weights and 5 widths with 1500 glyphs per font and 2 alternates for each letter
Formats
otf and ttf for desktop and apps, and woff and woff2 for web
Tags
SansHandmadeRegularCondensedExtendedHeadlinesIdentityLatinExpressiveFriendlySoftSuper FamilyAlternatesIcons
Related Typefaces
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Jabana

  • Thin
  • Wide Thin
  • Extra Wide Thin
  • Extended Thin
  • Extra Extended Thin
  • Light
  • Wide Light
  • Extra Wide Light
  • Extended Light
  • Extra Extended Light
  • Regular
  • Wide Regular
  • Extra Wide Regular
  • Extended Regular
  • Extra Extended Regular
  • Bold
  • Wide Bold
  • Extra Wide Bold
  • Extended Bold
  • Extra Extended Bold

Jabana Alt

  • Thin
  • Wide Thin
  • Extra Wide Thin
  • Extended Thin
  • Extra Extended Thin
  • Light
  • Wide Light
  • Extra Wide Light
  • Extended Light
  • Extra Extended Light
  • Regular
  • Wide Regular
  • Extra Wide Regular
  • Extended Regular
  • Extra Extended Regular
  • Bold
  • Wide Bold
  • Extra Wide Bold
  • Extended Bold
  • Extra Extended Bold

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Icon Set
Character Set
Language Support
Supports more than 200 Languages: Abenaki, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic, Asturian, Atayal, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Basque, Belarusian, Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Cimbrian, Cofán, Cornish, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz , Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Gikuyu, Gooniyandi, Greenlandic, Guadeloupean Creole, Gwich’in, Haitian Creole, Hän, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcąk, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese, Jèrriais, Kaingang, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan, Kaqchikel, Karakalpak, Karelian, Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Kurdish, Ladin, Latin, Latino sine Flexione, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Māori, Marquesan, Megleno-Romanian, Meriam Mir, Mirandese, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinh-Patha, Nagamese Creole, Nahuatl, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Occidental, Occitan, Oshiwambo, Ossetian, Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Q’eqchi’, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami Inari , Sami Lule, Sami Northern, Sami Southern, Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Seri, Seychellois Creole, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio, Somali, Sorbian (Lower, Upper), Sotho (Northern, Southern), Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese, Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Uzbek, Venetian, Vepsian, Volapük, Võro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xavante, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zarma, Zazaki, Zulu, Zuni
OpenType Features
All OpenType Features included: Access All Alternates, Capital Spacing, Case Sensitive, Contextual Alternates, Denominator, Fractions, Glyph Composition/Decomposition, Kerning, Ligatures, Lining Figures, Localized Forms, Mark to Mark Positioning, Numerators, Old style Figures, Ordinals, Proportional Figures, Scientific Inferiors, Slashed Zero, Small Capitals, Stylistic Set: Alternate Arrows 1, Stylistic Set: Alternate Arrows 2, Stylistic Set: Alternate Bullets 1, Stylistic Set: Alternate Bullets 2, Stylistic Set: Alternate Bullets 3, Stylistic Set: Alternate Bullets 4, Stylistic Set: Alternate Bullets 5, Stylistic Set: Alternate Bullets 6, Stylistic Set: Alternate Bullets 7, Stylistic Set: Alternate Bullets 8, Stylistic Set: Alternate N and K, Stylistic Set: Alternates 1, Stylistic Set: Alternates 2, Stylistic Set: Alternates 3, Stylistic Set: Black Ball Figures, Stylistic Set: Centered Punctuation, Stylistic Set: Dotless Uppercase i, Stylistic Set: Roman Figures up to 39, Stylistic Set: SS to ẞ, Stylistic Set: Shift Lowercase to center, Superscript, Tabular Figures

In-Use & Articles

Background of Jabana and Its OpenType Madness
Making Of Jabana