OTF — Novus Sans Sample
The Novus Sans Sample demonstration typeface as OpenType/CFF outlines — one member of a TTF/OTF/WOFF/WOFF2 conversion set built from scratch with fontTools. Original and free to use; a fixture for testing font loading, subsetting, and conversion.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & ! ? @ # % ( ) — “ ”
12pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
16pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
20pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
28pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
40pxThe quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Specifications
- Family
- Novus Sans Sample
- Style
- Regular
- Format
- OpenType/CFF outlines
- Glyphs
- 13
- Coverage
- uppercase subset (THE NOVUS FONT)
- Units Per Em
- 1000
What is a .otf file?
OTF (OpenType Font) is a scalable font format built on the TrueType structure but able to carry PostScript/CFF cubic-Bezier outlines and advanced typographic features like ligatures and alternates. It supports large Unicode glyph sets and rich layout tables. It is a professional-grade format for desktop and web.
How to use this file
Use an example OTF to test OpenType parsing, advanced layout-feature handling, glyph extraction, and font-conversion or subsetting pipelines.
How to use this file for testing
“OTF — Novus Sans Sample” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Conversion testing. The same content exported across many formats and linked as a group, so you can convert one and diff against the expected twin.
Documented properties for this file: OpenType/CFF outlines. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.
Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.
Font fixtures carry a small documented glyph set across the common wrappers. Test font loaders, subsetting, and @font-face; the specimen preview renders the glyphs the face actually maps.
Code examples
@font-face {
font-family: "Sample";
src: url("NovusSansSample.otf");
}
body { font-family: "Sample", sans-serif; }Related files
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- otfOTF — Variable Font with CFF2 (cubic) OutlinesA variable font whose outlines are CFF2 rather than glyf, so the variation deltas live inside blended charstrings and there is no gvar table at all. The case that breaks tools which assume every variable font is TrueType-flavoured. Original typeface, free to use.
- otfOTF — Web Container Source, CFF (Type 2) OutlinesThe uncompressed CFF (Type 2) source for this container set. Every WOFF and WOFF2 file in the group is packed from exactly these bytes, so a compression comparison is measuring the container and nothing else. Original typeface, free to use.
- ttcTTC — Collection of Two Variable FontsA collection whose members are themselves variable fonts, each with its own axis, fvar, gvar and STAT. The case that breaks loaders which handle collections or variations but never both at once. Original typeface, free to use.
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