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TTF — Static Instance, Regular (wght 400)

A real static instance cut from the wght variable font at 400 — outlines interpolated once and baked, fvar and gvar stripped, usWeightClass set to match. For testing static-versus-variable fallback paths and family/style grouping. Original typeface, free to use.

Specimen — this file, loaded live via @font-facettf

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 Grotesk P7
Units Per Em
1000
Cap Height
700
X Height
500
Wave
p7
Seed
20260807
Built With
fontTools 4.x
Determinism
head.created/head.modified pinned to 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z, recalcTimestamp off; outlines are parametric, colour material is seeded
Usage Rights
original artwork, free for any use
Style
Regular
Instanced At
wght 400
Us Weight Class
400
Us Width Class
5
Source File
NovusGroteskVF-wght.ttf
Tool
fontTools.varLib.instancer
Variation Tables
removed

Testing contract

Expected to pass
Scenario
Install the five instances together and open a font menu, or diff this file against the variable font instanced in your own tool.
Expected result
The face reports no fvar or gvar, usWeightClass 400, and style name 'Regular'; its outlines match the variable font pinned to wght 400.

What is a .ttf file?

TTF (TrueType Font) is a scalable outline font format developed by Apple and Microsoft that uses quadratic Bezier curves and includes hinting for sharp rendering at small sizes. It stores glyph outlines, metrics, and character mappings in a single file. It is one of the most widely supported desktop and web font formats.

How to use this file

Use an example TTF to test font parsers, glyph and metric extraction, text-rendering pipelines, and converters that produce web font formats like WOFF.

How to use this file for testing

“TTF — Static Instance, Regular (wght 400)” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Conversion testing, Web assets, Metadata 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: seed 20260807. 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("NovusGrotesk-Regular.ttf");
}
body { font-family: "Sample", sans-serif; }

Generated by generation/fonts_p7.py. Free for any use, no attribution required — license.