Typography
The Nordson typography system consists of three families of fonts: Source Sans Pro, EB Garamond and Arial.
The Source Sans Pro font family has replaced the Helvetica Neue family. It is a free Google font with a full range of weights and styles. The EB Garamond font family has replaced the Adobe Garamond Pro family. It is a free Google font with a full range of weights and styles. The Arial font family remains and is used for Office related products.
The following table illustrates general font usage rules:
| Source Sans Pro | EB Garamond | Arial | |
| Advertising & Marketing Materials - Body Text | X | ||
| Advertising & Marketing Materials - Headlines | X | ||
| Building Signage | X | ||
| Business Cards | X | ||
| Letterhead & Envelopes - Body Text | X | ||
| Letterhead & Envelopes - Pre-printed Headers | X | ||
| Merchandise & Promotional Materials | X | ||
| Microsoft Word Documents | X | ||
| PowerPoint Presentations | X | ||
| Products | X | ||
| Trade Shows | X | ||
| World Wide Web - Body Text | X | ||
| World Wide Web - Headlines | X |
Primary Font - Source Sans Pro
Source Sans Pro is a family containing several dozen fonts. Nordson uses the following specific Source Sans Pro fonts:
Secondary Font - EB Garamond
EB Garamond is a family containing several dozen fonts. Nordson uses the following specific EB Garamond fonts:
Microsoft Office Font - Arial
Arial is standard with most Microsoft applications:
Recommended Font Usage
Language Support
The Source Sans Pro, EB Garamond and Arial fonts support the following languages per the table above.
- All Latin-based languages
- Latin Extended
- Cyrillic
- Cyrillic Extended
- Greek
- Greek Extended
- Vietnamese
The Noto Sans font supports the following languages. It is the only font approved for these languages and should be applied for all use cases (brochures, web, headlines, body copy, etc.).
- Simplified Chinese
- Japanese
- Korean
- Hebrew