Commercial · Slab serif · Monotype
Rockwell Nova
Rockwell Nova is a licensed font from Monotype: Complete family of 14 fonts: $314.99 USD, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 4 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.
The name above is set in a fallback face. Rockwell Nova is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Monotype Design Studio
- Released
- 2016
- Styles
- 14
- Classification
- Slab serif
- Price
- Complete family of 14 fonts: $314.99 USD (Individual Styles from $40.99 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Monotype's 2016 update of Rockwell as a 14-style family (13 designs plus a variant), keeping the monoweight, straight-edged slab character for text and display.
Free alternatives to Rockwell Nova
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Rockwell Nova is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Arvo webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Arvo.
same classification
A geometric slab serif with four styles; shares Rockwell's monoline construction and blunt, unbracketed serifs.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Roboto Slab webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Roboto Slab.
commonly substituted
A slab built on Roboto's skeleton; widely used where Rockwell would be, though its forms are more neo-grotesque than geometric.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Rokkitt webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Rokkitt.
same classification
Inspired by geometric slab serifs such as those Monotype published in the 1930s, which includes Rockwell's era; many weights.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Zilla Slab webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Zilla Slab.
same classification
A contemporary slab with true italics; smoother and more compact than Rockwell.
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