TAN Nightingale Font Free Download

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Anyone hoping for a TAN Nightingale free download should know up front that TanType Co. has not released a free or demo version of this font. TAN Nightingale is sold as a commercial typeface on Creative Market, and that listing is the official source.

We searched the listing, the foundry’s other storefronts and the usual designer profile sites for a personal-use demo and came up empty. Free copies on file-sharing sites are not authorised by the designer.

TAN Nightingale free download: what’s actually available

The official TAN Nightingale listing has no free tier. The “trial fonts” line on the page belongs to Creative Market’s enterprise licensing, not to this font. The listed licence prices in October 2026 were:

• Desktop: $17 per seat
• Webfont: $17
• E-pub: $40
• App: $136

The listing advertises 15% off when licences are combined. It says the download contains .otf, .ttf, .woff and .woff2 files. If you only need the font for print and social graphics, the Desktop licence is the one to look at. Any TAN Nightingale free download from another site comes without a licence. When you download TAN Nightingale from the listing, you get the files straight from the foundry, and the listing says customer support is handled by TanType Co. through its Creative Market shop.

Get TAN Nightingale — official listing

Free download: TAN Nightingale (Regular), personal use One style for personal use, shared with the designer’s permission. Commercial use needs a licence.

TAN Nightingale specimen and verified specs

• Styles: 1 (Regular)
• File formats: OTF, TTF
• Glyphs: 374
• Language support: Basic Latin (English), Western European, Central & Eastern European
• OpenType features: standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures, stylistic alternates, kerning, fractions
• Designer: Novia Jonatan (TanType Co.)

Checked by Tantype from the licensed font files.

Design: an art deco serif drawn in hairlines

According to the listing, TAN Nightingale is “art deco inspired” with a “dramatically elongated serif” and a “clean and modern feel”. The specimens rendered from the font files show a very light, high-contrast face. The thick strokes are only moderately thick and the thin ones are true hairlines, so the overall colour on the page is pale and airy.

The proportions are what make it look art deco. Ascenders on b, d, h, k and l rise well above the capitals, while the x-height is short, so lowercase words look tall and narrow. Several letters have a hairline cutting through them on a diagonal: a fine stroke slices through the bowl of the C, G and Q. The lowercase a is built from a loop, and the g ends in a large, open, swinging tail that drops far below the baseline. The r finishes in a small curl, and the question mark is drawn as a reversed hook rather than the usual shape.

Because the hairlines are so fine, this is a font for large sizes and good print or screen resolution. Set small, or on a busy background, the thin strokes can disappear.

What’s in the TAN Nightingale package

• Styles: one Regular style.
• Glyphs: 374 in the licensed font file.
• Formats in our licensed copy: OTF and TTF. The listing says the product also includes .woff and .woff2 for websites.
• Version: 1.000. Creative Market lists the product as created on 4 October 2020, with no published update notes.
• Designer: Novia Jonatan, per the font files, for TanType Co.

Language support and OpenType features

The listing describes language support as “limited”. The file we examined does cover Basic Latin, Western European and Central and Eastern European characters, which handles English, French, German, Spanish, Polish, Czech and similar languages. It does not include Cyrillic or Greek.

TAN Nightingale has more OpenType features than most single-style display fonts:

• Standard ligatures: applied automatically to letter pairs that would otherwise clash.
• Discretionary ligatures: decorative letter combinations you switch on deliberately, for a logo or a single word.
• Stylistic alternates: alternative versions of some letters, chosen from the Glyphs panel or turned on with the stylistic alternates setting.
• Kerning: built-in pair spacing, applied automatically almost everywhere.
• Fractions: turns typed fractions like 3/4 into proper fraction glyphs.

You can reach all of these in Adobe Illustrator, InDesign and Photoshop (through the OpenType options and the Glyphs panel), in Affinity Designer and Publisher, and in Figma’s type settings. The font has no Private Use Area (PUA) codes, so the alternates and discretionary ligatures cannot be copied in from a character map. In Canva and Cricut Design Space you will get the standard letters and kerning, but not the alternates.

Best uses and font pairings

TAN Nightingale suits places where a light, tall, deco serif can sit on its own with space around it: beauty and skincare packaging, boutique hotel and restaurant branding, wedding stationery, fashion editorial headlines, perfume labels and gallery posters. Sensible pairings:

• Jost or Montserrat in a light or regular weight for body text. Their geometric shapes suit the deco feel.
• Cormorant Garamond for longer reading text if you want to stay with serifs and keep the light, elegant tone.
• Josefin Sans in spaced capitals for small labels, as a deliberate deco nod.

Licensing: personal vs commercial use

Creative Market sells TAN Nightingale under Desktop, Webfont, E-pub and App licences. There is no free personal-use licence. The listing says the Desktop licence’s common uses include “logo design, print media, souvenirs, merchandise, and creation of images for websites or social media”. Embedding the font in a website, an e-book or an app each requires the matching licence. Seats are per person. This is a general summary, so check the licence text on the listing for your situation. It is not legal advice. An unofficial TAN Nightingale free download gives you no licence at all.

How to install TAN Nightingale

Windows: unzip the file, right-click the .otf and select Install, or “Install for all users” if several accounts need it.

Mac: double-click the .otf to open it in Font Book and click Install.

Install either the OTF or the TTF, not both. Restart your design app afterwards. The web formats are only for websites.

Free alternatives to TAN Nightingale

The free Google Fonts options all keep the serif-with-contrast idea but drop the deco proportions:

• Prata is the closest. It is a high-contrast Didone with fine hairlines, but it is heavier and has normal proportions. Its g and a are conventional, with no slicing strokes.
• Lora is a text serif with moderate contrast and soft curves, available in several weights and italics. It is far more readable at small sizes, and far less decorative.
• EB Garamond is a classic old-style Garamond revival for books and long text. It has a warmer, calligraphic feel, the opposite of Nightingale’s cool deco look.

We included TAN Nightingale in our roundup of the best art deco fonts, alongside other picks in the same style.

TAN Nightingale FAQ

Is there a free version of TAN Nightingale?

No official one. We found no demo on Creative Market or any designer-run channel. A Desktop licence was $17 at the time of writing.

Is TAN Nightingale free for commercial use?

No. Commercial use requires a paid licence that fits the medium: Desktop, Webfont, E-pub or App.

Can I use the alternates in Canva or Cricut?

No. The alternates and discretionary ligatures need an OpenType-capable app such as Illustrator, InDesign, Affinity or Figma. The standard letters work fine in Canva and Cricut.

Who designed TAN Nightingale?

Novia Jonatan, according to the font files, released by TanType Co. Tantype.com reviews fonts independently and is not affiliated with TanType Co.

Is it good for body text?

No. The hairlines and short x-height make it a display face. Use it for headlines and pair it with a sans or a text serif.