Noeler is a playful linear handwritten font with a festive mood. The font family includes one non-color font (Pasta) inspired by spaghetti shapes, and two color fonts (Candy, Firtree) inspired by candy cane and Christmas colors.

Shape and color. The story of this font begins with the shape of a candy cane, which resembled the Latin capital letter J, and so the idea arose that this twisted shape and these colors could really be letters. Interestingly, in a non-color version, the same shapes begin to resemble spaghetti, and that is why the styles of the font family were named according to their visual function. So, the shape of the letters is assembled from tightly packed lines, sometimes twisted into a rope, and sometimes directly parallel. The challenge was to make the shape of the letters easily recognizable, even without a clear outer contour. That is why the lines are quite dense, but not so dense that the colors of neighboring lines merge with each other. The lines avoid sharp corners at the bends to emphasize the plasticity and softness of the form, but the ends of the lines are not rounded, so the form, although playful, is not exclusively childish.

Mood and style. The vision suggested that the mood of the font should be festive and Christmassy. When else to savor candy canes than during the winter holidays! So the handwritten style fit as well as possible than the dry geometric. There are a bit of asymmetric serifs in lowercase letters and a bit of Fraktur in capital letters. The form received several different angles of inclination to emphasize its playfulness and refusal to be serious. No, sir, we won't be serious on the holidays. We will celebrate and have fun!

Styles: Pasta, Candy, Firtree. Scripts: Latin, Cyrillic, Greek. Languages: 500+ Glyphs: 1452. Hinting: Not applied. Format: OTF – OpenType with PostScript outlines.

Color fonts: Noeler has two color fonts – Candy (pink + caramel) and Firtree (pink + green). Color fonts are represented in two versions – with COLR table or SVG table. COLR version is needed for all the web browsers and most of the desktop applications. SVG version is needed for InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro, Inkscape, CorelDRAW. Figma doesn’t support color fonts yet (checked in 2025).

Stylistic Set 2 “Decorations”: The font contains a set of 50 primitive linear decorations that could be handy for Christmas designs, such as: snowflakes, stars, star of Bethelhem, five-pointed stars, hearts, candy cane, fir trees, fir branches, snowman, gingerbread man, Christmas bulbs. Some of them are presented in different size and appearance to fit with lowercases or uppercases. There are two ways to apply them: 1. Open the Glyphs panel in the graphics editor and select the decorative element manually. 2. Activate Stylistic Set 2 and type the keywords from :decoration1: to :decoration50: in the text.

Stylistic Alternates: Y f s. Contextual Alternates: Дд Дз Ду Цд Цз Цу Щд Щз Щу цд цз цу щд щз щу. Standard Ligatures: Th fb fh fk fl ff ffb ffh ffk ffl ЇЇ ії її. Figures: Lining (default), Oldstyle, Superscript, Subscript, Numerator, Denominator.

The typeface was designed by Michael Rafailyk in 2025.