Ny. Slab
A2-Type · Henrik Kubel · 2015
A nine-weight slab serif drawn by Henrik Kubel as part of the custom type system created for the 2015 redesign of The New York Times Magazine.
About
Part of the broader Ny. family, this slab serif takes its formal cues from Mazarin, the Garamond-like metal typeface from Stephenson Blake, filtered through the sharpness and contrast of The New York Times Magazine's Gothic Blackletter logotype. Nine weights run from Thin to Black, giving the family considerable range across editorial hierarchies. The name references both New York, where the fonts were first deployed, and the Danish word for 'new', a nod to principal designer Henrik Kubel's origins.
Classification
Ny. Slab is an upright slab serif designed as part of a wider type system rooted in the Garamond-like Mazarin metal typeface, with sharpness and contrast drawn from Gothic Blackletter tradition, placing it firmly in the slab category with editorial refinement.