Nicéphore
A six-weight humanist sans named after Nicéphore Niépce, the French inventor credited with creating the world's first permanent photographic image.
About
Named in tribute to Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, the typeface runs from Thin to Heavy across six weights with no italics. It carries an extensive Latin character set covering a wide range of European languages, backed by a thorough OpenType feature set including oldstyle figures, tabular variants, historical ligatures, stylistic alternates for several key letters and a full suite of mathematical and geometric symbols. The alternates for characters such as G, R, Q, t and y give designers flexibility to adjust the voice of the text without switching families.
Classification
The typeface exhibits humanist sans-serif characteristics, with alternates for letters such as G, R, Q, a, g, t and y suggesting warmth and calligraphic influence typical of the humanist tradition.