A 12-style Art Nouveau serif drawn in the tradition of Henri Bellery-Desfontaines' 1910 alphabet for G. Peignot & Fils, with a wide range of OpenType alternates for individual letterforms.
About
Six weights from Regular to Black, each with a matching italic, give Nysé a broad typographic range while retaining the organic, ornamented character of early twentieth-century Parisian type. OpenType features include oldstyle figures, small capitals, discretionary ligatures and individual alternates for A, M, N, R, a, e and the ampersand, allowing fine control over the decorative quality of a setting. The name references the mythological birthplace of Dionysus, and that sense of classical exoticism runs through the design's fluid, slightly theatrical stroke modulation.
Classification
Nysé draws directly on the Art Nouveau tradition, referencing the 1910 Bellery-Desfontaines alphabet commissioned by G. Peignot & Fils, with characteristic organic letterforms and decorative alternate glyphs placing it firmly in expressive display serif territory.