NaN Holo
NaN · Luke Prowse · 2021
A neo-grotesque with a science-fiction premise, mixing rectangular counters and rounded curves across five width variants and a monospaced companion.
About
Designed by Luke Prowse with additional work from Jean-Baptiste Morizot and Fátima Lázaro, Holo pairs an industrial skeleton with deliberately inconsistent rounded and squared details that create warmth at display sizes and recede at text sizes. Wider-than-usual capitals give the rhythm a confident openness without tipping into novelty. The monospaced variant, Holo Mono, extends the family into code and technical contexts while maintaining the same underlying tension between machine logic and biological form.
Classification
Described explicitly as a neo-Grotesk, combining rectangular counters with rounded curves on an industrial frame; the biological disruptions and proportional idiosyncrasies sit within the grotesque tradition rather than outside it.