NaN Rage Beau
NaN · Hugues Gentile, Fanny Hamelin, Fadhl Haqq, Léon Hugues, Jean-Baptiste Morizot, Luke Prowse, Florian Runge, Jolana Sýkorová · 2024
A contemporary Clarendon-esque slab-serif spanning nine weights and four widths, balancing organic stroke contrast with bracket-less geometric serifs and ball terminals.
About
Part of NaN's Rage Typographic Universe, Rage Beau draws on Victorian slab-serif heritage without leaning into period idiosyncrasies. Ball terminals and thick rectangular serifs give it confident structure, while the stroke contrast and generously curved forms soften the geometry enough for sustained text setting. Four widths from Standard to XCondensed and nine weights across each make it adaptable from narrow headline columns to comfortable body copy.
Classification
The foundry explicitly describe it as Clarendon-esque with thick rectangular serifs, ball terminals and bracket-less serifs, placing it squarely in the Victorian slab-serif tradition updated with contemporary geometry.