NaN Rage Poly
NaN · Hugues Gentile, Fanny Hamelin, Fadhl Haqq, Léon Hugues, Jean-Baptiste Morizot, Luke Prowse, Florian Runge, Jolana Sýkorová · 2024
A curveless sans-serif across four widths and nine weights, each curve replaced by straight polygonal segments to produce a strikingly angular texture that shifts from subtle at heavy weights to visibly glitchy at lighter ones.
About
Part of the NaN Rage Typographic Universe, Poly strips every curve from a sans-serif skeleton and replaces them with chains of straight segments, an approach with roots in geometry, cubism and futurism without being reducible to any one of them. The effect is most dramatic in lighter weights, where the broken arcs produce a glitchy, almost digital noise, while heavier weights at small sizes read closer to a conventional grotesque. Details such as flat diamond periods and tittles reinforce the polygonal logic throughout, and the four-width range from Standard to XCondensed gives the family genuine versatility across headline and text contexts.
Classification
A curveless sans-serif where every curve has been replaced by straight polygonal segments, giving it a geometric and angular quality that sits between constructivist geometry and digital glitch aesthetics.