NaN Rage Zipp
NaN · Hugues Gentile, Fanny Hamelin, Fadhl Haqq, Léon Hugues, Jean-Baptiste Morizot, Luke Prowse, Florian Runge, Jolana Sýkorová · 2024
A deliberately destabilised display type that replaces curves with diamond forms and sharp spikes, drawing equally from glitch culture and German expressionist woodcuts.
About
Derived from NaN Rage Poly, Zipp takes the reduction of bezier curves and points to its logical extreme: round letters become diamonds balanced on their corners and stems taper to needle-sharp points. Across four widths and nine weights, the family spans from compressed headline setting to usable text columns where individual letters sit like small sculptures on the page. It belongs to NaN's wider Rage Typographic Universe, sharing structural DNA with its siblings while occupying the furthest, most fractured position in the series.
Classification
Derived from NaN Rage Poly, Zipp strips curves and points to geometric extremes, producing diamond-shaped rounds and spike-like stems that place it firmly in the experimental display category, drawing on glitch aesthetics and German expressionist woodcut traditions.