NaN Spaceland
NaN · Jack Llewellyn · 2022
A grotesque built on Boolean geometry, where glyph outlines overlap and fold like a Möbius strip to simultaneously read as positive and negative form.
About
Designed by Jack Llewellyn as his first release with NaN, the typeface takes a minimal grotesque structure and subjects it to a Boolean logic: outlines intersect and cross over one another, creating collision points that confuse inner and outer space. In lighter weights the effect is subtle, lending a quiet elegance; in heavier weights the breaks become emphatic, tipping the letterforms towards the illustrative. The family covers 310 Latin-based languages and was developed across 2022 to 2024 with additional production by Léon Hugues and Jean Baptiste Morizot.
Classification
Based on a mono-linear grotesque skeleton but treated as display through its Boolean-overlap construction where outlines fold and intersect like a Möbius strip, making it conceptually and visually too distinctive for a straightforward sans-serif classification.