NaN SuperX Sans
NaN · Hugues Gentile, Fanny Hamelin, Fadhl Haqq, Léon Hugues, Jean-Baptiste Morizot, Luke Prowse, Florian Runge, Jolana Sýkorová · 2024
A hybrid humanist sans with grotesque detailing, drawn with a disproportionately large x-height as a tribute to phototypesetting-era typefaces, available in eight weights with italics across three optical sizes in both Latin and Arabic.
About
The sans half of NaN's SuperX system, it borrows its proportions and open counters from SuperX Serif while adopting closed neo-grotesque horizontal terminals on round letters, producing an unusual tension between the two traditions. Three optical sizes — Display, Headline and Text — allow the family to move from tight campaign headlines down to sustained body copy without losing its character. Arabic support runs alongside Latin across 482 and 33 language variants respectively, making it one of the more thoroughly engineered releases in NaN's catalogue.
Classification
Described by NaN as a hybrid humanist sans with grotesque detailing: open counters and vertical terminals from a humanist structure, combined with closed neo-grotesque forms on round letters such as /c /e /g with horizontal terminals.