NaN SuperX Serif
NaN · Hugues Gentile, Fanny Hamelin, Fadhl Haqq, Léon Hugues, Jean-Baptiste Morizot, Luke Prowse, Florian Runge, Jolana Sýkorová · 2024
A high-contrast old-style serif with an oversized x-height, leaf-shaped teardrops and a pointed-nib italic, spanning Latin and Arabic across three optical sizes.
About
Designed by the NaN team and released across 2024 and 2025, it takes the disproportionately large x-height of phototypesetting-era faces as its starting point. Eight weights with italics run across Display, Headline and Text optical sizes, with the Text cut reducing contrast and loosening spacing for smaller settings. Details are carefully calibrated: vivid round shapes sit alongside angular tails on the /a, sharp apexes on /V and /W, and vertical serifs on /C and /Z, giving the face an identifiable voice without tipping into novelty.
Classification
High-contrast old-style structure with leaf-shaped teardrops and a calligraphic italic rooted in pointed-nib forms; the disproportionately large x-height and phototypesetting references place it within a contemporary revival of old-style proportions rather than a straight historical model.