NaN Tresor
NaN · Christoph Koeberlin · 2018
A historical serif revival by Christoph Koeberlin that deliberately preserves contradictory glyph structures across three optical sizes rather than rationalising them into a single system.
About
Rather than selecting one authoritative form for each character, Koeberlin collected as many historical and fictional variants as possible, giving each style up to eight alternates per glyph. Three optical cuts run from S, spaced for text and long-form reading with thin joins, through M as a workhorse across all scales, to L which ships with the most exuberant alternates by default for titling and display. The Complete Family adds Tresor Swash, an alternate version of the L cut with ornamental caps and swashes active from the outset.
Classification
An anachronous revival drawing on historical serif structures, with multiple glyph variations per character across optical sizes; its bracketed serifs, ink-trap joins and classical proportions place it firmly in the transitional serif tradition.