Camelion
OH no Type · Sandrine Nugue · 2024
A humanist text face by Sandrine Nugue that inverts conventional roman and italic roles, pairing chiselled clarity with warmth at paragraph sizes.
About
Designed by Sandrine Nugue and released through OH no Type in 2024, Camelion subverts typographic convention by rooting itself in the slanted roman and upright italic tradition rather than the standard pairing. Four weights from Regular to ExtraBold, each with a matching italic, make up eight styles. The result is a text face that reads with high legibility while retaining the hand and humanity that characterise Nugue's broader body of work.
Classification
Camelion is described as a humanist text face with origins in slanted roman and upright italic constructions, reflecting Nugue's humanist drawing sensibility. The warmth and legibility at text sizes, combined with chiselled forms, place it firmly in humanist serif territory.