NSType
Production Type · Superscript²
A grid-based, monolinear display type system created for the Nuit Sonores festival in Lyon, with architectural stroke details and rhythmic segmentation across four subfamilies.
About
Developed over three years by Lyon studio Superscript² as the typographic identity for the Nuit Sonores electronic music and design festival, NSType is built entirely from monolinear capitals on a rigid grid. The two main subfamilies replace conventional strokes with architectural fragments drawn from Lyon's built environment, while NSType Mono divides strokes at rhythmic intervals to evoke beats and sound. Each subfamily ships in two fonts, A and B, with contrasting forms assigned to upper- and lowercase slots, yielding eight mixable variants per capital letter.
Classification
Monolinear capitals built on a rigid grid structure, with stylised strokes derived from architectural forms and rhythmic divisions evoking music — unambiguously a display typeface conceived for visual expression rather than continuous text.