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View All CommissionsChannel 4
We reworked our old custom font for the iconic British media. Pentagram put the typeface back at the center of this rebranding, embracing Channel 4’s inherent rebellious and unapologetic creativity.
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View All ProjectsIntroducing NaN Metrify, our biggest release so far
NaN Metrify is NaN’s no-bullshit take on the Neo / Grotesk sans-serif genre. Known for our library of wild horses we thought it was about time for a work horse, a globe-hopping rogue of an equine at that.
Neo-grotesks through their role in contemporary design history and their place in visual culture represent an ubiquitous genre. Systemised and global, NaN’s approach is in part an answer to contemporary branding challenges.
9 widths of 6 weights, each with matching italics, bringing the number of styles to 108 per ABC version, plus standard versions available in Arabic, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Pan African and Thai, Metrify is our first world-typefamily.
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View All ArticlesNaNtxt007: Libre Type as a Veblen Good by Eli Heuer
While trying to answer the delicate question of the remuneration of open-source type design, Eli Heuer asks broader questions about how the rise of Web3 technologies and concepts can bring new opportunities for both designers and users of typefaces.
“I have been experimenting with new business models for independent libre (open source) font development recently. I had my first hint that these models might work when my project GTL Type Label minted all 100 editions of its first font NFT. Enough people have been curious about what I am doing since then that it seems like the right time to put some of my thinking around libre type and NFTs into an essay.”
