About NaN Spaceland
Jack Llewellyn’s first release with NaN, Spaceland was conceived out of two points of interest. More generally, designs that are inherently digital in nature. More specifically, the question of whether component shapes of letterforms can be simultaneously positive and negative.
Building on the geometry principle of the Boolean relationship – the intersection of two positive shapes creating a negative area – Spaceland’s glyphs show outlines that overlap each other like a Mœbius strip, creating a mind-bending visual effect. Confounding inner shapes and outer shapes. White space and black space. In and out, all at once!
Designed to create a rigorous typographic system and then break its own rules, Spaceland’s folding outlines create collision points in usually mono-linear forms, combining a relatively reserved, minimal grotesque style with confident, exaggerated, overlapping features – such as the large ‘ink-traps’ at stroke joins.
In the thinner styles, the breaks are almost unnoticeable, offering a discreet elegance to the characters in an almost couture way. In the boldest styles, the breaks are proudly obvious, disturbing the calmer, grotesque structure, becoming almost illustrative at larger scales. Here, the viewer is invited to decipher the dance of shapes between the intertwined outlines.
Ultimately, Spaceland is an invitation to play. Though built on serious foundations, its play on inner and outer space makes it an ultimately charming character, treating the reader as an equal in what is sometimes a visual jigsaw puzzle. An intrepid pioneer exploring new territories. After all, NaN Spaceland’s numerous names are derived from the three-dimensional reality in E. A. Abbot’s Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions – where the ‘stranger’ (sphere) visits the humble square in a two-dimensional Flatland.
Typeface: NaN Spaceland
Lead Designer: Jack Llewellyn
Additional Production: Léon Hugues, Jean Baptiste Morizot
Year: 2022-2024
Languages: Supporting 310 latin based languages
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Formats: TTF, WOFF2 (Autohinted)
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In 1970, Peter Schmidt created “The Thoughts Behind the Thoughts”, a box containing 55 sentences letterpress printed onto disused prints that accumulated in his studio, which is still in Eno’s possession. Eno, who had known Schmidt since the late 1960s, had been pursuing a similar project himself, which he had handwritten onto a number of bamboo cards and given the name “Oblique Strategies” in 1974. There was a significant overlap between the two projects, and so, in late 1974, Schmidt and Eno combined them into a single pack of cards and offered them for general sale. The set went through three limited edition printings before Schmidt suddenly died in early 1980, after which the card decks became rather rare and expensive. Sixteen years later software pioneer Peter Norton convinced Eno to let him create a fourth edition as Christmas gifts for his friends (not for sale, although they occasionally come up at auction). Eno’s decision to revisit the cards and his collaboration with Norton in revising them is described in detail in his 1996 book A Year with Swollen Appendices. With public interest in the cards undiminished, in 2001 Eno once again produced a new set of Oblique Strategies cards. The number and content of the cards vary according to the edition. In May 2013 a limited edition of 500 boxes, in burgundy rather than black, was issued. In 1970, Peter Schmidt created “The Thoughts Behind the Thoughts” a box containing 55 sentences letterpress printed onto disused prints that accumulated in his studio, which is still in Eno’s possession. Eno, who had known Schmidt since the late 1960s, had been pursuing a similar project himself, which he had handwritten onto a number of bamboo cards and given the name “Oblique Strategies” in 1974. There was a significant overlap between the two projects, and so, in late 1974, Schmidt and Eno combined them into a single pack of cards and offered them for general sale.
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