Salaka Grafis · 2022

Nel Tipépasi

by Jasper Nijssen

A' Design Award Salaka 2022 in Grafis
CLIENT: Jasper Nijssen
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About Nel Tipépasi

Tipépasi ié ripatettongéngiwi rekko aga pangadéseng. Nel iyaréga tipépasi modéreng namanréng piliang maégaé. Vérsié Réguléré nataroiwi aksara agéng sibawa aksara cédéq, sibawa tanda baca lainna maégaé. Nel Brickbuild iyaréga vérsié sténsil maccinnong, sibawa Nel Dots iyaréga tipépasi mabbintiké. Nel téngngai naténréi wettué malampa sibawa maccoqé nasikaliangngi vérsié maccinnongé. Icons (tipépasi icon sibawa) iyaréga anggota mabaruné. Siaganna matu piliang gangkanna muassédding-assédding déto mangadésiwi cétakan, postéré, logo, wébsaété, dé idéntitasé maéloé. Siddi pammanakang. Narekko pangadéseng.

About the A' Design Award Salaka

Nel Tipépasi iyanaritu pakoro A' Design Award Salaka, pakalebbi iya malompo tongeng iya ripabbere ri desain tingkak pole, cantik sibawa mappakita. Pakoro Salaka iyanaritu karya iya macennning tongeng sibawa kreatif iya mappakita keahlian, bakat sibawa ketajaman pikkiran tau mabbuat. Nel Tipépasi ripakkirangngi mancaji karya iya magello, mancaji pakkitaang, profesional sibawa inovatif iya dalleng. Desain pakoro A' Design Award Salaka iyae iyanaritu penemuan iya lebbi riissengngi sibawa ripuji, iya pawangekeng sibawa mappalaong wates seni, sains, desain sibawa teknologi. Nel Tipépasi iyanaritu ciptaan iya riennengi tau maega, iya mappabbura keinginan, mappabbere perasaan makessing sibawa mappabbentuk ketakjuban.

Press Kit

Unique Properties: This typeface is developed with the designer in mind. Nel is a modern typeface with lots of options. The Regular version consists of UPPERCASE and lowercase letters, and quite a few other punctuation marks. The Nel Brickbuild is a playful stencil version and the Nel Dots is a dotted typeface. The Nel also has a light and heavy style with corresponding fun versions. There are nine options in total to mix and match while designing awesome prints, posters, logos, websites, or identities.
Dimensions & Packaging: All fonts are available in OTF (local) and WOFF (web) files.
Tags: font, typeface, decorative, playful, letterdesign,
Production Technology: The first sketches were doodles drawn on a lazy Sunday. Those doodles became a grid. The Regular consists of a width of three units and a height of nine units. Each unit is made up of a square of three by three subunits. The Light removes one sub-unit on either side to create a much thinner line and the Heavy adds a sub-unit. The fun, display styles are playful twists designed upon this base.
Design Challenge: The whole Nel is based on the same grid, and design choices. So the design process of the letters went quite smoothly. This was strengthened by the fact that some letters share quite a few similarities (the b > d > p > q). Some are harder to fit in (the k and x). The main challenge was is defining the whitespace between the letters (kerning). The space needs to be different between every letter to look the same. There are quite a few combinations, so this takes a lot of time and effort.
Research: -
Inspiration: During the "mixing and matching" of a few typefaces, the question arose: Wouldn't it be nice for a typeface to have a regular style for the body text and some eccentric, fun versions for headers or high-lighted text? This typeface would make it possible to use different styles and still be coherent.
Project Duration: The main part of this project finished in January 2019 and is available on MyFonts.com. Although once in a while it gets an update. For example: Icons (an all icon font) has been added this February.
Operation Flow: One of the hardest parts of designing a coherent layout is choosing which fonts to use. Nel solves this problem. All styles have their own characteristics, but they're all based on the same design choices. So all options can be mixed and matched with ease. Icons (the all icon font) has an extra. It's possible to combine glyphs. Example: When you type the capital i and 3, there's a bus and a silhouette. When you type the number sign (above the 3) instead of a 3, the human is inside the bus.
Image Credits: All images: Designer Jasper Nijssen, Visuals WBP Nel, 2022.