Nel Kirjasintyyppi by Jasper Nijssen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Hopeapalkinto A' Design Award in Graafinen muotoilu Competition Category.

HopeaGrafiikka· 2022

Nel Kirjasintyyppi

by Jasper Nijssen

Client: Jasper Nijssen

Hopeapalkinto A' Design Award Winner in Grafiikka Category

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The Design

About Nel Kirjasintyyppi

Tämä kirjasintyyppi on kehitetty suunnittelijaa ajatellen. Nel on moderni kirjasintyyppi, jossa on paljon vaihtoehtoja. Tavallinen versio koostuu isoista ja pienistä kirjaimista sekä useista muista välimerkeistä. Nel Brickbuild on leikkisä stensiiliversio ja Nel Dots on pilkullinen kirjasintyyppi. Nelissä on myös kevyt ja raskas tyyli vastaavilla hauskoilla versioilla. Icons (all icon -fontti) on ollut sen viimeisin jäsen. Valittavana on yhteensä yhdeksän vaihtoehtoa, joita voit yhdistää ja yhdistää upeita tulosteita, julisteita, logoja, verkkosivustoja tai identiteettejä suunniteltaessa. Yksi perhe. Suunnittelijoille.

The Recognition

About the Hopeapalkinto A' Design Award

Nel Kirjasintyyppi on Hopeapalkinnon A' Design Award -voittaja, äärimmäisen arvostettu tunnustus, joka myönnetään huippuluokan, upeille ja vaikuttaville designeille. Hopeavoittajat ovat äärimmäisen loistavia ja erittäin luovia teoksia, jotka havainnollistavat suunnittelijoidensa erinomaista asiantuntemusta, lahjakkuutta ja terävyyttä. Nel Kirjasintyyppi:n odotetaan olevan ihana, esimerkillinen teos, joka on huomattavan ammattimainen ja syvästi innovatiivinen. Tämä Hopeapalkinnon A' Design Award -voittajadesign on erittäin merkittävä, ihailtu keksintö, joka hyödyttää taiteen, tieteen, designin ja teknologian rajojen laajentamista. Nel Kirjasintyyppi on laajalti kadehdittu luomus, joka herättää haluja, tuo myönteisiä tunteita ja sytyttää hämmästystä ja ihmetystä.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

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.