Nel Cruth-Clò by Jasper Nijssen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Duais Airgid A' Design Award in Dealbhadh Grafaigean, Dealbh-mhìneachaidh agus Conaltradh Lèirsinneach Competition Category.

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Nel Cruth-Clò

by Jasper Nijssen

Client: Jasper Nijssen

Duais Airgid A' Design Award Winner in Grafaig Category

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The Design

About Nel Cruth-Clò

Tha an cruth-clò seo air a leasachadh leis an dealbhaiche san amharc. Is e cruth-clò ùr-nodha a th’ ann an Nel le tòrr roghainnean. Anns an dreach cunbhalach tha litrichean mòra agus litrichean beaga, agus grunn chomharran puingeachaidh eile. Is e dreach stencil spòrsail a th’ anns an Nel Brickbuild agus is e cruth-clò dotagach a th’ anns na Nel Dots. Tha stoidhle aotrom agus trom aig an Nel cuideachd le dreachan spòrsail co-fhreagarrach. Is e Icons (cruth-clò uile-ìomhaigh) am ball as ùire aige. Tha naoi roghainnean ann gu h-iomlan airson measgachadh agus maidseadh fhad ‘s a tha thu a’ dealbhadh clò-bhualaidhean uamhasach, postairean, suaicheantasan, làraich-lìn no dearbh-aithne. Aon teaghlach. Airson luchd-dealbhaidh.

The Recognition

About the Duais Airgid A' Design Award

Tha Nel Cruth-Clò air Duais Airgid A' Design Award a bhuannachadh, aithneachadh gu math urramach a bheirear do dhealbhaidhean den chiad ìre, àlainn agus drùidhteach. Tha buannaichean Airgid nan obraichean anabarrach boillsgeach agus gu math cruthachail a nochdas sàr-eòlas, tàlant agus geurchuis an luchd-dealbhaidh. Thathar an dùil gum bi Nel Cruth-Clò na obair mhìorbhaileach, na sàr-eisimpleir a tha gu sònraichte proifeiseanta agus gu domhainn ùr-ghnàthach. Tha an dealbhadh seo a bhuannaich Duais Airgid A' Design Award na innleachd glè fhaicsinneach, ion-mholta a bhrosnaicheas crìochan ealain, saidheans, dealbhaidh agus teicneolais. Tha Nel Cruth-Clò na chruthachadh air a bheil mòran eud, a dhùisgeas miannan, a bheir faireachdainnean math agus a thogas iongnadh is miorbhail.

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.