Lacag Garaafig · 2022

Nel Farta Lagu Qoro

by Jasper Nijssen

Abaalmarinta Lacagta ah ee A' Design Award 2022 in Garaafig
CLIENT: Jasper Nijssen
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About Nel Farta Lagu Qoro

Wajiga noocaan ah waxaa la sameeyay iyadoo maskaxda lagu hayo naqshadeeyaha. Nel waa nooc casri ah oo leh fursado badan. Nooca caadiga ah wuxuu ka kooban yahay xarfo waaweyn iyo xarfo yaryar, iyo calaamado kale oo tiro yar. Nel Brickbuild waa nooc stencil ah oo ciyaar badan, Nel Dots-kuna waa nooc xaraf leh. Nel sidoo kale wuxuu leeyahay qaab fudud oo culus oo leh noocyo madadaalo u dhigma. Astaamaha (dhammaan farta summada) ayaa ahayd xubinteedii ugu dambeysay. Waxaa jira sagaal ikhtiyaar oo isku dhafan oo la isku darayo oo la isku daro marka la naqshadeynayo daabacado cajiib ah, dhejisyo, calaamado, shabakado, ama aqoonsiyo. Hal qoys. Loogu talagalay naqshadeeyayaasha.

About the Abaalmarinta Lacagta ah ee A' Design Award

Nel Farta Lagu Qoro waa guuleystaha Abaalmarinta Lacagta ah ee A' Design Award, aqoonsi sharaf aad u sarreeya oo la siiyo naqshado heerka ugu sarreeya oo quruxsan oo soo jiidasho leh. Guuleystayaasha Lacagta waa shaqooyin aad u dhalaalaya iyo hal-abuur sare leh oo muujiya khibrad, hibo iyo hufnaan naqshadeeyayaashooda. Nel Farta Lagu Qoro waa shaqo la filayo inay noqoto shaqo quruxsan oo tusaale ah, xirfad cad leh oo hal-abuur qoto dheer leh. Naqshadahan ku guuleystay Abaalmarinta Lacagta ah ee A' Design Award waa hal-abuur aad loo dareemo oo la ammaano, waxtar leh oo hormariya xuduudaha farshaxanka, sayniska, naqshadaynta iyo tignoolajiyada. Nel Farta Lagu Qoro waa hal-abuur dad badan ay doonayaan, kicisa rabitaanno, keena dareenno wanaagsan oo abuura yaab.

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.