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Nel Шрифт by Jasper Nijssen

Nel Шрифт by Jasper Nijssen is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Срібна нагорода A' Design Award in Графіка Competition Category.


СріблоГрафіка· 2022

Nel Шрифт

by Jasper Nijssen

Client: Jasper Nijssen

Срібна нагорода A' Design Award Winner in Графіка Category

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The Design

About Nel Шрифт

Цей шрифт розроблено з урахуванням дизайнера. Nel — це сучасний шрифт із великою кількістю опцій. Звичайна версія складається з великих і малих літер, а також багатьох інших знаків пунктуації. Nel Brickbuild — грайлива трафаретна версія, а Nel Dots — пунктирний шрифт. Nel також має легкий і важкий стиль із відповідними веселими версіями. Icons (шрифт із усіма значками) був його останнім членом. Загалом є дев’ять варіантів, які можна комбінувати та поєднувати під час створення чудових принтів, плакатів, логотипів, веб-сайтів чи ідентичності. Одна сім'я. Для дизайнерів.

The Recognition

About the Срібна нагорода A' Design Award

Nel Шрифт є переможцем Срібної нагороди A' Design Award — надзвичайно престижного визнання, що присуджується першокласним дизайнам вищого ґатунку, чарівним і вражаючим. Переможці Срібної нагороди — це надзвичайно блискучі та вкрай креативні роботи, що ілюструють видатну експертизу, талант і проникливість своїх дизайнерів. Очікується, що Nel Шрифт буде чудовою, взірцевою роботою, надзвичайно професійною та глибоко інноваційною. Цей дизайн-переможець Срібної нагороди A' Design Award — дуже помітний, шанований винахід, що приносить користь і розсуває межі мистецтва, науки, дизайну й технологій. Nel Шрифт — це творіння, якому дуже заздрять, яке розбурхує бажання, приносить позитивні почуття та викликає здивування й подив.

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
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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.
Patents
©2021 Jasper Nijssen
Image Credits
All images: Designer Jasper Nijssen, Visuals WBP Nel, 2022.

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