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NaN is an exploratory and service-driven type design practice balancing weirdness and wisdom. Together with our wonderful rag-tag team of collaborators, clients and crew, we explore the relationship type has with code and technology – delivering projects with purpose. You can expect to find us at the intersection of serious and slap-happy.
How It Started → How It’s Going
Contact Us
For new business enquiries, email us at [email protected]
NaN c/o Fabriken
Weichselplatz 3
Berlin 12045
Germany
Services, Support & Collaboration
Tired of unoriginal gift ideas? Try a custom font! NaN offers creative type services that are sure to set you apart. If you have a story to tell, get in touch at [email protected].
Check out our curated roster of previous projects.
Services include: logotype refinement, creation of custom fonts, custom cuts of our retail fonts, creation of full fonts from lettering/logo, language extension, script extensions, font production and engineering.
Team
Luke Prowse
Founder & Designer
Luke has designed typefaces for some of the biggest brands and organisations in the world, spanning consumer electronics, broadcast television, FMCGs, and various cultural institutions. He began his professional career at sixteen as a developer before working across a breadth of visual design for agencies in Paris, London and Berlin.
J.B Morizot
Type Designer & Font Engineer
Jean-Baptiste Morizot was born in France in 1983. He released his first typeface, Bluu, in 2013 as an open-source font before working as a font engineer and type designer for various foundries. He launched his own foundry, Phantom Foundry, in 2018 and joined NaN at the end of 2021 – working on both retail and custom fonts.
Jérémy Landes
Designer & Foundry Support
Hailing from southwest France and now based in Berlin, Jérémy’s practice incorporates his love for organic shapes and fresh food, from corporate brand identities to retail typefaces, operating under his alias, Studio Triple. Additionally, Jérémy has contributed to Velvetyne since 2011, creating and donating original, open-source typefaces.
Marcus Piper
Australian Associate
With over two decades of international experience crafting editorial and brand design, our Australian Associate knows exactly how type should be used, where, when, why and how. His ability to transcend aesthetic trends and guide pure typographic solutions is an asset to both NaN and our international clientele.
marcuspiper.com
Florian Runge
Type Designer
Florian Runge is a friendly and fantastically talented type designer and font developer, working across a range of world scripts, including Armenian, Cyrillic, Devanagari, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, and Latin. His first typeface, Gitan, was published by Rosetta Type in 2016, showcasing his talent in, and understanding of, crafting fonts that cater to diverse linguistic communities.
florianrunge.com
Jolana Sýkorová
Type Designer & Graphic Designer
Jolana Sýkorová is a versatile type and graphic designer whose work spans from intricate design projects to meticulously innovative typefaces. Her debut typeface, Gestures, was released in 2021 in collaboration with Moniker, which embodied her commitment to thoughtful and expressive design. An inevitable plural, playful and precise practice.
jolanasykorova.info
Fadhl Haqq
Type Designer
Fadhl Haqq, a self-taught type designer and engineer, ventured into the realm of type design in 2014, where he was drawn to the lettering of Indonesian scripts. In 2015, he founded AlternaType and pursued studies in Arabic Language and Literature at Al-Azhar University. Fadhl’s journey and remarkable contribution to type design continues as persists in exploring, researching and interrogating his multi-script practice.
akufadhl.com
Léon Hugues
Type Designer
Based in Paris, Léon Hugues is a creative force in graphic and type design, known for his letterings, typefaces, wordmarks (and the occasional calligraphic exploration) for a variety of brands and creative spaces. His continuous contributions to type design and relentless pursuit of the offbeat (or off the rails), reflect his tireless passion and dedication to the craft.
leonhugues.com
Fanny Hamelin
Type Designer
Fanny Hamelin is a ridiculously talented type designer and co-Founder of Proof of Words, a digital type foundry and research platform split between Paris, where she lives, and Helsinki, the home of fellow Co-Founder, Léo Guibert. Fanny approaches every typeface and task (no matter how big or small) with an innovative fresh perspective, challenging the expectations of others and herself in the letterforms she crafts.
fannyhmln.xyz
Hugues Gentile
Type Designer
Hugues Gentile is a gifted type designer doubled with a thorough type engineer. He will happily create custom tools for the challenging type projects he’s working on. His debut typeface Kommodore shows this maestria with blurring the lines between technology and expressive aesthetics.
huguesgentile.com
NaNNY
Studio Dog
NaNNY is our studio manager/night owl/community-manager/chaos-master. No one ever met it (them?), although we find disturbing traces of its existence with such regularity, it is impossible to deny NaNNY’s presence.
Library Designers
We’re always on the lookout for fresh points of typographic view. If you have a design that you think could fit our library then please don’t hesitate to get in touch.
Daria Cohen — NaN Serf
Hugues Gentile — NaN Rage
Fanny Hamely — NaN Rage
Fadhl Haqq — NaN Serf, Rage
Léon Hugues — NaN Metrify, Serf
Anna Khorash — NaN Druid
Christoph Koeberlin — NaN Tresor
Jérémy Landes — NaN Jaune, Success
Fátima Lázaro — NaN Holo, Metrify
Jack Llewellyn — NaN Spaceland
Jean-Baptiste Morizot — NaN Tragedy, Metrify, Serf, Rage
Luke Prowse — NaN Holo, Weiss, Fiasco, Metrify, Serf, Rage
Florian Runge — NaN Metrify, Serf, Rage
Reymund Schröder — NaN Hyena, Druid
Jolana Sýkorová — NaN Rage
Collaborators
We continue to work with a wide variety of talented collaborators (and even better people). We’re lucky to say that every single one has made an outsized contribution and made us smile along the way.
Kostas Bartsokas — Greek Consultation
Naïma Ben Ayed — Arabic Script Design
Harry Bennett — Copywriting
Igino Marini — Font Metrics & Engineering
Myriam Heinzel — Illustrator
Johannes Neumeier — Web Development
Michael Tan — Visual Artist
Rosalie Wagner — Engineering Support
Select Clients
We have designed typefaces with some of the biggest agencies and brands in the world. Here is a short list of the ones that we’re allowed to talk about:
AtkinsRéalis
Barnardo’s
Bolt
Call Of Duty
Cats Protection
Channel 4
Cohere
Costa Coffee
Deezer
Deichmann
Design Studio
Ecosia
Eurostar
Fitbit
Frieze
Google
Interbrand
JKR
Klarna
Koto
MindFood
Ocado
Pentagram
Pizza Express
Polkadot
Ragged Edge
Riot Games
Swarovski
Uniqode
Virgin
Warhammer
Walkie Talkie
Wise