Nouveau

Nouveau is a playful Jugendstil typeface based on a modernist design. Sometimes qualified in German speaking regions as Künstler-Grotesk – ‘Artist Sans Serif'– the typeface gathers different Art Nouveau forms found in architecture, furniture or art and transposes them into one harmonizing design. The typeface is characterized by wide capitals in many variants paired to slightly condensed minuscules with a generous x-height. Five weights range from hair strokes to a robust medium. The six styles (Crocus, Dahlia, Gingko, Nenuphar, Rose, Thistle) are arranged from the most quiet to the most expressive letter­forms. A variable font assembles all styles in one and makes them accessible through a weight and an exclusive flora axis.

The fonts contain an extended Latin glyph set covering many languages and advanced OpenType features: small capitals, several figure ranges (lining, old style, small caps, tabular and proportional), superiors & inferiors, fractions, case sensitive punctuation for capitals and small capitals, ligatures and many alternates. Most of them share identical metrics, so that texts lenghts hardly change when glyphs are replaced.

Nouveau was designed by Jérôme Knebusch and Philippe Tytgat and released in 2022. It was initially created as an all-caps custom type for the École de Nancy, the Art Nouveau museum in France. It works best in bigger sizes, like headlines or shorter texts. Look up the PDF specimen below for detailed information or use our online tester. Trial fonts on demand.

Nouveau received the Certificate of Typographic Excellence in 2023 by the Type Directors Club, New York City.

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Nouveau Hair Crocus

Nouveau Hair Crocus

Nouveau Hair Dahlia

Nouveau Hair Dahlia

Nouveau Hair Gingko

Nouveau Hair Gingko

Nouveau Hair Nenuphar

Nouveau Hair Nenuphar

Nouveau Hair Rose

Nouveau Hair Rose

Nouveau Hair Thistle

Nouveau Hair Thistle

Nouveau Thin Crocus

Nouveau Thin Crocus

Nouveau Thin Dahlia

Nouveau Thin Dahlia

Nouveau Thin Gingko

Nouveau Thin Gingko

Nouveau Thin Nenuphar

Nouveau Thin Nenuphar

Nouveau Thin Rose

Nouveau Thin Rose

Nouveau Thin Thistle

Nouveau Thin Thistle

Nouveau Light Crocus

Nouveau Light Crocus

Nouveau Light Dahlia

Nouveau Light Dahlia

Nouveau Light Gingko

Nouveau Light Gingko

Nouveau Light Nenuphar

Nouveau Light Nenuphar

Nouveau Light Rose

Nouveau Light Rose

Nouveau Light Thistle

Nouveau Light Thistle

Nouveau Regular Crocus

Nouveau Regular Crocus

Nouveau Regular Dahlia

Nouveau Regular Dahlia

Nouveau Regular Gingko

Nouveau Regular Gingko

Nouveau Regular Nenuphar

Nouveau Regular Nenuphar

Nouveau Regular Rose

Nouveau Regular Rose

Nouveau Regular Thistle

Nouveau Regular Thistle

Nouveau Medium Crocus

Nouveau Medium Crocus

Nouveau Medium Dahlia

Nouveau Medium Dahlia

Nouveau Medium Gingko

Nouveau Medium Gingko

Nouveau Medium Nenuphar

Nouveau Medium Nenuphar

Nouveau Medium Rose

Nouveau Medium Rose

Nouveau Medium Thistle

Nouveau Medium Thistle

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Nouveau Variable

Nouveau Variable

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