Nantes’s rich, expressive character invites designers to explore its creative potential.
The teardrop-shaped terminals in the lowercase characters add fine detail and lend the typeface a refined appearance.
Drawing inspiration from the Clearface typeface, Nantes honours the Arts and Crafts movement by blending curves with precise and well-defined shapes. The strong contrast and meticulous lines generate a rhythm that enhances the design’s overall effect.
The typeface is available as individual weights and as a variable font with a Light → Bold axis.
The family package includes two variable fonts: upright and italic.
Users are requested not to modify the images or use them as a basis for derivative works.
The content often utilizes metaphors and terminology borrowed from the culinary world to set the stage for its fictional scenarios.
Setting up the complex, "industrial-meets-rustic" kitchen environments seen in the shoots.
The "free" work available on the site serves as an introductory gallery for the public. These samples allow visitors to understand the aesthetic direction of the project before engaging with any of the more extensive paid collections.
The creators maintain strict control over their digital assets. Even the content available in the free areas is subject to specific terms of use to protect the intellectual property of the artists and models involved:
Desktop: otf (PS)
Variable Desktop: TTF-Variable-Font
Web: woff2 /
Web Variable: woff2
App: otf (PS) / TTF-Variable-Font
Variable App: TTF-Variable-Font
Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement and Latin Extended-A.
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Featured in the notes: The Montreal-based studio Nouvelle Administration designed this beautiful publication.
Have a look at the related typeface Portonovo.