NaN Success Font Family is an essay on titling typography. Its three sub-families – Success Titling, Success Sans, and Success Text – all answer (separately and together) the different questions and challenges raised by typography.
Drawing inspiration from late Art-Nouveau typefaces, the likes of De Vinne and Louis Jou (alongside a healthy dash of alien goo), Jérémy Landes brought the Success Titling sub-family to life, packing the Display typefaces with an absolutely insane amount of ligatures (280 to be precise), for both the Latin and Cyrillic scripts.
To that end, welcoming its own wonderful absurdity, Success embraces its role as an out-of-the-box tilting machine, doubling down on the title with the inclusion of innovative multi-width ligatures and alternates. As such, compressed and wide glyphs are mixed in their ligatures, providing an inimitable hand-lettering feeling.
Meanwhile, Success Sans inhabits the distinctive curves of its big sister on a more condensed gothic skeleton, mixing industrial and organic inspirations across its weights. Its light style embodies a lace-like delicacy in contrast to Success’ as-bold-as-can-be Black, which calls for both the forces of nature and hot steam as a steam-punk golem.
Success Text brings a long-reader, text-friendly workhorse to the family whilst keeping the very substance (the bone mellow, if you will) of its titling siblings – taking advantage of the family’s organic qualities in a tuned-down fashion. The result is a warm, comfortable text rhythm, the low contrasts of which make for a solid and confident typographic companion, even at small sizes.
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