2026
Text is a superellipse-based neo-grotesque drawn for reading: narrower proportions, a large open lowercase and wide-set letters, six weights on a single variable axis
Nikita Kanarev

The construction is a superellipse, a curve that carries its straight side most of the way and arrives at the corner late. Round letters get flat flanks, counters stay open at small sizes, and the lowercase lines up with the stems like parts machined to one tolerance. The controls work the way an instrument panel does: weight is a single continuous dial from Thin to Black, and beside it sits a row of switches — square dots, two rhythms for m n r u y, alternate a c e g s, and eight single substitutions. Each switch retunes the whole field of text at once. A paragraph set with one of them repeated across every line begins to move in the eye, the way a repeated line makes a flat surface vibrate in the painting of the sixties

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