TT Nooks: An Experimental Font Family From TypeType Foundry
TypeType foundry was established in 2013 by Ivan Gladkikh and Alexander Kudryavtsev and it was one of the very first digital type foundries to exist in St. Petersburg, Russia. Their dedication to creating appealing and versatile type designs, paired with their strong work ethic, has led TypeType foundry to become a master of its craft. The foundry typically releases type designs that have contemporary design aesthetics, exceptional multilingual support, and a high number of OpenType features for additional design versatility.
TypeType highly prizes and promotes artistic collaboration, inviting and encouraging the talents of both established and up-and-coming typographers. They are intimately involved in the education of new would-be typographers, offering their own experience to those who seek careers in the field of typography, like Vika Usmanova.
Before becoming a type designer, Vika’s graphic design background largely involved branding and identity projects. A student of the living world, Vika is fascinated by the world and the people in it. She plans to one day visit every country in order to gain firsthand experience in its customs, traditions, and lifestyles. There isn’t a place on earth (perhaps not even Antarctica) that isn’t touched by graphic design in some way, and when you think about it in those terms, it’s why Vika loves what she does so much. Graphic design touches the daily lives of just about everyone on earth.
As Vika’s graphic design experience grew, she eventually took an interest in fonts and type design. To explore typography further, Vika attended and completed an intensive font design course through TypeType, eventually joining their team.
One of her more recent releases through TypeType is TT Nooks, an experimental font family that includes a high contrast serif and an upright italic. You wouldn’t typically think that these two styles would get along very well, but Vika’s work has ensured that they absolutely do. She credits their similar proportions for having a hand in their agreeability.
TT Nooks, the serif, carries a posture that is oh-so-slightly self-centered. “If TT Nooks were a person, it would be an elegant lady with an independent and firm personality,” Vika said. The original sketches for TT Nooks held traces of a broad pen, but as the font was further developed, those traces dissipated completely, only leaving behind the high contrast of strokes. TT Nooks’ serifs have a geometric shape that sort of resembles slippers, like elegant slippers a wealthy lady might wear as she putters around her mansion, which adds to its personality.
Standing slightly apart from TT Nooks, TT Nooks Script is a complimentary upright italic that harmoniously extends the main family. This variant is a little more humanist in its architecture, with strokes that resemble those of a flat pen.
Both TT Nooks and TT Nooks Script are available in Light, Regular, Bold, and Black.
TT Nooks and TT Nooks Script offer capitals to small caps, contextual alternates, case sensitive forms, discretionary ligatures, standard ligatures, numerators, denominators, fractions, lining figures, oldstyle figures, tabular figures, ordinals, slashed zero, superscript, scientific inferiors, small caps, and stylistic alternates. It extends multilingual support to Basic Latin, Western European, Euro, Baltic, Turkish, Central European, Romanian, Pan African Latin, and Basic Cyrillic for global accessibility. TT Nooks Script offers Latin Ligatures, as well.
TypeType currently offers 43 products through YouWorkForThem, a range of type designs that include serifs, sans serifs, scripts, and display fonts. Visit their portfolio to check out the rest of their work and bookmark it so you won’t miss out on any of their upcoming releases!
