“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 from the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth century found in architecture, furniture or art and transposes them into one harmonizing design.
Nouveau was initially created as an all-caps custom type for the École de Nancy, the Art Nouveau museum in France. It is now available in five weights, ranging 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.” [Poem]