Typeface Design for Ny. Text

Metal type heritage meets Blackletter contrast

Ny. Text is a serif type family by A2-TYPE drawing on Stephenson Blake's Mazarin (also known as Astree by Deberny & Peignot) as a historical reference point. The Gothic Blackletter character of The New York Times Magazine logotype informed the family's sharpness and contrast, most prominently in the Display and Headline cuts. The Text weights re-work proportions, contrast, and detailing independently to suit smaller point sizes.

Set in Ny. Text

Insights

Inspiration was drawn from two distinct sources: a Garamond-adjacent metal typeface and a Gothic Blackletter logotype.
Proportions, contrast, and design details in the Text cuts were crafted anew rather than carried over from the Display and Headline cuts.
The re-crafting of Text styles was explicitly oriented toward legibility at smaller point sizes.