Typeface Design for the Next Font Family

Ten years of research and development following the initial commission

NEXT is a typeface by Ludovic Balland, initiated in 2007 when he was commissioned to design a visual identity for the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw. Its forms draw partly on Marek Sigmund's work for the Polish Ministry of Transportation, blending geometrical architecture with calligraphic strokes. Development continued for approximately ten years following the commission. Each weight ships in two variants—Book, for even text flow, and Poster, which combines narrow and wider letters to produce rhythmic variation.