Industry: Design

NewPanam

A sans-serif that split from a serif family to stand on its own

NewPanam Skyline began as part of the NewParis typeface family before becoming an independent release in 2019. It is a geometric sans-serif that retains the vertical proportions of NewParis, allowing the two to be combined harmoniously. The family spans four weights from Regular to Black, each with steeply slanted oblique italics borrowed from the Didot convention. A set of OpenType 'kinetic' alternates offers expressive, hyper-cursive letterforms across capitals and many lowercase characters.

Set in NewPanam Skyline

Insights

Shared vertical metrics with NewParis allow the two typefaces to mix within a single line of text.
The italics are oblique in construction but carry an unusually deep slant inherited from the companion Didot's conventional italics.
Certain letterforms—such as the 'g' with its swinging tail and the straight-descender 'y'—echo NewParis's serif signatures, while the 'a' adopts a circular, genre-appropriate form.
The kinetic stylistic alternates, accessible via OpenType, include strokes that fade to hairlines and diagonals that shoot in and out of letters, evoking skywriting, spray-can traces, or a moving flashlight.