Industry: Media

Custom Typeface for NRK Super

A children's channel typeface built on Norwegian letter-frequency data

Three years after commissioning its corporate typeface, NRK returned to TypeTogether to create a custom variant of LFT Etica for its children's channel, NRK Super. The brief, led by NRK's in-house design team under Hilde Jørgenvåg, called for a typeface feeling warm and engaging without becoming childish, performing across web headlines, social media, and print. The family was derived from three LFT Etica weights—Book, Semibold, and Bold—with modifications applied globally and to individual high-frequency Norwegian characters. The project also included a redrawn wordmark and a custom emoji set whose star-shaped-eyes motif was encoded as a stylistic punctuation alternate within the font.

Set in NRK Super, LFT Etica

Insights

Modifications operated on two levels: subtle global changes to counters, connections, and ascender height, plus targeted glyph-specific redesigns of the most frequent Norwegian letters (e, n, t, r, a, i, s, g, k).
Key glyphs received stylistic alternates: 'a' and 'g' each have two options; 'a' adds an outstroke tail; 'e' and 'f' adopt cursive-inspired forms; 'k' gains curved legs; 'r' and 't' were widened.
A layered effect was explored early in development with several concepts tested, but set aside in favour of a cleaner solution.
The channel's emoji logo star-shaped eyes were incorporated as a punctuation stylistic set replacing dots with stars; emojis were also packaged as a standalone font.