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By Xiaoyuan Gao
2024
4 subfamilies (Standard, Particle, RGB, Shaky)
10 styles
nono
nono is a modular, dot-matrix–based font family that explores the possibilities of typing with color and features a no-descender design — letters that usually have descenders, like 'g', 'p', or 'y', stay entirely above the baseline. This idea comes from Xiaoyuan’s personal experience: when she was learning to write Latin letters in primary school in China, no one ever taught or corrected her on the concept of descenders — so she just wrote them however she liked. This absence of knowledge became a playful inspiration, turning an unintentional habit into a conscious design choice.
nono
(4 styles)
nono Dot
nono Round
nono Square
nono Tube
nono Particle
(3 styles)
nono particle A
nono particle B
nono particle C
nono RGB
(2 styles)
nono RGB Dot
nono RGB Particle C
nono Shaky
(1 style)
nono Shaky
- Variable
I only look at people when I am drunk
nono Shaky VF
“In a Situation Like This, What a Mafia Leader Would Say (Joanna Wang)”
nono Particle B
"Okay, but where is the descender?"
nono Square
"It could be fun without it, no? ..."
nono Tube
2025
nono Tube
Shaky Voice
nono Shaky VF
╳░▒▓■▲▶▷►▼◀◁◄◆◇◊○◌●◕◠◡◢☁☃★☆☕☹☺☻♡♥♨♫⚐⚡✔✖✦✧❌❛❜❝❞➡
nono Shaky VF
FLOCK OF BIRDS
nono Particle C
///-_-\\\
nono RGB Dot (calt)
nono RGB is a colorful typeface whose standout feature is its use of OpenType's contextual alternates.
nono RGB Dot (calt)
When you enable this feature in your design software's character style settings...
nono RGB Dot
...each character will randomly appear in one of four colors as you type.
nono RGB Dot (calt)
Do you remember?
nono Shaky VF
A Room of One’s Own
nono Tube
type here
Features & Variations
Multiaxial Beast
Shaky VF
Aa
RGB Dot —
Aa
RGB Particle C —
Glyphset
About nono's designer
Xiaoyuan Gao (She/Her) is a Rotterdam-based freelance graphic designer, image-maker, type designer and the initiator of “notyourtypefoundry”. While experimenting with unconventional approaches to type design and typesetting, she sees type design as a tool making process.
nono in use
graphic design by Team Thursday
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