NaN Holo is a replicant-inspired, fleshy neo-Grotesk font in proportional and monospaced styles, built on an industrial frame with biological forms disrupting an otherwise tensely machined flow. It is designed with one big, big question in mind: does it pass your Voight-Kampff test?
Crafted within tension and contrast, Holo’s rectangular counters and round curves form a construction rarely seen in the neo-Grotesk genre. This novelty offers an atemporal spirit that makes you wonder if you’re peering at something either very new or that you have known for ages. Something nostalgic and welcoming but also unfamiliar. Something transient.
The strength of Holo lies in its dramatic versatility. When used on a large scale, the tension between its voluntarily inconsistent rounded and squared details brings surprise, character and warmth, whilst in smaller applications, all those details blend together – becoming a quieter, sturdy work-horse, allowing a fluid reading experience while keeping a healthy amount of personality. But Holo’s personality doesn’t only rely on details. A vital element of this family is its proportions; with wider-than-usual capitals, Holo delivers a subtle and confident breath to the text rhythm, showing its comfortable yet lively regularity.
If Holo does one thing, it’s deliver. It’s reliable, human, and original (and never too loud). Think of your favourite hairdresser, who you’ve known for years. Holo is the AI-recommended automaton that replaced your hairdresser without you even noticing.
Doubling down on the machine side of the family, Holo Mono is the code at the typeface’s foundation. The ghost in the machine. Humanity at the centre of circuitry. After all, what are machines if not images of ourselves, and what are we if not images of God?
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