LNT Natalia Mono 

LNT Natalia Mono is a typewriter-inspired true monospaced typeface family. The entanglement of material and immaterial memory and the interplay between forms preserved, lost and reconstructed was the inspiration for this project.

Once upon a time I had a typewritten manuscript of an amateur sci-fi story, that I found on the street close to my house one day during my studies in Hungary. After moving houses and countries, the manuscript was lost without a trace, but after some years it became my obsession and inspiration for a writing project, in which I tried to recreate it. I borrowed a typewriter from my flatmate in order to reenact the gesture of typewriting the texts that I was reimagining.

I appreciated this type machine because of its dense and blocky letters that gave a friendly aura while being decidedly modernist. After moving houses and cities, I stumbled upon these manuscripts. I started analyzing the letters, sketching ideas based on them, and trying to find the typewriter. My flatmate has left the country, and who knows where the typewriter went. I was left with information fragments: the typewriter was Triumph Gabriele 25, the typeface was Cubic, or rather a version of that. Instead of trying to find another version of the typewriter, I decided to build further from my limited sources, a handful of typewritten pages. I complemented this with unlimited store of my memories about my friendship with my flatmate, our shared interest in typewriters, sputniks, samizdat and modernist playgrounds. This typeface is not a revival in the typographic sense, but a reconstruction of the original examples in the way memory reconstructs itself by each recalling. 

LNT Natalia Mono is designed for writers and readers with an inclination for nostalgia. It’s wide characters and extra heavy punctuation care for a good legibility. Besides the regular — which was derived from the original — bold, italic and bold italic styles were designed to complete the family. With an amply set of diacritics, it covers a wide range of languages that use the latin script. The open type features, such as a full set of small capitals, superscript and subscript numerals and fractions make it ideal for setting complex texts with advanced typographic needs.