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57-nao font - Say hello to new 57-nao font family designed by Andrew Bellamy, 57-nao fonts release at Aug 7, 2017. 57-nao is the perfect titling font to complement text faces in magazines, logotypes, etc.
Designed in 1950s Japan by Okanao & Kushiro, the perfect partnership until artistic temperaments drove them apart.
The duo spent years crafting the font with the working title “Messenjā”, Okanao bringing technical expertise to craft letterforms, while Kushiro made it his life, obsessively working late into the night to check pages for errors. For him the project was never about making money, it was an artistic endeavor to reprint the great Western works of literature.
When he found out Okanao had secretly sold the rights to the font for use as a logo for a major Japanese manufacturer, Kushiro burned all evidence of the designs in a fit of passionate fury. The two reportedly never spoke again.
“Messenjā” was thought lost forever until a type specimen was discovered in a vintage typewriter box bought on eBay. Now redrawn and available as 57-nao, a faithful and beautifully crafted monospace characterized by what is considered Okanao’s defining moment, the angular loop on the lowercase ‘a’.
