MegaMegaTypeType
A 24-style family drawn from the hand-lettered enamel nameplates of French streets, preserving the typographic diversity of six distinct width series rather than smoothing them into uniformity.
About
Damien Gautier observed that French street signs do not share a single typeface but a cluster of related industrial alphabets, each with its own quirks in letters such as G, K, M, Q and R. Plaak organises these into six named series – from very narrow Sathonay to extra-wide Ney – across Light, Regular, Bold and Heavy weights, with A and B alternates in several cuts. Discretionary ligatures encode street-naming abbreviations such as Avenue, Boulevard and Maréchal, anchoring the family firmly in its source material.
Classification
A sans-serif family derived from the hand-drawn lettering found on French enamel street nameplates, with elementary, traced-looking forms and variable proportions across six series. The characters retain industrial irregularities rather than being rationalised into a uniform grotesque.