NN Editeur began with a spark from the past — the Light Italic from an IBM Golfball* typewriter. Our friend Alexander Colby came across it in ⁠an old IBM Selectric® specimen and couldn’t let it go. So he brought it into the digital age**. But that was just the beginning. What started as a one-weight curiosity evolved into a deeper dive into typewriter aesthetics. ⁠

The result: a type family in three parts Éditeur Italic, Éditeur Serif, and Éditeur Semi each with five weights. A quiet homage to analog ⁠machinery, reimagined for the screen and page.⁠
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*The “golfball” was IBM Selectric typewriter’s removable spherical ⁠typing element containing all characters and symbols. It tilted ⁠and rotated to strike the ribbon, replacing traditional typebars and ⁠enabling faster typing and fun fact, it looked like a golfball.⁠