Unbounded

Unbounded is a display sans from NaN, designed in 2022 by Luke Prowse, Jean-Baptiste Morizot, Fátima Lázaro and Florian Runge, with extra production by Igino Marini. Web3 Foundation commissioned it for Polkadot, and the Polkadot treasury paid for it. Its construction mixes grotesque and humanist ideas. Chevron-shaped stems on letters like B, E, a and d break up the rhythm of straight stems, and the bowls of a, b, d, p and q have pinched, fish-like counters that make it look friendly. It comes in six weights from ExtraLight to Black, plus a variable version, and covers Latin and Cyrillic in over 1,300 glyphs.

Unbounded works best large: headlines, posters, hero sections, brand marks and product names. At heavy weights it fills the punchy, extended, all-caps headline role that designers often use paid faces like Integral for. Because it is OFL-licensed and on Google Fonts, it costs nothing to use on the web and in print.