Naancy reflects the school of Nancy, combining the arabesques and curves inspired by nature with the geometry of an alphabet. Drawing from architecture—the juxtaposition of styles, the play of light and shadow, the layout of facades, motifs and ornaments—and from nature, with its unexpected forms and intertwining shapes. Damien Gautier translates the proximity of architecture and nature in an urban context into a multifaceted typeface. Geometric and ornate—and even exuberant—with ligatures, initials, and decorative letters. Sensitive to those that reveal a handcrafted dimension, he examines wrought-iron doors, railings, guardrails in their great variety. He draws Naancy as a blacksmith—rigorous in design, with curves forcibly constrained by the resistance of the metal.