RMNGP Constellation is the bespoke typeface of Réunion des Musées Nationaux - Grand Palais for their on-site, online and printed communication.
The dots structure of the typeface is deployed in three versions: Grande, for display sizes (numerous dots, high level of details, narrow proportions, narrowed spacing); Petite for small sizes (reduced amount of dots, low detailing, large proportions, generous spacing.
The last version, Random, mixes several randomized parameters. Based upon the Mersenne Twister algorithm*, the dot sizes vary. Upon the same scheme, several variants of the same character appear during typesetting.
Art direction C-Album, Paris.
«RMNGP Constellation» is a hommage to «Constellation et figures d'écritures» by Fernand Baudin, initially published in «De plomb, d'encre et de lumière».**
De Plomb, d’encre et de lumière. Essai sur la typographie et la communication écrite. By Rémy Peignot, Raymond Gid, Fernand Baudin, René Ponot & Jérôme Peignot. Preface Charles Peignot. Postface Georges Bonnin – Paris, Imprimerie nationale, 1982. 240 × 265 mm, 368 p., 402 ill. (350 n. et 52 c.)
M. Matsumoto & T. Nishimura, Mersenne twister: A 623-dimensionally equidistributed uniform pseudorandom number generator, ACM Trans. in Modeling and Computer Simulations, 1998.
