QG Venimeux
Personal Project
Year: 2025–current
Category: Type Design
Type Design: Quang Nguyễn
Technical Guidance/Support:
Quang Khải (Thecoa Foundry),
Lê Minh (Mẫu Type
Lecturer/Supervisor (RMIT University): Dr. Fayen d’Evie

QG Venimeux (“venomous” in French) is an extended typographic exploration of QG Venimeux Display, a revival type that I first designed back in January 2025 for Xà Cừ Rắn Giỏi project, which is based on a seemingly lost type found on the book cover of Animaux Venimeux et Venins (Venomous Animals and Venoms) by Marie Phisalix in Vietnam National University Archives.
QG Venimeux Display

Original cover of Animaux Venimeux et Venins by Marie Phisalix (1922)




Typesetting examples
QG Venimeux Variable
An alternative version of the typeface was later developed in Experimental Typography Workshop (GRAP2682) course at RMIT University in 2025.
Sharp objects and shapes are often associated with predators and sources of physical harm, perceived as signals of danger due to a universal instinct rooted in human evolutionary history. Drawing on this idea, the typeface uses custom parameters to shift between variations that indicate different levels of "danger." With two distinct styles (Transitional and Didone) and optical widths (semi-condensed and extended), the variable typeface is highly adaptive, capable of evoking different feels through interpolated instances of stroke contrast and rounded versus sharp corners. It currently includes all Latin uppercase glyphs and Vietnamese diacritics, while numerals, punctuation, and symbols remain in development.


Demonstration of glyph interpolation in English and Vietnamese (with diacritics)




Variations' comparison and characteristics






Type specimen spreads, with native Australian animal illustrations accompanying and highlighting the level of variation across different parameters
Quang Nguyễn
Communication Designer
is a Vietnamese design practitioner/illustrator currently based in Naarm (Melbourne), and an ongoing Master’s student of Communication Design at RMIT University.
Previously held a Bachelor of Communication (Advertising) degree and throughout years of accumulated independent design learning and practice, Quang is currently focused on brand illustration, brand identity, and communication design, with some of past high-profile clients including Sovico Group, RMIT, and UNESCO. He also frequently collaborates with Hands Collective, an award-winning brand consultancy based in Hanoi, and produces works recognised and featured by Behance, Dieline, and Pentawards.
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Hanoi, Vietnam
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Naarm, Australia
As a Vietnamese currently residing and working on the stolen lands in the Kulin Nation, I acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong peoples as the Traditional Owners, and recognise their deep and ongoing connection to these lands and waters. I pay my respects to their Elders past, present, and emerging. Sovereignty has never been ceded. It always was and always will be, Aboriginal land.