NB International was designed in 2012 by Stefan Gandl, released in 2014 and extended with more weights plus the monospaced subfamily in 2021. Compared with other rigid grotesks, Gandl added soft qualities to his typeface family as “each glyph was designed with precise five units radius corners.” In an interview with Basics, Gandl is quoted saying that “Neubau International is based on the same grid as NB Grotesk, but with optical corrections in design and shape.”