Nylon is based on letterforms found in paintings from the 13th through to the 16th century. They seem to have this manic range of shapes which had very little to do with the classic ideal. Draylon is a much more restrained font based on 17th and 18th century letterforms. Both have been drawn to reflect that they were produced on a computer and so you can mix and plunder letterforms from different centuries in the same word.
About the designer:
Born in 1966 in Luton, Jonathan Barnbrook has produced an extraordinary range of typefaces. Elegant and beautifully presented, his Virus collection brings many of these unusual, sometimes disturbing, typefaces together for the first time.