Industry: Design

Marian Collection

Ten historical typefaces reduced to bare structure

Paul Barnes, with Sandra Carrera and Miguel Reyes, distilled ten typefaces from the typographic canon — Garamond through Austin — to their skeletal structures. The project is neither strict revival nor interpretation, but a reductive exercise that retains the character of each historical model.

Set in Marian

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The collection spans nine serif faces and one blackletter.
The stated method is structural reduction rather than faithful recreation or free reinterpretation.