Industry: Design

Typography for Editorial Use

Wood type origins, contemporary editorial range

Ploquine is a slab serif family by Emma Marichal, rooted in historical wood type forms and developed for editorial and branding use. Its 14 styles span a wide tonal range—from refined thin weights to assertive heavy ones—suitable for paragraph text, headings, and large-scale display. The family includes variable upright and italic axes alongside a range of OpenType features.

Set in Ploquine

Insights

Heavier weights flatten internal counters and reduce contrast to reference the wood type aesthetic, while lighter weights maintain squarish forms that govern how each subsequent weight fills its serifs.
Selective serif removal on specific lowercase letters (h, k, l, m, n, r) gives the italics a degree of cursiveness without creating an attention clash with the uprights.
Unusual horizontal stroke endings on 'a' and 't' create a forward text rhythm; oversized capitals, punctuation, and serifs are treated as cohesive style elements.
The family received the Gerard Unger Scholarship in 2022 and a TDC Certificate of Typographic Excellence in Type Design in 2025.