Typeface Design for Brenner Slab
Ink traps as deliberate style, not technical compromise
Brenner Slab is an Egyptian slab serif designed by Nikola Djurek as part of the Brenner superfamily, released by Typotheque in 2018. The design uses dominant ink traps as a stylistic device, achieving a crisp, airy quality despite the blocky nature of its serifs. It shares vertical metrics with the other Brenner sub-families—Sans, Serif, Display, Mono, Script, and Condensed Sans—enabling harmonious mixing across complex layouts.
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Insights
- Each Brenner weight ships with nine numeral variants—including proportional old-style, lining, tabular, small caps, superior, inferior, circled, and circled inverted—selectable via OpenType features or as default at license time.
- The seven Brenner sub-families were each built around a different typographic model yet align on vertical metrics to support interchange in layout.
- Brenner Slab was recognised as a Typographica Favorite Typeface of 2018.
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