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Seven seemingly unrelated styles, one set of vertical metrics
Brenner is a superfamily by Nikola Djurek (Typotheque, 2018) that unifies seven formally distinct sub-styles—Sans, Serif, Display, Mono, Slab, Script, and Condensed Sans—under shared vertical metrics to enable mixing across complex layouts. The Serif sub-style is a high-contrast design referencing Bodoni and Didot, with the rhythm of pointed-pen handwriting injected to ease readability from 14 pt upward. Each Serif weight carries nine numeral variants accessible via OpenType features, with proportional old-style figures as the default.
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- All sub-styles share vertical metrics, making cross-style composition typographically stable.
- The Serif draws on Southern European high-contrast models (Bodoni, Didot, with acknowledgment of Aldo Novarese) but departs from strict Rationalist structure by incorporating handwritten pointed-pen rhythm.
- Each Serif weight includes nine numeral styles: proportional old-style (default), proportional lining, tabular lining, tabular old-style, small caps, superior, inferior, circled, and circled inverted—switchable via OpenType.
- Igino Marini contributed to the Latin encoding; Roberto Arista handled engineering.
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