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High-contrast Egyptian with a calligraphic italic twist
Marlene is a high-contrast Egyptian typeface designed by Nikola Djurek (Latin) and Ilya Ruderman (Cyrillic), with Igino Marini as contributor to both scripts, released by Typotheque in 2008. The roman features robust square vertical serifs; the italic is characterised by thin upstrokes and unusually high curve-to-stem connection points. The family spans eight styles plus a sans, stencil, grande, and display variant, covering Latin and Cyrillic scripts.
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- The italic's unusually high connection points of curves to stems is cited as a deliberate structural distinction from the roman.
- Each weight ships with eight numeral variants—proportional old-style (default), lining, tabular lining, tabular old-style, superior, inferior, circled, and circled inverted—with the default configurable at licence time.
- Latin and Cyrillic scripts were handled by separate designers: Nikola Djurek for Latin, Ilya Ruderman for Cyrillic, with Igino Marini as contributor to both.
- The family received ATypI Letter2 Best Typefaces of the Decade 2011, Typographica Favorite Typefaces of 2008, and an International Association of Art Critics Award 2011.
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