Display Typeface for Typotheque
Asymmetric semi-serifs engineered for extreme weights
Marlene Display is a humanistic slab serif designed by Nikola Djurek at Typotheque, released in 2018. It departs from the high-contrast Egyptian structure of the Marlene text cuts by reducing contrast to explore a more open slab serif style. In heavier weights, an asymmetric semi-serif structure is used to maintain consistent serifs. The family is intended for headlines, short editorial texts, and branding contexts.
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- Reducing contrast from the parent Marlene's Egyptian model shifts the family into humanistic slab territory.
- The asymmetric semi-serif structure in dark weights is a structural solution to maintain serif consistency at extreme stroke weights.
- Eight numeral styles per weight—including proportional oldstyle, lining, tabular, superior, inferior, circled, and circled inverted—allow purchasers to set their preferred default via licensing options.
- Marlene Display is one of three display branches (alongside Marlene Grande and Marlene Stencil) completing a broader typographic system.
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