Industry: Design

Typeface Design for Expressive Text

Stencil logic taken to fracture point

Maro is a stencil typeface designed by Nikola Djurek at Typotheque, released in 2021. It carries extreme thick-thin stroke contrast, deliberately pushed until letterforms fracture at their narrowest point. A very large x-height, flat curves, and triangular serifs give the design a sharp, urgent quality. The family is intended for large-scale contexts such as posters and book covers.

Set in Maro

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The design follows stroke-contrast construction principles to an extreme: where conventional typefaces ease off, Maro allows the form to fracture at the thinnest point.
Each weight includes six numeral variants: proportional lining (default), old-style, tabular lining, tabular old-style, superior, and inferior.
Igino Marini is credited as a contributor to the Latin encoding; Nikola Djurek is the designer.