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Rescuing Miedinger's forgotten third typeface

Munchenstein Display is a wide, boxy titling typeface designed by Nikola Djurek, reviving Max Miedinger's largely forgotten 1965 typeface Horizontal. The design pushes super-elliptical, extra-wide proportions further than contemporaries such as Eurostile, evoking the architecture and technology of the 1960s. It forms part of a three-family system alongside Munchenstein Text and Munchenstein Slab, released in 2023 with Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek script support.

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The revival extends Miedinger's capitals-only, single-style original into a full multi-script family covering Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek.
The Display variant ships as a variable font with controllable weight and forward/backward slant axes.
OpenType features include discretionary arrow ligatures (dlig) and a contextually auto-centering colon (calt) when followed by numerals or capitals.
A printed specimen written by Indra Kupferschmid and designed by Atelier Carvalho Bernau accompanied the release.

Date: Fri, Nov 13

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