Industry: Design

Typeface Design for Editorial Print and Web

Calligraphic details scaled up for display use

Nocturno Display is a higher-contrast, tighter companion to Nocturno, designed by Nikola Djurek (Latin), with Cyrillic by Ilya Ruderman and Georgian by Ana Sanikidze. It retains the calligraphic character of the text version while introducing sharper stroke connections and concave flared serifs suited to headline use. The family sits within a broader type system that includes Nocturno Text, Nocturno Stencil, Diurnal Text, and Diurnal Display. It was recognised as a Typographica Favorite Typeface of 2013.

Set in Nocturno Display

Insights

The display cut differentiates itself from the text version through increased contrast, tighter forms, and concave serifs, while retaining the same calligraphic details.
Each weight ships with nine numeral variants — proportional old-style, lining, tabular (both lining and old-style), small caps, superior, inferior, circled, and circled inverted — with the default variant selectable at licence time.
The type system spans high-contrast serif (Nocturno) and low-contrast sans (Diurnal) families, providing a range of editorial typographic roles within a single system.
Three separate designers handled distinct script traditions within the same family, with Igino Marini contributing across all three scripts and Roberto Arista handling engineering.