Typeface Design for Thema Moderato Stencil
Renaissance convention meets stencil display
Thema Moderato Stencil is a display typeface designed by Nikola Djurek and released by Typotheque in 2012. It pairs upright capitals with cursive lowercase — a combination traced by the foundry to early Italian Renaissance books — in stencil form intended for elegant titles. The design belongs to the broader Thema family, which also includes a bracketed serif and a non-stencil Moderato cursive variant. Two sets of ascenders and descenders are provided, with refinement most apparent at medium and larger sizes.
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Set in Thema Moderato Stencil
Insights
- The upright-capitals-with-cursive-lowercase combination draws explicitly from early Italian Renaissance book typography, per the foundry.
- Two distinct ascender and descender variants are included, offering options for titling rhythm.
- Thema Moderato Stencil is one node in a coordinated family that includes a bracketed serif text cut and a non-stencil Moderato, enabling mixed-register typographic systems.
- Igino Marini is credited as a contributor to the Latin encoding alongside designer Nikola Djurek.
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