Typeface Design for Tremolo
One typeface, multiple voices: calligraphy, brush, and blackletter in a single narrow design
Tremolo is a narrow, eclectic Latin typeface designed by Nikola Djurek and released by Typotheque in 2015. It is difficult to classify, drawing on cursive calligraphy, brush lettering, and condensed blackletter to shift between austere and friendly registers within a single family. Chromatic styles — Gradient and Shadow — are built from interlocking or layered top and bottom components, while a companion Sans offers a warm, low-contrast humanist option. The family received a TDC Typographic Excellence award in 2016.
Set in Tremolo
Insights
- Chromatic functionality is split into two distinct systems: Gradient styles use interlocking top-and-bottom layers, while Shadow styles keep those layers separate for independent colorization.
- Seven numeral variants are included — old-style figures set as default, alongside proportional lining, tabular lining, tabular old-style, superior, inferior, and small caps numerals.
- The Sans completes the family as an engaging, warm humanist low-contrast typeface alongside the more expressive styles.
- Igino Marini is credited as a contributor to the Latin encoding; Nikola Djurek is the designer.
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