Industry: Design

Typeface Family for Print and Web

Handwriting-inflected letterforms inside a sans-serif structure

Tremolo Sans is a low-contrast humanist typeface designed by Nikola Djurek, with contributions from Igino Marini, released by Typotheque in 2020. It features a very large x-height, narrow proportions, and unorthodox cursive details—including handwriting-inspired 'k', 'g', and 'y'—that lend warmth to headlines and shorter texts. It completes the broader Tremolo collection, a narrow, eclectic family drawing on cursive calligraphy, brush lettering, and condensed blackletter, alongside chromatic Gradient and Shadow styles.

Set in Tremolo Sans

Insights

Old-style figures are set as the default numerals, with six additional styles—proportional lining, tabular lining, tabular old-style, superior, inferior, and small caps—provided for different typographic contexts.
The Tremolo collection achieves chromatic typography through interlocking Gradient styles and layered Shadow styles, with the Sans serving as the humanist component of the system.
The Tremolo collection is described as narrow and eclectic, containing elements of cursive calligraphy, brush lettering, and condensed blackletter alongside the Sans.