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Eight numeral styles per weight, default chosen at license

Typonine Sans is a low-contrast humanist sans serif designed by Nikola Djurek (Latin) and Ilya Ruderman (Cyrillic), released by Typotheque in 2008. It features open counters, a reasonably large x-height, and a gently sloping italic with cursive details rooted in humanist tradition. The family spans Sans, Condensed, Hairline, Monospaced, and Stencil variants, with a structurally related serif companion, Thema. Each weight includes eight numeral styles—proportional lining, old-style, tabular lining, tabular old-style, superior, inferior, circled, and circled inverted—with the default variant selectable at licensing.

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Latin and Cyrillic scripts were handled by distinct designers—Nikola Djurek and Ilya Ruderman respectively—with Igino Marini credited as contributor to both encodings.
The italic is described as gently sloping with cursive details, reinforcing the typeface's humanist character.
Each weight includes eight numeral styles, with the default variant configurable per licence.
The collection spans five sub-families—Sans, Condensed, Hairline, Monospaced, Stencil—and pairs structurally with the serif Thema.

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