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Marian Collection

Commercial Type’s Marian Collection is a beautifully designed suite of typefaces designed by Paul Barnes that reimagines the classics. As Commercial Type put it:

Marian imagines the classics of the typographic canon reinvented for the contemporary world: Garamond, Granjon, van den Keere, Kiš, Fleischmann, Fournier, Baskerville, Bodoni and Austin restyled and revived.

These aren’t strict revivals, for they are not accurate recreations, nor are they interpretations per se. Instead they reduce the historical models to their basic skeletal forms. Nine serrifed typefaces and one Blackletter reduced to their basic structure. This reduction strips them to their core, whilst at the same time retaining the life and spirit of the letters.

The resulting typefaces are subtle and understated, retaining the ‘essence’ of the original typefaces on which they’re based, spirited revivals that subtly echo the past whilst looking to the future.

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