Brenner Display

Brenner combines seemingly unrelated styles into one large superfamily. Its unobtrusive Sans, confident Serif, expressive Display, utilitarian Mono, sharply chiselled Slab and extravagant Script, along with space-saving Condensed Sans styles, all share vertical metrics, and can be easily combined. The styles differ from each other because each is built around a different model, yet despite this distinction, they support each other surprisingly well in complex layouts, creating a remarkably harmonious family.

Brenner Display is a contemporary interpretation of the Fat Face model, comprising very heavy 19th-century idiosyncratic typefaces in the Bodoni/Didot style. While fat faces originated in England, they had broad international appeal and were used for attention-grabbing titles and short words. Through the cycles of fashions, revivals of fat faces emerged every decade or so, made popular by many prominent designers of the 20th century. Brenner Display is a flamboyant, headline typeface rooted in the tradition of fat faces, reinventing the genre by omitting the large ball terminals typically used in the older models, which makes it look less formal, and more ‘written’. Use it for very large text, or for whimsical, loud and conspicuous headlines.