Design Concept
Marlene is an elegant, high contrast Egyptian face with a distinctive and contemporary calligraphic flourish. The Roman version with its robust square vertical serifs delivers a sense of vitality and rigorousness. The italic is sharp and fast-paced with elegant, thin upstrokes and unusually high connection points of curves to stems. Together, these styles add to the appealing character of Marlene making it an ideal choice for books and magazines.
Versions
Marlene type family comes in a text version with eights styles (Marlene), and three display versions: Marlene Grande, Marlene Stencil, and Marlene Display. Combined, they offer complete typographic palette for the most demanding designers.
OpenType features
Like all Typotheque fonts, Marlene Grande includes Small Caps in all styles. Additionally, Marlene Grande includes a wealth of other advanced OpenType features. For more information please see the PDF instructions, or the Features section.
International Typography
Besides extended Latin, Marlene Grande supports also the Cyrillic script with Russian letterforms coming as default, and localised forms for Bulgarian and Serbian coming as OpenType substritution features.
Numerals
All weights of Marlene Grande include ten different kinds of numerals. Proportional Old-style figures come as default figures in Marlene. It also, however, includes Lining figures, Tabular numerals (both lining and OsF), Small Caps numerals, superior, inferior, circled and circled inverted numerals (selectable via OpenType features).
Author
Marlene Grande typeface family was published in 2010, designed by Nikola Djurek with Hrvoje Zivčić. Cyrillic version was designed by Ilya Ruderman. In 2008, Marlene was shortlisted for the Best Typefaces of 2008 by Typographica. In 2010 Nikola Djurek recieved the Icograda Excellence Award for his typefaces Marlene, Brioni and Plan Grotesque. In 2011, Marlene was selected as one of the best typefaces of the decade in AtypI’s Letter 2 competition. In 2011, Nikola Djurek recieved the International Association of Art Critics Award for his font families Marlene, Delvard, Plan Grotesque.
