Marian
Marian is a serif typeface published by Commercial Type in 2012, designed by Paul Barnes. It is one of 139 typefaces from Commercial Type in the Type.lol catalog, 35 of them serif.
From the foundry
Conceived by Paul Barnes as 'part history lesson, part conceptual art, and part loving tribute to the great punchcutters of the past,' Marian revives nine serif styles from the typographic canon spanning nearly two and a half centuries, from 16th-century Renaissance to early 19th-century Scotch Roman. The series strips letterforms down to skeletal hairline structures, revealing the underlying bone structure of works by Austin, Baskerville, Bodoni, Fournier, Fleischman, Garamont, Granjon, Kis, and van den Keere.
Published by Commercial Type
Typeface on the foundry website
- Classification
- serif
- Released
- 2012