mrln
designed by Pietro Rigo Lange’
mrln sans serif typeface created with Adobe Illustrator and Fontself
what is marlen ?
48 pt
Marlen is a typographic font born in the university of Bolzano in 2018. It’s been created using Adobe Illustrator and Fontself. The idea of mrln born during the calligraphy workshop with Eva PÜll where we start drawing by hand different types of characters. Mrln is an improvement of the Berthold akzident grotesk charachter. The smooth angle of the internal corners permits to read it in an easier way. At the end marlen is a simpe font made up by small but very important details in order to help the reading 24 / 28 pt ofatext.
WHAT IS A FONT?
48 pt
ont, the first time I heard this word was thanks to my little passion for the calligraphy. For this reason really enjoy the excursion to the <<tipografia Cornuda>> and the calligraphy workshop we made during the semester. 18/21 pt In metal typesetting, a font was a particular size, weight and style of a typeface. Each font was a matched set of type, one piece (a <<sort>>) for each glyph, and a typeface consisting of a range of fonts that shared an overall design. In modern usage, with the advent of digital typography, <<font>> is frequently synonymous with <<typeface>>. Each style is in a separate <<font file>>,for instance, the typeface <<Akzidenz>> may include the fonts <<Akzi denz grotesk>>, <<Akzidenz italic>>, <<Akzidenz bold>> . 14 / 16 pt
In metal typesetting, a font was a particular size, weight and style of a typeface. Each font was a matched set of type, one piece (a “sort”) for each glyph, and a typeface consist of a range of fonts that shared an overall design. In modern usage, with the advent of the digital typography, “font” is frequently synonymous with “typeface”. Each style is in a separate “font file”,for instance, the typeface “Akzidenz” may include thefonts “Akziden z grotesk”, “Akzidenz italic”, or bold” and “Akzidenz light” but the term “font” might be applied in either to one of these alone or to the 10/12 pt
In metal typesetting, a font was a particular size, weight and style of a typeface. Each font was a matched set of type, one piece (a “sort”) for each glyph, and a type face consist of a range of fonts that shared an overall design. In modern usage, with the advent of the digi tal typography, “font” is frequently synonymous with “typeface”. Each style is in a separate “font file”,for in stance, the typeface “Akzidenz” may include the fonts “Akzidenz grotesk”, “Akzidenz italic”, or bold” and “Akzi denz light” but the term “font” might be applied in either to one of these alone or to the whole typeface. In both traditional type setting and modern usage, the word “font” refers to the delivery mechanism of the type. 9/11 pt
WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE? marlen looks, but it’s not, similar to the original typographic font “akzidenz”. The differences are many and the behaviour of mrln is great in a big variety of situations. For these reason it can be used like a booklet, poster or magazine font.
abcdefghijklmnopq rstuvwxyz
48 pt
abcdefghijkl mn opqrstuvwxyz 60 pt
LOWER CASES the lower cases are very clean and the straight cut off of the ascender and descender is different to the diagonal cut of the others letters. To balance these rigid features the curves of other letters are smooth , like for example in the letters B, D, G, P and Q.
FEATURES the final cut off of the ascender is not straight but it has a little inclination of 15°
d , b, k, h, l, t 30° diagonal cut off of x height terminals and straight cut at the baseline
u, v, x, w, y
change of roundness of the curve
b, d, g, h, m, n
DETAILS the angle between the steam and the curve is not straight but curved and in the letters b & d the first angle is more curved than the lower one
d,b
straight angle of stress and diagonal cut of the terminal
c, e, o curved angle near the diagonal cut off of the terminal
g, m, n, r
important features of mrln designed to obtain a great reading flow
angolation of the x height terminal cut off in contrast with the smooth curve
ascender terminal angolation to mantain the flow during the reading
LETTERS COMPARISON
mar ... marlen in a poster? What do you think about using the typeface marlen in a poster? It could be a good idea. The idea of marlen starts from the simplicity of the font â&#x20AC;&#x153;akzidenz grotheskâ&#x20AC;?. I was excited to create a new font but scared at the same time when Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve heard that we have to do a serif and a sans serif typeface. I thought that the difficultywas to change the original font to create the new one maintening simple.
rlen. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m quite satisfied for the result obtained; I think that I maintain the simplicity told before. The features of the diagonal cut off of the ascenders and of the x height terminals, the smooth curve and the curved angle near the lower and upper terminals permit to have a good reading flow, in my opininion adapted to use it in a poster, thanks to the fluency of the letters put one next to the other.
MRLN Teatro Romano, Verona 24_25_26 november 2018 the 10th anniversary of mrln, the worldwide tech house music festival guests: Carl Cox, The Martinez Brothers, Jamie Jones, Silvie Loto, Peggy Gou , Coehlo and others
letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s use it.
thanks.
Faculty of Design and Art Free University of Bolzano - Bozen Typeface designed by Pietro Rigo Langè WUP 18/19 Prof. Antonino Benincasa Gian Marco Favretto Maximilian Boiger Calligraphy Workshop by Mag. Art. Eva PÜll Font created with Illustrator & Fontself