Marlfield is a display typeface with fairly strong fat and condensed proportions. It was born as a custom typeface for Klima magazine in 2018. Klima is an annual print magazine. Each issue offers a collective reflection based on an article written by an academic, aimed at a curious and informed public. Klima gives a voice to individuals who are aware, creative and singular, reflecting an era and its questions, while revealing the multi-disciplinary nature of the artistic, activist and academic communities.
Marlfield was therefore designed in several stages, initially in the form of a logo. The idea was to design a very compact, legible and identifiable shape so that the logo could be used in large size on the covers. A fairly simple condensed serif style, to which we would add a number of special features to make the logo more iconic. The logo was therefore designed almost as a single ligature, a single glyph, and this concept then remained for the whole alphabet, as in the counter-forms of the n or the m. Then a simple alphabet was drawn, and the other glyphs were added over time according to the magazine's uses. The references for this design obviously lie in the first part of the 20th century, in the typefaces designed for the press, on the front page or in headlines, where impact and legibility were essential. These include Plantin, Perpetua and Times in their most condensed versions. Hence the proportions and tight spacing, as well as a number of ligatures to give headlines and other messages great impact. Its forms are intended to be fairly historical, but we would add many details and sometimes a certain 'mannerism' to make this typeface simply more contemporary and more distinctive.
Designed by Eliott Grunewald in 2020
Character set: Latin extended
File formats delivered: OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2
Abenaki, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic (Latin), Asturian, Aymara, Bashkir (Latin), Basque, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chickasaw, Cimbrian, Cofán, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar (Latin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz (Latin), Galician, Genoese, German, Gooniyandi, Guadeloupean Creole, Gwich’in, Haitian Creole, Hän, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcąk (Latin), Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese (Latin), Jèrriais, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan (Latin), Kaqchikel, Karakalpak (Latin), Karelian (Latin), Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Ladin, Latin, Latino sine Flexione, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Makhuwa, Malay, Manx, Māori, Marquesan, Megleno-Romanian, Meriam Mir, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinh-Patha, Nagamese Creole, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Occidental, Occitan, Oshiwambo, Ossetian (Latin), Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Q’eqchi’, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami (Lule Sami), Sami (Southern Sami), Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Seri, Seychellois Creole, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio (Latin), Somali, Sorbian (Lower Sorbian), Sorbian (Upper Sorbian), Sotho (Northern), Sotho (Southern), Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese (Latin), Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen (Latin), Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Uzbek (Latin), Venetian, Vepsian, Volapük, Võro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zulu, Zuni