Droulers Clarendon
Bureau Brut · Yoann Minet · 2024
A Clarendon-style companion to the typewriter-inspired Droulers, conceived as a fictional 19th-century ancestor of that family.
About
Designed by Yoann Minet and published by Bureau Brut in 2024, Droulers Clarendon imagines the typographic source that might have existed before Droulers, framed as an uchronian hypothesis: what Droulers would have derived from had it been used on a Remington No.2 in 1878. It follows Clarendon and Ionic conventions with bracketed rectangular serifs and increased stroke contrast, while retaining the closed counterpunches and merged serifs that define its companion. The 16-style family runs across eight weights from Line to Black with matching italics, and proportional spacing makes it better suited to sustained text than the original Droulers.
Classification
The foundry explicitly positions this within the Clarendon/Ionic slab serif tradition, characterised by bracketed rectangular serifs and stronger stroke contrast than a typical egyptian. Bureau Brut categorises slab serifs as Clarendons/Ionics, which maps directly to this subcategory.