Marian
Commercial Type · Paul Barnes
A hairline serif system from Paul Barnes that reduces nine canonical serif revivals plus a blackletter to their skeletal structure for display use.
About
A display serif system designed by Paul Barnes with Sandra Carrera and Miguel Reyes. Marian imagines the typographic canon, from Garamond, Granjon, van den Keere and Kis through Fleischmann, Fournier, Baskerville, Bodoni and Austin, plus a blackletter, restyled as hairline outlines. Each style sits at a particular historical date (1554, 1565, 1571, 1680, 1740, 1742, 1757, 1800, 1812) in Roman and Italic, with a Marian Black weight and a Marian Text family for body copy in the 1554, 1757, 1800 and 1812 designs. Sits in fashion, luxury, gallery and editorial design where you want the spirit of a classical model at the lightest possible weight.
Classification
Commercial Type describe Marian as Paul Barnes's reduction of canonical historical serifs (Garamond, Granjon, van den Keere, Kis, Fleischmann, Fournier, Baskerville, Bodoni, Austin) plus a blackletter, stripped to their skeletal structure as a hairline display family, with a Text companion in some cuts.