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MVB Sirenne

MVB Fonts · Alan Dague-Greene, Mark van Bronkhorst · 2002

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A 23-font ornamental display serif in four optical sizes, inspired by an 18th-century Renard natural history publication.

About

MVB Sirenne draws its visual character from an 18th-century publication by Louis Renard, translating an ornate, period sensibility into a multi-size digital family. The four optical variants — named by point size from Text to Seventy-Two — allow each cut to be tuned for its intended scale. Swash italics and small caps round out a family well suited to editorial and book work with historical resonance.

Classification

23-font ornamental display serif with four optical size variants named by point size (Text, Six, Eighteen, Seventy-Two). Inspired by an 18th-century natural history publication by Louis Renard. Swash italic and small caps included.

Weights

RomanBold

Optical sizes and widths

TextSixEighteenSeventy-Two

Family

Sirenne TextSirenne SixSirenne EighteenSirenne Seventy-Two

Languages

Latin

Tags

displaydecorativeornamentalswashhistoricalbookoptical-sizes