We wanted to take a moment to say a big congratulations to our friends at The Northern Block for their recent Bronze achievement at the recent Hiii Typography awards. The award was in honor of their work on the design of Merel in the ‘Latin Typeface’ category.
Merel is a modern geometric typeface with humanist attributes. Geometry and logic are at the heart of this 6 weight font family. Humanist touches give it a number of distinctive characteristics, as well as aid legibility. Despite being rational and function driven in its nature, Merel has a soft and gentle touch. It was designed to tackle both print and onscreen challenges of the modern environment. Details include reduced x-height, mild stroke contrast and vertically sheared terminals with cushioned finish across the typeface. Merel features a number of alternative characters, manually edited kerning and Opentype features.
Merel was published by The Northern Block on September 29, 2014.
