Maregraphe by Yury Ostromentsky is featured in two projects by St. Petersburg-based publisher Pollen fanzine, which focuses on investigating the American culture of the 20th and 21st centuries.
The first is William Gaddis’ novel The Recognitions, the story of the son of a priest who forges Old Masters paintings by making a deal with a fraudulent New York art dealer. The second project is Cole Fishman’s essay on the philosophical aspect of William Gaddis’ novels. It was Vladimir Vertinsky who designed both editions.
A sharp and modern serif typeface, Maregraphe was inspired by the text on the wall of a Marseille tide gauge dating back to the early 19th century and the French lettering of different times. The typeface comes in an impressive character set: small caps, lining, tabular and text figures, circled numbers, superscripts and subscripts, and arrows.
Two new options have just arrived to enrich the Maregraphe collection: Maregraphe Mega Compressed and Maregrpahe Mega Extended, ultra-narrow and ultra-wide serif typefaces that experiment with the extremes of readability.
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