Marsam

Marsam roams that arid desert between the severe, enboldened geometry of the ‘Egyptian’ neo-grotesque slab serifs and the graceful, bracketed serif forms of traditional Clarendons. Unlike the Clarendons, it is not freighted with nostalgia. Marsam is a distinctly modernist typeface. It was designed to pair with the san-serif sleekness of Newsam while adding a level of refinement often missing in slab-serifs, particularly apparent in the ‘a,c,g,r,s’ glyphs as well as in the numerals. Italics are true italics with a cursive emphasis. Marsam is the advance release of an expansive 20 font typeface family intended for both commercial and editorial applications. [typonym.xyz]

Finalized in February 2025.