It is that time of year when Typographica makes a list of their favorite typefaces of the past year. This year the list is a bit longer, 40 typefaces released in the 2008 are chosen by the type educators, expert users of type, type critics, type historians, type technicians, and type designers themselves" and "each selection has proved itself enough to be chosen as an exemplary model of what happened in the world of type design last year." Among the chosen ones are three fonts by Nikola Djurek; Marlene and Typonine Stencil, released by Typonine, and Brioni released by Typotheque font foundry. Here are some of the selectors comments: "It is a joy to welcome a face like Typonine Stencil that is not based on a previous font and which has Dutch Oldstyle characteristics." Paul Shaw
"Marlene is an elegant, high contrast Egyptian face with a distinctive and contemporary calligraphic flourish. When I first saw it I was impressed at how incredibly crisp it was, as if drawn with a pen so sharp it could just as easily cut the paper as leave ink there." Aegir Hallmundur
"Brioni exhibits both great precision and a certain physicality: the touch of a human hand. It is the work of someone thoroughly comfortable with divergent ways of mark-making: from stone carving to calligraphy to Python." Caren Litherland

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