Nils Uddenberg’s biography of the anthropologist Gustaf Retzius dives into his controversial racial science, while also highlighting his progressive sides. The cover is designed by Rasmus Pettersson and typeset in Sindre Bremnes’ cousin typefaces Faunus and Satyr.

The Serbian writer and critic Isidora Sekulić – “the first woman academic in the history of Serbia” – published the travelogue Pisma iz Norveške in 1914, having spent a year in Norway. Tatjana Petzer’s translation, Briefe aus Norwegen (“Letters from Norway”, Friedenauer Presse, 2019), bears the same title in German, but includes additional texts spanning from 1913 through 1951.

Briefe aus Norwegen is designed by Pauline Altmann employing Sindre Bremnes’ seminal sibling romans, Satyr (body text) and Faunus (headlines).

Perhaps the most important reference for Bremnes’ type family is Nordisk Antikva, a German-Swedish collaboration between the type designer Friedrich Bauer and the printer Waldemar Zachrisson from 1906. Outside Sweden, this typeface was available as Genzsch-Antiqua. This typographic choice anchors the book visually in a time and a location that matches the subject matter.

The illustration (by Christian Thanhäuser) merges a portrait of Sekulić in green with a mountainous Nordic landscape in black.

If you've ever googled punctuation, chances are rather high that you've end up on Keith Houston’s Shady Characters. The excellent blog and subsequent two books dig deep into the use, history and character of our typographic little friends.

Styled in a classicist shroud, the type-only layout uses Sindre Bremnes’ Satyr and Faunus, beautiful antiques made up of curves only. Contrast is achieved through varied settings and the trusty typographer’s red. Houston even went so far as to commission some obscure punctuation glyphs missing from the retail fonts including l b bar (℔), interrobang (‽), and the ironieteken as proposed by Bas Jacobs (of Underware). The process is exquisitely detailed in this great blog post.

Roman and italic custom symbols from Monokrom’s Satyr typeface, as designed by Sindre Bremnes.