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With sketches dating back to late 2022, this Scotch Roman design blends the refined elegance of 19th-century Scotch Roman types with the bold, attention-grabbing features of Clarendons. Ranging from Light to Black, the typeface gradually reduces its moderate contrast while maintaining a digitally sharp silhouette, thanks to its bracketed, straightforward serifs.

This Scotch Roman is not a direct revival of any historical typeface but rather an individual interpretation inspired by Gerard Unger’s methodology and shaped by the spirit of an early exercise he gave his students: designing a Clarendon face, as well as by his personal approach to the style. This influence is evident in design decisions such as the interrupted construction — an unusual element in both Scotch Roman and Clarendon traditions.

The lighter weights, with their delicate, airy forms, make the typeface highly readable and suitable for long texts, while the heavier weights carry that same rhythm into impactful headlines and display settings. The Cyrillic extension, particularly the Bulgarian Cyrillic forms, received careful attention. Historically, this typographic genre has been largely underexplored, but it is now gaining recognition and interest across cultural and design spaces.

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