Issue N°29 ofA Magazine Curated Byhas been curated byCecilie Bahnsen. At its heart, this publication is a celebration of women: their voices, perspectives, and relationships. Throughout the issue, what emerges is a language of shared experience through moments between parents, children, sisters, lovers and friends. A Magazine Curated By N°29 unfolds as a meditation on the beauty of the everyday, the unseen threads between generations and the formative experiences of youth and childhood that continue to shape creativity today.“It’s filled with the voices of sisters, mothers, collaborators and creatives—a tribute to the strong, inspiring women I’m lucky to have around me.” OO Therandesigned byLaura Csocsán(released onOutline Online) features as one of the main typefaces in use throughout the magazine, selected by the editorial team. It is used equally for bigger titles, credits, as well as longer texts and interviews. On some pages and for a few interviews, it’s also combined with the two other typefaces the magazine utilises in this particular issue. For consistent page numbering, smaller credits and titles, as well as most longer texts and interviews,Mercureroman and italic byCharles Mazéare applied throughout the pages. Released onAbyme, Mercure fits smoothly together with the contemporary grotesque typeface,Monument, designed byKasper-Florioand released onDinamo. Monument Grotesk is used in combination with Mercure most of the time, within running text for interviews, for example, or used on its own for a few titles of editorial pages. It can be spotted in very small details throughout as well, for example, in image copyrights or in combination with Mercure for smaller image credits. In some occasions all three typefaces are used in combination with each other within interviews, but in most cases, it’s two of them selected and applied together within a spread. Theran Halo used for the title of the editorial series All three typefaces used within a page, Mercure noting Cecilie in the conversation, questions set in Monument, and notes on the bottom set in Theran Halo. Page showing Mecure and Monument used together in this interview Theran Halo applied with OpenType isolated positional (circled) forms for the opening page of the spread Monument and Mercure Italic used together for titling of images Theran Halo used for the tile of the editorial series Monument in used for the tile of the editorial series Theran Halo used for the tile of the editorial series All three typefaces used within a page, Mercure in the running text of the conversation and small titles, names set in Theran Halo, and the tile plus image copyright set in Monument. Page showing running text and titles set in Mercure and its Italic Theran Halo used to show time stamps within the spread, while page numbering is set in Mercure Editorial detail of Theran Halo up close from a page where it's used in running text, in an ASCII image of an apple, as well as in titles with OpenType automatic positional (circled) forms applied.
This tri-font system creates an intimate yet intellectually rigorous editorial voice that balances contemporary design discourse with personal storytelling. OO Theran's monospaced DNA brings digital vernacular authenticity, while its distinctive circled alternates add playful punctuation. Mercure's rational proportions ground longer texts with scholarly authority, while Monument's geometric precision provides contemporary editorial backbone without coldness.
The pairing leverages three distinct form models to create editorial texture: Theran's monospaced construction (geometric but humanized through its dot-matrix origins) serves as accent typography, Mercure's rational model with closed apertures provides reading comfort for extended texts, and Monument's pure geometric forms offer contemporary contrast. The shared vertical stress across all three creates coherence despite their structural differences, while the monospaced element introduces deliberate friction that reflects the magazine's experimental curatorial approach.
This ambitious three-font system works through careful hierarchical distribution rather than traditional pairing logic. Monument and Mercure form the primary pairing—both sharing rational/geometric tendencies but contrasting serif vs. sans treatment. Theran functions as the wild card: its monospaced geometry and distinctive alternates (circled forms, dot construction) create editorial punctuation that prevents the rational pairing from becoming too conservative. The system succeeds because each font occupies distinct functional zones while sharing similar x-heights and vertical proportions.