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Six display candidates to replace the loud condensed grotesque, each rendered in the brand's own dark-and-gold register with identical content — so the choice can be made by eye, not by name.

The two RECOMMENDED marks pair by design: Cinzel Decorative carries hero moments — the mint, the ballot, the seal — while Cinzel carries everything beneath it, from nav to footnote.

01 Cinzel400 / 700 Recommended — Base

EST · MMXXV · ANNO LUCIS 6026

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Cinzel — the literal Masonic letterform: a Trajan-class engraved Roman capital, already carrying this brand's nav, chips, and tier names. The safe, load-bearing choice — everything beneath the hero moments.

02 Cinzel Decorative700 Recommended — Hero

EST · MMXXV · ANNO LUCIS 6026

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Cinzel Decorative — the ceremonial cut of the same letterform: flourished serifs and ornamental terminals that read as a seal, a charter, a founding document. Reserved for hero moments — the mint, the ballot, the admission scroll — never body copy.

03 Marcellus400

EST · MMXXV · ANNO LUCIS 6026

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Marcellus — the quieter cousin of the Trajan tradition: the same council authority, none of the theatre. Reads as restrained governance correspondence rather than inscription — a credible fallback where Cinzel feels too loud.

04 Cormorant Garamond400 / 600

EST · MMXXV · ANNO LUCIS 6026

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Cormorant Garamond — high-contrast old-style elegance, the register of a hand-set esoteric treatise. Reads scholarly-occult rather than corporate — better suited to long-form ritual copy than a nav bar.

05 IM Fell English400

EST · MMXXV · ANNO LUCIS 6026

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IM Fell English — a digitisation of a 17th-century English press face: ball terminals, ink-trap quirks, the actual grain of a grimoire or a charter document. The most “old order” of the six — texture over polish.

06 Grenze Gotisch400 / 700

EST · MMXXV · ANNO LUCIS 6026

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Grenze Gotisch — blackletter, full stop. Already doing duty in the site's ritual zones (the ballot, the degrees). The culty-occult extreme: unmistakable at a glance, but unreadable past a few words — a texture, not a system.