Based on the 10 titling characters surviving on the front cover of Russolo’s noise manifesto, the design of the Rumori typeface is not a revival of a historical form in the traditional sense but more of a speculative reinvention. When research into the origins of the original wood type shown on the cover proved fruitless, MuirMcNeil drew on studies of a range of grotesque and gothic display typefaces from the period as key points of reference for the missing characters. The resulting prototype version of Rumori was published via TypeBrut in 2015
In 2017, MuirMcNeil revised the design extensively, refining character contours and adding a conventional alternate character set as an optional substitute for Rumori’s more eccentric letterforms, together with a useful set of ligatures and a stencil variant set,
Rumori S, also available from the MuirMcNeil shop.
Rumori is available for licensing from MuirMcNeil in a single bold weight, with corresponding italics, in sharp (Chiari) or soft (Morbidi) versions, the latter intended to suggest the worn impression of old wood letters. All versions are available in the Adobe OpenType Standard Latin character set.