This work aims at the development of multilayered coatings with increased fracture resistance, retained hardness and adhesion (compared with current state-of-the-art coatings) to the substrate. One way of obtaining this effect is to deposit multilayered coatings consisting of alternating thin layers of hard and softer, more ductile materials. A modified commercial PVD deposition process was used for deposition of multilayered Ti−TiN coatings on both high speed steel (HSS) and cemented carbide (CC) substrates in order to explore this.The multilayer coatings were evaluated with respect to fundamental properties such as morphology, microstructure, hardness, adhesion and fracture resistance. The deposition process was found to yield well-adhered coatings with an increased fracture resistance due to the multilayered structure, on both HSS and CC substrates.