Rosetta is a typeface design studio and font distributor that addresses the needs of global typography. Together with our collaborators, we create original fonts for a polyphonic world. Our research-based practice has been recognized and received awards from within the industry. But most importantly it has enabled people to read better in their native language.

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Nov 2024	Type releases	Skolar Sans Hebrew by Eran Ben Barak
Oct 2024	Lectures	“Do we process characters as shapes, nothing special?” (conference Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century, Venice, Italy)
Oct 2024	Articles	Automatic Type Design conference and bursary scheme for disadvantaged speakers
Sep 2024	Lectures	“Structural analysis of the visual appearance of scripts” (WAVE conference, University of Cambridge, UK)
Jun 2024	Awards	Grand prize for Georgian at Granshan 2024 for Adapter Georgian
Jun 2024	Awards	Special mention for Arabic at Granshan 2024 for Mehraban Arabic
Apr 2024	Type releases	Butik by Anna Štepanovská
Apr 2024	Articles	Larger licence tiers and new online reseller
Mar 2024	Articles	The new Aisha comes with exuberant variable swashes
Jan 2024	Type releases	Adapter Georgian by Ana Sanikidze
Jan 2024	Lectures	“Elements of multi-script typography: the wayfinding edition” (University of Reading, UK)
Jan 2024	Academic	Can we selectively attend to the top halves of letters and ignore the bottom halves?
Nov 2023	Our projects	Hyperglot v2
Oct 2023	Type releases	Clone PE by Lasko Džurovski
Sep 2023	Type releases	Adapter Tamil by Aadarsh Rajan
Jun 2023	Type releases	Mehraban Arabic by Amir Mahdi Moslehi
Jun 2023	Type releases	Mehraban Avestan by Amir Mahdi Moslehi
Jun 2023	Type releases	Mehraban Book Pahlavi by Amir Mahdi Moslehi
May 2023	Type releases	Nova Caps by Tania Chacana
May 2023	Our projects	Online book “Legibility: how and why typography affects ease of reading” by Mary Dyson
Nov 2022	Type releases	Adapter Mono PE by Tania Chacana, David Březina
Nov 2022	Lectures	Type at the centre of branding (Brno Bold, Brno, Czechia)
Jul 2022	Interviews	An interview for TypeParis
Jul 2022	Lectures	“Questioning the obvious: different ways of seeing” (ICTVC 8 conference, Thessaloniki, Greece)
Jul 2022	Lectures	“Hyperglot – a database and tools for discovering language support in fonts” (ICTVC 8 conference, Thessaloniki, Greece)
Jun 2022	Lectures	Guest visit and public lecture (Type Paris, France)
Jun 2022	Lectures	Guest lecture (ANRT, Nancy, France)
Apr 2022	Academic	The sequel to exploring disfluency: Do we remember the visual appearance of words?
2022	Academic	Elements of multi-script typography: paragraphs and pixels
2022	Academic	Elements of multi-script typography: codes, keys, and word shapes
Nov 2021	Fonts in use	Letterform explorations
May 2021	Interviews	“How important is harmony when designing multiscript type systems?” in Type 01 magazine
May 2021	Our projects	Design Regression
Mar 2021	Our projects	Hyperglot
Mar 2021	Interviews	“Czech typography yesterday, today, and tomorrow” on Czech TV
Jan 2021	Articles	Ten years of Rosetta
2021	Academic	Elements of multi-script typography: introduction
2021	Academic	Exploring disfluency: Are designers too sensitive to harder-to-read typefaces?
2021	Academic	Review: Character complexity and redundancy in writing systems over human history
2021	Lectures	Several notes on modernism in type (VOŠG, Hellichova, Prague, Czechia)
2021	Lectures	Several notes on modernism in type (SSUD, Brno, Czechia)
2021	Custom fonts	Multi-script Lutes UD for Morisawa
2021	Fonts in use	Nassim Arabic specimen
Jul 2020	Type releases	Gridlite PE by David Březina
May 2020	Our projects	Universal Specimen
Mar 2020	Articles	Adapter™ World design programme
Mar 2020	Type releases	Adapter Arabic by Borna Izadpanah
Nov 2019	Type releases	Adapter Hebrew by Sláva Jevčinová
Nov 2019	Custom fonts	Avory for Pilsner Urquell
Oct 2019	Type releases	Adelphi PE by Nick Job
Jun 2019	Fonts in use	Specimen binder with all specimens
May 2019	Type releases	Adapter PE by William Montrose, Sláva Jevčinová, David Březina
May 2019	Articles	The making of Adapter
May 2019	Fonts in use	Adapter poster
2019	Lectures	“Challenging design training: do designers suffer more with harder to read typefaces?” (ICTVC 7 conference, Patras, Greece)
2019	Lectures	Character similarity and coherence in typeface design (ICTVC 7 conference, Patras, Greece)
2019	Lectures	Several notes on modernism in type (FaVU VUT, Brno, Czechia)
2019	Workshops	“Design of a logotype for an unfamiliar script” (Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia)
2019	Awards	Modern Cyrillic 2019 for Adapter PE
2019	Awards	Modern Cyrillic 2019 for Avory PE
2019	Fonts in use	Brněnský metropolitan
2019	Fonts in use	Jan Cassianus: Rozmluvy
2019	Fonts in use	Worte verschwinden – fliegen – zum blauen Licht
2019	Fonts in use	Marlik specimen
Dec 2018	Type releases	Handjet by David Březina
Oct 2018	Type releases	Marlik by Borna Izadpanah
Jul 2018	Fonts in use	Hidden Figures poster
2018	Academic	Coherence in typeface design: visual similarity of characters in Cyrillic, Devanagari, and Latin
2018	Lectures	Recent projects from Rosetta (FaVU VUT, Brno, Czechia)
2018	Lectures	Recent projects from Rosetta (Brno Design Days, Czechia)
2018	Lectures	Character similarity and coherence in typeface design (Graphemics in 21st century, Brest, France)
2018	Interviews	“Forget your knowledge: Interview with David Březina of Rosetta Type” in Bi-Scriptual book
2018	Custom fonts	Multi-script Clarimo UD for Morisawa
2018	Awards	Silver from European Design Awards 2018 for Avory PE
2018	Fonts in use	Corsair poster
2018	Fonts in use	Imagine human rights
Nov 2017	Type releases	Corsair PE by Ksenya Samarskaya
Nov 2017	Fonts in use	Avory PE specimen
Oct 2017	Lectures	Collaboration and design processes at Rosetta (Wroclaw Type Forum, Wrocław, Poland)
May 2017	Type releases	Avory PE by Sláva Jevčinová
May 2017	Articles	Jaroslav Benda: nouveau, cubiste, moderne
Mar 2017	Fonts in use	Aisha Latin specimen
Feb 2017	Fonts in use	Nassim Latin specimen
Feb 2017	Fonts in use	Neacademia specimen
2017	Lectures	Some of the things I do not know about typefaces (Typostammtisch, Berlin, Germany)
2017	Lectures	Recent projects from Rosetta (Typostammtisch, Berlin, Germany)
2017	Custom fonts	Branding fonts for DFL/Bundesliga
2017	Awards	Typographica’s Typefaces of 2017 for Avory PE
2017	Fonts in use	Kollm. Eine Minuskelgeschichte.
2017	Fonts in use	Avec Ou Sans Raison
2017	Fonts in use	Large Hermes head stamps
2017	Fonts in use	Welcome postcards
2017	Fonts in use	Cino tribacchetta
2017	Fonts in use	Revival Type
2017	Fonts in use	Dublin International Film Festival
Nov 2016	Type releases	Skolar Sans Arabic by Titus Nemeth
Nov 2016	Articles	The development of Skolar Sans Arabic
Sep 2016	Articles	The development of Neacademia
Sep 2016	Fonts in use	Skolar Sans PE specimen
Jun 2016	Fonts in use	Eskorte Latin specimen
Jun 2016	Fonts in use	Gitan Latin specimen
May 2016	Articles	A brief overview of the various Arabic calligraphic styles
May 2016	Articles	A work in progress – Nassim 2.0
Apr 2016	Type releases	Gitan Latin by Florian Runge
Apr 2016	Articles	Introducing Gitan
Mar 2016	Interviews	Developing Yrsa and Rasa: An Interview with Anna Giedryś of Rosetta Type in TypeThursday
Mar 2016	Articles	Yrsa & Rasa released
Mar 2016	Type releases	Eczar by Vaibhav Singh
Feb 2016	Type releases	Rasa by Anna Štepanovská, David Březina
Feb 2016	Type releases	Yrsa by Anna Štepanovská, David Březina
Feb 2016	Articles	Skolar Sans Pan-European
Jan 2016	Articles	Harmonizing Rasa Gujarati and Yrsa Latin
Jan 2016	Articles	Rosetta turns five
2016	Workshops	“A brief introduction to Python for data visualisation” (University of Reading, UK)
2016	Exhibitions	Granshan exhibition (ATypI Warszaw, Poland)
2016	Custom fonts	Yrsa and Rasa for Google
2016	Custom fonts	Skolar Sans for RFE/RL
2016	Awards	Honourable mention, Pangramme exhibition 2016 for Gitan Latin
2016	Fonts in use	Jal Thal Mal
2016	Fonts in use	Half Rock
2016	Fonts in use	Divadlo Polárka website
2016	Fonts in use	Växjö Lakers
2016	Fonts in use	Divadlo Polárka
Oct 2015	Type releases	Clone Rounded PE by Lasko Džurovski
Sep 2015	Articles	Introducing Yrsa
Feb 2015	Articles	Considerations in multilingual type design
2015	Lectures	Recent projects from Rosetta (Du monde entier au cœur du monde, Paris, France)
2015	Lectures	Letters of Rosetta: from Brno to Bern (TypEast, Bern, Switzerland)
2015	Workshops	“A brief introduction to Python for type designers.” (University of Reading, UK)
2015	Custom fonts	WebOS fonts for LG
2015	Awards	Typographica’s Best of 2015 for Clone Rounded PE
2015	Awards	Silver from European Design Awards 2015 for Skolar Sans PE
2015	Awards	Special mention for Greek at Granshan 2015 for Skolar Sans PE
2015	Fonts in use	Arabic Culture Festival huna/k
2015	Fonts in use	Fricatives
2015	Fonts in use	Pražské příběhy
2015	Fonts in use	NOUS magazine No.6
2015	Fonts in use	Public secrets
2015	Fonts in use	Sketches on/of type
2015	Fonts in use	Multiple Memories
2015	Fonts in use	German Mills
2015	Fonts in use	Murty Classical Library of India
2015	Fonts in use	ATAF
2015	Fonts in use	Nourishing Nordstadt
Nov 2014	Type releases	Skolar Sans PE by David Březina, Sláva Jevčinová
Nov 2014	Articles	On Skolar Sans
Sep 2014	Interviews	“Nowe Terytoria” in 2+3D
Apr 2014	Articles	Note on the new edition of Aisha
Feb 2014	Articles	On Typography papers 9
2014	Awards	Bronze from European Design Awards 2014 for Eskorte
2014	Awards	Typographica’s Best of 2014 for Skolar Sans PE
2014	Fonts in use	Muni magazine
2014	Fonts in use	Jeg har ventet på deg
2014	Fonts in use	Śrī Bhagavad Sandarbha
2014	Fonts in use	Samica series
2014	Fonts in use	Parenthesis
2014	Fonts in use	CAS linguistics edition
2014	Fonts in use	Specimen of text typefaces
2014	Fonts in use	Mauritania
2014	Fonts in use	Pełnia architektury by Walter Gropius
Sep 2013	Our projects	TypeTalks 3 conference in Brno
Sep 2013	Our projects	TypeShorts event in Brno
Jun 2013	Interviews	“Rosetta Type Foundry” in Creative Characters
May 2013	Articles	The perils of harmonization
Feb 2013	Articles	What is multi-script typography all about
Feb 2013	Type releases	Eskorte Arabic by Elena Schneider
Feb 2013	Type releases	Eskorte Latin by Elena Schneider
2013	Lectures	Challenges in multilingual type design (II) (ATypI, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2013	Lectures	Rethinking type experience (Smashing conference, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany)
2013	Workshops	“Concepts for originality in typeface design and general feedback.” (University of Reading, UK)
2013	Exhibitions	Granshan exhibition (Bangkok, Thailand)
2013	Awards	Typographica’s Best of 2013 for Arek
2013	Awards	First prize for Arabic at Granshan 2013 for Eskorte Arabic
2013	Awards	Typographica’s Favourites 2013 for Eskorte
2013	Awards	Second prize for Gujarati at Granshan 2013 for Skolar Gujarati
2013	Awards	Communication Arts Typographic Annual 2013 for Sutturah
2013	Fonts in use	Rundlauf Bochum 2013
2013	Fonts in use	Hand to Type
2013	Fonts in use	Bhagavadgita
2013	Fonts in use	Type specimen no. 1
2013	Fonts in use	Someone somewhere
2013	Fonts in use	Kjell Strandqvist
2013	Fonts in use	Charles University Linguistics edition
2013	Fonts in use	Vangard
2013	Fonts in use	Elementarz Wizualny
2013	Fonts in use	Typo magazine
2013	Fonts in use	Stationery Stay Golden
2013	Fonts in use	Die Mühen der Ebenen
2013	Fonts in use	… und dann war alles anders.
2013	Fonts in use	Non-Latin scripts
2013	Fonts in use	Privatrösterei Witt
2013	Fonts in use	Kaibosh
2013	Fonts in use	Type Camp
Dec 2012	Type releases	Arek Armenian by Khajag Apelian
Dec 2012	Type releases	Arek Latin by Khajag Apelian
Nov 2012	Type releases	Skolar Gujarati by David Březina
Oct 2012	Articles	Rosetta camp 2012
Jun 2012	Type releases	Skolar Devanagari by Vaibhav Singh
Jun 2012	Articles	The development of Skolar Devanagari
Jun 2012	Our projects	TypeShorts event in Brno
Jun 2012	Interviews	Award-winning Czech typographer takes on Gujarati in Radio Praha
Apr 2012	Interviews	Interview with David Březina on Czech TV
Apr 2012	Articles	Baroda lecture and the press
Mar 2012	Interviews	“This Czech is a Gujarati ‘type’.” in Times of India
Mar 2012	Articles	Lectures at NID and Typoday conference
Feb 2012	Articles	Lectures at Ishan Khosla
Jan 2012	Articles	Our first year
2012	Academic	Typography follows linguistics?: on some parallels between the Prague School of Linguistics and Karel Teige’s typographic program
2012	Lectures	Challenges in Indian type design (Association of British Scholars, Vadodara, India)
2012	Lectures	Challenges in multilingual type design (Typography day, Mumbai, India)
2012	Lectures	Challenges in multilingual type design (NID, Ahmedabad, India)
2012	Lectures	Specifying type consistency (The University of the Arts London, UK)
2012	Workshops	“Type design workshop focused on webfonts.” (Seznam.cz, Brno, Czechia)
2012	Workshops	“Concepts for originality in type design.” (University of Reading, UK)
2012	Workshops	“Type design workshop/feedback.” (Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK)
2012	Exhibitions	25th International Biennial of Graphic design (Brno, Czechia)
2012	Our projects	David Březina was a guest editor of TYPO 49 focused on Indian typography
2012	Awards	Typographica’s Best of 2012 for Nassim
2012	Awards	Typographica’s Best of 2012 for Neacademia
2012	Awards	First prize for Devanagari at Granshan 2012 for Skolar Devanagari
2012	Awards	Certificate of Excellence in Type Design, TDC2 2012 for Sutturah
2012	Awards	Second prize, Granshan 2012 (Display) for Sutturah
2012	Awards	Typographica’s Best of 2012 for Sutturah
2012	Fonts in use	Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
2012	Fonts in use	The Diaspora of Armenian Printing
2012	Fonts in use	Nassim poster
2012	Fonts in use	Es ist Zeit für Turnschuhe!
2012	Fonts in use	Smashing magazine
2012	Fonts in use	Sutturah in PAGE
2012	Fonts in use	Multi-script poster
2012	Fonts in use	TypoJournal
2012	Fonts in use	Neacademia broadsheet
Nov 2011	Type releases	Sutturah by Octavio Pardo
Jun 2011	Type releases	Nassim Arabic by Titus Nemeth
Jun 2011	Type releases	Nassim Latin by Titus Nemeth
Jun 2011	Type releases	Neacademia by Sergei Egorov
Jun 2011	Our projects	TypeTalks 2 conference in Poznań
Jun 2011	Our projects	TypeShorts event in Poznań
Apr 2011	Articles	Nassim on BBC Arabic
Jan 2011	Our projects	Rosetta Type Foundry officially launched
Jan 2011	Type releases	Aisha Arabic by
Jan 2011	Type releases	Aisha Latin by
Jan 2011	Type releases	Skolar PE by David Březina
2011	Lectures	Type is the most important thing on the Web (WebExpo, Prague, Czechia)
2011	Lectures	Specifying type consistency (TypoTopo talks, Bratislava, Slovakia)
2011	Workshops	“Type design workshops.” (FaVU VUT, Brno, Czechia)
2011	Workshops	“Type design workflow and running a Type Foundry.” (University of Reading, UK)
2011	Interviews	Interview with David Březina in 8 Faces magazine
2011	Interviews	“Vytvářet písma je jako mluvit různými hlasy” in Masaryk University magazine
2011	Awards	Nominated for the German Design Award 2011 for Aisha
2011	Awards	Creative Review Type Annual 2011 for Aisha
2011	Awards	ATypI Letter.2 award 2011 for Arek
2011	Awards	ATypI Letter.2 award 2011 for Nassim
2011	Fonts in use	Yerevan magazine
2011	Fonts in use	Poster for 8 Faces
2011	Fonts in use	Quipsologies
2011	Fonts in use	Ariane Spanier
2011	Fonts in use	BBC news portal
2011	Fonts in use	Inker linker
2011	Fonts in use	Bobulate
2011	Fonts in use	DNA to Darwin
2011	Fonts in use	Widzieć/Wiedzieć
2011	Fonts in use	Elliot Jay Stocks
2011	Fonts in use	Mahdavi catalogue
2011	Fonts in use	804 booklets
Jun 2010	Our projects	TypeTalks conference in Brno
2010	Lectures	Thinking in typeface design (ICTVC 3 conference, Nicosia, Cyprus)
2010	Lectures	General issues in multi-script typography (4th International ConTeXt Meeting, Czechia)
2010	Lectures	On typeface design (University of Ostrava, Czechia)
2010	Lectures	On typeface design (Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, Poland)
2010	Workshops	“On type” (Pellico5 workshops, Brno, Czechia)
2010	Exhibitions	24th International Biennial of Graphic design (Brno, Czechia)
2010	Exhibitions	Collective type design exhibition (Klingspor-Museum Offenbach, Germany)
2010	Custom fonts	BBC Nassim Arabic
2010	Awards	Certificate of Excellence in Type Design, TDC2 2010 for Aisha
2010	Awards	First prize for Armenian at Granshan 2010 for Arek Armenian
2010	Fonts in use	Modigliani exhibition
2009	Workshops	“Type design workshops” (FaVU VUT, Brno, Czechia)
2009	Workshops	“Multilingual typography workshop” (Sign and typography studio of The Academy )of Fine Arts in Poznań, Poland
2009	Workshops	“Type design process & automation” (University of Reading, UK)
2009	Workshops	“A brief introduction to Python for FontLab” (Monotype Imaging, Salfords, UK)
2009	Exhibitions	Modern Cyrillic exhibition (ATypI Mexico City, Mexico)
2009	Awards	Modern Cyrillic 2009 for Neacademia
2009	Awards	First prize for Cyrillic at Granshan 2009 for Skolar PE
2009	Awards	Special Diploma in Modern Cyrillic 2009 for Skolar PE
2008	Lectures	General issues in multi-script typography (ATypI conference, Saint Petersburg, Russia)
2008	Exhibitions	23rd International Biennial of Graphic design (Brno, Czechia)
2008	Awards	Second prize in European Design Awards 2008 for Skolar
2008	Awards	I love typography’s best of 2008 for Skolar PE
2007	Academic	The evolution of the Gujarati typographic script
2007	Academic	General issues in multi-script typography
2007	Awards	Certificate of Excellence in Type Design, TDC2 2007 for Nassim
2007	Awards	First prize from European Design Awards 2007 for Nassim
2007	Awards	Shortlisted for ‘Design of the Year 2007’, Design Museum London for Nassim
2006	Exhibitions	22nd International Biennial of Graphic design (Brno, Czechia)

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