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 2025	Lecture	About Rosetta type and research (Identity project & Wyndham social, Virtual/Hong Kong)
Nov 2025	Interview	“Only Yours and Softly Yours are fonts as unique as your fingerprint (no, really)” in Print magazine
Oct 2025	Type release	Aeropa PE by Nick Job
Jun 2025	Lecture	Anna and David talk about “Useless Fonts” again (Typographics, Virtual/USA)
Jun 2025	Academic	What is a (universal) script grammar?
May 2025	Article	What are the Yourses?
May 2025	Lecture	Anna and David talk about “Useless Fonts” (Brno Bold Typo 02, Brno, Czechia)
May 2025	Type release	Softly Yours by David Březina
May 2025	Fonts in use	Only Yours poster
May 2025	Interview	“Only Yours: a bold new approach to typography based on unique variants” in Creative Boom
Apr 2025	Article	Rosetta at Brno Bold Typo 02 conference
Apr 2025	Article	Rosetta at the Typographics festival and a free ticket giveaway
Apr 2025	Award	Type Directors Club 71th Competition 2025 for Adapter Georgian
Mar 2025	Article	Adapter Hebrew revisited
Feb 2025	Lecture	Poster presentation “Hyperglot – a toolkit for discovering language support in digital fonts” (Language Technologies for All 2025, Unesco, Paris, France)
Feb 2025	Lecture	Keynote “What is a universal script grammar” (Automatic Type Design 3, ANRT/ENSAD, Nancy, France)
Feb 2025	Type release	Only Yours by David Březina
Feb 2025	Fonts in use	All types of “a” poster
Feb 2025	Fonts in use	Adapter World poster
Nov 2024	Type release	Skolar Sans Hebrew by Eran Ben Barak
Nov 2024	Our project	All types of “a”
Oct 2024	Lecture	“Do we process characters as shapes, nothing special?” (conference Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century, Venice, Italy)
Oct 2024	Article	Automatic Type Design conference and bursary scheme for disadvantaged speakers
Oct 2024	Interview	David and Anna in the movie Identity: the story of Czech graphic design
Sep 2024	Lecture	“Structural analysis of the visual appearance of scripts” (WAVE conference, University of Cambridge, UK)
Sep 2024	Fonts in use	Adapter Arabic poster
Jun 2024	Award	Grand prize for Georgian at Granshan 2024 for Adapter Georgian
Jun 2024	Award	Special mention for Arabic at Granshan 2024 for Mehraban Arabic
Apr 2024	Interview	“From Expressive Experiments to Aesthetic Extremes, Rosetta Type’s Latest Releases From Signify an Exciting Shift in Pace” in Type 01 magazine
Apr 2024	Type release	Butik by Anna Štepanovská
Apr 2024	Article	Larger licence tiers and new online reseller
Mar 2024	Article	The new Aisha comes with exuberant variable swashes
Jan 2024	Type release	Adapter Georgian by Ana Sanikidze
Jan 2024	Lecture	“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 project	Hyperglot v2
Oct 2023	Type release	Clone PE by Lasko Džurovski
Sep 2023	Type release	Adapter Tamil by Aadarsh Rajan
Jun 2023	Type release	Mehraban Arabic by Amir Mahdi Moslehi
Jun 2023	Type release	Mehraban Avestan by Amir Mahdi Moslehi
Jun 2023	Type release	Mehraban Book Pahlavi by Amir Mahdi Moslehi
May 2023	Type release	Nova Caps by Tania Chacana
May 2023	Our project	Online book “Legibility: how and why typography affects ease of reading” by Mary Dyson
Feb 2023	Interview	“Rosetta is a foundry that prioritises thorough research, design exploration and multilingual typefaces” in It’s Nice That
2023	Fonts in use	Czech Centres 2023
2023	Fonts in use	The Universal Declaration
Nov 2022	Type release	Adapter Mono PE by Tania Chacana, David Březina
Nov 2022	Lecture	Type at the centre of branding (Brno Bold, Brno, Czechia)
Jul 2022	Interview	An interview for TypeParis
Jul 2022	Lecture	“Questioning the obvious: different ways of seeing” (ICTVC 8 conference, Thessaloniki, Greece)
Jul 2022	Lecture	“Hyperglot – a database and tools for discovering language support in fonts” (ICTVC 8 conference, Thessaloniki, Greece)
Jun 2022	Lecture	Guest visit and public lecture (Type Paris, France)
Jun 2022	Lecture	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
Jun 2021	Interview	“Rosetta Type’s David Březina on his interchangeable and variable typeface Handjet” in It’s Nice That
May 2021	Interview	“How important is harmony when designing multiscript type systems?” in Type 01 magazine
May 2021	Our project	Design Regression
Mar 2021	Our project	Hyperglot
Mar 2021	Interview	“Czech typography yesterday, today, and tomorrow” on Czech TV
Jan 2021	Article	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	Lecture	Several notes on modernism in type (VOŠG, Hellichova, Prague, Czechia)
2021	Lecture	Several notes on modernism in type (SSUD, Brno, Czechia)
2021	Case study	Multi-script Lutes UD for Morisawa
2021	Fonts in use	Nassim Arabic specimen
2021	Fonts in use	Visuals for Typographics 2021
2021	Fonts in use	Onepage magazine poster No35
2021	Fonts in use	Shobee is back
Jul 2020	Type release	Gridlite PE by David Březina
May 2020	Our project	Universal Specimen
Mar 2020	Article	Adapter™ World design programme
Mar 2020	Type release	Adapter Arabic by Borna Izadpanah
2020	Fonts in use	KENZO – Bee a tiger
Nov 2019	Type release	Adapter Hebrew by Sláva Jevčinová
Nov 2019	Case study	Avory for Pilsner Urquell
Oct 2019	Type release	Adelphi PE by Nick Job
Jun 2019	Fonts in use	Specimen binder with all specimens
May 2019	Type release	Adapter PE by William Montrose, Sláva Jevčinová, David Březina
May 2019	Article	The making of Adapter
May 2019	Fonts in use	Adapter poster
2019	Lecture	“Challenging design training: do designers suffer more with harder to read typefaces?” (ICTVC 7 conference, Patras, Greece)
2019	Lecture	Character similarity and coherence in typeface design (ICTVC 7 conference, Patras, Greece)
2019	Lecture	Several notes on modernism in type (FaVU VUT, Brno, Czechia)
2019	Workshop	“Design of a logotype for an unfamiliar script” (Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia)
2019	Award	Modern Cyrillic 2019 for Adapter PE
2019	Award	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 release	Handjet by David Březina, Ha-neul Park, Lee-su Yoo
Oct 2018	Type release	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	Lecture	Recent projects from Rosetta (FaVU VUT, Brno, Czechia)
2018	Lecture	Recent projects from Rosetta (Brno Design Days, Czechia)
2018	Lecture	Character similarity and coherence in typeface design (Graphemics in 21st century, Brest, France)
2018	Interview	“Forget your knowledge: Interview with David Březina of Rosetta Type” in Bi-Scriptual book
2018	Case study	Multi-script Clarimo UD for Morisawa
2018	Award	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 release	Corsair PE by Ksenya Samarskaya
Nov 2017	Fonts in use	Avory PE specimen
Oct 2017	Lecture	Collaboration and design processes at Rosetta (Wroclaw Type Forum, Wrocław, Poland)
May 2017	Type release	Avory PE by Sláva Jevčinová
May 2017	Article	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	Lecture	Some of the things I do not know about typefaces (Typostammtisch, Berlin, Germany)
2017	Lecture	Recent projects from Rosetta (Typostammtisch, Berlin, Germany)
2017	Case study	Branding fonts for DFL/Bundesliga
2017	Award	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 release	Skolar Sans Arabic by Titus Nemeth
Nov 2016	Article	The development of Skolar Sans Arabic
Sep 2016	Article	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	Article	A brief overview of the various Arabic calligraphic styles
May 2016	Article	A work in progress – Nassim 2.0
Apr 2016	Type release	Gitan Latin by Florian Runge
Apr 2016	Article	Introducing Gitan
Mar 2016	Interview	“Developing Yrsa and Rasa: An Interview with Anna Giedryś of Rosetta Type” in TypeThursday
Mar 2016	Article	Yrsa & Rasa released
Mar 2016	Type release	Eczar by Vaibhav Singh
Feb 2016	Type release	Rasa by Anna Štepanovská, David Březina
Feb 2016	Type release	Yrsa by Anna Štepanovská, David Březina
Feb 2016	Article	Skolar Sans Pan-European
Jan 2016	Article	Harmonizing Rasa Gujarati and Yrsa Latin
Jan 2016	Article	Rosetta turns five
2016	Workshop	“A brief introduction to Python for data visualisation” (University of Reading, UK)
2016	Exhibition	Granshan exhibition (ATypI Warszaw, Poland)
2016	Case study	Skolar Sans for RFE/RL
2016	Case study	Yrsa and Rasa for Google
2016	Award	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 release	Clone Rounded PE by Lasko Džurovski
Sep 2015	Article	Introducing Yrsa
Feb 2015	Article	Considerations in multilingual type design
2015	Lecture	Recent projects from Rosetta (Du monde entier au cœur du monde, Paris, France)
2015	Lecture	Letters of Rosetta: from Brno to Bern (TypEast, Bern, Switzerland)
2015	Workshop	“A brief introduction to Python for type designers.” (University of Reading, UK)
2015	Case study	WebOS fonts for LG
2015	Award	Typographica’s Best of 2015 for Clone Rounded PE
2015	Award	Silver from European Design Awards 2015 for Skolar Sans PE
2015	Award	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	Typo 9010 exhibition in Tehran
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 release	Skolar Sans PE by David Březina, Sláva Jevčinová
Nov 2014	Article	On Skolar Sans
Sep 2014	Interview	“Nowe Terytoria” in 2+3D
Apr 2014	Article	Note on the new edition of Aisha
Feb 2014	Article	On Typography papers 9
2014	Award	Bronze from European Design Awards 2014 for Eskorte
2014	Award	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 project	TypeTalks 3 conference in Brno
Sep 2013	Our project	TypeShorts event in Brno
Jun 2013	Interview	“Rosetta Type Foundry” in Creative Characters
May 2013	Article	The perils of harmonization
Feb 2013	Article	What is multi-script typography all about
Feb 2013	Type release	Eskorte Arabic by Elena Schneider
Feb 2013	Type release	Eskorte Latin by Elena Schneider
2013	Lecture	Challenges in multilingual type design (II) (ATypI, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2013	Lecture	Rethinking type experience (Smashing conference, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany)
2013	Workshop	“Concepts for originality in typeface design and general feedback.” (University of Reading, UK)
2013	Exhibition	Granshan exhibition (Bangkok, Thailand)
2013	Award	Typographica’s Best of 2013 for Arek
2013	Award	First prize for Arabic at Granshan 2013 for Eskorte Arabic
2013	Award	Typographica’s Favourites 2013 for Eskorte
2013	Award	Second prize for Gujarati at Granshan 2013 for Skolar Gujarati
2013	Award	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 release	Arek Armenian by Khajag Apelian
Dec 2012	Type release	Arek Latin by Khajag Apelian
Nov 2012	Type release	Skolar Gujarati by David Březina
Oct 2012	Article	Rosetta camp 2012
Jun 2012	Type release	Skolar Devanagari by Vaibhav Singh
Jun 2012	Article	The development of Skolar Devanagari
Jun 2012	Our project	TypeShorts event in Brno
Jun 2012	Interview	Award-winning Czech typographer takes on Gujarati in Radio Praha
Apr 2012	Interview	Interview with David Březina on Czech TV
Apr 2012	Article	Baroda lecture and the press
Mar 2012	Interview	“This Czech is a Gujarati ‘type’.” in Times of India
Mar 2012	Article	Lectures at NID and Typoday conference
Feb 2012	Article	Lectures at Ishan Khosla
Jan 2012	Article	Our first year
2012	Academic	Typography follows linguistics?: on some parallels between the Prague School of Linguistics and Karel Teige’s typographic program
2012	Lecture	Challenges in Indian type design (Association of British Scholars, Vadodara, India)
2012	Lecture	Challenges in multilingual type design (Typography day, Mumbai, India)
2012	Lecture	Challenges in multilingual type design (NID, Ahmedabad, India)
2012	Lecture	Specifying type consistency (The University of the Arts London, UK)
2012	Workshop	“Type design workshop focused on webfonts.” (Seznam.cz, Brno, Czechia)
2012	Workshop	“Concepts for originality in type design.” (University of Reading, UK)
2012	Workshop	“Type design workshop/feedback.” (Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK)
2012	Exhibition	25th International Biennial of Graphic design (Brno, Czechia)
2012	Our project	David Březina was a guest editor of TYPO 49 focused on Indian typography
2012	Award	Typographica’s Best of 2012 for Nassim
2012	Award	Typographica’s Best of 2012 for Neacademia
2012	Award	First prize for Devanagari at Granshan 2012 for Skolar Devanagari
2012	Award	Certificate of Excellence in Type Design, TDC2 2012 for Sutturah
2012	Award	Second prize, Granshan 2012 (Display) for Sutturah
2012	Award	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 release	Sutturah by Octavio Pardo
Jun 2011	Type release	Nassim Arabic by Titus Nemeth
Jun 2011	Type release	Nassim Latin by Titus Nemeth
Jun 2011	Type release	Neacademia by Sergei Egorov
Jun 2011	Our project	TypeTalks 2 conference in Poznań
Jun 2011	Our project	TypeShorts event in Poznań
Apr 2011	Article	Nassim on BBC Arabic
Jan 2011	Our project	Rosetta Type Foundry officially launched
Jan 2011	Type release	Aisha Arabic by Titus Nemeth
Jan 2011	Type release	Aisha Latin by Titus Nemeth
Jan 2011	Type release	Skolar PE by David Březina
2011	Lecture	Type is the most important thing on the Web (WebExpo, Prague, Czechia)
2011	Lecture	Specifying type consistency (TypoTopo talks, Bratislava, Slovakia)
2011	Workshop	“Type design workshops.” (FaVU VUT, Brno, Czechia)
2011	Workshop	“Type design workflow and running a Type Foundry.” (University of Reading, UK)
2011	Interview	Interview with David Březina in 8 Faces magazine
2011	Interview	“Vytvářet písma je jako mluvit různými hlasy” in Masaryk University magazine
2011	Award	Nominated for the German Design Award 2011 for Aisha
2011	Award	Creative Review Type Annual 2011 for Aisha
2011	Award	ATypI Letter.2 award 2011 for Arek
2011	Award	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 project	TypeTalks conference in Brno
2010	Lecture	Thinking in typeface design (ICTVC 3 conference, Nicosia, Cyprus)
2010	Lecture	General issues in multi-script typography (4th International ConTeXt Meeting, Czechia)
2010	Lecture	On typeface design (University of Ostrava, Czechia)
2010	Lecture	On typeface design (Academy of Fine Arts in Poznań, Poland)
2010	Workshop	“On type” (Pellico5 workshops, Brno, Czechia)
2010	Exhibition	24th International Biennial of Graphic design (Brno, Czechia)
2010	Exhibition	Collective type design exhibition (Klingspor-Museum Offenbach, Germany)
2010	Case study	BBC Nassim Arabic
2010	Award	Certificate of Excellence in Type Design, TDC2 2010 for Aisha
2010	Award	First prize for Armenian at Granshan 2010 for Arek Armenian
2010	Fonts in use	Modigliani exhibition
2009	Workshop	“Type design workshops” (FaVU VUT, Brno, Czechia)
2009	Workshop	“Multilingual typography workshop” (Sign and typography studio of The Academy )of Fine Arts in Poznań, Poland
2009	Workshop	“Type design process & automation” (University of Reading, UK)
2009	Workshop	“A brief introduction to Python for FontLab” (Monotype Imaging, Salfords, UK)
2009	Exhibition	Modern Cyrillic exhibition (ATypI Mexico City, Mexico)
2009	Award	Modern Cyrillic 2009 for Neacademia
2009	Award	First prize for Cyrillic at Granshan 2009 for Skolar PE
2009	Award	Special Diploma in Modern Cyrillic 2009 for Skolar PE
2008	Lecture	General issues in multi-script typography (ATypI conference, Saint Petersburg, Russia)
2008	Exhibition	23rd International Biennial of Graphic design (Brno, Czechia)
2008	Award	Second prize in European Design Awards 2008 for Skolar
2008	Award	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	Award	Certificate of Excellence in Type Design, TDC2 2007 for Nassim
2007	Award	First prize from European Design Awards 2007 for Nassim
2007	Award	Shortlisted for ‘Design of the Year 2007’, Design Museum London for Nassim
2006	Exhibition	22nd International Biennial of Graphic design (Brno, Czechia)

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