David Březina—multilingual typography & typeface design

Two talks for T_EX fans · September 2010

David will give lectures on multi-script typography and on Skolar and type design for academic publications on the 4th International ConTeXt Meeting and 3rd TeXperience Conference. Both lectures will be in English. The events take place in Czech Republic, 13–19 September, one followed by the other.

TypeTalks symposium 2010 · Brno, June 2010

TypeTalks is an independent, non-commercial project devoted to type and typography and organizing workshops, individual lectures, and an international symposium. The first public event we were organizing was the TypeTalks symposium which took place in Brno (Czech Republic) in the House of the Lords of Kunštát on 21 June 2010 at 10:12.

Here are a few reviews of the event: First Brno TypeTalks by Dan Reynolds, TypeTalks 2010 in Brno, Teil 1 and TypeTalks 2010 in Brno, Teil 2 (both in German) by Florian Hardwig, and TypeTalks 2010 Brno by Rob Keller.

Skolar Cyrillic released · Internet, May 2010

TypeTogether released Skolar Cyrillic. This new addition to the Skolar family has been designed as a close complement to Latin with the help of the experienced designer and consultant Alexandra Korolkova. Great care have been taken to improve distinction between uppercase and lowercase letterforms to make small caps as recognizable as possible. The font supports 32 languages using Cyrillic script, besides most of the Slavic languages, many Asian and non-Slavic languages are covered too. It also supports Serbian italic alternates and “new” Bulgarian stylistics.

Notably, the Cyrillic was awarded by a Special Diploma at the international type design competition Modern Cyrillic 2009 and won the first prize in the Cyrillic text type category at Granshan 2009.

Vít Boček : Studie k nejstarším romanismům… · Brno, May 2010

Book design by David Březina and Vít Boček uses the typeface Skolar.

This etymological study of Slavic languages by Vít Boček (complete Czech title reads “Studie k nejstarším romanismům ve slovanských jazycích”) is the most recent publication from an established series of linguistic books by the etymological department of The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. It is also the first book which adopted the new cover design and page layout.

The redesign is a result of a development within the limits of the series’ constraints (such as given format and materials). The generous layouts count on the complexity of academic texts, great amount of footnotes, and readers who have the urge to make notes while reading. The cover plays with the idea of boustrophedon writing as a reference to antiquity, the age in which everything was said already. For this book an extended custom version of the typeface was developed in six weights. See the photos on flickr to judge how complicated the typesetting of linguistic books can be.

Type workshop at FaVU · Brno, March 2010

Photo © Matěj Hanauer.

First type workshop at FaVU (The Faculty of Fine Arts of the Brno University of Technology) in this term happened 12–14 March and covered topics such as: designing typeface for particular purpose, fitting, kerning, designing diacritics, and font production. Graphic design students keep working on their typefaces part-time throughout the academic year. Check some pictures by Matěj Hanauer and few blurry pictures of students work by my self.

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