David Březina is a type designer and typographer, writer and lecturer, co-founder of the multi-script type foundry Rosetta, and the impresario of the TypeTalks conference. You may know him as a designer of the award-winning type family Skolar. So far, he has designed typefaces for Cyrillic, Greek, Gujarati, Devanagari, and various extensions of Latin.
Písmo s Respektem
This article is available only in Czech.
Nedávno vyšel v Respektu č. 47 (21.–27. listopad 2011) článek Lucie Kavanové nazvaný Písmo s charakterem. Typografové, grafičtí designeři a především písmaři by měli nejspíš jásat, že se písmo a jeho tvorba dostává do širšího povědomí, že je „trendy“. Člověk věci znalý však musí povzdechnout nad špatně odvedenou novinářskou prací. Není přece žádný důvod, aby byl obecně napsaný článek také nepřesný a zavádějící.
Slides from some lectures online
Placed on my Speaker Deck, there are slides for some of the lectures I gave in the past months either on conferences or during workshops. To date there is my WebExpo lecture “Type is the most important thing on the Web” (Czech only), lecture about “Rosetta Type Foundry” (Czech and English), and most recently added lecture “On Typeface Design” (Czech and English) for students starting with type design. Hopefully, you will find this little Christmas gift useful.
8 Faces interview
The interview magazine 8 Faces has asked me a few questions about the recently published print (see Design work), type design for world scripts, and founding and running Rosetta Type Foundry. If you want a copy of the magazine you might need to hurry. Usually, it is sold out very quickly and the issue #4 we are talking about has been published just now.
Thank you Elliot!
Recent Rosetta releases
Rosetta Type Foundry released Sutturah, a new font by Octavio Pardo on which production I collaborated. It is an exciting new typeface which breaks out from all specifications. You can get this super-fat script with blackletter influences with 25 % discount (that is € 29) during the Bloody Xmas period.
Skolar has been updated to version 2.5. This version includes extended language support (over 132 languages using Latin, Cyrillic and Greek scripts), kerning improvements and in the PE version, a great amount of Latin transliterations. You can now transliterate Sanskrit, Pali, contemporary Indian languages, Arabic, Chinese (Pinyin), and many more. In fact, transliterations for over 30 different languages are supported. Ah. and capital form of German ß is also included. All in lowercase, uppercase, as well as small caps. More details on the Rosetta web