David Březina—multilingual typography & typeface design

Skolar—a contemporary serif for scholarly publications

Multilingual typography

The type family was developed with the aim to improve typography of multilingual multi-script documents. Not only it supports a wide range of languages in Latin, Greek and Cyrillic (totals around 77), but it was also designed with more exotic scripts (such as Gujarati or Devanagari) in mind, allowing for smooth expansion.

Following the goal to support more than just Latin, the family includes Cyrillic and Greek (available later in 2010) carefuly crafted with respect to their typographic traditions. There is a Gujarati complement as well. A custom extension for linguistics was prepared for particular needs of Czech linguists.

If you are interested in customization or extension of the family, I am more than happy to help. Please contact TypeTogether for more information.

Supported languages (Latin)

Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Belorussian (Latin), Breton, Catalan, Chamorro, Crimean Tatar (Latin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, French, Frisian, Gaelic, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Maori, Polish, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romanic, Romanian, Sami, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Welsh, …

Supported languages (Cyrillic)

Abaza, Adyghian, Avar, Belorussian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Buryat, Chechen, Dargin, Dungan, Ingush, Kabardian, Kalmyk, (Kara-Kalpak), Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Lakh, Lezgi, Macedonian, Mongolian, Montenegrin, Russian, Rusyn, Serbian, Transliterated Russian, Tabasaran, Tajik, Tatar, (Turkmen), Tuvan, Ukrainian, Uzbek. The languages in parentheses switched from Cyrillic to Latin recently.

Skolar Cyrillic repertoire is a superset of Adobe Extended Cyrillic encoding.

Further links

TypeTogether

The best type foundry in the world. My typeface Skolar was released with them.

MA Typeface Design at Reading

Website of the MA Typeface Design course presenting the students’ work from 2000 to 2009.

Magazine TYPO

Czech-English quarterly magazine on typography and visual communication.

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