Rosetta type blog

Titus Nemeth provides some insight on his approach to extending a Latin sans-serif superfamily with an Arabic companion style – a search for solutions without precast patterns.

Last year, we extended Skolar Sans to cover not just Latin but also Greek and Cyrillic scripts. The fonts are now served to millions of readers of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and associated news portals.

Skolar Sans is an extensive type family for the age of responsive design. The whole type system consists of 72 fonts, uprights and italics in four subtly graded width variants and nine weights.

Today we release Skolar version 3.0. It brings support for Vietnamese in all weights (both Latin Pro and PE), improved composition for polytonic Greek and extended Latin, new monetary symbols, and, for typographic aficionados, the long-missing primes!

From the beginning, Skolar has been a type family that chose to cross boundaries – first of languages, then writing systems, and now it has been complemented, after Cyrillic, Greek, Devanagari, and Gujarati, with a beer! Providing typographers with an unprecedented tool fostering their expressive repertoire.

Skolar Devanagari aims to provide text typeface serious typography in Devanagari script. The typeface was designed and engineered by two professional type designers, Vaibhav Singh and David Březina, both of whom have experience with designing for Indian writing systems. Importantly, they undertook substantial research in the historical developments and current situation of the Devanagari and Gujarati letterforms.

Skolar fonts in our library have been updated to the most recent version (2.5). This version includes extended language support and kerning, and in the PE version a vast amount of Latin transliteration support.