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.