About Gridlite Pan-European (PE)
The two great technical constraints a type designer can tackle are low resolution, which limits detail and dictates proportions between negative and positive shapes, and uniform width, which restricts each letter to a fixed horizontal space. Wrestle with both at once, and each letter becomes a black-and-white chessboard that challenges every design decision.
Sometimes battling these constraints gets in the way of a good idea, but other times, tinkering with fewer options can make the job irresistibly easy and lead straight to a grid addiction.
Gridlite, an experiment with a modular negative space, is the side effect of such an addiction. It’s simplified, monospaced, and variable: foreground and background alike are ready to be animated, typed, scaled up, scaled down, rounded, or otherwise deformed.
Gridlite is primarily a variable font with axes that control the size of the elements, their shape, and the background (one for the rectangular field and one for the compact envelope around the letters). Selected static styles are also provided and offered as a pack of six variants for each weight. The fonts cover Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin scripts. Small caps are included, for no apparent reason … and there is a monospaced elephant, too.
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- desktop: 5 users
- web: up to 50K pageviews/month
- OTF, TTF, and WOFF2 formats
- desktop: 1 user
- only for evaluation and testing
- OTF with some characters removed
Glyph table
OpenType features
Supported scripts and languages
Cyrillic
66 languages- Abaza
- Adyghe
- Aghul
- Andi
- Avaric
- Bashkir
- Belarusian
- Budukh
- Bulgarian
- Central Siberian Yupik
- Chamalal
- Chechen
- Chinese Buriat
- Chuvash
- Crimean Tatar
- Dargwa
- Dungan
- Eastern Mari
- Erzya
- Halh Mongolian
- Ingush
- Judeo-Tat
- Kabardian
- Kalmyk
- Karachay-Balkar
- Karaim
- Karata
- Kazakh
- Khakas
- Kirghiz
- Komi-Permyak
- Komi-Zyrian
- Krymchak
- Kumyk
- Lak
- Lezghian
- Macedonian
- Moksha
- Mongolian Buriat
- Muslim Tat
- Nogai
- North Azerbaijani
- Northern Altai
- Northern Kurdish
- Northern Yukaghir
- Ossetian
- Russian
- Russian Buriat
- Rusyn
- Rutul
- Shor
- Shughni
- Southern Altai
- Southern Yukaghir
- Tabassaran
- Tajik
- Tatar
- Tsakhur
- Tuvinian
- Udi
- Udmurt
- Ukrainian
- Urum
- Western Mari
- Yagnobi
- Yakut
Greek
1 language- Modern Greek
Latin
326 languages- Acheron
- Achinese
- Acholi
- Achuar-Shiwiar
- Afar
- Afrikaans
- Aguaruna
- Ahtna
- Alekano
- Aleut
- Amahuaca
- Amarakaeri
- Amis
- Anaang
- Andaandi, Dongolawi
- Anuta
- Ao Naga
- Apinayé
- Aragonese
- Arbëreshë Albanian
- Arvanitika Albanian
- Asháninka
- Ashéninka Perené
- Asu (Tanzania)
- Atayal
- Balinese
- Bari
- Basque
- Batak Dairi
- Batak Karo
- Batak Mandailing
- Batak Simalungun
- Batak Toba
- Bemba (Zambia)
- Bena (Tanzania)
- Bikol
- Bini
- Bislama
- Borana-Arsi-Guji Oromo
- Bosnian
- Breton
- Buginese
- Candoshi-Shapra
- Caquinte
- Caribbean Hindustani
- Cashibo-Cacataibo
- Cashinahua
- Catalan
- Cebuano
- Central Aymara
- Central Kurdish
- Central Nahuatl
- Chachi
- Chamorro
- Chavacano
- Chiga
- Chiltepec Chinantec
- Chokwe
- Chuukese
- Cimbrian
- Cofán
- Congo Swahili
- Cook Islands Māori
- Cornish
- Corsican
- Creek
- Crimean Tatar
- Croatian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dehu
- Dimli
- Dutch
- Eastern Arrernte
- Eastern Oromo
- Efik
- Embu
- English
- Ese Ejja
- Faroese
- Fijian
- Filipino
- Finnish
- French
- Friulian
- Gagauz
- Galician
- Ganda
- Garifuna
- Ga’anda
- German
- Gheg Albanian
- Gilbertese
- Gooniyandi
- Gourmanchéma
- Guadeloupean Creole French
- Gusii
- Gwichʼin
- Haitian
- Hani
- Hiligaynon
- Ho-Chunk
- Hopi
- Huastec
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Iloko
- Inari Sami
- Indonesian
- Irish
- Istro Romanian
- Italian
- Ixcatlán Mazatec
- Jamaican Creole English
- Japanese
- Javanese
- Jola-Fonyi
- K'iche'
- Kabuverdianu
- Kaingang
- Kala Lagaw Ya
- Kalaallisut
- Kalenjin
- Kamba (Kenya)
- Kaonde
- Kaqchikel
- Karelian
- Kashubian
- Kekchí
- Kenzi, Mattokki
- Khasi
- Kikuyu
- Kimbundu
- Kinyarwanda
- Kirmanjki
- Kituba (DRC)
- Kongo
- Konzo
- Kuanyama
- Kven Finnish
- Kölsch
- Ladin
- Ladino
- Latgalian
- Ligurian
- Lithuanian
- Lombard
- Low German
- Lower Sorbian
- Lozi
- Luba-Lulua
- Lule Sami
- Luo (Kenya and Tanzania)
- Luxembourgish
- Macedo-Romanian
- Makhuwa
- Makhuwa-Meetto
- Makonde
- Makwe
- Malagasy
- Malaysian
- Maltese
- Mandinka
- Mandjak
- Mankanya
- Manx
- Maore Comorian
- Maori
- Mapudungun
- Marshallese
- Matsés
- Mauritian Creole
- Meriam Mir
- Meru
- Mezquital Otomi
- Minangkabau
- Mirandese
- Mohawk
- Montenegrin
- Munsee
- Murrinh-Patha
- Muslim Tat
- Mwani
- Mískito
- Naga Pidgin
- Ndonga
- Neapolitan
- Ngazidja Comorian
- Niuean
- Nobiin
- Nomatsiguenga
- North Azerbaijani
- North Ndebele
- Northern Kurdish
- Northern Qiandong Miao
- Northern Sami
- Northern Uzbek
- Norwegian
- Nyanja
- Nyankole
- Occitan
- Ojitlán Chinantec
- Orma
- Oroqen
- Otuho
- Palauan
- Paluan
- Pampanga
- Papantla Totonac
- Papiamento
- Paraguayan Guaraní
- Pedi
- Picard
- Pichis Ashéninka
- Piemontese
- Pijin
- Pintupi-Luritja
- Pipil
- Pite Sami
- Pohnpeian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Potawatomi
- Purepecha
- Páez
- Quechua
- Romanian
- Romansh
- Rotokas
- Rundi
- Rwa
- Samburu
- Samoan
- Sango
- Sangu (Tanzania)
- Saramaccan
- Sardinian
- Scots
- Scottish Gaelic
- Secoya
- Sena
- Seri
- Seselwa Creole French
- Shambala
- Shawnee
- Shipibo-Conibo
- Shona
- Shuar
- Sicilian
- Silesian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Soga
- Somali
- Soninke
- South Azerbaijani
- South Ndebele
- Southern Aymara
- Southern Qiandong Miao
- Southern Sami
- Southern Sotho
- Spanish
- Sranan Tongo
- Standard Estonian
- Standard Latvian
- Standard Malay
- Sundanese
- Swahili
- Swati
- Swedish
- Swiss German
- Tagalog
- Tahitian
- Taita
- Talysh
- Tedim Chin
- Tetum
- Tetun Dili
- Tiv
- Toba
- Tok Pisin
- Tokelau
- Tonga (Tonga Islands)
- Tonga (Zambia)
- Tosk Albanian
- Totontepec Mixe
- Tsakhur
- Tsonga
- Tswana
- Tumbuka
- Turkish
- Turkmen
- Tzeltal
- Tzotzil
- Uab Meto
- Umbundu
- Ume Sami
- Upper Guinea Crioulo
- Upper Sorbian
- Venetian
- Veps
- Võro
- Walloon
- Walser
- Wangaaybuwan-Ngiyambaa
- Waorani
- Waray (Philippines)
- Warlpiri
- Wayuu
- Welsh
- West Central Oromo
- Western Abnaki
- Western Frisian
- Wik-Mungkan
- Wiradjuri
- Wolof
- Xavánte
- Xhosa
- Yanesha'
- Yao
- Yapese
- Yindjibarndi
- Yucateco
- Zulu
- Zuni
- Záparo
Credits
Leads
David Březina is the managing director at Rosetta. While you may know him as the designer of the award-winning type family Skolar, he has also worked on custom typefaces for Adobe, Linotype (Monotype), Microsoft, Google, and others. So far, he has designed typefaces for Cyrillic, Greek, Gujarati, Devanagari, and various extensions of Latin. David holds a Master’s degree in computer science from Masaryk University in Brno (Czechia) and an MA in Typeface Design and PhD from the University of Reading (UK). His cross-disciplinary PhD thesis studied visual similarity and coherence of characters in typefaces for continuous reading in Latin, Cyrillic, and Devanagari scripts. He has also been actively involved in writing, presenting, and conducting workshops on type and typography around the world.