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David Březina is a Czech type designer, academic, and art director from Brno. He is the founder and managing director of Rosetta Type Foundry.[1][2] He is known for his work in multi-script typeface design,[3] including the Skolar and Skolar Sans font families.[4][5]

Březina founded Rosetta Type in 2011, initially with support from TypeTogether.[6][7] Although Březina primarily publishes typefaces through Rosetta Type, he has also designed custom typefaces for clients including Adobe, Linotype (Monotype), Microsoft, and Google.

Březina's Latin, Gujarati, Cyrillic, and Devanagari type design has received numerous accolades, including from the European Design Awards[8] and Granshan.[9][10][11] Notable typefaces he has designed include Skolar Gujarati,[12] Nirmala UI Gujarati, Adobe Gujarati,[13] and Gridlite.[14]

Březina holds a PhD from the University of Reading, where his thesis entitled "Coherence in typeface design: visual similarity of characters in Cyrillic, Devanagari, and Latin" was supervised by Mary Dyson and Fiona Ross.[15]

References

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  1. ^ Angelos, Ayla. "Rosetta Type Foundry's David Březina on his interchangeable and variable typeface Handjet". It's Nice That. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  2. ^ Murphy, Zoe Loring (24 November 2021). "A New Type System Offers No-Frills Universality Across Languages & Platforms". TYPE01. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  3. ^ Wittner, Ben; Thoma, Sascha; Hartmann, Timm, eds. (2018). Bi-Scriptual: Typography and Graphic Design with Multiple Script Systems. Salenstein, Switzerland: Niggli. ISBN 978-3-7212-0982-2.
  4. ^ Hallmundur, Aegir. "Typeface review: Skolar Sans". Typographica. Stephen Coles. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
  5. ^ Bettger, Ivan. "New fonts from Rosetta Type: Skolar Sans, Aisha, and more". Adobe Typekit Blog. Adobe Systems Incorporated. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  6. ^ "Typetogether Newsletter February 2011: Rosetta, the multi-script foundry". TypeTogether. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
  7. ^ Middendorp, Jan. "Rosetta Type Foundry". Creative Characters. MyFonts. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
  8. ^ "Skolar Sans". European Design Awards. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  9. ^ "Competition 2009 – winners". Granshan. Granshan Foundation. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  10. ^ "Competition 2012 – winners". Granshan. Granshan Foundation. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  11. ^ "Competition 2013 – winners". Granshan. Granshan Foundation. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  12. ^ Kerrigan, Sally. "New fonts and broadened script support". Adobe Typekit Blog. Adobe Systems Incorporated. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  13. ^ "Adobe Gujarati". Adobe Fonts. Adobe. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  14. ^ Murphy, Zoe Loring (18 May 2021). "How Important Is Harmony When Designing Multiscript Type Systems? An Interview With David Březina". TYPE01. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
  15. ^ Brezina, D. (2019). Coherence in typeface design: visual similarity of characters in Cyrillic, Devanagari, and Latin (PhD thesis) (phd). University of Reading. doi:10.48683/1926.00085141.