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Eczar

Designed by Rosetta, Vaibhav Singh

About

Eczar started as a student project in 2010–11 during Vaibhav Singh’s MA studies in Typeface Design at the University of Reading. Eczar was designed to bring liveliness and vigor to multi-script typesetting in Latin and Devanagari – with the intention of providing an alternative to existing designs by imparting a strong mix of personality and performance, both at text sizes and in display settings. The family offers a wide expressive range and the display qualities of the design intensify with corresponding increase in weight, making the heaviest weights best suited for headlines and display purposes.

To contribute, see github.com/rosettatype/eczar.

Designers

Rosetta addresses the needs of global typography by working with collaborators to create original fonts for a polyphonic world. Their work has won numerous awards, but more importantly it has enabled people to read more easily in their native language. The Rosetta font library currently supports over 200 languages including Latin, Arabic, Armenian, Greek, Cyrillic, Inuktitut, and Indic scripts. Their fonts serve numerous clients including the BBC, RFE/RL, LG, and Harvard University Press.

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Vaibhav Singh is an independent typographer and typeface designer. With an MA and PhD from the University of Reading, he specialises in designing typefaces for Indian scripts in addition to developing Latin typefaces. He is also the editor and publisher of the independent journal Contextual Alternate.

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