Language and script support is specified on typeface microsites for all families together (section Styles), and for individual families on the first checkout page. Click on the red button to get the complete list of supported languages.

We have tried to provide as many options to preview and test our fonts as possible. Besides the edittable samples and PDF specimens, you can get free Trial fonts. There is also a live preview of the full character set.

We have introduced free Trial licence so you can try our fonts before investing in a proper licence. A couple of important things to remember:

• some characters have been removed from these fonts,
• the fonts cannot be used for any published project, commercial or non-commercial,
• the fonts can be used for unpublished student work.

To order, simply select the Trial licence in the left column during your checkout; then select the fonts you want to licence.

Trial fonts are not sufficient for proper designers” work as it is intended only for testing or, for example, for creating mock-ups for the client to see before they commit to purchase your design. Once they do, you both need a licence.

It differs from typeface to typeface. It is always clearly marked in the OpenType features sections.

Every company seems to give the Pro suffix a different meaning. For us, it means typographic extras are included. This may be different for each script, but for Latin the fonts will be equipped with small caps, various figure sets, superiors, and fractions as a minimum standard.

PE stands for Pan-European. Fonts with this suffix support Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts.

The language and feature support is the same in fonts for print and for web. So is their quality on screen. The webfonts always have the suffix “Web” in the name and are obfuscated, so they work well only on the web.

Self-hosting means you can keep the webfonts on your own server. This has many benefits, there is no need for webfont providers, no monthly charges, no tracking code, no downtimes. On the other hand, it requires a bit of coding (CSS code is provided with the fonts) and reasonable measures have to be used to ensure that the webfonts cannot be extracted (prevention of direct links to the files, or hotlinking from other sites, and maintaining the cautionary note in the CSS). We provide an example HTML and CSS code for most fonts.

The fonts are provided in the WOFF2 font format which covers most of the contemporary browsers.

Our licence model is build on mutual trust. We do not enforce any tracking on our customers. In return, we kindly ask you keep an eye on the total traffic and upgrade when appropriate.

You are allowed to convert the webfonts to alternative webfont formats (for example: Cufón, sIFR, Typeface.js, SVG fonts), but we do not recommend it. You can also subset the webfonts for the sole purpose of optimising loading times.

Note that non-web fonts (OTF and TTF formats) should not be manipulated in the same way or converted to webfonts.

It is possible for us to include it, however, it requires additional design work and post-production for which we are likely to charge. The pricing depends on the scope, but we often need to draw the character in multiple styles for the fonts to remain consistent.

We have simplified as much as we could. Our licence is perpetual (one-off payment) and allows the use of the fonts on desktop and on web. See the complete licence and accompanying table that describes what can and cannot be done with the fonts. During checkout you can set your licence preferences in the form of tiers that are based on your company size (see below).

The licence tiers specify your licence preferences/scope, e.g. how many people can use it and for what purpose. The licence tiers for the Standard licence type are based on the company size expressed in the number of its employees. This is the total number of the employees working for the company, not only the people that will use the fonts.

The tiers also specify allowed traffic and number of users for apps. In case you need more than the predifined limits, opt for one of the higher tiers. I

If you exceed the tier limit at any time (even for a short period), an upgrade to a higher tier is needed. Get in touch via email and we will arrange that.

If you need more than the tiers in the webshop offer, get in touch and we will provide you with a custom quote, e.g. for an unlimited number of users or traffic.

Make sure that whoever is using the fonts is within the allowed number of authorized users (defined by the owner of the licence). For a company, you have to count all employees in your company and purchase an appropriate tier.

The web use is only limited by the total traffic for all web sites that use the fonts. The licencee (licence owner) can use the fonts on an unlimited number of domains.

If the monthly traffic exceeds the tier limit from the purchased licence at any time (even for a short period), an upgrade to a higher tier is needed. Get in touch via email and we will arrange that.

Our licence model is build on mutual trust. We do not enforce any tracking on our customers. In return, we kindly ask you keep an eye on the total traffic and upgrade when appropriate.

The use in apps is only limited by the total number of users for all apps/games that use the fonts. The licencee (licence owner) can use the fonts on an unlimited number of apps/games.

If you exceed the tier limit at any time (even for a short period), an upgrade to a higher tier is needed. Get in touch via email and we will arrange that.

Our licence model is build on mutual trust. We do not enforce any tracking on our customers. In return, we kindly ask you keep an eye on the total number of users and upgrade when appropriate.

Simply, if you need to licence for more than what the Standard licence tiers offer; if you want to design merchandise that “stands on the shoulders” of the fonts; if there is a need for automated processing of documents on your server; … Send us an email and we will draft a quote for you. We are usually quite fast and easy to talk to.

Make sure that whoever is using the fonts is within the allowed number of authorized users (defined by the owner of the licence).

Note that if you licenced fonts for your customer, you cannot keep the fonts permanently. They can let you use the fonts within their allowance temporarily.

It is not permitted for groups to purchase a single licence to share.

Yes. If you are an agency or design studio acting on behalf of a customer, you can purchase a font licence for them. Simply sign up a different licencee (licence owner) during checkout.

Yes, but only with prior written permission from Rosetta. We will have to update our database of font licencee (licence owners).

The licencee (licence owner) is permitted to make a temporary copy of the Fonts for use by a commercial printer or service bureau solely for use in the production of their own materials. It is the licencee’s responsibility to make sure they remove the fonts from their computers after the job is done.

No other sharing is permitted.

The licences offered in our webshop are perpetual. Custom licences may have a time limit.

It is not a problem.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes. With apps like AnyFont, FondFont, Adobe Creative Cloud, or Fontstand, you can upload the fonts to your mobile or tablet (iOS, Android, …) and use the fonts in your apps there.

Yes.

This is only allowed through the Custom licence. Please, get in touch and we will provide you with a quote.

Generally, yes. But the moment the merchandise is build on the fonts appearance (e.g. there is just one big letter or dingbat from our font on your t-shirt) and/or it is for sale for a non-promotional purpose, then you should get a Custom licence.

No. Purchased fonts cannot be converted or otherwise modified without prior written permission from Rosetta. We allow some modification for webfonts only. See the Rosetta webfonts section for details.

You should upgrade your licence when:

• there are more people using the fonts than the current licence permits,
• the traffic on your website is bigger than the current licence permits,
• the number of users of your app/game is bigger than the current licence permits,
• you wish to use the fonts for a purpose not permitted by the current licence.

If in doubt, regarding what is or is not permitted, or whether licence upgrade is needed, please refer to the licence or email us directly and we will figure it out together.

Paddle acts as our online reseller (Merchant of record) in order to handle card payments, invoicing, and international taxes for us. They accept Visa, Visa Electron, MasterCard, Maestro, and Diners Club. Let us know via email if you wish to pay via bank transfer.

VAT and other international taxes are handled by our partner Paddle.

There is no user account or password to maintain. No registration is necessary during checkout. We got rid of them deliberately in order to streamline the process. Your orders are matched with your email and maintained in our orders and ownership databases.

If you opt in during check out, you will receive free updates for fonts purchased in our webshop automatically when these are release. Our policy is to provide maintenance and small updates for free. Additional language/script-support or new styles are usually considered paid upgrades. These are announced independently via our newsletter or social media.

If you lose your font files and wish to re-download them, you can Request download links for your fonts. This will send an email with past orders associated with your email address in our webshop. In case, you cannot find an order you remember purchasing from us, please get in touch (attach a receipt so we can find your order). Some of the orders from the first version of our webshop (before 2014) have not been migrated.

We have decided to provide clearly structured and reasonable pricing over too many discounts and promotions. Currently we offer:

• discounted bundles of fonts (this are pressented in the webshop),
• student/academic discount.

Students and academic staff get 45% discount. Simply select the option during checkout. Note that we may request an additional proof of your academic affiliation (e.g. student ID).

If you are a charity and would like to get a discount, let us know, perhaps we could help. However, we do have a yearly limit as to how many we can support. We do not automatically provide discounts to non-profit organizations.

Sorry, but no.

If you received a promotional discount code, you can apply it in the “Order summary” (on the right side in the second step of the checkout process) before proceeding with the payment.

You can cancel your order without giving any reasons within a period of 14 days provided the Fonts have not been downloaded. If they have been downloaded no refund will be made.

You can return merchandise within a period of 14 days without giving any reason, in which case we will fully refund the cost of the merchandise. However, you will have to pay for the return shipping.

The download links provided at the time of purchase are valid for one month. If need be, you can reactivate download links for all orders associated with your email.

Rosetta will replace the Fonts in the event that the Fonts should not perform substantially in accordance with the documentation, provided that any such claim is submitted within thirty (30) days of purchase of the licence. Your sole recourse is replacement Fonts; no refunds will be granted. To submit a claim you must return the Fonts to Rosetta together with a copy of your sales receipt.

There are many online guides on how to install fonts on your system. Here is a good one from Adobe covering installation on major operating systems.

In order to type in any script on your keyboard, you will need a Unicode-compatible keyboard mapping (also called keyboard or software keyboard) which maps keys from your physical keyboard to the Unicode characters of the particular script. The software keyboards are usually available in your operating system, e.g. for Arabic or Devanagari. You just need to activate them in Keyboard Preferences (on macOS) or in Language & region settings.

The Avestan software keyboard (see previous entry for more info on software keyboards) is not currently included with the macOS. You can download the Avestan keyboard for macOS by Pim Rietbroek from GitHub.

In order to type in Book Pahlavi, which is not currently encoded in Unicode, type using an Arabic-script keyboard, e.g. for Persian or Arabic languages. Most characters correspond to Arabic-script characters, but some are mapped differently.

In a nutshell a typeface is the design of a collection of characters that implement particular script(s). Ultimately it is the creative work of the designer. Commonly a typeface is represented as a collection of type families that groups various styles and weights with shared design principles.

A type family commonly includes styles in various weights and forms (italic or upright/roman). Sometimes all the variations do not fit into a single family and that is when sub-families need to be created, e.g. Skolar Sans Compressed and Skolar Sans Extended (based on width sub-families) or Neacademia Text and Neacademia Display (based on optical size).

A script is an organised set of signs, symbols and marks required to represent spoken language in written or printed form. A script is the visual representation while a writing system is the general system used for organization of these signs and their connection to the language. In short there are three basic categories of writing systems: alphabetic (e.g. the Latin script), syllabic (e.g. Indian scripts) and logographic (e.g. Chinese script).

The term complex script is used to describe scripts that require complex text layout features in order to ensure correct text shaping that allows the display of a given language adequately. Such complex scripts may need to make use of one or all of the following features: combining marks, glyph reordering and splitting, contextual shaping, specific rules for word breaks and justification. The shapes themselves might not be complex.

Indic and Arabic scripts are typical examples of complex scripts.

A font is in effect the carrier of a typeface. It is a software. Typically, a font only carries a single type style (such as Regular Italic or ExtraBold), but there are font formats which can represent multiple styles (OpenType GX, Multiple-Master fonts).

These days the terms typeface and font are often used interchangeably. However, the former refers to the design ideas, the latter refers to their software or material implementation.

Webfonts are fonts in formats intended for the web, e.g., WOFF, WOFF2, or EOT. They should be optimized for the web and reading on screen. Currently, only WOFF2 format is needed to make the fonts work in most contemporary browsers.

Hinting refers to special instructions in fonts which control the rasterisation process in low resolutions. In other words, better hinting means better performance of a font on the screen in small sizes. Hinting can be automated or manual. The latter usually means good appearance in text sizes (around conventional 10–16 pixels sizes) on screen, auto-hinting is sufficient for display sizes (ca. 18 pixels and above).

However, the best way to judge the performance of webfonts is to compare screenshots from various platforms.

A type family often comprises a broad array of variants (or styles) across the following categories: weight, width, upright/italic, ….

The weight refers to different degrees of thickness of the strokes letterforms are made of or, in other words. The most commonly used weights are (from lightest to darkest): Thin, Extralight, Light, Regular, Medium, Semibold, Bold, Extrabold, Black. While the regular weight is traditionally the one used for continuous text, the extreme ends of the spectrum – such as Thin, Light, or Black – usually are more suitable for short texts, headlines, and for display purposes.

The width attribute refers to the broadness of letterforms, ranging from “narrow” to “wide”. While the intervals between the two ends of the spectrum are unlimited, the most commonly used classifications are Compressed, Condensed, Normal, and Extended.

The two most common style groups in the Latin (and Cyrillic or Greek) are upright (also Roman) and italic. In contemporary use these two are seen as companions, the italic traditionally being employed to achieve emphasis within a text set in upright.

In typeface design the term spacing describes the process of distributing space between characters in a font. By determining the space on each side of a character, the aim is to fit every character with all possible preceding or following characters (whether it be letters, punctuation etc.). The ultimate goal is to achieve a harmonious and balanced rhythm and an even colour/texture to ensure a pleasing and easily readable text.

In contrast to spacing, kerning only deals with specific combinations of letters, not with general distribution of space/rhythm in a typeface.

The term kerning is often used instead of spacing. Such usage is wrong and should be punishable by milder forms of death!

In close relation to spacing lies letter-spacing (or tracking), which is employed by the font user to manually adjust the defined spacing globally. If carefully applied, informed adjustments to the letter-spacing can prove to be useful in certain situations. Depending on the typeface, in display sizes, letters may appear a little too loosely arranged and in that case negative letter-spacing can be utilised to make for a more cohesive word shape. The same applies to small sizes where a moderate amount of positive letter-spacing can aid legibility and readability.

Excessive negative letter-spacing injures readers” eyes and should be punishable by gently chopping both index fingers of the designer responsible.

Note: the concept of letter-spacing does not apply to scripts with connecting characters; here any alteration of letter-spacing will corrupt the design.

At the moment, we are not on the lookout for new typefaces beyond our network of frequent collaborators. For us to think about publishing it, it would have to be something that clicks with us.

See our Services page for more information. Interested in something unique, but off the shelf? Consider our Yourses collection.

We would be happy to discuss it. Please, get in touch!