1 variable font (Weight, Background, Rectangle, and Shape axes)

                                          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.

                                          Get Gridlite PE

                                          Rosetta’s Standard licence: Trial licence: Need more?
                                          • Company size: from total of up to 3 employees
                                          • Desktop Projects: allowed
                                          • Web Projects: up to 30K pageviews/monthly, unlimited domains
                                          • App Projects: up to 30K app users/monthly
                                          • Automated Processing and Research: not allowed

                                          See the full licence agreement for details

                                          • Testing and evalution: 1 user
                                          • Desktop Projects: not allowed
                                          • Web Projects: not allowed
                                          • App Projects: not allowed
                                          • Automated Processing and Research: not allowed

                                          See the full licence agreement for details

                                          • more users/pageviews
                                          • unlimited desktop/web/app use
                                          • server-side automation
                                          • OEM licencing
                                          Buy Fonts Single font from 90 € Get Free Trial Fonts Contact the HQ
                                          Standard licence:
                                          • desktop: 5 users
                                          • web: up to 50K pageviews/month
                                          • OTF, TTF, and WOFF2 formats
                                          See the licence text for details Buy Fonts Single font: 90 €
                                          Trial licence:
                                          • desktop: 1 user
                                          • only for evaluation and testing
                                          • OTF with some characters removed
                                          See the licence text for details Get Free Trial Fonts

                                          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 Design

                                          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.

                                          Assistance

                                          Johannes Neumeier Font engineering
                                          Maria Doreuli Cyrillic consultancy
                                          Irene Vlachou Greek consultancy