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Gridlite PE Variable

Gridlite PE Variable

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Gridlite PE Variable Font Family was designed by David Březina and published by Rosetta. Gridlite PE Variable contains 1 styles.

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About Gridlite PE Variable Font Family


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). The fonts cover Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin scripts. Small caps are included, for no apparent reason ... and there is a monospaced elephant, too.

Designers: David Březina

Publisher: Rosetta

Foundry: Rosetta

Design Owner: Rosetta

MyFonts debut: Oct 17, 2022

Gridlite PE Variable

About Rosetta

Rosetta is a typeface design studio and font distributor that addresses the needs of global typography. Together with our collaborators, we create original fonts for a polyphonic world. Our research-based practice has been recognized and awarded in the industry. But most importantly it has enabled people to read better in their native language. In addition to the retail type market, we supply tailored font services for small and large companies and provide consultancy for other design studios and font publishers. View the case studies to get a better sense of our approach.

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