ROSETTA TYPEFACE

[work in progess] [typedesign – 2023]

Rosetta Typeface is the first character design project supervised by my type design instructor, Franck Jalleau, during my first year. This exercise involves using a Roman capital as a base, adhering to geometric shapes (square, circle, and triangle). Rosetta Typeface was entirely hand-drawn and then digitized using Glyphs. It includes a complete set of uppercase letters, numbers, standard punctuation, French diacritics, and some ligatures. I am continuously refining this typography, adding ligatures, and considering the introduction of three different weights.

Rosetta Typeface

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UNE ÉTINCELLE DE SILENCE DANS LA FOULE BRUYANTE.

Rosetta Typeface

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The stone was carved during the Hellenistic period and is believed to have originally been displayed within a temple, possibly at Sais. It was probably moved in late antiquity or during the Mamluk period, and was eventually used as building material in the construction of Fort Julien near the town of Rashid (Rosetta) in the Nile Delta. It was found there in July 1799 by French officer Pierre-François Bouchard during the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt. It was the first Ancient Egyptian bilingual text recovered in modern times, and it aroused widespread public interest with its potential to decipher this previously untranslated hieroglyphic script. Lithographic copies and plaster casts soon began circulating among European museums and scholars. When the British defeated the French they took the stone to London under the terms of the Capitulation of Alexandria in 1801. Since 1802, it has been on public display at the British Museum almost continuously and it is the most visited object there.