- Regular
- Italic
- Semibold
- Semibold Italic
- Bold
- Bold Italic
- Extrabold
- Extrabold Italic
About Arek Latin
Arek is Rosetta’s award-winning collection of Latin and Armenian families. Originally designed for use in textbooks and the schoolroom, Arek is an active typeface that holds the reader’s attention with kinetic details tucked into restrained letterforms on the page. For clarity and ease of reading, Arek pairs its nuanced upright and its perky italic styles for both scripts.
Though first designed with school books in mind, Arek equips the typographer with eight styles covering a wide range for editorial and other challenging typesetting environments. Essential expert features such as ligatures, lining and ranging figures, and contextual alternates ensure Arek is ready for any assignment. Extras like a full array of bullets, dingbats, and manicules make this family nimble enough to make the grade with readers in all sorts of editorial projects.
Credits
Leads
Khajag Apelian is a lettering artist, type and graphic designer. Having grown up between Dubai and Beirut, and being raised in an Armenian family, Khajag has an affinity for different languages and writing systems, which he has applied to the development of typefaces in Arabic, Armenian, and Latin. He currently operates under the name Debakir (Armenian term for “printed type”) and has worked with various international brands including IBM, Apple, Samsung, Twitter, HP and Disney ME. He also teaches design courses at the American University of Beirut.
Assistance
What others say
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It’s vivacious and playful in large sizes, and also full-proportioned, open, and effortlessly readable in text sizes, adding an undercurrent of frenetic energy to the flow of body copy.
Mark Jamra for Typographica -
The Armenian typography has old history but it’s still too young compared to Latin computer fonts. There is not enough fonts for making layouts, and we are always looking for something interesting and new. So when I’ve accidentally found Arek it was a good luck for us.
Gegham Vardanyan, Yerevan magazine -
… it melodiously announces that a multi-script typeface need have neither a servile non-Latin component, nor a Latin that’s either swiped or a generic afterthought.
Hrant H Papazian for Typographica
OpenType features
Glyph table
Supported scripts and languages
Latin
309 languages- Acheron
- Achinese
- Acholi
- Achuar-Shiwiar
- Afar
- Afrikaans
- Aguaruna
- Ahtna
- Alekano
- Aleut
- Algonquin
- Amahuaca
- Amarakaeri
- Amis
- Anaang
- Andaandi
- Anuta
- Ao Naga
- Aragonese
- Arbëreshë Albanian
- Arvanitika Albanian
- Asháninka
- Ashéninka Perené
- Asu (Tanzania)
- Balinese
- Banjar
- Bari
- Basque
- Batak Dairi
- Batak Karo
- Batak Mandailing
- Batak Simalungun
- Batak Toba
- Bemba (Zambia)
- Bena (Tanzania)
- Bikol
- 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
- Dutch
- Eastern Arrernte
- Eastern Oromo
- 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
- Haitian
- Hani
- Hiligaynon
- Ho-Chunk
- Hopi
- Huastec
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Iloko
- Inari Sami
- Indonesian
- Irish
- Istro Romanian
- Italian
- Ixcatlán Mazatec
- Jamaican Creole English
- Javanese
- Jola-Fonyi
- K'iche'
- Kabuverdianu
- Kala Lagaw Ya
- Kalaallisut
- Kalenjin
- Kamba (Kenya)
- Kaonde
- Kaqchikel
- Karelian
- Kashubian
- Kekchí
- Kenzi/Mattokki
- Khasi
- Kikuyu
- Kimbundu
- Kinyarwanda
- 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
- Matsés
- Mauritian Creole
- Meriam Mir
- Meru
- Minangkabau
- Mirandese
- Mohawk
- Montenegrin
- Munsee
- Murrinh-Patha
- Mwani
- Mískito
- Naga Pidgin
- Ndonga
- Neapolitan
- Ngazidja Comorian
- Niuean
- Nobiin
- Nomatsiguenga
- North Ndebele
- Northern Kurdish
- Northern Qiandong Miao
- Northern Sami
- Northern Uzbek
- Northwestern Ojibwa
- Norwegian
- Nyanja
- Nyankole
- Occitan
- Ojitlán Chinantec
- Orma
- Oroqen
- Otuho
- Palauan
- Paluan
- Pampanga
- Papantla Totonac
- Papiamento
- 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
- Sena
- Seri
- Seselwa Creole French
- Shambala
- Shawnee
- Shipibo-Conibo
- Shona
- Shuar
- Sicilian
- Silesian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Soga
- Somali
- Soninke
- 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
- Tedim Chin
- Tetum
- Tetun Dili
- Tiv
- Tok Pisin
- Tokelau
- Tonga (Tonga Islands)
- Tonga (Zambia)
- Tosk Albanian
- 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
Tech specs
Formats
TrueType (TTF)
Web Open Font Format (WOFF2)
Variable TrueType (TTF)
Variable Web Open Font Format (WOFF2)