- Light
- Light Italic
- Regular
- Italic
- Medium
- Medium Italic
- Semibold
- Semibold Italic
- Bold
- Bold Italic
About Skolar Pan-European (PE)
Originally developed for academic publishing, Skolar asserts credibility and sustains comfortable reading. It has established itself as a go-to choice for all kinds of scholarly texts, no matter the field or school of thought: it handles the minutiae of linguistic, scientific, and editorial typography with ease. A classic with a twist, Skolar brings a trace of human touch to serious typography. Thanks to this knack for subtlety, it is also successfully used in other genres from branding to children’s literature.
Skolar Pan-European (PE) has a vast character set that caters to nearly four hundred languages and transliteration systems (Pinyin, IAST/Sanskrit) using Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek (including polytonic). Its larger x-height, robust serifs, low contrast, and its deft italic make it a pleasure to read even at small sizes. With Skolar, footnotes and bibliography become readers’ best friends.
The OpenType feature set is engineered for the most rigorous editorial settings. Tabular, proportional, old-style, and lining figures as well as a full set of fractions, ordinals, and scientific superiors and inferiors will stand up to any conjectural challenge. Language-sensitive forms and compound diacritics will handle the demands of many linguistic texts. The companion families Skolar Gujarati, Skolar Devanagari, Skolar Sans PE, and Skolar Sans Arabic expand its typographic and semantic potential even further.
Credits
Leads
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. He also co-founded Design Regression, a mini journal publishing texts that are about design for reading and reading-related research. Besides running Rosetta, he has been actively involved in writing, presenting, and conducting workshops on type and typography around the world.
Assistance
What others say
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When we decided to replace our sans serif body copy, News Gothic, with a more classic serif face we decided on Skolar quite early on in the redesign process. The editor’s brief was ‘classic with a twist’ and we felt Skolar more than provided this.
Mick Moore, British Journal of Photography -
Skolar accomplishes the goal sought after by virtually every text face: to make its mark with a distinct personality and yet remain effortlessly readable by letting that personality slip secretly and silently into the background.
Elliot Jay Stocks -
It feels formal, without being stuffy, and has a bit of quirk to it, like someone wearing a suit with rainbow striped socks. The italic is especially lovely.
Jason Santa Maria -
Skolar shows that a typeface can be both subtle and engaging, academic and practical, easy on the eyes and sophisticated—and both we and our readers learned to appreciate these qualities over the years.
Vitaly Friedman, Smashing Magazine -
David’s Skolar is an example of a functional and beautiful typeface that works well for professional publications. It helped us to establish a new tone and voice in our articles to better reflect the spirit and the atmosphere that we have established on Smashing Magazine within the last 5 years. Skolar shows that a typeface can be both subtle and engaging, academic and practical, easy on the eyes and sophisticated—and both we and our readers learned to appreciate these qualities over the years.
Vitaly Friedman, Smashing Magazine -
The range of typographic detailings available, such as the numbering options, alternate glyphs, arrows and ligatures, play to the strengths of print. Small detailing in the letterforms translate into a face that is comfortable to read and sits elegantly on the page.
Mick Moore, British Journal of Photography -
Skolar was the first of the fonts making their way onto the web for screen use that I fell in love with. It feels formal, without being stuffy, and has a bit of quirk to it, like someone wearing a suit with rainbow striped socks. The italic is especially lovely.
Jason Santa Maria
OpenType features
Glyph table
Supported scripts and languages
Cyrillic
53 languages- Abaza
- Adyghe
- Aghul
- Andi
- Archi
- Avaric
- Bashkir
- Bezhta
- Budukh
- Bulgarian
- Chamalal
- Chechen
- Chinese Buriat
- Chuvash
- Crimean Tatar
- Dargwa
- Dido
- Erzya
- Halh Mongolian
- Hunzib
- Ingush
- Judeo-Tat
- Kabardian
- Kalmyk
- Karata
- Kazakh
- Khinalugh
- Kirghiz
- Komi-Permyak
- Komi-Zyrian
- Kumyk
- Lak
- Lezghian
- Macedonian
- Moksha
- Mongolian Buriat
- Montenegrin
- Muslim Tat
- Nogai
- Ossetian
- Pontic Greek
- Russian
- Russian Buriat
- Rusyn
- Rutul
- Serbian
- Shughni
- Tabassaran
- Tajik
- Tatar
- Tsakhur
- Tuvinian
- Ukrainian
Greek
2 languages- Modern Greek
- Pontic Greek
Latin
352 languages- Abua
- Acheron
- Achinese
- Acholi
- Achuar-Shiwiar
- Afar
- Afrikaans
- Aguaruna
- Ahtna
- Alekano
- Aleut
- Algonquin
- Amahuaca
- Amarakaeri
- Amis
- Anaang
- Andaandi
- Anuta
- Ao Naga
- Apinayé
- Aragonese
- Arbëreshë Albanian
- Arvanitika Albanian
- Asháninka
- Ashéninka Perené
- Asturian
- Asu (Tanzania)
- Atayal
- Balinese
- Banjar
- 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
- Falam Chin
- Faroese
- Fijian
- Filipino
- Finnish
- French
- Friulian
- Gagauz
- Galician
- Ganda
- Garifuna
- Ga’anda
- German
- Gheg Albanian
- Gilbertese
- Gooniyandi
- Gourmanchéma
- Guadeloupean Creole French
- Gusii
- Gwichʼin
- Haitian
- Hakha Chin
- Hani
- Hawaiian
- Hiligaynon
- Ho-Chunk
- Hopi
- Huastec
- Hungarian
- Hän
- Icelandic
- Igbo
- Iloko
- Inari Sami
- Indonesian
- Irish
- Istro Romanian
- Italian
- Ixcatlán Mazatec
- Jamaican Creole English
- Javanese
- Jola-Fonyi
- K'iche'
- Kabuverdianu
- Kaingang
- Kala Lagaw Ya
- Kalaallisut
- Kalenjin
- Kamba (Kenya)
- Kaonde
- Kaqchikel
- Kara-Kalpak
- 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
- Madurese
- Makhuwa
- Makhuwa-Meetto
- Makonde
- Makwe
- Malagasy
- Malaysian
- Maltese
- Mandinka
- Mandjak
- Mankanya
- Manx
- Maore Comorian
- Maori
- Mapudungun
- Marshallese
- Matsés
- Mauritian Creole
- Megleno Romanian
- Meriam Mir
- Meru
- Mezquital Otomi
- Minangkabau
- Mirandese
- Mizo
- Mohawk
- Montagnais
- Montenegrin
- Munsee
- Murrinh-Patha
- Muslim Tat
- Mwani
- Mískito
- Naga Pidgin
- Ndonga
- Neapolitan
- Ngazidja Comorian
- Niuean
- Nobiin
- Nomatsiguenga
- North Azerbaijani
- North Marquesan
- North Ndebele
- Northern Kurdish
- Northern Qiandong Miao
- Northern Sami
- Northern Uzbek
- Northwestern Ojibwa
- Norwegian
- Nyanja
- Nyankole
- Occitan
- Ojitlán Chinantec
- Old Prussian
- Orma
- Oroqen
- Otuho
- Palauan
- Paluan
- Pampanga
- Papantla Totonac
- Papiamento
- Paraguayan Guaraní
- Pedi
- Picard
- Pichis Ashéninka
- Piemontese
- Pijin
- Pintupi-Luritja
- Pipil
- Pite Sami
- Pohnpeian
- Polish
- Pontic Greek
- Portuguese
- Potawatomi
- Purepecha
- Páez
- Quechua
- Romanian
- Romansh
- Rotokas
- Rundi
- Rwa
- Samburu
- Samoan
- Sango
- Sangu (Tanzania)
- Saramaccan
- Sardinian
- Scots
- Scottish Gaelic
- Secoya
- Sena
- Serbian
- Seri
- Seselwa Creole French
- Shambala
- Shawnee
- Shipibo-Conibo
- Shona
- Shuar
- Sicilian
- Silesian
- Slovak
- Slovenian
- Soga
- Somali
- Soninke
- South Azerbaijani
- South Marquesan
- South Ndebele
- Southern Aymara
- Southern Qiandong Miao
- Southern Sami
- Southern Sotho
- Spanish
- Squamish
- Sranan Tongo
- Standard Estonian
- Standard Latvian
- Standard Malay
- Sundanese
- Swahili
- Swati
- Swedish
- Swiss German
- Tagalog
- Tahitian
- Taita
- Talysh
- Tedim Chin
- Tetum
- Tetun Dili
- Tiv
- Tlingit
- Toba
- Tok Pisin
- Tokelau
- Tonga (Tonga Islands)
- Tonga (Zambia)
- Tosk Albanian
- Totontepec Mixe
- Tsakhur
- Tsonga
- Tswana
- Tumbuka
- Turkish
- Turkmen
- Tuvalu
- Tzeltal
- Tzotzil
- Uab Meto
- Umbundu
- Ume Sami
- Upper Guinea Crioulo
- Upper Sorbian
- Venetian
- Veps
- Vietnamese
- Võro
- Wallisian
- 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
- Yoruba
- Yucateco
- Zapotec
- Zulu
- Zuni
- Záparo
Tech specs
Formats
TrueType (TTF)
Web Open Font Format (WOFF2)
Variable TrueType (TTF)
Variable Web Open Font Format (WOFF2)
Variations
Variable fonts onlyFeatures
Alternative form of ‘a’ (ss02)
Alternative form of ‘g’ (ss03)
Alternative form of ‘&’ (ss04)
Alternative form of ‘@’ (ss05)
Arrows (ss06)
Serbian/Macedonian forms (ss07)
Bulgarian forms (ss08)
Cyrillic isosceles forms (ss09)
Alternative form of Greek Iota with dialytika (ss10)
Alternative forms of Greek theta and phi (ss11)
Polytonic Greek: prosgegrammeni alternative forms (ss12)
Polytonic Greek: small caps with all polytonic accents maintained (ss13)
Alternative form of ‘K’, ‘R’, etc (ss14)
Alternative casing for German eszett (ss15)