Rosalie
Sharp Type · My-Lan Thuong · 2024
A high-contrast display serif by My-Lan Thuong, drawn from a 12th-century church mural in Guérande, France, pairing a Roman with a calligraphic Italic across OmniLatin coverage.
About
Rosalie is a contemporary display serif six years in the making, its origin in a painted medieval mural at the Collégiale Saint-Aubin in Guérande, France. The design plays on opposites: vertical strokes are very narrow while round forms grow plump and circular, producing Art Deco tension within letterforms that also carry calligraphic swashes and occasional reversed contrast. The family ships as a Roman and Italic duo with over 1,300 characters, OmniLatin language support, and 13 stylistic sets.
Classification
High-contrast display serif with calligraphic roots in medieval painted lettering from a 12th-century church. Features Art Deco-style proportions – very narrow vertical letters set against plump, circular round forms – with occasional reversed contrast (notably in the /o). Exuberant swash variants for all uppercase and select lowercase in both Roman and Italic; 13 stylistic sets; novel interior-stroke removal in letters like /a and /k. The Italic is notably narrower and more calligraphic than the Roman, inspired by Renaissance italic models. OmniLatin character set of 1,300–1,600 glyphs including swash variants for diacritics.