Rosart
Camelot · Katharina Köhler
A digital revival of Jacques-François Rosart's 1768 specimen, drawn by Katharina Köhler across four weights with matching italics for contemporary text use.
About
Katharina Köhler distilled the idiosyncrasies of Rosart's letterforms by comparing them against Fournier and Fleischman, arriving at a clean interpretation of the 18th-century Dutch tradition. The family runs from Regular to Bold with matching italics, and the construction deliberately keeps Bézier points to a minimum as a point of contemporary discipline. OpenType features include small caps throughout, swash alternates in the italic, old-style and lining figures, and support for approximately 250 Latin-based languages.
Classification
Based on an 18th-century specimen by Jacques-François Rosart from 1768, with references to Fournier and Fleischman, placing it firmly in the Baroque/transitional tradition of the Dutch and French punchcutters.