David Březina
CEO, Design, Research at Rosetta Type Foundry
Brno Metropolitan Area Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Březina is a typeface designer, researcher, and CEO of Rosetta Type Foundry with over a decade of experience crafting award-winning typefaces for scripts including Gujarati, Latin, Cyrillic and Devanagari. He combines practical studio leadership—serving high-profile clients like Adobe, BBC, Google and LG—with deep academic rigor, holding a PhD from the University of Reading and a Master’s in Computer Science from Masaryk University. His cross-disciplinary doctoral work examined visual similarity and coherence for continuous reading across multiple scripts, informing both his design practice and research-led approach to legibility. A published lecturer and writer, he bridges typography, design systems and computational thinking to solve complex multilingual typography challenges. Based in Brno, he leads Rosetta’s design and research agenda while maintaining a hands-on role in typeface development.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Masaryk University BrnoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Typography and Graphic Communication, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Typography and Graphic Communication at University of Reading
Github Skills (43)
opentype10
fonts10
python10
cjk10
journal10
typeface10
latin10
ufo10
devanagari10
phonetics10
variable-fonts10
cyrillic10
woff10
hebrew10
truetype10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
TaniaChacana/taniachacana.github.io
Oct 2021 - Dec 2024
portfolio website
Contributions:1 PR, 19 pushes in 3 years 2 months
react
MrBrezina/design-regression
May 2021 - Jan 2024
An online journalette about letters, design, and reading
Contributions:2 PRs, 94 pushes in 2 years 8 months
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