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Rosette

Rosette offers versatile typography with carefully balanced proportions for diverse design applications.

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Slab Serifby Agathe Masa70% Accessible
Characters256
Glyphs307
Typography Tools

Best Ways to Use Rosette

01

Best Font Pairings for Rosette

TypeSmith curates 3 expert font pairings for Rosette, including combinations with Selectric Century, Mels and Dalfitra.

Each pairing includes accessibility ratings, expert reasoning, and usage recommendations for web and print design.

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Test Rosette Font Pairings Live

TypeSmith's interactive testing tool lets you preview Rosette with any font combination in real-time, optimized for slab serif characteristics.

Adjust font sizes, weights, and see live typography specimens including editorial layouts, code editors, and UI components.

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In Context

Rosette Specimen Gallery

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Rosette Editorial Specimen

Rosette in Editorial Context

Rosette is a slab serif typeface by Agathe Masa suited for editorial layouts and long-form reading.

Agathe Masa

Typeface Designer • Slab Serif

Rosette demonstrates editorial readability through balanced proportions and consistent stroke weight. As a slab serif typeface, it delivers clear letterforms that sustain reader engagement across extended passages of text.

The weight range of Rosette supports typographic hierarchy within editorial layouts. Headline weights establish visual anchors while lighter weights maintain comfortable reading rhythm in body text columns.

Designed by Agathe Masa, Rosette balances personality with function — providing enough character to establish visual identity without compromising the legibility that editorial contexts demand.

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Rosette Typography

A slab serif typeface for UI components.

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Rosette Specimen

Rosette

Rosette is a slab serif typeface by Agathe Masa built for display contexts.

2 WeightsSlab Serif Typeface
Available on TypeSmith

Wordmark Explorations

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Tagline Pairings

Rosette— slab serif typeface
RosetteBy Agathe Masa
RosetteTYPE

Editorial

Magazine-style headline and body text layout

Character Set

Rosette Glyphs & Characters

Size48
Showing 62 of 187 charactersDouble-click to copy • Click for details
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789

Type Scale

Rosette Used As Heading Examples

Heading Level 1<h1>
64px
Bold
72px
Rosette primary headline
Heading Level 2<h2>
48px
SemiBold
56px
Rosette section heading
Heading Level 3<h3>
32px
Medium
40px
Rosette subsection title
Heading Level 4<h4>
24px
Regular
32px
Rosette content heading
Heading Level 5<h5>
18px
Regular
26px
Rosette minor heading
Heading Level 6<h6>
14px
Medium
20px
Rosette smallest heading
Font SizeWeightLine Height
Body Copy

Rosette for Paragraphs

TypeSmith provides optimized body text specifications for Rosette, including recommended sizes, line heights, and letter spacing for long-form content. These settings ensure maximum readability across devices and screen sizes.

Rosette demonstrates exceptional body text performance with balanced proportions and consistent stroke widths that enhance readability across paragraph lengths.

When setting Rosette for body copy, TypeSmith recommends these optimized specifications. The carefully tuned metrics ensure comfortable reading at extended lengths while maintaining the typeface's distinctive character.

Rosette small text sizes retain legibility through well-defined letterforms. Caption and footnote applications benefit from the font's clear x-height and open counters.

ElementWeightSizeLine HeightTrackingPreview
Body TextRegular16px24px0.5pxRosette delivers excellent readability for body copy
ItalicizedRegular Italic16px24px0.5pxRosette italic provides elegant emphasis
BoldBold16px24px0.5pxRosette bold creates strong visual hierarchy
Small CapsRegular16px24px0.5pxRosette typography specimen
Secondary TextMedium14px20px0.5pxRosette typography specimen
.your-class { font-family: 'Rosette'; }

Quick Start

Integrating Rosette

HTML Link Tag

Add to your <head> section

<link href="https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Rosette:400,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

CSS @import

Add at top of your stylesheet

@import url('https://fonts.bunny.net/css?family=Rosette:400,700&display=swap');

CSS @font-face

Self-host the font files

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Rosette';
  src: url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Rosette:wght@400;700&display=swap');
  font-display: swap;
}

Implementation

Using Rosette in CSS

Standard CSS

css

Apply directly to any CSS class or selector.

1.my-text {
2 font-family: 'Rosette', sans-serif;
3 font-weight: 400;
4}

SCSS Variable

scss

Define once, use throughout your stylesheet.

1$font-primary: 'Rosette', sans-serif;
2
3.my-text {
4 font-family: $font-primary;
5}

Tailwind CSS

config

Configure once, apply with utility classes.

1// tailwind.config.js
2module.exports = {
3 theme: {
4 extend: {
5 fontFamily: {
6 'rosette': ['Rosette', 'sans-serif'],
7 },
8 },
9 },
10}
11
12// Usage in HTML
13<p class="font-rosette">Your text here</p>

About

Rosette: History & Characteristics

Agathe Masa
Slab Serif
Open Source

Rosette font is a slab-serif by Agathe Masa designed for refined display applications with understated elegance. This distinctive typeface delivers subtle presence suited for sophisticated branding, editorial design, and visual identities requiring quiet slab-serif refinement. Rosette brings measured character appropriate for lifestyle publications, boutique identities, and design applications where slab-serif forms need elegant restraint. The understated approach distinguishes it from bolder western-influenced slab-serifs. Designers seeking subtle slab-serifs with refined presence will appreciate Rosette's measured approach. Pairs effectively with humanist sans-serifs for contemporary editorial systems.

Rosette was crafted by Agathe Masa. The typeface brings careful attention to typographic detail, visible in its letterform construction and optical balance.

As a Slab Serif typeface in the Vox-ATypI Mechanistic classification, Rosette features unbracketed or minimally bracketed rectangular serifs and low stroke contrast approaching monolinear weight. These optical characteristics make it well-suited for headlines and display typography requiring punch.

Rosette is available in a single weight, offering focused typographic consistency for both digital and print applications, with 3 font pairings curated. Standard Latin character coverage serves the majority of Western typographic workflows.

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Typography Judgment

Expert Analysis of Rosette

TypeSmith evaluates every font across classification, accessibility, and design heritage. This analysis helps designers understand Rosette's strengths and ideal use cases before committing to a typography decision.

1

Classification

Slab Serif analysis. Typographic analysis places Rosette within the Mechanistic (Slab Serif / Egyptienne) tradition, characterized by Unbracketed or minimally bracketed rectangular serifs and Low stroke contrast approaching monolinear weight. Slab serifs emerged in early 19th-century British advertising type, pioneered by Vincent Figgins around 1815. Key technical strength: consistent rendering across screen resolutions.

2

Accessibility

Readability assessment (grade: 70). Rosette performs strongly for sustained reading across digital and print contexts.

3

Design Heritage

Designed by Agathe Masa. The designer's attention to glyph proportions and optical balance produces a Slab Serif with a single focused weight suited to both digital and print workflows.

Overview

About Rosette

Rosette represents a Mechanistic typeface, anchored in the tradition where slab serifs emerged in early 19th-century British advertising type, pioneered by Vincent Figgins around 1815. Its distinctive unbracketed or minimally bracketed rectangular serifs and low stroke contrast approaching monolinear weight make it well-suited for headlines and display typography requiring punch. TypeSmith indexes Rosette in a single weight variant and 3 curated font pairings.

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3 curated pairings for Rosette
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Inclusive Design

Accessibility & Usability

70
Accessibility Score
Good Accessibility

Using Rosette Accessibly

Rosette achieves a good accessibility rating, performing reliably for both paragraph text and interface elements at standard sizes. Monolinear slab designs reduce halation risk. Their sturdy structure aids recognition for readers with low vision or dyslexia.

Rosette's Legibility

Rosette draws legibility from its unbracketed or minimally bracketed rectangular serifs and low stroke contrast approaching monolinear weight. These characteristics help readers distinguish similar glyphs such as I, l, and 1 at a range of sizes.

Readability Profile: Rosette

The uniform stroke weight and blocky serifs maintain legibility at small sizes on screen. Geometric slabs perform well in UI contexts where clarity is paramount. Use at 16 px minimum for body text, and maintain 1.5 line-height to support comfortable reading rhythm.

Rosette for Long-Form Content

Rosette provides a focused weight range that maintains consistent typographic color across paragraphs. High stroke contrast can cause halation for some readers, so pair with ample line spacing on bright backgrounds.

Rosette Accessibility Recommendations

Maintain a minimum contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for body text and 3:1 for large text when setting Rosette. Use font sizes of at least 16 px for paragraph copy and line spacing of 1.5 or greater. For low-vision users, pair Rosette with high-contrast backgrounds and avoid setting below 18 px.

Working with Rosette: Best Practices

Combine with humanist sans-serifs for warmth or with a contrasting Didone serif for editorial hierarchy. Avoid pairing with blackletter or heavy display faces. A focused set of pairings helps designers find compatible companions for Rosette. Establish hierarchy through size, spacing, and color rather than multiplying font families. Serve Rosette in WOFF2 format for optimal load performance and broad browser compatibility.

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Available Weights

400
Regular
Local
400
Regular Italic
Local
700
Bold
Local
700
Bold Italic
Local

Weight Reference

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100
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200
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300
Aa
400
Aa
500
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600
Aa
700
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800
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900

Internationalization

Rosette Multilingual Support

Extended Latin Coverage
Supports 100+ languages with Latin script

Western European

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish
  • Italian
  • Portuguese
  • Dutch

Nordic

  • Swedish
  • Norwegian
  • Danish
  • Finnish
  • Icelandic

Central European

  • Polish
  • Czech
  • Hungarian
  • Romanian
  • Slovak

Baltic

  • Lithuanian
  • Latvian
  • Estonian

This font encodes 72 glyphs covering Latin. Text outside these ranges falls back to another face in the stack.

Legal

Usage Rights for Rosette

SIL Open Font License (OFL) 1.1
Free for personal and commercial use
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What you can do

  • Personal projects
  • Commercial projects
  • Web embedding
  • App embedding
  • Modification
  • Redistribution

Restrictions

  • Selling as standalone

Modified versions must use a different name and be distributed under the same OFL license.

Rosette is available under the SIL Open Font License (OFL), Version 1.1. This license is a free, libre, and open source license specifically designed for fonts and related software. The OFL allows the fonts to be used, studied, modified, and redistributed freely as long as they are not sold by themselves. This makes Rosette ideal for web projects, applications, documents, and print materials of any kind.