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Six scripts, one coherent system
Identitet is a typeface system by Nikola Djurek comprising six scripts historically used across the Balkan region: Angular Glagolitic, Round Glagolitic, Croatian Cyrillic (Bosančica), Cyrillic, Arebica, and Latin. The system unifies these scripts by calibrating shared visual parameters—line thickness, x-height, and uppercase height—for compatibility when set together. Released in 2014, it was recognised by Type Journal as one of the top Cyrillic typefaces of that year.
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- Compatibility across scripts was achieved by calibrating line thickness, x-height, and uppercase height consistently across all six writing systems.
- The Glagolitic component includes three distinct versions: a historically accurate revival of the 1483 printed script, a simplified reduced-contrast version, and the round Glagolitic form used in the 10th–12th centuries.
- Arebica, derived from Arabic script, is the sole right-to-left script in the system; all others run left-to-right.
- According to the foundry, the regional languages share a common phonetic structure that each of the six scripts complements well.
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