Morta is a handwritten unicase typeface with a slight calligraphic influence. Its design, like centuries-old cold dark stones, has carved edges and polished corners and is represented by two styles: the more legible “Brute” for general use and the more contrasted “Grace” for large text sizes.

Styles: Brute, Grace.
Scripts: Extended Latin, European & Asian Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Georgian.
Languages: 500+. Full list of supported languages: https://michaelrafailyk.com/morta
Kerning: 508 class-to-class pairs.
Hinting: Manual PostScript.
Format: OTF – OpenType with PostScript outlines.
Unicase: The design combines the shapes of uppercase and some lowercase letters.
Stylistic Alternates: TtЗзЖжНнУуФфЦцЧчЩщЯя
Stylistic Set 01 “Arrows”
Stylistic Set 02 “Interpunct”: All space characters are replaced with an alternate version containing a vertically centered dot that mimics word separation in ancient Latin script.
Ordinals: adehnorst.
Stylistic Set 03 “Ruthenian Cyrillic”: The letters ЖжНнУуФфЦцЧчЩщЯя are replaced with their historical Ukrainian Cyrillic forms, respecting the “Graphics of the Ukrainian Language” project.
Superscript, Subscript, Numerator, Denominator: 0123456789.
Fractions: ¼½¾⅐⅑⅒⅓⅔⅕⅖⅗⅘⅙⅚⅛⅜⅝⅞⅟ (precomposed). Any other combinations of “digit+slash+digit” will be automatically replaced with “Numerator+fraction+Denominator.”
Slashed Zero: All 0 figures are replaced with a slashed zero.
Localized Forms: 20 characters are automatically substituted for Azeri, Catalan, Dutch, German, Kazakh, Moldavian, Polish, Romanian, Tatar, and Turkish languages.
Glyph Composition/Decomposition (Diacritics): Full set of Latin and basic Vietnamese diacritics (571 precomposed characters).

The promo images include the painting “The Dedication” by Edmund Blair Leighton, “The Idyll” by Mykola Pymonenko, photos by Steve Johnson from Pexels and Matt Brett from Unsplash, the poem “What did we have?” by Lina Kostenko, the Sonnets’ dedication by William Shakespeare, and illustrations by Michael Rafailyk.

The typeface was designed by Michael Rafailyk in 2023 and significantly expanded in 2024.