Italian typographer Luca Rossi has designed "Eternalis," the official typeface for UNESCO's new World Heritage Digital Archive. The serif font combines Renaissance manuscript letterforms with AI-assisted legibility enhancements, ensuring readability across 8,000 languages while maintaining historical authenticity.

Rossi spent three years analyzing 15th-century codices from Vatican archives, digitizing organic ink spread patterns to create subtle texture variations. The typeface's variable-width serifs automatically adjust based on context—narrowing for technical terms in conservation reports and expanding for poetic descriptions of cultural sites.

UNESCO's Director-General described it as "a bridge between ancestral craftsmanship and modern preservation needs." Rossi's prior work on Venice's flood barrier documentation system earned him the Type Directors Club Gold Medal, with "Eternalis" already adopted by the British Library and National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico.

The font's open-source framework allows global heritage organizations to customize glyphs for regional scripts, ensuring inclusivity in documenting intangible cultural heritage.