An attempt to go back towards the beauty of fine book printing, inspired in Britain's literary classics. Athelas was awarded, First prize on Granshan Type Design Competition 2008. This typeface takes full advantage of the typographic silence, that white space in the margins, between the columns, the lines, the words, the lettershapes and finally, within the characters themselves. It is also intended to take advantage of the great advances and technical developments made in offset printing. Athelas shows its best side in finely crafted book editions and good printing conditions. Athelas has a large character set that covers most of the languages that use the Latin, Cyrillic and Greek scripts. Although inspired in British literature, this typeface respects the cultural values behind different languages, where diacritic marks have an utterly important role. Athelas features four weights and about 1000 characters per weight, including small caps, discretionary ligatures, fractions, a complete range of numerals for every use and a set of ornaments and arrows. The typeface was designed by Veronika Burian, Jose Scaglione and released by TypeTogether foundry in 2008.