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Bulgarian type designer, b. 1983, who runs a foundry by the same name in Yambol. Bulgaria. Typograph Pro (2010) is a clean almost geometric sans family with two hairline weights. Zip (2010) is a squarish techno family. Another URL: Amateur Media. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
At the University of Sofia (Bulgaria), several font zip files containing the Mongolian fonts CMsHuree, CMsUlaanbaatar and CMsUrga, and the Mongolian font family TimesNewRomanMon. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designers of the free Bulgarian Cyrillic face AshleyCapitaliSofia. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bulgarian graphic and type designer who made Versus (2008, pixelish). Also check out his colorful type poster. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bulgarian typographer and graphic designer who created the flowing fat display face WonderBoys (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Brand Carry
| Diana Elkina (Brand Carry) is a type designer in Sofia, Bulgaria. She created the flower dingbat face Bloomy (2010). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
About 60 Cyrillic fonts at this Bulgarian FTP site. The majority are fonts by DemaSoft (1993), like the Lozen, EngineCyr, FreeStyleCyr_Bold, GermanCondensedX_Bold, and Iskar_Bold families. Also here are great families (HebarB, Journal, Karina), and nice individual fonts such as the Courier-like Maritsa, the display font FuturaEG_HH, and the artsy font Izhi. Great site. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bulgarian--Russian Cyrillic Fonts for MS-Windows
| Ilya Talev's free original Bulgarian cyrillic fonts: BookvarBold, BookvarItalic, BookvarNormal, Bulgarian-Ariel, Bulgarian-Courier, Bulgarian-DutchRomanItalic, Bulgarian-DutchRoman, Bulgarian-GaramondItalic, Bulgarian-Garamond, Bulgarian-Italic, Bulgarian-Kursiv, Palatia-Regular, Bulgarian-Roman, Bulgarian-RomanItalic, Bulgarian-Times, Bulgarian-TimesItalic, TimokBold, TimokBoldItalic, TimokItalic, TimokPlain. The fonts with names that start with Bulgarian are due to Talev, and were made in 1995. An older page of his also had Church, NewsPrint Fonts, Garamond, Courier, Roman, Stamp (kinda arty), Times, Tribune, Zora, fonts that were shareware from Galt Technology, accompanied by the notice The fonts are in Unicode ttf format and are suitable for MS-Word 97 and the new MS-Word 2000 for Windows NT, 95/98. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
BibleScrT (URW, 1994), SPTimeFig-Bold, SPTimeFig-Roman. The last two fonts are for chess, and were made in 1998 by SoftPlus Co, Sofia, Bulgaria. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bulgarian designer of the great ZapfDingbats-inspired dingbat font Linotype Zigibacks, 1997, and of Linotype Partytime. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Lots of free fonts can be downloaded here. This includes Ilya Talev's Bulgarian truetype font series, as well as Gavin Helf's ER font series. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Small Bulgarian archive: Bulgarian-Ariel, Bulgarian-Courier, Bulgarian-DutchRoman, Bulgarian-Garamond, Bulgarian-GaramondItalic, Bulgarian-Italic, Bulgarian-Kursiv, Bulgarian-Roman, Bulgarian-RomanItalic, Bulgarian-Times, Bulgarian-TimesItalic, ComicSansMS-Bold, ComicSansMS, Hebar, HebarBold, HebarBoldItalic, HebarItalic, HebarNormal, Palatia-Regular, TimokBold, TimokBoldItalic, TimokItalic, TimokPlain. All fonts have Latin and Cyrillic character sets. The fonts starting with "Bulgarian" were generated by Ilya Talev. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and illustrator in Sofia, Bulgaria. She created Moo Moo (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Plovdiv, Bulgaria-based creator of the experminental typeface Demist (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bulgarian graphic and web designer. She created the modern display face Abion (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bulgarian designer of the Terminus bitmap fonts, which were later truetypeified, first by Eric Cheng in 2004, and then by Simon Schubert. See the truetype font Terminus Re33 (2006) here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bulgarian illustrator who made the thin geometric monoline face You and I (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Evolutionfonts
| Bobby Nikolaev Marinov (Evolutionfonts, est. 2010, Sofia, Bulgaria) designed Sofia City (2011, a decorative hand-drawn family), Dimitrina (2010, informal sans face) and Smallstep (2011, Peignotian). In 2012, he created the didone-based signage script family Alecko [Alecko Plain is free]. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Fontan2.com
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Fontfabric
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Bulgarian type designer who made the copperplate font Mu Online (2012). Aka Bacardi. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Varna, Bulgaria, who made the fashion mag extreme-contrast face Profile (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bulgarian designer in Plovdiv of Coffein (2009, experimental). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hackum.com
| Bulgarian foundry and graphic design and logo firm run by Anastas Petkov. Designer of this thin slab serif (2005) in the style of Lubalin Graph. Image. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
HermesSoft Type Library
| Maker of high quality (expensive) Cyrillic, Western, Greek, Central European, and Baltic typefaces, plus multiple master fonts. All platforms supported. Universum MM: Free demo of a limited character set of the new Universum multiple master font, developed by HermesSoft. They also make the sans serif font Grotesk MM. The company is run by Ivan Neytchev from Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The fonts are designed by a team of Bulgarian typographers who used to work for Monotype in the 1980s. The javascript code in their web page is targeted to some browsers only. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Cyrillic/Bulgarian versions of Times and Courier. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ivan A. Derzhanski works at the Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia. His fonts include
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Burgas, Bulgaria-based brander and typographer. He has created some fine signpainting alphabets. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Bulgarian youngster, b. 1991, who used FontStruct to create the pixel face Lexipr (2008). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Varna, Bulgaria-based graphic and logo designer (b. 1975, Varna) who specializes in wine label design. He made the calligraphic Cyrillic alphabet Kaloyan (2008). At MyFonts, one can buy his double-lined Grant (2009, with Svetoslav Simov, Fontfabric) and FM Clog (2011, with Vassil Kateliev, done at The Fontmaker: has Openface, Shadowed and Engraved styles). Behance link. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Jordan Jelev | Graphic designer from Varna, Bulgaria. Designer of the blackletter face Ekrine (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Kalin Kult
| Kalin Borisov (Kalin Kult) is the Bulgarian designer of the free Latin/Cyrillic pixel font series BulgariaBourgasCyr, BulgariaFantasticaCyr, BulgariaGloriousCyr, BulgariaLineExtendedCyr, BulgariaOutLineCyr, BulgariaRaxelCyr (2003). Faulty web page. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Bulgarian designer of the extended headline face Elada (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Karandash
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Typefaces: Myriad Pro Bulgarian and Cyrillic (2011), Rotis Semi Serif Bulgarian Cut (2011), and FM Clog (2011, with Jordan Jelev, done at The Fontmaker: has Openface, Shadowed and Engraved styles). Callista is a fat cursive typeface that was inspired by the work of François Boltana in the early 1970s and of Milka Peykova in late 1970s. Gaytan (which means braid in Bulgarian) is a sans and serif family created in 2012. It was inspired by Old Church Slavonic Cyrillic, Bulgarian Ustav and the Russian Vyaz stiles, as well as the avant-garde works of Bulgarian typedesigners in late 1970s. But the result is definitely Victorian. MyFonts link. Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
KODEKS
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FontShop link. Via MacCampus, which he seems to run, he published Breitkopf Fraktur (2008, with Sascha Selke) and Trubetzkoy (2005, a serif face for phonetics). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Login Studio
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Graphic designer in Sofia, Bulgaria, who cooperated with Svetoslav Simov on the round typeface Dovde (2009, Fontfabric) and the sans face Zag (2009, Fontfabric). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Marian is a Bulgarian art director. His---yes, Marian is a "he"---typefaces feel like logotypes, and include the monolkine futuristic face Argonauts (2012). Behance link [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Burgas, Bulgaria-based graphic designer who created several Cyrillic typefaces in grotesk and display styles, a sports pictogram, and an animal pictogram, all in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer, illustrator and art director in Sofia, Bulgaria. Creator of Funkadelic (2009) and Quotes Alphabet (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Based in Sofia, Bulgaria, Mikael designs brands, logos, posters, logotypes and typefaces. He created the tall-legged art deco beauty Grozen (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Cyrillic fonts by Monotype: Andalé, Andalé Mono, Andalé Sans, Arial, Arial Narrow, Arial Rounded, Book Antiqua, Bookman Old Style, Century Gothic, Century Schoolbook, Monotype Corsiva, Courier, Cumberland, Gill Sans, Gill Sans Light, Haettenschweiler, Impact, Letter Gothic, Monotype News Gothic, Nimrod, Parma (=Bodoni), Perpetua, Plantin, Rockwell, Thorndale, Thorndale Mono, Times New Roman. They also have Monotype Glagolitic and Monotype Old Bulgarian and Old Bulgarian Slawjanski, two old church Slavonic faces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Neogrey
| Ivan Phillipov (Neogrey, also written as Ivan Filipov) designed the techno faces Research Remix (1993), Neogrey (2004) and Red October (2004, inspired by Soviet poster art; can be used for Cyrillic simulation; followed by Red October Stencil, 2009). Release Yourself (octagonal), Research Remix (rounded octagonal), Arkitech Light, Discophat and Neogrey Medium appeared in 2009. In 2011, he published Artitech Round and Syntha. Neogrey has offices in Plovdiv, Bulgaria and Turkey. In 2012, the round monoline face Syntha and the techno face Arkitech Medium were published. Alternate URL. Dafont link. Fontspace link. Abstractfonts link. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic, web and app designer in Sofia, Bulgaria. Creator of the modular face Fox (2009-2011). Home page. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graffiti artist from Sofia, Bulgaria. He designed some typefaces, which can be viewed at Behance. Weston is a new free rounded slab-serif font designed by Pavel Pavlov in 2011 for Fontfabric. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Plamen Bliznakov's page on Glagolitic (Bulgarian) and Cyrillic fonts and font issues. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Anna ("Plaxy") is the Sofia-based designer of Tulip (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pvisual
| Patric Hadzsinicsev (b. 1989, Budapest) runs Pvisual in Bulgaria. In 2011, he designed the typefaces Ozone (an organic typeface) and Fox (fat and counterless). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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Professor at the University of Portsmouth, UK. Designer of the old Bulgarian font Dilyana (2005), which can be downloaded here and here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Repertorium Fonts
| Project led by David Birnbaum at the University of Pittsburgh: The Repertorium of Old Bulgarian Literature and Letters was conceived as an archival repository capable of encoding and preserving in SGML (and, subsequently, XML) format archeographic, palaeographic, codicological, textological, and literary-historical data concerning original and translated medieval texts represented in Balkan Cyrillic manuscripts. The Repertorium project grew out of an initiative of David J. Birnbaum (University of Pittsburgh), Andrej Bojadiev (University of Sofia), Milena Dobreva (Institute of Mathematics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), and Anisava Miltenova (Institute of Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) in 1994, with early SGML development assistance from Berend Dijk and Harry Gaylord (both then of the University of Groningen). Sub-page with several free fonts for early Cyrillic: Menaion and Menaion Medieval (Victor Baranov), Lazov and Lazov Bold (Rumjan Lazov), Dilyana (Ralph Cleminson), Kliment Std (Sebastian Kempgen), Titus Cyrillic and Titus Cyberbit Basic. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer in Florence, Italy. She created a font based on old Bulgarian lettering in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bulgarian designer (b. 1982) of dLi Studio SQ (2009, +Bold). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rumjan Lazov | Designer of the old Bulgarian fonts Lazov and Lazov Bold (2005), which can be downloaded here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Bulgarian creator of the pixel fonts Lexipr (2008, FontStruct), MikrinF-5x5 (2008, FontStruct) and Alegro 7 Pro (2008, FontStruct). Alternate URL. Blog. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Talented photographer and art director in Sofia, Bulgaria. He created the experimental typeface Roll (2009), and Poker (2010). No downloads or sales. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Sofia, Bulgaria. Creator of a circular arc experimental Cyrillic typeface in 2012. She also created the experimental typeface Former (2012). The Plant (2012) is a modular geometric font experiment. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of Gimbutas (1999), a font for Vinca symbols (Mac, PC), found on many of the artefacts excavated from sites in south-east Europe, in particular from Vinca near Belgrade, but also in Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Eastern Hungary, Moldova, Southern Ukraine and the former Yugoslavia. The artefacts date from between the 7th and 4th millennia BC and those decorated with these symbols are between 8,000 and 6,500 years old. Sorin works at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Bucharest, Romania. The drawings of the Gimbutas font were by Doina Mihaila. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Bulgarian branding designer and type designer who lives in Sofia. His oeuvre includes organic futuristic faces such as Modulizm (2008), Ovalizm (2008), and the kitchen tile face Pixelizm (2008). No downloads. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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SynthesisSoft | Russian foundry active in the early 1990s. Fonts are shattered over the web. They include Cyrillica Bulgarian (1994), Glagolica Bulgarian (1993), OldCyr Bold (1992), TmsCyr (1993), UnvEe UnvCyr, CourierCyr, CourierEe, CyrillicaBgEpigraph, CyrillicaOchrid1, CyrillicaOchridEpigraph, CyrillicaShafarik, CyrillicaShafarikEpigraph, Etymolog1, Etymolog3, OldCyr. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Foundry for Latin and Cyrillic fonts based in Varna, Bulgaria, est. 2011. They created FM Clog (2011, by Jordan Jelev and Vassil Kateliev). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
TopTeam Co
| Bulgarian developer of the free type 1 font package t1-teams for Latin and Cyrillic, which is used in Bulgarian newspapers and magazines of the TopTeam Publishing House. The maintainer is Anton Zinoviev. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typedepot
| Typedepot is a small type foundry currently based in Sofia, Bulgaria, founded by MyFonts link and Veronika Slavova in 2009. Graphic designer from Sofia, Bulgaria, b. 1984 (Dimitrovgrad). Creator of the display faces Glide (2009, done with Veronika Slavova), Glide Sketch (outline version), and Slide (2009, ultra-condensed). With Veronika Slavova, he designed the multiline family Pista (2010) and the organic Oxo family (2010), which includes a stencil, Corki (2011, a condensed slab serif), and Oxo College Barrister Sans (2010) covers Latin, Greek, Eastern European languages, Cyrillic, Turkish and Baltic. Parallel (2010) is an ultra-condensed typeface for anorexics. Piron (2010, by Nedelev and Slavova) and Matilde (2010, by Nedelev and Slavova) are free. Banda (2011) is a 16-style semi-serif type family characterized by a tall x-height and rounded semi-serifs [one free weight]. Centrale Sans (2011, Slavova and Nedelev) is a modern sans family. Behance link. MyFonts link. Old URL. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Typographer and designer in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2010, he made the ornamental all caps Cyrillic face Orthodox. In 2011, he created the ornamental caps face Floralis (which was finished by Svetoslav Simov) and the experimental face Negativ. Individual letters of Floralis: B, H, Q, Z. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
From Bulgaria, Vasil Tonev's fonts, all made in 1997: FuturisC-Demo, Futuris-Demo, Pixel-Demo, ThruBricks. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Behance link. Dafont link. Fontspring link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the old Bulgarian fonts Putiata (2004), Putyata (2004), Menaion Medieval (2004) and Menaion (2004). Alternate URL. Free downloads. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
His fonts at the foundry include Panopticum (2010, sketch face), Jamaistevie, Masha (2008, outlined, 3d and grungy), Habana (2008, splashy grunge), Lost Souls (2008, ultra-condensed), and Oh No (2008). Bacchante (2009) and Circus Stars (2009) are grungy Far West fonts. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and photographer in Sofia, Bulgaria. Behance link. He created the bullet hole alphabet Quadroval (2010). He also did some typographic posters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Zdravko Andreev (Z-design, Bulgaria) created the free experimental faces Diffuse Away (2011), Broken Squares (2011) and Sliced Tech (2011). He also made Girl Characters (2012), Suns and Stars (2011, dingbat face), Pet Animals (2012), Boy Characters (2012), White Outlines (2011), Radiation (2011, radiation symbols), Sexy Love Hearts and Sexy Love Hearts 2 (2012), Christmas Shapes (2011) and Christmas Trees (2011). Fontspace link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Interesting geometric and experimental typefaces by 
Bulgarian designer of 
Sofia, Bulgaria-based grapohic designer and photographer Kalin Varbanov designed a geometric 
Phenomenally imaginative graphic designer from Sofia, Bulgaria. He created some great typographic posters in 2010, such as those of a 
Karandash is a type and graphic foundry in Varna, Bulgaria, established in 2010 by designer 
KODEKS is the German slavistics server run by Professor Sebastian Kempgen from the University of Bamberg. Kempgen's fonts include 
Moire is a small graphic design studio in Sofia, Bulgaria, specialized in visual identity, graphic design, typography and type design. Their work is quite delicate and refreshing. I particularly like their type family 
Bulgarian type designer. Creator of the clean monoline sans faces Usumaru (2009) and Shinbi (2009), 
Bulgarian illustrator and digital artist in Varna who made the jazz room face 
Sofia, Bulgaria-based graphic designer and illustrator. [
Type designer from Nessebar, Bulgaria, b. 1984. She co-designed the über-organic face 
Botevgrad, Sofiska-based Bulgarian designer (b. 1987) of Jamaistevie (2007, a nice grunge outline face). 
