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OSTYPE [Yury Ostromentsky] Yuri Ostromentsky is a type and graphic designer. He is a graduate of the Moscow State University of the Printing Arts (2002), where his graduation project was done under the supervision of Alexander Tarbeev. He has worked as a designer and art director for publishers and design studios. From 2004 to 2012, he served as art director of the magazine Bolshoi Gorod (Big City), for which he created several display typefaces as well as several original typefaces and Cyrillic versions of Latin fonts in collaboration with Ilya Ruderman. His typefaces were honored at the Contemporary Cyrillic 2009 and 2014 competitions. In 2004 he and Ruderman, Dmitri Yakovlev and Darya Yarzhambek created DailyType, a website. Yuri ran OSTYPE as part of KunstGroup.ru. His typefaces include PrinsenGracht [Text (+Caps, +Italic), Display (+Caps, +Italic)], Poza, SSN Antique, Pilar, and Gegangen. His type system Best Life Serif (codesigned with Ilya Ruderman) won an award at Paratype K2009. He became associated with Custom Fonts, and designed RIA in 2013. RIA won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014. In 2014, Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky founded CSTM. In 2015, Ilya and Yury published Kazimir, a didone typeface family for Latin and Cyrillic, taking as a model the typeface used in The History of Russian Philology by P. N. Polevoy (1900, A. F. Marx Publishing House). Typefaces from 2017: Stratos Cyrillic (at Production Type, with Ilya Ruderman; a Cyrillic version of Yoann Minet's 2016 geometric grotesque typeface Stratos: it received a Type Directors Club New York Certificate of Excellence 2017), Pseudo Russian. Co-designer with Nikita Kanarev and Ilya Ruderman at CSTM Fonts of the 18-style exprimental typeface family Lurk (2020). It is based on an earlier version that was specially designed for the Russian youtuber Yury Dud. Typefaces from 2021: CSTM Xprmnntl 03 (in uncial Cyrillic, gothic blackletter and inbetween styles). In 2021, CSTM Fonts released the 42-style sans family Loos (Latin, Cyrillic, Georgian), a typeface designed by Yury Ostromentsky, Ilya Ruderman, and Daria Zorkina. Advisers on Georgian included Alexander Sukiasov and Lasha Giorgadze. At the end of 2021, Ostromentsky designed and published the 20-style (+variable font) Elzevir-inspired Maregraphe at CSTM / Type Today wth the help of Mikhail Strukov and Ilya Ruderman. Typefaces from 2022: Zhivov (an experimental Latin / Cyrillic typeface based on early Cyrillic graphics).	EXTERNAL LINKS OSTYPE [Designer info] Behance page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Type design in Russia ⦿ Cyrillic type design ⦿ Modern style [Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Thorowgood, Computer Modern, etc.] ⦿ Blackletter fonts ⦿ Uncial typefaces ⦿ Experimental type ⦿ Variable fonts ⦿