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TypeType [Jovanny Lemonad]

Prolific Russian designer (b. 1986) whose real name is Ivan Gladkikh. Jovanny lives in St. Petersburg. From 2003 until 2008, he studied audovisual engineering at The Bonch-Bruevich Saint-Petersburg State University of Telecommunications. In the early part of his career, most of his typefaces were free. In 2013, he set up the commercial typefoundry TypeType. Most of his typefaces cover both Latin and Cyrillic.

His typefaces include Scada Sans Two (2009), Furore (2009, octagonal), Metro (2009, constructivist), Dited (2009, dot matrix: free), Days and Days One (2009, sans), and the attractive display faces Otscookie (2009, geometric and experimental), 20db (2008, high-contrast titling with didone features), Cuprum (2008) and Molot (2008, with Roman Yershov). In 2008, he added to this list the grunge or handwriting faces FFUPuzzle, London (designed with Olga Kozlova) and Neucha (hand-printed), as well as the modern black display typeface 20db. Together with Eric Lebedco, he created the organic typeface Philosopher (2008). In 2006, he cooperated on the rounded Cyrillic typeface ZopaCyr. With Oleg Zhuravlev, he created the octagonal family Bender (2009, award winner at Paratype K2009). Creator of the corporate type family Ice and Flame (2009), an organic typeface based on Philosopher.

CDMA (2010) is a rounded sans for corporate use. Nixie One (2011) is a free thin typewriter style face. Yeseva One (2011, as in "yes, Eva, bring me another beer") is a free ornamental serif face. Numans (2011) is a free wide sans face.

Creations from 2012 include the frees typeface Oranienbaum (an antiqua created with Oleg Pospelov). He produced the free font Prosto (2012), which was designed by Pavel Emelyanov [see also Google Web Fonts]. Russo One (2012, Google Web Fonts) is a macho sans. Stalin One (2012) is a constructivist typeface codesigned with Alexey Maslov---it is free at Google Web Fonts.

Typefaces from 2013: Imperial One (a free constructivist font based on the corporate font for the game role playing game The Mandate), Underdog (angular), Supermolot (an extension of his 2008 typeface Molot, a modern techie square grotesk with elements of Soviet style; extended in 2015 to TT Supermolot).

In 2014, TypeType published TT Slabs, TT Drugs (followed in 2015 by TT Drugs Condensed), TT Souses (hand-drawn sans family geared towards children's books and village design applications), Prosto Sans (based on their free typeface Prosto), TT Prosto Sans, TT Rounds (a basic rounded sans typeface family), TT Days Sans (TypeType: a pro version of his free font Days), TT Squares (an octagonal typeface family), TT Russo Sans), and TT Rounds Black.

Typefaces from 2015: TT Marks (2015, a sign painting typeface family), TT Firs (2015, a Scandinavian cold sans family), Eleventh Square (art deco by Evgeny Tarasenko), TT Rounds Condensed, TT Books Script (a fifties style script), TT Crimsons (for short and emotional inscriptionsTT Masters (signage type), TT Inters (a great rhythmic script font), Frenchpress, TT Chocolates (a geometric grotesque with art deco hints), TT Bluescreens (30-style condensed sans family for movie trailers), TT Directors (designed for movie titling and trailers).

He also has a lively type blog (in Russian).

Alternate URL. Behance link---on Behance, he uses the name Ivan Gladkikh. Fontsquirrel link. Google font directory link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. Old home page. TT Rounds (2014) is a basic rounded sans typeface family.

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