Temporary State (was: Abstrkt)

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Temporary State (was: Abstrkt) [Roman Gornitsky] Moscow, and before that, St. Petersburg, Russia-based foundry, first called Abstrkt, and later extended to The Temporary State. All fonts are by Roman Gornitsky (b. 1986, Leningrad). In 2020, the foundry was located in Leipzig, Germany. Roman's fonts: Krisis Sans (2008). Lawyer Gothic (2008). Littera Plain (2008) and Littera Text (2008). An interpretation of the most popular sans family in Russia. Proto Sans (2008). A 42-style constructivist family. Vremena (2009) and Vremena Grotesk (2009) each have eight styles, and are their interpretation of Times and Arial, respectively. See also Nowie Vremena (2011). Vremena was extended in 2016-2017 to the free typeface Wremena. Fun City (2010). An extensive family of typefaces designed for multi-layered use. Each letter is designed on the same grid, so overlays can create great effects. The Stroke Sans (2010). Differentura (2010). A grotesk. Lineatura (2011). A great art deco-meets avant garde family. Twentytwelve (in styles Slab N, Sans R, Sans C, Serif C, Sans G, Sans). Created in 2011-2012 at the Jan van Eyck Academy in The Netherlands, and inspired by Paul Renner's original designs for Futura. Extended in 2017 as Five Years Later. Manege (2016). Manege was initially designed for the celebration of 200 years of Manege Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow: The shapes of the typeface are heavily influenced by monumental typefaces of late 1950s Stalinist architecture, as well as hand-drawn title pages of Soviet books of the same period and typefaces like Telingater, Lazurski, Trajan and even some Romain du Roi. Initially designed for all caps typesetting, Manege tries to combine in itself monumentality with clumsiness, a particular mixture of feelings one often gets from looking at old stone-carved inscriptions. Panama and Panama Monospace (2017). A text typeface in the style of Century. Soyuz Grotesk (2017). This free almost experimental sans is based on a Cyrillic version of Helvetica made by two students of the Moscow print Institute in 1963, Yuri Kurbatov and Maxim Zhukov. Steinbeck (2018). A playful sans. Gramatika (2020). Initially developed as a Helvetica-like typeface for Experimental Jetset's new visual identity of V-A-C Foundation (Moscow/Venice), it became a retail font (with some additions and changes) in 2020. Special attention was paid to spacing and multi-language diacritics, as well as dingbats that include arrows, chess symbols and weather icons. Pressuru (2020). A compact sans.	EXTERNAL LINKS Temporary State (was: Abstrkt) [Buy fonts] [Designer info] Fontspring link [Buy fonts] Klingspor Museum page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type design in Russia ⦿ Cyrillic type design ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type design and constructivism ⦿ Art deco typefaces ⦿ Sites with only a few free fonts ⦿ Typefaces inspired by the Trajan column in Rome ⦿ Monospaced fonts ⦿ German type scene ⦿ Icon fonts ⦿ Chess fonts ⦿ Typefaces with arrows ⦿