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ABOUT

Type Trends [Vika Usmanova]

Russian type designer who was part of the TypeType team in Saint Petersburg. As a student in the TypeType education program, she designed the modern text antiqua Guillaume (2016-2017). In 2019, she founded Type Trends.

In 2017, Vika Usmanova released the octagonal Latin / Cyrillic typeface TT Mussels which includes a stencil subfamily. She also was part of TT Travels in 2017, a wide dense modern grotesque.

In 2017, Vika Usmanova, Philipp Nurullin, and the TypeType Team designed the condensed modular geometric grotesk typeface TT Tunnels.

In 2018, I believe---but am not sure---that Nadezhda Polomoshnova, Phill Nurullin, Vika Usmanova, Nadyr Rakhimov and the TypeType Team co-designed TT Jenevers. In 2018, Sofia Yasenkova, Philipp Nurullin, and Vika Usmanova designed the modern serif TT Tricks at TypeType. TT Tricks has many stencil styles.

In 2018, Ivan Gladkikh, Alexander Kirillov, Philipp Nurullin, Vika Usmanova, Marina Khodak, and Nadyr Rakhimov published TT Severs. That same year, Vika Usmanova published the display sans ans script pair TT Nooks which took inspiration from the Empire State Building. Co-designer of TT Barrels (2018: a Scotch modern typeface by Inessa Mitrozor, Vika Usmanova, Marina Khodak, Nadezhda Polomoshnova and the TypeType Team).

In 2019, Vika Usmanova and the TypeType Team designed TT Trailers, a modern narrow humanist grotesque, that is accompanied by a variable font version. TT Trailers is based on the concept of preserving the amount of white: when changing from thin to bold.

In 2019, Vika published the free font Trappist, which started out as a custom type for a Belgian cafe in St. Petersburg. At TypeTrends, she released TT Alientz (Variable, serif, Grotesque) and TT Frantz, also in 2019. The latter ultra-condensed monospaced sans typeface has matching upper and lower case heights and comes as a variable type with a waistline axis.

Typefaces from 2020: TT Geekette (2020; with the TypeType Team), TT Runs (a 20-style sports sans by the TypeType team in cooperation with Vika Usmanova, Antonina Zhulkova and Philipp Nurullin).

In 2020, she co-designed TT Lakes Neue, a 91-style sans family by Vika Usmanova, Antonina Zhulkova and Kseniya Karataeva at TypeTypType. Tt is a functional sans-serif that draws inspiration from Finnish signs of the functionalism era. TT Lakes Neue is an almost monolinear sans, with ovals in the form of rounded rectangles, reminiscent of Nebiolo's Microgramma. It comprises a useful variable font.

In 2021, Svetoslav Simov and Vika Usmanova dusted off the 18-style update of Fontfabric's geometric sans family Mont called Mont Blanc. It has very short descenders and medium-sized ascenders, two variable styles, and some redesigned glyphs. Its biggest problem will be the name---surely, the famous Swiss pen maker Mont Blanc will complain sooner or later about its trademark. I am puzzled about MyFonts, which did not catch this problem when they announced the typeface.

In 2022, Vika Usmanova and Plamen Motev co-designed the wayfinding sans family Ways at Fontfabric.

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