Almaty Telecom

KZArial is a Kazakhstan version of Monotype's Arial, generated by Andrey Karchin for the Izet Company. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anton Sever

Haifa, Israel-based designer of the Latin display face Arlekin002 (2012). Anton was born in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan in 1982. He graduated from Academy of Design Wizo Haifa. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Artem Kaluzhniy

Kazakhstan designer of the beautiful Cyrillic/Latin font Moonchild. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Astronaut Design
[Slava Kirilenko]

Astronaut Design is located in Almaty, Kazakhstan. It is run by Slava Kirilenko. Behance link.

Her typefaces include the free rounded sans family Static (2012, Fontfabric), 1204 Grotesque (1212), Neue Standart Grotesk (2012), the free font Archive (also at Fontfabric: both Latin and Cyrillic), Svalbard Chrome (2012), and Weimar (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Pouzeot

Graphic designer from Pavlodar, Kazakhstan. He created the octagonal face Furore (2009), as well as Trajan Pro Cyrillic (2009). He cyrillicized Yanone Kaffeesatz in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Extending Cyrillic

Article by Adobe's Thomas Phinney on how to tackle extensions of Cyrillic in future Adobe releases (in line with the Unicode specs), in the hope of covering these languages as well (population numbers in parentheses): Abaza (45K), Adyghian (300K), Avar (600K), Buryat (440K), Chechen (1M), Dungan (50K), Ingush (230K), Kabardian (650K), Kalmyk (160K), Kara-Kalpak (200K), Kazakh (8M), Kyrgyz (1.5M), Lakh (145K), Lezgi (400K), Mongolian (5M), Tabasaran (100K), Tajik (4.4M), Tatar (7M), Turkmen (6.4M), Tuvan (200K), Uzbek (16.5M). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Garkavets

At the UNESCO site in Kazakhstan, type 1 and truetype font families for Cyrillic and East-European languages, by Garkavets, made in 2000: BookmanUrum, BookmanUrumBold, BookmanUrumItalic, QypchakDiacritic, QypchakDiacriticBold, QypchakDiacriticBoldItalic, QypchakDiacriticItalic, TimesUrumNewBold-Italic, TimesUrumNewBold, TimesUrumNewItalic, TimesUrumNewNormal. Plus VusillusOldFaceItalic (Ralph Hancock, 1999) and SchoolBookAC (ParaGraph, 1992). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Heinrich Vogeler

Designer at Klingspor of Kalender Bilder (1910), who lived in Worpswede. Born in Germany in 1872, he died in Kazakhstan in 1942. Jugendstil Initials (2007, HiH, Malcolm Wooden) is a commercial digital revival of a blackletter designed by Heinrich Vogeler around 1905. Compare with Vogeler Caps (2002, CybaPee Creations) and Vogeler Initialen (2002, Dieter Steffmann), both free revivals of a similar style face. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Kristina Jaeger

Aka Krisdtina Litwinowa, b. 1990, Ostagan, Kazakhstan. She emigrated in 1998 to Germany. Graphic design student in Nuremberg, Germany. She created the simple handprinted typeface Kiiwniwa (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Minority languages of Russia on the Net
[Esa Anttikoski]

Esa Anttikoski's page with minority Russian language links. Has fonts for Altai/Mari, Kazakh, Tatar, Chechen, Chuvash (TimesEC), Udmurt, Ossetian, Karelian, Yakut. His font Abur (2000). Subpage on Russian minority language fonts. In particular, free fonts offered include

• Eurasian fonts for Bashkir, Buryat, Chuvash, Kalmyk and Tatar (Cyrillic): Bookman Eurasian, Chancery Eurasian, Gothic Eurasian, Mono Eurasian, Palladio Eurasian, Roman Eurasian, Sans Eurasian, Sans Condensed Eurasian, Schoolbook Eurasian. The original fonts were created by URW++, the Cyrillic part by Valek Filippov, and were modified by Esa Anttikoski. These fonts can be distributed and modified freely in accordance with the GNU General Public License.
• Kildin fonts for the Kildin Saami dialect: Bookman Kildin, Mono Kildin, Roman Kildin, Sans Kildin.
• Mansi fonts for the Mansi language: Schoolbook Mansi.
• Paleoasian fonts for Chukchi, Eskimo, Itelmen, Ket, Koryak and Nivkh: ER Bukinist Paleoasian, ER Univers Paleoasian.
• Sakha fonts for Dolgan and Yakut: Bookman Sakha, Chancery Sakha, Gothic Sakha, Mono Sakha, Palladio Sakha, Roman Sakha, Sans Sakha, Sans Condensed Sakha, Schoolbook Sakha.
• Sayan-Altai fonts for Altai, Khakas and Shor: Chancery Sayan-Altai, Roman Sayan-Altai, Schoolbook Sayan-Altai.
• Uralic fonts for Altai, Khanty, Komi, Mari, Nenets, Selkup and Udmurt: Bookman Uralic, Chancery Uralic, Gothic Uralic, Mono Uralic, Palladio Uralic, Roman Uralic, Sans Uralic, Sans Condensed Uralic, Schoolbook Uralic, Zagadka.

Naverhtrad

FontStructor who made Basmachi (2009): Basmachi is a Central-Asian flavoured typeface inspired by Cyrillic titling fonts in popular use in Kazakhstani public schools. In 2009 he made Brokenscript Rectangular (+Smooth, +Regular: nice blackletter font), Young Young Turkic (2009, a Cyrillic FontStruct based very loosely on the Serbian Cyrillic Bedrock typeface, designed specifically for the Kazakh and Kyrgyz alphabets), and LeanLeft (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sabomaster
[Sabit Sugirov]

Sabit Sugirov (Sabomaster) is from Almaty City, Kazakhstan, and was born in 1985. He designed Sabomaster, a gorgeous Cyrillic/Latin display font (2003). He also made Sabomaster-Uh (2003).

Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stalin

Introduced at the time of Genghis Khan, the Mongolian script was widely used until 1942, when Stalin proclaimed that Asian nations including Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia must all use Cyrillic instead of their native script. Within 40 years, traditional script was abandoned and forgotten as new generations began learning only Cyrillic. By 1990, a mere 10 per cent of Mongols, mostly the elderly, could read and write in old script. After the fall of the Soviet Empire in 1990, the country returned to its old script. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tatar language

Esa Anttikoski's page with Tatar links. Tatar is in the Turkish family of languages and is spoken in the Republic of Tatarstan, in a number of districts in Bashkortostan, Mari El, Udmurtia, Mordovia, in most regions of Russia and in a few districts of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaidzhan, Kirgizia, Tadzhikistan and Turkmenistan. This page has a free Tatar truetype font from Kheter Publishers. Description of some Tatar fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Transliteration of Non-Roman Alphabets
[Thomas T. Pedersen]

From Copenhagen and Estonia, Thomas T. Pedersen's page on non-Roman alphabets. He specializes in all kinds of Cyrillic alphabets, such as Abaza, Abkhaz, Adyghe, Altay, Arabic, Armenian, Avar, Azerbaijani, Bashkir, Belarusian (Belorussian), Bulgarian, Buryat, Chechen, Chukchi, Chuvash, Crimean Tatar, Dargwa (Dargin), Dungan, Erzya Mordvin (Mordva), Eskimo - Yupik, Even, Evenki, Gagauz, Georgian, Greek, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Ingush, Kabardian, Kalmyk, Karachay-Balkar, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Khakass, Khanty, Kirghiz, Komi (Komi Zyryan), Komi-Permyak, Koryak, Kumyk, Lakh, Lezgian (Lezgin), Macedonian, Mansi, Mari: Hill Mari, Meadow Mari, Moksha Mordvin (Mordva), Moldovan (Moldavian), Nanai, Nenets, Nivkh, Nogay (Noghay), Ossetian (Ossetic), Ottoman Turkish, Russian, Rusyn (Lemko&Vojvodinian), Selkup, Serbian, Tabasaran, Tajik, Talysh, Tatar, Turkmen, Tuvinian, Udmurt, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Yakut, Yiddish. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Turkcestan

Free Uzbeki, Tatar Cyrillic, Tatar Turkish, Kazak, Bashkirian, Azeri and Turkish fonts. Plus links for all these Turkic languages: Altai, Azerbaijani, Balkar, Bashkir, Chagatay, Chuvash, Cuman, Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, Karachay, Karaim, Kazakh, Khakas, Kumyk, Kyrgyz, Nogay, Old Uyghur, Orkhon, Ottoman, Shor, Tatar, Tofa, Turkish, Turkmen, Tuvan, Uyghur, Uzbek, Yakut, Yellow Uyghur. All of this is maintained by Johan Vandewalle in Belgium. KYRG [Google] [More]  ⦿

UNESCO Kazakhstan

Type 1 and truetype fonts for Armenian by Ruben Tarumian: ArialArmenGarBold, ArialArmenGarItalic, ArialArmenGar, ArmoldGar, ArTarGrqiNorGarBold, ArTarGrqiNorGarItalic, ArTarGrqiNorGar, ArTarumianMatenagirGarBold, ArTarumianMatenagirGarItalic, ArTarumianMatenagirGar, ArTarumianTimesGarBold, ArTarumianTimesGarItalic, ArTarumianTimesGar. And the Cyrillic fonts by Garkavets (2000): BookmanUrumBold, BookmanUrumItalic, BookmanUrum. Plus QypchakDiacriticBoldItalic (has characters and ligatures, used in "Codex Cumanicus" and Qypchaq written monuments XIII-XIV centuries, also made by Garkavets, 2000), QypchakDiacriticBold, QypchakDiacriticItalic, QypchakDiacritic. From ParaGraph, the Cyrillic fonts SchoolBookAC-Regular, SchoolBookAC-Italic, SchoolBookAC-Bold, SchoolBookAC-BoldItalic. From Garkavets, the Cyrillic fonts TimesUrumNewBold, TimesUrumNewBold-Italic, TimesUrumNewItalic, TimesUrumNewNormal. By Ralph Hancock, the Greek font VusillusOldFaceItalic. And finally, from Adobe, the Turkish fonts TmsRoman, TmsRomanBold, TmsRomanBoldItalic, TmsRomanItalic. Direct access. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Unicode-fonts with Cyrillic letters

Esa Anttikoski's list of Unicode-fonts with Cyrillic letters:

• Arial Unicode MS (13,7 MB) A full Unicode version 2.0 font with more than 51 thousand glyphs. Due to its large size, it may not work in your computer.
• Arial for Windows (second, third address; 541 KB), Courier New for Windows (second, third address; 631 KB), Times New Roman for Windows (second, third address; 646 KB) The latest versions of these Microsoft fonts include Cyrillic Unicode characters used in Azeri, Buryat, Dungan, Kalmyk, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Tatar, Turkmen, Tuvan, Uighur and Uzbek.
• Bukvica Unicode version 3.2 font for Macintosh OS X 10.2
• Code2000 shareware demo Unicode font Includes all Cyrillic letters of the standard 3.0. .
• Palatino Linotype (second, third address; 0,99 MB) Includes Cyrillic Unicode characters used in Azeri, Bashkir, Buryat, Dungan, Kalmyk, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Tatar, Turkmen, Tuvan, Uighur and Uzbek.
• Thryomanes 1.1. Includes all Cyrillic characters of the Unicode 3.2 standard. Check this page for more information.

UniType

Commercial Windows XP packages sold with foreign language fonts in TrueType and PostScript, called GlobalSuite, GlobalWriter and GlobalOffice. Includes most foreign languages. For example, in the Cyrillic sphere, they have Bulgarian, Byelorussian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian plus over 50 additional Cyrillic languages such as Azeri, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Moldavian, Mongolian, Tadzhik, Tatar, Turkmen and Uzbek. And for North Indian, they have Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, Punjabi, and Sanskrit. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vladislav Valentinovich Kuzmichev

Kazakhstan designer of the Cyrillic fatface font Final, of the Cyrillic version of David Rakowski's Logger, and of the Cyrillic version of an ITC font by Martin Wait, now called Hrom. He also made OrdensVK (2002), Ograda, Pero (2001), Svoboda, Vladovskiy, Viza, Bulka, Burlak (2001), Brody, Bolid, Beresta (2001), Aktau. Here we can download Burlak (2001). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Zhalgas Kassymkulov

FontStructor from Shanghai, Kazakhstan (b. 1986), aka architaraz. Dafont link.

He made a gridded modular face called Targeted (2011). Sliced (2011) is a counterless stencil face. Discostructed (sic) (2011) is a texture face. Mono Dot (2011) is a thin dot matrix face. Mono Hor (2011) is a horizontally striped version of it, Mono Ver (2011) a vertically striped version, and Mono Bold (2011) a bold version. Promo (2011) is purely geometric. Semiz (2011) and Semiz Light (experimental) are partly art deco. Audio (2011) is based on the logo of audiojelly. Arro (2011) has letters with arrowed terminals. Hexa (2011) is hexagonal. Happi (2011) is a fat finger face. Semiz Black (2011) is a free fat pixel face.

Creations from 2012: Rap My Hip-Hop, Armada 1991 (monospaced), Venus (white on black), Garage Garbage (bold avant-garde design), WHAQ, Extra Fontestrial, Algae, Thaiana Jones. [Google] [More]  ⦿