2D Typo
[Lukyan Turetskyy]

Lviv-based Ukrainian designer (b. 1979) of the octagonal stencil face Depot Trapharet (2006, brutalist), and of the free car rallye dingbat face Rallye Symbols (2008). Dafont link.

In 2010, he went commercial as 2D Typo. The first typeface at 2D typo was the modular pixelish Pressure Drop 2D (2010). This was followed by Ornamental Deco 2D (2010, art deco ornaments), Rally Symbols 2D (2010), Mascaron2D (2010, by Iryna Korchuk), Depot Trapharet 2d (2010, a stencil based on the tram lettering in Lviv), Ascetic 2D (2005-2010), Hutsulyandiya (2010, extraordinary ornaments by Iryna Korchuk), Simeon (2010, calligraphic), Cranked Pipe 2D (2011), Tripyllia 2D (2011, ornaments of the neolithic Trypillya culture), and Ukrainian Barokko (2010, a calligraphic face by Genadij Zarechnjuk), Historism Border (2011, border ornaments).

Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

2SF

Vinnitsa, Ukraine-based group that designed the experimental techno face Lower Ladle (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

4th February
[Sergiy Tkachenko]

Sergiy Tkachenko (b. 1979, Khrystynivka, Cherkasy region, Ukraine) lives in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, and has been a prolific type designer since 2008. Sergiy graduated from Kremenchuk State Polytechnic University in computer systems and networks in 2007. Various other URLs: Microsoft link, Identifont, 4th February, Behance, Klingspor link, Revision Ru, Russian creators, CPLUV Fontspace, Twitter. Kernest link. Sergey Tkachenko's typefaces:

• 2008: the techno faces Bladi One 4F, Bladi One Slab 4F, Bladi Two 4F, Abia Wide 4F Thin.
• 2009: Serifiqo (a (free) thin didone fashion mag display face), Codename Coder 4F (monospace programming font), Droporado 4F (using circles only), Tovstun (futuristic, ultra-fat and rounded), Perfocard 4F, Modularico (five modular faces based on a logo from Master Kremenchug a company for which Sergiy worked for 4 years), Boldesqo Serif 4F (a splendid informal fat didone, now with Greek support), Tkachenko Sketch, Unicase Slab (a techno slab), Laftatic, Logofontik 4F (techno), PC.DE Stencil (+Italic; custom stencil font), Stenciliqo 4F, Tiap Liap 4F (handwriting), Nut Kit 4F, Rezzzistor 4F, Wrongo 4F, the inline modular face Grand Hotel, and Bijou 4F.
• 2010: PädIn (a custom typeface for Pädagogische Initiative e.V.: rounded fat informal face), Fat Quad (in the fatty trend), Veselka (a free multiline face), Smeshariki Black (+ Gleams: a bubble gum font made for an animation company), Republica 4F (a fat family), Rodeqa Slab 4F, ComFi (semi-octagonal), Grotesqa 4F, Nowy Geroy 4F, Fabryka 4F (a monospaced typewriter family), Placarto4F-Italic (an ultra fat art deco), Lavina 4F (a hairline sans with lachrymal terminals).
• 2011: Kylie 4F (bilined and geometric), Waldemar 4F (a large didone style fat face family), Dinesqo (2011, a monoline sans of utter simplicity), Qargotesk (+Cyrillic) [images: i, ii, iii, iv], Neultica 4F (black unicase family), Squartiqa 4F (2011, constructivist), Clarenta 4F Black (after Clarendon---a great family), Designosaur (free sans), Perfopunto (based on perforated circles and squares), OlaScript 4F, Bayadera 4F (a tamed upright monoline script), Febrotesk4FUnicase (squarish unicase family).
• 2012: Ukraintica 4F Wide (a monoline wide-bowled sans family), Sports World (free athletic lettering font), Web Serveroff (free computer geek font).
• Cyrillizations: several typefaces such as Lavoisier (by Alec Julien), Budmo Jiggler (Ray Larabie) and JoAnne Display (Sandy Cerovich), Gnuolane (of a Ray Larabie font), Paranoid Cyrillic (based on Kevin Lo's Paranoid), Movavi Grotesque Black (+Cyrillic; ; numerals), Azoft Sans (made for Azoft, and free here).
• Custom fonts: Blue Pill, Sansus Webissimo (since 2011 free at Open Font Library), Minaeff ECT (2011, a free legible family for Latin and Cyrillic, custom-made for and downloadable from WebhostingRating.com), Web Serveroff, Movavi Grotesque, Azoft Sans, PÄd In, Smeshariki, Fat Cow, Comfi, PC.de, League Gothic Cyrillic, Paranoid Cyrillic, 28 Days Later Cyrillic, Acid Label Cyrillic, Dead Secretary Cyrillic, Rezland Cyrillic, Sweet Leaf Cyrillic, Droid Cyrillic, Jo Anne Display Cyrillic, Gnuolane Free Cyrillic, Bosox Cyrillic, Budmo Jiggler Cyrillic.

Abstract Fonts link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Adolphe Mouron Cassandre

His real name is Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron, born in Charkow, Ukraine in 1901. He committed suicide in Paris in 1968, after the rejection of one of his innovative designs by a German publisher. After studies at the Ecoles des Beaux Arts in Paris, he adopted France as his country. He produced his first poster Au Bucheron at 22, and became a successful and influential poster artist best known for his epoch-defining travel posters and for his advertisements for products such as Dubonnet. The consummate art deco artist, he tried to create posters for people who did not try to see them. In 1936 he traveled to America to work on several projects. While there he designed several surrealistic covers for Alexey Brodovitch at Harper's Bazaar. In addition, he created for NW Ayers, the classic eye of the Ford billboard and several pieces for the Container Corporation of America. His career as a poster designer ended in 1939 when he changed disciplines and became a stage, set and theatrical designer.

He created some typefaces: Bifur (1928-1929, see the digital form by Richard Kegler (P22, 2004)), Acier Noir (1930-1936), Peignot (1933-1937), Touraine (with Charles Peignot, based on a design of Guillermo Mendoza, 1947), Cassandre (1968, revived and finished by Thierry Puyfoulhoux in 2003), Graphica81 (1960), and the artsy Cassandre Initials (1927, made in digital form by Gerd Wiescher at Elsner&Flake). Most of his work was done at Fonderie Deberny&Peignot. The 1960s work was at Olivetti. His poster Nord Express (1927) (Acier Noir really) inspired Nick Curtis to draw Nord Express NF.

Home page. Cassandre (1968) was largely unfinished, after having been turned down by Berthold and Olivetti (and was possibly the cause of his suicide). It was finished in a revival of sorts by Thierry Puyfoulhoux (2003). A.M. Cassandre, "L'architecture, l'art que je préfère à tous les autres." (2008) is a small PDF file/essay by Estienne student Antoine Stevenot. In 1988, Letraset published Baseline 10 The Cassandre issue, a fifty-page magazine volume edited by Mike Daines and art directed by Newell and Sorrell. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alex Color

Ukrainian designer of the OFL family OldSlavs (2011, Cyrillic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexey Malkov

Graphic designer from Kiev, Ukraine. He created the geometric face Midnight (2010), which was inspired by Herb Lubalin. Switch Connect (2011) is a high contrast art deco face. Lighter (2011) is a techno face that cries speed. Times New Fuck (2011) is a Peignotian sans with stiletto terminals on some glyphs. Blamed Neverland (2011) is a connect-the-dots avant-garde display face. Vampire (2011) is a gothic octagonal face. Geometria (2011) is a minimalist straight-edged face. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amina Fitaeva

Ukrainian designer of Lissitzky (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrew Grabelnikov

Creator of the paperclip font Mothership Connection (2009). He is located in Odessa, Ukraine. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrij Type
[Andrij Shevchenko]

Andrij Shevchenko (b. 1973) (aka Andrij Che) is the Berdyansk-based Ukrainian designer of the following typefaces, somne of which can also be had from MyFonts. Behance link.

• Agarsky (2006, a bold casual script face) which used to be called Agara until Berthold complained about the possible confusion with Agora.
• Zion Train (2007, an experimental sans in 20 styles).
• Andrij Script. See here.
• Andrij Hand (a cyrillic handwriting font, 2002-2006; see discussion).
• Strudel (2002, informal handprinting).
• ALS Agrus (2005-2006, a script face, Art Lebedev Studio).
• Machinegun (2005, octagonal military look).
• Magela (2003, a Cyrillic sans).
• Hajdamaka (2004, a bouncy Latin/Cyrillic script).
• Also check out his lettering (not fonts) in Kozaku (2005, a flowing Cyrillic script), XLibna (2005, another Cyrillic script) and here (2005).
• The semi-serifed Oksana (2007, 6 styles), Oksana Sans (2007, +Condensed), Oksana Text (2008), Oksana Cyrillic (2007), Oksana Greek (2007), and Oksana Text Swash (2008). This was followed by Oksana Text Narrow (2011), Oksana Sans (+Wide) and Oksana Sans Compressed (2011), which have hairline weights.
• Osnova Pro (2010): a sans family that covers Cyrillic, Greek and Latin.
• Ababa (2002, Cyrillic lettering).
• Turbota (2010) is a rounded Latin / Cyrillic type family that was was developed as part of an identity system for Turbota, a center for disabled children in the Ukraine.
• Seaside (2011) is a Peignotian face.
• Bandera Pro (2011) is a useful workhorse square serif type family that covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.

Showcase of Andrij Shevchenko's typefaces at MyFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Anna Lavanda

Kharkiv, Ukraine-based graphic designer and illustrator. She made the art deco ransom note font Broom (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anton Gridz

Ukrainian illustrator in Kiev. He created a paper cut numerical alphabet in 2009, called Figtype, and a free experimental face called Color Lines in 2010. Behance link. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anton Kostenko

Ukrainian graphic designer and illustrator, who made some experimental typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

ASCON
[Sergey Komarov]

Russian outfit, credited with the Latin/Cyrillic sans serif faces GOST-2.304-81typeA and GOST-2.304-81typeB (1996 and 2000). Check also here for GOST 26.00885 and Symbol 26.00885, also semi-technical drawing faces, possibly derived from CAD applications. Designer: Sergey Komarov (Ukraine). This site has GOST-forDrawing, GOST-2.304-81typeA, GOST-typeA, GOST-2.304-81typeB, GOST_type_B. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bazhen D. Yurchenko

Bazhen Yurchenko is the Kharkov, Ukraine-based designer of BenCat, Grunge, Flowerchild, BenHardLife, BenKrush and BenPioneer (1997). His fonts are here. Encient German Gothic is a blackletter font to which he added a Cyrillic in 1995-1999. Here, you will find the free Cyrillic truetype fonts Ben-Cat-Bold, Ben-Hard-Life-Bold, Ben-Krush, Ben-Pioneer-Bold. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bogdan Sviridov

Cherkassy, Ukraine-based digital artist. Home page. Creator of the funny alphading Fear Type (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bohdan Hdal

Ukrainian designer in Kiev who created a fun readable Cyrillic script face, Veles (2011, free). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

BRAMA Computing and Software

Links on Ukrainian fonts for UNIX (BDF format), Windows and Mac. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cristina Maksymenko

Graphic designer in Lemberg, Ukraine. As a student, she made a nice art deco poster called Vita Brevis Ars Longa (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cyrillic Fest 2008

Annual typography and calligraphy festival, which took place from 24-25 May 2008 in Kharkiv (Ukraine). This year it included type seminars, a presentation by Vitalij Mitchenko, type games and exhibition of typefaces and calligraphy from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Bulgaria. Photo reports: 1, 2, 3, 4. Report in the Ukrainian newspaper Novynar. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Danila Fomin

Designer from Ekaterinoslav, Ukraine. Creator of Paper Ribbon Font (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Danylo Turetskyy

Type designer born in Lviv, Ukraine, in 1978. With Lukyan Turetskyy, he made Ascetic 2D (2D Typo), a decorative font is based on Cyrillic Vyaz of the 15th and 16th centuries. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Diabetes Australia Multilingual Fonts

Archive: -JS-Rapee (Thai), ER-Bukinist-1251 (Ukranian), Simsun (Chinese), NUTANU-Regular (Hindi), Times-New-Roman-Greek, VPS-Times (Vietnamese). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Digital Photo
[Konstantin Sirotkin]

Digital Photo is a Ukrainian outfit (based in Kiev) where two fonts were made by Konstantin Sirotkin, KSScript (handwriting) and Digital (a pixel font). See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dima Tkach

Odessa, Ukraine-based graphic designer who made the Bank Gothic style face Zoria (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dimitri Yarynych

Ukrainian type designer who made Terraformer (2011, Die Gestalten), which is a sans family with Latin and Cyrillic parts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dmitry Rastvortsev

Ukrainian type designer (b. 1977, Buryn) who graduated from Sumy State University in 1999. Since 2002, he creates digital fonts. He works at Dancor advertising in Sumy, Ukraine, since 1997. He received a TypeArt 05 award for the display family DR Galushki (and DR Galushki Hole, 2011), which was designed for children's books. Other creations: Dekapot (grunge), DR Agu (comic book face), DR Vixi, DR UkrGotika Sans, DR UkrGotika Serif. His funny DR Krokodila won an award at Paratype K2009. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Elizaveta Yakovlevna Krivinskaya

Ukrainian type designer, b. 1907, Kharkov. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Evgeniy Baranov

Ukrainian designer of the dot matrix font (Latin/Cyrillic) Matricha (1999). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fedir Shulga

Type designer from the Ukraine, b. 1978, Kirovohrad. He created the Latin/Cyrillic face Aztek 2D (2011, 2D Typo). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fonts.org.ua
[Genadij Zarechnjuk]

Ukrainian font foundry run by Genadij (also spelled Henadij) Zarechnjuk (b. 1961) who lives in Lviv. Nice historically accurate free fonts made by him in the period 2000-2003: Abetka Kirnarskoho, Ancient Kyiv, Luchtein-Bold, Luchtein, LuchteinLight, NarbutClassic, NarbutNarrowContrast, NarbutWhirlSans-Serif, Narbut Abetka, Skoropys-XVII, SnarskyUstav, SnarskyjOldStyleNarrow, SnarskyjUstavNew, Traditional-Heavy, Yakutovych-Black. Chomenkivska (2007) is a semi-slab serif Cyrillic beauty.

In 2010, he created the art deco face New Hotinok 2D (2D Typo), together with Viktor Kharyk, as well as the nice calligraphic face Ukrainian Barokko 2D. Khomenkivska (done with Viktor Kharyk) is based on a 1965 design by Basil Khomenko (1912-1984). Baumans (2011, Google Web Fonts) is a geometric typeface for headlines. Its letterforms are inspired by Bauhaus typefaces and preconstructivist forms.

MyFonts link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

free.type.org.ua

Free font link collection pointing to Latin and Cyrillic fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Global Ukraine FTP server

650+ Russian TrueType archive. Fonts by ParaGraph International, A.Kustov (for Type Market), Nikita Vsesvetskii (for SoftUnion), TeamAXis Corp, Yuri A.Lyamin, Dmitry Komissarov (for ParaGraph), AzBuki press, Atech Software, Adobe, VNLabs, S. Agronsky (for Graphic Bureau Az-Zet), SMENA-SPSL Corp, Andrejs Grinbergs (for AG Fonts Collection), and !22! Soft. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hello Keepa
[Eugene Rudyy]

Eugene Rudyy (Hello Keepa, Lviv, Ukraine) designed the caps face Keeparty (2010). Free download at Font Soup. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Iakov Georgievich Chernikhov

A Russian architect and artist, Iakov Chernikhov was born in 1889 in Pavlograd, Yekaterinenskav Gubernia, Ukraine (now Dnepropetrovskay Oblast). He died in 1951 in Moscow. He studied at the Odessa Art School, a branch of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. In 1914, having graduated from the Art School, he moved to St. Petersburg and entered the Academy of Arts. In 1916 Chernikhov transferred from the painting faculty to the architecture department and graduated in 1925. He became a successful architect, and taught at the Leningrad Institute of Transportation Engineers (after 1933 LIIZhT) in the school of architecture (1928-45), at the Industrial Academy (NKTP) in the course for factory and plant construction (1930-32), at the Stalin Transportation Academy (NKPC) (1930-32), and at the Institute of Engineers of Water Transportation (1929-31). He published Fundamentals of Modern Architecture (1929-1930), Construction of Architectural and Machine Forms (1931), and Architectural Fantasies. 101 Compositions (1933). These classics are all about architectural fantasies. The last work of Iakov Chernikhov, which remained uncompleted, was the book An Analysis of the Construction of Classical Typeface (written in 1945-1951). It was published in 1958, seven years after his death. Iakov Chernikhov used for construction of the types some principles taken from the theory of architectural forms having much in common with the type forms that obey the same regularities. Some of his work looks like the early attempts at regularization by Duerer and Tory, or as found in the Romain du Roi. Wiki page. Scans: I, II, III, IV. Image of his Cyrillic Trajan (1945-1951). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Inna Indichenko

Talented painter and illustrator in Kiev. Behance link. She created a fantasmagoric illustrated caps face in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Iryna Arkadiivna Korchuk

Ukrainian type designer from Luck. With Lukyan Turetskyy, she created Ornamental Deco 2D (2010), an art deco dingbat face. She also made the mask dingbat face Mascaron2D (2010, 2D Typo), and the Hutsulyandiya 2D family of fonts (2010) that consists of folk ornaments found on Hutsul ceramics of the mid 19th to early 20th centuries. Substyles include Beast, Flora, and People. Hutsulshchyna is an ethnic region in the Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains where folk art and indigenous culture are preserved up to today. In 2011, Iryna created the beer-themed dingbat face Pyjpyvo 2D (2D Typo) and the wine bottle face Chornylo 2D. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ivan Akinin

Ivan Akinin (Kiev, Ukraine) designed the monoline titling caps face Profihouse (2011). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ivan Kostynyk

Graphic designer, aka Ivan K or Ivan Kay, who lives in Toronto. Creator of Egypt 22 (2011, a free heavy slab serif, which includes smilies), Lloyd Serif (2010), a refined piano key typeface. It covers Latin, Ukrainian and Russian, and was inspired by Bill Loyd and by the Ogaki typeface.

In 2010, he set up his own foundry. At it, he published the soft monoline sans face Soft2911 (2011).

Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jane Shyrochenkova

Gifted professional artist and graphic designer in Cherkassy, Ukraine. I especially like her artsy alphabet (font?) called Wire (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juliana Alimova

Ukrainian art director and graphic designer who lives in Kharkiv. She designed the lively handprinted font Filonovs Mavka (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kate Goltseva

Kiev-based graphic designer who made the ornamental alphabet King Kong (2012), the 3d typeface Module (2012), and the Cyrillic paper-fold alphabet Macalatura (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kazimir Severinovich Malevich
[Dick Pape]

Dick Pape created this scanbat based on art and images of supermatist Russian artist Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (b. 1879, Kiev, d. 1935, Leningrad). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kirill Tkachov

Also Cyrill Tkachev and Cyrylo Tkachov, depending upon the source. Illustrator and calligrapher. A Ukrainian, Cyrill Tkachev graduated from the Lugansk Taras Shevchenko National University in 2005. He works at the Design Department at Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National Pedagogical University since 2005.

He made the decorative face 9months (2010) and the pixel script face Liony (2010). Tkachevica (2011) is a modular and pixel family. Legionary (2011) is an organic sans family in six styles. Bazilic is an informal decorative typeface. Murray Slab (2012) is a 4-style slabby techno family. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Klifordinator

Stanislav is a Unkrainian from Odessa, b. 1988. He created A_Klifordinator_font_AA (2008), a circle-themed round geometric sans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ksenia Levskaya

Ukrainian designer who made some experimental fonts in 2011, such as a bra font and a pipe font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lemkos
[Gavin Helf]

Font page for people from the Carpathian mountains created by Walter Maksimovich. Several Ukrainian Cyrillic TrueType fonts (ER Kurier, ER Univers, ER Bukinist, ER Architect Proportional) designed by Gavin Helf. Also a Polish New Times font (free). Gavin Helf's ERUniversIF2 and ERUniversIV2 (1994; modified by Curt Ford for "Digital Russian" project, 1998; subsequently remodified for Internet use by Ken Petersen, 1998) are also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lena Staranchuk

Kiev-based designer of various splendid eye-catching geometric experimental typefaces in 2009. She also created Oksana (2009, a flowery face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lliwell

Studio in Kiev, Ukraine. Creator of a hairline sans face simply called Font (2012: Latin and Cyrillic). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

lviv.ua

11MB font file with about 300 Bitstream fonts (truetype) and a whole collection from Digital Typeface Corporation dating from 1991. Also has Old Slav fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marina Belotserkovskaja

Type designer. With Viktor Kharyk, she designed the mediaevally looking faces EF Gloin and EF Gimli from 2004-2010 at Elsner&Flake. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Match Fonts
[Michel Bujardet]

Match Fonts is the West Hollywood, CA-based foundry led by Michel Bujardet (b. Bordeaux, France, 1951), who is Mike Budge on alt.binaries.fonts. They make and sell interesting font paks. A particular favorite of mine is the Calligraphic Fonts Pack 2, which has the beautiful medieval-look face Rodolphe (2001), together with the Chancellerie family, the blackletter font SquareText, and a few Uncial fonts called Oncial. Free demos. Cursive Handwriting is a 6-font pak for teaching handwriting. Also offering a handwriting and signature font service. Among free offerings, check Le Blackmail (ransom font). Also, commercial fonts for these languages: Armenian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Greek, Hawaian, International Phonetic (IPA), Hebrew, Hieroglyphs, Hungarian, Japanese, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Marshallese, Polynesian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Turkish, Ukrainian, Yiddish.

Interesting typefaces: Boulon (letters with bolts), Bujardet Freres (French restaurant type), Calebasse (1997, semi-psychedelic), Chinoiseries (Chinese look-alike), Cristolikid (LCD), Diodes Light, Grecques, Halloween, Malabars, Metroplitain (art nouveau), Monogram, Octogone, Osselets (bones), Parador, Ruban Dis-Moi, SilBooettes, TSF et Compagnie, Venitienne, Yiddilatin, Zebrues, and the dingbats Dinosotype, Alphabetzier, Nahkt Hieroglyphics, Norman Prince (children's handwriting), Angelots, Sceaux, Seraphiques, Talismans, La Main Guided, La Main Solid (both children's tracing fonts), Bordini, Bordofixed, BoumBoum, ChapClerk, Dactylographe (nice!), Halotique (sans serif), Tortillon (2001, art deco), Normographe (great too!), Normafixed, Oloron, Parlante (serif family), Presse (typewriter), Technicien. Plus handwriting fonts Skrypta, Skryptaag (upright and connected), Willegha. a Morse Code font. The Halloween pack includes Coulures, Halloween, Osselets and SilBooettes. Fixed width fonts include Dactylographe, Oloron, Bordo, Norma. Direct access. Interview and photo. Alternate URL (in French), with many more fonts, such as the handwritten Pierre, Mariette. MICR E13 B font.

Fontspace link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Maxim Tictac

Digital artist in Odessa, Ukraine, who made some experimental pixel fonts from 2009-2011. Flickr page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

MF Studio
[Alexandra Malysheva]

Designers of Ukrainian Museum (2005, Cyrillic lettering). The fonts are made by Alexandra Malysheva. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mykola Dosenko

Born in Kiev in 1985, this Ukrainian graphic designer made the baseball-themed Brooklyn Zoo font in 2008. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Natali Strelchenko

Designer in Kiev (Ukraine), who made the beautiful dot matrix family BDirect for Latin and Cyrillic in 2011. Link (2011) is an ornamental caps face.

In 2012, Strelchenko made Jackson Pollock Type. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nataliya Kuzil

Designer from Lvyv, Ukraine, who created the circular / geometric Cyrillic font Hobby (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Natasha Nefedova

Ukrainian graphic designer who created the square pattern font Mondrian Piet (2011). Pic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nika Nekrasova

Type designer born in 1986 in Lviv, Ukraine. She created the Kafkaesque woodcut face Messy Linocut 2D (2011, 2D Typo). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Oksana Globa

Ukrainian designer and illustrator who drew a Russian alphabet in 2011 out of tree leaves. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oleg Dzogan

Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine-based graphic designer. Behance link. Creator of the pixelish typeface Intelligent Font (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oleg Karpinsky

Ukrainian type designer (b. Vinnitsa, Ukraine, 1954) and graphic designer. Graduate of the Moscow Higher School of Design in 1980. Since 1993, affiliated with Paratype.

Designer at Paratype of Dublon, Dublon Light (1994; or: Dublon Brus), Gvardia (2001), PT Orden (2001), PT Stroganov (2002), Ariergard (2001, a Cyrillic sans), Bublik (2004, poster font, which won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition), Irakly BT (2004, Bitstream) [see also here], Stroganov (2002), Rossika (2004, Paratype), Chervonec Uzkj (2003, Bitstream).

MyFonts sells Ariergard, Ariergard Rondo (2005, more circular shapes of this sans), Bublik, Chervonec Uzkj BT, Dublon, Gvardia, Irakly BT, Orden, Plastilin (2005), Quartal (2010), Rossika, Kartell (2006, 6 styles: simulates religious orthodox writing), Mellnik (2006, a humanist sans in 14 styles), Lunokhod (2006, think an organic version of Bank Gothic, 4 styles), Yess (2007, Paratype; used in advertising posters for the Soviet state foreign trade company Soyuzchimexort in the early 1980s) and Stroganov.

In 2009, he added a Latin alphabet to Svetlana Yermolaeva's Izhitsa (1988). In 2011, he cyrillicized Freehand 471 BT.

In 2011, Oleg published Titla Brus Condensed at Paratype. This is a flared slab family that extends Titla Condensed (2009).

FontShop link. ParaType link. Klingspor link.

Showcase of Oleg Karpinsky's typefaces at MyFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Oleh Holovchenko

Ukrainian graphic and type designer who lives in Kiev. Behance link. His typefaces include Bricks N Laces (2009), a wonderful art deco face for "jazzy type compositions". His other work is equally experimental, and includes Black Neon, Numberfreak Sans and Numberfreak Serif (all letters are made up from number glyphs). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Olena Mashinska

Ukrainian desifgner of the scanbat typeface Break Dance (2012). She also made the 3d experimental Cyrillic typeface Cube (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Olga Bondarenko

Kiev-based creator of Industrial Font (2011), in which each glyph is created with the help of industrial machinery. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Olga Novozhilova

Graphic and web designer in Kiev. Creator of the beauiful ornamental Latin and Cyrillic caps face Oposhnya (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Olga Overchun

Ukrainian graphic designer (b. 1970, Donezk) who won an award at Bukvaraz 2001 for Tanya, a caps face made out of human figures. Tanya was based on a course project supervised by Vladimir Lesnyak at the Kharkiv Academy of Arts and Design, from which Olga graduated in 1998. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Olga Samsonenko

Check out the beautiful lettering of Olga Samsonenko from Kiev, Ukraine. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Olga Tereshchenko

Talented Ukrainian designer. She has interesting illustrations, and her typefaces show tremendous potential:

• Avangard (2012). A blocky outline family.
• Black and White (2012). A great geometric / cubist experiment in the style of Mondriaan's paintings.
• Diamond (2012). An experimental polygonal typeface.

Paperpilecollectibles

Cyrillic archive with sans fonts: Euro Ukrainian (KoleSoft Co, 1993), Europe (A. Kustov, Type Market, 1993), Everest-Ultra (A. Kustov, Type Market, 1993). Plus some Latin sans faces such as Swiss911 by Bitstream. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pavel Tamakulov

Sebastopol, Ukraine-based illustrator. He created the modular display face Black Swan (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

PDesign 6.0
[Andriy Konstantynov]

Ukrainian Andrey Konstantinov (b. 1981, Moscow, lives in Kiev) graduated from the National Technical University of Ukraine in 2002. He lived for some time in Tallinn, Estonia. He runs PDesign 6.0, and created the techno faces Tecco Bold and Tecco Bold Italic. Both Tecco and Radix are sans families that include Latin, Cyrillic, and CE glyphs and accents. Other faces: Aera Sans, Aera Serif, Vitra Sans (2005), Terra Sans (2005), Terra Semi Slab (2005), Terra Slab (2005). His fonts can be bought from MyFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Rekord
[Oleksandr Parkhomovskyy]

Type and design studio located in Hamburg, Germany, run by Oleksandr Parkhomovskyy (b. 1984, Odessa, Ukraine), who created the 6-style ultra-fat Grim family in 2009, which includes Grim Stencil. In 2010, he redesigned the bilined headline font for Zeit Magazin and called it ZeitType---it's just a matter of time before the awards will be rolling in. Prestiggio (2011) is a sublime vogue fashion mag face, with its perky ball terminal ear on the g, and the high-contrast feel of a decent Peignot. Mingray Mono is a stylish monospaced family in three weights. Behance link. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ros Knopov

Born in the Ukraine in 1982, Ros Knopov is creative director and type designer, and runs Anti/Anti, a NYC design studio. Ros has lived in New York for 20 years and studied graphic design at the School of Visual Arts, before working for various NYC creative agencies and founding Anti/Anti in the summer of 2007. His first typeface is Opera (2005), a sans done with rick Granados at Stereo Type Haus---it is a lively sans with creative counter spaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ruslan Ielizev

Kiev-based Ukrainian graphic and web designer. He made the experimental halfline arrangement font Rusley (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sergei Kovalyov

Motion graphics and fashion designer in Kiev, who made a beautiful ornamental caps set for Latin and Cyrillic called Bosch (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sergej Malinovski

Designer in Denmark of a free OpenType font with partial Unicode support: Summersby (2003). Current language support: Danish, English, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, plus a few others. Alternate URL. He is working on a serif face called Random (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sergey Steblina

Graphic designer in Odessa, Ukraine, who made the handprinted Latin / Cyrillic typeface Strel (2012, with Jovanny Lemonad).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

SHCH Graphics Group
[Andrey Yushchenko]

Graphic design, illustration and art direction group located in Kiev, Ukraine, and headed by Andrey Yushchenko. Alternate URL. They offer some beautiful decorative capital letters: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Additional URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sorin Paliga

Designer of Gimbutas (1999), a font for Vinca symbols (Mac, PC), found on many of the artefacts excavated from sites in south-east Europe, in particular from Vinca near Belgrade, but also in Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Eastern Hungary, Moldova, Southern Ukraine and the former Yugoslavia. The artefacts date from between the 7th and 4th millennia BC and those decorated with these symbols are between 8,000 and 6,500 years old. Sorin works at the Department of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Bucharest, Romania. The drawings of the Gimbutas font were by Doina Mihaila. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sport Betting Spot
[Sergiy Tkachenko]

Sports Betting Spot is an unlikely organization to get involved in fontmaking, but miracles do occur. At Fontsquirrel, we find the free athletic lettering typeface Sports World (2012). The web site conveniently forgot to mention that its designer is the talented Ukrainian type designer Sergiy Tkachenko. The font covers both Latin and Cyrillic. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

St. Michael Ukrainian Catholic Church

The font Old Ukrainian (truetype, 1994) was made by Hrycak Graphics. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Svjato Kyrylici

Ukrainian type meeting held from 24-25 March 2007 in Kharkov. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Terrapin Font Services

British font service house: can sell you most of the commercial fonts. Sells also fonts for Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Farsi, Greek, Gujurati, Hindi, Hungarian, Japanese (Katakana, Hiragana, Kanji), Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Punjabi, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Welsh. Has barcode fonts, and is a special distributor of the Royal Mail Barcode font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tipografia

Ukrainian type blog. People involved include Victor Kharyk, Andrey Shevchenko, Andrey Konstantinov, Gennady Zarechnjuk and Dmitro Rastvorchev. [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]  ⦿

Type UA
[Andrij Shevchenko]

Ukrainian type news site associated with Andrij Type of Andrij Shevchenko. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ufboyumbch Nkiyo

Ukrainian designer of the Cyrillic/Latin font PorschaC, based on an original by Iconian. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ukraine: The Homeland Page

The Cyrillic 1251 fonts and Cyrillic KOI-8 fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ukrainian Fonts

Ukrainian font archive, about 2000 fonts strong. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ukrainian Youth Association (CYM)

About 30 Cyrillic truetype fonts. Page requires a password. The fonts: Boyko, Broshniv, Bura, Diana, Dnister, Hutsul, Ihor, Irka, Ivan, Katya, Kherson, Kobzar, Krym, Kyiv, Lemko, Lesya, Lviv, Maria, Murko, Mykhailo, Myron, Nestor, Odesa, Oleksa, Olena, Olha, Azov, Petro, Prypyat, Rozhnyativ, Sambir, Sonia, Soyuzhanka, Stefan, Strij, Strutyn, Taras, Vasyl, Volodymyr, Voyak, Zozulka. [Google] [More]  ⦿

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]  ⦿

Veddma's Turf

Veddma's archive of fonts that have both Latin and Cyrillic letters: 1979, AbductionCyr, Arbat-Bold, Arbat, Ben-Cat-Normal-Normal, Ben-Hard-Life-Bold, Ben-Krush, Ben-Pioneer-Bold (the whole "Ben" series by Bazhen Yurchenko, Kharkov, Ukraine, 1997), BinnerDi (Diai JS, 1997), Blood-Cyrillic, Boyarsky-BoldItalic:00, BraesideLumberboyRussian, Breeze, BreezeBold, ClassicRussianBold, ClassicRussianBoldItalic, ClassicRussianItalic, ClassicRussianPlain, Collins, Corrida-Bold, CrackMan, Crystal, CyrillicGoth, CyrillicHover, CyrillicOld, CyrillicRevue, CyrillicRibbon, DOORJAM, Derby, Desdemona, Dyer, EarthNormal, ErasUltraNormal, ErikaBold, ErikaC, Flowerchild (Bazhen Yurchenko, Kharkov, Ukraine, 1997), Floydian, Freestyle, Granite, Grunge (Bazhen Yurchenko, Kharkov, Ukraine, 1997), Kashmir, KursivC--Bold, KursivC, LetteraTrentadue (Gianni Sinni, 1997, modified by Dark Pastor, 1999), LidiaMedium, Liquid-CrystalDisplay (Alexis V. Ryumin, 1997), OdessaScriptFWF, PaladinPCRusMedium (Yuri A.Lyamin, 1992), PaulBOXESCyrNormal (Paul Kuznetsoff, 1993), Peignot_cyr, PresentScript_cyr, Pump, SaffronColdWar, ScrawnCyrAOE, ScrawnKOI8AOE, Serpentine, SirClive, SkazkaForSergeMedium, Slavjanic, Slipstream, TaurusHeavy, TaurusLightNormal, Tiff-Heavy, TorhokItalic, UkrPlaytPSMT (KoleSoft Co, 1993, Kiev), UniversityC, VeraHumana95, VeraHumana95Bold, VeraHumana95BoldItalic, VeraHumana95Italic (BX Fonts, 1997), Verona_cyr-Bold, Verona_cyr, YellowSubmarineCyr, Zeppelin2, ZipperRus. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Victor Tkachenko

Ukrainian site offering software and SHX fonts for CAD applications. Includes SHX fonts for Latin and Cyrillic by Sergei Komarov, CompGraph LTD, Sanya Sazonov and Nikitchenko V. Has the Russian GOST truetype fonts by Egor Prohorov. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Viktor Kharyk

Ukrainian designer, b. Kiev, 1957. Graduated from the Senior College for Print and Design in Kiev in 1982, and became art director at Sphera in Kiev. Main type designer at Düsseldorf-based company Unique GmbH since 1998. He designs Armenian, Greek, Georgian, Devanagari, Hebrew, Cyrillic and Arabic fonts. His work:

• At Elsner and Flake, he published EF Bilibin (2004, uncial), EF Abetka (2004), EF Gandalf (2004, uncial), Bilbo (2004-2008, an uncial family), Kiev EF (2002), Lanzug EF (2002, letters as zippers), Rose Deco EF (2001), EF Elf (2002, imitating Tolkien's writing), EF Deco Uni (2001-2004), EF Deco Akt Light (2001-2004), EF Fairy Tale (2003-2008, caps face), EF Varbure (2004, an experimental family), Rose Garden EF (2001, initial caps ornamented with roses; the text is uncial), and Viktors Raven EF (a spectacular caps font with letters made out of a raven).
• At MasterFont: Abetka MF (1999, with Alexeev), Kiev MF (1976-2003), and Netta MF (1999, text family). These fonts have Latin and Hebrew components.
• At Paratype, he published Uni Opt (2007, Op Art letters based on free brush technique similar to experimental lettering of the early decades of the 20th century; for instance to Graficheskaya Azbuka (Graphic ABC) by Peter Miturich and works by Victor Vasareli), Joker (1978, a subtractive font---since 2000, also in Cyrillic, Latin, Hebrew, Greek, Georgian, Armenian and Arabic), Blooming Meadow (2007, flowery ornaments), Bogdan Rejestrowy and Bogdan Siczowy (2006, based on Ukrainian Skoropis (fast handwriting) of the 16th and 17th centuries, and named after Ukrainian Getman Bogdan Khmelnitsky. The character set contains Cyrillic, Old Slavonic, Glagolitic, Latin and Greek alphabets), Lidia (2006, a lined engraving face based on a 1967 font by Iraida Chepil for Polygraphmash).
• At 2D Typo: Florentin 2D (2011, angular family), New Hotinok 2D (2010, with Henadij Zarechnijuk).
• Other work: Simeon 2D (2011, 2D Typo), some fonts at Face Typesetting (1970s), Getto (1970s), White Raven (2002), Handwritten Poluustav Ioan cyrillic (1999-2001), Letopis (1983), New Zelek (1980s), UniAkt (2001, based on Unifont, an erotic caps face, done with Natalia Makievska).
• Free fonts at Google Web Fonts, published via Cyreal: Iceberg (2012, octagonal).
• Cyrillizations by Viktor Kharyk: Data 70 (1976; original from 1970 by R. Newman), ITC American Typewriter, Bullion Shadow (1984; of the shadow font Bullion Shadow (1978; original from 1970 by Face Photosetting), Calypso (1984; of Excoffon's 1958 original), Lazybones (1980s; of a 1972 Letraset font with the same name), Glagolitic (1983, Elvira Slysh, digitized in 2003), Augustea (1947, Allessandro Butti), Stencil (after a 1938 face by R.H. Middleton called Stencil), Columna (1980s; after Max Caflisch's original from 1955), Sistina (1951, Hermann Zapf), Weiss Kapitale (1935, Emil Rudolf Weiss), Vivaldi (1965, Friedrich Peter), ITC Tiffany (1974, Ed Benguiat, digitized in 1995), ITC Bookman Herb Lubalin (1974, digitized in 1980s), Berthold Cyrillic Helvetica Cyrillic (1980), Churchward Galaxy (1970s, J. Churchward, digitized in 1980s), Olive Bold Condensed (1980s, original of Roger Excoffon in 1962-1966), Motter Ombra (1980, original by O. Motter in 1975), Sinaloa (1981, original by Odermatt and Tissi in 1972), Serif Gothic (1990, original by Herb Lubalin and Tony DiSpigna in 1974), Dynamo (1980s, original of K. Sommer in 1930), EF Gimli and EF Gloin (2004-2010, mediaeval faces done at Elsner&Flake together with Marina Belotserkovskaja).

At TypeArt 01, he won first prize with Varbur Grotesque (1999-2001, with Natalia Makeyeva), third prize with Joker (1970-2000), and honorable mention with Abetka. At TypeArt 05, he received awards for UniOpt (2002, Kafkaeqsue display style) and Blooming Meadow (dingbats). At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki he spoke about Ukrainian fonts. At ATypI 2007 in Brighton, his talk is entitled Old Slavic alphabets and new fonts. At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he spoke (well, was supposed to speak) on Old Roman Styles and Cyrillic. In 2009, his 2006 digitization of Anatoly Shchukin's 1968 face Ladoga (+Text, +Display, +Ladoga Armenian) won an award at Paratype K2009. MyFonts page. Victor's friends: a Ukrainian/Russian news blog. FontShop link. Author of Non-Latin Fonts Cyrillic and Other (2004, Düsseldorf). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Viktor Konovalov

Designer from Kiev, Ukraine. Behance link. He created the studio k.love in Kiev in 2002. In 2011, he designed the neon lighting / paperclip face XCLV Neon. MyFonts link. Foundry link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Vladislav Sergeevich

Ukrainian designer. FontStructor who made Fraps (2010, white on black pixel face), Terminal (2010), Standond (2010, octagonal), and Karandilo (2010, handprinted). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vladzh
[Vladimir Zholud]

Vladimir Zholud (Vladzh) lives in Kharkov, Ukraine. His first font is Zholud's Modern Ghotic (2005, blackletter). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Wayfarer

Ukrainian designer of the pixel font CyrBit (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yana Surelo

Illustrator and designer in Kiev, Ukraine. She made the techno face Skoty (or Scoty) in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yekaterina Toropygyna

Kate Toropygyna is the Kiev-based Ukrainian creator of the stunning cat-based alphading font Kotiki ("cats") in 2009. Pic. Behance link. Home page for her illustrations and graphic design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yelena Likutina

Also written Yelena Liqutina. Ukrainian designer (b. Kharkiv, 1978) who won an award at Bukvaraz 2001 for Geisha, a delicate display font of utmost beauty, simplicity and purity. She graduated from Kharkiv State Academy of Arts and Design in 2000, where Geisha was developed under the supervision of Vladimir Lesnyak. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yurek Yackubov

Graphic designer and illustrator in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He created the Ershter font in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yurij Lila

Ukrainian designer who won an award at Bukvaraz 2001 for Zigzag. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yurko Gutsulyak

Located in Kiev, Ukraine, Yurko designed some very experimental fonts in 2008. He used circles and geometry to design the logo type Gouache (2010). His graphic design studio. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Zhenya Spizhovyi

Illustrator and type designer, who created Marko One (2011, Google Web Fonts) especially for children's literature. It is a companion font of Marko Horobchik (Marko The Sparrow), a Ukrainian cartoon character. [Google] [More]  ⦿