Albert Kapitonov

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Albert Kapitonov Russian type and graphic designer. Creator of PT Reforma-Grotesk (ParaType, 1999). This typeface is based on the letterforms of the Russian pre-revolutionary hand composition typefaces, Uzky Tonky Grotesk ("Condensed Thin Sans"), Poluzhirny Knizhny Grotesk ("Semibold Book Sans"), and Reforma, of H. Berthold and O. Lehmann foundries (St. Petersburg). An extra compressed sans serif, typical for display fonts of the end of 19th and early 20th centuries, it received the Galina Prize for the creative exploration of the Russian typographic tradition at the Kyrillitsa'99 international type design competition in Moscow. In 2018, Albert Kapitonov and Dmitry Kirsanov revived the early 20th-century typeface Lehmann Egyptian from the Berthold and Lehmann type foundries in St. Petersburg, and published it at Paratype. FontShop link. Klingspor link.	EXTERNAL LINKS Albert Kapitonov [Designer info] Klingspor Museum page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type design in Russia ⦿ Cyrillic type design ⦿