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Infonta [Vera Evstafieva] Or Vera Evstafeva. Infonta is Vera Evstafieva's foundry in Moscow, est. ca. 2011. Born in Moscow to a family of artists and architects in 1980, Vera Evstafieva graduated from the Moscow State University of Printing Arts, the Faculty of Graphic Arts Technology, in 2003. She created the Rossica typeface in 2003 as her final project under the direction of Alexander Tarbeyev. After graduation she went to the Netherlands to continue her type design studies by attending the famous Type & Media course at the KABK in Den Haag. Her final work there was the Basileus typeface that included Cyrillic, Latin and Greek character sets. Another project at KABK saw her design a cursive pixel face, aafje. During 2004 and 2005 she completed a number of type design projects for Typotheque. In 2005 she started lecturing at the Moscow State University of Printing Arts, and went on to give lectures at the Institute of Modern Arts. Vera has been working as type designer and calligrapher at Art. Lebedev Studio since July 2005. She has been working as a freelance type designer and calligrapher since November 2007. Her live journal (in Russian). Another URL. Typedia link. MyFonts link. Vera now lives in Cambridgeshire, England. Her typefaces: She was working on a Latin-Greek-Cyrillic version of Civilité. The gorgeous upright connected Cyrillic/Latin script ALS Dulsinea (2007, Art Lebedev). Apriori (2009, script). The text family ALS Mirta (2008). The text family ALS Direct (2008, sans family, Art Lebedev Studio). Amalta (2010, Infonta). A round calligraphic typeface for Latin and Cyrillic. It won an award at TDC2 2011 and at Modern Cyrillic 2014. Rossica (2003). A typeface created for her final project under the direction of Alexander Tarbeyev at the Moscow State University of Printing Arts, the Faculty of Graphic Arts Technology. Basileus is a typeface done while studying at KABK. It covered the Cyrillic, Latin and Greek character sets. Another project at KABK saw her design a cursive pixel face, Aafje. In 2015, Vera Evstafieva and Taisiya Lushenko co-designed the antiqua typeface Flai at Art Lebedev. In 2014 and in collaboration with TypeTogether, Vera designed the Cyrillic for Literata, the custom typeface for the Google Play Books App. With Veronika Burian, she designed Bree Cyrillic for Type Together's vast multiscript typeface family Bree. Type Together link.	EXTERNAL LINKS Infonta [Buy fonts] [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 ⦿ Type blogs ⦿ Pixel/bitmap fonts ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Civilité ⦿ Calligraphic typefaces ⦿ Type design in the United Kingdom ⦿