Vasily Biryukov

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Vasily Biryukov Vasily Biryukov graduated from Stroganov University of Industrial and Applied Arts in Moscow as graphic designer specializing mostly in periodicals. Russian designer of Chift, a typeface that won an award at Paratype K2009. Chift (2009) was published by Alexandra Korolkova's foundry. In 2012, Biryukov and Korolkova co-designed the Christmas dingbat font Gingerbread House, together with a plump display face, Gingerbread. In 2013, he published the Peignotian typeface Romanovsky at Paratype: Romanovsky is a font developed on the base of samples from the catalogue of Osip Lehman foundry in Sankt Petersburg. Original Latin design that was used for Romanovsky can be found in Feder Grotesk by Jacob Erbar. The current digital font is not a scanned version of Lehman's samples but a newly drawn typeface that differ from the original in many details. In 2013, Vasily Biryukov and Alexandra Korolkova co-designed the soft roundish sans typeface Kiddy Kitty (link). In 2015, he designed the 18-style industrial sans serif DIN 2014 (Paratype), which was followed in 2017 by DIN 2014 Stencil. In 2021, Paratype designers Isabella Chaeva, Vasily Biryukov and Alexander Lubovenko added DIN 2014 Rounded, a six-style typeface that supports all European languages based on Latin, Cyrillic, and Asian Cyrillic (Tatar, Kazakh and Kyrgyz) and has a variable version.	EXTERNAL LINKS Vasily Biryukov [Designer info] MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type design in Russia ⦿ Cyrillic type design ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Christmas / Season's Fonts ⦿ DIN ⦿ Stencil fonts ⦿