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Nadezhda Polomoshnova

Nadezhda Polomoshnova was educated in classical art in Yaroslavl and at the Department of Graphic Design of the Polytechnic University in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 2016-2017, during the TypeType education program, she created the Latin / Cyrillic humanist sans typeface Leo.

Saint Petersburg, Russia-based type designer in the TypeType and Pinata teams. In 2017, Yuliana Morgun, Nadezhda Polomoshnova and the TypeType Team co-designed TT Knickerbockers Grotesk and TT Knickerbockers Script. They write: TT Knickerbockers Grotesk symbolizes the monumentality of New York expressed in both its traditional historic architecture and skyscrapers. Both typefaces are loaded with features: TT Knickerbockers Script consists of 967 characters and also contains a huge number of contextual alternatives and ligatures. For all lowercase and uppercase letters of basic Latin and Cyrillic alphabets we have drawn 236 swashes which, depending on the context, can appear both at the beginning and at the end of a letter.

In 2018, Nadezhda Polomoshnova, Vika Usmanova, Phill Nurullin, Nadyr Rakhimov and the TypeType Team co-designed TT Jenevers. Still in 2018, Nadezhda Polomoshnova and Marina Khodak co-designed the forceful display typeface TT Phobos, which features striling stencil and inline styles. Continuing in 2018, Sergey Kotelnikov, Philipp Nurullin, Nadezhda Polomoshnova, Marina Khodak and the TypeType Team designed the not-quite-geometric 18-style typeface family TT Smalls, which is characterized by a small x-height and modulated joins. At the same time, she created the fantastic experimental ultra-ink-trapped typeface Hunter. Co-designer of TT Barrels (2018: a Scotch modern typeface by Inessa Mitrozor, Vika Usmanova, Marina Khodak, Nadezhda Polomoshnova and the TypeType Team). At the end of 2018, TypeType published TT Supermolot Neue (Roman Ershov, Marina Khodak, Nadezhda Polomoshnova, Ivan Gladkikh and the TypeType Team).

In 2019, TypeType published TT Tsars, a 20-style font family with five subfamilies. It is a collection of serif display titling fonts that are stylized to resemble the fonts of the beginning, the middle and the end of the XVIII century and seen on book title pages in Russia. A reference for the development was Abram Shchitsgal's book Russian Civil Type. The fonts were designed by Marina Khodak, Inessa Mitrozor, Nadezhda Polomoshnova and the TypeType Team.

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