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TT Tsars and Cyrillic in the XVIIIth century

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.

The subfamilies cover these epochs:

• TT Tsars A. The beginning of the 18th century (Latin and Cyrillic). The Latin is based on Romain du roi. The Cyrillic was matched to it.
• TT Tsars B. The beginning of the 18th century (Latin and Cyrillic). The Cyrllic is based on the Russian civil type. The Latin followed later, and still resembles the romain du roi.
• TT Tsars C. The middle of 18th century (Latin and Cyrillic). Based on an evolving Cyrillic.
• TT Tsars D. The end of the 18th century (Latin and Cyrillic). Fewer decorative elements than in TT Tsars C.
• TT Tsars E. The beginning of the 18th century (only Latin). A steampunk fantasy typeface. They write: Its theme is a Latinized Russian Сivil type (also referred to as Grazhdansky type which emerged after Peter the Great's language reform), which only includes the Latin alphabet. There is no historical analogue to this typeface. It is exclusively our reflection on what would have happened if the civil font had developed further and received a Latin counterpart. We imagined such a situation in which the civil type was exported to Europe and began its own life.

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