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[Putin poster designed in 2009 by Simon Givois. This page covers type design in Russia / the Soviet Union / the old USSR. There is a separate page for Cyrillic in general.]








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[Alexei Vanyashin]

Russian graphic and web design studio in Moscow, run by Alexei Vanyashin, Fedor Balashov and Kate Semenova. Alexei Vanyashin studied typography at Stroganov University under Dmitry Kirsanov from 2002 until 2003. He graduated in graphic design from the Institute of Design in Moscow in 2008. In 2009-2010, he worked on the Florian Diploma project at the Type and Typography course at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow under Ilya Ruderman. Florian is a 9-style angular (wedge serif) text family. Florian and Geo Text won First Prize at Granshan 2010 in the Cyrillic text typeface category. Alexei designed the curlified Bodonito Display (2009), Eurotesque, Wire (2009, monoline sans), and ModL (2009). Schmale Antiqua (2010) is a very thin Latin and Cyrillic didone typeface that revives a 19th century typeface widely used for setting book titles. Behance link.

Cofounder in 2011 of Cyreal, a Russian foundry. There, he designed typefaces such as Rationale (2011, with Olexa Volochay and VladimirPavlikov), Vidaloka (2011, a didone done with Olga Karpushina), Alike (2009, with Svetlana Sebyakina), and Adamina (2011, a text typeface for small print: free at OFL). I am not sure if Iceland (2011, Cyreal: free at Google Web Fonts) is also his.

Typefaces made in 2012: Junge (a delicate roman face, free at Google Web Fonts, which was inspired by the calligraphy of Günther Jung), Merge Pro Greek and Cyrillic (codesigned with Kosal Sen, Philatype), Jacques Francois and Jacques Francois Shadow (Cyreal: co-designed with Manvel Shmavonyan, they are revivals of Enschedé No. 811 by J.F. Rosart; free at Google Web Fonts).

Suisse International Condensed Cyrillic won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014.

Sumana (2015, free at Google Web Fonts, and published by Cyreal) is a family of Latin and Devanagari fonts for text setting and web usage. The Latin counterpart is derived from Lora by Olga Karpushina, Cyreal. Its vertical and horizontal metrics are adjusted to better match with the Devanagari. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

7GUN

Design site in Moscow. Creators of the geometric figure (Latin) stencil typeface Caribe Modular (2013), which was created as a project for the British Higher School of Art & Design. Intrnal Hybrid (2013) was also completed at the British Higher School of Art & Design in Moscow. Deriz (2013) is a high-contrast didone titling face. Intrnal Hybrid (2013) is a grungy techno Cyrillic typeface. Vintage and Coupage Font emulates various wood type and letterpress styles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

A. Ego

Russian co-designer, with Elena Kowalski, of the flexible all-caps display grotesk typeface Morpha (2018), the sans typeface Atenta (2019), Alter Aves (2020), Alter Biom (2020), and Minor (2020: a 12-style grotesk). [Google] [More]  ⦿

A. Grachev

Russian designer of the deco typeface Plein (1993, with A. Kustov). [Google] [More]  ⦿

A. Shchur

Russian designer of Rublenaya Shadow (1957). [Google] [More]  ⦿

A. Shishkin

Designer at Soft union of the Cyrillic fonts Half-Ustav (1994) and Evangelie (1994), with Nikita Vsesvetskii. [Google] [More]  ⦿

AaAAaAlena
[Alena Tsemkalo]

Russian programmer. In 2021, she released the simple script typeface Duck Footprint for Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Aba Sh

Chelyabinsk, Russia-based designer of the free Latin / Cyrillic typefaces Elfabe (2018) and One (2018, a brush script). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Academy
[Lyubov Kuznetsova]

Cyrillic font available from Paratype. Academy was designed circa 1910 at the Berthold type foundry (St.-Petersburg). It was based on Sorbonne (H. Berthold, Berlin, 1905), which represented the American Type Founders' reworking of Cheltenham of 1896 (designed in turn by Bertram G. Goodhue and Morris Fuller Benton) and Russian typefaces of the mid-18th century. Paratype: A low-contrast text typeface with historical flavour. The modern digital version was designed at Polygraphmash type design bureau in 1989 by Lyubov Kuznetsova. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrian Englert

Swiss type technology expert of Russian origin. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke on Church Slavonic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Africaan

Russian designer of the decorative hacker font Cabra (2016). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Agafonov Stephan

Creative designer in Moscow who made a Cyrillic font called Origami (2013). This typeface was obtained by scanning cut and folded strips of paper, and has a hand-made dadaist appearance. I am not sure that it has been digitized. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Agor2012 Studio (or: Drem Bike Shop)
[Andrei Gorshkov]

Russian designer of Sesibo (2017, +BiFur), Galumbra (2016, handcrafted) and Grunge Lane Font (2016). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aigul Gilmutdinova

Codesigner with Jovanny Lemonad of the free squarish sans typeface Bully (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Airunreal
[Pavel Storchilov]

Stalingrad, Russia-based designer of the free AI and EPS-format Eco font (2017), which consists of foliated caps. Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Akina686

Anna (Akina 686) is the Russian designer of the spiky almost medieval typefaces Cactus (2011) and Cactus Cyrillic (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alan N. Po
[TNAIA]

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Albert Arzumanyan
[PIXLmeister]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Albert Filatov
[Alfi Design]

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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. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Aleks Flaks

Russian designer of the handwriting font Purple (2021) and the warped Latin & Cyrillic font Surge Sea (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksander Koltsov

Moscow-based designer of the Latin / Cyrillic text typeface Ringvaart (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksander Moskovskin

Moscow-based designer. During his studes there in 2016, he co-designed the free constructivist / art nouveau / pre-Petrine Latin / Cyrillic typeface Dobrozrachniy with Misha Panfilov (Russian Fonts). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksander Shevchuk

Art director in Moscow, b. 1985. His (mostly free) typefaces include the ultra fat art deco typeface Beyond Cyrillic (2009) and Eyelevation Pro (2009, for Eyelevation magazine (in Russian): free at dafont since 2012), Bifurk Asmod (2006, display face), FatC (2010, a rounded curly didone display face), Kodzini (2008, a great asian simulation face) and SheruPro (2009, another great (free) faux oriental face), AleksandraC (2010, +Vintage: free at Dafont), Beyond (2014).

Alternate URL. Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksander Smolnikov

In 2014, Pavel Efremov, Danil Plyutenko and Aleksander Smolnikov (Saint Petersburg) co-designed the Praktik typeface during their studies at BHSAD in Moscow. In 2017, Aleksander designed the free EPS format Rusty Georgia, which is based upon Carter's Georgia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksandr

Russian type foundry, est. 2016. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Aleksandr Ananin

Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer (b. 1994) of the free shadow typeface family Airment (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksandr Andreev
[Church Slavonic Initiative]

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Aleksandr Savenkov

Novosibirsk, Siberia-based creator of the free pixelized typeface Upheaval Pro (2012), which is a Greek / Cyrillic extension of Upheaval by Brian Kent. In 2013, he created the pixelish typeface Dusty Pro for Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Hebrew. It is an extension of Andreas Nylin's Dusty.

Symvola (2014) is a free typeface containing basic Latin and Greek characters. The design is inspired by the time machine's interface from Space Quest IV and puzzle panels from The Witness.

Omnic Sans (2016) is a free artificial language font that is based on the Omnic script used in the Overwatch by Blizzard Entertainment. In 2016, he also designed the free typeface Starseed Pro.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksandra Egorova

Russian type designer in St. Petersburg who made the faux oriental font Han Zi in 2008 at Paratype. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Aleksandra Gundorova

Based in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Aleksandra Gundorova created an unnamed Latin alchemic typeface in 2013, and a frid-based constructivist typeface in 2014. Restoran (2012) is a very original symbol font: each glyph represents in iconic abstract form an item on a restaurant menu.

As a student in the TypeType education program in 2016-2017, she designed the Venetian antiqua Foundata. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksandra Korolkova

Graduate of Moscow University of Printing Arts in 2006 where she studied under Alexander Tarbeev. She teaches type design and typography there. In 2007, her book for Russian students on typography was published (English title: Alive Typography). She received many awards for her work and is a frequent speaker at type design conferences. In particular, she received the prestigious Prix Charles Peignot in 2013. After that she became Type Director at ParaType in Moscow.

Designer of the beautiful Cyrillic serif family Leksa (a winner at Paratype K2009) and the accompanying Leksa Sans family from 2004 until 2007. This was followed by equally gorgeous families such as Fence (2009, an ultra-fat artistic beauty). Skoropix is an experimental pixel typeface done with FontStruct.

She also made Belladonna (2008, a stunning modern typeface for Latin and Cyrillic; a winner at Paratype K2009 and Grand Prize winner at Granshan 2011), Skoropix (with FontStruct), and the experimental typeface Cless (2009). She spoke about Cyrillic at ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg. She received a TypeArt 05 award for the display family Fourty-nine face. Alternate URL.

At MyFonts, one can buy Gorodets [2009: a Russian decoration typeface based on traditional wood-painting style from the town Gorodets on the Volga river, Russia], Leksa and Leksa Sans], Blonde Fraktur (2010: written with a quill by Alexandra Korolkova and prepared in digital form by Alexandra Pushkova), Airy (2010, a curly script), Airy Pictures (2010, animal and plant dingbats), Bowman (2010: a blackboard children's script), PT Serif (2011, Paratype's superfamily of 38 fonts, co-designed with Vladimir Yefimov and Olga Umpeleva; Open Font Library link), PT Circe (2011, a geometric sans family with a neat Thin weight; Third Prize for Cyrillic text typefaces at Granshan 2011), and Cless (2010: ultra fat and counterless).

Together with Isabella Chaeva, she made PT Mono (2012, Google Web Fonts and Open Font Library).

In 2012, Vasiliy Biryukov and Alexandra Korolkova co-designed the Christmas dingbat font Gingerbread House, together with a plump display face, Gingerbread.

In 2013, Vasily Biryukov and Alexandra Korolkova co-designed the soft roundish sans typeface Kiddy Kitty (link).

In 2014, she cooperated with Maria Selezenava on a revamped Journal Sans typeface at Paratype, called Journal Sans New (Latin and Cyrillic). This geometric sans in the style of Erbar Grotesk and Metro Sans is a major extension of the Journal Sans typeface (1940-1956, SPA, in metal form, and 1990s in digital form). Still in 2014, she co-designed Stem, a geometric large x-height Latin / Cyrillic sans serif with optical sizing, with Isabella Chaeva and Maria Selezeneva at Paratype. This was followed in 2015 by Stem Text.

In 2015, she and Alexander Lubovenko co-designed Circe Rounded, which is an extension of her earlier Circe typeface (2011), both published by Paratype. In 2018, Paratype extended that family with Circe Slab (by Alexandra Korolkova and Olexa Volochay). Still in 2015, Alexandra Korolkova and Alexander Lubovenko published Aphrosine at Paratype, a typeface based on pointed pen script and situated somewhere between handwriting and calligraphy. Many alternatives and smart OpenType features help Aphrosine look like real handwriting.

Codesigner of Kudryashev Display (2015, Isabella Chaeva, Alexandra Korolkova and Olga Umpeleva). Kudryashev Display is a set of light and high-contrast typefaces based on Kudryashev text typeface. In addition to Kudryashev Display and Kudryashev Headline typefaces, the type family includes also two Peignotian sans-serif typefaces of the same weight and contrast, with some alternates. The serif styles were designed by Olga Umpeleva in 2011, the sans styles were created by Isabella Chaeva in 2015 with the participation of Alexandra Korolkova.

In 2016, she designed FF Carina, a delicate and absolutely stunning decorative didone.

In 2018, Alexandra Korolkova and Manvel Shmavonyan designed Fact at Paratype. Fact (2018) is based on Frutiger. The Fact type system contains 48 upright styles with variations in width and weight and eight italics of normal width. At the end of 2018, Alexandra Korolkova, Alexander Lubovenko, and the Paratype team finished Six Hands, which is a collection of six handcrafted typefaces: Black, Brush, Chalk, Marker, Condensed and Rough.

In 2019, Vitaly Kuzmin and Alexandra Korolkova co-designed the free sans serif typeface Golos Text at Paratype. It was originally commissioned by Smena (AIC Group) for state and social service websites.

Typefaces from 2020: Sber (the type system for Russia's Sber Bank; by Korolkova and the Paratype team), Tupo Vyaz (a free modular closed sans serif font with very simple design and some elements from the northern variant of Vyaz slavonic calligraphic hand), Grrr (at Paratype, with Dmiry Goloub; a techno family characterized by an oversized lower case f).

MyFonts interview. Kernest link. Klingspor link.

View Alexandra Korolkova's typefaces. Speaker at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Aleksandra Parkhomenko

Graphic designer and illustrator in Moscow, who the Cyrillic decorative caps alphabet Chameleon (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksandra Slowik

Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer.

Typefaces from 2015: Sacred (alchemic, mysterious), LAM and Larch Brush.

Typefaces from 2016: Line Flat (circuit font), Line Flat Icons.

Typefaces from 2018: Volos (a great textured poster font), Ancient Geometry (alchemic), Slowik Emphasis (a geometric logo font). She also specializes in alchemic symbolism, with sets of ornaments called Golden Section, Unalome (a script with Buddhist symbols) and Sacred Symbols. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksandra Soloveva

Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of a couple of Cyrillic display typefaces in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksei Archipov

Russian designer of the blurry Latin/Cyrillic font FD Median (2003). He calls himself the "Flying Dutchman". [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksei Derin

Russian designer of the (vector format) decorative typeface Robot (2016) and the ironwork typeface Twig (2016). In 2017, he designed Fat Boy (colorful caps) and Hiking Icons. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksei Kalinin

Nizhny Novgorod, Russia-based designer of the free Latin / Cyrillic poster font Lumberjack (2015, with Jovanny Lemonad). See also at Dafont. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksei Kondakov

Russian creator of the ornamental caps typeface Fusion II. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksei Labsin

Aleksei Labsin is a graphic designer in Moscow. In 2015, he created the Cyrillic typefaces Beda and Hruschoby. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksei Pashnin

Packaging designer in Moscow, who created the free Cyrillic weaving vector format typeface Water Plant in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksey Grigoriev

Russian designer of the Cyrillic/Latin font PremudryCyr, based on an original by Tom Murphy. He also made Rublik (2001). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksey Kostin

Moscow-based designer of the vernacular Latin / Cyrillic typeface Lingo Way (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksey Maslov

Russian codesigner (with Ivan Gladkikh and Alexandr Kalachëv) of Days and Days One (2009, a display sans face), and with Jovanny Lemonad of Metro (2009, constructivist) and Stalin One (2012, constructivist face, free at Google Web Fonts). Behance link. Typetype link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksey Mednov

Russian designer of the old Slavonic-inspired display typeface Kramola (2015, Latin and Cyrillic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aleksis Rudakov

Novomoskovsk, Russia-based designer of the custom techno typeface Vis-a-Vis (2015) and the StarWars font Warcase (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alena Generalova

Moscow-based designer of the connect-the-dots Cyrillic typeface Air (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alena Marusena
[Madam Saffa]

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Alena Muhina

Kursk, Russia-based designer of Wave (2019: a Cyrillic dry brush typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alena Skarina

Designer in Toronto (b. 1986, Siberia) who has some nice botanical illustrations in her Erobotanica (2012), including some called Nepeta Lactone.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alena Tsemkalo
[AaAAaAlena]

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Alena Zhokina

Moscow-based designer of these Cyrillic typefaces in 2014: Cross Type, Art Type (all-caps ornamental typeface on the theme of breasts). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alena Zhokina

Moscow-based designer of Cross Type (2014: an artsy display typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alenka Karabanova

Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia-based designer of the Chalk Eco font in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Bait

Moscow-based designer of the Cyrillic typeface Gore (2015), which is a hybrid of Kekur and Paratype's Rodeo. In 2015, he designed the free vector format font Shadow Cross. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Cotton

In 2016, Saint Petersburg, Russia-based Alex Cotton and Stepan Lyaptsev co-designed the free handcrafted Cyrillic typeface Alcotton. Behance link for Stepan Lyaptsev. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Dadaev

Saint Petersbug, Russia-based designer of a rounded monoline Latin titling font (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Denisov
[Piñata]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alex Etewut

Moscow-based artist who created these typefaces in 2016: Buena Onda, Londa (a connected script), Foie Gras (signage script), Fuego, Cama (a thick connected script), Blackthorn, Savoiardi (connected monoline script), Savoiardi Sans, Savoiardi Display, Zimbra (a zebra stripe font), Signal, the Vincent Van Gogh-inspired Absinth, the Russian fairy tale font Anchor, the handcrafted Swan, the weathered Cliché Font, the constructed extraterrestrial font Structure, the geometric solid typeface Forma, the semi-calligraphic Absinthe and Glasgow, the calligraphic oriental brush typeface Yakudza, and the brush typefaces Augenblick and Barbada.

Typefaces from 2017: Curator (a curvy decorative didone), Gluck (a rounded monoline sans family with outlined and double outlined styles), Laser Dots, Zarathustra (a soft blackletter typeface family), Pedrera and Pedrera Script, Hooley (advertized as a party font), Forma (free counterless typeface), Fuego (calligraphic script), Arc Boutant (a vintage ballpoint-laden text typeface), Moloko (script), Etalon (a 33-style organic sans family), Molodos All Caps, Click (Stripes, Black), Geometry Pair, Venzel (an interesting experimental deco typeface), Batllo (inspired by Gaudi), Pluma (handwriting).

Typefaces from 2018: Pistoletto (a jelly or toothpaste script inspired by the work of Roy Lichtenstein and Michelangelo Pistoletto), Lento (a monoline script family), Rajomon (a dry brush typeface), Solomonk (an inky script), Ma Tilda, Warka, Abudabi (connected script), Lunar, Tilda (a monoline sans with character), Jeunes (connected script), Danken (a textured all caps typeface family), Salud (a hand-drawn slab serif, with some interesting sketched and arched styles), Hoochie, Brutto (stencil with alyering and coloring potential), Hvala, Mafond (slab serif), Tadaam, Liberal (a simple monoline sans).

Typefaces from 2019: Etewut Serif, Etewut Sans, New Lobster (sigange script).

Typefaces from 2020: Vulgary (a glistening oily font family), Spiro 2020 (a rounded sans), Chakra (script), Baker ST (spurred, all caps), Geraldica (a monoline script).

Typefaces from 2021: Domosed (sci-fi), Riley Wow (a round oily font for emulating glows).

As Etewut Graphics in Florence Italy, he published Pronto (2018, a monoline sans) and Allora (2018).

Typefaces from 2022: Domosed Slab Serif. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alex Frukta
[Nord Collective (or: Fontfirma)]

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Alex Frukta
[Alexey Frolov]

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Alex Gart

Aka Alex Gorilla. Alex Gart (Chelyabinsk, Russia) created the commercial alchemic typeface The Elementarity (2013). It can be bought here. He also made Weather Icons (2013).

Behance link. Graphic River link for buying his typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Ivanov
[Vates Design]

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Alex Mihaylov

Born in Russia in 1995, Alex Mihaylov designed the octagonal typeface Reflectors (2013, FontStruct) and the hexagonal typeface Hexamatter (2013). One Smear (2013) simulates an oriental brush. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Alexandrowitsch Roth
[Neue (or: Neue Foundry)]

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Alexander Arhipov

Russian type designer. His Colmena (2009, ParaType) was designed for books for children. This font used to be called FD Harvey. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Benois

Russian artist, art critic and historian, 1870-1960, who drew Alphabet in Pictures in 1904. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Bobrov
[Indian Summer Studio]

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Alexander Cherepanov

Alexander Cherepanov (White Russian Studio, Moscow) designed the Latin / Cyrillic sans typeface Transgender Grotesque (and Transgender Grotesk), the serifed display typeface New York City, Sport Super Italic, the blackletter typeface Kendrick Human Sacrifice, the avant garde typeface Hueviy Thin, and the piano key typeface Trust Me, the sans typeface November, the triangle-serifed Naaah, and Sestra Thin in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Hudiakov

Moscow-based designer of Julieta (2018), Raspberry (2018), Lemon Tree (2018), Truffle (2018), the brush script typeface Submarine (2018) and the handcrafted typefaces Luminous (2018), Derby (2018), Melting (2018) and Honey Berry (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Kaputsa

Russian creator of Psi Hoe Pate's Altern-8 (2012, a squarish typeface for Latin and Curillic created using FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Kazantsev

Russian designer of the Cyrillic/Latin version of Allen R. Walden's font Terminator. Obsolete home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexander Kirillov

Alexander Kirillov studied at the Faculty of Economics of the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. As a student at TypeType Education in 2016-2017, he created the almost military semi-angular sans typeface Taiga.

  • In 2018, Ivan Gladkikh, Alexander Kirillov, Philipp Nurullin, Vika Usmanova, Marina Khodak, and Nadyr Rakhimov published TT Severs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

  • Alexander Kiselev

    Illustrator in Petrozavodsk, Russia, who designed the handcrafted Cyrillic poster typeface Heikko Script (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexander Kokorin

    Russian codesigner with Olga Chekina of Tsar Saltan, a display font which won an award at Paratype K2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexander Kuliev

    Behance link. This graphic designer from Moscow made typographic compositions of Vladimir Yefimov's Cyrillization font called Mason (2010), which is based in turn on earlier work by Jonathan Barnbrook). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexander L. Romanov

    Designer of Techno (1993) and RussianH (Bersearch). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexander Lubovenko

    Talented Russian graphic and type designer who works for ParaType in Moscow. His typefaces:

    • In 2015, he and Alexandra Korolkova co-designed Circe Rounded, which is an extension of the Circe typeface (2011), both published by Paratype. Circe is named for the circular nature of many of its glyphs.
    • In 2015, Alexandra Korolkova and Alexander Lubovenko published Aphrosine at Paratype, a typeface based on pointed pen script and situated somewhere between handwriting and calligraphy. Many alternatives and smart OpenType features help Aphrosine look like real handwriting.
    • Carol Gothic (2015, Alexandra Korolkova and Alexander Lubovenko, Paratype) is a traditional blackletter face closest to Linotype's Old English.
    • Liberteen (2015) is a playful tongue-in-cheek take on 19th century slab serifs, including Clarendons. For Latin and Cyrillic, from Thin to Black. Dessert Script (2015, Paratype). A smooth-outlined advertising script for Latin and Cyrillic.
    • In 2016, Alexander Lubovenko and Manvel Shmavonyan co-designed the 30-style Latin / Cyrillic workhorse sans typeface family Mediator which was followed in 2017 by Mediator Serif. Later in 2016, Alexander Lubovenko designed the heavy slab serif family Bombarda.
    • Hypocrite (2017, Paratype).
    • He created some additional styles for Zakhar Yaschin's Mojito script font.
    • in 2018, he designed Clincher at Paratype, a set of monospaced and duospaced fonts that were specifically developed for program coding and user interface design.
    • Wak (2018). By Aleksander Lubovenko and Viktor Fitzner.
    • Journal Sans New (2018).
    • Six Hands (2018). This is a collection of six handcrafted typefaces: Black, Brush, Chalk, Marker, Condensed and Rough, by Alexandra Korolkova, Alexander Lubovenko, and the Paratype team.
    • Stapel (2020, Paratype). A 57-style Latin / Cyrillic sans family with a sci-fi look and thin stroke joints.
    • Vast (2021, Paratype). A 56-style sans family, and three variable fonts, by Manvel Shmavonyan and Alexander Lubovenko. Choices are from thin to black and regular to extra wide.
    • In 2021, Paratype designers Isabella Chaeva, Vasily Biryukov and Alexander Lubovenko created DIN 2014 Rounded, an extension of the industrial sans serif DIN 2014. The six-style typeface supports all European languages based on Latin, Cyrillic, and Asian Cyrillic (Tatar, Kazakh and Kyrgyz) and has a variable version.
    Paratype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Alexander Medvedev

    Moscow-based designer of the Cyrillic caption font Bipolar (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexander Minchuk

    Russian designer of the Cyrillic/Latin version of Friedrich Poppl's font Laudatio. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexander Nedviga

    Aka Saint-Sanches. Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of Italian Roundhand (2017), a Latin / Cyrillic typeface based on the work of C.P. Zaner, ca. 1900. Other typefaces from 2017 include Unadorned Hairline (perhaps a silent movie font) and Skeleton Letters (a curly decorative monoline typeface family, with monogram ornaments). Creative Market link. Behance link. Graphicriver link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexander Pravdin

    Russian designer of the free all caps sans typefaces Next Art Bold (2017) and Next Art Thin (2017) for Latin and Cyrillic.

    In 2018, he published the extensive free all caps sans typeface family Songer.

    In 2019, he released the hybrid typeface Comic Helvetic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexander Pro

    Designer in Saratov, Russia, who created a multilined caps typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexander Ricachov

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of Art Font (2016), Rustica (2015, calligraphic alphabet), Rust Cursiv (2015), Antiqua Cvadrato (2015), Capitalis Roman (2014, a calligraphic alphabet), Futurista (2015). In 2016, he designed the hand-drawn typeface Krita. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexander Rodchenko

    Aleksandr Mikhailovich Rodtschenko (1891-1956), or Rodchenko, emerged in the 1920s as one of the most influential Russian constructivists. Their lettering is always austere and geometrical, and they influenced all visual arts. A typical Cyrillic family of typefaces was recreated by Tagir Safayev at ParaType in 1996-2002, called PT Rodchenko. Other reincarnations include the Latin&Cyrillic family Rodchenko Constructed ML and Rodchenko Grotesk ML (2010, Tom Wallace). At Gaslight, the Teco Sans and Teco Serif typefaces (2012) are also said to be influenced by Rodchenko. Also, check P22 Constructivist by Richard Kegler (1995).

    MyFonts link.

    A list of digital typefaces influenced by Rodchenko's constructivist alphabets. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Alexander Samburov
    [Lurex Design]

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    Alexander Sapozhnikov

    Russian designer of the Russian Road Sign Font (2013), in which the Cyrillic part is based on standards GOST 10807-78 and GOST R 52290-2004. This font is used on Russian road signs. There is a Latin part, which is not standardized. Free download. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

    Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799-1837) was a Russian author of the Romantic era who is considered to be the greatest Russian poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. His handwriting has been used in several digital fonts, such as Letter 1882 (1996, Paratype), Pushkin (1999; based on Pushkin's handwriting from 1875; free download here), and newPushkin (2009, free). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexander Sharkov

    Moscow, Russia-based type designer who specializes in handdrawn fonts, especially for children's books. Creator of Rooster Squad (2021), Logica Sans (2021: minimalistic and monolinear), Cheeky Tommy (2021), Mouse Paw (2021: a script font made with a mouse), and Deep Inside (2021: a tall handcrafted typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Alexander Sheliketo
    [No Regular Fonts]

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    Alexander Shimanov
    [Shimanov Types]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Alexander Sizenko

    Russian creator of the free chess font Chess 7 (2008), the free pixel fonts LED Stadion 7 (2013), Dash Dot Square 7 (2013), Enhanced Dot Digital 7 (2013), Small Dot Digital 7 (2013), Modern Dot Digital 7 (2013), Square Dot Digital 7 (2013), Bold Dot Digital 7 (2013), Serif Dot Digital 7 (2013), Serif LED Board 7 (2013), Modern LED Board 7 (2013), Half Bold Pixel 7 (2013), Dash Pixel 7 (2013), Serif Pixel 7 (2013), Power Pixel 7 (2013), Enhanced LED Board 7 (2013), Thin Pixel 7 (2013), Smallest Pixel 7 (2013), Modern LCD 7 (2013), Advanced LED Board 7 (2012), Digital 7 (2008, LED face), Post Pixel 7 (2013), Triple Dot Digital 7 (2013), Dash Dot Square 7 (2013), Enhanced Dot Digital 7 (2013), Dash Digital 7 (2013), Light Pixel 7 (2013), High Pixel 7 (2013), Mini Pixel 7 (2012), Long Pixel 7 (2013), LED Counter 7 (2013), Digital Counter 7 (2013), LED Digital 7 (2013), LED Board 7 (2013), Light LED Board 7 (2013), Advanced LED Board 7 (2013), Printed Circuit Board 7 (2013), Brick LED 7 (2013), Rounded LED Board 7 (2013), Pixel Dingbats 7 (2013), Square Wood 7 (2013), Small Bold Pixel 7 (2013), Rounded Pixel 7 (2013), Line Pixel 7 (2013), Bold LED Board (2013), Narrow Rectangle 7 (2013), Dot Digital 7 (2013, +Advanced), Square Metal 7 (2012), Stencil Pixel 7, Computer Pixel 7 (2012), Small Pixel 7 (2012), LED Counter Plus 7 (2013), LED 7 Display (2012, +Light), Neon Pixel 7 (2012), Old Pixel 7 (2012), Square Stone 7 (2012), Square Pixel 7 (2012), Pixel Font 7 (2012, +Outline), Pixel LCD7 (2012), Advanced Pixel 7 (2012), Ice Pixel 7 (2012), Void Pixel 7 (2012), Dash Dot LCD 7 (2012), Dash Dot Square 7 (2013), Enhanced Dot Digital 7 (2013), Double Pixel 7 (2012), Advanced Pixel 7, Advanced Dot Digital 7 (2013), ZX Spectrum 7 (2012), Bubble Pixel 7, Cyrillic Pixel 7, Basic Square 7 (2013), Basic Sans Serif 7 (2013), Effective Way 7 (2013), Arrow 7 (2013), Abricos 7 (2013), Computer 7 (2013), Disco 7 (2013), Software Tester 7 (2013), Elegant Line 7 (2013), Soft Lines 7 (2013), Effective Way 7 (2013), and the free LED display font Digital-7 (2008).

    Typefaces from 2014: Game Font 7, Square Sans Serif 7, High Sans Serif 7, Smooth Line 7, Bright Line 7, Double Line 7, Rounded Line 7, Rounded Sans Serif 7, Android 7, Arial Narrow 7, Bold Sans Serif 7, Light Sans Serif 7 (avant-garde sans), Modern Sans Serif 7, Software Kit 7 (dingbats), Advanced Sans Serif 7m Strong Line 7.

    Typefaces from 2015: Steel Blade 7, Semi Rounded Sans Serif 7, Bold Game Font 7, Double Force 7, Roman Font VII, Game Sans Serif 7, Sans Serif Plus 7, Soft Sans Serif 7, Smooth Pixel 7, Clear Metal 7, Military Font 7 (stencil).

    Typefaces from 2019: Clear Line 7.

    Open Font Library link. Fontspace link. See also here. Aka Chess 7 and as Style 7. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexander Slobzheninov

    Designer from Siberia who graduated from Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art, University of West Bohemia and is now based in Prague, Czechia. Type, graphic and motion graphics designer who created these typefaces:

    • Octarine (2017). A geometric sans typeface family with two free weights).
    • Fivo Sans (2017, free) and Fivo Sans Modern (2017, free).
    • Wacom (2017). This is a simplified techno sans concept font not actually used by Wacom.
    • Objective and Subjective, two mischievous typeface families published in 2018. Objective was slightly altered and merged with Chris Simpson's Metropolis (2015) in 2020 by Cristiano Sobral in Metropolitano.
    • The 42-font sans family Agrandir (2018). Available from Pangram Pangram.
    • The 7-weight Swiss neo-grotesk Gestalte (2018) that is characterized by mathematically precise horizontal and vertical strokes and terminals.
    • The Baskerville grandchild AS Grafier (2018). A corporate typeface for the identity of Other Poets Society. There is a free beta version, and comes with a variable font option. Published by Pangram Pangram in 2019. The variable font Grafier can also be purchased from Type Tomorrow.
    • The Latin / Cyrillic Object Sans (2018), which is in the Swiss sans style. For the Cyrillic, he was helped by Sonya Yasenkova. Available from Pangram Pangram.
    • The cyrillization of Jeremy Landes's Le Murmure in 2019.
    • Relaate (2019-2020). A multi-genre typeface in which the lower case t and e try to reach for the sky.
    • Right Grotesk (2020, Pangram Pangram). Neutral, functional, slightly hipsterish. First in 51 styles, and then extended to 130 styles, and some variable fonts as well.
    • In 2021, he set out to design one typeface per day for 36 consecutive days. The typefaces explore various ideas and cover almost every imaginable type style: Casual Digital Goose, Chill Out, Damn Low Tech, Flying, Gravity Itself, Ligatureless, Ploite Green Finger, Pretty Dumb Idea, Rembrandt, Those Games, Weird, What A Feature.
    • Typefaces from 2022: Right Sans, Right Gothic (a 98-style variable type family), Weird Serif (a didone for vampires).

    Future Fonts link. Type Tomorrow link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexander Smirnov

    Russian designer of the Western reverse contrast wedge serif typeface Rever (2019, Paratype). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Alexander Tarbeev
    [TFaces]

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    Alexander Tiunov
    [Besttypeco]

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    Alexandr Dragin

    Graphic designer and illustrator in Krasnodar, Russia. He created some experimental typefaces in 2009-2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexandr Kalachëv
    [Intelligent Design]

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    Alexandr Mindryukov

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the scientific decorative all caps typeface Letter Symbol (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexandra Ashikhina

    During her studies in Moscow, Alexandra Ashikhina designed an octagonal typeface for Latin and Cyrillic in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexandra Chudinova

    Saint Petersburg-based designer of a few display typefaces in 2014, including Cat, Avi, Look, Holes, Cara, Ho, Minich, and SK. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexandra Dmitrieva

    Moscow-based graphic designer. During her studies in 2015, she revived the Venetian typeface Cloister Lightface from a scan, which is described by McGrew as follows: Cloister Lightface was designed in 1919 [by ATF] but not cut until 1924, with Italic the following year. It is considered the most faithful reproduction of Jenson's original type [Eusebius]; substantially the same as Cloister Oldstyle but cut lighter to allow for the heavying which results from printing on rough or dampened papers with a strong impression, as was done in the fifteenth century. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexandra Dolgopolova

    Illustrator in Togliatti, Russia. She created the Latin / Cyrillic typeface Archway (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexandra Kozlova

    Ivanovo, Russia-based designer of Science Things (2016, +dingbats) and the children's font My Family (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexandra Leopoldovna Gophmann

    Russian designer of typefaces who collaborates with Ivan Zeifert and specializes in revivals, cyrillizations and beautiful digitizations, some of them done with Anatole Gophmann. There have been complaints about her practice of borrowing fonts from type designers without asking. One typophile writes: I have cracked open fonts she claims as hers, Bolero, Bickham and others, she has copied and pasted glyphs, copyright data, added Cyrillic and changed the copyright string. As an example, Angelica is a copy of Alejandro Paul's Miss Fajardose. Alejandro has drawn the numerals in his font in 2004 to accompany the letters found in an old catalog of alphabets. There is no other source of the numerals, and Angelica has them. Michael Clark writes: I initiated a battle with the illustrious Alexandra "Bitch" from Russia who has renamed Pouty (FontBureau) and copyrighted [it as] Bolero. She and her partner Anatoly shithead. Available on Fonts101.com for anyone who wants it free. The ass's site, Jagdesh, is in Pakistan and we cannot touch him. 260+ viewings and 140+ downloads. Let's see that is 1400$ I will never see! Others have complained as well about her practice of taking and extending fonts without permission. Anyway, her "fonts" are:

    • A: Adine_Kirnberg (2005, the Cyrillic version), Advokat Modern (2008), Afisha, Afisha Cap, Agatha-Modern, AlexandraScript, Amadeus, American Text C, American-Retro (2008), Ametist [based on Lorelei] (2008), AmpirDeco, Andantino-script (2008), Andantinoscript, Anfisa Grotesk (2008), Angelica, Annabelle, Antikvar (2008), Antikvar Shadow (2008), Antonella Script (2008), Antonella Script X (2008), Antract, Aquarelle, Ariadnascript, Ariston-Normal, Arkadia (2008), Arkhive, Arlekino, Art-Decoretta (2008), Art-Decorina (2008), Art-Metropol, Art-Nouveau Initial (2008), Art-Nouveau1895, Art-Nouveau1895-Contour, Art-Nouveau1900, Art-Nouveau1910, Art-Victorian (2008), ArtNouveau-Bistro, ArtNouveau-Cafe, Artemis Deco (2008), Artemon (2008, psychedelic), Arthur Gothic, Artist-Modern, Astoria Deco (2008), Atlas Deco A (2008), Atlas Deco B (2008), Auction, Augusta One, Augusta Two, AvalonMedium.
    • B: Ball-Point Pen, Bankir-Retro, Barocco Floral Initial (2008), Barocco Initial (2008), Baron Munchausen, Batik Deco (2008), Belukha, BelukhaCapital, BickhamScriptAltFour, BickhamScriptAltOne, BickhamScriptAltThree, BickhamScriptAltTwo, BickhamScriptOne, BickhamScriptThree, BickhamScriptTwo, Birusa (2008), Bodoni Initials (2008), Boleroscript, Bonapart-Modern, Briolin, Brokgauz&Efron, Brokgauz&Efron-Italic.
    • C: Caberne, Cafe Paris C, Calligraph-Medium, Campanella (2008), Capitol Deco (2008), Carmen, Carolina, Casanova (art nouveau) (2008), Cassandra, Castileo (2008), Certificate of Birth (2008), Chocogirl (2008), ClassicDecor (ornaments), Classica-One (2008), Classica-Two (2008), Cleopatra (2008), Conkordia (2008), Cordeballet, Corinthia, Corleone, CorleoneDue.
    • D: Dama Bubey (grunge) (2008), Debut (art deco in the style of Broadway) (2008), Decadance Cursiv (2007), Decor Initial (2009: decorative caps, a Cyrillic extension of a typeface by Pampa Type), Decor Line (2008), DeutschGothic (blackletter), Donaldina (2008).
    • E: Edisson (blackletter), Egipet-Bold, Ekaterina_Velikaya_One (2005), Ekaterina_Velikaya_Two (2005), English Rose (2008), EnglishScript, EseninscriptOne, EseninscriptTwo, Evgenia Deco (2008).
    • F: Fairy Tale (2008), Fantasia (2008), Fata Morgana, Favorit, Favorit Grotesk (2008), Flamingo (2008), Fortuna Gothic FlorishC (2009, blackletter).
    • G: Geisha (2006), Gertruda Victoriana (2008), Globus (2006), Gloriascript, Goudy Decor InitialC (2009, ornamental caps), Goudy Decor ShodwnC, Goudy OrnateC, Graceful Mazurka (2008).
    • H: HeatherScriptOne, HeatherScriptTwo, HeinrichText, Hogarth_script (2005).
    • I: Isabella-Decor, Italy-A (2008), Italy-B (2008), Izis One (monoline sans), Izis Two.
    • K: Kabriolet Decor (2009), Kamelia (2009, Victorian face), Kareta-A (2007), Kareta-B (2008), KarnacOne, KarnacTwo, Konkord-Retro, Konrad-Modern (2008), Konstrukto-Deco (2008) (2008), Kot Leopold (2008), Kumparsita.
    • L: Lastochka (2008), Le Grand, Leokadia Deco (2008), Lombardia, Lombardina One, Lombardina Two, Lombardina-Initial-One (2008), Lombardina-Initial-Two (2008), Lombardina-One-Roman (2008), Lombardina-Two (2008), Ludvig_van_Bethoveen (sic) (2005).
    • M: Majestic X-2, Majestic-, MajesticX, Malahit-Bold, Margaritascript, Marianna, MarkizdeSadscript, MartaDecor One and Two, MartaDecorTwo, Martina Script C, Masquerade (2008), Matilda, Matreshka, Maya (2008), Medieval English, Melange Nouveau (2008), Menuetscript, Metro Modern, Metro Retro B (2008), Metro Retro C (2008), Metro-Retro A (2008), ModernistNouveau, ModernistOne, ModernistThree, ModernistTwo, ModernoNouveau, ModernoOne, ModernoThree, ModernoTwo, Modestina (Victorian), Mon Amour Two (both jointly copyrighted with David Rakovsky) (2008), Mon Amoure One (2008), Monte-Carlo, Monte-Kristo, Monti-Decor A B, Moonlight, Moonstone, Moonstone Stars, Morpheus, Moulin Rouge (2008).
    • N: Nocturne (2005), Nostalgia (2008).
    • O: Old Comedy, OldBoutique, Olietta-script-BoldItalic (2008), Olietta-script-Lyrica-BoldItalic (2008), Olietta-script-Poesia-BoldItalic (2008), Orpheus, Ouverture Script (2004, calligraphic).
    • P: Parisian, Picaresque One, Picaresque-Two (2008), Pilotka (2008), Plimouth, Port-Arthur (2008), Poste Retro (2008), Postmodern One, Postmodern Two, Promenad Deco (2008), Prospect-Deco (2008), Pudelina (2008), Pudelinka (2008).
    • R: Red Sunset, Regina Kursiv (2008), Renaldo Modern, Rochester, RochesterLine, RockletterSimple, RockletterTransparent, Romantica Script, Romashka Deco (2008), Romashulka (2008), Rondo Ancient One (2008), Rondo Ancient Two (2008), Rondo Calligraphic (2008), Rondo Twin (2008), Rosa Marena, Rosalia (2008), RosamundaOne-Normal, RosamundaTwo, Rotterdam, Rubius, Rurintania (sic) (2005).
    • S: Samba DecorC (2006), San Remo, Sapphire C (2008), Scriptorama (a clone of Scriptina), Secession-Afisha, Sevilla Decor X, SevillaDecor, Sladkoeshka (2008), Stereovolna (2008), Stereovolna Black (2008), Stradivari Script (2008), Stradivari Script [the Latin part copyrighted by Grosse Pointe Group] (2008), Stravinski Deco (2008).
    • T: Taverna, Teddy Bear [Latin by House Industries] (2008), Telegraph, TelegraphLine, TelegraphShodwn, TelegraphSmall, Terpsichora (2008, psychedelic), Theater (2009, Victorian), Theater Afisha, Topaz, Trafaret Kit (2008), Trafaret Kit Hatched (2008), Trafaret Kit Transparent (stencil) (2008), Traktir-Modern, Traktir-Modern3-D, Traktir-ModernContour, Turandot.
    • V: Valentina (2008), Variete (2008), VenskiSadTwo-Medium, VenskisadOne-Medium, Vera Crouz, VeronaGothic (blackletter), VeronaGothicFlourishe (blackletter), Veronica-script-One (2008), Veronica-script-Two (2008), Victorian-Gothic-One (2007), Victorian-Gothic-Two (2008), Victoriana, Vizit (2010, engraved face).
    • W: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (2005), Wonderland (2008), Wonderland Star (2008).
    • Z: ZanerianTwo, [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexandra Muravey

    Artist and graphic designer in Moscow. In 2014, she created the Latin / Cyrillic display sans typeface Salut. In 2012, she created the Latin / Cyrillic display typeface Lotsman. Earlier, during her studies at the Higher Academic School of Graphic Design in 2010, she created an untitled Cyrillic alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexandra Pavlenko

    During her studies at the British Higher School of Design in Moscow, Alexandra Pavlenko created the dry brush font Archeology (2017), an onion print typeface (2017), the very fat poster font Play (2017) and the prismatic typeface Strips (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexandra Pushkova

    Digital type artist at ParaType. Among her contributions is the digital version of a bastarda blackletter alphabet (Blonde Fraktur, 2010) that was drawn with a quill by Alexandra Korolkova. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexandra Savelkaeva

    Moscow, Russia-based designer of a rhombic Latin typeface in 2016. She also made the handcrafted Cyrillic typeface Native Type (2016), and a set of Olympic Icons (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexandra Shibalova

    Moscow, Russia-based designer of the fantastic modulated Latin/Cyrillic sans typeface Glypt (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexandra Tarnavskaya

    During her studies at Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry, Alexandra Tarnavskaya created the Cyrillic display typeface Glitch (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexandra Ulyukina

    Moscow, Russia-based designer of the constructivist typeface Rodchenko Condensed (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexandra Valuikina

    Russian designer. Her typefaces for Latin and Cyrillic:

    • SK Paragrapher (2020, Shriftovik). A monumental geometric typeface whose structure was inspired by the paragraph glyph.
    • SK Brushwood (2020, Shriftovik). An experimental geometric typeface by Alexandra Valuikina and Tikhon Reztcov.
    • SK Fencer (2020). A display typeface inspired by the fine art of fencing.
    • SK Skrynka (2021). An octagonal technical typeface.
    • In 2021, Darya Cherevkova and Alexandra Valuikina co-designed the blocky experimental monumental font SK Quadratica (Latin and Cyrillic).
    • SK Pangramma (2021). In slab and sans versions, SK Pangramma is monolinear, geometric and experimental.
    [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Alexei Accio

    Or Aleksey Achyo. Omsk, Siberia-based designer of the free Pacman-inspired typeface Accio Beta (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexei Chekulayev
    [Double Alex Team]

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    Alexei Tsvetkov

    Russian in Munich who designed the Mac font "Russian" in 1993. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexei Vanyashin
    [110design]

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    Alexey

    Russian graphic and type designer. His mostly experimental typefaces include Isopronto (2011, geometric), Vampire (2011), Blamed Neverland (2011, a connect-the-dots face), Lighter (techno), and Coffee (2011, ultra-condensed). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexey Atapin

    Web designer in Saint Petersburg, Russia. His typefaces are often experimental and include:

    [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexey Atapin

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the free Latin / Cyrillic modular typeface Molodost (2018) and the free hipster typeface Nesovremenny (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexey Babenkov

    Rostov-on-Don, Rissia-based designer of the artsy typeface Pozds (2016), and the ghastly Horror Font (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexey Bokov

    Russian designer of TypeWriterNormal and EuroStyle. In 2010, he made the perforated plate font Performance (ParaType). FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Alexey Carlove

    Alexey Carlove (Carlove Design) is the Dzerzhinsk, Russia-based creator of the tri-lined prismatic Latin / Cyrillic typeface Gorod Spotra (City of Sports), which is somehow related to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexey Dombrovskiy

    Alexey Dombrovskiy was born in 1964 in Russia (Uzlovaya, Tula region). He graduated from the Tula Polytechnical Institute in 1986. He works in book design. He cooperates with various publishing houses and designs books for the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian Entomological Society, the Moscow State University, the Tula State University, and printed matter for the Bolshoi Theatre, the Moscow Kremlin Museums, the State Hermitage Museum. Author of some articles on the history of initials, a topic about which he spoke at ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg. In that talk, he covered these phases of initial caps development in Russia:

    • Cyrillic printed initial caps by 15-17th centuries as the Civil prototype.
    • First slavic capitals as serif (1494).
    • Francisco Scorina's modernization of Cyrillic type and capital letters (1517-1525).
    • Gothic motives in Moscow floriated letters by Ivan Fyodorov and his followers (1564-1677).
    • Alternative Cyrillic typefaces at Moskovia's western remote area (17th cent.).
    • Sobornoye Ulozhenie by czar Alexey Mikhaylovich: Ltin style of capital letters in Russian corpus juris (1649).
    • The Civil type's initials in Peter the Great's editions (1708-1725).
    [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexey Fetisov

    Aka Alexey Blogoodf and Aleksei Fetisov. Designer in Moscow. In 2017, he designed the display typeface Koras (blackboard bold), Arktica, Arcachon (organic sans), Arcachon Dots, Arugula (handcrafted), Adequate (thick rounded sans), Public Icons, the organic sans typeface Iconic, the decorative blackletter font Kaligry, Fluffy, the bilined titling typeface Blogoodf, and the vintage script font Jewel.

    Typefaces from 2020: Satinado. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Alexey Frolov
    [Alex Frukta]

    Designer in St. Petersburg, Russia, b. 1992, aka Alexey Frukta. He made the free fonts Kankin (2012, a heavy display typeface for Latin and Cyrillic), Silverfake (2012), Tetra (2011. +Cyrillic), Pacifica (2011), Perforama (2010), Velvet Drop (2010) and Bardelin (2010), Sumkin (2010, a fat signage typeface for Latin and Cyrillic), SumkinfreetypeMRfrukta2010, TotShrift-BoldBold (2010), Bext (2010), the leaf-themed display typeface Kaori (2010, Latin and Cyrillic), Grandnover (2010), and the futuristic typefaces Kvadro (2009), Brava Novella (2010, heavy slab serif) and Kardon (2010), downloadable here.

    Some of his fonts are commercial, including the beautiful fat display typeface Houston (2013).

    Behance link. Klingspor link. Hellofont link. Gumroad link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexey Gunin

    Russian type designer. In 1992, he and Alexey Chekulaev formed Double Alex. They co-designed Bastion Kontrast at Double Alex Font Studio, a family based on Helvetica, and a number of other typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexey Koshelev

    Rostov-on-Don, Russia-based designer of the organic sans typeface Happy Sprat (2017). Creative Market link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexey Kryukov

    Russian developer of these free font families, quite exquisite and complete:

    • Old Standard TT (2006-2010): a high quality didone 2-style family, suitable for classical, biblical and medieval studies as well as for general-purpose typesetting in languages which use Greek or Cyrillic script, as well as Latin. Many math symbols are included. Old Standard is part of the Google open font directory of free web fonts, and was adapted for TeX use. He writes: Old Standard is supposed to reproduce the actual printing style of the early 20th century, reviving a specific type of Modern (classicist) style of serif typefaces, very commonly used in various editions of the late 19th and early 20th century, but almost completely abandoned later. It supports typesetting of Old and Middle English, Old Icelandic, Cyrillic (with historical characters, extensions for Old Slavonic and localised forms), Gothic transliterations, critical editions of Classical Greek and Latin, and many more. People have also started using it for mathematical typesetting.
    • Tempora LGC Unicode: Kryukov writes Tempora LGC Unicode was my first attempt to create a multilingual font supporting Latin, Greek (including polytonic characters) and Cyrillic scripts. This family is based on two well-known free typefaces similar to Adobe Times: Nimbus Roman No 9 L by URW (russified by Valek Filippov), and the Omega Serif family, developed by Yannis Charalambous. However, all basic components of the font, and especially its Greek and Cyrillic parts, have suffered serious modifications, so that currently Tempora LGC Unicode represents an independent typeface, quite different from its predecessors. Free download site. Many updates were made to the font package, with copyright notices to Michael Sharpe (2015), Alexey Kryukov (2005), URW++ Design & Development (1999), Valek Filippov (2001), Dmitry 40in (2001), The Omega Project (1996), and the Free Software Foundation (2002, 2003).
    • Theano Classical fonts: Theano Didot (2008) is a classicist face, with both its Roman and Greek parts implemented in Didot style. Theano Modern has Greek letters designed in the Porsonic style. It is based on Figgins Pica No. 3 / Small Pica No. 2, one of the most successful Porsonic Greek typefaces. Theano Old Style is a modernized "Old Style" Greek font with a large number of historic ligatures and alternate forms, modelled after some early 19th century types designed by Figgins' type foundry. It is accompanied by a Latin typeface based on some "Old Style" Roman fonts of the late 19th and early 20th century. Pick up Theano Modern C (2012) at Open Font Library, and Theano Didot at CTAN.
    • CM-LGC (2003): The CM-LGC package contains Type 1 fonts converted from METAFONT sources of the Computer Modern font families. The following encodings are supported: T1, T2A (Cyrillic), LGR (Greek) and TS1. This package includes also Unicode virtual fonts for use with Omega/Lambda. CM-LGC is the first Type 1 font package for LaTeX which supports all European scripts (LGC means Latin, Greek and Cyrillic). Alexej Kryukov used Textrace to create CM-LGC.

    He contributed to the GNU Freefont project via FreeSerif Cyrillic, and some of the Greek symbols. He also provided valuable direction about Cyrillic and Greek typesetting.

    Kernest link. Fontspace link. Another URL. Google Plus link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Alexey Kustov
    [Type Market]

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    Alexey Lysogorov

    Russian graphic designer. Does some corporate identity design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexey Makarov

    Type designer from Novosibirsk, Russia, b. 1985, Altay, whose design and branding company is called Newface Studio. He designed the ball terminal typeface Asheron in 2013 and the display sans typefaces Higenson and Berkslund in 2015. Typefaces from 2016: Bjornson, Tiirson, Yaarve, Owuro, Appalachi (handcrafted), Kraftwied, Sungent.

    Typefaces from 2017: Mayland (monoline script).

    Typefaces from 2019: Deskmark Pro Slab. Behance link. Creative Market link. His foundry is called Newface. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Alexey Markin

    Russian graphic designer who created AM Racy (2017), the Victorian (Latin) typeface AM Fame (2017) and the display typeface AM Consist (2017). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Alexey Mikhailov

    Saint Petesburg, Russia-based designer of the medieval decorative Cyrillic typeface Alebarda (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexey Ostromentsky

    Moscow-based graphic artist and illustrator of books and periodicals, who has worked with the Gelios publishing house and the magazines Pioner, Smena, Literaturnaya Gazeta, Bolshoi Gorod and InLiberty. In 2016-2017, he designed the CSTM Emoji character font, which is a set of emoticons that comprises illustrations of emotions, facial expressions, gestures, and assorted objects. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexey Persh

    Digital artist in Tagil, Russia. He creates innovative geometric alphabets and has published great typographic posters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexey Potapov
    [Doffdog]

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    Alexey Razuvaev

    Moscow-based designer of the free octagonal typeface RMS Sans (2019) for Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexey Rud
    [Karandashev]

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    Alexey Shevtsov

    Designer at Type Market (Moscow) of the Cyrillic font family EuropeCond (1995). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexey Sirke

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the decorative typeface Boroda (2019: stencil, and oriental emulation), Tetris (2019: pixelish) and Blender (2019: prismatic). All typefaces cover Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexey Skvortsov

    During his studies at the School of Type design in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Alexey Skvortsov designed the two-style text typeface Bilingua (2016-2017), which covers Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexey Zhurov

    Industrial designer in Moscow. He created some funny and original stick figure dingbats called Lettrism (2009). Bones (2011) is a Cyrillic display face. Pseudo LCD (2011) is a hexagonal LCD face. Serpenta Serif (2011) is labyrinthine. In 2018, he designed Romanesque Display (3d, outlined, for Latin and Cyrillic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alexy Velichkin

    Alexey Velichkin (Moscow) created the rough Cyrillic army stencil font Ist Bridzh (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alfi Design
    [Albert Filatov]

    In 2018, Albert Filatov (Saint Petersburg, Russia) published Citifont, a Latin / Cyrillic serif typeface with a robust outlook, that according to him was made for navigation in the city of Saint Petersburg, Russia.

    In 2018, he designed the futuristic / sci-fi / LED font Space for Latin and Cyrillic, and the wide display sans typeface Muha. Port Anchor (2018) is a decorative typeface.

    Typefaces from 2019: Raster (a free blocky constructivist font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alice Retunsky

    Designer in Moscow. In 2016, for a type design course given by Tagir Safaev, she designed Dutch Plus, a typeface with considerable contrast based on Egmont (a serifed typeface, designed by Sjoerd Hendrik DeRoos for Amsterdam Type foundry in 1933). She writes: The main goal was to create a unique Cyrillic version of the typeface and to make a modern interpretation of Latin letter forms. [...] It is a Modern serif typeface with long ascenders, perfect for titles or texts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alice Traum

    Graphic designer and illustrator in Moscow who created some Latin typefaces in 2013.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alina Radetsky

    Graphic designer in Moscow, who created the grid-based Cyrillic typeface Po-Russki (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alina Smolina

    During her studies at the British Higher School of Art in Moscow, Alina Smolina created a layered Cyrillic typeface called Colored (2013). Blow to Didot (2013) is a deconstructed didone typeface. Stick Wand (2013) is a Cyrillic stick font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alina Soldatova

    Moscow-based designer of the handcrafted typeface Osolki Pechalki (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alina Stepanenko

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the experimental prismatic Cyrullic typeface simply called Decorative (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alina Vesna

    Barnaul, Siberia-based designer of the techno typeface Array (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alisa Katrevich
    [Red Studio]

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    Alisa Morozova

    Moscow, Russia-based designer of an op-art typeface for the 26th Brno biennal in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alisa Vorobyova

    Moscow-based designer of the Cyrillic display typeface Graphical (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    All About Type's Journal

    Russian language type news and blog site managed by the Jakovlev Type Foundry. Subpage on Russian fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Allison Suns

    Russian designer in 2019 of the script typefaces Serendipity, Creativity, Sunset Beach and Someone. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ally White

    Moscow, Russia-based designer, at The British Higher School of Art and Design, of the Cyrillic typefaces Mondrian (2018) and Crosstype (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Aloha Go

    Krasnodar, Russia-based designer of the handcrafted Cyrillic typeface Introvert's Portrait (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alya Boldovskaya

    Moscow-based type and graphic designer who was born in 1991 in Ardatov. Creator of Alya Hand (2010, a curly typeface based on her handwriting, which was done with Konstantin Boldovskiy of the Russian foundry Konst.ru. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Alya Kuznetsova

    Moscow-based designer of the Cyrillic display typeface Kanitel (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alya Zubkova

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the color typeface Frush (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Alyona Serdyuk

    Moscow-based creator of the low contrast Latin / Cyrillic sans typeface Ami (2015), which was a school project at Stroganoff Art Academy in Moscow. Other school projects include a sketched typeface and a Cyrillic origami typeface. She created a great Treefrog-style Latin / Cyrillic alpghabet in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Amazingmax
    [Maxim Avdeev]

    Maxim Avdeev (aka Amazingmax) is the Kazan, Russia-based creator (b. 1997) of some futuristic/game fonts in 2009: AmazXakep, AmazDooMLeft, AmazDooMLeft2, AmazDooMLeftOutline, AmazDooMRight, AmazDooMRight2, AmazDooMRightOutline, AmazS.T.A.L.K.E.R.Italic, AmazS.T.A.L.K.E.R.v.2.0. In 2010, he made the AmazGoda family of comic book typefaces.

    In 2011, he added AmazHand_First, AmazHand_First_Alt, AmazHand_First_Alt_X, AmazHand_First_Hard, AmazHand_First_Smooth.

    Fonts from 2012: Amaz Mega Grunge. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Amok Ink

    Tomsk, Russia-based calligrapher and lettering artist. In 2018, he published the wonderful Cyrillic ink splatter typeface Hazrskij. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    An An
    [Anik Ya]

    Anik Ya (An An) is the graphic designer in Saint Petersburg, Russia, who created the design culture typeface Rasoir (2014), named after the Miu Miu Rasoir sunglasses. She also created the experimental typeface Kaiv (2014), which is named after sunglasses by Paul Smith. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ana Babii

    Irkutsk, Siberia-based designer of Simple Ink (2016, brush script), Double Ink (2016), Grunge Dry Brush (2016), Sponge (2016, a high-contrast calligraphic script), Christmas Snowy (2016), Grunge Stamp (2016), Simple Handdrawn (2016), Grunge Display (2016: a dry brush font), Grunge Display Formal (2016), Rhubarb Pie (2016), Yndina (2016, script), Boriska (2016, watercolor grunge), 3D Sketch Font (2016), Blooming Sally (2016), Pride & Prejudice (2016), Ribbon Display (2016), Melted Font (2016), Leaves Display Font (2016, a floral decorative caps typeface), Concept Round Font (2016), Quick Handwritten Font (2016), Snabbyshoe (2016, grungy handcrafted typeface), the Latin typeface Old Typewriter (2016), Old Destroyed Typewriter (2016), Retro Typewriter (2016), and Heart Font (2016).

    Typefaces from 2017: Grunge Dry Brush (an extension of her 2016 typeface), Ink Brush, Bold Brush, Bold Grunge Display, Dry Brush, Bold Dry. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ana Kay

    Moscow, Russia-based designer of the experimental Cyrillic typeface Linius (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anastacia Novik

    Moscow-based student who created the Latin/Cyrillic renaissance antiqua typeface family Orlando (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasia Aiguzina

    During her studies at British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow, Anastasia Aiguzina designed the straight-edged techno typeface Kurskaya (2016, for Latin). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasia Allakhverdova

    Prolific art director from Moscow who is now located in New York. Her work includes the fashion mag Latin/Cyrillic typeface Cadre (2014), the prismatic custom typeface Icon Face (2014, done for a make-up school) and a few other fashion industry fonts. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasia Averina
    [Ave]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasia Babalyan

    Russian designer at TypeMarket of AllegroScript (1995), Palladium (1994-1995), SonetSerif (1996, based on Stone Serif from 1987), Anastasia Script (1996: based on Shelley Script (Matthew Carter, 1972)), and Oliver New (1995, TypeMarket: based on Antique Olive by Roger Excoffon, Olive, 1962-1968). ParaType link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasia Belevskaya

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the colorful Cyrillic initial caps alphabet Razrabotka (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasia Belozerova

    Russian graphic designer. She made the neon-sign based Cyrillic typeface Provoloka (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasia Feya

    Russian designer of these handcrafted typefaces in 2017: Cute Monsters, Horror Story, Autumn Blessings, Hello Fall, Christmas Fonts, Summer Flowers, Hello Summer Cutout, Stars and Types, Aleksandr (children's hand), Lily Bloom (floriated alphabet).

    Typefaces from 2018: Star Studded, Raccoon Chubby, Naturia (floriated), The Mermaid Story, Squishy.

    Typefaces from 2019: Fireworks, Mellow Soldier, This Is Love, Surprise Party. Christmas Mornings. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasia Galkina

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the Cyrillic paperclip typeface Razrabotka Akcidentnogo (2018). She also cyrillicized Agonz's Ailerons in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasia Kuznetsova

    Anapa, Russia-based designer of a curly connected Latin / Cyrillic script typeface and of the sketched Chalk Cyrillic in 2016. Aka Inky Owl.

    Typefaces from 2022: Kit Cloudkicker (in a child's hand), Paperboard (a paper cutout font), Pumpkin Magic (a brush font), Sunny Citrus (a bold grungy font), Hocus Pocus (a paper cutout font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasia Larina

    Russian poet who designed the handwriting fonts 47 (2008) and Denistina (2007). Aka X-tina and as Christina-S. Dafont link, where the designer is called Chrissette. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasia Lila

    Illustrator and graphic designer in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Creator of the girlish Latin / Cyrillic script typeface Lila Paris (2015) and of the handcrafted Ampersands (2015). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasia Linkova

    Moscow-based designer of an eperimental Cyrillic typeface (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasia Lipyagovskaya

    Moscow-based graphic designer. In 2019, she created Feminist by combining Futura and Bodoni. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasia Malinovskaya

    Creator of the great Cyrillic poster font Author (2014). Anastasia is based in Samara, Russia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasia Mikhaleva

    Designer, with Ivan Gladkikh (Jovanny Lemonad) of the free typeface USSR Stencil (2016), published by Typetype in Russia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasia Musinova

    Moscow-based designer of the formal calligraphic typeface Hertsgard (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasia Nekrasova

    Aka Wewhitelist. Blagoveshchensk, Russia-based graphic designer who created the brush script typefaces Insouciance (2017), Soul Run (2017), Young+Wild (2017), Acquainted Script (2017), Amaury (2017), Sylvestre (2017), Acquainted (2017: watercolor brush), Felicitous (2017), Whitey (2017), Sandrine Brush (2017), Darkshine (2017) and Luuna (2017, an emotional brush font). She also designed Iolanthe (2017).

    In 2019, she designed the wavy Somnambulist, the brush script Huckleberry Gateau, and the monoline script Winsomeness. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasia Ovsyannikova

    Moscow-based designer of the experimental Latin / Cyrillic typefaces Grungedidot (2013), Multilayer Font (2013), and Modular Font (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasia Popova

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer (b. 1993) of the sketched Latin / Cyrillic typeface Stripe (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasia Tsimbalova

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designed of the amoebic Cyrillic font Amorfus (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasia Vorobyeva

    Yakutsk, Siberia-based designer of the rounded sans typeface Bekunuk for Latin and Cyrillic (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasia Yakovleva

    Saint Petersburg-based creator of Milan (2012) and Kidot (2013). She writes: Kidot font was created as a corporate font for KIDSTUDIO. It was born from professional passion to design & typography. A child of bauhaus and modernism. Honest & pure. Created by Anastasia Yakovleva & Marco Innocenti. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasia Yeski

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the squarish typeface So Close (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasija Davydchik

    Russian type designer who received a TypeArt 05 award for the display family EZZ. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasija Gorbova

    At HSE Art & Design School in Moscow, Anastasija Gorbova designed Treestick (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasiya Dyachkova

    Graphic designer in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 2018, she designed the text typeface family Academi. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasiya Koba

    Russian designer of Dry Brush (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasiya Oleynik

    Sochi, Russia-based designer of the handcrafted shadow typeface Daddy Font (2017). Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasiya Shlyatseva

    At Siberian Federal University, Anastasiya Shlyatseva (Krasnoyarsk, Russia) created a pixelish Latin / Cyrillic typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anastasiya Shtern

    During her graphic design studies at BHSAD in Moscow, Anastasiya Shtern designed the Latin display typeface Modul (2013) and the mechanical ornamental caps typeface for Cyrillic called Reconstruction (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anatoliy Kudryavtsev

    Also written Anatolij Kudrjavcev. Russian type designer who developed the extensive Cyrillic sans family PT Parangon from 1996 until 2002. Paratype states: This type family belonges to Neogrotesque subclass of closed Sans Serif. Letterforms of lower case is based on the tradition of 1710 Civil type and some modern Italic types. For Parangon Poluustav and Parangon Ustav, he received two awards at TypeArt 05. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Anatoly Serpilin

    Krasnoyarsk, Russia-based designer of a constructivist octagonal Latin / Cyrillic typeface in 2016. He also designed the free dot matrix typeface Cadet (2016).

    Typefaces from 2017: Eight Line Grecian Condensed (wood type revival). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anatoly Shabalin

    London, UK-based designer of the octagonal Latin /Cyrillic typeface AS Izhevsk (2018), which is inspired by the industrial city of Izhevsk. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anatoly Vyalikh

    Graphic designer and illustrator in Moscow. Creator of a colorful type poster (2009) for a children's book based on Futura. From it he derived a painted-look version of Futura (2009). Home page. Another URL. Another typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anatomy of a typeface

    Russian type glossary and links. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Andre Varvarin

    Russian creator of an experimental font obtained by combining several fonts made by students at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Andrei Gorshkov
    [Agor2012 Studio (or: Drem Bike Shop)]

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    Andrei Izotov

    Andrei Izotov (Moscow State University) is the creator of the old Slavonic typeface Church AI (1995), which can be found here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Andrei Nesterov

    Russian designer of the beautiful Open Font Library uncial Cyrillic typeface Ostromirovo (2008), which is based on Ostromirovo evangeliye [Ostromir Gospel] (1056-1057). Other typefaces there include Rus Sans Pokrytie (2009, based on Luxi Sans; withdrawn in 2010) and Rus Sans 3 (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Andrei Versail

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer who created a modern Latin / Cyrillic sans typeface with an extensive set of dingbats, Garage Tools, in 2017 in cooperation with Jovanny Lemonad. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Andrei Zaripov

    Russian designer of the vector format typeface Watercolor (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Andrei Zhitkov

    Russian type designer. Agfa/Monotype designer of the Cyrillic fonts Bodoni Poster Cyrillic, Nevsky (Western style), Pskov (octagonal font), Tatlin (in the style of early Russian constructivism). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Andrej Derbenev

    Moscow-based designer of a geometric experimental Cyrillic typeface in 2012. More magnificent, often geometric, Cyrillic typefaces followed in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Andrew Belousov

    Russian creator of a nail-themed all caps Cyrillic typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Andrew Morev

    Moscow-based motion graphics designer. He created the comic book style typeface Fence Font (2009). Home page. Another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Andrew Sigurow

    Moscow-based designer of Probe 10px (2014, Open Font Library), Omnibus Regular (2015, a sans; +Cyrillic), a free pixel typeface, and Omnibus Serif (2015, also free). Behance link. Open Font Library link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Andrey Andreev

    Designer at ATRI, Graphic bureau Az-Zet of the Cyrillic/Latin font AZ NewsPaperC (1990-1995), which is similar to News Gothic by Morris Fuller Benton, ATF, 1908. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Andrey Belogonov

    Russian type designer. His typefaces:

    • Nerpa (2014, with Yana Kutyina).
    • Kalimantan (2012-2013: an award-winning calligraphic typeface designed together with Yana Kutyina)> It is unclear if this was a joint project or if Yana did this by herself.
    • Powerview (2010, with Yana Kutyina), a scanbat font with portraits of Bush, Castro, Gorbachev, Osama Bin-Laden, Reagan, Martin Luther King and other leaders.
    • Brusque (2008, Paratype: a brutalist face). Brusque was originally named Rouble and under this name it was awarded a first degree diploma of the Typefaces nomination at the Graphite Graphic Design Festival, 1999, and a diploma at the ATypI International Type Design Contest Bukva:raz!, 2001.
    • Astera,
    • Cliche,
    • FastFingers,
    • Vataga (2008, Paratype, with Yana Kutyina). A really funny dingbat face.
    • In 2016, Yana Kutyina and Andrey Belogonov cooperated with Valery Golyzhenkov on the great vintage typeface system Triplet in Erste, Zweite and Dritte styles. Triplet won an award at Granshan 2017.

    Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Andrey Belonogov

    Russian designer (b. 1975, Moscow) who won an award at Bukvaraz 2001 for Handmade (hand sign font), and for Rouble, a minimalist Latin/Cyrillic font made in 1999-2001. He received a TypeArt 05 award for the dingbat family Astra. Other typefaces include Lenta, Moloko and Svoboda. He graduated from Moscow State University of Art (named after S. Stroganov in 2001). The astronomical signs font Astera was published by Paratype in 2008. Other Paratype fonts by him include Brusque (2008, renamed Rouble), Cliche (2008, stencil face), FastFingers (2008, remake of Handmade), Powerview (2010, with Yana Kutyina), Chetwerg (2014, which won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014), and Vataga (2008, a human typefaces dingbat font co-designed with Yana Kutyina). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Andrey Chernevich
    [Mister Chek]

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    Andrey Dali

    Moscow-based designer of Andrali (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Andrey Davydov

    Moscow-based creator of Mary Poppins (2011), a legible text family for Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Andrey Drobitko

    Artist and founder and CEO of Kula Tech who is based in Moscow. In 2010, he created the abstract typeface Tot Kexit. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Andrey Karter

    Moscow-based designer of the free free Latin/Cyrillic typeface Concrete (2019) and the free brutalist sans typeface Miratrix (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Andrey Kochetov

    Russian designer of the rounded Latin / Cyrillic sans typeface family Inglobal (2014), together with Denis Davydov and Evgeny Yurtaev. This typeface was either commissioned for Inglobal, or was based on its logo. In any case, it can be freely downloaded at Dafont. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Andrey Kryukov

    Moscow-based graphic and type designer (1923-1997). Designer of ParaType Magistral (1997, digitized by Dmitry Kirsanov), a geometric display sans based on the artwork of Kryukov (1923-1997). Also available at URW. Both Latin and Cyrillic versions exist.

    During 20 years starting from the early 60s, Andrey Kryukov headed the Studio of Applied Graphics at Moscow Artists' Union. He worked as a designer for large Russian companies and organizations like Vneshtorgizdat, Trade Chamber, Muzyka Publishing and Melodia. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Andrey Kudryavtsev
    [Andrey Kudryavtsev Type Foundry (or: AKTF)]

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    Andrey Kudryavtsev Type Foundry (or: AKTF)
    [Andrey Kudryavtsev]

    Foundry in Irkutsk in Siberia.

    Andrey Kudryavtsev designed Spacexplorer (2012), Necromant (2012), Flexy Sans (2011), Otrada (2011, signage script), Micronica (2008), a font shaped like old TV screens, Karlson (2009), Imperator (2010, a Trajan face), Alter (2010), Sommelier (2011), Alebarda (2009), Rubicon (2009) and Flexy Sans (2009).

    Typefaces made in 2012 include the macho slightly flared Antey (Latin and Cyrillic) and the strong display sans typeface Tambov.

    In 2013, AKTF published Softipen Script. In 2014, he created Qwincey FY (a high-contrast slightly flared almost Peignotian sans family, published by FontYou), Warren Narrow and Achille II Cyr FY (together with the Fontyou team of Alisa Nowak and Gregori Vincens).

    Typefaces from 2015: Smile Pro (a fat multi-style handcrafted poster family of exceptional beauty; together with Rodrigo Araya), Ardilla Small (a rounded small x-height sans done together with Rodrigo Araya; inspired by the children's show Peppa Pig), Plumps, Antey, Crisper.

    Typefaces from 2016: Pequena Pro Cyrillic (Rodrigo Typo), Robest (unicase).

    Typefaces from 2017: AK Sans, Hatter Cyrillic Display (a Halloween font), La Pica (by Rodrigo Araya and Andrey Kudryavtsev), Fairystory (curly typeface), Kreker (a rounded poster sans), Stickout (comic book style).

    Typefaces from 2018: Czarevitch (a Cyrillic and Cyrillic simulation pair), Skaz (a psychedelic type inspired by the Victorian typeface Ringlet), Sitari, Dozer, Squick (a comic book / children's font family by Franco Jonas, Andrey Kudryavtsev and Rodrigo Araya), Freept (a free marker font), Nightelf, Ingot (a condensed rounded blackletter), Insolenta. Ding (2018) is a great fattish cartoon font that was co-designed by Rodrigo Araya Salas, Andrey Kudryavtsev and Franco Jonas. See also its extensions, Ding Pro (2019) and Ding Extra (2019).

    Typefaces from 2019: Clarence Alt (a an almost bubblegum children's book sans by Franco Jonas, Rodrigo Araya Salas and Andrey Kudryavtsev).

    Typefaces from 2020: La Pica Bonus (a vernacular or supermarket style font and dingbat family by Andrey Kudryavtsev and Rodrigo Araya Salas), Ancoa Slanted (an angular display family in 15 styles; by Andrey Kudryavtsev, Rodrigo Araya Salas and Franco Jonas Hernandez), Skippie (a comic book family by Andrey Kudryavtsev, Rodrigo Araya Salas, Bruno Jara Ahumada and Franco Jonas, and four sets of dingbats including Skippie Monster Lucha Libre and Skippie Monster Halloween), Ancoa (an angular 19-style layerable typeface by Andrey Kudryavtsev, Rodrigo Araya Salas and Franco Jonas Hernandez).

    Typefaces from 2022: Chessnota (a chess font).

    Behance link. Creative Market link. Myfonts link. Klingspor link.

    View the typefaces made by AKTF. Patreon link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Andrey Makarov

    Russian type designer. He created the free monospaced Anka Coder family in 2010, which was developed for printing of source code. The fonts cover Latin and Cyrillic, among other things. The font names: AnkaCoder-C75-b, AnkaCoder-C75-bi, AnkaCoder-C75-i, AnkaCoder-C75-r, AnkaCoder-C87-b, AnkaCoder-C87-bi, AnkaCoder-C87-i, AnkaCoder-C87-r, AnkaCoder-b, AnkaCoder-bi, AnkaCoder-i, AnkaCoder-r. Download sites: Google Code Archive, Google, Open Font Library. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Andrey Martynov

    Ekaterinburg, Russia-based calligrapher. Creator of a Latin Kanzlei-style blackletter alphabet (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Andrey Mel'man

    Russian designer of the Cyrillic/Latin version of Ray Larabie's fonts Monofonto and Neuropol, and of Newland Black (after Rudolf Koch's Neuland, 1923). He also made OCR B (a Cyrillic version) and Dollar. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Andrey Shmaliy

    Graphic designer in Saint Petersburg, Russia, who created the 3d Cartoon Font in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Andrey Ukhanev

    Russian designer of the molecular monolinear sans typeface Grossesbuch (2021) for Latin and Cyrillic. In 2022, he published Life Cinema Screen, a poster font that is both stylish and retro. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Andrey V. Panov
    [Computer Modern Unicode fonts]

    [More]  ⦿

    Andryushkin Artem

    Russian co-designer with Jovanny Lemonad of Flow (2010, a free pair of Latin hand-printed typefaces). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Andrzej Wartkowsky

    St. Petersburg (Russia)-based designer of Lemur Light (2007) and Berta Drug (2008). Dafont link. Another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anferov Artem

    Magnitogorsk, Russia-based graphic designer who created Simple Line Icons (2015) and the grid-based squarish typeface Mebius (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Angelina Kovel

    Graphic designer from Saint Petersburg, Russia, who specializes in hand-printed typefaces, often with applications in children's books. In 2020, she released these typefaces: Touch (display), Gravitas (a thin avant garde sans), Little Dinosaur, Jamie (script), Rocking Horse.

    Typefaces from 2021: Charming Lines, Tutti Frutti, Sweet Apricot, Magical Time, Tropicana, Garden's Secrets. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ania Leonova

    Illustrator who studied at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow in 2012. She created several beautiful lettering posters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anik Ya
    [An An]

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    Ann Gree

    Moscow-based designer of the thin hipster typeface Geronimo (2018) for Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ann Zemlyankina

    Graphic designer and food stylist in Moscow. Creator of an avant-garde Latin / Cyrillic typeface (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Zhuk

    Moscow-based illustrator. In 2020 she drew English Animals Alphabet for children's books. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Alekhina

    Moscow-based designer of the artsy typeface Kandinskiy (2013), the octagonal Cyrillic typeface Type Bolt (2013), and the multilayered geometric font Structura (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Arbatova

    Graphic designer in Moscow. Creator of an unnamed artistic Latin script typeface in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Bad-yan

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the squarish and quite innovative all caps Animal Alphabet (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Bulka

    Moscow-based designer of the shaky handcrafted typeface Lefty (2015), which emulates left-handed writing of a right-handed person. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Chaykovskaya

    Anna Chaykovskaya was born in Severodvinsk in 1961. An art-critique, journalism, teacher. Since 2001 Anna Chaykovskaya is an assistant editor-in-chief of the "Kuitpohod" magazine in Moscow. At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, she spoke about the end of the era of wood type. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Chebakova

    Designer of the playful typeface Redrum (2014), and of the experimental typefaces Muscari (2014), Eat (2014), Milk (2014), Forest Fish (2014) and Polychrome (2014). Anna is based in Saint Petersburg, Russia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Churkina

    Yekaterinburg, Russia-based designer of the free Latin / Cyrillic sans typefaces AC Line (2013) and AC Boucle (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Danilova

    Type designer who is employed by Artem Gorbunov (Gorbunov Bureau) in Moscow. Her typefaces there:

    • The Greek part of Bureauserif (2015-2016), a text typeface family by Ksenija Belobrova. The Greek part was done by Anna Danilova.
    • Bureausign (2015-2016). Anna Danilova's splendid Latin / Cyrillic wayfinding font family.
    • Envy (2016). A number font by Anna Danilova for Envy Car Rental.
    • Mary Trufel (2016). A hand-printed typeface by Anna Danilova.
    • Olimpiada (2018). By Anna Danilova (and Michael Nozik) for olimpiada.ru. This sans typeface is based on the wayfinding font Bureausign.
    [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Drozd

    During her studies, Yekaterinburg, Russia-based Anna Drozd designed the free experimental Latin / Cyrillic typeface Abraxas (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Grosh

    Anna Grosh was born in Krasnoyarsk City, Siberia and now resides in San Francisco, California. She earned a Bachelor degree in Architecture from the Krasnoyarsk State Academy of Architecture and Construction, and completed a Masters in Interior Design at the Open Social Academy of Design in Moscow. She is in the process of getting her second masters in graphic design at the Academy of Art University. She specializes in typographic design, illustration and graphic design. In 2010, she embarked on an ornamental typeface. She is working on an ornamental caps typeface.

    Old Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Guz

    Artist and illustrator from Russia, b. Aldan, Siberia, now located in St. Petersburg. In 2004 she graduated from the Saint-Petersburg Pedagogical University. In 2020, she drew an Animals Alphabet for children's books. In 2017, she drew a (Latin) Watercolor Alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Khorash

    Member of the Contrast Type Foundry in Moscow.

    In 2019, Maria Doreuli and Anna Khorash released the variable font CoFo Peshka at Future Fonts. Inspired by the industrial and military lettering in the Soviet era, it is named after the Pe-2 aircraft also called the Peshka. CoFo Peshka features weight and width axes.

    Future Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Kipot

    During her studies, Kursk, Russia-based Anna Kipot (now based in Saint Petersburg) created Display Face 32 Bit (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Kirisyuk

    FontStructor who made the elegant bilined caps typeface Anakiri (2012). During her graphic design studies at BHSAD in Moscow in 2013, she made a great silhouette icon set.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Koplovich

    Russian designer of the modular techno typeface Flickulor (2018, made with FontStruct). She also designed the street art Cyrillic font Amons (2018). FontStruct link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Kuptsova

    Student at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow. Behance link.

    Creator of Bradbury Disgrace (2012, grungy) and Outer Space Crime (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Kurt

    Russian designer of the Cyrillic poster font Viris (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Lukyanchenko

    Graphic designer in Moscow. During a type design workshop in 2017, Anna Lukyanchenko designed the dada typeface Psychodelic Serifim. She writes: I was inspired by Dmitrovskaya station in Moscow metro and created two sets of characters, based on trapezium: characters from one set are wide on the top, and from the other set on the bottom. They can be combined or used separately. This Latin / Cyrillic all caps typeface has no relationship with the psychedelic style of the 1960s and 1970s. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Lyubimova

    This Moscovite designed Band Regular and Band Rounded, a pair of angular typefaces for Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Merkusheva

    Izhevsk, Russia-based designer of an exquisite floral drawing alphabet in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Morgan

    During her university studies in Moscow, Anna Morgan created the Latin / Cyrillic typeface New Gothic (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Ozerina

    Russian designer of a magnificent set of 600 (vector format) vintage frames and emblems (2016), and of 350 Line Business Icons (2016). In addition, she designed the brush typefaces Bobervons (2016) and Momentique (2016) and the script typeface Likonder (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Pavlova

    Graphic designer in Moscow, who created a circle-based typeface for Latin and Cyrillic in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Po

    Moscow-based designer of a typographic John Lennon poster in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Postum

    Moscow, Russia-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Paul Klee (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Raven

    Type designer in Moscow. At WDC Fonts, she created the Venetian serif typeface Stiana (2013, with Eugen Sudak), based on models by Nicholas Jenson and William Morris. Stiana covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Rolskaya

    Moscow-based designer. In 2015, she made the Flos typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Ruf

    Moscow-based designer of the decorative Cyrillic caps typeface Accidental (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Ryagskih

    Saint-Petersburg, Russia-based teacher at Saint Petersburg University Of Technology And Design. Creator of elaborate hand-drawm ornamental caps (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Seslavinskaya
    [Popkern]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Shmeleva

    Anna Shmeleva is a freelance journalistic author. She has worked with a number of local and professional periodicals in Russia on machine translation of texts, speech recognition, artifical intelligence, computer graphics and type design. Together with Vladimir Yefimov, she is the author of a series of books entitled Great typefaces, volumes 1 and 2. At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, she spoke about Script typefaces and graphology. She is associated with ParaType. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna So

    Moscow-based student designer of a counterless blocky modular typefaces for Latin and Cyrillic, 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Stadnik

    Moscovite who created a brush / comic book style Cyrillic typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Tikhanova

    Russian type designer active at TypeType in St. Petersburg. In 2020, Marina Khodak and Anna Tikhonova co-designed TT Marxiana (TypeType). It is an attempt to reconstruct a set of pre-revolutionary fonts that were used in the layout of the Niva magazine, published by the St. Petersburg publishing house A.F. Marx, and includes antiqua, grotesque and elzevir styles.

    In 2021, she designed the thin roman capital lettering typeface TT Ricordi Nobili which was inspired by an inscription carved into the stone floor of a cathedral in Florence.

    Still in 2021, she published TT Ricks (+Variable), a 3-style angry hipster font with pointy serifs that evoke tension and even nervous breakdown. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Tsuranova
    [Letter Muzara]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Tyshchenko

    During her studies in Moscow, Anna Tyshchenko designed a set of icons (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Vasilieva

    Moscow-based designer of the round brush typeface Boom Boom Type (2012). She also made Pur Type (2012) and Freelove (2012, designed on a circle grid). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Xenz

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the colorful typographic identity of the Metropolis Film Festival (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anna Zakharchenko
    [Anza Letters]

    [More]  ⦿

    Anna Zonova

    Murygino, Russia-based designer of the handcrafted monoline typeface Gilda (2017, Latin and Cyrillic). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Annastasia Samsonova

    Russian codesigner with Jovanny Lemonad of the free Latin / Cyrillic handcrafted typeface Hitch Hike (2015). Other free typefaces: Steamy (2014, pure steampunk beauty), Insektophobiya (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anonymous Typedesigners
    [Vladimir Anosov]

    Russian designer of the hand-painted font AN Swish (2020). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Anton Antonyuk

    Moscow-based designer of a modular monoline typeface in 2012. In 2013, at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow, he created the paperclip typeface Stepan, the shaky typeface Artquake, the display typeface Duchess, and Sketch Font (alphadings). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anton Bisiajew

    Designer at Graphic bureau Az-Zet of the Cyrillic/Latin font AZGaramondC (1990-1995). Anton published Dikovina and DikovinaBildchen at Type Market in Moscow in 1995. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anton Chernogorov

    Graphic and web designer in Volgograd, Russia, who created the free Latin / Cyrillic handcrafted typeface Bemount (2015), the free rounded sans typeface Shirota (2015, for Latin and Cyrillic), and the free font Highliner (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anton Didenko
    [Kavoon]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Anton Fros

    Russian designer of the experimental deco typeface SK Nowatorus (2021: at Shriftovik) for Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Anton Geroev

    Russian designer of Kuzma, a typeface that won an award at Paratype K2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anton Izorkin
    [Xaotik]

    [More]  ⦿

    Anton Kharitonov

    Art director in Kazan, Russia, who created the electronic circuit font Circuit TYZ (23014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anton Krylov

    Russian designer in the South Ural. Creator of the Western font families IFC Wild Rodeo (2010), Rio Grande (2010), IFC Railroad (2010), I.F.C.LOSBANDITOS-Bold (2010, Tuscan), IFC Hotrod Type (2011, nuts and bolts face), IFC Hardball (2011), IFC Boothill (2012, Western face), and IFC Insane Rodeo (2010). IFC stands for Inked Font Customs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anton Kudin

    Anton Kudin (Abstrukt) is the Russian co-designer with Jovanny Lemonad of Hardpixel (2010, free). He also made Bicubik (2010). All his fonts are for both Latin and Cyrillic. His typefaces can be downloaded from Fontspace and Typetype. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anton Kuzilenkov

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the constructivist Cyrillic typeface Accidentnyj (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anton Malina

    Russian designer of the LED lights font LED (2015), the colorful 3d typeface Isometric (2016), and the bubblegum font Bubble Letters (2016). In 2017, he designed the colorful geometric all caps alphabet Memphis and the colorful sketched typeface Funky.

    All fonts are in vector format. Aka Malina Shop. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anton Mikaskin

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of Monster Alphabet (2017). He specializes in childen's book illustrations. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anton Shelko

    Moscow-based designer (with Denis Mas) of the decorative Cyrillic caps typeface Entertaining Mechanics (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anton Shlyonkin

    Russian type designer who has his own type foundry. His typefaces include the free blackboard bold French Forge (2013). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Anton Sokolov

    St. Petersburg-based graphic designer who made the experimental typeface Can You Read Music (2010), in which letters are replaced by music notes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Antonina Zhulkova

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of Celestina (2017, Piñata), a brush script typeface, Disruptors Script (2018) and Gentlemens Script (2018).

    Typefaces from 2020: TT Octosquares (an octagonal superfamily by Antonina Zhulkova, Yulia Gonina and Kseniya Karataeva; TT Octosquares comes with a 3-axis variable type option), TT Runs (a 20-style sports sans by the TypeType team in cooperation with Vika Usmanova, Antonina Zhulkova and Philipp Nurullin).

    In 2020, she co-designed TT Lakes Neue, a 91-style sans family by Vika Usmanova, Antonina Zhulkova and Kseniya Karataeva at TypeType. Tt is a functional sans-serif that draws inspiration from Finnish signs of the functionalism era. TT Lakes Neue is an almost monolinear sans, with ovals in the form of rounded rectangles, reminiscent of Nebiolo's Microgramma. It comprises a useful variable font.

    In 2021, Antonina Zhulkova and Yulia Gonina designed TT Autonomous, a 25-style wide brutal technological sans family that includes a monospaced subfamily and a trio of variable fonts. Later in 2021, Antonina Zhulkova, Pavel Emelyanov and Yulia Gonina (aided by Radik Tukhvatullin and Marina Khodak) co-designed the 32-style geometric sans TT Fors which comes in standard, display and variable versions. In 2021, Zhulkova designed TT Ricordi Allegria (a sleek and elegant flared all caps yet contemporary Florentine sans for Latin and Cyrillic that was inspired by the half-erased lettering in Basilica di Santa Croce, Florence) and TT Globs (+Variable), a 3-style Latin-only typewriter-style slab serif.

    Typefaces from 2022: TT Fellows (a monolinear sans with 18 static fonts and one variable font; by Antonina Zhulkova, Yulia Gonina and the TypeType team). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Antony Zonne

    Russian designer of the Victorian typeface Chelyabinsk Trucker (2009, copyright RockSquare). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anvar Kurbanov

    Moscow-based designer of the scratchy inky Cyrillic typeface Teriyaki (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anvar Kurbanov

    Moscow-based designer of the scribbly handcrafted Cyrillic typeface Teriyaki (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anya Danilova

    Anya Danilova is a type designer from Moscow, currently based in The Hague. She studied at Moscow State University of Printing Arts and worked as a graphic designer at Labs Studio and as a type designer at Bureau Gorbunov. She now works on type-related projects and is always open to new collaborations. Graduate of the Type Media program at KABK in Den Haag, The Netherlands, class of 2019. Her angular graduation typeface, Rezak, refers to the Die Brücke movement and linocuts.

    In 2021, she contributed GT Maru Emoji (+Color) to Thierry Blancpain's rounded sans typeface superfamily, GT Maru. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anya Polunina

    Born in Severodvinsk, Russia, Anya Polunina graduated from Bonch-Bruevich Saint Petersburg State University of Telecommunications. As a student at TypeType Education in 2016-2017, she designed the antiqua typeface Glamer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anya Pro

    Anya Pro (Moscow) created the circle-based monoline Latin sans typeface Monocle (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Anza Letters
    [Anna Zakharchenko]

    Miass, Russia-based type designer offering mainly handcrafted script or brush fonts. Her typefaces from 2021: Fruity Morning (a color SVG font), Coffee Break, Gradient Quirky, Aster Glow, Vintage, WMN Power, Carnival (and party masks), Snowflake Christmas, Cupid, Vegan.

    Her typefaces from 2020: Orchid (an ornamented sans), Avocado (a stylish display serif), Wanderlust, Snowflake, Warmth (a retro brush font for Latin and Cyrillic), Sunshine, Breaking Rules (a paper cutout typeface), Feel Free, Bravo (a prismatic SVG font for Latin and Cyrillic), Virgo (a serif stencil), Grotesque, Ander, America, Quirky Spring (a playful rounded hand-drawn typeface), Retro Vibes.

    Typefaces from 2019: Nuova (a modern stencil family), Caramel (an upright script), Daenerys (a script and serif duo), Didone (an over-the-top swashy ball terminal didone), Mood Board (script), One Upon A Time (an octagonal and script font duo), Abstract, Summer in Paris (font duo), Nordic Dream, Organic, Poster (a heavy sans), Throne (a free dry brush SVG font), Primavera (brush script), Emotion Sans, Emotion SVG, Emotions Brush, Mobile (a modular sans), Fleuriste (a decorative duoline font), Lovely (a tall monoline script), School SVG, Aloha SVG (a watercolor script), Sport, Alpha & Omega (a signature script), Rio Love, Delight Grunge, Quirky, Oh My Child (textured).

    Typefaces from 2018: Protect, Shadow (an all caps fashion mag titling sans family in ten styles), Ultra Violet (sans), Fall in Love Script, White Christmas (a brushed SVG font), Golden Leaves Script, Alesya (script), Rush. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Apollinaria Volskaya

    Moscow-based designer of the experimental Cyrillic typeface Nadachu (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ardak Mukanova

    At Saint Petersburg State University (in Saint Petersburg, Russia), rdak Mukanova designed the experimental typeface Cumulus (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Arina Kovrizhkina

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based student-designer of the Latin / Cyrillic typeface Estandar (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Arina Shubina

    Moscow-based designer of the Latin / Cyrillic pixel game font Wiwy (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Arisugava

    Russian creator of the (free) calligraphic script fonts Allegretto Script One and Two (2004). Designer of the Cyrillic font Champignon Script (2004), which can be found here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Arkady M

    Russian designer of Propisi7 (2004, a connected Cyrillic school script). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Arkady Matryoshkin

    Kirov, Russia-based creator of the free Latin / Cyrillic slab serif typeface Alkonaut (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Armine Chilingaryan

    Graduate of the Academic Art College in Moscow, who now works as a designer in Moscow. Creator of the amoebic experimental Cyrillic typeface Clara (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Arsenal Company

    The old pages were shareware: Arsenal Font Collections Volumes 1 through 7 (25MB in total). With the new page, I have no idea any longer how to download. They say that all their truetype fonts support European Number, estimated symbol, Spain, France, Italy, UK currency symbols and seventeen European languages: English, Albanian, Breton, Dutch, Danish, Irish, Icelandic, Spanish, Italian, Catalan, German, Norwegian, Portuguese, French, Finnish, Swedish, as well as Speech-Romance. The font families: Lanset, Simpler, Technocrat, Triangler, Algidus, Campus, ReportSans, Broker, Frudger, LineaSans, Plakat, Dodger, Calyx, Glade, Kena, Lugger, Bento, Vizora, Writ, Noter, Meccano, Runder, Simpler 3D, Harder 3D. Many of the fonts in the Arsenal collection were designed by W. Chufarofsky, and some jointly by W. Chufarofsky and I. Slutsker, ca. 1998. Examples: Egyptian Outline Condensed (1997, by W. Chufarofsky and M. Slutsker), Dexter Outline (1996, W. Chufarofsky). List of 1206 fonts that I compiled for the historic record. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Arseny Selivanov

    During his studies at Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, Arseny Selivanov ( Saint Petersburg, Russia) cyrillicized Erbar Grotesk (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Art Gorbunov (or: Gorbunov Bureau)

    Studio in Moscow set up in 2007. Their typefaces:

    • Bureauserif (2015-2016). A text typeface family by Ksenija Belobrova. The Greek part was done by Anna Danilova.
    • Bureausign (2015-2016). Anna Danilova's splendid Latin / Cyrillic wayfinding font family.
    • Envy (2016). A number font by Anna Danilova for Envy Car Rental.
    • Galochki (or: Checkmarks). Done in 2013 by Ksenia Belobrova.
    • Lavish Shoestring (2016). A monoline script by Misha (Michael) Nozik.
    • Mary Trufel (2016). A hand-printed typeface by Anna Danilova.
    • Olimpiada (2018). By Anna Danilova (and Michael Nozik) for olimpiada.ru. This sans typeface is based on the wayfinding font Bureausign.
    • Voltaire (2015, Ksenia Belobrova). A script typeface based on illustrations in one of Voltaire's books from 1734. Voltaire covers Latin and Cyrillic.
    [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Art Lebedev
    [Artemius Lebedev]

    Art Lebedev is Artemis Lebedev's large design studio in Moscow, est. 1995. In 2020, it had 300 employees, and oiffices in New York, Kiev (Ukraine) and Moscow. It has a subsection on Russian typography.

    A listing of their retail typefaces:

    • Agrus (2007, Andrij Shevchenko).
    • Alumna (2016, Ksenia Erulevich).
    • Arc (2019, Konstantin Lukyanov).
    • Beast (2019, Alexey Malkov).
    • Bingley (2012, Elena Novoselova).
    • Brevier (2019, Konstantin Lukyanov).
    • Chalk & Honey (2011, Kirill Sirotin).
    • Contract (2018, Ksenia Erulevich).
    • Departure (2018, Ksenia Erulevich).
    • Dereza (2010, Elena Novoselova).
    • Direct (2008, Vera Evstafieva).
    • Dulsinea (2007, Vera Evstafieva).
    • Echelon (2019, Daniil Vidmich).
    • Ekibastuz (2007, Zakhar Yaschin).
    • Finlandia Script (2015, Julia Sysmäläinen).
    • Flai (2015, Taisiya Lushenko and Vera Evstafieva).
    • Fuchsia (2012, Ksenia Erulevich).
    • Gross Kunst (2011, Kirill Sirotin).
    • Hauss (2019, Alexey Malkov).
    • Heino (2008, Elena Novoselova).
    • Horizon (2019, Taisiya Lushenko).
    • Ivolga (2018, Taisiya Lushenko).
    • January (2019, Konstantin Lukyanov).
    • Junior (2019, Konstantin Lukyanov).
    • Kalamos (2019, Michael Gorenshtein).
    • Klementina (2011, Elena Novoselova).
    • Klinkopis (2008, Irina Smirnova).
    • Kraft (2008, Irina Smirnova).
    • Lamon (2017, Dima Lamonov).
    • Lavanda (2018, Ksenia Erulevich).
    • Malina (2013, Ksenia Erulevich).
    • Meringue (2009, Taisiya Lushenko and Olga Balina).
    • Mezzo (2009, Elena Novoselova).
    • Mio (2019, Mio Horii).
    • Mirta (2008, Elena Novoselova).
    • NF64 (2018, Konstantin Lukyanov).
    • Neuch (2009, Igor Mustaev).
    • Pobeda (2015, Julia Sysmäläinen).
    • Rundgang (2005, Dominik Heilig).
    • Schlange Sans and Schlange Slab (2013, Olga Umpeleva).
    • Sector (2017, Ksenia Erulevich).
    • Span (2020, Alexey Malkov).
    • Story (2008, Zakhar Yaschin and Taisiya Lushenko).
    • Syys Script (2012, Julia Sysmäläinen).
    • Tongyin (2007, Zakhar Yaschin).
    • Wagon (2019, Alexey Malkov).
    • Zet (2014, Ksenia Erulevich).
    • Zheldor (2009, Oleg Tischenkov and Elena Novoselova).
    • Zum-zum (2020, Pavel Zyumkin).
    • Zwoelf (2008, Oleg Pashchenko, Irina Smirnova and Zakhar Yaschin).

    Additional custom typefaces: 19oclock (2004, Yuri Gordon: for Vernost Kachestvu confectionery factory), BBPlay (2006: a pixelish typeface by Pavel Radyuk for Ergo screens), Copycat (2019, Ksenia Erulevich), CSKA (2016, Erken Kagarov), Hyundai (2016), MVideo (2013, Olga Umpeleva and Ksenia Erulevich), Permian (2011: sans, serif and slab: a free family by Ilya Ruderman done for the city of Perm via Art Lebedev Studio), Russian Premier League (2018, Ksenia Erulevich, Nikolay Nedashkovsky, and Konstantin Lukyanov), Scripticus (2013, Julia Sysmäläinen), SPb (2015, Ksenia Erulevich), Vlas (2018, Konstantin Lukyanov), Yandex (2013, Ksenia Erulevich, Taisiya Lushenko, and Elena Novoselova), Zaryadye (2017, Taisiya Lushenko).

    View the typefaces designed by Art Lebedev Studio. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Art Loft
    [Elena Polina]

    Moscow-based designer of the PNG-format typeface Fire (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Art of Sun

    Russian designer of the beautiful handcrafted poster typeface Crafty Caps (2015) that emulates watercolor. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Artcoast Design (was: Mankoff)
    [Dmitry Mankoff]

    Dmitry Mashkin (or Dmitry Mankoff, or Artcoast Design, located in Sochi and/or Krasnodar and/or Moscow, Russia) created the absolutely wonderful restaurant menu deco typeface Montclar (2015, +food icons), the vintage letterpress emulation typeface family Stampbor (2015), the handcrafted Karmina (2015), the brush typeface Hypsletters Script (2015, with Nadi Spasibenko), the vintage letterpress typeface Marktype (2015), and the sans typefaces Albori Sans (2015, rounded and monoline) and Brentwood Sans (2015).

    Since 2016, he operates as Art Coast Studio. His free bilined hipster typeface Brokes (2016) outhipsters even the coolest hipsters. He also created the letterpress emulation typeface Jameson (2016), the appealing (regular and rough) poster typeface Weisshorn (2016), the grungy letterpress font Ovsyanka (2016), and the handcrafted typeface Norquay (2016).

    Typefaces from 2017: Santens Script (dry brush).

    Typefaces from 2020: Tipio.

    Typefaces from 2021: Regolith (an all caps display sans with or without a stripe texture), Roadside Motel (a poster font), Planet Jupiter (a great all caps cartoon font), SA Tampico (mimicking writing on wooden crates), Tampico Symbols, Howard (an ultra-condensed titling font).

    Typefaces from 2022: SA Woodland Hills (an all caps monolinear rounded sans for Latin and Cyrillic).

    Old URL. Graphicriver link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Artcoast Studio
    [Nadi Spasibenko]

    Or Nadezhda Spasibenko. Krasnodar, Russia-based artist and illustrator who created the brush typefaces Hypsletters Script (2015, with Dmitry Mankoff) and Reckless (2016, free), and the script typefaces Patrick (2016), Olivia Sand (2016) and Buddy Bear (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Artem Andrushkin

    Or Artem Andryushkin. Designer, with Ivan Gladkikh (Jovanny Lemonad) of the free typeface Flow (2010), published by Typetype in Russia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Artem Dmitriev

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of a rounded sans typeface in 2017. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Artem Gerasimov

    Cheboksary, Russia-based designer (b. Arkhangelsk, 1977) at AType of the paperclip fonts Scripio A, Scripio B and Scripio C (2003), Scripio A Simple (2004), Doughnut (2005: with the plumpness and a bit of the DNA of Bronislaw Zelek's Bron), Galleon (2004: a faux italic), Cubes (3d), Sennit (2003: textured like sandals), D Block A (2003: blackboard bold), and Fatman (2003). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Artem Moiseev

    St. Petersburg-based Russian designer of Reflex, a typeface that marries old ustav influences with modern scripts, SirSerif, Line Font (pixelish), Taliman (angular), Griffit, Malevich (totally experimental), Zavitok Font (upright script), and Face (script). Alternate URL. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Artem Nevsky
    [Nevsky Type]

    [More]  ⦿

    Artem Vorotnikov

    The web links of Alyona Vorotnikova and Artem Vorotnikov are interspersed. Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designers of the great dry brush typeface Shuher (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Artem Yakovlev

    Russian designer of Artcity (2014), a military stencil typeface that won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Artemius Lebedev
    [Art Lebedev]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Artemiy Kremer

    As part of Kiosk Works (or: Playfaces Type foundry) in Moscow, Russia, Artemiy Kremer designed the experimental Latin / Cyrillic typeface Afform (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Artemy Perevertin

    Designer located in Moscow. Behance link. Creator of the free alchemic typeface Indi Bonga (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Arthur Balitskiy

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the Latin / Cyrillic beveled display typeface Qui (2016) and the script font Old Motorcycle (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Arthur Ilin

    Russian designer of these script and calligraphic typefaces in 2019: Dreamlike, Umbrella, Wild South, Adelmo, Aromutta. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Arthur Ilyin
    [Quothron (was: TJ Creative)]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Artur Chochaev

    Russian designer of the all caps typeface Header (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Artur Nakhodkin

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of an experimental typeface in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Artyom Levanov

    Ufa, Russia-based designer of the free bold blocky italic sans typeface White NT (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Artyom Utkin

    Russian designer of Solution, a type family that won an award at Paratype K2009. His Metrofont Regular (2012) won an award at New Cyrillic 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    ASCON
    [Sergey Komarov]

    Russian outfit, credited with the Latin/Cyrillic sans serif typefaces GOST-2.304-81typeA and GOST-2.304-81typeB (1996 and 2000). Check also here for GOST 26.00885 and Symbol 26.00885, also semi-technical drawing typefaces, possibly derived from CAD applications. Designer: Sergey Komarov (Ukraine). This site has GOST-forDrawing, GOST-2.304-81typeA, GOST-typeA, GOST-2.304-81typeB, GOST_type_B. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Asterisk
    [Mikhail Kosmosov]

    Russian designer of Mobius (2020: a ribbon font based on the famousd Möbius strip), Working Dead (a straight brush font) (2020), Camden Queen (2020), Lighthouse Keeper (a blackletter-inspired font) (2020), Margoth (a 7-style squarish, monolinear, rounded sans) (2020). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Asya Alexandrova

    Talented Russian illustrator in Saint Petersburg. Flickr page. She made some nice ornamental caps alphabet [perhaps not a font] and drew interesting typographic posters such as Logoman (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Asya Alexandrova

    Drawing artist and illustrator from St. Petersburg, Russia. Flickr page. She created some beautiful illustrated caps in 2009. Also of interest is her Logoman ink on paper drawing (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Asya Gareeva

    Moscow-based designer of the Cyrillic display typeface Duomo (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Asya Reshetnikova

    Moscow-based student-designer of a great modern hipster art poster (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    ATRI

    Russian type foundry. Their Cyrillic/Latin fonts include: AZ HighWay (Leonid Silkin, 1990-1995, based on Broadway by Morris Fuller Benton, ATF, 1928), AZ LatinWide (1990-1995, by Kirill Tchouvashew, based on Stephenson Blake's Wide Latin), AZ LifeSigns (1990-1995, Serge Agronsky: astrological symbols), AZ McLeud (1990-1995, by Victor Kuchmin, based on American Uncial by Victor Hammer, 1943), AZ NewsPaper (1990-1995, by Andrey Andreev, based on News Gothic by Morris Fuller Benton, ATF, 1908), AZ ParagonNord (1990-1995, by Serge Agronsky, based on Elizavetinskaya, Lehmann type foundry (St. Petersburg, 1904-1907), which in turn was based on Russian metal typefaces of the mid-18th century), AZ Poligon (1990-1995, by Leonid Silkin: a kitchen tile font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Avalon

    (Extinct?) Russian foundry that produced Latin, Armenian and Cyrillic fonts. Fonts included Chiseled 1 and 2, Stratos, Jacker, Serpentine Bold and Domingo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ave
    [Anastasia Averina]

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of Sigillium (2022: a 4-style flared, beveled, embossed and carved serif typeface), New Comer Sans (imitating Comic Sans) (2022). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Aya Sukhorukova

    Moscow-based designer. While studying at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow, she created an ink spot typeface (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Bakoma fonts
    [Basil K. Malyshev]

    The Bakoma fonts were made by Basil Malyshev, author of Bakoma TeX. BaKoMa TeX uses fonts in ATM compatible PostScript Type 1 format These fonts was produced by automatical conversion from Knuth's Computer Modern MetaFont codes. The conversion technology was designed by Basil K. Malyshev in 1994-1995. Later, the technology was improved to handle hint replacement, and the collection was extended by additional fonts. Some of Bakoma TeX is commercial now, but the fonts are still free. They are originally in type 1, but subsequent truetype and opentype versions have been developed too. Here is a grouped listing:

    • Roman (+italic, +bold, +slanted): cmb10, cmbx10, cmbx12, cmbx5, cmbx6, cmbx7, cmbx8, cmbx9, cmbxsl10, cmbxti10, cmcsc10, cmcsc8, cmcsc9, cmr10, cmr12, cmr17, cmr5, cmr6, cmr7, cmr8, cmr9, cmsl10, cmsl12, cmsl8, cmsl9, cmti10, cmti12, cmti7, cmti8, cmti9.
    • Typewriter: cmcitt10, cmtt10, cmtt12, cmtt8, cmtt9, cmvtt10, cmsltt10, cmitt10, cmtcsc10.
    • Sans: cmss10, cmss12, cmss17, cmss8, cmss9, cmssbx10, cmssdc10, cmssi10, cmssi12, cmssi17, cmssi8, cmssi9, cmssq8, cmssqi8.
    • Computer Modern Exotic: cmdunh10, cmff10, cmfi10, cmfib8, cminch, cmu10, cmtcsc10, cmtex10, cmtex8, cmtex9.
    • Math fonts: cmbsy10, cmbsy5, cmbsy6, cmbsy7, cmbsy8, cmbsy9, cmex10, cmex7, cmex8, cmex9, cmmi10, cmmi12, cmmi5, cmmi6, cmmi7, cmmi8, cmmi9, cmmib10, cmmib5, cmmib6, cmmib7, cmmib8, cmmib9, cmsy10, cmsy5, cmsy6, cmsy7, cmsy8, cmsy9.
    • LaTex fonts: circle10, circlew10, lasy10, lasy5, lasy6, lasy7, lasy8, lasy9, lasyb10, line10, linew10, LCMSS8, LCMSSB8, LCMSSI8.
    • Metafont logo fonts: logo10, logo8, logo9, logobf10, logosl10.
    • AMS fonts 2.1, Euler font family: euex10, euex7, euex8, euex9, eufb10, eufb5, eufb6, eufb7, eufb8, eufb9, eufm10, eufm5, eufm6, eufm7, eufm8, eufm9, eurb10, eurb5, eurb6, eurb7, eurb8, eurb9, eurm10, eurm5, eurm6, eurm7, eurm8, eurm9, eusb10, eusb5, eusb6, eusb7, eusb8, eusb9, eusm10, eusm5, eusm6, eusm7, eusm8, eusm9.
    • AMS fonts 2.2: msam10, msam5, msam6, msam7, msam8, msam9, msbm10, msbm5, msbm6, msbm7, msbm8, msbm9.
    • LamsTeX Commutative Diagram Drawing Fonts, dated 1997: lams1, lams2, lams3, lams4, lams5.
    • Xy-Pic Drawing Fonts, dated 1997: XYATIP10, XYBSQL10, XYBTIP10, XYCIRC10, XYCMAT10, XYCMAT11, XYCMAT12, XYCMBT10, XYCMBT11, XYCMBT12, XYDASH10, XYEUAT10, XYEUAT11, XYEUAT12, XYEUBT10, XYEUBT11, XYEUBT12, XYLINE10, XYMISC10, XYQC10.
    • Computer Modern Cyrillic Fonts, with the Cyrillic extension due to N. Glonty and A. Samarin in Institute for High Energy Physics (IHEP) in 1990: cmcb10, cmcbx10, cmcbx12, cmcbx5, cmcbx6, cmcbx7, cmcbx8, cmcbx9, cmcbxsl10, cmcbxti10, cmccsc10, cmccsc8, cmccsc9, cmcinch72, cmcitt10, cmcsc10, cmcsc8, cmcsc9, cmcsl10, cmcsl12, cmcsl8, cmcsl9, cmcsltt10, cmcss10, cmcss12, cmcss17, cmcss8, cmcss9, cmcssbx10, cmcssdc10, cmcssi10, cmcssi12, cmcssi17, cmcssi8, cmcssi9, cmcssq8, cmcssqi8, cmcti10, cmcti12, cmcti7, cmcti8, cmcti9, cmctt10, cmctt12, cmctt8, cmctt9, cmcu10, cmcyr10, cmcyr12, cmcyr17, cmcyr5, cmcyr6, cmcyr7, cmcyr8, cmcyr9.
    Related links: message by Sebastian Rahtz). Mirror. Polish mirror. TTF versions. Alternate URL. Another URL. Yet another URL. Yet another URL. 1500 non-free fonts have been developed as well. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Barbara Shpak

    Novocherkassk, Russia-based designer of two Cyrillic color fonts in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Basil K. Malyshev
    [Bakoma fonts]

    [More]  ⦿

    Bersearch
    [Dmitry Akindinov]

    Bersearch is a distributor of Cyrillic typefaces. RussianH has four weights, and was made in Moscow by Russian typographers Dmitry Akindinov and Alex Romanov. Free demo fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Besed

    Russian page with scans of several Russian ornamental and display alphabets. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Best Pixels

    Outfit in Moscow that designed a textured type kit---not a font---called Mixo in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Besttypeco
    [Alexander Tiunov]

    Perm, Russia-based designer (b. 1986) of mainly script typefaces. Creator of the brush script typefaces Mushrooms (2017), Kangary (2017), Loveit (2017), Boronic (2017), Wildlife (2017), Fully Flared (2017), School of Rock (2017), Seek & Destroy (2017), Secret Service (2017: a free monoline script), Sileighty (2017: brush script), Kashtanka (2017), Mandarina (2017), Mistery (2017), Custom Craft (2017), Darkstar (2017), Kalmaros (2017), Stereo Type (2017, dry brush), Karateka (2017), The Buster (2017), Blackned (2017), Mantoya (2017: calligraphic), Momentus (2017), San Antonio (2017), Mishanya (2017), Dimanga (2017), Kenstein (2017), Malifisenta (2017), Samanta (2017), Kerala (2017), Roselita (2017), Sagaya (2017), Strider (2017), Joline (2017), Misled Youth (2017), Sixpounder (2017), Wildchild (2017), and Tormentor (2017).

    Typefaces from 2018: Rasty King, Stone Soul, Beauty Script, Quake Love, Mashroom, Kansai, Monstermash, Freedom, Wire, Enjoy, Transmitter, Claster, Camsay, Stronger, Parabellum, Jiguliny, Youthful, Lucky Station (monoline script), Solitary (signature script), Salt Lake, No Limits, Amber Rose, Batallion, Best Choice, BlackLabel, Blitz, Brighton Beach, Buttery, Candyman, Ceremony, Cinthia, Coliseum, Crimson Thunder, Desert Strike, Fresh Bakery, Friendship, Glam Rock, Great Wall, Hardwired, Health, High Way, Holy Cow, My Darling, Hey Kent, Instance, Jennifer, Lazer, Master of Horror, Mengano, Muggle, New Wave, Power of Love, Prince Charming, Pure Love, Quake Love, Rock Star, Sanctuary, Santy Fergason, Satori, Special Blend, Stereotype, Sun Light, Amsterdam, The Love, Malorry, Sterling, Venture, Welcome to the Jungle, Wondery, Zero Style, Berzeker, Equestrain, William, Salto, Solitude, Satirically, The Strokes, Home Sweet Home, Wondery (Treefrog style), Special Blend, Black Label, Felicita, Heart of Stone (Treefrog style), Golden Palace, Silvia One Love, Mr. Jester (signature script), Handsome Devil, Twilight Zone, Mature, Stay Clean, Paranoid (slab serif), Dogmatic (signage script), Stayer, The Mercury, Maranta, Scary Stories.

    Typefaces from 2019: Velomo CB, Bounty, Dreaming (a dry brush font), The Queen (a free calligraphic script), The Sangria, Islanders, Impulse, Raconteurs, The Black Hawk, Scream Team, Bon Voyage, Bryan Herman, Sanitary, Last Factory, Solited, Wimmer, Beauty, Showtime, Moorland Lovely Star.

    Typefaces from 2020: Predators, Gilbery (an old typewriter font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Black Orbit Art
    [Slava Antipov]

    Voskresenk, Russia-based designer of Grafita (a hipster-gone-wild sans family for Latin and Cyrillic) (2022), Slivky (a 6-style monoline rounded sans) (2021), the free Latin / Cyrillic rounded sans typeface Aqum (2019) and the octagonal typeface family Woodsans (2019). Aqum Two (2021) is a commercial version of Aqum.

    The deco typeface Twentyone (2020) was co-designed by Gajana Aslanjan, Gumilang Anggara Ruslan, Slava Antipov, and Fidan Aslanova.

    In 2021, Slava released Quanty (a free geometric sans for Latin and Cyrillic), Mars Wars (octagonal and militaristic), and the headline sans typefaces Phonk and Phonk Sans (a wide branding sans in 20 styles) for Latin and Cyrillic.

    Typefaces gfrom 2022: Gella Display (40 styles; a headline or poster sans with considerable internal contrast). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Bmeluyek Mschupztpch

    Russian designer of the Latin/Cyrillic font Ocean (2002). He works at Portfolio.kg. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Bo Kibza

    Stained glass windows inspired the design of the Latin / Cyrillic display typeface Khin (2013) by graphic design student Bo Kibza (Moscow, Russia). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Bodlek Nemshnbo

    Russian designer of the Cyrillic font OCR B. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Bolt Cutter Design (or: Mahoney Fine Arts)

    Creators in 2008 of a series of detailed free fonts: Eutemia (connected calligraphic script), Deborah Extra Ornaments, Prozac Buzz (grungy and neurotic), Phat Grunge Bold, Metal Macabre (scary), Kremlin-Advisor-Display-Kaps-Bold, Kremlin-Samovar-Extra-Bold, Kremlin-Samovar, KremlinAlexander-Bold, KremlinBolshevik-Bold, KremlinDuma-Bold, KremlinEmpire, KremlinGeorgianI3D, KremlinGrandDuke, KremlinKiev, KremlinOrthodoxChurch, KremlinStarets (all Cyrillic simulation typefaces), Deborah Fancy Dress (saloon font), Deborah (1880s style).

    Full list, at the end of 2008: AngstRidden (angst-ridden handwriting, dated 2002 under the label Mahoney Fine Arts), Bolt-Cutter-Light, Bolt-Cutter-Nasty, Bolt-Cutter, CSAR-Italic, CSARVESTMENT (illuminated caps), Bloody Irish Bastard or Congeal (2001), Deborah (Western), DeborahCondensed, DeborahExtrasOrnaments, DeborahFancyDress, Dominatrix, EutemiaI-Italic, EutemiaII-BoldItalic, EutemiaIII-BoldItalic, EutemiaOrnaments, GeneticEngine, GideonPlexus, KREMLINMINISTRY-DemiBoldItalic, Kremlin-Advisor-Display-Kaps-Bold, Kremlin-Samovar-Extra-Bold, Kremlin-Samovar, Kremlin-Soviet-Italic, Kremlin-Tsaritsa-Italic, Kremlin, KremlinAdviser, KremlinAlexander-Bold, KremlinBolshevik-Bold, KremlinComrade, KremlinCzar, KremlinDuma-Bold, KremlinEmperor-Bold, KremlinEmpire, KremlinGeorgianI3D, KremlinGrandDuke, KremlinImperial, KremlinKiev, KremlinKommisar, KremlinKourier-II, KremlinKourierII-Bold, KremlinMenshevik-Bold, KremlinMenshevik-BoldItalic, KremlinMinister-Black, KremlinMinister-Bold, KremlinMinister, KremlinMinisterBlack3D-Bold, KremlinOrthodoxChurch, KremlinPravda-Italic, KremlinPravda, KremlinPremier, KremlinStarets, KremlinSynod, MarquisDeSade, MarquisDeSadeAlternates, MarquisDeSadeOrnaments, Kremlin Chairman, Metal-Macabre, NewSymbolFont, ODINS-SPEAR-HOLLOW (2002, runes), ODINS-SPEAR (runic), OurSacredRights-Bold, PhatGrunge-Bold, Precious (calligraphic), StarmanCrusader, TEK-HED-AGGRESIVE (the TEK (techno) series is from 2003), tEK-HED-ANGRY, TEK-HED-BOLIMIC, TEK-HED-LAZY, TekHedRegular, ThorsHammerCarved (2008, chiseled look), csar, csarparadedress. Fonts from 2009: Vlad tepes II (creepy).

    Fonts from 2010: Sarcophagus.

    Fonts from 2012: Baris Cerin (a bastardized Garamond caps face).

    Fonts from 2013: Precious (connected formal script).

    Fontspace link. Open Font Library link for Tyler Schnitzlein. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Boris Brodsky

    Russian creator of Titling (1986). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Boris Korablev

    Borislav Korablev is a former journalist and now a layout and type designer. He runs a foundry under his own name based in St. Petersburg, Russia. In 2022, he released BK Claymore (an ultra-condensed variable display typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Boris Kuznetsov

    Lyubertsy, Russia-based graphic designer. Creator of the free font Polkadog (2009), designed in memory of his dog Artur. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Boris Popov

    Russian designer of the experimental font PT Duetto (2001-2002, Paratype).

    FontShop link. Klingspor link. . [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Brandia Central

    Designer of Dusha V5 (2014) for the FIFA World Cup in Russia in 2018. Free download. Dusha is discussed at Type Today, in light of an aggressive tweet by Christian Koeberlin who pointed out the similarities between the Russian World Cup designs and those of the previous World Cup in Brazil. Brandia had created a proposed design, and asked Dino dos Santos to make a typeface from their proposed drawings. Dino objected to many design details, but they were never implemented. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    BraveBros
    [Yaroslav Samoilov]

    Tolyatti, Samara Oblast, Russia-based designer of Maker (2016, a creepy handcrafted typeface). His main products are icons, however. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    BrightHead Studio
    [Michael Chereda]

    Ekaterinburg, Russia-based creator of the free information design grotesque face Casper (2012). This typeface covers Latin and Cyrillic.

    Chereda also created an experimental Cyrillic pixel font in 2009.

    In 2013, Michael published the free Latin / Cyrillic text typeface Marta and the free Latin / Cyrillic sans typeface Bravo.

    In 2017, Chereda designed the neogrotesque typeface Studio Sans for Latin and Cyrillic.

    Behance link. Fontspring link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    British Higher School of Art and Design, Moscow

    18-month program in Russian type design, also called Type and Typography. Teachers: Vladimir Yefimov (type history), Tagir Safayev (personal experience), Vladimir Krichevsky (type&typography), Alexander Tarbeev (type technologies), Eugeny Dobrovinsky (calligraphy&typography), Yury Gordon (personal experience), Valery Golyzhenkov (modern typography), Vera Evstaf'eva (calligraphy), Ilya Ruderman (modern typography; coordinator of the program), Denis Serikov (FontLab course), Alexey Shevzov (type copyrighting, type as a business), Yury Yarmola (FontLab, future type technologies), Andy Clymer (modern production technologies). The class of 2010 got together and made a free font, Amperisk [PDF file], which is a composite of 11 fonts made by them during their studies. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Brownfox
    [Gayaneh Bagdasaryan]

    A graduate of Moscow State University of Printing Arts, Gayaneh has designed Cyrillic localizations for most major type libraries, including Linotype, Bitstream, The Font Bureau, ITC, Berthold, Typotheque, Emigre, and ParaType. She began her type design career at ParaType in 1996 and started Brownfox (her type foundry) in 2012.

    Brownfaox specializes in the design and production of Latin and Cyrillic fonts for print and for screen. They are the organizers of the first Russian international type conference Serebro Nabora. Their first typefaces in 2012, all posted at Google Web Fonts, include Simonetta (readable angular typeface: see here), Sevillana (curly upright script by Olga Umpeleva), Geometria (a geometric sans by Vyacheslav Kirilenko and Gayaneh Bagdasaryan), and Henny Penny (a playful decorative typeface, also by Olga Umpeleva).

    In 2013, we also find Super Disco (an art disco layered typeface family by Gayaneh Bagdasaryan). Institut (2013) is an industrial-strength sans typeface designed by Vyacheslav Kirilenko with participation of Gayaneh Bagdasaryan.

    In 2013-2014, Gayaneh Bagdasaryan and Dmitry Rastvortsev created the Latin / Cyrillic sans typeface family Brutal Type (Brownfox) that is genetically linked to DIN.

    Typefaces from 2014: Gerbera (a sans face co-designed with Vyacheslav Kirilenko), Formular (by Vyacheslav Kirilenko and Gayaneh Bagdasaryan: a Swiss sans family for Latin and Cyrillic), Activist (a minimalist all caps typeface commissioned by the Anticorruption Foundation).

    Typefaces from 2015: Nolde (a Latin / Cyrillic titling typeface named after german-Danish printer Emil Nolde; by Vyacheslav Kirilenko and Gayaneh Bagdasaryan).

    Typefaces from 2016: Wermut (a dagger-serifed transitional Latin / Cyrillic text typeface family by Gayaneh Bagdasaryan and Vyacheslav Kirilenko, published at Brownfox).

    Typefaces from 2017: Aeroport (by Gayaneh Bagdasaryan & Vyacheslav Kirilenko).

    Typefaces from 2022: Jet (the authors, Gayaneh Bagdasaryan and Vyacheslav Kirilenko, write: Jet is an assertive italic sans that anticipates the return of the simpler, optimistic times when progress was considered positive and forward seemed to be the only way to go).

    Behance link. Fontspace link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Callig.ru

    Russian calligraphic blog. Russian type and calligraphy glossary and links. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Calmius Software
    [Vladislav V. Dorosh]

    Calmius Software is a Russian company at which Vladislav V. Dorosh designed the Cyrillic font family Irmologion in 1996. This includes Evangelie-Ucs, Feofan-Ucs, Indiction Unicode (1996-2017), Indycton-ieUcs, IndyctonUcs, Irmologion-Caps-Ucs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-Caps-Ucs, Irmologion-Caps-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-Caps-ieUcs, Irmologion-Caps-kUcs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-Caps-kUcs, Irmologion-Ucs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-Ucs, Irmologion-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-ieUcs, Irmologion-kUcs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-kUcs, Pochaevsk-Caps-Ucs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-Caps-Ucs, Pochaevsk-Caps-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-Caps-ieUcs, Pochaevsk-Caps-kUcs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-Caps-kUcs, Pochaevsk-Ucs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-Ucs, Pochaevsk-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-ieUcs, Pochaevsk-kUcs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-kUcs, Psaltyr-Ucs-SpacedOut, Psaltyr-Ucs, Psaltyr-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Psaltyr-ieUcs, Psaltyr-kUcs-SpacedOut, Psaltyr-kUcs, Render-Script, Slavjanic-Ucs-SpacedOut, Slavjanic-Ucs, Slavjanic-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Slavjanic-ieUcs, Slavjanic-kUcs-SpacedOut, Slavjanic-kUcs, Triodion-Caps-Ucs-SpacedOut, Triodion-Caps-Ucs, Triodion-Caps-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Triodion-Caps-ieUcs, Triodion-Caps-kUcs-SpacedOut, Triodion-Caps-kUcs, Triodion-Ucs-SpacedOut, Triodion-Ucs, Triodion-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Triodion-ieUcs, Triodion-kUcs-SpacedOut, Triodion-kUcs, VertogradUcs, Zlatoust-Ucs-SpacedOut, Zlatoust-Ucs, Zlatoust-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Zlatoust-ieUcs, Zlatoust-kUcs-SpacedOut, Zlatoust-kUcs. Pochaevsk was made after an original by Nikita Simmons. See also here. Here we find some Old Slavonic fonts made in 2008 by Dorosh: Wilno-Ostrog.ttf, Wilno-Ostrog_2.ttf, WilnoCapsUcs.

    Here we find these fonts by Dorosh: Irmologion-Caps-Ucs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-Caps-Ucs, Irmologion-Caps-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-Caps-ieUcs, Irmologion-Caps-kUcs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-Caps-kUcs, Irmologion-Ucs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-Ucs, Irmologion-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-ieUcs, Irmologion-kUcs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-kUcs, Pochaevsk-Caps-Ucs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-Caps-Ucs, Pochaevsk-Caps-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-Caps-ieUcs, Pochaevsk-Caps-kUcs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-Caps-kUcs, Pochaevsk-Ucs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-Ucs, Pochaevsk-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-ieUcs, Pochaevsk-kUcs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-kUcs.

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    Captcha Code

    Free Latin and Cyrillic captcha-inspired font made in 2011 by one hundred Russian designers: Andrey Konstantinov, Daniel Chernoguz, Ivan Pashenko, Dmitriy Zagidullin, Roman Ershov, Anatoliy Gromov, Ruslan Lobachev, Alexey Kondakov, Artem Moiseev, Olga Tjukova, Dmitry Akva, Maxim Deyev, Evgeniy Ivanov, Andrey Taranenko, Boris Grigorjev, Ivan Sharenkov, Artem Mazurchak, Andrey Kolpakov, Konstantin Kakovkin, Ivan Lyanguzov, Daria Uskova, Konstantin Golovchenko, Yulya Leonova, Artem Kazakov, Vasilev Eugeny, Alexey Rud, Protey Temen, Vladimir Lev, Alexey Krylov, Mikhail Simakov, Andrew Arbenin, Petr Mukhin, Lubov Fedorova, Aleksandr Kirillov, Dmitriy Knyazev, Shashi Martynova, David Fedulov, Alexey Murashko, Maria Raschypkina, Vasilij Podtynnikov, Ashot Palanjyan, Aleksandr Korovin, Mikhail Rozov, Anna Hodorkovskaya Aleksandra Titova, Konstantin Groznov, Siarhei Stashkevich, Ksenika Dobrovitskaya, Aleksandr Dolgiy, Ksenia Nunis, Andrey Ilyaskin, Kostsei Koulematon, Semen Krymov, Fiodor Sumkin, Andrew Petrushenko, Nina Holmanskih, Oleg Zhuravlev, Igor Evgrafov, Artem Kolbich, George Konyaev, Maria Ivanova, Vladislav Zhukovets, Loma Sukin, Dmitrij Lukyanenko, Sergey Shvetsov, Aleksandr Solomennikiv, Vladimir Nemchenko, Dmitry Rastvortsev, Vladimir Sedykh, Peter Zharnov, Egor Myznik, Valeriy Uryukov, Egor Akhmetzyanov, Kirill Martianov, Anton Shilinets, Pavel Voloshin, Artem Oberland, Lily Kavlyuk, Oleg Azletskiy, Yana Kutyina & Andrey Belonogov, Stepan Litvinov, Pyotr Bushuev, Egor Deev, Katerina Plas'ka, Nikita Shekhovtsov, Dima Tkach, Alexander Vershinin, Tatyana Shilyaeva, Ivan Kireyev, Vitaliy Zhestkov, Maxim Petov, Marina Butchman, Eugenia Pestova, Alexandr Anisimov, Anatoly Karasov, Gleb Androsov, Vitaly Kuzmin, Sergey Barkov, Sergey Afonkin.

    Free download. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Celine Shahinian

    Cairo, Egypt-based designer, at GUC, of the rounded sans typeface Baymax (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Character webzone
    [Sergey Vladimirovich Kuznetsov]

    This site is devoted to Russian characters: the history of the written language, paleography, Cyrillic characters, Glagolitic characters, photos of manuscripts, fonts made in Russia, miniatures, dropped characters, vignettes. Even though in Cyrillic, this is a superb site to look at! By Sergey Vladimirovich Kuznetsov. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Chekart

    Illustrator based in Ust Sysolsk, Northern Russia, whose first name is Katya. In 2016, she designed the brushy Yoshiko, the connected Neoscopic, Dissentio, the dry brush typeface Sungai, the brushy Elvissa Script, and Arlin Brush.

    Typefaces from 2017: Old Maple, Jelani (free African motif font), Keril Devil (rounded fat comic book style), Tino Script, Fun Bang, Alsynya (fat finger font), Miss Lavanda, Demetriss, Sacral Town (alchemic), Mr. Lonely, Malanya, Retano Script, Black Shepherd (a skeletal bones font), Summerrine, The Nordlike, Bekabuga Display, Basnow Grunge, Inversus (grungy slab serif), Raisia Script, Disquise Brush.

    Typefaces from 2018: Forgotten November, Thirty One, Immensely, Spring Feel, Cracky (glaz krak), Jelani Display (tribal), Frisky Wind (brush), Lovely Valentine, Blue April (scratchy), New Years Story.

    Typefaces from 2019: Coffee Bear (a dry brush font).

    Typefaces from 2020: Mister Burn, Jack Simple, Fragile Bones.

    Typefaces from 2021: Lonely Angels (brush script). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Choo Studio
    [Elena Choo]

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of these display typefaces in 2018: Wood You (a wooden tiles font), Pretty Weirdo (pixel style), Pixel Glitch, Cloudy, Sparkle, Retro Kiddo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Chukhin

    Russian designer of the marker pen font Romarker (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Church Slavonic Initiative
    [Aleksandr Andreev]

    As part of the Church Slavonic Initiative, we find a set of free church slavonic style typefaces at the CTAN site, with TeX support. Church Slavonic (also called Church Slavic, Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic; ISO 639-2 code cu) is a literary language used by the Slavic peoples; presently it is used as a liturgical language by the Russian Orthodox Church, other local Orthodox Churches, as well as various Byzantine-Rite Catholic and Old Ritualist communities. The fonts are designed to work with Unicode text encoded in UTF-8. The package is maintained (in 2016, at least) by Mike Kroutikov and Aleksandr Andreev. The main people of the Church Slavonic Initiative are Aleksandr Andreev, Yuri Shardt and Nikita Simmons. The fonts:

    • Acathist (2013-2020, by Aleksandr Andreev and Nikita Simmons).
    • Cathisma Unicode (2013-2020, by Aleksandr Andreev and Nikita Simmons). Cathisma Unicode is based on Kathisma UCS, designed by Vlad Dorosh. e typeface is used for titling in many 18th-20th century liturgical editions.
    • Fedorovsk Unicode. Fedorovsk Unicode is based on the Fedorovsk font designed by Nikita Simmons. It has been re-encoded for Unicode, with added OpenType and Graphite features by Aleksandr Andreev (2013-2015). The Fedorovsk typeface is supposed to reproduce the typeface of the printed editions of Ivan Fedorov produced in Moscow, for example, the Apostol of 1564. The font is intended primarily for typesetting pre-Nikonian (Old Rite) liturgical texts or for working with such texts in an academic context.
    • Indiction Unicode (1996-2017). By Vladislav V. Dorosh. e Indiction Unicode font reproduces the decorative style of drop caps used in Synodal Slavonic editions since the late 1800s. The original Indyction font was developed by Vladislav V. Dorosh and was distributed as Indyction UCS as part of CSLTeX, licensed under the LATEX Project Public License. It was reencoded for Unicode and edited by Aleksandr Andreev, and is now distributed as Indiction Unicode under the SIL Open Font License. It is intended for use with bukvitsi (drop caps) in modern Church Slavonic editions.
    • Menaion Unicode. This typeface is supposed to be used for working with text of Ustav-era manuscripts. It contains the full repertoire of necessary Cyrillic and Glagolitic glyphs as well as glyphs of Byzantine Ecphonetic notation of the kind used in Cyrillic or Glagolitic manuscripts. Menaion was originally designed by Victor A. Baranov at the Manuscript Project. It was re-encoded for Unicode by Aleksandr Andreev in 2013-2015 with permission of the original author.
    • Acathist (2013-2020, by Aleksandr Andreev and Nikita Simmons).
    • Monomakh Unicode (2011-2017). By Alexey Kryukov and Aleksandr Andreev. Monomakh Unicode is based on the Monomachus font designed by Alexey Kryukov. It has been modi ed with permission. Monomakh Unicode is a Cyrillic font implemented in a mixed ustav/poluustav style and intended to cover needs of researches dealing with Slavic history and philology. It includes all historical Cyrillic characters currently de ned in Unicode font also includes a set of Latin le ers designed to be stylistically compatible with the Cyrillic part.
    • Oglavie Unicode (2013-2020, by Aleksandr Andreev and Nikita Simmons). Oglavie Unicode is based on Oglavie UCS, designed by Vlad Dorosh. The typeface is used for titling in many 18th-20th century liturgical editions.
    • Pochaevsk Unicode (2019-2020; by Aleksandr Andreev and Nikita Simmons).
    • Pomorsky Unicode. The Pomorsky Unicode font is a close (idealized) reproduction of the decorative calligraphic style of book and chapter titles, which was most likely developed in the 1700s by the scribes of the Old Ritualist Vyg River Hermitage. It is seen extensively in the chant manuscripts, liturgical manuscripts, hagiographic and polemical works of the Pomortsy and Fedoseyevtsy communities, and is a traditional and organic style of lettering lacking any obvious influence from western European and Latin typography. The Pomorsky typeface was originally designed by Nikita Simmons in 1999-2000. It was edited and re-encoded for Unicode by Aleksandr Andreev in 2015. It is intended for use with bukvitsi (drop caps) and decorative titling.
    • Ponomar Unicode. Ponomar Unicode is a font that reproduces the typeface of Synodal Church Slavonic editions from the beginning of the 20th Century. It is intended for working with modern Church Slavonic texts (Synodal Slavonic). Ponomar Unicode is based on the Hirmos UCS font designed by Vlad Dorosh. The current version is by Aleksandr Andreev, Yuri Shardt, and Nikita Simmons (2011-2015).
    • Shafarik (2014-2020; by Aleksandr Andreev and Nikita Simmons). A specialized font intended for an academic presentation of Old Church Slavonic (OCS) texts wri en in both the Cyrillic or Glagolitic alphabets.
    • Triodion Unicode (2013-2020, by Aleksandr Andreev and Nikita Simmons).
    • Vertograd Unicode (2019-2020; by Aleksandr Andreev and Nikita Simmons). Based on Vertograd UCS by Vlad Dorosh, Vertigrad Unicode is a decorative drop caps and titling font. The typeface was commonly used in pre-revolution Russian liturgical editions.
    Home page. Github link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Citkit.ru

    Russian type technology site with articles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    CM-Super font package
    [Vladimir Volovich]

    CM Super is a huge type 1 family of fonts released under the GNU license by Vladimir Volovich in October 2001. For the cognoscenti: The CM-Super package contains Type 1 fonts converted from METAFONT fonts and covers entire EC/TC and LH fonts (Computer Modern font families). All European and Cyrillic writings are covered. Each Type 1 font program contains ALL glyphs from the following standard LaTeX font encodings: T1, TS1, T2A, T2B, T2C, X2, and also Adobe StandardEncoding (585 glyphs per non-SC font and 468 glyphs per SC font), and could be reencoded to any of these encodings using standard dvips or pdftex facilities (the corresponding support files are also included). Fonts were created using TeXtrace (based on AutoTrace and Ghostscript), t1utils and a bunch of Perl scripts, and were optimized and hinted using FontLab 3.1. The set of UniqueID values was registered at Adobe. Each font shape comes in 14 font sizes ranging from 5pt to 35.83pt (or 11 font sizes for typewriter fonts ranging from 8pt to 35.83pt). The developers offer this overview:

    The list of provided font shapes is included below: rm, Modern Roman sl, Modern Slanted ti, Modern Italic cc, Modern Caps and Small Caps ui, Modern Unslanted Italic sc, Modern Slanted Caps and Small Caps ci, Modern Classical Serif Italic bx, Modern Bold Extended bl, Modern Bold Extended Slanted bi, Modern Bold Extended Italic xc, Modern Bold Extended Caps and Small Caps oc, Modern Bold Extended Slanted Caps and Small Caps rb, Modern Roman Bold bm, Modern Roman Bold Variant ss, Modern Sans Serif si, Modern Sans Serif Slanted sx, Modern Sans Serif Bold Extended so, Modern Sans Serif Bold Extended Slanted tt, Modern Typewriter st, Modern Typewriter Slanted it, Modern Typewriter Italic tc, Modern Typewriter Caps and Small Caps vt, Modern Variable Width Typewriter vi, Modern Variable Width Typewriter Italic dh, Modern Dunhill Roman fb, Modern Fibonacci Medium fs, Modern Fibonacci Slanted ff, Modern Funny Roman fi, Modern Funny Italic Each font shape comes in 14 font sizes ranging from 5pt to 35.83pt (or 11 font sizes for typewriter fonts ranging from 8pt to 35.83pt). Also, the following 13 one-sized font shapes are included, Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation sfli8, Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Inclined sflb8, Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Bold sflo8, Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Bold Oblique sfltt8, Modern LaTeX Typewriter isflq8, Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Invisible isfli8, Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Inclined Invisible isflb8, Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Bold Invisible isflo8, Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Bold Oblique Invisible isfltt8, Modern LaTeX Typewriter Invisible sfsq8, Modern Sans Serif Quotation sfqi8, Modern Sans Serif Quotation Inclined sfssdc10, Modern Sans Serif Demi Condensed Also, the following 14 fonts from Computer Modern Concrete family are included (font file names correspond to the scheme used in EC Concrete fonts), .. sform10, Modern Concrete Roman sfosl5 .. sfosl10, Modern Concrete Slanted sfoti10, Modern Concrete Italic sfocc10, Modern Concrete Caps and Small Caps Also, the following 19 fonts from Computer Modern Bright family are included (font file names correspond to the scheme used in European Computer Modern Bright fonts), Computer Modern Bright Roman sfbmo{8,9,10,17}, Modern Bright Oblique sfbsr{8,9,10,17}, Modern Bright Semibold sfbso{8,9,10,17}, Modern Bright Semibold Oblique sfbbx10, Modern Bright Bold Extended sfbtl10, Modern Typewriter Light sfbto10. Modern Typewriter Light Oblique Fonts were created using TeXtrace (based on AutoTrace and Ghostscript), t1utils and a bunch of Perl scripts, and were optimized and hinted using FontLab 3.1. The set of UniqueID values was registered at Adobe. We use AGL compliant glyph names when possible (there are some glyphs which are neither present in AGL nor in Unicode). It should also be noted that the fonts use precise (non-integer) glyph widths which better match the TFM widths than just rounding to the nearest integer. These widths are generated using the best approximation (based on continued fractions) with the denominator not exceeding 107 to fit in 1 byte in CharString. Apparently, such subtle technique was used first in BSR/Y&Y CM fonts. I'd like to thank Peter Szabo for TeXtrace, Martin Weber for AutoTrace, and FontLab Ltd. for providing a copy of FontLab. It should be noted that while creating these fonts we intentionally and on principle used only automatic methods which do not require font designers talents. The aim was to use TOTALLY automatic conversion of METAFONT fonts to Type 1 format, automatic optimization and hinting, with the best achievable quality of final Type 1 fonts, to be able to re-generate the fonts if necessary (e.g., when a new version of original METAFONT fonts will be released). Undoubtedly, there are fields for improvement of this approach, which we will use in future versions of the fonts, but even now the fonts seem to look and print quite good (we hope :-). It appears that careless approach to FontLab's optimization and auto-hinting facilities could lead to loss of quality of the original font (some glyph shapes could be broken), so we used the most precise optimization, and hope that optimized and hinted fonts are indeed better than original traced fonts (also, they are significantly smaller in size). So far, we did not find any bugs in optimized fonts. There are 434 Type 1 outline fonts (*.pfb) in the CM-Super font set, and they cover 2536 TeX fonts!

    Read about the package in CM-Super: Automatic creation of efficient Type 1 fonts from METAFONT fonts (Vladimir Volovich, TUGBoat, 24(1):75-78, 2003). The font names: ISFLB8, ISFLI8, ISFLO8, ISFLQ8, ISFLTT8, SFBBX10, SFBI0500, SFBI0600, SFBI0700, SFBI0800, SFBI0900, SFBI1000, SFBI1095, SFBI1200, SFBI1440, SFBI1728, SFBI2074, SFBI2488, SFBI2986, SFBI3583, SFBL0500, SFBL0600, SFBL0700, SFBL0800, SFBL0900, SFBL1000, SFBL1095, SFBL1200, SFBL1440, SFBL1728, SFBL2074, SFBL2488, SFBL2986, SFBL3583, SFBM0500, SFBM0700, SFBM0900, SFBM1000, SFBM1095, SFBM1200, SFBM1440, SFBM1728, SFBM2074, SFBM2488, SFBM2986, SFBM3583, SFBMO10, SFBMO17, SFBMO8, SFBMO9, SFBMR10, SFBMR17, SFBMR8, SFBMR9, SFBSO10, SFBSO17, SFBSO8, SFBSO9, SFBSR10, SFBSR17, SFBSR8, SFBSR9, SFBTL10, SFBTO10, SFBX0500, SFBX0600, SFBX0700, SFBX0800, SFBX0900, SFBX1000, SFBX1095, SFBX1200, SFBX1440, SFBX1728, SFBX2074, SFBX2488, SFBX2986, SFBX3583, SFCC0500, SFCC0600, SFCC0700, SFCC0800, SFCC0900, SFCC1000, SFCC1095, SFCC1200, SFCC1440, SFCC1728, SFCC2074, SFCC2488, SFCC2986, SFCC3583, SFCI0500, SFCI0600, SFCI0700, SFCI0800, SFCI0900, SFCI1000, SFCI1095, SFCI1200, SFCI1440, SFCI1728, SFCI2074, SFCI2488, SFCI2986, SFCI3583, SFDH0500, SFDH0600, SFDH0700, SFDH0800, SFDH0900, SFDH1000, SFDH1095, SFDH1200, SFDH1440, SFDH1728, SFDH2074, SFDH2488, SFDH2986, SFDH3583, SFFB0500, SFFB0600, SFFB0700, SFFB0800, SFFB0900, SFFB1000, SFFB1095, SFFB1200, SFFB1440, SFFB1728, SFFB2074, SFFF0900, SFFF1000, SFFF1095, SFFF1200, SFFF1440, SFFF2488, SFFI0900, SFFI1000, SFFI1095, SFFI1200, SFFI1440, SFFI1728, SFFI2074, SFFS0500, SFFS0600, SFFS0700, SFFS0800, SFFS0900, SFFS1000, SFFS1095, SFFS1200, SFFS1440, SFFS1728, SFFS2074, SFIT0800, SFIT0900, SFIT1000, SFIT1095, SFIT1200, SFIT1440, SFIT1728, SFIT2074, SFIT2488, SFLB8, SFLI8, SFLO8, SFLQ8, SFLTT8, SFOC0500, SFOC0600, SFOC0700, SFOC0800, SFOC0900, SFOC1000, SFOC1095, SFOC1200, SFOC1440, SFOC1728, SFOC2074, SFOC2488, SFOC2986, SFOC3583, SFOCC10, SFORM10, SFORM5, SFORM6, SFORM7, SFORM8, SFORM9, SFOSL10, SFOSL5, SFOSL6, SFOSL7, SFOSL8, SFOSL9, SFOTI10, SFQI8, SFRB0500, SFRB0600, SFRB0700, SFRB0800, SFRB0900, SFRB1000, SFRB1095, SFRB1200, SFRB1440, SFRB1728, SFRB2074, SFRB2488, SFRB2986, SFRB3583, SFRM0500, SFRM0600, SFRM0700, SFRM0800, SFRM0900, SFRM1000, SFRM1095, SFRM1200, SFRM1440, SFRM1728, SFRM2074, SFRM2488, SFRM2986, SFRM3583, SFSC0500, SFSC0600, SFSC0700, SFSC0800, SFSC0900, SFSC1000, SFSC1095, SFSC1200, SFSC1440, SFSC1728, SFSC2074, SFSC2488, SFSC2986, SFSC3583, SFSI0500, SFSI0600, SFSI0700, SFSI0800, SFSI0900, SFSI1000, SFSI1095, SFSI1200, SFSI1440, SFSI1728, SFSI2074, SFSI2488, SFSI2986, SFSI3583, SFSL0500, SFSL0600, SFSL0700, SFSL0800, SFSL0900, SFSL1000, SFSL1095, SFSL1200, SFSL1440, SFSL1728, SFSL2074, SFSL2488, SFSL2986, SFSL3583, SFSO0500, SFSO0600, SFSO0700, SFSO0800, SFSO0900, SFSO1000, SFSO1095, SFSO1200, SFSO1440, SFSO1728, SFSO2074, SFSO2488, SFSO2986, SFSO3583, SFSQ8, SFSS0500, SFSS0600, SFSS0700, SFSS0800, SFSS0900, SFSS1000, SFSS1095, SFSS1200, SFSS1440, SFSS1728, SFSS2074, SFSS2488, SFSS2986, SFSS3583, SFSSDC10, SFST0800, SFST0900, SFST1000, SFST1095, SFST1200, SFST1440, SFST1728, SFST2074, SFST2488, SFST2986, SFST3583, SFSX0500, SFSX0600, SFSX0700, SFSX0800, SFSX0900, SFSX1000, SFSX1095, SFSX1200, SFSX1440, SFSX1728, SFSX2074, SFSX2488, SFSX2986, SFSX3583, SFTC0800, SFTC0900, SFTC1000, SFTC1095, SFTC1200, SFTC1440, SFTC1728, SFTC2074, SFTC2488, SFTC2986, SFTC3583, SFTI0500, SFTI0600, SFTI0700, SFTI0800, SFTI0900, SFTI1000, SFTI1095, SFTI1200, SFTI1440, SFTI1728, SFTI2074, SFTI2488, SFTI2986, SFTI3583, SFTT0800, SFTT0900, SFTT1000, SFTT1095, SFTT1200, SFTT1440, SFTT1728, SFTT2074, SFTT2488, SFTT2986, SFTT3583, SFUI0500, SFUI0600, SFUI0700, SFUI0800, SFUI0900, SFUI1000, SFUI1095, SFUI1200, SFUI1440, SFUI1728, SFUI2074, SFUI2488, SFUI2986, SFUI3583, SFVI0800, SFVI0900, SFVI1000, SFVI1095, SFVI1200, SFVI1440, SFVI1728, SFVI2074, SFVI2488, SFVI2986, SFVI3583, SFVT0800, SFVT0900, SFVT1000, SFVT1095, SFVT1200, SFVT1440, SFVT1728, SFVT2074, SFVT2488, SFVT2986, SFVT3583, SFXC0500, SFXC0600, SFXC0700, SFXC0800, SFXC0900, SFXC1000, SFXC1095, SFXC1200, SFXC1440, SFXC1728, SFXC2074, SFXC2488, SFXC2986, SFXC358. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Compuart

    Russian page about initial caps in Cyrillic, with images of examples from the XVIth century. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Computer Modern Unicode fonts
    [Andrey V. Panov]

    Andrey V. Panov developed the Computer Modern Unicode fonts in 2003-2007 by conversions from metafont sources using textrace and fontforge (former pfaedit). He wanted to create free good quality fonts for use in X applications that support many languages. Currently the fonts contain glyphs from Latin1 (Metafont ec, tc), Cyrillic (la, rx) and Greek (cbgreek) code sets. There are 33 fonts in the family: CMUClassicalSerif-Italic, CMUSansSerif-Bold, CMUSansSerif-BoldOblique, CMUSansSerif-Demi-Condensed, CMUSansSerif-Oblique, CMUSansSerif, CMUSerif-Bold-Nonextended, CMUSerif-Bold-Slanted, CMUSerif-Bold, CMUSerif-BoldItalic, CMUSerif-Italic, CMUSerif-Roman-Slanted, CMUSerif-Roman, CMUSerif-Unslanted-Italic, CMUTypewriter-Bold, CMUTypewriter-BoldItalic, CMUTypewriter-Italic, CMUTypewriter-Oblique, CMUTypewriter-Regular, CMUTypewriterVariable-Italic, CMUTypewriterVariable. The fonts come in type 1, OpenType and SFD, the universal spline format used by FontForge. The CMU Bright subfamily was added some time later in 2007.

    Istok Web (2011) was published at the Google Font Directory.

    In 2008, he made Heuristica (or Evristika), a serif family that extends Adobe's Utopia (for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic). Heuristica was improved in 2014 by Andreas Nolda as Utopia Nova. Open Font Library link for Heuristica. Download site for Heuristica.

    Free download. Direct download.

    Alternate URL. Kernest link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Constantin I. Spektorov

    Russian type designer. This site has several old Slavonic fonts made by him, ca. 2008: Bukvica UCS has caps that were used in the Moscow "Pechatny Dvor" (Printing Yard) in the 1st half of the 17th century. Grebnev UCS (2009, with Nikita Simmons) is based on the Tushka font by an unknown author. This font was modified by the printing establishment of the Preobrazhensky Bogadelenny Don at beginning of the 20th century, which was founded by Luka Arefyevich Grebnev. Still in 2009, Constantin I. Spektorov created Ostromirov UCS [based on Ostromirov XCS&AC by Nikita Simmons, which in turn was based on the letters of "Ostromirovo Evangelie" (Ostromir's Gospel) of 1056-57] and Pechatny Dvor UCS [based on Fedorovsk XCS&AC by Nikita Simmons, which in turn were based on the Russian pre-Nikon church books of the Moscow Pechatny Dvor (printing court), 1st half of the XVII century]. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Contrast Type Foundry (or: CoFo)
    [Maria Doreuli]

    Contrast Type Foundry (London) was a joint venture of Maria Doreuli, Krista Radoeva and Lisa Rasskazova (Moscow). In 2019, now based in Moscow, the team members are Maria Doreuli, Lisa Rasskazova, Anna Khorash and Nikita Sapozhkov. They do custom and retail type design. Their client list includes Tretyakov Gallery, Strelka Institute, Théâtre de Belleville, The Art Newspaper, Mail.ru, Fader Magazine, Tsaritsino Museum, Weber Grills, Naked Heart Foundation, LaModa, Kaspersky, Rambler&Co, Gosha Rubchinsky, White Russian and Tsentsiper.

    Maria Doreuli (Moscow) earned her Masters degree in graphic design from Moscow State University of Printing. During that time she attended Alexander Tarbeev's type design workshop. During 2009-2012 she worked on RIA Novosti's corporate identity projects. Winner at the Letter 2 competition in 2011 with the serif text family William (2011), which was her graduation project. This contemporary interpretation of Caslon also won First Prize in the Cyrillic typeface category at Granshan 2011. William Headline won at New Cyrillic 2012. Finally, in 2016, William was published by Typotheque. It is available in three optical sizes, a Text version with a large x-height for smaller text from 7 to 12pt, a Subhead version for use at 14 to 30 points, and Display version for text larger than 36 points.

    In 2011 she was named a designer of the year by the Russian newspaper Akzia. In 2012, Maria started type design studies at the KABK in Den Haag. Her graduation typeface there was the reverse contrast display typeface Chimera (2013). Chimera won an award at TDC 2014. It won the Silver Prize in the Latin category at the Morisawa Type Design Competition 2014.

    In 2014, Maria Doreuli, Krista Radoeva, and Elizaveta Rasskazova co-designed Sputnik Display for Sputnik News. This organic sans typeface family covers Latin, and various brands of Cyrillic, including the ones used in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Abkhazia and Mongolia. It won a Special Mention at the 2015 Granshan competition.

    Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam: The contrast between Russian and Bulgarian Cyrillic.

    Fit (2017, by David Jonathan Ross and Maria Doreuli) is a tall black display family that runs from ultra-compressed to very wide. It screams Use me for the Oscars! Fit was first developed as a variable font. It won an award at Granshan 2017.

    CoFo Sans was designed by Maria Doreuli between 2016 and 2018.

    Lisa Rasskazova designed CoFo Robert between 2012 and 2018. Named after Robert Beasley, it is inspired by Clarendon.

    In 2019, Maria Doreuli and Anna Khorash released the variable font CoFo Peshka at Future Fonts. Inspired by the industrial and military lettering in the Soviet era, it is named after the Pe-2 aircraft also called the Peshka. CoFo Peshka features weight and width axes. CoFo Plusha (2020) is a creamy super-fat typeface for Latin and Cyrillic.

    In 2021, she published CoFo Kak, a Latin / Cyrillic sans family with a name that raises eyebrows in Belgium, South Africa and the Netherlands.

    Future Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Creative Head Design Studio

    Studio in Moscow. In 2015, it created the fat rounded display sans typeface Smartfont for Latin and Cyrillic. It has Inline and Outline versions. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Cricket+Celery

    Moscow-based designer of the playful decorative typeface Vile (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Crowhouse
    [Darya Moroz]

    Darya Moroz (Crowhouse, Russia) designed the handcrafted typefaces Congrat (2016) and Crowpaw (2016). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    CSTM
    [Ilya Ruderman]

    CSTM Fonts is a digital type foundry in Moscow founded by Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky in 2014. Educated as graphic designers, Ilya and Yury have created many custom typefaces and Cyrillic versions for a well-known Latin typefaces. Since 2008 Ilya Ruderman is curating the Type and Typography course at the British Higher School of Art and Design (Moscow).

    Closely associated with Commercial Type, Ilya Ruderman added Cyrillic versions to Paul Barnes's Austin (2003) typeface in 2009 and 2016.

    In 2015, Ilya and Yury published Kazimir, a didone typeface family for Latin and Cyrillic, taking as a model the typeface used in The History of Russian Philology by P. N. Polevoy (1900, A. F. Marx Publishing House). It was followed in 2016 by Kazimir Text.

    In 2017, they published the almost brutalist wayfinding sans typeface family Navigo (which was used by Gillibrand's presidential campaign in 2019 and 2020, and by Moscow's Zoloto Group), and the experimental (hipster) typeface CSTM Xprmntal 01.

    Pilar (2015) is a poster sans for Latin and Cyrillic. Giorgio Sans Cyrillic (2016, Ilya Ruderman) is a cyrillization of Christian Schwartz's condensed fashion didone typeface Giorgio Sans.

    In 2017, he published Stratos Cyrillic (at Production Type, with Yury Ostromentsky; a Cyrillic version of Yoann Minet's 2016 geometric grotesque typeface Stratos: it received a Type Directors Club New York Certificate of Excellence 2017).

    In 2020, Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky released the variable sans typeface Normalidad, which started in 2019 as a custom design for MTS, a Russian mobile network operator.

    Type Today link for CSTM Fonts.

    In 2021, CSTM Fonts released the 42-style sans family Loos (Latin, Cyrillic, Georgian), a typeface designed by Yury Ostromentsky, Ilya Ruderman, and Daria Zorkina. Advisers on Georgian included Alexander Sukiasov and Lasha Giorgadze. Behance link. Type Network link. Future Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Cyreal
    [Gayaneh Bagdasaryan]

    Cyreal is a type foundry with expertise in both Latin and Cyrillic scripts. Its founders are lecturers at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow. They are

    • Gayaneh Bagdasaryan. Gayaneh began working as a type designer in ParaType in 1996. She has done cyrillization work at ParaType, Typotheque, Linotype, Bitstream, The Font Bureau, ITC, Berthold and Emigre. Her typeface Red Klin received a TDC2 2000 Award. Her New Letter Gothic won an Award for Excellence in Type Design at the Kyrillitsa 99 International Type Design competition in Moscow, 1999. Gayaneh graduated from the Print Design Department of Moscow State University of Printing Arts (2000), and Ryazan College of Art (1992). Designer in 1999 at Paratype of LetterGothic Baltic, LetterGothic Central European, LetterGothic Cyrillic Asian, LetterGothic Cyrillic International, LetterGothic Cyrillic Old Russian, LetterGothic Multi Lingual, LetterGothic Turkish, LetterGothic Western. She made the Cyrillic version of Licko's Base Nine and Base Twelve families (2003) and of Albert Boton's ITC Eras (called PT ITC Eras). Klin Black (2004, Paratype, decorative caps in the style of Russian fine art ca. 1900) is an original: Red Klin (2005) is inspired by Russian fine art from the beginning of the 20th century---lettering by Sergey Chekhonin (1878-1936), graphic design by El Lissitzky (1890-1941) and the Suprematism painting. Sketch design of the font (under the name Klin) was awarded a TDC2 2000 diploma. Finally, she designed ParaType New Letter Gothic (1999) and ParaType Original Garamond (2000).
    • Alexei Vanyashin. Type designer with expertise in Cyrillics. Winner at the Granshan 2010 International Type Design competition with Florian (Second place in the Cyrillic Text Typeface category). He completed the Type&Typography Master Level course in 2010, and studied typography at the Stroganov University of Arts and Industry.

    Fonts:

    • Cyrillizations: Akzidenz-Grotesk Condensed, AG Book, Apack (Pisa), Base Nine, Charlie, Fedra Sans, Fedra Serif, Filosofia, Greta, Griffith Gothic, Eras (ITC), Lobster (free, 2011, after Pablo Impallari's Lobster), Neuland, Original Garamond, Renault.
    • Armenian: Newton Armenian, Pragmatica Armenian, Haykakan Kar.
    • Custom: GEO Text, GEO Display.
    • Retail: New Letter Gothic, Red Klin, Schmale, Florian.
    • Free at Fontsquirrel: Artifika (2011), Brawler (2011), Rationale (done with Olexa Volochay and Vladimir Pavlikov).
    • Free fonts at Google Font Directory: Jacques Francois and Jacques Francois Shadow (2012, co-designed with Manvel Shmavonyan, they are revivals of the Enschedé no. 811 type specimen (ca. 1760) by Jacques François Rosart (1714-1774), made for Enschedé Printing House), Artifika (2011, by Yulya Zhdanova and Ivan Petrov), Aubrey (2011, art nouveau by Gayaneh Bagdasaryan), Vidaloka (2011, a didone done by Alexei Vanyashin and Olga Karpushina), Lora (2011, a contemporary serif by Olga Karpushina), Federant (2011, by Olexa Volochay: this revives the Reklameschrift typeface Feder Antiqua by Otto Ludwig Nägele (1911)), Federo (2011, high-contrast sans by Olexa Volochay based on J. Erbar's 1909 font Feder Grotesk), Podkova (2011, slab serif), Wire One (2011, monoline sans by Alexei Vanyashin and Gayaneh Bagdasaryan).
    Fontspace link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. Bagdasaryan Gayaneh. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Cyril Mikhailov

    Based in Kaliningrad, Russia, Cyril Mikhailov created the free sans typeface Schist (2014, Latin & Cyrillic) and the free blackboard bold typeface Fakedes Outline (2014).

    In 2015, he made the fatty free bubblegum font Jazzball, which covers both Latin and Cyrillic, and the free handcrafted fat didone poster typeface Pelmeshka.

    Typefaces from 2017: Langendorf (a passport cover font), Krabuler (free; by Cyril Mikhailov and Misha Panfilov).

    Behance link. Dafont link. Dribble link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Cyril Poluektov

    Or just Cyril Po. Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the handcrafted Cyrillic typeface Plastilin (2017) and the Cyrillic display typeface Lathe (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Cyrill Golikov
    [Echad Type]

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    Cyrillicsly
    [Lisa Rasskazova]

    Maria Doreuli (Moscow) and Krista Radoeva (London) combined forces in Cyrillicsly, a site that deals with Cyrillic type and asks basic questions about it. They also organize type workshops.Maria and Krista met while studying type design in The Hague. During their studies, they had many discussions about the peculiar differences between Russian and Bulgarian Cyrillics, which lead to further investigation of this topic.

    Later, Maria Doreuli and Lisa Rasskazova teamed up in Contrast Foundry, which is located in Moscow. Other team members include Anna Khorash and Nikita Sapozhkov.

    In 2014, Maria Doreuli, Krista Radoeva, and Elizaveta Rasskazova co-designed Sputnik Display for Sputnik News. This organic sans typeface family covers Latin, and various brands of Cyrillic, including the ones used in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Abkhazia and Mongolia. In 2015, Sputnik Display received a Special Mention at the Granshan Non-Latin Typeface Design Competition.

    Liza Rasskazova designed CoFo Robert between 2012 and 2018 at Contrast Type Foundry. Named after Robert Beasley, it is inspired by Clarendon.

    In 2020, she designed CoFo Cinema1909 (Contrast Foundry) for exclusive use by Moscow's Khudozhestvenny Cinema until Autumn 2022. She was inspired by the Moscow Metro., and in partucular, by the art deco letterforms in the Komsomolskaya station of the Sokolnicheskaya line. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Cyr-RFX
    [Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov]

    Free PCF typefaces for Cyrillic. CYR-RFX started as a collection of Cyrillic fonts for X-Window ("CYR-RFX" stands for "CYRillic Raster Fonts for X"). Now it includes several Cyrillic encodings and two Latin ones (both with Euro sign). These fonts are modified (mainly with Cyrillics added) versions of standard X-Window fonts. Cyrillic and Euro glyphs in all of these fonts, and linedrawing glyphs in 75dpi fonts, as well as CYR-RFX distribution and "CYR-RFX" logo are copyright by Dmitry Bolkhovityanov. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    D. Gulinoff

    Designer at Type Market (Moscow) of the Cyrillic font family OfficeTypeSans (1995) and of Unicum Condensed (1998, based on Univers). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dada

    Russian creator of FontStruct fonts in 2009: the Paradigma Block family (dot matrix), the Paradigma family (squarish), Morgenstern Cyr (cyrillic pixel face), Kenaz Cyr (Cyrillic), Offer (Latin and Cyrillic), Old Gamer Cyr (pixelish game font), 8PixNew. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Daily Type
    [Ilya Ruderman]

    Daily Type is a creative project run by four Russian type designers. Regularly updated page with many new type designs and ideas. Based on a concept of Yury Ostromentsky & Dasha Yarzhambek, the site features designs by Yury Gordon, Yury Ostromentsky, Dasha Yarzhambek, Dmitry Jakovlev and Ilya Ruderman, and was launched in 2005. Daily Type is a creative project run by several Russian type designers. Day by day, they create original typefaces and post their results along with routine. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Danee She

    Moscow-based designer of the decorative floral caps typeface Ghzel (2016), Daneehand (2017), Patch (2017: sketched, hatched), Pole Cho (2020: handwriting), and Benoti Grunge (2020: brush font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Daniel Shurovich Chirkov

    Dan Chirkov updated the FreeSerif font with the missing Cyrillic glyphs needed to conform to Unicode 3.2. The effort is part of the Slavjanskij package for Mac OS X. Bukvica (2003) is a free truetype font with over a thousand glyphs, adapted from a 1999 URW+ font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Daniel Tagiroff

    Kirov, Russia-based designer of an experimental typeface in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Daniil Vidmich

    Designer at Art Lebedev Studio. In 2019, he released the deco typeface Echelon at Art Lebedev Studio and wrote: Echelon is the most Russian typeface of all. A monumental type that looks like a speeding train and fascinates with its enormous power and strict beauty. A manifesto of rethinking history and its heritage in today's mentality. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Danil Plyutenko

    In 2014, Pavel Efremov, Danil Plyutenko and Aleksander Smolnikov (Saint Petersburg) co-designed the Praktik typeface during their studies at BHSAD in Moscow. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Danil Roudenko

    Moscow-based designer of Sketch Style ABC (2015). His company is called Grey Coast Media. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Daniyar Shape
    [Daniyar Sharipov]

    Brand designer in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 2021, he designed the inktrapped typeface Gropled for Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Daniyar Sharipov
    [Daniyar Shape]

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    Danya Orlovsky

    Or Danila Orlovsky. Student at the Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Applied and Industrial Arts, 2006-2012. Danya (Danila) is the Moscow-based designer of the constructivist version of Didot called Circus Didot (2010, Paratype).

    MyFonts link. Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Daria

    Daria (Saint Petersburg, Russia) created the school project font Aronautic (sic) in 2013. It is hand-drawn and inspired by vintage aeronautics. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Daria Bilberry
    [Daria Cherniackova]

    Or Daria Cherniakova. Perm, Russia-based designer of the connected typeface Selena (2016) and the free script typeface Jasmine (2016). In 2017, she designed the brush script typefaces Marmont, Sweet November, Jeremmy, Caramel, Marmelade, Landmark, Marigold and Goldberry, the handcrafted Soul & Heaven, American Beauty and Fantastic, and the dry brush typeface Jullian.

    Typefaces from 2018: Style Power (script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Daria Cherniackova
    [Daria Bilberry]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Daria Durova

    During her studies at RANEPA in Moscow, Daria Durova designed the artsy typeface Dura (2018) and the experimental Cyrillic font Dasha (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Daria Elyasova

    Krasnoyarsk, Russia-based designer of several music instrument pictograms (2017) and a thin all caps Cyrillic display sans typeface (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Daria Grigorieva

    Moscow-based designer of a pixelish typeface for Cyrillic in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Daria K

    Located in Moscow, this graphic designer created a modular Cyrillic typeface in 2012. Her company is called Dashetcky. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Daria Kalenchuk

    Student in Moscow, who created Neowood (2012) and Aliens' Alphabet (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Daria Kalitskaya

    Moscow-based student designer of an untitled modular experimental Latin typeface in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Daria Karachenteva

    During her studies in 2012 in Moscow, Daria Karachenteva designed the army stencil typeface Ne Prislontsja and the hand-printed Net Istinyi. All fonts are for Cyrillic only. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Daria Kwon

    Moscow-based designer of the free Latin / Cyrillic script typeface Lemon Tuesday (2016, with Jovanny Lemonad at Typetype). See also Dafont. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Daria Makarova

    Krasnoyarsk, Russia-based designer of the display typefaces Makarova (2017: sans) and Caravana (2017: squarish), for both Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Daria Miazhevich

    Moscow, Russia-based designer illustrator who created the free handcrafted children's book font Black Rabbit in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Daria Miazhevich

    Moscow-based designer of the counterless handcrafted poster typeface Strange Party (2016) and the handcrafted typeface Black Rabbit (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Daria Petrova

    Moscow-born type designer who first studied book design in Moscow and communication design in Berlin, and graduated from the Typemedia program at KABK, class of 2016, and is now working for LucasFonts in Berlin. Her graduation thesis, Ritual, is intended for use on gravestones, with sandblasting machines. The multi-style typeface family is German expressionist.

    At Future Fonts, she published the wedge serif display typeface Zangezi (2018), which began as a revival of Keystone Type Foundry's Salem. In 2019, she added Zangezi Sans, and wrote: A new take on the Grotesque genre that is neither cool and rational, nor friendly. Strong color, sharp endings, and an eccentric italic give Zangezi Sans a brutal yet elegant appearance, where "yet" doesn't mean a compromise. Its serpentinous, schizophrenic shapes are an expression of the pure joy of drawing. In 2020, she added Zangezi Sans Text.

    Typefaces from 2021: Zloy (Russian for evil, angry: this a wicked ultra-fat sharp-edged wedge serif poster typeface).

    Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp on grave markers. Interview. Future Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Daria Prokuda

    Daria Prokuda (Yekaterinburg, Russia) designed the elegnat super-condensed Skyline style Latin / Cyrillic typeface Theodore Glagolev Display (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Daria Volyanskaya

    After studies in saint Petersburg, Russia, and now located in Egypt, Daria Volyanskaya designed the funky hand-drawn fat poster typeface family Blue Bubblegum (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Daria Zorkina

    Daria Zorkina is a calligrapher and graphic and type designer based in Moscow. She graduated from British Higher School of Art and Design in 2009 and took a type design course from Ilya Ruderman. In 2017-18 was an intern at CSTM fonts type foundry. A talented calligrapher, she published the wavy Latin / Cyrillic variable typeface Flicker in 2020 at Tomorrow Type. Flicker is ideal for advertizing diarrhea medication. At the other end of the variable font spectrum, we find a tall bold condensed movie credit sans.

    In 2021, CSTM Fonts and Type Today released the 42-style sans family Loos (Latin, Cyrillic, Georgian), a typeface designed by Yury Ostromentsky, Ilya Ruderman, and Daria Zorkina. Advisers on Georgian included Alexander Sukiasov and Lasha Giorgadze. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Darja Deren

    Moscow-based designer of the warm curvy comic book font Baccello (2017) for Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Darumo
    [Roman Dementev]

    Russian designer in 2018 of these typefaces: Hillingdon, Summer of 76 (imitating the prismatic font of the Mexico City Olympics), Versot.

    Typefaces from 2019: Hogsmeade (a spooky font), CRT64 (a dot matrix font), Bisect (a glitch font).

    Typefaces from 2020: Gumzilla (a bubblegum font), No Signal (a glitch font).

    Typefaces from 2021: Rugfish (a playful chunky poster sans). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Darya Cherevkova

    Russian type designer. In 2021, Darya Cherevkova and Alexandra Valuikina co-designed the blocky experimental monumental font SK Quadratica (Latin and Cyrillic). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Darya Fomicheva

    Russian designer of some experimental fonts (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Darya Martynova

    Graphic designer in Moscow who created the straight-edged stick-shaped Cyrillic typeface Mynah (2015) and the experimental 3d typeface Altai (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Darya Moroz
    [Crowhouse]

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    Darya Zharkova

    Russian designer of the experimental pixelish typeface SK Fillout (a grungy pixelish font) (2021: at Shriftovik) for Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Dasha Goldfinch

    During her studies at HSE Art and Design School in Moscow, Dasha Goldfinch created Libera Room (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dasha Yarzhambek
    [Yarzhombeck Kunst Group]

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    David Hovhannisyan

    Graphic designer in Moscow. Creator of the Latin / Cyrillic hipster typeface Night (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Decor

    This site contains various versions (Latin and/or Cyrillic) of the formal script typeface Decor: Decor Cyrillic (1992, ParaGraph), DecorCTT (1994, TeamAXis Corp), Decor (1991, Atech Software). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    De(-)fis

    Ezine by ParaType in Russia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Denis A. Serikov
    [OT Lab]

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    Denis Afonin

    Art director in Moscow who created the multilayer font Cifricci (2013), the geometric solid typeface Modal Font (2013), and the decorative typeface Blitz Type (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Denis Bashev

    Russian designer of Reflex, a typeface that marries old ustav influences with modern scripts. His LineFont is a pixel experiment. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Denis Disia

    Moscow-based designer of the wonderful Theropoda dinosaur-themed decorative alphabet (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Denis Espinoza

    Lima, Peru and Moscow, russia-based designer of the free brush typeface Salvador Hand (2016) and the free handcrafted typeface Leo Hand (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Denis Gorelkin

    Nizhny Novgorod, Russia-based designer of the hipster typeface Horizon (2018) and the display sans typefaces Bend (2018) and Graceful (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Denis Ignatov

    Designer in Moscow, Russia, b. 1984. In 2018, he created the rounded sans typeface Coiny Cyrillic for Latin and Cyrillic. This appears to be a cyrillization of Marcelo Magalhães Pereira's Google font Coiny (2015).

    In 2020, he designed the free Latin / Cyrillic display sans typefaces Crosterian, Clickuper (with hexagonal shapes) and Cramaten, as well as the Cyrillic part of Catallina, a free all caps art deco sans typeface designed by Mariano Diez and published by Rostype. Similarly, he designed the Cyrillic part of Lkdown, a free all caps COVID 19-inspired typeface designed by Mariano Diez and published by Rostype. Open Font Library link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Denis Indeikin

    Russian designer of the script typeface Nemesis (2018, with Naruru Stachelschwein). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Denis Izotov

    Moscow-based designer of the Latin / Cyrillic typeface Spoloch (2013), which is inspired by the logo of emigre magazine Spolokhi, which was published in the 1920s. This beautiful display typeface, in all its exaggerated elegance, was created during Denis's studies at the British Higher School of Art and Design under the direction of Ilya Ruderman. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Denis Kara
    [Tag Design]

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    Denis Kukushkin

    Ufa, Russia-based designed. In 2019, he added cyrillics to Iordanis Passas's sketched typeface Sanek. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Denis Mas

    Moscow-based designer (with Anton Shelko) of the decorative Cyrillic caps typeface Entertaining Mechanics (2014). He also made the potato print Cyrillic font Zhola (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Denis Masharov

    Born in Moscow in 1973, he emigrated to Israel in 1990 and has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Bezalel Jerusalem Academy of Arts, 1996. A professional designer since 1996, he designs type and is involved in typographic projects.

    At Google Font Directory, we can download his Latin/Cyrillic poster font Ruslan (or Rusland) Display (2011), the freehand lettering typeface Marck Script (2011, based on the hand of Marck Fogel), and the angular Kelly Slab (2011).

    Bolster (2011) is a unicase fat Western face.

    Forum (2011) is a free classical roman face. TeX support.

    Ruslan Display (2011) was co-designed with Vladimir Rabdu, this decorative typeface is in the poluustav style dating from the 16th century.

    In 2011, he set up the Denis Masharov foundry at MyFonts.

    Free fonts published at Google Web Fonts in 2012: Ledger (Ledger was likened to Zapf's Melior by Nick Shinn, but Masharov says that it is closer to Swift), Glass Antiqua. This is a revival of the 1913 typeface Glass Antiqua by Genzsch & Heyse (original by Franz Paul Glass, 1912). Poiret (2012, free at Google Web fonts) is a Latin / Cyrillic geometric grotesque that combines art deco with avant garde. TeX support for Poiret One.

    Bolster (2012) is a great Italian wood type face.

    Tenor Sans (2012) is a Peignotian typeface (free at Google Web Fonts).

    In 2017, Denis Masharov and Roman Shchyukin co-designed the custom squarish sans typeface Match TV for the Russian TV sports channel MachTV. Still in 2017, he designed TNT Sans for the Russian entertainment TV channel TNT (on commission for Elena Shanovich, Shandesign).

    Denis did the logo and typeface for the bakery brand Volkonsky in 2017.

    In 2019, he created the Elzevir style titling typeface Matilda Titling for Coronation, а historical TV seriеs by Alexei Uchil. It was inspired by typefaces from Georges Revillon's type foundry, ca. 1860.

    Klingspor link. Behance link. Fontsquirrel link. Google Plus link. Fontspace link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Denis Parfyonov

    Moscow-based designer of the Cyrillic display typeface Circus (2017), which combines Bodoni and PF Agora Slab. He also created the Cyrillic potato print typeface Soil (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Denis Petrov

    Denis Petrov (Ekaterinburg, Russia) created the Latin / Cyrillic typeface Rupster Script (2013). Ruspter, he says, stands for Russian hipster. In 2018, he designed Pigeon Script. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Denis Sherbak

    Russian designer. In 2008, he created a number of commercial Cyrillic/Latin typefaces, including Capitalist, NoName, Antarktika, and Alenoushka. In 2010, he made the fuzzy op-art typeface Guilloche. Dafont link where one can download Capitalist and Bird Cherry (2009, sans). In 2013, he added the sirupy typeface Wild Honey. In 2014, he created the constructivist typeface Buran USSR and the techno typeface Redpower (Latin and Cyrillic). In 2015, he published the squarish constructivist typeface family Snowstorm.

    Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Denis Smirnov

    Graphic designer in Cheboksary, Russia. He has designed some alphabets in 2001. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Denis Volodin

    Russian designer of the angular Cyrillic display typeface Stuzha (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Denis Yatsutko

    Russian designer of Yatsutko Glagolitsa. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Denis Zh

    Moscow-based designer of the octagonal Latin display typeface Cut Piece (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Deodamus Deos

    Art director in Moscow who created the rounded Cyrillic display typeface Pears & Berries Cafe (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Design Station
    [Evgeny Bulash]

    Evgeny Bulash (Design Station), is a Russian designer, b. 1978, who lives in Stavropol. He created the ornamental caps typefaces UniLeaf-Italic, Ornatix and Ornatique in 2009. He also did Bladeline (2009), Republic (2009) and Unileaf (2009). Another URL. Home page. Fontspace link. Dafont link. Another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    DEsign--Moscow
    [Evgenij Dobrovinskii]

    Russian foundry. Evgenij Dobrovinskii designed Faktor, Inessa Cyrillic (calligraphic handwriting) and Magister Cyrillic (book) there. Mac fonts. A. Kustov's Aksent (TypeMarket, 1993) was based on a design of Dobrovinskii. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Diana Gibadulina

    Designer at Ria Novosti News Agency in Moscow. During her education at the British Higher School of Art and Design (Moscow), she created the modular typeface Melodia (2012, Cyrillic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Diana Khozheva

    Moscow-based creator of some striking painted Cyrillic alphabets in 2014. She also created Fishtail Font (2014) and Potato Script (2014, for Cyrillic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dima Karlov

    Graphic designerr in Moscow who made a colorful Cyrillic stencil alphabet dedicated to Neville Brody (2015). Other typefaces for Latin and Cyrillic include Hollow Pixels (2015), Adhesive Tape (2015), and Multicolore (2015, a rounded sans done for his graduation). He also designed the pictograms Olympic Gods (2015) and Sportsmen (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dima Pazuk

    Moscow-based designer of the Russian church style typeface Russian Texture (2013), the Latin piano key typeface Crude (2013), and the Latin font Diorius (2013). In 2014, he created the hand-drawn Cyrillic typeface DM Sans, and the octagonal typeface DropFont. In 2015, he designed the Star Trek font Omega. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dima Pole
    [Slovolitni de Grande Tartaria]

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    Dimitri Jakovlev
    [Jakovlev Type Foundry]

    [More]  ⦿

    Dimitri K

    Moscow-based designer of the Latin / Cyrillic text typeface Kamora (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dimitri Shlyapa Yupavetshkii

    Russian designer of the (free) Latin/Cyrillic multiple master font MagCMM. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dimitry Ochakov

    Dimitry (or Dmitry) Ochakov is the Makhachkala / Rostov-on-Don, Russia-based designer of the circle-based Latin font Done (2014). In 2022, he released the circle-themed organic sans typeface Ring (16 styles) and its companions Ring Soft (a rounded circle-based sans with baby soft curves, just right for fluffy toilet paper commercials; 8 styles) and Ring Slab (16 styles). The ring family was inspired by the Bauhaus movement and cover Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Dina Issayeva

    Kazakhstani designer who studied at HSE Art and Design School in Moscow. In 2021, she published Raspustilsya Sans which was designed to draw attention to microfibre pollution. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitri Kainov

    Russian graphic designer who created the futuristic Cyrillic typeface Gorod in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitri Lavrow

    Born in 1961 in Leningrad, Dmitri designed Hardcase at FontShop. He also made Hannover Milennial (sans; at Die Gestalten) and HardCase-Striped (free font at Die Gestalten).

    From 2007-2008, he cooperated with Carrois Type Design in the development of a Latin / Cyrillic angular typeface for the Russian Railways called Russian Rail. It consists of Antiqua, Bureau and Grotesque subfamilies.

    FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitrii Belicov

    Russian designer of the handcrafted typeface Gabriell (2015) and the fat finger font Dmilid (2015). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitrii Bychkov

    Tolyatti, Russia-based designer of the Cyrillic monoline sans typeface Slon (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitrii Kaliasin

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of a custom handcrafted Latin typeface in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitrii Vlasov

    Moscow-based designer of the pixel typefaces Eight Beats (2017) and Jeebz (2016). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitrij Greshnev
    [Green Type]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitriy A. Horoshkin
    [DX Type Foundry]

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    Dmitriy Aladkin

    Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia-based illustrator and designer. Creator in 2012 of the Cyrillic typeface FEDR, and of MephodiyD (old slavonic). He also made Prut (2012) and Favor (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitriy Annenkov

    Perm, Russia-based designer of the retro signage fonts Beauford (2015) and California Dreaming (2015), the connected script typeface Jennifer's Flowers (2015) and the heavy calligraphic typeface Magnificent (2015).

    In 2016, he designed the retro signage script fonts Hollywood and Berry Juice. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitriy Chirkov
    [Media Lab (or: Dima Evans)]

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    Dmitriy Francev
    [Francev]

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    Dmitriy Horoshkin's Library

    Dmitriy Horoshkin's library of Rusian books on type and typography include these downloadable texts:

    • Album of written and printed fonts, M.A. Netyksa, 1906
    • Font album of Zemsky typography, Simferopol, 1904-1910
    • Bibliography of Russian typographic fonts, V.Ya. Adaryukov, 1924
    • Bibliography of Russian typographic fonts, V.Ya. Adaryukov, 1924 (electronic book) Rab-book
    • The Art of the Book, A.A. Sidorov, 1922
    • The history of Russian ornament. Museum of the Stroganov School, 1868
    • Font file according to GOST-1947, VNITO Polygraphy and Publishing.
    • Book Proof, N.N. Filippov, 1929
    • Book font, M.V. Bolshakov, 1964
    • Brief information on printing business, P. Kolomnin, 1899
    • Typeface, T.I. Kutsyn, 1950
    • New Russian font V.Mashin, 1906
    • Model fonts of the Military Printing House, 1821
    • Samples of the writings of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1862
    • Samples of Slavic-Russian printing from 1491, 1891
    • Samples of the foundry of I. Shcherbakov in St. Petersburg, 1881
    • Samples of text machine fonts of the linotype, Leningrad, 1938
    • Samples of artistic fonts and frames, A.A. Kotlyarov, 1929
    • Piusa Bauer in Warsaw, 1888
    • Font samples (Printing and Bookbinding) Yu.A. Mansfeld, 1904
    • Font samples of the 4th printing house named after E. Sokolova, 1956
    • Font samples, General Staff of the Red Army, 1937
    • Font Samples, Graphic Workshops at Academic Publishing House, 1923
    • Samples of fonts and frames for drawings and plans, A.D. Demkin, 1924
    • Types of fonts and decorations of the printing house of I. Wilborg, B.G.
    • Samples of IAN fonts - "Our Father" and other texts in 325 languages and dialects, 1870
    • Font samples of the St. Petersburg Synodal Printing House, 1902
    • Types of typographic lithography fonts of the Siberian T-v Printing, bg
    • Samples of fonts of A.Transhel's printing house, 1876
    • Samples of fonts of the printing house of the Astrakhan provincial government, 1886
    • Samples of fonts of the printing house of the Moscow Union of Mozhaisk PEC, 1926
    • Samples of fonts of the Printing house of the Central Union, bg
    • Book Design - A Guide to the Preparation of a Manuscript for Printing, L.I. Hessen, 1935
    • Design of the Soviet book, G.G. Guillo, D.V. Konstantinov, 1939
    • Printing ornament B.1, Glagol, 1991
    • Printing ornament B.2, Verb, 1991
    • Font construction, Ya.G. Chernikhov N.A. Sobolev, 2005
    • Guide to the study of ribbon (Rondo) font, A.I. Pechinsky, 1917
    • Russian typographic font. Issues of history and application practice, A.G. Shitsgal, 1974
    • Tutorial of calligraphy and cursive writing, S. Volchenka, 1902
    • Collection of old Russian and Slavic letters, K.D. Dalmatov, 1895
    • Slovolitni O. I. Leman in St. Petersburg and Moscow, Font Catalog, 1915 (?) G. Moscow.
    • Slovolitnya O.O. Gerbek. Fonts and ornaments, 19 ?? g.
    • Collection of fonts. Compiled and published by Mikhail Maimistov, 1912
    • Modern Font, W. Toots, 1966
    • Art fonts, A.M. Jerusalem, 1930
    • Font, B.V. Voronetsky E.D. Kuznetsov, 1967
    • Font in visual agitation, S. I. Smirnov, Third Edition, 1990
    • Fonts and Alphabets, O.V. Snarsky, 1979
    • Fonts for inscriptions on drawings, M.D. Mikeladze, 1961
    • Fonts for projects, plans and maps, A.S. Shuleykin, 1987
    • Fonts and their construction, D.A. Pisarevsky, 1927
    • Fonts and type works, V.V. Grachev, B.G.
    • Typographic fonts, ONSH, ed. A.N. Strelkova, 1974
    • Fonts Development and use, G.M.Baryshnikov, 1997
    • Fonts The educational-methodical manual for cadets of LVTKU, N.A. Shashurin, 1981
    • Aesthetics of the art of font, A. Kapr, 1979

    Local download (with Horoshkin's permission). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitriy Ivanov

    Creator of Franzisk (2001, with Ivan Arbatskiy). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitriy Konovalov

    Russian designer of these typefaces: Prokofe (elegant display face), eleQtronique (LED simulation). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitriy Shchetinskiy

    Russian type designer who made the calligraphic greetings typeface Gala 72 (2012) and Congratulatory (2010: Latin and Cyrillic) and the curly psychedelic all-caps typeface Lemonchello (2011). More greetings typefaces were added in 2015: Congratulatory 2.0, Congratulatory Happy Birthday, Congrats 36, Congratulatory New Year And Christmas, Congratulatory Womens Day. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitriy Suntsov

    Russian designer of the modular typeface SK Mutka (2021, at Shriftovik). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitriy Sychiov

    Aka Dmitriy Sychoff. Russian designer of many Latin / Cyrillic typefaces at FontStruct. These include Fontain (2021), Kabriolet (2021), High Platform (2021), Mortido (2020), Zpheres C (2020: a Cyrillization of a font by Elmoyenique), Gruz (2020), Fat Thin Co (2018), Kuliboni (2018: a dot matrix font derived from Bodoni), Underground C (2018), Chekhova (2018), Antodot sans (2017: dot matrix style), Chrysalide Old Face (2017: dot matrix font), Zychotropic C (2016: a Western / Italian font), Kirpich (2016: a Western font), Mainz C (2016: blackletter), Dry Heat Cyrillic (2016: a Cyrillization of Christian Munk's Arabic emulation typeface Dry Heat), and Belltower C (2016: a compressed all caps text typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitriy Terskov

    Russian designer of Killer's Sketchbook (2010, hand-printed Latin font). He also made the octagonal display typeface Counterstrike (2010) and the grunge typefaces Invaders Must Die (2010) and Draff (2010).

    Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitry Akindinov
    [Bersearch]

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    Dmitry Alekseev

    Russian designer at Frog 1812 of Frog 1812 Sans (2021; with Vsevolod Syzdykov and Vladislav Zhuk). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitry Arakelov
    [Fontop]

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    Dmitry Astakhov

    Penza, Russia-based designer of the free font Pepsi Cyr-Lat (2017), a Cyrillic adaptation By Dmitry Astakhov of 2000 typeface by Jakub Degorski.

    In 2018, he designed the free font Astakhov Brush Hooliganism, the free font Astakhov First Simple, the free font Astakhov Access Degree, Astakhov Dished, the free font Astakhov First One Stripe, and the free font Astakhov First Two Stripes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitry Bag
    [Dmitry Savin]

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    Dmitry Baranov

    Vitebsk, Russia-based designer of the free molecular stencil font Cosmo (2019), renamed Galaxy, and the free squarish typeface Slender (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitry Bargatin

    Lipetsk, Russia-based creator of Cherty Rezy (2014), a Cyrillic typeface based on Slavic runes found when he was researching the pre-Christian Slavic literature. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitry Bazhanov

    Russian type and book designer, 1902-1945 or 1946. His characters were made into alphabets in 1961 by Mihail Grigorevich Rovenskiy, who called the type family Bazhanov. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitry Busarev

    Vector artist in St. Petersburg, Russia. Creator of the hand-printed (Latin) outline typeface Mirvoshar Stroked (2010).

    Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitry Dervenjov

    Russian designer with Nikolay Dubina of the Runic font series (2001). See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitry Elit

    Novosibirsk, Siberia-based designer of the free old Slavonic style typeface Veles (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitry Goloub

    Russian type foundry, est. 2014 by Dmitry Goloub, the Moscow-based codesigner with Lucas Perdidaão of the free grid-based art deco typeface Bobber (2012, in ai format) and of Alpine (2014). From 2009 until 2010 and again in 2012, he lived in Firenze, Italy.

    Typefaces from 2013 include Bolognese Sans, Moor (multilined art deco family), Bobber Script, and Bread & Milk Sans. Genplan (2013) is a great free layered inline typeface for Latin and Cyrillic that is based on 1930s Soviet poster types. See also TT Genplan Pro (2014).

    Cittadino Symbols (2013) is a free rounded city traffic icon font related to a Milan subway project. In 2013, this was replaced, still for the Milan metro maps, by Meneghino Wayfind, a tweetware typeface that was influenced by PT Sans Caption.

    In 2015, Goloub created Ardent: Ardent is my Sergey Chekhonin-inspired typeface. Ardent is an attempt to prove that the bizarre Cyrillic letterforms of 20s are still decent for use in modern design, even in Latin script. It is highly ornamental and lapidary. Still in 2015, he designed the sans typeface family Intersans (a multilingual Swiss army knife sans), which supports Extended Latin, Extended Cyrillic (including Bulgarian and Serbian Cyrillic), Polytonic Greek, Armenian (Asomtavruli, Nuskha-khutzuri, Mkhedruli, Mkhedruli Mrglovani), Georgian and Hebrew. It also includes true italics, small caps, small caps italics and a lot of pictograms.

    Typefaces from 2020: Grrr (at Paratype, with Alexandra Korolkova: a techno family characterized by an oversized lower case f).

    Dmitry Goloub's home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitry Idanov

    Yakutsk, Siberia-based designer of Vintage Handwritten Font (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitry Kachanov

    Designer of the Latin/Cyrillic book family simply called Freedom Typeface (2010) while he was a student at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitry Kinzerskyi

    Designer from Vladivostok who created the modular octagonal typeface Pacific Strong (2014, Latin and Cyrillic). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitry Kirsanov

    Type designer Dmitry Kirsanov (b. Orenburg, Russia, 1965) graduated from the Orenburg Art School in 1987. He worked freelance for Yuzhnyi Ural publishing company in Orenburg. After attending the Moscow State University of Printing (1996), he joined its Department of Print Design in 1997 as an instructor of typographic design and computer graphics. From 1996 on he worked at ParaGraph International, designing typefaces. Since April 1998 Kirsanov works for ParaType. His page has essays on the history of serif and sans serif, and on font matching. Would be great for an introductory course. He designed a Cyrillic version of ITC Bodoni 72 (2000, called PT ITC Bodoni, Paratype) and ITC Bodoni 72 Swash (2001). PT Mas d'Azil (Paratype, 2002) and PT Mas d'Azil Symbols are prehistoric lettering and pictorial fonrs based on images discovered in a prehistoric cave of Mas-d'Azil, France. He created Magistral (1997, based on a clean look sans display typeface of Andrey Kryukov), Venetian 301 (2003, Paratype; a Cyrillic version of Bitstream's Venetian 301, which in turn was based on Bruce Rogers' Centaur, which in turn goes back to the 1470s alphabets of Nicolas Jenson), News Gothic (2005, a Cyrillic family based on the perennial News Gothic sans family), and Mag Mixer (2005, an industrial-look mechanical typeface based on Magistral).

    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.

    His talk at ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg is on the first didones in Russia.

    Paratype page. FontShop link. Klingspor link.

    View Dmitry Kirsanov's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitry Komissarov

    Russian type designer who produced many cyrillizations of Western fonts. He was associated with the TeamAxis collection and later with ParaGraph. Creations include PigraphBTT and OrnamentTT (1994), QuantAntiquaCTT (1994), ArtSans, CourtierC, KarinaC, KursivC, TenseC (all 1994, TeamAxis), Izhitsa (1992, ParaGraph), KabelCTT-Medium. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitry Kornev

    Moscow-based designer of these typefaces in 2018: Secret Box (inspired by physics diagrams), Lutra. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitry Lamonov

    Or Dima Lamonov. Graphic designer, lettering and calligraphy artist from Saint Petersburg, Russia, who has been working at Art Lebedev Studio since 2014. In 2017, he created the outlined / neon display typeface family ALS Lamon (published at Art Lebedev), which won an award at Granshan 2017 and at TDC Typeface Design 2018 (where credit is only given to Artemy Lebedev who was trhe art director of the project). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitry Liogenky

    Dmitry Liogenky (Vologda, Russia) created the free Cyrillic display typeface Chehov (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitry Loshkin

    Moscow-based designer of the handcrafted Victorian typeface Snake End (2015) and a handcrafted outline font simply called Handdrawn Font (2015). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitry Mankoff
    [Artcoast Design (was: Mankoff)]

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    Dmitry Mikhaylov

    Barnaul, Siberia-based designer of the free handcrafted typeface Star Fall (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitry Rodionoff

    Moscow-based graphic designer and photographer. During his studies at the British Higher School of Design in Moscow, he created the Latin/Cyrillic packaging script typeface Convienta (2013), the psychedelic typeface Jimmi Hendrix (2013), and the blackletter poluustav hybrid typeface Frakstav (2013, Latin and Cyrillic). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitry Romanovich

    Moscow-based designer of squarish constructivist L:atin / Cyrillic typeface Groetsque (sic) (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitry Savin
    [Dmitry Bag]

    Russian designer in Arzamas (b. 1987) of the free Latin / Cyrillic typeface Juste (2012). Other Latin / Cyrillic typefaces from 2012 include Doux, Font Pont, Firma, Polina, Even (elliptical), Provincial, Jazzy (sans), Frank (curly), Palaver (serifed), Firma, JWH (a didone family), Katomka, and Rustaud.

    In 2013, he published Pont (a slab serif typeface) and Woodburn (a Cyrillic constructivist typeface).

    Dafont link. Behance link. Fontspace link. Aka Dima Bag or Dmitry Bag. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitry Taranov

    Rostov-based Russian designer of Ludmila023 (2003, sans serif) and Modern Usual Pixel Edit (2003).

    Creator at FontStruct in 2009 of Lexip (pixel face) and 8080 (a stencil typeface for Latin and Cyrillic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dmitry Tektov
    [Tektov Dmitry Type]

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    Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov
    [Cyr-RFX]

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    Dmitry Yu. Bolkhovityanov

    Cyrillic fonts for UNIX and Linux. Special attention paid to X11. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Doffdog
    [Alexey Potapov]

    Voronezh, Russia and/or Berlin, Germany-based designer of the (Latin) tattoo typeface Old School (2016).

    In 2017, he designed the calligraphic brush typeface Roseline.

    Typefaces from 2018: Girl Power, Vision, Marker Tag, Ink Master (tattoo font), Stay True.

    Typefaces from 2019: Violet (brush script), King of Rock, Metal, Lisa.

    Typefaces from 2020: Big Fish DD (a handcrafted typeface that screams mental health breakdown).

    Typefaces from 2021: Monster DD (a grungy serif). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Double Alex Team
    [Alexei Chekulayev]

    Cyrillic type outfit, whose fonts were mostly designed by Alexey Chekulaev in the mid 1990s as extensions of Latin fonts. Double Alex stands for Alexey Gunin and Alexey Chekulaev. The list of fonts, all in Cyrillic and many in Latin as well:

    • Decorative: Angelica (1996), Apostol, Arabskij (1993, Arabic simulation typeface based on an artwork of designer Oleg Snarsky), ArtScript, Blagovest (a series of Old Slavonic types), BorjomiDecor, CalipsoCyrillic, CalligraphRuss, Camerton, CooperDAT, CoventryCyr, Demosfen, Drops, E2, E4, Electronica, ElectronicaS, Eskiz, 1, Eskiz, 2, FavoritTraf, Finist, Hitman, Inicial, Italiansky, Jokey, Josephine, KeyFont, Kisty, Manuscript, Mistica, Mobul, Nelma, Ottisk, Petrovsky, PresentDAT, Radius, Repriza, SansDecor, Strob, SuvenirRus, TabloFont, Triline, Verbena, Vodevile.
    • Sans serif: Acsioma (1996), AcsiomaNext, Apical (1995, based on Agfa Aurora; Apical Bold is identical to Bitstream's Aurora Bold Condensed; for another version, see Castcraft's OPTI-Aurora Grotesk No. 9), Bastion, BastionKontrast (1992; co-designed with Alexey Gunin, and based on Helvetica), Blits, Block A, Block B, Bloknot, CyberCyr, Ecyr, Eurofont, Favorit, Favorit, Condensed, Freestyle, Kekur, Mania, MetRonom, Normalize, Orenburg, PaperGothic, Pinta, Plastica, Positiv, Pravda, Priamoj, PriamojProp, Regina, Rostislav, Rotonda, Rubrica, Sistemnyj, TornadoCyr.
    • Serif: Adamant, Alliance (1995, based on Berkeley Old Style by Frederic W. Goudy, 1938), APCCourier, APCGaramond, BaskervilleDAT, Bodoni Cyrillic (1970), Borjomi, ClassicRuss, Coliseum, Diet Didot (2006, published by Paratype in 2014 as DietDidot), Egypetskij, Grand, Grenader, Ideal, Jargon, Laguna, Latinskij, Legenda, Madrigal, Metropol, Shakula (1996, a heavy slab serif by Alexey Chekulaev, based on Monotype's Rockwell), Surpriz (1993, by Alexey Chekulaev, based on ITC Souvenir by Benguiat), Talisman, Vacansia.
    • Special: Interfont, Plumb.
    Alexei Chekulayev is the Russian designer of Rubrica (1996, Double Alex Font Studio), Angelica (1996, Double Alex Font Studio), Acsioma (1996, Double Alex Font Studio) and Alliance (1995, Double Alex Font Studio, a Cyrillic version of Goudy's Berkeley Oldstyle). He worked on these Linotype families: Univers, Sabon, Wiesbaden Swing, Stencil (1997, after the 1937 original by Gerry Powell), San Marco, and Linotype Bariton (1997: a great poster typeface in the Zeitgeist of the 1930s).

    In 2014, he designed these typefaces at Paratype: Suvenir Rus (inspired by (psychedelic) artwork of Grigory Klikushin; the original at Double Alex is from 1994), Demosfen (Greek simulation font). Still in 2014, Chekulaev and Akira Kobayashi (Monotype) won a Granshan 2014 award for the Cyrillic typeface SST.

    Typefaces from 2021: Ice Cream (a supermarket font), Altruiste (a ten-style decorative slab serif), Postulat (a 16-style geometric slab serif).

    Linotype link. Klingspor link. Another MyFonts link. Paratype link.

    View Alexey Chekulayev's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    DP StudioArt Compiler

    Russian foundry. In 2008, they produced these Old Slavonic typefaces: Archimandrite, Arhimandrite 2, Kalinov_Most, Moscowit-Capital, Moscowit, Nikodym, Pelagy, Pelagy_SG, Plyusnin, Serebro, Uglich. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Drawn TheArt

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the sans typeface family Goodline (2018). Creative Fabrica link [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dream Up

    Moscow-based illustrator who designed the vintage typeface Zeppelin Up (2016), the Poetry & Fiction font duo (2016), the thin arts-and-crafts typeface Sublime Up and the brush typefaces Rosemary and Snow Up in 2016. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    D-Studio (Moscow)
    [Nikolay Dubina]

    DStudio, or Design Studio, is run by Nikolay Dubina, a prolific type designer. He is also a graphic designer, book designer and journalistic writer. He also runs the educational web site ProDTP. Their original Latin/Cyrillic fonts are of the highest quality, and include: Werewolf (2003), Werewolf NU (2003), DS Cosmo, DS Yermak, DS Eraser, DS Showbill, DS Poster Pen, DS Progress, DS Podd Cyr, DS Down Cyr, DS Comedy Cyr, DS Japan Cyr, DS Standart Cyr, DS Zombie Cyr, NewDeli, Stylo, Scrawl, the wonderful DS Nadejda, and DS OlymPix (2001, a pixel font), DPix8Pt (2003, pixel font), DS-Diploma-Bold, DS-Diploma, DSArmyCyr, DSBroadBrush, DS Brushess, DSComedyCyrBold, DSCyrillic, DSDiploma-Bold-Outline-DBL, DSDiplomaArt-Bold, DSDownCyr, DSEraserCyr, DS Initials (ornamental caps), DSJapanCyr--Normal, DSKolovrat, DSMechanicalBold, DSMotterHo, DSMotterStyle, DS Nova Black, DSPixelCyr, DSPoddCyrLight, DS Poster, DSPosterPen, DSProgress-SemiBold, DSRada, DSRussiaDemo, DSSharper, DS Sholom (Hebrew simulation), DSStain, DSStampCyr, DSStandartCyr, DSUstavHand, DSVTCoronaCyr, DSZombieCyr, InavelTetkaCyr, NadejdaBold, NewDeli (great display font!), Scrawl, SeedsCyr-Medium, Stylo-Bold.

    Direct access. More direct access. Some fonts are here. DS Century (2000).

    Dafont link where one can find DS Goose, DS Motter, DS Arabic and DS Stamper. Old URL. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Dubina Nikolay
    [Intertype Studio]

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    DX Type Foundry
    [Dmitriy A. Horoshkin]

    Russian type designer specializing in historical revivals of old Cyrillic typefaces. creator of these Latin / Cyrillic typefaces:

    • DX Akademisch Historisch (2017) and DX Akademisch Schmalfett (2017). Based on Academic narrow bold by the foundry of G. Berthold (St. Petersburg), which in turn is based on the bold, narrow type Sorbonne, 1905-1908 (H. Berthold, Berlin).
    • DX Ampir Border.
    • DX Angelus Mediaval (2017), which is a revival of Angelus Mediaval (H. Berthold, before 1904).
    • DX Cicero (2016).
    • DX Decoration and DX Decoration Two
    • DX Doklad10M
    • DX Egyptian Fett (2017). A revival of a Latin / Cyrillic slab serif typeface from ca. 1870.
    • DX Egyptian Tight
    • DX Elsevier Book
    • DX Grazhdanskiy1710
    • DX Halbfette Mediaval
    • DX Kirillovskiy (2016). Based on font samples in the catalogs of the O.O. Gerbek foundry and the Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1852, 1870.
    • DX Kometa (2017, after the art nouveau typeface Komet by Benjamin Krebs, 1907).
    • DX Lateinisch and DX Lateinisch Book (2013-2015). Based on Lateinisch (1899, Peter Schnorr for H. Berthold, Berlin). The original Cyrillic version goes back to 1901 at Berthold in St. Petersburg.
    • DX Malachite Ornament.
    • DX Medieval Book
    • DX Modern Grotesk (2016). Based on New Grotesque from the foundry of Otton Osipovich Gerbek, which is a Cyrillic version of the Mediaval-Steinschrift font, released in 1908 by J.G. Schelter & Giesecke, Leipzig.
    • DX Old Standard Condensed, DX Old Standard Grotesk No2 (2020), DXOldStandard Condensed No2 (2020), DX Old Standard Revilion and DX Old Standard Wide.
    • Ornament DX Classic Bold.
    • DX Orpheus Ornament (2016).
    • DX Palmyra (2014-2015). O.I. Lehman's Cyriilic font on which DX Palmyra is based was released in 1910 and is in turn based on Ingeborg-Antiqua (1909, Friedrich Kleukens for D. Stempel, Frankfurt).
    • DX Poster
    • DX Rossico Border (2016). Based on a design by O.I. Lehman from 1914.
    • DX Rublenyi
    • DX Russian 1812
    • DX Sprigs Border.
    • DX WolffElsevier (2016).
    • DX Yunost
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    Echad Type
    [Cyrill Golikov]

    Russian civil engineer with experience in technical drawing and graphic design. His typefaces:

    • The technical font Alpaim (2020).
    • Kumo Sans (2021). A hand-printed typeface in seven styles.
    • Kantarell, (2022). A sans typeface for Latin and Cyrillic inspired by calligraphy.
    • Gmbh Sans (2022). A 7-style geometric sans advertized as an architectural sans.
    [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Eduard Chernov

    Bystrogorskiy, Russia-based designer of the free Latin/Cyrillic monolinear all caps art deco display typeface South (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Eduard Talov

    Rostov, Russia-based designer of the constructivist Curillic typefaces Rostov Velikij and Vologda in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Egor Cherkasov

    Egor Cherkasov (Radost Design, Novosibirsk, Russia) created a Cyrillic sans typeface for the identity of Pir Candyr in 2017. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Egor Myznik

    Codesigner with Jovanny Lemonad in 2008 of Suwi Kisu, a free Latin/Cyrillic display typeface which is pieced together by rocks and stones. Aka GBand. This font was reissued in 2016. Typetype link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Egor Pas

    Moscow-based designer. With Peter Bankov at the Prague School of Design, he created an experimental stick font (2016). He also made the Latin / Cyrillic stencil typeface Modul (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Egor Stremousov

    Novosibirsk, Siberia-based designer. In 2017, he created Memesique, which was announced as a unicase grotesk from the 1960s, and is in true piano key style.

    In 2020 he published FE Planking 2020 (a font for drunks, with letters fighting to stay upright; Latin and Cyrillic), FE Sector (a horizontally segmented font), FE Wrong (a font with deliberate flaws), FE 5 Cent (a pixelish typeface), FE Blacking Out (a dingbat font with blotches for blacking out text), FE Gigant, a typeface that evokes supremacy and Soviet era government buildings. Its massive proportions convey the spirit of Soviet constructivism. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Egor Tulin

    Designer, with Ivan Gladkikh (Jovanny Lemonad) of the free typeface Epool (2009), published by Typetype in Russia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ekaterina Akhmatgaraeva

    Ufa, Russia-based designer of the Latin typeface Paper Town (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ekaterina Anenko

    Designer of the Latin/Cyrillic text superfamily Fregata (2010) while she was a student at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow. Pic. Promotional samples of Fregata (serif and sans, regular and bold, Latin and Cyrillic) while we are waiting for the awards to roll in: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x, xi, xii, xiii, xiv, xv, xvi, xvii, xviii. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ekaterina Borg

    Moscow-based art director and illustrator who has made some typographic illustrations between 2008 and 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ekaterina Dune

    Russian designer of a modular octagonal typeface in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ekaterina Fokicheva

    Moscow-based creator of some experimental typefaces, including the Cyrillic art deco typeface Type 02 (2014) and Cherry Type (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ekaterina Grigorova

    During her studies at The Britsh Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow, Ekaterina created the Castle typeface (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ekaterina Kochkina

    Originally trained as a journalist in 2009, Ekaterina Kochkina became Art director of the DesignDepot group in Moscow, art director of the Kak magazine and tutor at the British Higher School of Art & Design, also in Moscow. In the TypeMedia program at KABK in Den Haag, Ekaterina Kochkina (Moscow) designed Samsa (2015), an angular display typeface family that has a fat stencil style. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ekaterina Malinina

    At the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow in 2015, Ekaterina Malinina designed the Latin/Cyrillic text typeface Jurgen and the condensed fashionable Latin/Cyrillic didone typeface Matthias. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ekaterina Maslova

    Russian type designer, b. St. Petersburg, 1978. She entered the St. Petersburg State Academy of Arts and Design in 2000. Her typefaces include Cube, India, Daiga and Messo. She received a TypeArt 05 award for the display family Daiga, which was created on the basis of the poluustav handwriting published in the 17th century in the collection of hagiographies for Avvakum and Epifany. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ekaterina Panova

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of a cutout dada style alphabet in 2017. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ekaterina Pulenko

    Russian designer at Paratype of the ink-splatter script typeface Dew Cyrillic (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ekaterina Sheleveister

    Based in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Ekaterina Sheleveister created an unnamed Latin / Cyrillic Victorian script typeface in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ekaterina Smychkova-Pondopulo

    Moscow-based designer of the outline font Paper Planes (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ekaterina Vinogradova

    Moscow-based designer of a number of experimental Latin or Cyrillic typefaces in 2014. These include Kukuruza (pixel font), and Wardrobe. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ekaterina Vorobieva

    Designer of the Latin/Cyrillic slab serif Provinciale (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ekaterina Yakovenko

    Volgograd, Russia-based illustrator and designer. Creator of a Cyrillic typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ekaterina Zhurkina

    Moscow-based designer who created Squareline (2014), a monoline compass-and-ruler typeface with a squarish techno look. She used Russian symbols, patterns and shapes in her initial caps typeface Russian Font (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ekaterine Novikova

    Russian designer of the Latin / Cyrillic script typeface Basil (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ekatherina Galuyan

    Or Katya Galuyan. Russian type designer. She created the fat brush typeface Shaltai (2008, Paratype). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Elchin Panahov

    Russian designer of the squarish typeface Jaimps (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Eldesign

    A discussion of Russian typography books. In Russian. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elena Alexandrovna Trofimova

    Russian type designer, b. 1943, Moscow. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elena Alexeeva

    Russian designer of Sapiens, a handcrafted typeface that won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elena Almazova-Dolzhenko

    Type designer and lettering artist in Moscow. Her typefaces include Diamond Crystal (a script) and Roller Coaster (a brush font). In 2020, she released White Stork, Simple Monoline and the curly script typeface Sweet Tooth. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Elena Bokhan

    Samara, Russia-based designer of the minimalist circle-based (Latin) sans typeface Defoe (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elena Bykova

    Moscow-based designer of the fantastic blocky Geometric Font (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elena Byzova

    Elena Byzova (Saint Petersburg, Russia) created some Treefrog-style Latin typefaces in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elena Choo
    [Choo Studio]

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    Elena Kolesnikova

    Russian type designer. She received a TypeArt 05 award for the display family Calm Hour. In 2009, Paratype published Quiet Time (Latin & Cyrillic). This font was developed as a part of a corporate identity project for a pillow shop on the basis of an existing logo. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elena Kowalski
    [Glen Jan]

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    Elena Kuraeva

    Moscow-based designer of a handcrafted set of Latin typefaces while studying at the British Higher School of Art & Design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elena Maslova

    Moscow-based designer of the Latin / Cyrillic brush script typeface Helena (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elena Myshelova

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of Surrealismus (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elena Novoselova

    Born in Ioshkar-oila in 1984, Elena Novoselova graduated from the Moscow State University of Printing Arts in 2006. She also teaches at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow. From 2006 until 2011, she designed type and worked as a calligrapher at Art Lebedev Studio, where she made ALS Dereza (2010, a grotesk comic book style typeface for children's books), ALS Mezzo (2009, a flared sans), ALS Heino (2008, a decorative typeface with two styles that was inspired by a piece of lettering in an old magazine), ALS Klementina (2011, a calligraphic cursive typeface based on brush pen handwriting), ALS Bingley (2012, a wonderful transitional text face based on a tombstone script in Oxford), and ALS Mirta (2007-2008), a mild slab serif family that is easy on the eye. Co-designer with Ksenia Erulevich and Taisiya Lushenko of Yandex (2013), a corporate typeface done for Art Lebedev Studio.

    She designed NWT Bodoni (2016).

    MyFonts interview. Art Lebedev link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Elena Paletskaya
    [Hellokisdottir]

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    Elena Polina
    [Art Loft]

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    Elena Saharova

    Elena Saharova (Altaisk and Moscow, Russia) is a graphic designer and art director. She created a cyrillicized version of Nexa Bold in 2013. In 2018, she published the free Latin . / Cyrillic typeface Nexa Replica RU Bold. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elena Shkerdina

    Russian codesigner with Jovanny Lemonad of the free Latin / Cyrillic hipster typeface Accuratist (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elena Tzaregorodtseva

    Or Yelena Tzaregorodtseva. Russian type designer who designed

    • Baskerville (1961, at Polygraphmash). See here for the URW+ version of this family.
    • The sans family TextBook (1958, at Polygraphmash). This was digitized at Paratype in 2008 (Isabella Chaeva and Emma Zakharova).
    • Paratype Journal Book (first designed at the Polygraphmash type foundry in 1951-53 by Lev Malanov and Elena Tzaregorodceva, based on the typeface Excelsior (1931, Mergenthaler Linotype, Chauncey H. Griffith); digital version at Paratype, 1994).
    • Schoolbook (1949-1961, Polygraphmash; based on Shkolnaya (school) typeface (1939, project manager Evgeny Chernevsky), which in turn was a version of Century Schoolbook of American Type Founders (1915-1923, Morris F. Benton). URW writes: The low-contrast text typeface of the Ionic-Legibility group, it is designed expressly for schoolbooks and children books. The digital version by Paratype is from 1996.
    URW has Latin, East European and Cyrillic versions of all these typefaces, TextBook excepted.

    Fontshop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Elena Voynova

    Moscow-based designer of the free rune emulation typeface Runa (2019) and the handcrafted typefaces Chapa (2019) and Karton (2014, for Latin and Cyrillic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elena Wershinina

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the wide connected script typeface Lorraine (2016) and the handcrafted typeface 5Hours (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elena Zaitseva

    Moscow-based designer of the handcrafted Cyrillic typeface Eagles and Flies (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elisaveta Kalinina

    Russian designer of the spiky techno display typeface SK Coisa (2021) for Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Elizabeth Kopay-Gora

    Moscow-based designer of a scribbly Cyrillic handwriting typeface that is inspired by Paul Pepperstein's art (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elizaveta Korabelnikova

    Moscow-based designer of a blackboard bold typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elizaveta Matveeva

    Based in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Elizaveta Matveeva created an unnamed Cyrillic display typeface in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elvina Gafarova
    [Elvina Studio (was: Elvi Nova)]

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    Elvina Karimova

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of Capsula (2019: a Cyrillic piano key stencil font) and Speaker Icons (2019). She also cyrillicized the didone typeface Elephant (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Elvina Studio (was: Elvi Nova)
    [Elvina Gafarova]

    Russian graphic designer who loves soft tones. Creator of these typefaces:

    • In 2019: Magic (a hand-drawn text typeface in color SVG format) and Father (2019: a script typeface).
    • In 2020: Beatty (an all caps display serif), Bohemy (font duo), C'est Chic (a stylish font duo), Chic Sans, Crush (a fat finger font), Dreamy Bird (handcrafted, SVG format), Fine Art (a font duo), Jefferson (an SVG-format decrative didone), Little Bee (SVG), Magnolia (a stylish serif; caps only), Quotable (handcrafted, SVG style), Boho Icons, Space SVG (handcrafted).
    • In 2021: The Dreamer, Artisa, Desert Dreams (sans), Adore (an ephemeral display serif), Farmhouse (hand-printed), Moonchild (font duo), Collage (a ransom note or collage font in SVG format), Gallery Serif (a stylish serif), Liber (intestinal).
    • In 2022: Adore Serif (a fashion mag serif).
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    Elvira Slysh

    Designer at ParaGraph of PT Ornament (1992), Numerals (1992, letters in circles), PiGraph A (1992, arrows), PiGraph B (1992, dingbats), PT ITC Studio Script (1994, a Cyrillic extension of Pat Hickson's ITC Studio Script, 1990), Corrida (1989, based on Helmut Matheis' Slogan, 1959), Astron (1991), after a design Gonzales Jeanette by Francisco Gonzales (Photo Lettering Inc). She also made a Cyrillic version of Renner's Futura Black, called Futura Eugenia (1987, Polygraphmash), as well as Parsek (ParaGraph, 1990), based on Brush Script (ATF, 1942, Robert E. Smith).

    FontShop link. Paratype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Elya Baibikova

    As a student at British Higher School of Art & Design in Moscow, Elya Baibikova designed the Scream-style typeface Morkva (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Emil Yakupov

    Head honcho at ParaGraph Int. and cofounder (in 1998) and director of ParaType in Moscow. Emil Yakupov lived in Russia and died in Moscow in 2014. At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he spoke about truetype hinting.

    Adam Twardoch wrote this a day after emil's death on February 25, 2014: Emil Yakupov has passed away. His heart stopped after his regular sports exercise. He was 56.

    Together with Vladimir Yefimov (who had died almost exactly two years ago), Emil co-founded ParaType in 1998, a company that not only revolutionized the Cyrillic typeface world but was instrumental in building a bridge between the Russian typographic culture and the rest of the world. More than anybody else, Emil was the architect and tireless upholder of that bridge. Under Emil, ParaType has published hundreds of original Cyrillic typefaces and digital revivals of classic Russian and Soviet typeface designs.

    But perhaps more importantly, it was Emil who has created vital business relationships with Bitstream, ITC, Linotype, Monotype, FontShop and many other font foundries. As a result of this relationship, numerous major Western font families have received high-quality Cyrillic companions, and were introduced to millions of users in Russia. It was Emil, Vladimir and the rest of the ParaType team who have greatly contributed to the transformation of the visual culture in the Cyrillic-writing world.

    Emil was also instrumental in introducing me to Russia. I first met him at the ATypI 1998 conference in Lyon. He gave me the ParaType font catalog, which to me was a revelation. After browsing it, I "got" Cyrillic. I understood how it works, and fell in love in it. I would later spend hours looking at the catalog, and the ParaType fonts.

    At the same conference, I also met Yuri Yarmola, now my co-conspirator at Fontlab Ltd., and a friend of Emil's. Looking at the photo from Lyon 1998, I'm now surprised how little Emil changed over the last 16 years. When I last saw him in Amsterdam five months ago, he had the same energy.

    Emil has introduced me to other Russian type designers. I visited the ParaType offices in Moscow a few times, and was always met with great hospitality. At all the type conferences over the years, I always sat down with Emil, and we talked---about typography mostly, but also about family.

    Emil was a quiet, wise, kind and incredibly modest man equipped with a cheeky smile and subtle dry wit. He put tremendous personal efforts into publications created by ParaType and events organized by his company---these efforts were always about culture rather than pure business. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Emma Zakharova

    Russian type and graphic designer. She worked for VNII Polygraphmash as a type designer. Later, she worked as a type designer for ParaGraph. Her oeuvre includes

    • Tip Times (with Gennady Baryshnikov).
    • TextBook (1987). Italic and Latin sets added to the 1958 Polygraphmash typeface of Yelena Tzaregorodtseva.
    • TextBook New (2007-2008, Isabella Chaeva, ParaType) is based on Bukvarnaya (TextBook) photocomposing version designed in 1987 by Emma Zakharova. The initial Bukvarnaya for metal composition was created at Polygraphmash in 1958 by Elena Tsaregorodtseva specifically for first level school textbooks.
    • Mysl. Designed at the Polygraphmash type design bureau in 1986 by Isay Slutsker, Svetlana Yermolaeva and Emma Zakharova. It was based on the Polytizdatkaya type family (1966 Vera Chiminova), which in turn was inspired by the typefaces of Garamond. The family was initially developed for Mysl Publishers, Moscow, for text matter. Available now as ParaType Mysl in both Latin and Cyrillic versions, and also sold by URW. MyslNarrow (1992-1996, Intermicro, with Svetlana Yermolayeva and Isay Slutsker).
    • PT ITC Flora (1993). Co-designed with Vladimir Yefimov. She did the Cyrillization.

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    Erick Dahl
    [Northeast Type Foundry]

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    Erken Kagarov

    Art director. Designer of the op art font Opticum at Paratype in 2009. In 2016, he designed a sports shirt font, CSKA, at Art Lebedev for the CSKA ice hockey club.

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    Erté

    Erté (Romain de Tirtoff) was a well-known art deco era artist. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1892, he died in 1990 in Paris. In 1912, Erté moved to Paris. In 1915, he began an association with Harper's Bazaar by designing covers of each of their magazines for the next 22 years. He became known for elegant lithographs and sculptures for the fashion industry. On my pages, you find an elegant set of capitals and numerals in which the glyphs are formed by elegantly drawn naked women, from The Alphabet Suite (Chicago, 1976).

    Wikipedia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Eugene Moklyak

    A designer in Moscow who created a hairline Cyrillic didone typeface called Apple (2011). In 2006, he graduated from the Faculty of Design and Fashion. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Eugene Shestopalov

    Khabarovsk, Russia-based designer of the ornamental typeface NRG (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Eugene Yukechev

    Eugene Yukechev is a designer, typographer and type designer who drifts between Berlin and Moscow. He was born in Novosibirsk, Russia, in 1980. After obtaining a degree in philology and independent practice in editorial and graphic design, Yukechev moved to Moscow to study type design. He graduated in 2010 from the British Higher School of Design in Moscow (Type and Typography program). Since 2013, he runs a Moscow-based Publishing Schrift and Type Journal online (typejournal.ru) with his colleagues. He created typefaces for magazines and books (Kommersant, Financial Director, Intersection, Barcode). Eugene gives lectures and workshops on type design, lettering and typography. He cooperates with Paratype and Fontshop.

    Designer of the Latin/Cyrillic text family Kafka (2010) while he was a student at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow. Kafka (Sans, Serif) was intended for intellectual magazines.

    In 2016, he designed the 12-style text typeface FF Casus for Latin and Cyrillic. When used large, details such as its cut ball terminals and occasionally bracketed serifs make the type friendly and memorable.

    Linotype link. Fontshop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Eugenia Tiurikova

    Inspiring graphic design talent in Moscow. During her studies at the British School of Arts and Design in Moscow, she created the hairline Latin / Cyrillic display typefaces Folio (2015) and Liquid Secession (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Eurotype

    Russian foundry. A sampling of its fonts: AvantiBoldItalic, AvantiBold, AvantiItalic, BreezeBold, Breeze, Breeze, CourierETBoldOblique, CourierETBold, CourierETOblique, CourierET, DomkratBoldItalic, DomkratBold, DomkratItalic, DomkratNormal, Domkrat, Eurotype, KaliakraNormal, Kaliakra, Kaliakra, KarinaBlackItalic, KarinaBlack, KarinaBoldItalic, KarinaBold, KarinaItalic, Karina, VetrenBold, Vetren. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Eva Asta

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the text typeface Aurora (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Eva Parkhomenko

    As a student at TypeType Education in 2016-2017, she designed the sharp-edged book typeface Aurora. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Evgeni Chernevski

    Russian type designer who designed Schoolbook in 1939, a Cyrillic extension of Morris F. Benton's design (ATF, 1915-1923). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Evgenia Dobrokhotova

    Moscow, Russia-based designer of the handcrafted typeface Party (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Evgenia Ertel

    Graduate of Kuban State University. Krasnodar, Russia-based designer of the (Latin) children's book font Sly Plan (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Evgenia Yakimova

    Russian designer of the calligraphic typefaces The earth (2020), Dandelion (2020), Style Collection (2020), Winter Holidays (2020), Valotte (2020), Joyfully (2019), Dinky Venice (2019), Darling (2019), Butterfly (2019: brushed) and Anna Maria (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Evgeniia Plenkina

    Moscow-based creator of Modular Typeface (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Evgeniia Zakharova

    Moscow-based designer of the creamy calligraphic typeface Burger (2016) for Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Evgenij Dobrovinskii
    [DEsign--Moscow]

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    Evgeniy Agasyanc

    Izhevsk, Russia-based designer of a brush pen set of numerals in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Evgeniy Agasyants
    [Overtype]

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    Evgeniy Beluha

    Russian type designer. This scan of a Duerer-style alphabet with compass and ruler was found on a slide prepared by Victor Kharyk for a talk Victor was going to give at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City (but didn't because he could not pass through transit in the USA due to the office of Homeland Insecurity). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Evgeniy Kulkin

    Pyatigorsk, Russia-based designer of the bilined typefaces Caucasus (2019) and Spring (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Evgeniy Voronin

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based creator of the ink splatter typeface P1 for Latin (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Evgeniya Klimova

    Moscow-based designer of the connect-the-dots typeface Cosmic (2015). She also designed several sets of smilies and icons. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Evgeniya Savenkova

    Graphic design student at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow. During her studies, she created the fat comic book style Cyrillic typeface called Dancing (2012). Earlier, in 2009, she created the ornamental Latin caps typeface Masked Ball Font.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Evgeny Brum

    Samara, Russia-based designer of the free Latin / Cyrillic sans typeface My Frends (sic) (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Evgeny Bulash
    [Design Station]

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    Evgeny Dneprovsky
    [Fractal Font Factory]

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    Evgeny Domnikov
    [Hightower.Ru]

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    Evgeny Filippov

    Moscow-based designer of the Latin / Cyrillic text typeface Amsterdam (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Evgeny Koroletov

    Russian FontStructor, aka WHAT, who created the severe octagonal typefaces FCZL and HeadHole in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Evgeny Laskovy

    Moscow-based designer with Michael Puzakov of 12 pt Stencil (2012), a Latin and Cyrillic stencil typeface that was created on commission for 12pt Design Studio.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Evgeny Tkhorzhevsky
    [Robot Smith]

    Based in Vladivostok, calligrapher Evgeny Tkhorzhevsky (Robot Smith, or ET Lettering Studio) created Braxton (2013, a brush script published by Fontfabric---one style is free), and Construct (2012, a constructivist experiment with geometric solids).

    In 2014, he created the semi-connected vintage signage script (or marker script) typeface Suzee FY (Fontyou), the creamy script Kumiz FY (with Gia Tran, Fontyou), which is a renamed version of Maio FY (with Gia Tran, at FontYou).

    In 2016, together with FontFabric, he designed the great free rough-edged script typeface Resphekt (Latin/Cyrillic).

    Another alias is Robot Smith.

    Behance link. Behance link for ET Lettering Studio. Dribble link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Evgeny Zotov

    Russian designer of the elegant Latin / Cyrillic script typefaces Elza (2012, a revamping of Elzevir), and Cheldon (2010) and of a cyrillized version of Walbaum. Zotov lives in Krasnoyarsk. In 2014, he designed the signage / packaging font Label Food.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Evil Icons

    Evil icons is a simple and clean SVG icon pack with the code to support Rails, Sprockets, Node.js, Gulp, Grunt and CDN. Developed by Alexander Madyankin (Russia) and Roman Shamin (Evil Martians, Moscow, Russia), it is free. Github link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Experimental Page

    Moscow-based designer of a few compass-and-ruler Cyrillic fonts in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Extezy

    Orel, Russia-based designer of the Victorian display typeface Decorus (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Faik Schakirdshanovich Tagirov

    Russian type designer, b. 1906. Faces include Operativnash Targova (1966), Gurmukhi Narodnash (1968), Bhilai Targova (1965) and Akzidentnash Targova (1971). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Far PluGRinG Site

    Russian page. Download various Latin/Cyrillic bitmap files, typically in ".fon" format. These include families by Vladislav Kornienko (Terminal Font Cyr, 2001), Oleg Melnikov (OS-2 warp Font 8x18, 2003), Alexander Abrosov (Terminal Fonts, 2003), Sergey Dindikov (Console Font, 2002), Igor Palkin (Terminal Fonts Belarus, 2001), and Alex Pakhotin (DOS Terminal Font, 1999). It has one Latin/Cyrillic truetype typewriter face, Sourier New (based on, or identical to Courier New). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Favete Art
    [Olga Zakharova]

    Moscow and/or Riga, Latvia-based designer of the pleasingly rough brush typeface Bronks Script (2015) and of the handcrafted typeface Marshmallow (2015). In 2016, she made the dry brush font Density (2016), the brush scripts Firecracker, Caricia, Pepper, Lady in Red (a fine brush script), Asparagus, Siberia (crayon style), Newport (marker font), Emerald and Haiti, Ambrosia Script, the wide calligraphic font Lancaster, the curly watercolor brush script typeface Candyland, Fallen Angel, the Treefrog-style script Lemon, Penelopa, Cutout, and the creamy brush script Marmaris.

    Typefaces from 2017: Cutout, Mucho Gusto (Script+Doodles), Scandinavian (textured, patterned), Golden Boy, Rotterdam (dry brush font), Soft Spot (thick soft brush font), Kaleido (a spectcular brush script), Silentium, Big Brush, Sydney (brush), Woodland, Gizmo (marker font), Typetop (dry brush style). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fed Tunik

    Russian designer who created Allegoria (stencil) in 2021. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Fedor Balashov

    Designer (aka Opex) who used FontStruct in 2008 to create the typefaces font Wooster together with Alexei Vanyashin and Kate Semenova. He runs 110design in Moscow. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fedor Saveliev

    Russian designer of the 3d outline typeface Leshy (2003, with Olga Ryabinkina at Paratype). Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Fedor Sorokin

    During his studies at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow, Fedor Sorokin designed the modular Bauhaus stencil typeface Ründstük (2012) and Russian Dolls Font (2012).

    In 2013, he published the free typeface Bodonika, a fun dada font, the result of what if Helvetica f u c k s Bodoni? [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fidan Aslanova
    [Fidan Fonts]

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    Fidan Fonts
    [Fidan Aslanova]

    Russian designer of Metrika (2020: squarish, monospaced) and the graffiti font Jungle Street (2020).

    The deco typeface Twentyone (2020) was co-designed by Gajana Aslanjan, Gumilang Anggara Ruslan, Slava Antipov, and Fidan Aslanova.

    Typefaces from 2021: Golden Sand (script), Telling Stories (handwriting), Hestia (glyphs on fire), Dreamy Night (a scrapbook font), Zayna (hand-drawn caps), Lovely Kiss (script), Favourite (handcrafted), Pure Love (a thin script by Fidan Aslanova). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Fishbone Crew

    Russian designer of Classic Amiga CLI Font v1.2 Amiga Topaz Unicode Rus (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fly Art

    Moscow-based industrial design group which made the techno typeface Fly Font (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Font City
    [Igor&Kate Shipovsky]

    Font City is a Russian foundry headed by Igor (b. Volgograd, Tver (Russia), 1965) and Katherine (b. 1990, Russia) Shipovsky. Their typefaces cover Latin and Cyrillic:

    All font names starting with "City of" are identical to those starting with "Gorod", the Russian word for city.

    Font City was sued in August 2003 by Berthold because the foundry's name, Font City, is too close to Berthold's trademarked font name, "City". Hence the name change to Gorod.

    View Font City's typefaces. Klingspor link. MyFonts link for Katherine Shipovsky. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    FontaZY
    [Zakhar Yaschin]

    Russian designer (also spelled Zahar Yaschin) of some fonts at Paratype. In 2014, he set up his own commercial type foundry, FontaZY in Oryol, Russia. He also published some typefaces at Art Lebedev Studio.

    He created the blockish font Quasimode at Studio Dezygn. At Art Lebedev, he made ALS Ekibastuz (2006-2007, a sans family), Zwoelf (2008, with Oleg Pashchenko and Irina Smirnova), ALS Tongyin (2006, an oriental simulation face) and ALS Story (2008, together with Taisiya Lushenko).

    He also made the Latin/Cyrillic sans family SansSay (2007) and MainStormZ, Harry Plotter New (Paratype), the angular Guenter (2001-2009, ParaType: inspired by East German calligrapher Guenter Gnauck), the script typefaces Rondo Script, Treasure (as in signatures), the hand-printed typefaces Art Brush, Art Pencil, Auktyon Z (2001, ParaType, hand-printed), Auktyon Dot Z, Kapelka (2005, ParaType, connected brush lettering), KvadratZ (2001, ParaType: fun sharp-edged typeface; includes dingbats), KvadratWoodZ, KvadratPictZ, the futuristic typefaces Astra, Avangard, the display typefaces MainStormZ, Harry Plotter (2003, ParaType), Elektro_Mech, Elektro_DC, Elektro_AC, the slab typeface Egypt, the comic book typeface Comicz, and the delicate sans typeface Solovets (2008).

    In 2014, Zakhar created the fat paper cutout typeface New Year Poster, Korobok Soft, and Korobok Edgy.

    In 2015, he made the creamy signage script typeface Kapelka New (Paratype).

    Typefaces from 2016: Barberry (script for Latin and Cyrillic).

    Typefaces from 2017: Armavir (a full suite of grunge fonts), Mojito (a vibrant bold script; some additional styles were created by Alexander Lubovenko).

    Typefaces from 2018: Lorna (an upright connected script).

    Typefaces from 2020: Allamare (vbrush script).

    Alternate URL. Behance link. Home page. Art Lebedev link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Fontef
    [Yanek Iontef]

    Yanek Iontef is a typeface designer and typographer. Born in the USSR in 1963, he emigrated to Israel at the age of 16 and studied graphic design at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, graduating there in 1989. He has worked in London and Tel Aviv (for MetaMark International design studio), and taught typography and type design at the Bezalel Academy and at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design. An award-winning type designer, Yanek runs Fontef, his own foundry specializing in Hebrew type design.

    His commercial fonts include FF Cartonnage (2003, a sans family with dingbats thrown in for cardboard boxes), New Cast, CaseSeraSera, Erica Sans, Hadasah Friedlaender, Mandatory. Atzmaut (Independence), and Next Exit, are two of his typefaces that won awards at Bukvaraz 2001.

    In 2016, he designed the free Google Font Frank Ruhl Libre for Latin in Hebrew. The original Frank Rühl was designed in 1908 by Rafael Frank in collaboration with Auto Rühl of the C. F. Rühl foundry of Leipzig. A final version was released in 1910. Many Israeli books, newspapers and magazines use Frank Rühl as their main body text typeface. Iontef's extension and modernization has five styles.

    Neue Frutiger Hebrew (2018), created by Yanek Iontev and a team of designers and font engineers from the Monotype Studio, under the direction of Monotype type director Akira Kobayashi. Yanek Iontef collaborated with Akira Kobayashi and Monotype Studio on Avenir Next Hebrew (2021).

    IBM Plex Sans Hebrew (2019, by Mike Abbink, Paul van der Laan, Pieter van Rosmalen and Yanek Iontef) is a free typeface family at Google Fonts.

    FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Fontello

    Iconic font scissors. This free tool can be used to combine icons into a single font. There is, for example, a tool called svg2ttf. The authors are Roman Shmelev, Vitaly Puzrin and Aleksey Zapparov.

    Fonts from which compositions can be made:

    • Entypo by Daniel Bruce.
    • Font Awesome by Dave Gandy
    • Typicons by Stephen Hutchings
    • Modern Pictograms by John Caserta
    • Meteocons by Alessio Atzeni
    • Maki by Mapbox
    • Zocial by Sam Collins
    • Brandico by Crowdsourced
    • Web Symbols by Just Be Nice studio

    Github link for Fontello. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fontesk
    [Mikhael Khrustik]

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the monospaced programming font Lilex (2019), which is based on IBM Plex Mono (by Mike Abbink, Paul van der Laan and Pieter van Rosmalen) and inspired by Fira Code. Fontesk link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fontmania

    Russian font archive. Has mostly Latin fonts. Blackletter subpage. Cyrillic subpage. Display font subpage. Cyrillic script subpage. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fontodrom

    Large Russian font archive. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fontop
    [Dmitry Arakelov]

    Russian designer based in Turkey. Creator of these typefaces in 2017: Roadster Script, North Star, North Script, Phonema (a stylish display sans), Synopsis (a condensed fashion mag serif), Tropical Script (a gorgeous Treefrog style curly script), Okelani Script (another gorgeous Treefrog style curly script), Roadster (a decorative script), Follow Script (a wide connected calligraphic script), Construct (layered, beveled), Defocus.

    In 2017, at YWFT, he published YWFT Sugar. He also designed Constructor (a layered, beveled typeface), Presto Script, Synopsist and Paramaribo (a delicate upright hand-lettered typeface) that year.

    Typefaces from 2018: Cutcut (a party time paper cutout typeface), Bon Ami, Good Day (a delicate handcrafted coffeeshop typeface), Turkuaz (a comic book family), Episode (an ultra-condensed tall poster typeface), Skyscraper (a tallcondensed hexagonal typeface).

    Typefaces from 2019: QSansPro (a workhorse sans), Legatum (a classical roman font inspired by the old inscriptions in Rome).

    Typefaces from 2020: Avayo (a 9-style modern sans), Sansmatica (38 condensed techno fonts), Formatica, Ascent Pro (a geometric sans), Factum (a didone hybrid with high contrast styles culminating in some stencil types).

    Typefaces from 2021: Uplift (a 6-style font characterized by mechanical notches and a certain blue collar appeal), Hygge Sans (a 34-style simple sans). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Fontsplace

    Font referral site in English and Russian. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fontype
    [Viktor Pesotsky]

    During his studies in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Viktor Pesotsky designed the free modular typeface Eskos Display (2019), the free sans typeface Drab (2019), the free razor-sharp barbed wire font Gusset (2019: for Latin and Cyrillic), the free artsy Latin / Cyrillic variable opentype typeface Brozas (2019) and the free font Koysan (2019).

    Typefaces from 2020: Oskal (a wedge serif in the pointy sendse of the word), Engin (a futuristic font for Latin and Cyrillic), Dulya (an experimental and delightfully irrational font), Krays (a hairline display typeface), Eskos, Drab, Koysan, Fluse (a thin squarish display sans; + Cyrillic).

    Typefaces from 2021: Quasar, Azest (a display sans).

    Type Department link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Fox Owl

    Russian designer of the Cyrillic Treefrog-style typeface Igolka (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Fractal Font Factory
    [Evgeny Dneprovsky]

    Chita, Russia-based designer of the Latin typefaces Halloween (2016, vector format), Angular (2016) and Linear Style (2015).

    Typefaces from 2017: Virgil (a Latin/Cyrillic label font), Fractal (a minimalist sans). In addition, he drew several vector format vintage alphabets.

    In 2019, he published the vintage typeface family Vitage.

    Typefaces from 2020: Bakeryhouse (a vintage layerable font), Black Crow (an 8-style geometric sans family).

    Typefaces from 2021: Angry Monkey (a vintage layered font), Black Beer (a beer bottle blackletter font), Tomahawk (a tattoo font?), Yummy Delivery (a font for food pacakging), Yo ho ho (a pirate font), Yummy Delivery (a cartoon font), Flame Rider (a spiky tattoo or motorcycle gang font), Old Bikers (a multilayer vintage blackletter or tattoo typeface), Scarytale (a spurred typeface), Pirates Rum (a spurred typeface), Fire Needle (a layerable tattoo font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Francev
    [Dmitriy Francev]

    Russian designer of the 9-style logotype-ready Latin / Cyrillic sans typeface Grandison (2021). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Frederik Jackson
    [Omen Type]

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    Frog 1812

    Russian internet technology company. In 2021, Vsevolod Syzdykov, Vladislav Zhuk and Dmitry Alekseev released the geometric sans typeface Frog 1812 Sans for Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Gala Studio
    [Lilia Chak]

    Gala Studio (Israel) was founded by Galina Bleikh and Lilia Chak. Lilia Chak is an artist and designer, b. Saint Petersburg, Russia. She graduated from the Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry. Since 1990, she lives in Jerusalem. In 2015, Lilia created the acrylic brush typeface Pink, 3D Ink, the crayon fonts Orange Oil Pastel and Red (based on watercolors), the sketched typeface ABC Handwritten, the watercolor brush typefaces Red Handdwritten, Black Handwritten, Blue Handwritten and Green Handwritten, Bold, the brush typeface Ink, and the sketch font Chalk Expressive.

    Typefaces from 2017: GS Candy Melt (by Galina Bleikh and Lilia Chak), GS Slim One (by Galina Bleikh and Lilia Chak: a great font for in-store advertizing), GS Slim One Bestiary (by Galina Bleikh and Lilia Chak), Escapism, Candy Melt (a colourful candy store / bubblegum / children's book font).

    Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Galina Andreevna Bannikova

    Russian type designer, 1901-1972 (d. Moscow). Her typefaces include Bannikovskaya (1946-1951, at Polygrafmash, which was inspired by the Russian Grazhdansky early and mid 18th century typefaces: the digital version is Paratype Bannikova (1999), revived by L. Kuznetsova), Baikonoer (1960-1969) and Kama (1967-1971). Lyubov Kuznetsova at Paratype created Bannikova (1999; Baltic, Central European, Cyrillic, Old Russian, Multilingual, Turkish, Western, Cyrillic Asian), a clean serif text family.

    See here for a picture, which shows without a shadow of a doubt that she was Donald Rumsfeld's real mother. Alternate URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Galina Kalougina

    Designer at EF English First. Moscow-based creator of Foxtrot Icon Set (2013), which she calls a constructivist collection of icons. She also made the stocky angular newspaper typeface Virginia Lives (2013) for Latin and Cyrillic. Linkedin link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Galina Nikolaeva
    [Hala]

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    Galina Vodopyanova

    Designer in Saint Petersburg, Russia, who created Organika (2012), a Cyrillic typeface that is based on shapes of chairs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gaslight (or: Valery Zaveryaev)
    [Valery Zaveryaev]

    Gaslight-type-foundry is collaboration between three type designers---Valery Zaveryaev, Maria Luarvik, and Roman Shchyukin---, founded in 2011. Valery Zaveryaev is a Russian designer (b. Bryansk, 1977) at LetterBe, who created the octagonal family Teco (2005), the display typeface Brut (2005), the clean sans family Maza (2005), the informal unicase family Rezerv (2009, inspired by a logo he created for Evroterm), Barrez (2010, a techno family inspired by the TC-Helicon logo), and the stencil typeface Marshrut (2005).

    He lives in Bryansk. All his fonts are Latin/Cyrillic.

    In 2011, Zaveryaev set up the commercial foundry Gaslight. Fonts there include the elliptical family Maza (2005), the angular elliptical family Barrez (2010), Brut (2005), and the stencil typeface Marshrut (2005). Electrolize (2011) is a free squarish typeface available from Google Web Fonts. Bad Script (2011, Google Web Fonts) is an informal hand-printed typeface made by Roman Shchyukin.

    Rock Logo (2012) is a metal band / tattoo font co-designed with Roman Shchyukin. Wide Display and Wide Display Ribbon are unicase headline typefaces. Teco Sans (2012) is an octagonal military typeface family, accompanied by the icon font TecoSymbol (2012) and the stencil family Teco Sans Stencil (2012). Teco Serif (2012) is an octagonal slab version of Teco Sans.

    Still in 2012, Zaveryaev designed Actio, Roz (rounded sans family), Wary (pop art typeface that won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014), the fat display overlay families Quadratish Serif and Quadratish Solid.

    Delgado (2012) is an elegant tall and thin fashion mag typeface for Latin and Cyrillic, made by Roman Shchyukin. It won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014.

    Typefaces from 2013: Kiddy, Gen (techno), Tesla (techno face, Roman Shchyukin).

    Typefaces from 2014: Dotee (octagonal paper cut-out typeface, by Valery Zaveryaev and Maria Luarvik), Sofya.

    Typefaces from 2015: Mx and My (Peignotian caps typefaces).

    Typefaces from 2016: Fada (by Roman Shchyukin), Pleinair, Rawer (sans, +stencil, +outline), Misty (by Valery Zaveryaev), Agio (by Valery Zaveryaev).

    Hellofont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Gayaneh Bagdasaryan
    [Brownfox]

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    Gayaneh Bagdasaryan
    [Cyreal]

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    Genady Fridman

    Russian designer of the bouncy script Amore (2004, Paratype), Zubilo Black (2004, Paratype: comic book face), Jefferson (2005, based on the handwriting of Thomas Jefferson), Peter Skoropis (2003, Paratype, based on the samples of Russian handwriting of the reign of Peter The Great (early 18th century) named skoropis), Pushkin One, Two and Three (1999-2004, Paratype, based on the autographs of Alexander Pushkin, the eminent Russian poet (1799-1837)), and the informal handwriting fonts PT Lightning (2009, Paratype), PT Earthquake (2009), Jeff Script (2009, based on the handwriting of Vladimir Yefimov), Nina, Olga, Tatiana, Betina Script, and Katherine (2007, Paratype).

    Telegraph, designed for ParaType in 2003 by Gennady Fridman, is based on the type of CTA-M-67 telegraph lettersetting machine widely used in the USSR from 1960-1980. The character set corresponds to Rules for Telegraph Connection Service of the Russian Federation.

    FontShop link. ParaType link. Klingspor link.

    View Gennady Fridman's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Gennadii Korchuganov
    [Ink & Brush Art]

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    Gennady Baryshnikov

    Russian designer of Anons (a Cyrillic sans family), Arbat (1989, ParaType), Inform (ParaType, 1992, based on the brush script font Flash), Decor (ParaType, 1989, with Vladimir Yefimov, a formal script, based on a 1979 design by Pavel Kuzanyan), ITC Machine (1994, with Vladimir Yefimov; original by Tom Carnase and Ronne Bonder, 1970), Fat Face Cyrillic (1993, with Vladimir Yefimov; ParaGraph), and Zhikharev (1989, ParaType, with Vladimir Yefimov; based on an original design at Polygraphmash in 1953 by Igor Zhikharev). FontShop link. Paratype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Georg Ross&Co

    St. Petersburg-based foundry acquired in 1901 H. Berthold AG. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    George Pavskii

    Moscow-based designer of the free techno font Folgore (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Georgi Ravanski

    Professor of graphic design at IT Academy Alexandria in Skopje, Macedonia. In 2010, he created the geometric typeface Ravan Sans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gese.ru

    Russian graffiti font archive. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gesha Toros

    Russian designer of Wild dance (2014), a decorative typeface on the theme of people killing people. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gleb Fedotov

    Moscow-based designer of the spurred typeface Cyrillic Hetfield (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Glen Jan
    [Elena Kowalski]

    Glen Jan is the foundry of type designer Elena Kowalski (b. 1986) in Ufa, Russia. Elena created the Latin / Cyrillic typeface Sreda Slab Serif (2011), Road Radio Sans Serif (2011) and Affect Sans Serif (2011, a fashion sans family for Latin and Cyrillic).

    Typefaces from 2012: Road Radio (sans family), Sceptica (a 12-style sans text family), Room (a display geometric all caps sans serif typeface family), Idealist Sans (a humanist sans for Latin and Cyrillic: free download), Echoes Slab, Echoes Sans.

    Typefaces from 2013: Leto Sans, Leto One (a display slab), Leto One Condensed, Leto Two, Affect.

    Typefaces from 2014: Certa Sans (a very legible Latin/Cyrillic sans family with some flaring in the strokes; Medium is free), Leto Slab.

    Typefaces from 2015: Leto Text Sans (a neutral sans family).

    Typefaces from 2017: Asket (sans).

    Typefaces from 2018: Morpha (by Elena Kowalski and A. Ego), Certa Serif.

    Typefaces from 2019: the sans typeface Atenta (2019, with A. Ego).

    Typefaces from 2020: Alter Biom (by Elena Kowalski and A. Ego), Alter Aves (by Elena Kowalski and A. Ego), Minor (a 12-style grotesk by Elena Kowalski and A. Ego).

    Behance link. Open Font Library link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Gliphmaker.com
    [Ivan Zeifert]

    Russian language site with an archive (specializing in calligraphic and display scripts), some original fonts by Ivan Zeifert of Ivan Zeifert Works, tens of free fonts by Alexandra Gophmann, and links to free and commercial font sites. Commercial scripts nearly all by Zeifert, and nearly all are cyrillicized versions of Latin typefaces. Free scripts: Cansellarist (2003, Ivan Zeifert, cyrillicized version of Cancellaresca Script Plain), ChampagneCyrillic (2005), Copyist (2004, Ivan Zeifert), Drakkar (2004), Figurny (2006, an exaggerated Victorian face, done with Anatole and Alexandra Gophmann), Flibustier-Thin (2005), HeatherScriptOne (2005, Alexandra Gophmann), HeatherScriptTwo (2005, Alexandra Gophmann), KabarettSimple-Thin (2004, a Showboat-style face, cyrillicized by Ivan Zeifert), KabarettDecorDEMO-Thin (2004), Marianna (2006), RockletterSimple (2005), RockletterTransparent (2005), RosamundaOne-Normal (2005, Alexandra Gophmann), RosamundaTwo (2005, Alexandra Gophmann). These are all by Ivan Zeifert: Flibustier-Thin (2005), Twin Brush (2006), Custodian (2006), Acquest Script (2006), Auric Script (2006), Calligraphist, ChampagneCyrillic (2005), Cansellarist (2003, cyrillicized version of Cancellaresca Script Plain), Chancellor, Chaplain, Chromium Plated, Connetable, Counterbalance, Copyist, Countess, Decree Art One and Two, Decree (Narrow, Thin, Wide), Drakkar, Engraver, Forest, Gissmonda, Kabarett Decorated, Kabarett Transparent, Languedoc, Maghreib, Medieval, Neon Italic, Patience, Rockletter Decorated, RockletterSimple (2005), RockletterTransparent (2005), Saloon, Splinter, Twin Brush, Whirlpool, Wooden Ship Decorated, Wooden Ship One and Two. News. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Godspeed Graphics

    Moscow-based designer of the commercial typeface 30 Knots (2016), based on a popular German geometric / octagonal slab serif from the 1930s. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Goglus

    Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of goglus_urodz. In 2009, he made Urodz, and in 2010 Goglus Menu. Seems to be Russian. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gohar Ketoyan

    During her studies at HSE Art and Design School in Moscow, Gohar Ketoyan designed the very modular, yet stunning, Cyrillic typeface Frozen Music (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Graphic bureau Az-Zet

    Russian foundry that published Cyrillic/Latin fonts from these designers:

    • Anton Bisiajew: AZGaramondC (1990-1995).
    • Serge Agronsky: AZGaramondExtraBoldC (1990-1995), ParagonNordC (1990-1995).
    • Leonid Silkin: HighWayC (1990-1995), PoligonC (1990-1995).
    • A. Andreev: NewsPaperC (1990-1995).
    • K. Tchouvashew: AZLatinWideC (1990-1995).
    [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Green Type
    [Dmitrij Greshnev]

    Green Type is the foundry of creative Russian type designer Dmitrij Greshnev (b. 1975, Lengingrad). Still based in Leningrad, Dmitrij received a TypeArt 05 award for the display family Multicross (2003-2004), which can be bought at ParaType. He will win many more awards.

    His typefaces include Stopwatch (2010, LED face), Sokol (Old Slavonic Latin simulation face), Slavica (2010), Reliant (2010, with Iza W at Intellecta Design), Reliant Beveled (2012, free), Logistica (2010, army stencil), Danger (2010, another army stencil), Dusk Thin (2010), and Multicross (2003-2004, stitching font).

    Typefaces from 2011: Zoo300 (techno sans; +Shadow, +yrillic). Behance link.

    In 2012, he created Patriciana (a Peignotian typeface for Latin and Cyrillic) and Directo.

    Typefaces from 2013: Finch, Hypermarket (dirty typewriter).

    Typefaces from 2014-2015: Trali-Vali (a children's book or party font family), Moveo Sans (with Condensed and Extended subfamilies, 80 fonts in all covering Latin, Greek and Cyrillic), Artica Pro (a flared all-caps typeface family for Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic that is based on classical roman (Trajan) letterforms) and Artica Rough Pro (2015).

    Typefaces from 2016: Festa (a brush typeface for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic).

    Typefaces from 2017: Festa Classica (a happy all caps hand0crafted typeface family), Normative Pro (a neutral techno sans with glyphs tending towards the rectangular), Normative Lt.

    Typefaces from 2018: Streetline.

    Typefaces from 2019: Hubba (a modular squarish typeface family; has a variable font).

    Typefaces from 2020: Danger Neue (a military stencil).

    Typefaces from 2021: Fason (a flared fashion mag typeface family).

    Typefaces from 2022: Esquina Rounded (an octagonal typeface), Esquina College (an octagonal varsity typeface), Esquina Outline, Esquina Stencil (12 styles).

    Behance link. Creative Market link. Hellofont link. MyFonts link. Klingspor link.

    View Dmitry Greshnev's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Grigorij Gushchin

    Russian designer of the all caps sans typeface Enthalpy 298 (2020), the upright monoline script typeface Kholodos (2020) and the all caps art deco typeface Sverdlovsk (2020) for Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Grigorij Zaitsev

    Moscow-based designer of the (Latin / Cyrillic) mini-stencil typeface Sensor (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Grigoriy Martynenko

    Graduate of Pedagogical Academy in Nizhny Tagil. Yekaterinburg, Russia-based designer of the extravagant Latin / Cyrillic typeface Seriff (2020, Paratype). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Grigoriy Sviridov

    Or Griscjha Svidirov. Gorshechnoye, Russia-based designer (b. 2007) of the pixel typefaces Polybius 1981 (2019), Pixel Cards (2019), Spikey Bit (2019) and Grungeldana (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gulnara Sabirova

    Aka Juliya S. Izhevsk, Russia-based designer of the children's book font Boo (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gulya Dautova

    Moscow-based designer of Cone (2015, a decorative Cyrillic typeface), Aesthete (2015, a hairline all-caps circle-based typeface, done at BHSAD) and Bad George (2015, a hybrid created at BHSAD using Bad Script and Georgia as models, in honor of George Clooney). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Guzel Salikhova

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the (Cyrillic) Arabic simulation fonts Arabica Serif (2017), Arabica (2017) and Arabica Flower (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Gydrop

    Russian pixel artist (b. 1984) who created Psyleave (2004), Microtronix (2004), d-gen (2004, a squarish face), d-mek (2004, a futuristic pixel face), Needle (2004, a hairline version of Bank Gothic). Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hala
    [Galina Nikolaeva]

    Vorone, Russia-based designer of the Latin / Cyrillic display typeface Cacti (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Harmony Type (was: Roman Joki, or:(was: Holytramp)
    [Roman Kalabaev]

    Roman Kalabaev (or Roman Jokiranta, or Holytramp, and now, Harmony Type) is the Perm, Russia-based designer of these typefaces in 2015: the weathered rounded typeface Bronson, the vintage script typefaces Pathfinder and Insomnia Script, the weathered Blizzard, the spurred vintage typeface Westmorland, the Latin display typeface Mountain, the script typefaces Authentic (monoline), Filson, Burning Daylight, Rosemary and Blueberry, and the handcrafted sans typefaces Habitat, Horizon and Voyageur (Latin and Cyrillic).

    Typefaces from 2016: Mallory Script, Independent Script (monoline), Independent Sans, Delorean (brush script), Merina Sans, Merina Script, Paramount Script & Sans, Signature Script, Signature Sans.

    Typefaces from 2017: Summer Vibes, Guatemala, Tangier Script, Mellow Script, Superdry (dry brush script), Brushery.

    Typefaces from 2018: Holubar Script, Willabong (connected monoline script). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Harry Kasyanov
    [Igor Kasyanov]

    Designer of HKF Gold Queen DLC (2019), a vintage spurred typeface intended for tattoos and alcohol bottles. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Helen Bykova

    Moscow-based graphic designer. Behance link. Her first font is a Latin/Cyrillic blackletter (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Helen Resko

    Russian designer of Sleeping Alphabet (2011, glyphs made from sleeping monsters). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Helena Benskaya

    Moscow-based designer of the deco typeface Wave (2016) and the grungy modular typeface Splash (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Helga Guru

    Graphic designer in Saint Petersburg, Russia, who created the great experimental typeface Somnium (2015), the connect-the-dots typeface Saturn (2015) and the artsy steampunk typeface Clock (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Helios

    The Cyrillic typefaces Helio and Helios Condensed by Type Market, Moscow, 1993. Created by A. Kustov. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hellig
    [Oleg Kuzmin]

    Russian designer of Klepsydra (2019), a typeface that is inspired by the hourglass. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Hellokisdottir
    [Elena Paletskaya]

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the runic emulation typeface Nordica (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Hightower.Ru
    [Evgeny Domnikov]

    Evgeny Domnikov (Hightower.Ru) designed many free pixel fonts, including Copyright, Copyright Bold, Dots, BigDots and Terminal, all with Cyrillic versions. FON format only. He cyrillized Jeffrey N. Levine's font Festival Nights JL in 2002. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Holy Black Cat

    Russian designer of the 12px / 9pt monospaced octagonal Latin / Cyrillic raster font CatV 6x12 9 Normal (2015, free at Open Font Library). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Iakov Georgievich Chernikhov

    A Russian architect and artist, Iakov Chernikhov was born in 1889 in Pavlograd, Yekaterinenskav Gubernia, Ukraine (now Dnepropetrovskay Oblast). He died in 1951 in Moscow. He studied at the Odessa Art School, a branch of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. In 1914, having graduated from the Art School, he moved to St. Petersburg and entered the Academy of Arts. In 1916 Chernikhov transferred from the painting faculty to the architecture department and graduated in 1925. He became a successful architect, and taught at the Leningrad Institute of Transportation Engineers (after 1933 LIIZhT) in the school of architecture (1928-45), at the Industrial Academy (NKTP) in the course for factory and plant construction (1930-32), at the Stalin Transportation Academy (NKPC) (1930-32), and at the Institute of Engineers of Water Transportation (1929-31). He published Fundamentals of Modern Architecture (1929-1930), Construction of Architectural and Machine Forms (1931), and Architectural Fantasies. 101 Compositions (1933). These classics are all about architectural fantasies. The last work of Iakov Chernikhov, which remained uncompleted, was the book An Analysis of the Construction of Classical Typeface (written in 1945-1951). It was published in 1958, seven years after his death. Iakov Chernikhov used for construction of the types some principles taken from the theory of architectural forms having much in common with the type forms that obey the same regularities. Some of his work looks like the early attempts at regularization by Duerer and Tory, or as found in the Romain du Roi.

    In 2009, Dmitry Yakovlevich Chernikhov (editor), Uta Keil (German translation) and Heike Maria Johennig (English translation) published the Russian / German / English text Graphic masterpieces of Yakov Georgievich Chernikhov : the collecton of Dmitry Yakovlevich Chernikhov (DOM Publishers, Berlin).

    Wiki page. Scans: I, II, III, IV. Image of his Cyrillic Trajan (1945-1951). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Igor Borisenko

    Moscow-based typographer and art director. Creator of the fat rounded outline typeface Bolshoi (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Igor Deev

    Korolyov, Russia-based designer of the sturdy poster typeface Wooden (2018; for Latin and Cyrillic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Igor Evgrafov

    Designer in Kazan, Russia, of the stitching font Fabrika (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Igor Kasyanov
    [Harry Kasyanov]

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    Igor Kiselev

    Russian creator in Moscow of the free icon typeface Web Symbols (2011, OFL).

    Just Be Nice Studio in Moscow. Fontsquirrel link. Fontspace link. Russian link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Igor Kosinsky
    [Kosinsky]

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    Igor Kuznetsov

    For Ivan Klimov's Design Klimov in Moscow, Igor Kuznetsov designed the free Latin / Cyrillic display typeface Arkhip (2014). Dafont link for Design Klimov. Ivan Klimov was born in 1991 and lives in Moscow. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Igor Lemeshkin

    Perm, Russia-based designer of the clean, natural and energetic typeface Vocal (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Igor Mustayev
    [Igor Mustayev]

    Moscow-based foundry of Igor Mustaev (also written Mustayev), est. 2010. Designer of Ivan (2011, constructivist---Latin and Cyrillic), Juan (2011) and Now Grotesk (2011). At Art Lebedev Studio, he published the curly script typeface Neuch (2009). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Igor Mustayev
    [Igor Mustayev]

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    Igor Mustayev

    Also written Igor Mustaev. Born in 1982 in Khabarovsk, Mustayev was first an architect. In 2009, he finished the Type and Typography course at the British Higher School of Art and Design, supervised by Ilya Ruderman. Home page. Typoholic link. Behance link.

    Designer of the Latin/Cyrillic art deco typeface Oster-Poster (2009), which was part of his diploma work at the Moscow Department of Higher British Design School. He is currently living in Moscow and working as a freelancer in graphic design, lettering and type design.

    At Art Lebedev, he created the curly handwritten typeface ALS Neuch (2009). He also designed Zifferblatt (2009, old watch figures) and Now Grotesk (2010, a retro-futuristic unicase).

    At Hot Russian Pancakes, he made Juan (2011), Ivan (2011, slightly constructivist) and Now Grotesk (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Igor Nastenko
    [SPSL]

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    Igor Pashigorov

    Russian designer of an untitled Latin script typeface in 2015. In 2016, he made the vector format brush font Moonstone, the textured typefaces Ghost and Ghost Torn, and the EPS format calligraphic Breath Wind. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Igor Polovodov

    Russian type and graphic designer. He lectures on typography at North-West Printing Institute of Saint-Petersburg State University of Technology and Design. Since 1994 he is engaged in type design. Polovodov developed more than 60 types, including: White, Roton, DipMandi, MacUser, Kha Khantin, Kha Nenets, Kha Nganas, Kha Mansi (the last four types were developed for nations of Far North, Siberia and Far East); Cyrillic versions of Latin types: Chicago, Charcoal, Textiles, Techno, Capitals, Template Gothic (2003), Scott Makela's Dead History (2003) and Barnbrook's Exocet (2003). His MetaC family (1997) is here. ParaType link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Igor Stepanchenko
    [ISTF]

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    Igor Varenov

    Komi Republic, Russia-based creator of the speed emulation techno typefaces Line World (2015) and Speed World (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Igor Zhikharev

    Russian type and book designer, and graphic artist. He worked for VNII Polygraphmash as a staff type designer. He is the creator of Zhikharev (1953), a slanted monoline script, based on his own handwriting. The digital version was developed in 1989 by Gennady Baryshnikov, with the assistance of Vladimir Yefimov.

    FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Igor Zhikharev

    Russian designer at Polygraphmash, where he designed "Zhikharev" in 1953 (later digitized by Gennady Baryshnikov and Vladimir Yefimov at ParaType in 1989). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Igor&Kate Shipovsky
    [Font City]

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    ihateyouare

    Russian graphic designer who "created" Avatar, a Latin/Cyrillic typeface based on Chris Costello's overused Papyrus. Avatar is free. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ike Ku

    Moscow-based designer, who created the free fat geometric typeface Amende (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ildar Kinyabulatov

    Moscow-based creator of the pixel typeface Dupix (2012).

    Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ilia Baranov

    Moscow-based designer of several untitleddecorative Cyrillic alphabets (2013). He also created the experimental typeface Dotmaster (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ilia Musaelov

    Moscow-based designer of a Cyrillic piano key typeface in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Iliris Art

    Russian designer of the brush typeface Widle Wasser (2018) and the handcrafted Cactus Romanus (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Iliya Limberg

    Moscow-based graphic designer. He made the display typeface Ayosmonika (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Illarion Gordon
    [Letterhead Studio IG Fonts]

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    Illarion Gordon

    Moscow-based designer who published the following playful Cyrillic fonts at Letterhead: Strelochnik (1996, irregular hand, Paratype), Probbarius (1996), Monte Summa (1997). He is also part of Letterhead with Yuri Gordon, where he published in addition Rahit (1998, kid's handwriting), Rough (2000, blotchy hand), Simpel (kid's hand), St. Valentin (2001), Accept (1998), Kartofel (2000, irregular handwriting), LangobardR (1999), Ospa (1997, funky handwriting), pLatinum (1999, informal script). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ilse Innire

    Aka Lupus Es. Russian designer of the thin calligraphic typeface Elegance (2016) and the beautiful handwriting font Departure (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ilya Aesthetics

    Located in Moscow, Ilya Aesthetics designed an unnamed experimental Cyrillic alphabet in 2013 ina project called Code Red. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ilya Bazhanov

    Artist and type and graphic designer. His fascination with street art has led him to typography and visual arts. Ilya received a diploma in graphic design from the Russian-British Institute of Management (Chelyabinsk, Russia). He graduated from the Faculty of Arts and Design at UJEP (Usti nad Labem, Czechia). He also studied at the HSD University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf, Germany, and at the Graduate School of Applied Arts in Prague, UMPRUM. His typefaces cover Latin and Cyrillic:

    • Thaw. Awarded by Modern Cyrillic 2019.
    • At Type Tomorrow, he published the variable dot matrix typeface Dusseldot (2020) together with Maks Barbulovic.
    • FUD Grotesk (2020, Type Tomorrow). Described as Closed (sometimes completely closed) narrow brutalist sans serif with wild ligatures.
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    Ilya Chalyuk

    Graphic and type designer from Moscow, b. 1985. Since 2005 he has been working in international advertising and creative agencies. Creator of the geometric typeface Discoteque (sic) (2012, +Poster, +Gold, +Hypnosis---a multiline version). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Ilya Davidovich Krichevskiy

    Russian type designer, b. 1907. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ilya Kazakov

    Illustrator in Moscow. Behance link.

    Creator of the floriated caps typeface De Flore (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ilya Mecin-Poliakov

    Russian type designer (1904-1942), who died in Auschwitz. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ilya Naumoff

    Also Ilya Naumov, b. Russia. Paris-based graphic and type designer, whose typefaces are fabulous. His typefaces:

    • During a summer course called Type@Paris (2015), Ilya Naumov designed a contemporary redesign of Caslon called Belka (+Stencil,+Italic).
    • Kawai is a modern serif typeface started by Ilya at the University of Reading in 2014 under the supervision of Gerry Leonidas and Gerard Unger.
    • Vesterbro (Jeremie Hornus, Alisa Nowak, Ilya Naumoff, Black Foundry, 2017) is a high-contrast Latin / Cyrillic typeface with a Viking feel that won an award at Granshan 2017.
    • Troy (2017), Troy Sans (2017). A pair of inscriptional all caps roman typefaces published in 2019 by Indian Type Foundry.
    • Clother (Jeremie Hornus, Julie Soudanne, Ilya Naumoff, 2017, at Black Foundry). This geometric sans workhorse covers also Cyrillic, Hebrew and Arabic.
    • Ekster (2018). A geometric sans typeface family.
    • Ulm Grotesk (2018, Indian Type Foundry). A simplified almost futuristic geometric sans typeface family. Ilya explains the name Ulm: In the 1950s and 1960s, The Ulm School of Design was hailed as a successor to the Bauhaus, and it set important impulses for international graphic and product design. These Ulm aftershocks were felt for the next several decades.
    • In 2019, Ilya Naumoff and Benjamin Blaess co-designed the variable font Grtsk at Black Foundry. Its three axes, weight, width and slant, combine for 126 styles, that are all captured in one variable font. Mini-site.
    • Screen Sans (2020). A 14-style sans by Jérémie Hornus and Ilya Naumoff published by Indian Type Foundry.
    • Stravinsky (2020). This is an experiment in fashionable contrast. Ilya writes: The typeface fuses the 18th century Didot vertical contrast and squarish counters with the contemporary sans-serif Grotesk form.
    • Factor A (2020). A variable geometric sans typeface at Type Tomorrow.
    • Supreme (2016-2021, by Jérémie Hornus and Ilya Naumoff at Fontshare). A 14-style engineering sans with straight-sided almost monolinear letters.

    Type Tomorrow link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Ilya Nikitenko

    During his studies at the School of Type design in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Ilya Nikitenko designed the slab serif typeface Pozolota (2016-2017), which covers Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ilya Nowa
    [Ilya Smirnov]

    Ilya Smirov (or: Ilya Nowa of Nowa Design, Leiria, Portugal; originally from Russia) created the free fat brush typeface Big Splash (2016) and the sans typeface family Galaxy (2016). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ilya Pazderin
    [Not Bad Typeface]

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    Ilya Ruderman
    [CSTM]

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    Ilya Ruderman
    [Daily Type]

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    Ilya Ruderman

    Russian type design graduate of the Moscow State University of the Printing Arts (2002) and Type & Media at KABK in Den Haag, The Netherlands. Cofounder in 2005 of Daily Type. Type professor of considerable influence, who teaches at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow since 2008. In 2014, Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky founded CSTM. Creator of these typefaces:

    • Praline Pro (Paratype, 2006-2007). A retro script. Award winner at Paratype K2009.
    • Big City Grotesque. This also won an award at Paratype K2009.
    • Best Life Serif. Codesigned with Yuri Ostromentsky. This typeface won an award at Paratype K2009.
    • Beetlejuice Script. Also an award winner at Paratype K2009.
    • Ilya Ruderman and Paul Barnes published Austin and Austin Cyrillic in 2007-2009 at Commercial Type, and write: Designed for British style magazine Harper's & Queen, Austin is a loose revival of the typefaces of Richard Austin of the late 18th century for the publisher John Bell. Working as a trade engraver Austin cut the first British modern and later the iconoclastic Scotch Roman. Narrow without being overtly condensed, Austin is a modern with the styling and sheen of New York in the 1970s.
    • In 2010, Ilya Ruderman spearheaded an extensive project for traffic signage and information in Moscow called Permian for the city of Perm. The Permian family has slab, sans and serif components. Permian won Second Prize in the Cyrillic typeface competition at Granshan 2011, and won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014. Free download at Open Font Library and Art Lebedev Studio.
    • Ilya's Meteor Script (2011) won Third Prize in the display text category at Granshan 2011.
    • Cyrillic versions of Austin (mentioned above), Dala Floda, Graphik, Marlene, Moscow Sans (as a consultant), Typonine Sans, Thema.
    • In 2015, Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky published Kazimir, a didone typeface family for Latin and Cyrillic, taking as a model the typeface used in The History of Russian Philology by P. N. Polevoy (1900, A. F. Marx Publishing House). It was extended in 2017 to Kazimir Text.
    • In 2016, Ilya Ruderman and Olga Pankova published Big City Grotesque Pro at CSTM Fonts. Ilya Ruderman created the first version of (the humanist sans) BigCity Grotesque for Bolshoi Gorod magazine (Big City). It was the first magazine sans serif with Cyrillic ligatures, and won an award in 2009 in the international competition, Modern Cyrillic 2009. In the 2016 version, by Olga Pankova, the shapes of the letters have been updated, and there are new upright and italic styles, small capitals and new ligatures and non-alphabetic symbols.
    • In 2020, Ilya designed the Cyrillic component of Atlas Grotesk and Atlas Typewriter, a typeface family by Susan Carvalho and Kai Bernau at Commercial Type, originally done in 2012.
    • Co-designer with Yury Ostromentsky and Nikita Kanarev at CSTM Fonts of the 18-style exprimental typeface family Lurk (2020). It is based on an earlier version that was specially designed for the Russian youtuber Yury Dud.
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    Ilya Smirnov
    [Ilya Nowa]

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    Ilya Trofimovich Bogdesko

    Russian designer who won an award at Bukvaraz 2001 for Cursiv Bogdesko. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ilya Yudin

    Designer of the Latin/Cyrillic slab family called Podkova (Horseshoe) (2010) while he was a student at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow. Podkova was published by Cyreal Type Foundry, and can be downloaded at Google Web Fonts and Fontspace. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ilya Zakharov
    [Ziel Graphic]

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    Ilya Zherikov

    Moscow-based designer of the free avant garde Latin / Cyrillic typeface Oks (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ilyas Yunusov
    [Kulturrrno]

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    Imperator Kot
    [Liudmila Riumina]

    Moscow-based designer of the decorative caps typefaces Gothic Ornamental (2016: this blackletter typeface also has lowercase letters, and is based on "Gems of Penmanship" by Williams&Packard, 1867) and Vintage Ornamental (2016, also based on "Gems of Penmanship" by Williams&Packard, 1867). All fonts are in vector format. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Incomible

    Russian illustrator who created the Latin sans display typefaces Little Dolly, Nikita and Incomible One in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Index.ru

    Major Russian design and links page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Indian Summer Studio
    [Alexander Bobrov]

    Alexander Bobrov (Indian Summer Studio, or simply Indians, Moscow) designed the vintage didone typeface family Dodo (Latin and Cyrillic) from 2008-2012. This beautiful typeface is in a style similar to Nick Shinn's scotch Modern and Alexey Kryukov'sOld Standard but was developed independently based on old books from 1930s (printed with 1860s to 1910s metal type). His web site shows lots of calligraphic work, but also a few typefaces such as Oriental Font (2015), Photon Display (2014) and Trafareta (2015, stencil).

    Typefaces from 2016: Historical Stencil Font USSR 1980 (2016), Geometric Sans Serif, Tanuki, Curly Cyrillic Sans, Historical Geometrical Art Nouveau Study, Indian Stylized Cyrillic, Historical USSR (constructivist), IBM Selectric Typewriter, 1966 Olympia SF DeLuxe Cursive (typewriter font), Moscow Metro, Cynzel (cyrillization).

    Typefaces from 2019: Funny Toons (a rounded cartoon family by Ekke Wolf and Alexander Bobrov), Selectric Century (a Scotch Modern / Schoolbook typeface modeled after the famous IBM Selectric golfball font), Aldo New Roman (a modern version of the typeface cut by Francesco Griffo for Venetian printer Aldus Manutius around 1490AD).

    Typefaces from 2020: Air Force 30 Stencil (the official US military fonts/lettering used in U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, based on their technical specifications), Oriental Kaishu (all caps, oriental simulation), Selectric Melt, Air Force (the official US military fonts/lettering used by US Air Force, US Army, US Navy and US Marine Corps, designed based on the Military Standards and Technical Manual; covers Latin, Cyrillic and Greek), Stone Age (a neolithic font), Selectric Pyramid (a typefwriter font based on Rudolf Wolf's Memphis from 1929), Selectric (a 1315-glyph (!) revival of IBM's famous golfball typeface, Selectric), Dymond (a dymo label font).

    Typefaces from 2021: Science Fiction (rounded, squarish), USSR (a squarish Russian cold war propaganda font; Latin and Cyrillic), Age (squarish and rounded; for Latin and Cyrillic). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Inessa Mitrozor

    Graphic designer who graduated from the National Design Institute in Moscow. As a student at TypeType Education in 2016-2017, she created the high contrast modern antiqua typeface Capella. Co-designer of TT Barrels (2018: a Scotch modern typeface by Inessa Mitrozor, Vika Usmanova, Marina Khodak, Nadezhda Polomoshnova 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. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    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. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Ink & Brush Art
    [Gennadii Korchuganov]

    Vladivostok, Russia-based designer of these handcrafted typefaces in 2018: Magic (curly font), Chef, Hard Brush, Invitation, Black Arrow, Black Monogram, Sherlock, Savage, Dark Street, Elegento, Floral ABC (floral caps), Funny, Wild & Free, Lengthy. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Inna Gorina

    Moscow-based designer of the Cyrillic sans typeface Ezhevika (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Inna Kovalchuk

    Moscow-based designer of a decorative blackletter alphabet in 2013. She also made an unnamed Cyrillic typeface in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Innire
    [Polina Chistyakova]

    Designer of White Mint (a whimsical serif), Immensity (2021: a stylish decorative semi-serif), Signature of Incognito (a tall and quite elegant signature script) (2021), Golden Leaves (2021, a floriated small x-height serif), Herben (2021, a floriated serif) and Late Fall (2021), a stylish serif typeface that is accompanied by the floriated Late Fall Floral. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Innokentiy Keleynikov

    Russian type designer. His typeface Gosizdat New won an award at Paratype K2009. His Apostol won at Kyrillitsa '99. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Innokenty Keleinikov

    Russian designer who won an award at Bukvaraz 2001 for Letopis. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Innokenty Keleynikov

    Russian creator of Apostol (1999). Winner at K2009 type competition for Gosizdat New. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Insane Fonts (or: Heather Insane)
    [Maria Yurina]

    Russian designer Maria Yurina (aka Heather Insane and as Insane Fonts) created these (vintage, spurred) typefaces in 2017: Ocean Storm, Hipster, Tennessee Honey, Pegasus Label, Imperial (striped and spurred), Haven (a spurred circus font), Tequila, Old Cask, Marine Rum, Bottle Of Gin, Old Bourbon Label. Other typefaces from 2017 include Hoodlum, Centennial (Victorian), Antiquarian (Victorian), and Orange Tree.

    Typefaces from 2018: Stones, Nautical, Campus (a multilined sports font), Mariner, Raw Coffee (Victorian), Dead Biker (spurred), Tail, Bubble.

    Typefaces from 2019: Medieval Kingdoms (with decorative layerable caps), Big Pie Mama, Wild Nature, Birmingham, Prohibited (spurred, layerable). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Intelligent Design
    [Alexandr Kalachëv]

    Russian codesigner (with Ivan Gladkikh (Jovanny Lemonad) and Aleksey Maslov) of the free Latin / Cyrillic typeface Days and Days One (2009, a display sans face). Behance link. Days is also here. Kernest link. Fontsquirrel link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Intermicro

    Russian foundry that produced fonts between 1991-1996. Its designers included Isay Slutsker, Svetlana Ermolaeva, Emma Zfcharova, M.G. Rovensky, N.N. Kudrashov, Z.A. Maslennikova, P. Kusanian. Its fonts include ArbatC, BruskovayaC, CaslonC, GymnasiaC, LidiaC, LiteraturnayaC (co-copyright with Poligrafmash), Mysl Narrow, Granit, Kudryashev, KudryashevSans, NewspaperSansC, and OptimusC. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    International Type Design Competition Modern Cyrillic

    This competition was held by ParaType and dedicated to the Tercentenary of Russian Civil Type (Peter the Great's historic reform of Russian typography). Cyrillic typeface projects and completed typefaces created and/or released after January 1, 2006 were eligible. There was no admission fee. The jury consisted of Vladimir Yefimov (chair, ParaType), Yuri Gordon (LetterHead), Alexander Konoplev (Moscow State University of Printing Arts), Artemy Lebedev (Art. Lebedev Studio), Vladimir Muzychenko (Stroganov University), Tagir Safayev (Higher Academical School of Graphic Design), and Maxim Zhukov (ATypI). In September 2009, the winners were announced:

    Display designs

    Text designs Text/Display type systems Type superfamilies The ParaType Selection
    • Display designs: Alfavita: Valery Golyzhenkov, Russia
    • Text designs: Chift: Vasily Biryukov, Russia, and Kuzma: Anton Geroev, Russia
    • Text/Display type systems: Apriori: Vera Evstafieva, Russia, Ladoga: Viktor Kharik, Ukraine, and Skolar Pro: David Brezina, Czech Republic
    [Google] [More]  ⦿

    International Typographic Festival Typomania 2017

    The International Typographic Festival Typomania is an annual type, typography, calligraphy and video event. The aim of the festival is to collect and connect as many type fans as possible and turn them in to a professional community. Typomania 2017 took place in Moscow from May 27, 2017 until June 4, 2017 at the Moscow Museum. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Intertype Studio
    [Dubina Nikolay]

    Russian company which sells CDs with ornaments (not in font format though) designed by Dubina Nikolay. There is also a free font archive. All fonts designed or co-designed by Dubina Nikolay, and most are Cyrillizations of well-known Latin fonts. A partial list: AirportCyr, Anarchy-Normal, BMspiralCapCyr, BMstampCyr-Normal, CranberryCyr, DPix_8pt, DS-Diploma-Bold, DS-Diploma, DSArabic, DSArmyCyr, DSAyaks-Normal, DSBroadBrush, DSBrushes-Normal, DSCenturyCapitals, DSComedyCyrBold, DSCoptic, DSCrystal, DSCyrillic, DSDiploma-Bold-Outline-DBL, DSDiplomaArt-Bold, DSDots-Medium, DSDownCyr, DSEraser2, DSEraserCyr, DSFlashSerif, DSGoose, DSGreece, DSHiline, DSIzmir-Normal, DSJapanCyr--Normal, DSJugendSCDemo, DSKolovrat, DSKork, DSMechanicalBold, DSMoster, DSMotionDemo-Italic, DSMotterStyle, DSNarrow-Extra-condensedMedium, DSNote, DSNova-Black, DSOlymPix, DSPoddCyrLight, DSPoster, DSPosterPen, DSProgress-SemiBold, DSQuadro-Black, DSRabbit-Medium, DSRada, DSRada_Double, DSReckoningCyr, DSRussiaDemo, DSSharper, DSSholom-Medium, DSShowBill, DSSofachrome-Italic, DSSonOf-Black, DSStain, DSStampCyr, DSStamper, DSStandartCyr, DSSupervixenCyr, DSThompson, DSUncialFunnyHand-Medium, DSUstavHand, DSVTCoronaCyr, DSVanish-Medium, DSYermak_D, DSZombieCyr, DS_Cosmo-Semi-expandedSemiBold, DefWriter|BASECyr, DisneyPark, Eh_cyr, Etude, Frant-Bold, InavelTetkaCyr, Matrix_vs_Miltown, MicroTech, MisirlouCyr, Nadejda-Bold, NewDeli, PixelCyr-Normal, QuakeCyr, Runic, RunicAlt, RunicAltNo, Scrawl, SeedsCyr-Medium, StillTimeCyr, Stylo-Bold, ZrnicCyr-Normal, hooge05_55Cyr2, supercarcyr. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    io ii

    A student at Saint Petersburg State University who designed the experimental typeface Mobtsea (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ioann Kahniel

    Russian designer of the Latin / Cyrillic display typeface Gensek (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ira Koreshkova

    Moscow-based designer of the rounded modular typeface Factory (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ira Lensberr

    Talented lettering artist, calligrapher and type designer in Volgograd, Russia, who graduated from BHSAD in Moscow in 2014. Ira's typefaces include Stuff (2014), Filum (2014, thin, techno face), Koolhaas (2014: inspired by architect Rem Koolhaas; renamed Gebouw), Staket (2014, a war movie font), Bodler (2014, named after Charles Baudelaire, this inky calligraphic typeface is exceptionally beautiful). All fonts cover Latin and Cyrillic.

    In 2014, Ira finished Manola, an expressive flared lapidary sans typeface family with applications in stone carving, developed under the guidance of Alexander Tarbeev. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Irene Design
    [Irina Balashova]

    Omsk, Siberia-based designer of the free handcrafted typeface Corgi (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Irina Alexandrovna Guseva

    Russian type designer, b. 1936, Moscow. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Irina Balashova
    [Irene Design]

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    Irina Batkova

    Moscow-based illustrator and digital artist.

    In 2010, with the help of Dick Pape, she created an ornamental caps alphabet called HRG that was inspired by the sexy surrealist drawings of Swiss Oscar-winning artist H.R. Giger [wiki]. Behance link. Scans: Logo, illustration, more illustrations, HRG's letter F, HRG's letter E. The full HRG alphabet: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z.

    In 2012, she published Lettercats, an all caps alphabet of cats.

    Behance link. Another Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Irina Bolshakova

    Kaluga, Russia-based designer of the Cyrillic typeface Irch (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Irina Burtseva

    Siberian designer of the handcrafted Latin typeface family First Steps (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Irina Chukina

    At TypeType in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Irina Chukina designed the free typeface Ardeco (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Irina Dubovik

    Moscow-based designer of the brush typeface Wilde Wasser (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Irina Kildiushova

    Moscow, Russia-based designer of Tribal Alphabet (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Irina Kliusova

    During her Masters studies in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Irina Kliusova designed an award-winning film poster called Cvet Granata (2016), and a multilined typeface, Aim (2016). She also designed several alphabets in 2016 that are based on the shapes of funky sunglasses. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Irina Kopytina

    Graphic design student at ArtEZ school in Arnhem, Netherlands, who is originally from Moscow. She created the italic typeface Arnhemse jochies (2010) and the experimental typeface Breadclip (2012).

    In 2014, we find her in Brussels, Belgium, where she created a gridded octagonal typeface.

    Behance link. Old Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Irina Krivosheeva

    Russian designer of Lenta (2014), a typeface that won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Irina Mir
    [Irina Miroshnichenko]

    Aka Sudowoodo. This designer shares the same name as a famous Russian movie actress, Irina Petrovna Miroshnichenko. MyFonts locates her in Chile, while Megapixl (a clipart site) places her in Valdivia, Russia, which makes no sense at all as Valdivia is a city in Chile.

    In 2020, she released the ustav-inspired Latin / Cyrillic typeface Kirillik. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Irina Miroshnichenko
    [Irina Mir]

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    Irina Nosova

    Ryazan, Russia-based lettering artist. Designer of a decorative Latin all caps alphabet (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Irina Shtoler

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the soap bubble display font Lop (2015, for Cyrillic only). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Irina Smirnova

    Graduate of the Masters program in type design at KABK, 2010. Before that, she studied type design at the Moscow State University of Printing Arts and graduated in 2001. She worked as free-lance designer for ParaType Inc under Tagir Safayev. During 2002-2006 she taught courses on type design and lettering at the Institute of Modern Art in Moscow. She was also affiliated with the British Higher School of Design (2008-2011) in Moscow. Irina worked as type designer at Laterica and Art Lebedev Studio (until 2008). Currently she is a freelance designer in Moscow, whee she teaches calligraphy.

    She created Inder (2011), which can be downloaded at Google Web Fonts and Fontsquirrel, where it was published by Sorkin Type.

    Her fonts at Art Lebedev Studio include Zwoelf (2008, with Oleg Pashchenko and Zakhar Yaschin), ALS Kraft (2008, an octagonal face) and ALS Klinkopis (2008, calligraphic). The latter fdont was named after Yana Klink (an illustrator at Art Lebedev Studio).

    Designer of Museo Sans Cyrillic (2012), a Cyrillic extension of Jos Buivenga's Museo Sans. She also made Cyrillic extensions of Museo and Museo Slab.

    Free fonts in 2012 at Google Web Fonts: Denk One [Download link], Fjalla One [Download link].

    Designer of Parmigiano Cyrillic (2012-2014), as part of the larger Parmigiano Typographic System of Riccardo Olocco and Jonathan Pierini.

    Klingspor link. Google Plus link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Irina Suchkova

    Moscow-based designer of a hybrid Latin typeface (2016) based on Garamond Italic and New Courier Italic. She also created a set of Olympic pictograms and a Cyrillic military stencil typeface called Ulichnyj in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Irina Vinnik

    Saint Petersburg-based illustrator and designer. She drew an ornamental Cyrillic initials alphabet in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Iris CRM

    Russian FontStructor who made the LED style numbers typeface Iris CRM Zip Codes (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Isabella Chaeva

    Russian type designer called Olga Chaeva at MyFonts. She graduated from Moscow Academy of Print (former Moscow Printing Institute, now Moscow State University of Printing).

    Staff type designer of ParaType, where she worked on Pragmatica. Paratype writes: The typeface was designed at ParaType (ParaGraph) in 1989-2004 by Vladimir Yefimov and Olga Chaeva. A spin-off from Encyclopedia-4 type family of the Polygraphmash type design bureau (1987, Vladimir Yefimov and Isay Slutsker). Inspired by Helvetica (Neue Haas Grotesk) of Haas type foundry, 1957 by Eduard Hoffman and Max Miedinger. Based on the 19th century Grotesque designs, Helvetica brought a new level of mathematical accuracy to the sans serif category. Widely used for many applications, from magazines and books to advertising and headlines. Four basic styles of Pragmatica were developed in 1989 by Vladimir Yefimov. Eight additional styles were developed in 2003 by Olga Chaeva. Condensed styles were developed in 1993-2004 by Vladimir Yefimov, Alexander Tarbeev and Manvel Shmavonyan, with participation of Dmitry Kirsanov. Extended styles were developed in 2004 by Olga Chaeva and Manvel Shmavonyan.

    She made the Cyrillic version of Licko's Quartet (2003).

    She also created Engravers Gothic, an extended grotesque family (Paratype) based on the Bitstream original. In 2003, Isabella Chaeva added a Bold version. Other cyrillizations include FF Meta, ITC Officina Sans and Serif, and Bell Gothic (1999; after Bell Gothic, 1938, Chauncey H. Griffith). About Pragmatica, Paratype writes: The typeface was designed at ParaType (ParaGraph) in 1989-2004 by Vladimir Yefimov and Olga Chaeva. A spin-off from Encyclopedia-4 type family of the Polygraphmash type design bureau (1987, Vladimir Yefimov and Isay Slutsker). Inspired by Helvetica (Neue Haas Grotesk) of Haas type foundry, 1957 by Eduard Hoffman and Max Miedinger. Based on the 19th century Grotesque designs, Helvetica brought a new level of mathematical accuracy to the sans serif category. Widely used for many applications, from magazines and books to advertising and headlines. 4 basic styles of Pragmatica were developed in 1989 by Vladimir Yefimov. Eight additional styles were developed in 2003 by Olga Chaeva. Condensed styles were developed in 1993-2004 by Vladimir Yefimov, Alexander Tarbeev and Manvel Shmavonyan, with participation of Dmitry Kirsanov. Extended styles were developed in 2004 by Olga Chaeva and Manvel Shmavonyan. In 2006, she created the jagged script Jaggy (Paratype). In 2007, she added Vermicello (Paratype).

    Textbook New (2008, Paratype) is based on Bukvarnaya (TextBook) photocomposing version designed in 1987 by Emma Zakharova. The initial Bukvarnaya for metal composition was created at Polygraphmash in 1958 by Elena Tsaregorodtseva. It was developed for primers and the first level school textbooks. An early sans serif (Grotesque) with half-closed static letterforms.

    Kuenstler 165 (2008, Paratype) was extended by Isabella Chaeva: Two weights of Cyrillic version including alternative lc characters were developed by Isabella Chaeva and released in 2008 by ParaType.

    In 2010, Vladimir Yefimov and Isabella Chaeva extended and cyrillicized Kuenstler 480 (Bitstream) at Paratype, which in turn was the digital version of Trump Mediaeval (Georg Trump, 1954-1960).

    In 2011, she created the lovely curly swashy script typeface Rosabella (ParaType).

    Together with Isabella Chaeva, she made PT Mono (2012, Google Web Fonts).

    In 2013, Isabella Chaeva and Vladimir Yefimov created a Cyrillic version of Roundhand BT (1966, Matthew Carter) for ParaType.

    In 2014, she co-designed Stem, a geometric large x-height Latin / Cyrillic sans serif with optical sizing, with Alexandra Korolkova and Maria Selezeneva at Paratype. This was followed in 2015 by Stem Text.

    Codesigner of Kudryashev Display (2015, Isabella Chaeva, Alexandra Korolkova and Olga Umpeleva). Kudryashev Display is a set of light and high-contrast typefaces based on Kudryashev text typeface. In addition to Kudryashev Display and Kudryashev Headline typefaces, the type family includes also two Peignotian sans-serif typefaces of the same weight and contrast, with some alternates. The serif styles were designed by Olga Umpeleva in 2011, the sans styles were created by Isabella Chaeva in 2015 with the participation of Alexandra Korolkova.

    In 2020, she released the chancery-style humanist italic typeface Reed and Titul (a titling font family that includes an engraved money font, and solid and blackboard bold styles) at Paratype.

    In 2021, Paratype designers Isabella Chaeva, Vasily Biryukov and Alexander Lubovenko created DIN 2014 Rounded, an extension of the industrial sans serif DIN 2014. The six-style typeface supports all European languages based on Latin, Cyrillic, and Asian Cyrillic (Tatar, Kazakh and Kyrgyz) and has a variable version.

    FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Isay Solomonovich Slutsker

    Russian type designer (b. Orel, Russia, 1924, d. 2002). He lost both legs in World War II, but persevered and graduated in 1949 from the Moscow Printing Institute. He started working at the Type Design Department of VNIIPoligraphmash (National Printing Research Institute). From 1991 he worked for ParaType, Moscow. Isay Slutsker worked for major Soviet publishers, Khudozhestvennaya Literatura and Prosveshcheniye, designing and illustrating general fiction literature and textbooks. Slutsker designed many typefaces for a number of scripts and writing systems. Among his Cyrillic and Latin designs are Baltica (1951-2, a spin-off of Candida-Antiqua by Jakob Erbar; in co-operation with Vera Chiminova; Paratype did a revival in 1998); Bruskovaya Gazetnaya ('Slab-serif newstype', 1949; in co-operation with Alexandra Korobkova); Mysl (1986, a makeover of the typeface originally created by Vera Chiminova in 1966); PT Caslon (1962 and 1992, a version of the ATF Caslon; assisted by Tatiana Lyskova and Manvel Shmavonyan; also called Caslon 540); ITC Franklin Gothic Cyrillic (1993; assisted by Tatiana Lyskova); PT BT Humanist 531 Cyrillic (1988, based on the Bitstream version of Syntax, by Hans Eduard Meier; assisted by Manvel Shmavonyan); PT BT Geometric Slabserif 712 (1999, based on the Bitstream version of Monotype Rockwell; assisted by Manvel Shmavonyan); MyslNarrowC (1992-1996, at Intermicro, together with Svetlana Ermolaeva and Emma Zfcharova). Slutsker's Greek typefaces are Obyknovennaya Novaya ('New Standard', 1950s); Rublenaya Slutskera ('Slutsker Sans'; 1960s); Chronos (1980s). Isay Slutsker created several typefaces for Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati and Kannada. He designed two Amharic and one Hangul typeface, Inmin. Slutsker's Humanist 531 Cyrillic was among the winners of Kyrillitsa'99 and won an award at Bukvaraz 2001.

    Russian bio. FontShop link. Klingspor link.

    View some of Isay Slutsker's digital typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    ISTF
    [Igor Stepanchenko]

    Russian designer of the free typeface Rounded (2019) and the free squarish Latin / Cyrillic typeface Architectural (2019).

    In 2022, he released the bloated belly slab serif Kidder for Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Iuliia Aseeva

    Iuliia Aseeva, aka Thunderwhale Art, is an illustrator and graphic designer based in St. Petersburg. In 2016, she designed the handcrafted typeface Turntable. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Iuliia Dakalova

    Ekaterinburg, Russia-based designer of an EPS format brightly colored all caps font (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Iuliia Efanova

    Aka Julia Musdotter. Russian creator of the vector format typefaces Alphabet With Stitches (2016), Green Wooden Game Alphabet (2016), and Orange (and other colors) Vector Stone Game Alphabet (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ivan Aleksandrovich Kostylev

    Russian type designer, b. near Moscow (1905), d. Moscow (1973). Fonts he made include Agat (1968). See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ivan Gladkikh
    [TypeType]

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    Ivan Gulkov

    Russian graphic designer working out of San Francisco. His work includes a few nice Cyrillic typographic pieces, some icon sets and digitally revived Vjaz lettering (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ivan Khmelevsky

    Graphic designer from Moscow. He is I am in his final year (BA [Hons] Graphic design&Illustration) at University of Hertfordshire, UK. He made the techno typeface Neu Eichmass (2010). Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ivan Kopylov

    Russian creator of Chalkboard Typeface (2015) and Great Party 52 (2016, a triled deco typeface). He also made the handcrafted Kidzoo (2016) and London 52 Rus Condensed (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ivan Petrov

    Ivan Petrov is based in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Bulgarian codesigner with Julia Zhdanova of the free typeface Artifika at Cyreal and Google Font Directory in 2011. He is currently located in Moscow.

    At Cyreal, he published the free font Volkhov (2011; download at Fontsquirrel), a low-contrast serifed typeface with a robust character, and the didone typeface Prata (2011; for a free version, see here). He also created a number of beautiful experimental typefaces in 2011.

    Bolgariy (2012) is a warm display typeface made for advertising Bulgaria.

    In 2014, he published the 18-style sans serif typeface system Glober at Fontfabric. Inspired by strong German grotesques such as DIN and Dax, it has a great spectrum, from hairline (called Thin) to Heavy. Glober won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014.

    Typefaces from 2015: Stimul (a monoline unicase san).

    Typefaces from 2016: Tavolga (a curvy sans family), Rossiya (a corporate Peignotian Cyrillic / Latin typeface for the rebranding of Rossiya Air Company).

    Typefaces from 2017: Fungis, Creata (a wide sans family), Kvyat (a speed emulation sans typeface named after Russian racer Daniil Kvyat, developed for branding at ONY), Fungia (display style).

    Typefaces from 2018: Gilam (by Ivan Petrov, Plamen Motev and Svetoslav Simov: based on DIN, but more geometric and with obliquely cut terminals).

    Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Ivan Pivovarov

    Designer in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 2014, he created the Latin / Cyrillic geometric sans typeface family Ufa. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ivan Rogov

    Moscow-based graphic designer and illustrator who studied at the British Higher School of Art and Design. Creator of several Latin and Cyrillic display typefaces in 2015. These include Cross Mazigrot. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ivan Semenov

    Designer of the Latin/Cyrillic map and information family called Maper (2010) while he was a student at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ivan Sharenkov

    Russian type designer who received a TypeArt 05 award for the display family Cathedral and Pattern. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ivan Shumikhin

    Russian designer of the free macho octagonal Latin / Cyrillic sans typeface Shumi (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ivan Vasilev
    [RockBee]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Ivan Velichko
    [Shuka Design]

    [More]  ⦿

    Ivan Vetrov

    Moscovite graphic designer who made these Latin / Cyrillic typefaces in 2013: Kin Dza Dza (alchemic), and DecoFont (an amalgamation of Fatface and Conqueror Slab). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ivan Vlasov

    Moscow-based designer of Love Story (2017, handcrafted), Splasher (2017, an ink spill font), Charming Me (2017), Starway (2017), Azteker (2017), Robofor (2017, decorative caps) and Liner (2017, a monoline sans).

    In 2018, he designed Sport Pack Icons.

    Graphicriver link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ivan Zeifert
    [Gliphmaker.com]

    [More]  ⦿

    Ivanna Ivashka
    [Ivanna Pleshkova]

    Or Ivanna Pliskova. Moscow-based illustrator, who designed these decorative typefaces in 2018: Lazy Meow, Ivanka, Backstage (outlined, bilined), Watermelon (color font), Magnolia (floral caps) and Folk Kit. In addition, she drew several sets of floral and other icons, such as in her Romantic Collection. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ivanna Pleshkova
    [Ivanna Ivashka]

    [More]  ⦿

    Iwan Glasunow

    Printer in St. Petersburg, ca. 1870, who ran his own foundry. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Izone

    Russian type terminology site. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jakovlev Type Foundry
    [Dimitri Jakovlev]

    Dimitri Jakovlev's Moscow-based type foundry which produces mixed Cyrillc/Latin typefaces of high quality. Included are: JTF Studium Sans, JTF Nikolaeff Script, JTF Jakovlev Pixel, JTF Gnosis. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jane Djurinskaya

    Or Jane Jurinskaya. Codesigner with Jovanny Lemonad in 2009 of Unimportant, a Latin/Cyrillic display face. Free download at Typetype. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jane Kiseleva

    Graphic designer from Moscow. During her studies at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, she created the experimental Latin typefaces Overlap Regular (2014) and Ambigram (2014). In 2015, she created the neon light font HOV [HOV=House of Vans in London]. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jannete Mark

    Moscow-based designer of the hipster Cyrillic typeface Mark (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jany Stepanova

    Moscow-based designer of the Cyrillic typeface Jazz Modern (2017) for the corporate identity of the Jazz moderne group. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Jetbrains
    [Konstantin Bulenkov]

    In 2020, Philipp Nurullin (type designer, Saint Petersburg, Russia) and Konstantin Bulenkov (project lead) published the carefully designed free programming font family JetBrains Mono for Latin and Cyrillic. Google Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Johannes Lehmann
    [Ossip I. Lehmann Type Foundry]

    [More]  ⦿

    J.S. Petrozavodsk

    Russian designer of the Cyrillic typeface ALaRuss. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Juan Francisco Garrido

    Moscow-based designer of the squarish typeface Shket (2013) and the angular text typeface Graphirus (2013).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julia Abdullina

    Moscow-based designer of several experimental typefaces in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julia Antonenko

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of a great handcrafted Cyrillic typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julia Artamanova
    [Julia Krysanova]

    [More]  ⦿

    Julia Baranova
    [Julia Dreams]

    [More]  ⦿

    Julia Borisovna Balasheva

    Russian designer of the pictogram typeface Lubok typeface (2003, Linotype), which consists of cute fairy tale dingbats. The term lubok refers to a popular style of Russian folk art printing, which dates back to the 18th century. Lubok won an award at the Linotype International Type Design Contest 2003. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Julia Dreams
    [Julia Baranova]

    Julia Baranova (Julia Dreams) is a graduate of the School Of Contemporary Art, class of 2013. Perm, Russia and Copenhagen, Denmark-based creator of the thin connected script typefaces Merry Christmas (2015) and Olesia (2015), Christopher (2015), Happy Newyear (2015), The Valley (2015, brush script), Confetti (2015), Cleaf (2015), the watercolor script typeface Crispy (2015), Ah Punch (2015), and the monoline sans typeface Woonder (2015).

    Typefaces from 2016: Cornish Pasty (outlined, textured and sketched), Fish and Chips, English Castles, Windsor Great Park (+Italic), Worcestershire Sauce (+Press), Smoothie Life, Caprese, Carbonara, Minestrone, Beathrice (connected script).

    Typefaces from 2017: The Fontytotty Collection [Cat and Dog (Display + Italic), Quinny (Display + Italic), Sunshine (Display + Italic), Cherry Pie (Display + Italic), Honey Jar (Display + Italic), Holidays (Display + Italic), Jellyfish (Display + Italic), Yellow Fruit (Display + Italic), Flower Tea (Display + Italic), Monday (Display + Italic), Koala (Display + Italic), Jellyfish Outline (Display + Italic), Elements Font].

    Typefaces from 2018: Handwritten font collection (free). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julia Fedorenko

    Photographer and designer in Krasnodar, Russia, who created the typefaces Olympic80 (2012, prismatic: on the theme of the Olympic circles), Texhnolyze (2012), Masonic (2012, created based on triangles only) and DROP (2012).

    In 2013, she created the pixel typeface Com City for a computer store in Krasnodar. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julia Kors

    Moscovite who created Matreshka (2015), Kvadratich (2014, purely geometric Cyrillic font) and Brush (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julia Krysanova
    [Julia Artamanova]

    Graduate of BHSAD in Moscow, class of 2013. Aka Julia Artamanova, she presently is a graphic designer in Moscow. Julia created the flared (lapidary) Latin / Cyrillic text typeface Flandria in 2013 together with Sergey Pleshkov. This typeface has its dedicated site. Flandria comes in Regular, Italic, Display and Poster (stencil). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julia Kuzmina

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the (Cyrillic) decorative caps typeface Yarmarka (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julia Kuznetsova

    Moscow-based illustrator, letterer and calligrapher. Flickr page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julia Nikolaeva

    Designer of the Latin/Cyrillic organic sans typeface Smallbox (2009), which was part of her diploma work at the Moscow Department of Higher British Design School. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julia Shilova

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based student designer of a Cyrillic version of Syntax Black (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julia Shironina

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based illustrator. Designer of the decorative all caps hprror font Inktober (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julia Stepanova

    Graphic designer in Moscow. Creator of the Latin/Cyrillic typefaces Cilesta (2013, curvy fat didone), Arnie Slab (2013, a wood style fat slab named after Arnold Schwarzenegger), Mr. Fox (2013, script) and Atletic (sic) (2013, octagonal). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julia Vazhova

    Graphic designer and illustrator in Moscow, who created the broad nibbed calligraphic text typeface Tocano (2016) for Latin and Cyrillic. In 2019, she released the deconstructed Cyrillic typeface Bukvy. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julia Vengerova

    Taganrog, Russia-based designer of the (Cyrillic) decorative caps typeface Geometrika (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Julia Zhdanova

    Designer of the Latin/Cyrillic text face Artifika (2010) while she was a student at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow. Artifika is a serif type made for packaging. Free download at Cyreal and Google Font Directory in 2011.

    Klingspor link. Typoholic link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    K. Prokofiev

    Russian type designer who created Amsterdam_vp (1999, with Vsevolod Kovtun). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    K. Shachalov

    Russian designer of an experimental typeface based on the letter "g" (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kaer
    [Roman Korolev]

    Roman Korolev (Kaer, Vologda, Russia) designed the wood stick brush typeface WoodStick in 2016.

    Typefaces from 2017: OneLine Bold (rounded fat color font).

    Typefaces from 2019: Antique Initials (regular and color; with a flower pattern), OneLine Overlap (a color font).

    Typefaces from 2020: Pagesso (a lava lamp font), Avery (a monolinear connected sans), Sailem (an inline art deco font), Old Stamp (a fingerprint font), Silvery (a display typeface on the theme of thick and thin), Blueberry Spot, Coffee Chalk (a textured typeface), Allegro (a blueprint type), Northern Monk (beveled), Westland (blackletter), Neon Line, Bronze (art deco, +color, +texture), Shtrih (dry brush), Geoline (sketched, textured), Flowline, Foliageant (floral, curly), Northern Runes (rune emulation), Neon (color font), Parallel Lines, Bronzen Abundance (a display family with textured and color options), Sharp Stroke (a heavy brush typeface), Renaissance Initial, Celtic Spiral, Lace Line.

    Typefaces from 2021: Atta Weird (a font for LSD addicts), Three Neon Lines, Dead Saint (a Halloween alphabet), Lockdown Christmas (a dot matrix font), Nordic Folk (a layerable typeface family with Scandinavian texture; plus Nordic Folk Icons), Hewy (a display typeface), Planny (a blueprint font), Sportlight (a speed font), Wesloy (a brush serif font), Carle (a 3d polygonal children's book font; +Shadow, +Colored), Absundo (a playful dual weight font), Wide Plump (a geometric solid typeface), Colton (a condensed boutique serif), Aztec Initials (+a colored version), Adrim (a thin floriated sans), Northern Monk (an inscriptional ustav-inspired typeface), Sogia (a decorative serif).

    Typefaces from 2022: Asl Line (an American Sign Language font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Kak
    [Katerina Kozhukhova]

    Kak is a Russian type and design magazine run by Peter Bankov and Katerina Kozhukhova. Alexander Tarbeev designed the typefaces KakC and DenHaag for the mag. This sub-page explains how to tell Bembo, Garamond, Janson, Caslon and Baskerville apart. Katerina Kozhukhova also designed a bouncy hand-printed typeface, Ka (Letterhead). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kandella's Art

    Siberia-based designer of display typefaces. These include Cameron (2021: stylish caps), Dream Catcher (2020: tribal, alchemic), Flora (2021: floriated caps), Cathleen (2021: a stylish hipster font), Dekart (2021: an art deco piano key typeface), and Spring Tales (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Karandashev
    [Alexey Rud]

    Codesigner with Jovanny Lemonad in 2008 of the free typeface FFU Puzzle. Typetype link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Karina Eibatova

    Moscow-based graphic designer who created an exquisite set of initials in 2010 called In Love. Aka Ei Ka. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Karmin 212

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the eerie Cyrillic typeface Times New Vampire (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Karolina Polozova

    Moscow, Russia-based designer of the decorative Cyrillic caps typeface Akcindentnyj Shrift (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Karymoff

    Russian Fontstructor who made the art deco fat typeface Fun Synlex (2011, cloned from Antonio Morata's zhapp3y eyeFS) and the gridded typeface Scene Light (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Karymoff

    Russian FontStructor who made the dot matrix typeface Scene Light (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kasya Denisevich

    Contemporary Russian letterer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kate

    Graphic designer and illustrator in Moscow. She created William Klein Font (2012, named in honor of the photographer, and inspired by his New York 1955 series of photos of skyscrapers), and The Big Air Font (2012, ornamental caps). In 2012, she also published a few cosmic fonts as well as the decorative caps typeface Red Flower (2012).

    In 2013, Kate created the connected font Conjoint. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kate Grekhova

    This Russian graphic designer created a hand-printed Latin typeface in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kate Ren

    Graphic designer in Moscow, who created several great typographic posters for Paratype in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kate Shash

    Moscow-based designer of the experimental typeface Geom (2016), which was created on a doodled grid. The principle is timeless: draw a grid in some way, no matter how crazy. Then design all your letters by following lines in that grid. No exceptions. For her school, BHSAD, she designed a set of icons (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kate Umnova

    Graphic designer in Moscow who designed Laundry Font (2014) for a book on Pedro Almodovar's movie The Skin I Live In. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Katerina Gamkova

    Moscow-based student-designer of the avant garde sans typeface Taurus (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Katerina Kozhukhova
    [Kak]

    [More]  ⦿

    Katherine Kate Tatel

    During her studies in Moscow, Katherine Kate Tatel created a Latin constructivist alphabet called RDCB (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Katie Gorbacheva

    Russian graphic designer and illustrator. In 2017 she drew Russian Alphabet For Children, and in 2019 English Alphabet for Children. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Katy Burtseva

    Aka Katrinelly. Moscow-based designer of Aztec Geometric (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Katya Elizarova

    Graphic designer in Moscow, who created the wavy Cyrillic typeface AcidQuel in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Katya Pletneva

    As a student at Stroganov Moscow State University, Katya Pletneva designed the rough brush typeface Hooligan (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Katya Salnikova

    Moscow-based designer of Fish Font (2012).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Katya Yugai

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designed of the typographic Grid Poster (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kavoon
    [Anton Didenko]

    Moscow (was: Krasnodar), Russia-based designer of the brush script typefaces Geneva (2016, a fat signage brush font), Florence Brush (2016), Brownie Brush (2016), Jumper Script (2016), Leviafan (2016), Kelium (2016) and Milestone (2016), and the handcrafted Kelium Grotesque (2016) and Milestone Grotesque (2016).

    Typefaces from 2017: Adevale (script), Mystique Script (dry brush), Adevale Script (signage), Highlander Marker, Goliath Script, Goliath (brush script), Gineva (brush), Mystique Marker, Emerald Script (brush script), Keyline Script (brush script).

    Typefaces from 2018: Black Stone Marker (a script), Shadowy (script), Supreme (brush script), Fjord (or Fjoerd) (condensed didone), Tyrium, Zenith (brush font), Sicily Script (dry brush).

    Typefaces from 2019: Berlingo (a dry brush SVG font), Airborne (a rythmic signage script), Hidden Soul (a forceful script), HM Lemonade.

    Typefaces from 2020: Modestine (script), Rectory (a fun art deco sans that fiddles with glyph widths), Camijo (a contemporary wedge serif with angular elements), Garine (an art deco typeface with many interlocking pairs of letters), Superline (a tall sports font), Metroline (a script and condensed sans duo).

    Typefaces from 2021: Ratyin (a brush font).

    Creative Market link. Behance link. Graphicriver link. Newer Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

    A pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of the avant-garde suprematist movement, Kazimir Severinovich Malevich was born in 1879 in Kiev, and died in 1935 in Leningrad. In 1915, Malevich laid down the foundations of Suprematism when he published his manifesto From Cubism to Suprematism. After the October Revolution (1917), Malevich became a member of the Collegium on the Arts of Narkompros, the Commission for the Protection of Monuments and the Museums Commission (from 1918 until 1919). He taught at the Vitebsk Practical Art School in Belarus (1919-1922), the Leningrad Academy of Arts (1922-1927), the Kiev State Art Institute (1927-1929), and the House of the Arts in Leningrad (1930). He wrote The World as Non-Objectivity, which was published in Munich in 1926 and translated into English in 1959. In it he outlines his Suprematist theories.

    Typefaces based on his work include:

    • Malevich (2010, Artem Moiseev).
    • NCD Black Square family (2008, by Nippa Downy). Downey writes: The Black Square of Kazimir Malevich is one of the most famous creations of Russian art in the last century. The first Black Square was painted in 1915 to become the turning point in the development of Russian avant-garde..
    • Dynamich (2012, by Giuseppe Cacciatore).
    • Black Square Typeface (2012, Jekabs Osins). A nihilist experiment in which each letter is a black square, as in Kazimir Malevich's Black Square painting.
    • Suprematic (2008). An ultra-constructivist typeface by Henric Eugen Bergström.
    • Dick Pape created the scanbat font KazimirMalevichArt2. Download here.
    • Tom Davidson's Malevich (2013).
    • Kama made in 2015 by Ninze Chen-Benchev.
    • Malevich (2015, Olga Tereshenko, BBDO Studio).
    • Anafor (2018) by Erman Yilmaz.
    [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ke To

    Cheboksary, Russia-based designer of the art deco typeface Pretenza (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kiosk Works (or: Playfaces Type Foundry)

    Russian commercial experimental type foundry of Dima Barbanel and/or Vladimir Kolomeytsev (Moscow), which publishes typefaces by several designers, who are mostly based in Saint Petersburg. Typefaces include: Afform, Cutter, Forma bold.pdf Fuller, Germanica, Giovanni (a piano key typeface), Handwrt, Hrustal 13, Matisse, Medieval, Meteorito, Moskek, Naturalist, Ocbita, Pitcrew, Potexa bold, Potexa regular, Siberia, Tempo (Outline 1, Outline 2, Regular), Uncial, Worms. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kir Rostovsky

    Moscovite who designed Indy Typeface (2012), a typeface in which the outlines follow one of several segments in an arrangement of lines. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kira Slepchenkova

    Graphic designer from Moscow who is based in London, and who is studying Design for Graphic Communication in London College of Communication, UAL.

    Her typefaces include Party Alphabet (2012, ornamental caps). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kiril Tchouvashew

    Designer at Graphic bureau Az-Zet of the Cyrillic/Latin font AZLatinWideC (1990-1995), which is similar to (and just as ugly as) Stephenson Blake's Wide Latin. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kiril Zhdanov

    Illustrator in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Creator of an unnamed circle-based typeface and the straight-edged monoline font Orimi in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kirill Klochkov

    Russian designer of Quadrotype (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kirill Malykhin

    Khabarovsk, Russia-based designer of the Comic Sans lookalike Laffayette Comic Pro Cyr (2015), the sharp-edged display typeface Kicker Bold (2015), and the connected calligraphic Latin / Cyrillic typeface Restaurants World (2015). In 2016, he created Cyrillic versions (I think) of DarkII, Minimal, Add ULC and Crash Landing BB. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kirill Rozhkov

    Illustrator in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Creator of the angular Cyrillic typeface Lady With Pussies (2012).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kirill Sirotin

    Moscow-based letterer, and graphic and type designer, b. Tver, 1979. He graduated from the Venezianov Art College in Tver in 1998, and entered Moscow State Printing University. Kirill works as a graphic designer at Leo Bernett, Moscow.

    He received a TypeArt 05 award for the dingbat family OutpuThereIs (or Vykhod Est), which in a prehistoric manner describes copulation and pregnancy. He won Kyrillitsa 99 awards for his typefaces Pupygi and Rybizna. In 2009, his thesis work at the Moscow Department of the British Design School under Ilya Ruderman was the hookish and lively humanist sans serif typeface Gross Kunst, which was later published at Art Lebedev Studio. Deservedly, Gross Kronst / Gross Kunst won an award at Paratype K2009. In 2011, he released Chalk & Honey at Art Lebedev. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Kirill Yudin

    Novosibirsk, Russia-based designer of the free futuristic missing-stroke-segment font Solarian (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kitya Toropowski

    Moscow-based designer of these typefaces in 2018:

    • Keleti (2018). A pixelized typeface.
    • Lahti (2018). A stylish fat didone derivative based on compass-and-ruler. Covers Latin and Cyrillic.
    [Google] [More]  ⦿

    KLMN Art

    Russian designers of KLMN Pixel font 2003, which has Latin and Cyrillic character sets. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    KLMNPRST.ru

    Russian experimental typography and calligraphy site. Hard to decipher what is going on. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Koivo

    Illustrator in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Designer of a colorful decorative all caps alphabet in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Konstantin Bashenko

    Graphic designer, and student at Ural State Academy of Architect and Arts. Creator of the iFontMaker font BK Handy Cyr (2010, hand-printed). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Konstantin Birukov

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the high-contrast display typeface Admiral (2012) and the Peignotian Cyrillic typeface Herold (2012).

    In 2013, he designed the Cyrillic sans typeface Ledokol and the Cyrillic ornamental caps typeface Kirillica Hersonese. In 2016, he designed the handcrafted Cyrillic typeface Dlja Goroda Tihvin. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Konstantin Boldovskiy
    [Konst.ru]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Konstantin Bulenkov
    [Jetbrains]

    [More]  ⦿

    Konstantin Kabakov

    Designer of a Latin/Cyrillic typeface in 2009 upon his graduation from the Moscow Department of Higher British Design School. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Konstantin Kapustin

    Moscow-based designer of the handcrafted chaotic Cyrillic typeface Master (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Konstantin Karpov

    Moscow-based designer of the organic Cyrillic typeface Ostica (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Konstantin Lukyanov

    Russian designer, at Art Lebedev, of the Latin / Cyrillic handwriting typeface Vlas (2018), the slab serif NF64 (2018), the informal Junior (2019), the straight-edged Dutch rococo Brevier (2019), the bubble motiv font January (2019), and the architectural blueprint typeface Arc (2019).

    With Ksenia Erulevich and Konstantin Lukyanoiv, he co-designed the soccer shirt font Russian Premier League (2018, at Art Lebedev). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Konstantin V. Boayrko

    Typeface designer who russified some Latin fonts in 2003, such as KBBlackWolf, KBDanube, KBTranceform, KBVectroid, KBYear. Some may be found here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Konst.ru
    [Konstantin Boldovskiy]

    Moscow-based Russian foundry of Konstantin Boldovskiy (b, 1966, Pereyaslavka, Russia). He graduated in 1988 as an architect from the Khabarovsk Polytechnic Institute. Typefaces:

    • From 2010: BK Monolith, InSign Hand (an octagonal typeface with a sketched style), BK Bird, Alya Hand (a curly typeface based on the handwriting of Alya Boldovskaya), Type Tile (experimental), Hexial (a dot matrix face).
    • From 2011: Hexadot, Hexadot Thin and Hexadot Light (a textured family).
    • From 2013: Olymp80 (a techno typeface dedicated to the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, inspired by Nikolai Belkov's icons for these games).

    Personal Behance link. Behance link. Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Kosinsky
    [Igor Kosinsky]

    Aka Pj154. Graphic designer in Noyabrsk (northern central Siberia). In 2017, he added a Cyrillic part to Manh Nguyen's Arcadia, and created the free 4-style Latin / Cyrillic shadow typeface family Zero. Free download of Arcadia Bold.

    Early in 2018, he published the free font FT Anima (2017) that evokes early versions of Futura, the free font Mirror 82, the free Library 3am, the free sans typeface NoName37, and 2 Mass J1808 (a cold modern sans; free demo).

    Typefaces from 2019: Pioneer 10 (a free experimental typeface), Nineteenth (a monolinear sans), Kepler 296 (a free sans), Literal (a free sans family for Latin and Cyrillic), February 2 (a free sans).

    Typefaces from 2020: Express 18 (a 7-style sans).

    Typefaces from 2022: Alarionsa Serif (for Latin and Cyrillic). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Kosta Erdakov

    Graphic designer who created Volna (2012), a wavy Latin / Cyrillic font created while he was studying at The British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kostya Sasquatch

    Moscovite illustrator and multimedia artist. His typefaces are mostly experimental and/or geometric: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kotta Rainen

    Graduate of the British Higher School of Art and Design, Moscow. Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the Bauhaus genre sans typeface Travertine (2015, influenced by Mies van der Rohe), the free art deco sans typeface Flatiron (2015, Latin and Cyrillic), the free casual typeface Five (2015), and Kundera (2016).

    In 2017, Kotta published the wonderful two-font text typeface system Bilingua.

    In 2021, he designed the Latin / Cyrillic arts-and-crafts typeface Belgian. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Koza Design

    Yekaterinburg, Russia-based design studio. Creators of the modular branding typeface Brend G Kamensk Uralskij (2015, Latin and Cyrillic). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kristina Davydova

    Moscow-based designer of the vernacular Cyrillic typeface Street Font (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kristina Gess

    Kristina Gess (aka Sproot, based in Chelyabinsk, Russia) created the Latin paper-cut typeface Dancing Font (2013), the beautiful brushy poster typeface Firenze (2015, for Latin), the equally interesting Cartoon font (2015, also for Latin), Rio (2015), and the handcrafted Alchemy (2015). Many of her typefaces can be bought at Shutterstock. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kristina Skoreva

    Moscow-based creator of the photographic typeface Ink Alphabet (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ksana Krasilnikova

    Blagoveshchensk, Russia-based designer of Ribbonous (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ksenia Belobrova

    Type designer, calligrapher and lettering artist in Moscow. Initially, she was working for Artem Gorbunov Design Bureau. Her typefaces there:

    • Bureauserif (2015-2016). A text typeface family. The Greek part was done by Anna Danilova.
    • Galochki (or: Checkmarks). Done in 2013.
    • Voltaire (2015). A script typeface based on illustrations in one of Voltaire's books from 1734. Voltaire covers Latin and Cyrillic.

    In 2015, she designed Di Mare, a layered script inspired by Italian restaurant and cafe signs.

    In 2016, she designed MT Brush, Allister Rough, the brush signage typefaces Mixed Tape and Mixed Tape Rough, and the heavy monoline script typeface Jonesy.

    Typefaces from 2017: Eldwin (The Northern Block: a connected script), New Jonesy Latin, Luna Brush (brush script).

    Typefaces from 2018: Frederik (a great Latin / Cyrillic humanist sans family published by The Northern Block in 2019), Garnet (Capitals and Script, with a great Inline). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Ksenia Churilova

    Illustrator, graphic and type designer, b. 1997 in Moscow. She graduated from MGHPA (Faculty of Graphic Design of the Stroganov Academy) in 2018.

    In 2022, Matthew Grouss, Ksenia Churilova and Pavel Nevsky released the 16-weight constructivist typeface Nowar, a variable typeface that features Latin, Cyrillic and Hebrew scripts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Ksenia Dubrovskaya

    Moscow-based designer of the cursive typeface family Sara (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ksenia Erulevich

    Ksenia Yerulevich (or Erulevich) was born in Novotroitsk, Russia, in 1986. She graduated from The British Higher School of Art and Design (Moscow) with a Type and Typography degree. Since 2011, Ksenia has worked as a type designer and calligrapher at Art. Lebedev Studio.

    Designer of the quaint text typeface Alice (2011, Cyreal, Google Font Directory) and the curly typeface Bonbon (2011, Google Web Fonts).

    Creator of the feminine script typeface ALS Fuchsia (2012, Art Lebedev Studio).

    In 2013, Ksenia published ALS Malina, a plump packaging and children's book face.

    In 2016, she published the informal sans typeface ALS Lavanda and the flaring ALS Alumna at Art Lebedev. ALS Sector, a grotesque typeface family, followed in 2017, and the rounded all caps sans Contract and Russian Premier League (a soccer shirt font by Ksenia Erulevich, Nikolay Nedashkovsky, and Konstantin Lukyanov at Art Lebedev) in 2018.

    Her corporate typefaces at Art Lebedev Studio include M.Video (2013, done with Olga Umpeleva) and Yandex (2013: by Ksenia Erulevich, Taisiya Lushenko, and Elena Novoselova). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Ksenia K

    Illustrator and designer in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 2016, she created a squarish Latin typeface for a school project. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ksenia Kichina

    Graduate of the University of Technology and Design with an Applied Informatics in Design degree in 2012. As a student at TypeType Education in 2016-2017, she designed the sahrply cut display antiqua typeface Exposition. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ksenia Kotlyarovskaya

    During her studies in Moscow, Ksenia Kotlyarovskaya designed the grotesk typeface Neo Frut (2016) for Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ksenia Kudravceva

    Krasnodar, Russia-based designer of the wavy typeface Sea Breeze (2018) and the curly handcrafted typeface Amster (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ksenia Semirova

    Moscow-based designer of the free handcrafted typeface Kram (2016) and the free Latin / Cyrillic art deco typeface Dita Sweet (2015, co-designed with Jovanny Lemonad. Download site for Dita Sweet). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ksenia Slavnikova

    Moscovite graphic designer and illustrator. Creator of the curly hand-printed typeface My First Type (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ksenia Storozhenko

    Graphic designer in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She made a decorative caps face called Workout (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ksenia Yusupova
    [Vavavka's Art]

    [More]  ⦿

    Kseniya Karataeva

    Russian type designer associated with TypeType in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She is originally from Rostov-on-Don. In 2020, Antonina Zhulkova, Yulia Gonina and Kseniya Karataeva co-designed the octagonal typeface superfamily TT Octosquares at TypeType. TT Octosquares comes with a 3-axis variable type option.

    Author of the monospace subfamily and the icon research for TypeType's superfamily TT Interphases (2019).

    In 2020, she co-designed TT Lakes Neue, a 91-style sans family by Vika Usmanova, Antonina Zhulkova and Kseniya Karataeva at TypeTypType. Tt is a functional sans-serif that draws inspiration from Finnish signs of the functionalism era. TT Lakes Neue is an almost monolinear sans, with ovals in the form of rounded rectangles, reminiscent of Nebiolo's Microgramma. It comprises a useful variable font.

    In 2020, she was part of the Type Type team that designed TT Ramillas, a 20-style high contrast transitional serif by Pavel Emelyanov, Marina Khodak, Yulia Gonina and Kseniya Karataeva. TT Ramillas also contains variable styles.

    In 2021, Kseniya Karataeva and the TypeType team released the 21-style TT Travels Next, which is intended as a trendy and radical counterpart of TypeType's earlier font, TT Travels (2017).

    Still in 2021, she designed TT Ricordi Greto, a non-contrasting Florentine caps-only sans-serif with dynamic proportions and a hint on what would be serifs, that was inspired by a floor plaque dating from 1423 found in the Basilica di Santa Croce in Florence. TT Ricordi Greto also has a variable format. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Ksenya Kuznetsova
    [Peliken]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Ksenya Nord

    Kursk, Russia-based designer of the great Cyrillic brush typeface Voronijo (Crow) in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ksenya Samarskaya

    Ksenya Samarskaya (b. Saint Petersburg, Russia) studied at the University of Oregon and New York University (class of 2010). From 2007 until 2011, she worked for Hoefler&Frere-Jones in New York. After a brief stint as type consultant for Apple in Cupertino, CA (2012-2013), she set up her own design studio, Samarskaya & Partners, in 2015, in Brooklyn, NY. That same year, she co-founded Alphabettes. Samarskaya has taught typography and design at Harbour.Space University in Barcelona, University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and the School of Visual Arts in New York. She splits her time between Brooklyn, NY, and Lisbon, Portugal. The typefaces she worked on at Hoefler include Exchange, Ideal Sans, Landmark, Retina, Sentinel, Sterling, Verlag, Archer, Forza, Gotham, Historical Allsorts, Numbers, Shades, Tungsten, Vitesse and Whitney. Her contributions covered design direction, drawing, kerning, interpolation, opentype features, hinting, production, testing and troubleshooting.

    Ksenya created the decorative layered display typeface Blesk (2015).

    In 2019, at Rosetta Type, she published the rugged informal typeface Corsair Latin. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Ksiu Design

    Moscow-based graphic designer who created the sans typeface Rubik (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ksusha Miskaryan

    Moscow-based designer of the experimental typeface El Lissitzky (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kulagina

    Creator of Glace Accidental Typeface (2012). Kulagina is based in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She describes the process of creating Glace: This typeface was created by transforming Baskerville type into something new. Each letter was drawn on a paper by ink and then pressed with a CD cover. The received print has been scanned and retouched. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kulturrrno
    [Ilyas Yunusov]

    Taganrog, Russia-based designer of Mash-up (2017), the copperplate emulation typeface Highbridge (2017), the elegant caps only sans typeface Leaner (2017: an all caps monolinear geometric sans, followed in 2018 by Leaner Extended) and the art deco typeface Noirside (2017).

    In 2018, he designed the condensed sans typeface Chromota, and Parallone.

    Typefaces from 2019: Cultrz (a geometric sans), Sayin On (a grungy caps typeface).

    Typefaces from 2020: Nullomis (29 styles; an all caps Soviet era font), Domek (a condensed layered sans).

    Typefaces from 2021: Parallone (a 12-style sans, updating his earlier typeface from 2018). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Kurochka Lapkoi

    Moscow-based designer of the tweetware hand-printed Latin / Cyrillic typeface Chicken Scratch (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Kvartira Belogo

    A goldmine with full scans of many old Russian books. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    La An

    Industrial designer in Moscow who created the display typeface Electroclash (2016).and Olympic Games pictograms (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lange Type Foundry

    Extinct 20th century foundry in Saint Petersburg. Their fonts included Placard, which was an adaptation of Hermes Grotesk (Wilhelm Woellmer, 1911). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Languages, fonts and encodings

    Great page by Konstantin Kazarnovsky on encodings and code pages for many languages, especially Cyrillic. Lots of details on Truetype. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lapin Design
    [Serge Lapin]

    Serge Lapin (Lapin Design, Yoshkar-Ola, Russia) created the Latin and Cyrillic families Practicum (2009, a sans family free at Dafont) and Gorgon (2008, as gorgeous brush script), Foliage (2007), Pixelofon (2007, pixel face), Pyxis Bold (2006, pixel face) and Bublic (2006, pixel face). Except for Practicum, there are no downloads. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lara Kravchenko

    Omsk, Siberia-based designer of the decorative caps alphabet Celebrity (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Larica Popova

    Novosibirsk, Russia-based designer of the handcrafted typeface Helloween (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Larin Type Co
    [Pasha Larin]

    Pasha Larin or Pavel Larin is the Perm, Russia-based designer of these handcrafted typefaces in 2017: Andrea, Alaska (brush script), Phaeton, Modesty, Quarter (brush script), Magdolena, Casamia, Natalia, Kemuri.

    Typefaces from 2018: Jumbo, Winter Miracle, Planet Earth (signage script), Tiny Love, Cambridge, Shaimus, Darling Romance, Paeonia, Merchant, Kurtis, Road Crew (a monoline script), Lucky Fortune (a beatnik font), Aeriform, Christmas Mystery, Shanky, Cashmere, Seaward, Christmas Story, Inside, Sheraton, Beverly Hills, Vanilla Cream, Blue Moon, Bambino (children's script), Fun Play Day, Belorian, Malibu, Peach Blush, Royal Voyage, Crystal, Jackson, Highest, Stephany, Macbarel, Magnatec, Forestage, Honied, Arrivals, Fantasy, Modern Talking, Playful, Gulliver, Hadron (monoline script), Loituma (script), Rhonely (signature script), Sophia (smooth brush script), Chik Pik (a monoline children's script), Candy Land, Smashing (signature font), Garkleriny, Habital, Sambina, Space Jam Script, Taste of Desires, Rusarian Script, Lemon Blast, Skyline Script, Daintily Script, Fairytale Script, Jalsony, Balwest, Dandelion (calligraphic), Solar (brush script), Selrany, Joyful, Amplifier, Hantery (signature script), Richard, Buldery, Laperla, Largus Script, Juliet (watercolor brush), Dilation, Sun Island Script (brush script), Relang, Mirages Script, White Nights, Simple Game, Miracle Roved, Marylowe, Bird House, Selvia Script, Showing, Hendricks, Rosemary, Paradise, Adrenaline (a free signage script), Old Broadway, Virginal Script, Famous (script).

    Typefaces from 2019: Winter Day, Blauer, Captain Nelson (vintage), Winter Miracle, Loredana (script), The Pincher Brothers, Romanson (a serif typeface), Lost Wind, Prima Donna, Palatine (a soft-edged script), Firm (a black sans with some oomph), Bunny Hop (cartoon type), Evelyn (brush script), Milady, Wild Nebraska (a monolinear font duo), The Old Navy (stencil), Kataleya, Spinach, Palestra (a black titling sans, followed in 2021 by Palestra Moderna), Foucher, Sanremo, Selatine (a streaked brush script), Beauty Flowers, Rush Hour, Avenger (a vintage monoline display sans), Anderson, Santa Monica, Pointer, Pattaya (script), Brisbane, Avangard, Armstead and Armstrong (two calligraphic wedding scripts), Violeta (script), Futurino (a great chldren's book font family), Avignon (script), Bombastic (cartoon font), Velvet Line, Beyond, Bright Cofetti (font duo), Fort Yukon (spurred), Briosh (signature script), Marisha, Black Star (monoline), Sensation (inky script), Bonavista, Pina Colada, Milardo, Bondy Mondy, Ostende, Pasternak, Secret Room, Pointer, The Old Navy (stencil), Lush Garden, Blonde, Way to the Heart, Youth Wind, Mulled Wine, Helardy, Ramson, Marine, Silona, Horse White, Hello Sakura, Mirabella .

    Typefaces from 2020: Selna (a fashion mag typeface), Vianor (a decorative Victorian serif), Hughes (a retro signage script), Sugar Cake, Clarins (Script and Serif), Knopa (a beatnik font), Adventure Island (a monoline script), Morando (a decorative serif), Pina Colada, Norando (a decorative serif), Comilfo, Simaro, Malmont (script), Todes, Chaser (a military stencil), Mulled Wine (an inky Treefrog script), Bosca, Costa Mala (pure art deco), Sensal (formal art deco), Blaine (square-serifed), Leronda (a wedge serif typeface for display), Gron (bilined caps), Parnas (a stylish Peignotian sans), Landre (a retro script), Mansory (a Peignotian sans family), The Buchen (a rounded serif font), Platinor (a decorative serif), Grovana (soft all-caps sans), Ametis (an all caps fashion mag serif), Capella (brush script), Enigma (a stylish all-caps serif).

    Typefaces from 2021: Cicada (a 10-style modulated sans), Legend Of Christmas (six styles: a font trio), Etero, Black River (a vintage outdoors font), Miamo (a script / sans pair), Portaso (a vintage grunge family), Brewery Factory (a 16-style collection of vintage beer label fonts), Butcher's Daughter (a vintage family ideal for pubs and beer bottles), Baren (a 9 style wide sans), Rolan (a 6-style art deco sans), Casual Style (sans, script), Delores (delicate roman caps), Above Ground (a dry brush script), Thawed (a melting ink font), Poum Boum (a children's book font), Giordano Gold (a stylish font duo), Lerum (a stencil serif typeface), Dress Code (a 12-style all caps headline or poster sans), Melgard (script), Chroman (a decorative serif first named Chroma), Chopard (a 12-style fashion serif), Hermitage (a 6-style decorative serif), Fremont (an inky Treefrog script) (a Treefrog script), Mansory (a formal display sans), Senar (20 styles; a slab and sans serif family), Opera Signature (a stylish serif), Faberge, (a decorative serif), Berkut (a take-no-prisoners octagonal military font with sold and stencil versions), Poligon (a military stencil family), Marmaris (a soft serif), Lestina (an inky script), Milonga (a Treefrog script).

    Typefaces from 2022: Ramenson (a 15-style weathered vintage font collection including Sans, Serif and Script), Laro (an 18-style geometric sans). Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Larisa Zakoryukina

    Russian designer of the modular Cyrillc sans typeface Monolit (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lebedev Studio
    [Roma Voroneshski]

    Roma Voroneshski (Lebedev Studio) designed the free Cyrillic screen fonts WebCondensedC and WebSmallC. FON format only. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Leka Lovich

    Russian creator of a broken outline shaded signage face, Tsirkusach (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lena Almazova

    Moscow-based designer of the hand0-crafted typefaces White Stork, Sweet Tooth and Simple Monoline in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lena Riabova

    Graphic designer from Saint Petersburg, Russia, who graduated from National Academy of Arts and Architecture of Ukraine, faculty of graphic design and fine arts. She created a few experimental Cyrillic typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lena Savicheva

    Moscow-based designer of the grungy Cyrillic typeface TUF (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lena Shagieva

    Moscow-based illustrator. Home page. Her first font is the grungy Nudrop (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Leo Partus

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based graphic designer and illustrator. Creator of Dia De Los Muertos Font (2013), a spectacular illustrated caps typeface for Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Leonid Silkin

    Designer at Graphic bureau Az-Zet of the Cyrillic/Latin fonts AZ HighWayC (1990-1995, similar to Broadway, Morris Fuller Benton, ATF, 1928), and AZ PoligonC (1990-1995). See also here. He also designed the educational font series Didactica (1997), useful for both Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Leonid Zorin

    Russian designer of the Cyrillic/Latin fonts BandyCyr, Blaze, Decorlz (2001) and Whirl Cyrillic (2000).

    Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lera Bazankova

    Graphic designer in Moscow, who created the multilined Latin typeface Guitar (2014), which uses Avant Garde Gothic's skeleton. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lesha Melnikov

    Russian designer.

    Dafont link.

    Creator of the dadaist font Jek5 (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lesha Pushkarev

    Moscow, Russia-based co-designer, with Vladyslav Boyko, of the free Latin / Cyrillic display typeface Rimma Sans Bold (2021), that takes inspiration from concrete buildings and monumental architecture. Rimma Sans is rooted in the square grid and is named after Russian architect Rimma Aldonina. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Leta Che

    Graphic designer in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Creator of the ornamental caps typeface for Latin and Cyrillic called The Life of a Scottish Terrier (2012), and of the Cyrillic display headline typeface Krugosvet (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Letter Muzara
    [Anna Tsuranova]

    Russian designer of Qisharon (2019: a stylish sans for Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew and Arabic), Omorphia (2019: influenced by the squarish Hebrew Sephardic style; covering Latin, Greek and Curillic) and Cursivica (2019) for Latin and Cyrillic.

    Typefaces from 2020: Ribuah Sans (a sans serif font with high contrast, inspired by Bodoni and brutalism). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    LetterBe
    [Rustam Gabbasov]

    LetterBe is Rustam Gabbasov's Russian foundry, located in Ufa, Bashkortostan. He designed Booster and Booster Amp (2005) and Truefaret (2005, stencil). All fonts have Latin and Cyrillic characters. Valery Zaveryaev designed the display typeface Brut (2005), the stencil typeface Marshrut (2005), the fat display family Quadratish (2012) and the octagonal family Teco. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Letterhead Studio IG Fonts
    [Illarion Gordon]

    Illarion Gordon was born in Moscow in 1958. Since 1996 he works as a freelance illustrator. He is a member of the Letterhead Studio. In 1996, at the Golden Bee Biennale of graphic design, Illarion Gordon was awarded a special prize of ParaGraph International for his typefaces, Probbarius and Strelochnik. He created the Platinum family in 1998, a typeface that wo an award at Kyrillitsa'99. It has the look of a hand-drawn serif face. Illarion Gordon made the fun fonts Strelochnik (1996, irregular hand), Probbarius (1996), Monte Summa (1997), as well as Rahit (1998, kid's handwriting), Rough (2000, blotchy hand), Simpel (kid's hand), St. Valentin (2001), Accept (1998), Kartofel (2000, irregular handwriting), LangobardR (1999), Ospa (1997, funky handwriting), Platinum (1999, informal script).

    Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Letterhead Studio VG Fonts
    [Valery Golyzhenkov]

    Letterhead Studio is located in Moscow. One of its designers, Valery (or Valerio) Golyzhenkov (b. 1965, Moscow) cofounded Letterhead Studio in 1998 with Yury Gordon and Olga Vasilkova, and has since designed over 100 typefaces. Still based in Moscow, he published the following Cyrillic fonts at Letterhead: 04.07 (1998), 532 Antique (2020), Accademico (2020), AeroBonus (2010-2014: for Aeroflot), Aeronautic (2020), Alfavita (awarded at Paratype K2009), ArtChronika, Artificio (2020), Atlas 1904 (2010), Atmosferico (2019), Barrytone (2005), Basalino (2020), Bort#1 (2000), Bramb (2019), Capitul (2015), CardHolder (1997), Channel (2004-2007: 24-style rectangular family), Chellebrity (2004, screen), DBL Cheque (2009, 22 styles), Cracker (1997), Cubes (2000), DBL Check, Dead Metro (1997, a constructivist family renamed Dead Mementro in 2017), Dicesimo (2019), Do Not Touch (1997), Dotlandino (2020: a dot matrix family), Dream Team (2000), Edgipto (2020), Edicolta (2020), Fabiola (2020), Feidi (2020), First Prize (2016, techno style inspired by Futura Display), Florisel (2020), Formalista (2001, squarish), Gamering (+Sans, 2009: a game font), Garbage (1997), GarbEdge (1997), Garmony (1997), Gibra (2020), Grammatik or Grammatika (1997), Haarddy (2020), HandsOn (1997, children's book font), Hole Down (1997), Ice Cola (2000), Interchargeable (2020: an all caps sans), Kabotage (1998, octagonal), Karkas, Kassa (2002, octagonal), Kren (1998), Laborant (2000), Lavert Noise (1997), Lexica (2010), Libellula (2018: a monoline display sans), Local Xellebrity (2010), Magrit (2020), Matrrolla (2001, octagonal), Medved (2010, angular), Method Two (2016: organic sans), Mnickers, Mono (2000), Monomania (2017), Musor (1997), Odessa 1832, OneCode (1998), Panetteria (2019), Pecorino (2019), Pricelist (2017), Primitiv (1998), Principal (1998-1999), PsyType (2013, an organic sans family done at Letterhead), Quando (2019: deco), Recruit (2004, octagonal), Remont (2000), Romb (2010, a Latin / Cyrillic poster typeface family), Rounded Slab (2009), Rounds (basic dingbats), Samizdat (2019), Silver Winner (2000), Sklad (2000), Soyombo Serif (2020), Soyombo Sans (2020), Stampit (2000), Svyaznoy, Uglaya (2019), Ugloed (2019), Upadok (1997, futuristic), Vestimentarno (2019: rounded sans), WTF Didot (2016, by Valery Golyzhenkov and Letterhead for WTFashion Magazine), WTF Special (2015), YE Stencil (2009), Zanoza (2005), Zaplyv (1997), Zeppelino (2020: a sharp-edged slab serif).

    Paratype link. Dailytype link. Klingspor link. Behance link. Type Tomorrow link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Letterhead Studio VV Fonts
    [Vsevolod Vlasenko]

    Letterhead Studio is located in Moscow. One of its designers is Vsevolod Vlasenko (b. 1981), who graduated from Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry, Master of Design program, in 2005. He is currently located in Prague, where he is senior designer at Live Ocean. He created these typefaces:

    • Dreamland Roman (2008-2009). Curly letters.
    • Unhooked Roman and Johnny The Hook Roman (2008-2009).
    • Bookvarium (2010). A playful didone.
    • Insomnia (2007). A slightly curly almost upright script.
    • Unhooked Cyrillic (2014).
    • Noodle (2014).
    • Light Dreams (2015). A hyper-curly floriated font.
    • Dictio (2018).
    • Artuso (2021). A tall modulated all caps display typeface that Blake Edwards would have used in the Pink Panther series had it been available back then.

    Behance link. His graphic design and photography studio. Live Ocean link (Vilnius, Lithuania). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Letterhead Studio YG
    [Yuri Gordon]

    Letterhead is Yuri Gordon's (b. Moscow, 1958) Moscow-based foundry which publishes mainly Cyrillic fonts. Its coowners are Valery Golyzhenkov and Olga Vassilkova and it was established in 1998. It evolved from Garbage Type Foundry. Not to be confused with Chuck Davis' Letterhead. The main designer is Yuri (or: Jury) Gordon, the Moscow-based designer of the Type Directors Club 1999 award-winning designs Dve Kruglyh and FaRer Cyrillic, available from Paratype. URL at Yakovlev's Foundry. Picture. Article in the Moscow Times (2006), in which he proclaims: Better to make five fun and tasty new display fonts than one old, boring (and you thought it would look fresh!) text font. He is a graphic designer, illustrator, type designer, engraver and copyrighter. He is Art Director of several magazines.

    • Yuri Gordon created AntiQuasi (2008, a nice lightly slabbed serif family), Babaev [1996; inspired by the Russian Art Nouveau typefaces, initially created as a part of a corporate identity programme for Babayevskoye AO of Moscow], Artemius (custom designed family for Art Lebedev Studio), Barrizmo (2004), Bistro (1997, hand-printed), Chantage (2000, handwriting), Conqueror Text, Conqueror Slab and Conqueror Display (large families), Conqueror Sans (2005-2010), Conqueror Text (2005-2010), Costa Brava (2003, fun script described as beach type), Costa Dorada (2003), Dva Probela (1997-1998), Dve Kruglyh (1997, unicase), Excession (1999), FaRer [1994; art deco typeface inspired by the work of Russian graphic artists Vladimir Favorsky (1886-1964) and Ivan Rerberg (1892-1957), especially by Favorsky's lettering of 1924 and by Rerberg's of 1935. Dedicated to the Moscow Underground (Metro). Obtained an award at the 1997 TDC competition], Forward No. 10 (1995-1996), Forward Grotesque No. 9 (1998-2000), Gordoni (his take on Bodoni), GiardyOla (2008-2019), Handy, HotSause (1997, irregular handwriting), Karkas (2004, a manly sans), Little Shift (1999), Method (2002, a sans family), Minusmanscript (1998, calligraphic), Mr. Mixter (2011), Non System (2000), OptiMyst (1997), ResPublicana (1999), Sivtzev Vrazhek (1999, + mono), Michelle (2004, medieval), Naylorville (2004), Probel (1997-1998).
    • Illarion Gordon made the fun fonts Strelochnik (1996, irregular hand), Probbarius (1996), Monte Summa (1997), as well as Rahit (1998, kid's handwriting), Rough (2000, blotchy hand), Simpel (kid's hand), St. Valentin (2001), Accept (1998), Kartofel (2000, irregular handwriting), LangobardR (1999), Ospa (1997, funky handwriting), pLatinum (1999, informal script).
    • Valery Golyzhenkov's fonts from before 2000 are typically destructionist. He made 04.07 (1998), Bort#1 (2000), CardHolder (1997), Chellebrity (2004, screen), Cracker (1997), Cubes (2000), Dead Metro (1997, a constructivist family renamed Dead Mementro in 2017), Do Not Touch (1997), Dream Team (2000), Formalist (2001), Gamering (+Sans, 2009: a game font), Garbage (12997), GarbEdge (1997), Garmony (1997), Grammatika (1997), HandsOn (1997), Hole Down (1997), Hot Sauce (2009, Yuri Gordon), Ice Cola (2000), Kabotage (1998, octagonal), Kassa (2002, octagonal), Kren (1998), Laborant (2000), Lavert Noise (1997), Matrrolla (2001, octagonal), Mono (2000), Musor (1997), OneCode (1998), Primitiv (1998), Principal (1998-1999), Recruit (2004, octagonal), Remont (2000), Rounds (basic dingbats), Silver Winer (2000), Sklad (2000), Stampit (2000), Upadok (1997, futuristic), YE Stencil (2009), Zaplyv (1997), Zanoza (2005).
    • Custom typefaces for companies or special projects: 19oclock (2004, Yuri Gordon: for Vernost Kachestvu confectionery factory), AlfaBank, Always, Anteus, Artemius, Alexey, Atlas-1904, Bat Sans, Bat Roman, Calendarus, Carlis, Cifirki, CTC Screen, Digrol, Digimag, Esquire, Gulliver UTS, Gurmania_MA (2004, handwriting), Hi Afisha, In CaST, Ka, Kater, Komet, Kostro, Lumene Script, N.B.T., Nochnoi Dozor, Odessa, Progress Custom, Redd's, Robb Report New, Rolling Stone 2003, Rolling Stone 2005, Romb (2010), Rosbank Sans, RMA 2006, Salon Script (2007, calligraphic), Salon Antiqua (2007), Seventeen, N.Side, W.Side, Sivtzev Vrazhek, Snickers, Sovereign, STS Vizion, Svyaznoy RF (2008, sans), ToShi, Trust, Whiskas lettering, Zabava.
    • Typefaces and/or lettering from 2007-2009: Barocco Mortale (2005-2007curly script), Barocco Mortale Borders, Alfavita (ornamental caps by Goluzhenkov), Fleurs du Mal (2008, a Baudelarian antiqua, mischievous and decadent), DBL Cheque (by Goluzhenkov), Medved (by Goluzhenkov), YE Stencil (by Goluzhenkov), 21Cent (2009, related to Century; +Cyrillic; +Thin; +Black; advertised as not Century, not Clarendon, this fresh family is sure to win awards), Antiquasi (2008), Around the world, Bazaarban (2009, for Harper's Bazaar), Blacksteel, Citizen M (art deco), EsqGuardi (for Esquire), the curly Naska, with accompanying dingbats Naska Kozliki, the bird dingbats Udo Birdo, and more at Flickr.
    • Production in 2012: Digital October, Red Square (constructivist), Red Ring (art deco sans), Baker Street 221B (anglomane grotesque).
    • In 2013: Clarendorf (a hand-printed spoof on Clarendon), Bonvalet (large x-height sans), Bazaart (an art deco typeface for Harper's Bazaar), The drop-dead gorgeous condensed American slab and sans serif typefaces Mr Palker and Mr Palkerson.
    • Typefaces from 2014: 20 Kopeek (sans family with steampunk influences).
    • Typefaces from 2015: Buffon (a spaghetti Western italian typeface), Mr Palker Dad, Mr Palker Dadson.
    • Typefaces from 2018: Atomic Alice (a simple stocky sans family).

    Author of the acclaimed 384-page book Book of Letters From  to ” (2007, Art. Lebedev Studio).

    Behance link. Art by Yuri. Issuu link. Klingspor link. Behance link for Yuri Gordon. Art Lebedev link.

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    Lev Alborov

    Born in Tskhinvali, South Ossetia, in 1965. In 1982 Alborov graduated from Tskhinvali National High School No.2. He entered the Department of Engineering of the Bauman State Technical University in Moscow (class of 1988). Until 1996 he worked at Tbilisi Aircraft-Building Corporation. Since 1996 Alborov works for the RSO-Alania State Research Center. He gave a license for his type Ger (1998, kaleidoscopic dingbats) to ParaType. This type is based on forms of national Ossetic ornament. Ger won an award at Kyrillitsa '99. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Lev Malanov

    Russian designer with Yelena Tzaregorodtseva of the Antiqua typeface Journal (1951-1953, Polygraphmash type foundry). This was based on Excelsior (1931, Chauncey H. Griffith, Mergenthaler Linotype). Digitized as ParaType Journal in 1994. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Level Up
    [Paul Glazkov]

    Smolensk, Russia-based designer of these fonts in 2019: Wider, Stenciler (a space age stencil font for Latin and Cyrillic), Fairytaler. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Leyli Bal

    Kazan, Russia-based designer of the free Cyrillic typeface Rio (2016), which is unrelated to the typeface used in the Rio 2016 Olympics. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    LHFONTS
    [Olga Lapko]

    Package written in Metafont by Vladimir Volovich, Alexander Berdnikov, Andrey Khodulev and Olga Lapko. Based on Computer Modern and a few other metafont sources, this package covers Cyrillic. As part of Bakoma TeX, the metafont set was converted to type 1 by Basil K. Malyshev using mf2ps. That package now contains 304 type 1 fonts in T2A TeX encoding. The fonts are available in Adobe Type 1 format, in the CM-Super family of fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lilia Chak
    [Gala Studio]

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    Lilla My
    [Ringlet T]

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    Limo Studio
    [Vitaliy Tsygankov]

    Russian codesigner, with Jovanny Lemonad, of the free rounded sans typeface Matias (2016, TypeType). In 2019, he designed the rounded sans typeface Koryaka and the sans family TS Maka. In 2020, he released TS Kirt (with a variable style; a condensed sans family).

    Typefaces from 2022: TS Remarker (a marker pen font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Lina Grin

    Lina Grin (or: Lina Grigorenko, or Alina Grigorenko) is from Moscow, Russia, where she studied at the British Higher School of Art and Design. At that school, she designed the dada paper cutout typeface People Were Here (2011).

    She continued her studies at the University of the Arts London / London College of Communication, where she created the experimental circle-based typeface Sigma (2012), the "cloudy" Sky (2013), he playful Jamze (2013), Lily (2013), and the scratchy typeface Saiko (2013).

    She also created the experimental geometric Latin typeface Zepta (2011), the free modular typeface family Utopia (2015), Loony (2015, a squarish font), Sex Revolution (2015, an icon font), the free circle-based Greko family, and the free compass-and-rular typeface Draw (2015). Currently, Lina is based in London. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lina Shalaeva

    Moscow-based designer of the Cyrillic connect-the-dots typefaces Eyeye (2015) and Fire Sans (2015), which were school projects at HSE Art and Design School. She also created thge colorful blocky typeface TwoPic (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lina Tumarkina

    For her final project in 2015 at the Tagir Safaev Typography School in Moscow, Lina Tumarkina designed Mathilda Bold, a grotesque typeface for Latin and Cyrillic that is modeled after Morris Fuller Benton's Headline Gothic (1936).

    In 2017, she designed the alchemic / hipster typeface Artemis, the ransom font The Many Faces (2017), and the geometric outline typeface Friendly. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lisa Andreeva

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the handcrafted Latin / Cyrillic typeface Joke Type (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lisa Parfyonova

    Saint Petersburg-based designer whose work includes a symbol font family called Four Seasons (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lisa Rasskazova
    [Cyrillicsly]

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    Lisaveta Shcheglova

    Motion designer in Moscow who created the Cyrillic poster typeface CrossType (2015) and the Cyrillic 3d escher-like typeface NevozmozhnyjShrift (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Liudmila Riumina
    [Imperator Kot]

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    Liza Mamonova

    Moscow-based designer of a modular Latin typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Liza Serpinskaya

    During her studies in Moscow, Liza Serpinskaya designed Square Font (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lizon Khokhlov

    Moscow-based designer of an experimental hipster Cyrillic typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lomo Hiber
    [Vladimir Tsagolov]

    Type designer in Volgograd and Saint Petersburg, Russia, who created these display typefaces in 2018: Speedy Space Goat Oddity (a painter's font), Afrik (a hand-painted font inspired by African tribal body art, and drawn with one finger using self-made paint from crushed charcoal), Hubber (a retro signage script font), Stormy Youth (a rebellious marker pen font), Coal Soul, Alza (script), Blobber, Crem (a free futuristic slab serif), and Loscut.

    Typefaces from 2019: Dancin Pixel, Blober, Crem Slab.

    Typefaces from 2020: Petale (an elegant 18-style display family), Fracaso (an abstract or cubist painter's font named after Picasso). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Loya Kiseleva

    Moscow, Russia-based designer of the experimental Cyrillic typefaces Tabouret (2019) and Paintings&ElementsByABogomazov (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lubov Kudrinskaya

    Codesigner with Jovanny Lemonad and Oleg Nobr in 2008 of Nobr1, a free Cyrillic round informal face, as well as Nobr2 and the art deco Cyrillic typeface Nobr3. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Luiza Gasparyan
    [Umbra95]

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    Lurex Design
    [Alexander Samburov]

    Alexander Samburov at Lurex Design is the Russian designer (b. 1965) of the Cyrillic version of Pecmyc Festus, by Steve Lundeen. Other Cyrillizations of well-known fonts: Calligrapher, Demian (based on the Letraset version), Flemish Script, Rapier, Stonehenge, Victorian, Vityaz, VivaldiD, Acadian, Battlefield, Chauser, Romvel. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lyubov Alexeyevna Kuznetsova

    Moscow-based type, graphic and book designer (b. Tula, 1928, d. Moscow, 2008). In 1951, after her graduation from Moscow Printing Institute, she joined the type design team of VNII Polygraphmash, and worked there for forty years as a designer, head of the design department, and chief of the oriental type design unit. From 1992 until her death, she was a staff designer at ParaType, Moscow. Kuznetsova specialized in Arabic type design, but also created many Cyrillic and Latin typefaces. Speaker at ATypI 1998 in Lyon on Arabic type design in Russia. Recipient of many design awards and distinctions such as a citation for design excellence for PT Kufi, at the TDC2 1998. CV at bukvaraz. Russian bio. URW link. Obituary at TDC. Her typefaces:

    • Arabic type, often designed in cooperation with the Persian calligraphers Azarbud and Zarrin Hatt and other calligraphers from Egypt and Lebanon. Her typeface PTMariam (1994) is showcased in Huda Smitshijzen AbiFarès' book "Arabic Typography" (Saqi Books, 2001). Other Arabic typefaces: Cairo (1959-1960), Naskhi Aswani (1960), Naskhi Book (1962), Kuznetsova's Ruqaa (1963), Azarbud Display (1972), Zarrin Hatt (1972), Vostok (1972), Kuznetsova's Abridge (1974), Beyrouth (1977), Grot (1977), PT Mariam (1994), PT Hafiz (1994), PT Naskh Ahmad (1994), PT Basra (1994, based on her own Grot typeface), PT Damascus (1994; based on Beirouth, 1977, of Polygraphmash, also by her), PT Nast'aliq (1995), PT Thuluth (1995), and PT Kufi (1997, ParaType), winner of an award at the Type Directors Club in New York in February 1998.
    • Cyrillic typefaces:
      • ParaType Academy (1989). Academy was designed near 1910 at the Berthold type foundry (St.-Petersburg) based on the typeface Sorbonna (H. Berthold, Berlin, 1905), which represented the American Typefounders' reworking Cheltenham of 1896 (designers Berthram G. Goodhue, Morris F. Benton) and Russian typefaces of the middle of 18th century. The modern digital version is created in 1989 by Kuznetsova. The decorative style was added in 1997 by A.Tarbeev. Tarbeev link.
      • Bannikovskaya (1946-1951) was revived by Kuznetsova as ParaType Bannikova (1999-2001). Designed at Polygraphmash type design bureau in 1946-51 by Galina Bannikova, inspired by Russian Grazhdansky early- and mid-18th century typefaces as well as Roman humanist typefaces of the Renaissance. URW states: With the archaic features of some characters the typeface is well recognized because of unique shapes. It is one of the best original typefaces of the Soviet typography. The typeface is useful in text and display composition, in fiction and art books. The revised, improved and completed digital version was designed at ParaType in 2001 by Lyubov Kuznetsova.
      • ParaType Bazhanov (2000). URW writes: "PT Bazhanov TM was designed at Polygraphmash type design bureau in 1961 by Michael Rovensky (1902-1996). Based on the lettering by Moscow book designer Dmitry Bazhanov (1902-1945). Old-fashioned flavor of this design recreates the Soviet hand-lettering style of the 1940s. For use in title and display typography. The digital version was developed for ParaType in 2001 by Lyubov Kuznetsova." Paratype link.
      • ParaType Elizabeth (1999). A great modern typeface about which URW writes: "The hand composition typeface was developed at the Ossip Lehmann type foundry (St. Petersburg) in 1904-07 (after designs by Alexander Leo?). It was redeveloped at Polygraphmash in 1960s for slugcasting composition. Named after Russian Empress Elizabeth I (1709-61). Based on typefaces of George Revillon type foundry of the 1840s, though some characters' shapes were redrawn similar to Russian Academy of Sciences typefaces (mid-18th century). Sharp contrast, strong weight Modern Serif with archaic flavor. The typeface is useful in text and display composition, in fiction, historical, and art books, especially connected to the 18th or 19th centuries. It looks great in Russian classical literature such as Pushkin and Gogol works. The revised, improved and completed digital version was designed at ParaType in 2001 by Lyubov Kuznetsova." Paratype link.
      • ParaType Kuzanyan (2001). This modern typeface was designed at the Design Studio of Igor Nastenko by Igor Nastenko, and was based on Granit (1966, Pavel Kuzanyan). Digitized at Paratype in 2001.
      • ParaType Literaturnaya (1996), after a 1937 original by A. Shchukin and T. Breyev. URW writes about this Elzevir typeface: Designed at NII OGIZ type design bureau circa 1940. Based on Latinskaya (St.-Petersburg, 1901), Cyrillic version of Lateinische. The digital version was developed at ParaType in 1996 by Lyubov Kuznetsova. The favorite text typeface of Soviet typography. Allen Hutt writes in A revolution in Russian typography (Penrose Annual, Volume 61. New York: Hastings House, 1968): The survival of this De Vinne-style type, from the worst design period of old Imperial Germany, in the premier Socialist country in the latter part of the twentieth century, is a typographical phenomenon as unique as it is deplorable.
      • ParaType Neva (2002). URW: "Neva Regular with Italic was created by Moscow book and type designer Pavel Kuzanyan (1901-1992) at Polygrafmash in 1970 for slugcasting and display composition. Based on simple strict letterforms of Russian classical typefaces. Neva typeface was rewarded on the Gutenberg international type design contest in 1971 (Leipzig). The typeface is useful in text and display composition, in fiction and art books. The digital version and bold styles were designed for ParaType in 2002 by Lyubov Kuznetsova."
      • ParaType New Journal (1997). Antiqua family. URW: "The typeface was designed at the Polygraphmash type design bureau in 1951-53 by Lev Malanov, Elena Tsaregorodtseva et al. Based on Cyrillic version of Excelsior, 1931, of Mergenthaler Linotype, by Chauncey H. Griffith. Excelcior Cyrillic was developed in 1936 in Moscow by Professor Michael Shchelkunov, Nikolay Kudryashev et al. A low-contrast text typeface of the Ionic - "Legibility" group."
      • ParaType Quant Antiqua (1989). Antiqua family. URW: The typeface was designed at the Polygraphmash type design bureau in 1989 by Lyubov Kuznetsova. Based on the typeface Literanutnaya (Latinskaya) (Berthold, St.-Petersburg, 1901), a version of Lateinisch typeface (of Berthold in Berlin, 1899. For use in text matter.
      • ParaType Svetlana (1996). Antiqua family. URW: "Designed in 1976-81 by Michael Rovensky (1902-1996) as the body text companion of his Bazhanov Display typeface (1961), of Polygraphmash type foundry. Based on the lettering by Moscow book designer Dmitry Bazhanov (1902-1945). With old-fashioned flavor, this design recreates the Soviet hand-lettering style of the 1940s. The digital version was developed at ParaType in 1996 by Lyubov Kuznetsova."
      • ParaType Telingater Display (2001). Elegant display family based on Telingater Display, by Solomon Telingater, 1959, Polygraphmash. URW: "The typeface was awarded the Silver Medal at the International Book Art Exhibition (IBA-59) at Leipzig (Germany) in 1959. Light flared sans serif with calligraphic flavor and low contrast between main strokes and hairlines."
      • ParaType Xenia (1990). Heavy slab serif. Paratype link.
      • ParaType Xenia Western (1992). Condensed version of the Egyptian typeface Xenia.
      • She made a Cyrillic version of ITC Bookman (1993).
    • Paratype Bachenas (2003), after work by Violdas Bachenas.
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    Lyubov Kuznetsova
    [Academy]

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    Lyubov Solovieva

    Moscow-based designer of several alphabets in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Lyudmila Mikhailova

    Russian calligrapher. Milanette is a set of 74 original vignettes and flourishes designed by her and released in 2011 by Paratype. She also made the flower dingbat font Milafleur (2011).

    In 2011, she published her calligraphic script Millettre at Paratype. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Madam Saffa
    [Alena Marusena]

    Alena Marusena (Madam Saffa, Russia) designed the watercolor brush typeface watercolor Alphabet (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Made Type
    [Maxim Schepin]

    Maxim and Denis Schepin are the Krasnoyarsk, Russia-based designers of these fonts:

    • The free Latin / Cyrillic typeface Barista (2017).
    • Made Winter (2017).
    • Good Time Grotesk (2017), Good Time Script (2017).
    • Made The Artist (2017), The Artist Script (2017), The Artist Sans (2017). Free download.
    • The free Made Waffle Slab (2017) and Made Waffle Soft (2017).
    • The free pair Made Likes Script (2017) and Made Likes Slab (2017).
    • Evolve Sans (Latin and Cyrillic), 2018. A free ten-style futuristic typeface family.
    • Made Bruno (2018). A yummy fashionable fat decorative didone.
    • Made Cannes (2018). A free all caps Peignotian typeface family.
    • Made Canvas (2018). A great fashion mag typeface with lots of elegant contrast.
    • Made Future X and Made Future X Header (2018). Free for personal use.
    • Made Soulmaze (2019).
    • Kenfolg (2019). A wedge serif titling typeface.
    • Made Coachella (2019). A didone without ball terminals.
    • Made Saonara (2019). A fashion mag all caps didone. Free trial.
    • Made Florence Sans and Script (2019).
    • Made Sunflower (2019).
    • Made Dillan (2019). A free warm yummy-yet-sturdy rounded typeface.
    • Made Mirage (2020). A fashionable typeface family. Free demo.
    • Made Outer Sans (2019).
    • Made Bon Voyage (2020).
    • Made Tommy and Made Tommy Soft (2020).
    • Made Gentle (2020). A plump poster typeface inspired by Cooper Black.
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    Madina Turchaninova

    Art director in Moscow. In 2017, she designed the experimental Cyrillic hipster typeface Algay. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maganet
    [Roman Maganet]

    Russian designer and engineer based in Moscow. In 2021, he released the 4-style display sans typeface Strogino (Latin and Cyrillic). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Maiia Ivanskaia

    Illustrator in Saint Petersburg, Russia, who designed the handcrafted typeface Betulla (2018) and the color font Funny (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mailart.ru

    Russian type blogs. Another type blog there. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maks Barbulovic

    Maks Barbulovic studied communication design at the Hochschule Düsseldorf (Germany), and participated in an internship program at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Art et de Design in Nancy (France). At Type Tomorrow, he published the dot matrix typeface Dusseldot (2020) together with Ilya Bazhanov. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maks Bogatyrev

    Russian designer of Garnitura Hand, a readable hand-printed set of Latin and Cyrillic characters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mallinka
    [Marina Panfilova]

    Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia-based designer of the handcrafted typefaces Play With Me (2017, a children's book font family), Teddy Bear (2017, furry-textured) and Fresh Monday (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Manvel Shmavonyan

    Moscow-based Armenian type designer (b. 1960, Artashat, Armenia) and graphic artist. In 1984 graduated from the Moscow Poligraphic Institute, department of Polygraphic Product Design. He worked for the Type Department of Committee of Print in Yerevan, and for the publishing houses Ayastan, Luys and Sovetakan Grokh. At Microsoft's request, in 1999, he was consulted for the Armenian section of the Sylfaen project.

    Creator of PT Margarit Armenian and Asmik (1997, Armenian, based on PT Petersburg, 1992, by Vladimir Yefimov), available from ParaType, where he is an active type designer. These fonts won awards from the Type Directors Club in 1999.

    At ParaType, he also published Propisi Cyrillic + western (1997, a school script family), PT Henman Pictograms (2001, based on Armenian ornaments revived by Henrik Mnatsakanyan), Cooper BT (2000, a Cyrillic version of the Bistream family by the same name), Henman Western, Karolla Western (2002, art nouveau face, based on an alphabet of Lucian Bernhard, 1912), Zagolovochnaya Western (2002, based on a Caslon model from 1725), Haverj Western (2004, flared mini-serifed typeface with an f and a j ready for the paralympics), PT Margarit (1997, based on PT Bodoni by A. Tarbeev), Bardi (2004, Paratype, an extra compressed decorative stenciled typeface based on the lettering created in 1970s by the Armenian type designer Henrik Mnatsakanyan (1923-2001)), Haverj (2004, Paratype, also based on Mnatsakanyan's work), and PT Noah (1997, to accompany Tagir Safayev's PT FreeSet, 1992).

    Asmik, and Humanist 531 Cyrillic (the latter co-designed with Isay Slutsker) won awards at Bukvaraz 2001.

    In 2007, he designed the text and display family Susan (Paratype; award winner at Paratype K2009), which was named after his wife. Award winner at Granshan 2008.

    In 2010, he designed the Ripe Apricot humanist sans family (ParaType). Narevik (2011, Paratype) is a dynamic low contrast design with slightly rounded triangle serifs.

    In 2011, he created the free Google Web Font Marmelad, meant for headlines.

    Jacques Francois and Jacques Francois Shadow (2012, Cyreal) were co-designed with Alexei Vanyashin. They are revivals of the Enschedé no. 811 type specimen (ca. 1760) by Jacques François Rosart (1714-1774), made for Enschedé Printing House. Free at Google Web Fonts.

    Typefaces from 2013: Vaccine (a slab serif family, ParaType). This was followed in 2014 by the humanist Vaccine Sans (2014, with the help of Alexandra Korolkova and Gayaneh Bagdasaryan).

    In 2015, he made Levnam (ParaType), a sans with wide proportions for small text.

    In 2016, Alexander Lubovenko and Manvel Shmavonyan co-designed the 30-style Latin / Cyrillic workhorse sans typeface family Mediator, which was followed in 2017 by Mediator Serif.

    In 2018, Alexandra Korolkova and Manvel Shmavonyan designed Fact at Paratype. Fact is based on Frutiger. The fact type system contains 48 upright styles with variations in width and weight and eight italics of normal width.

    Vast (2021, Paratype) is a 56-style sans family, with three variable fonts, by Manvel Shmavonyan and Alexander Lubovenko. Choices are from thin to black and regular to extra wide.

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    Marath Salychow

    Marath Salychow (b. 1980) is the Moscow-based designer of the free typefaces Alhueia (2001, for Greek) and Akademie Alte (2016, for Latin and Cyrillic; based on a Berthold original from 1910).

    In 2017, he designed the free typeface Literaturnaya, which is modeled after Anatoly Schtschukin's Literaturnaya (1936). He also made the free didone typeface Chekhovskoy that year, after the Elizavetinskaya typeface (1904, Lehmann foundry, Saint Petersburg).

    Typefaces from 2018: Elisabethische (after Jelisawethinskaja, 1904, Lehmann Foundry), MGA (a great Latin / Cyrillic Garamond), Akademitscheskaya (a revival of the Akademitscheskaya Berthold Garnitur from 1910).

    Typefaces from 2019: Kornilow. A free didone-Baskerville hybrid for Latin and Cyrillic, named after White Army general Lawr Georgijewitsch Kornilow.

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    Margarita D

    Moscow-based designer of various Cyrillic typefaces in brush or German expressionist styles (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Margarita Semenova

    Graphic designer and illustrator in Moscow, who created the Cyrillic Street Font, the experimental Tokyo Brief Cyrillic, and Olympic Pictograms in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mari Po

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the postmodernist neo deco decorative caps alphabet Memphis (2017). Shutterstock link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Catary

    Magnitogorsk, Russia-based designer of the handcrafted typeface Bright Sugar (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Cherevan

    Russian designer of the free grungy brush typeface Kosmos (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Danilova
    [The inkpot fonts]

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    Maria Dolgich

    Maria Dolgich (Tomsk, Russia) created Astron (2013), a constellation connect-the-dots typeface, and the chromatic pixelish typeface Zoom Zoom Stage (2013). In 2015, she designed the chromatic typeface Jazzy, and in 2016 the 3d typeface Open Space and the experimental typefaces Sever and Ellipse.

    In 2017, she added the variable width typeface More Or Less. In 2018, she developed the semi-pixel font Antipode and the slinky Gradient. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Doreuli
    [Contrast Type Foundry (or: CoFo)]

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    Maria Kharlamova
    [Maria Selezeneva]

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    Maria Kirilina

    Tula, Russia-based designer of a Cyrillic logotype in 2015 that ended up in the logo of the city of Cherdin. She also designed the grungy brush typeface Grange (sic) (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Kotciurzhinskaia

    Russian designer of frilly and flowery decorations. She created the vintage calligraphic font Victoria's Letters in 2015 (Latin). Aka Fleur Art. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Levina

    Illustrator in Moscow who made the decorative caps alphabet ABC Body Language (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Luarvik

    Type designer from Bryansk, Russia, b. 1982. Creator of the hand-printed poster typeface Blooming (2012) and accompanying ornamental typeface called Blooming Deco (2012, Gaslight).

    In 2013, she published Kiddy (a children's book font, Gaslight), the hand-drawn caps typeface Clumsy (Gaslight) and the bouncy Latin / Cyrillic cartoon font Bully Girl (with Valery Zaveryaev, Gaslight), which comes with the dingbat typeface Bully Kids.

    In 2014, Valery Zaveryaev and Maria Luarvik co-designed the heavy counterless angular typeface Dotee at Gaslight. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Mizeritskaya

    Codesigner with Jovanny Lemonad (Ivan Gladkikh) of the constructivist Latin / Cyrillic typeface TT Bricks (2016). See also the commercial version of TT Bricks. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Olkhovik

    Moscow-based designer of the decorative caps typeface The Body Language (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Polikarpova

    Moscow-based designer of the Latin / Cyrillic display typeface Kosmos (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Rodigina

    Graphic designer in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Creator of the Latin / Cyrillic school project typeface Rudiger (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Sabotage

    Designer in Moscow who runs Sabotage Design Studio. Behance link. Creator of the grungy spindly Cracked Font (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Selezeneva
    [Maria Kharlamova]

    Moscow-based type designer, known first as Maria Selezeneva, and then as Maria Kharlamova. In 2014, she cooperated with Alexandra Korolkova on a revamped Journal Sans typeface at Paratype, called Journal Sans New (Latin and Cyrillic). This is a major extension as explained by Paratype:

    The Journal Sans typeface was developed in the Type Design Department of SPA of Printing Machinery in Moscow in 1940-1956 by the group of designers under Anatoly Shchukin. It was based on Erbar Grotesk by Jacob Erbar and Metro Sans by William A. Dwiggins, the geometric sans-serifs of the 1920s with the pronounced industrial spirit. Journal Sans, Rublenaya (Sans-Serif), and Textbook typefaces were the main Soviet sans-serifs. So no wonder that it was digitized quite early, in the first half of 1990s. Until recently, Journal Sans consisted of three typefaces and retained all the problems of early digitization, such as inaccurate curves or side-bearings copied straight from metal-type version. The years of 2013 and 2014 made "irregular" geometric sans-serifs trendy, and that fact affected Journal Sans. In the old version curves were corrected and the character set was expanded by Olexa Volochay. In the new release, besides minor improvements, a substantial work has been carried out to make the old typeface work better in digital typography and contemporary design practice. Maria Selezeneva significantly worked over the design of some glyphs, expanded the character set, added some alternatives, completely changed the side-bearings and kerning. Also, the Journal Sans New has several new typefaces, such as true italic (the older font had slanted version for the italic), an Inline typeface based on the Bold, and the Display typeface with proportions close to the original Erbar Grotesk. The new version of Journal Sans, while keeping all peculiarities and the industrial spirit of 1920s-1950s, is indeed fully adapted to the modern digital reality. It can be useful either for bringing historical spirit into design or for modern and trendy typography, both in print and on screen.

    Her second project from 2014 was Stem, a geometric large x-height Latin / Cyrillic sans serif with optical sizing co-designed with Alexandra Korolkova and Isabella Chaeva at Paratype. This was followed in 2015 by Stem Text.

    Still in 2014, she designed Yefimov Serif: Yefimov Serif is a contemporary serif face, with low contrast, squarish shapes of round glyphs and emphasized businesslike nature. It is one of the last original typefaces by Vladimir Yefimov. Yefimov Serif will suit perfectly for business texts, periodicals and corporate identity.

    In 2017, she designed a very heavy (Latin) octagonal typeface, and the utilitarian sans typeface family Ida (2017, Paratype). Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Skopina

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based calligrapher and graphic artist, b. 1986, Ryazan. Graduate of the Ryazan Art College (2006), the Institute of Arts and Crafts (St. Petersburg) (2012) and St. Petersburg State University (2014: MA in art history). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Smageor

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the free handcrafted brush typeface Drunk Monday (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Sophia

    Graduate of Moscow State University of Printing Arts. Graphic designer in Moscow, who published the handcrafted Cyrillic typeface Razgulay (2017), a fun decorative font for grain holding. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maria Yurina
    [Insane Fonts (or: Heather Insane)]

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    Marina Apevalina

    Moscow-based designer of the Cyrillic potato font Potato Font Sunset (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marina Bakhireva

    Russian type designer who created the dynamic hand-printed typeface Freaky (2009, Paratype). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Marina Danilevskaya

    Moscow-based graphic designer. Creator of Lirom (2013, a very thin Cyrillic display face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marina Gredina

    Moscow-based designer of the Clarendon style typeface Nerso (2019) for Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marina Hvo

    Krasnoyarsk, Russia-based designer of Circus Font (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marina Hvo

    Krasnoyarsk, Russia-based designer of the dadaist HVO script (2014, Latin and Cyrillic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marina Kalinskova

    Tolyatti, Russia-based designer of the nihilist Cyrillic typeface Malevich (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marina Karlova

    Novosibirsk, Siberia-based designer of the watercolor brush script Sillyserif (2017), the quill script Arfa Quill (2017), the calligraphic Siberius (2017), the brush signage typeface Signifique (2017), and the rough but attractive handwriting font Adjika (2017).

    Aka Lissius. Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marina Khodak

    As a student at TypeType Education, Marina Khodak designed the rounded slab serif typeface Splash (2016-2017). She joined TypeType after these studies. In 2018, Ivan Gladkikh, Alexander Kirillov, Philipp Nurullin, Vika Usmanova, Marina Khodak, and Nadyr Rakhimov published TT Severs. 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. 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.

    In 2020, Marina Khodak and Anna Tikhonova co-designed TT Marxiana (TypeType). It is an attempt to reconstruct a set of pre-revolutionary fonts that were used in the layout of the Niva magazine, published by the St. Petersburg publishing house A.F. Marx, and includes antiqua, grotesque and elzevir styles.

    In 2020, she was part of the Type Type team that designed TT Ramillas, a 20-style high contrast transitional serif by Pavel Emelyanov, Marina Khodak, Yulia Gonina and Kseniya Karataeva. TT Ramillas also contains variable styles.

    In 2021, she designed the thin roman capital lettering typeface TT Ricordi Fulmini which was inspired by an inscription on the altar in the National Gallery of Umbria in Perugia. Still in 2021, she co-designed TT Commons Classic (a 24-style geometric sans by Ivan Gladkikh, the TypeType Team, Pavel Emelyanov and Marina Khodak; it includes two variable fonts). Near the end of 2021, she published TT Rationalist (a 22-style slab serif with accompanying variable fonts). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Marina Koroleva

    During her studies in Saint Petersburg, Russia, in 2015, Marina Koroleva created several display typeface such as Convex, Feature, Destruction. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marina Panfilova
    [Mallinka]

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    Marina Sozonova
    [Redcollegiya]

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    Marina Tsacheeva

    Russian illustrator of fantastic posters. She created a beautiful animal alphabet called 33 Bukashki (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marina Zakynian

    During her graphic design stuies in Moscow, Marina Zakynian created the serifed text typeface family Hernan (2013) for Latin and Cyrillic. For the development of this low-contrast typeface, she started from a Venetian model. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mariya Butyrina

    Moscow-based designer of a connect-the-dots typeface in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mariya Domnikova

    Aka Marusya Chaika. Monino, Russia-based designer of the free Latin / Cyrillic script typeface Marutya (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mariya Gotovko

    Type designer in Saint Petersburg, Russia, who created an untitled Tuscan Cyrillic typeface in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mariya Sych

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the blackletter-style Cyrillic font Bekar (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mark Chernyshev Gelendzhik

    As part of Kiosk Works (or: Playfaces Type foundry) in Moscow, Russia, Mark Chernyshev Gelendzhik designed the modular Latin / Cyrillic typeface Cutter (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Marusya Strange

    Moscow-based designer of the Cyrillic potato print font Pogreb (2019) and the finger-painted Plemya (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mary Egorova

    Moscow-based foundry which designed the folded paper typeface Tranglego (2009), a modular triangle-based font made in Tagir Safayev's workshop at the Higher Academic School of Graphic Design, Moscow. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Mary Komary

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based graphic and icon designer. In 2017, she published various sets of icons, including Sign System and Travel Icons. She also designed the outlined decorative caps typeface Vladivostok (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mary Komary

    Based in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Mary Komary designed a decorative architectural all caps typeface depicting the city of Vladivostok (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mary Tolstova

    Moscow-based designer of a couple of decorative caps alphabets for Milk magazine (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Masha Bardak

    Moscow-based designer of Rbichigy Mashbin (2015), a squarish computer emulation typeface that was inspired by the music of the Russian punk-rock band. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Masha Barsukova

    During her studies in Moscow, Marsha Barsukova designed Monstro (2013, monster dingbats) and Makaka (2013, an African-themed typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Masha Chuprova

    Irkutsk, Siberia-based designer of the sharp-serifed ink-trapped Latin typeface Rude (2016). Free download. In 2019, she published the all caps sans typeface Salt. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Masha Er

    Designer in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 2016, she created the handcrafted typeface Shy Pincess. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Masha Fedorovskaya

    Moscow-based creator of the grid-based typeface Insecta (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Masha Kaloshina

    Russian designer of Forest, an all caps font with exquisite trees. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Masha Nickol

    Moscow, Russia-based designer of a scribbly Cyrillic display typeface (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Masha Oborina

    Perm, Russia-based designer in 2019 of the script typefaces maryland, Underhand, Henrietta, Funny Berliner, Ellegia, Passenger, Lassitude, Plumeria, Teodorra, Impressia, Vulpecula and Malligum. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Masha Solyankina

    Moscow-based designer of the display typeface Hunt Type (2012), for Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Masha Tamgina

    Russian creator of the experimental typeface Quartz (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Matthew Grouss

    Director, graphic, motion and type designer, b. 1995 in Moscow. He graduated from MGHPA (Faculty of Graphic Design of the Stroganov Academy) in 2018.

    In 2022, Matthew Grouss, Ksenia Churilova and Pavel Nevsky released the 16-weight constructivist typeface Nowar, a variable typeface that features Latin, Cyrillic and Hebrew scripts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Max Kuzhegetov
    [Max Kuzhegetov, Mikhail Rul, and Larisa Shibarova]

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    Max Kuzhegetov, Mikhail Rul, and Larisa Shibarova
    [Max Kuzhegetov]

    Together, Moscow-based Max Kuzhegetov [Behance link], Mikhail Rul [Behance link], and Larisa Shibarova created the Cyrillic DangerFont (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Max Lukashevich

    Moscow-based designer of the bitmap typeface Taylor (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Max Orloff
    [Pen Art]

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    Maxim Avdeev
    [Amazingmax]

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    Maxim Eroshev

    Russian designer of these typefaces in 2019: Vesievi, Soceri (for sports shirts), Rocari (cartoon style), Playlomer (blackletter), Emporia (monoline script), Driona, Dirjen, Clelia (monoline sans), Botote (dry brush), Aniies (a painted font).

    Typefaces from 2020: Velin, Trazos, Tiret (a display typeface), Shaana, Sator, Sarim, Rumci, Icones (sans), Graves, Fogli, Encart, Dinter, Delies, Calcos, Bisel, Bayon, Arkens, Abaco. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maxim Kirkin

    Russian designer (b. 1997) of the free octagonal typeface Shaffron (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maxim Krasheninnikov

    Kirov, Russia-based designer. In 2020, Maxim Krasheninnikov and Sergey Vasenin co-designed the free painted letter font Maler, the display and brush pair Karlo Cham, and the octagonal typeface dead Author. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maxim Plekhov

    Russian graphic designer (b. 1993, Kirov) who starting creating typefaces in 2020. In 2021, he released Black Barbwire. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Maxim Raikov

    Russian designer of the free Latin / Cyrillic serif typeface Daray (2021), the free dystopian font Izax (2021), the free Latin / Cyrillic display font Arounder (2021), and the display typefaces Neversmile (2021: octagonal), DacikPush (2021: octagonal), Vlashu (2021: a paperclip font), Inverkrug (2021), Fontick (2020) and Connections+Order (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maxim Schepin
    [Made Type]

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    Maxim Shtok

    Moscow, Russia-based designer of the straight-edged Latin / Cyrillic display typeface XYZ (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Maxim Zhukov

    Maxim Zhukov (b. Moscow, 1943) specializes in multilingual typography. He was a typographic coordinator for the United Nations in New York from 1977 until 2003. Solomon Telingater was one of his mentors. Early on, he designed some typefaces such as Meandr (1972). He taught at the Moscow Printing Institute in 1984-1985, and at the British School of Art and Design in Moscowand is affiliated with the Type Directors Club and ATypI. He now teaches at Parsons School of Design in New York. He also taught a course on advanced typography at The Cooper Union, also New York.

    Alternate URL. He co-authored (with George Sadek, who died in 2007) Typography: Polyglot (1991) and its second edition, Typographia Polyglotta (1997). Bio in Russian. Maxim lives in the Bronx.

    Codesigner with John Hudson, Joshua Darden, Eben Sorkin, and Viktoriya Grabowska, of Omnes Cyrillic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Maya Lagunova

    Perm, Russia and/or Plzen, Czechia-based designer of the script typefaces La Femme (2015) and Annabel (2015), and the handcrafted typeface Winter Time (2015).

    In 2016, she designed the brush script typeface Alice Morning and Martha Script.

    In 2017, she designed Heartless Script. Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Media Lab (or: Dima Evans)
    [Dmitriy Chirkov]

    In 2015, Dmitriy Chirkov (or: D.C. Store, or: Media Lab, or: Dima Evans, located in Moscow) created the brush typefaces Lovehearts, Cascade, Foliage, Something Wild, Pepper Mint, Summertime (watercolor brush), Breathe, Starshine Script, Seashore (an attractive dry brush style), The Moment, Cupcake, Anemone, Water, Adventurer, Sweet Brush, You & Me, Beverly Script, Sabrina, Onevia, Andrea and Dreamboat. He also created the Treefrog-style gonzo script typeface Sileighty and the handcrafted typefaces Scratchy, Julia's Dream, Begonia, Matryoshka (handcrafted Cyrillic sans) and Simpleton.

    Typefaces from 2016: Anabella Script, Adventure (script), Mericella (calligraphic), Gracia (calligraphic), Joshico, Lauren (a free script font), Journey (brush script), Angelica (calligraphic), Angelica Sans, Alphabet Pony (brushed and calligraphic), Lavanda (script), Obsidian (calligraphic), Cotasia (calligraphic script), Reconsider (calligraphic script), Pechenka, September (brush script), Happy Life, Melina (brush script), Sensation (brush script), Carolina (calligraphic script), Cortney (connected script), Just Love Script, Aerostat, Starbright, Watchtower, Hey Baby, Modern Magic, Cornflower (calligraphic), Guatemala, Flashlight Display, Johana (brush script), Wild Berry, Dearhearts, Sladosti Cyrillic, Sweethearts, Evergreen, Honeyflower.

    Typefaces from 2017: Vintage Beauty, Elusive Dream Monoline, Dear Sister, Battery, Tasty Morsel Script, Aareata script, Marcypan, Sevilia script, Virtual, Yolanda script, Majesta, Marmale, Alemeta, Midnight Rose, ML Tokyo Aurora, Fortune Script, Afterlight, Janges (wide calligraphic script), Bloom Skirt (thick brush script), Rumba Script, Together Script, Reflection, Serpentine, Lafesta (signage script), Cretina (a great monoline connected script), Flashlight, Charmel, Lupitta Script, Miss Hippie, Aivengo Script, Hello Wedding, Dust Cloud, Lovely Script, Snowdrop (script), Caviar (brush script), Fieldfare (upright connected brush script), Hello Wedding, Kiwami (brush script), Jemmy, Sallie (brush style), Cartina (a great painter's brush script), Loreal Script.

    Typefaces from 2018: Hamilton Signature Script, Charme Script, Orchard Trees, Silver Lake, Luisa Script, Mignon, Jingle, Ludwig, Oh November, Switch, Rozovii Chulok, Zumiez, Peach Cream, Going Black (SVG font), Tomato Soup (free), Indian, Shadow, Emitha, Sophies Script, Juster, Felora (script), Almost (SVG brush font), Golden, Starshine, Puzzled (free), Moon Time, The Breakfast Club, Fortuna Script, Malloy, Jenson, Something, Saint Jerome Script, Femen, Fortune Script, Hollens.

    Typefaces from 2019: Blushed, Boho Rose, Lush Blooms, Spring Blush, Catalina, Jessey, Shaley, Puzzled, Radio Volna, Brigitte, Roelle, One Feather, Spring Blush, Europia (script), Rosalina (SVG font), Joyce, Lussia, Shaelie, Maelie, Honey and Ginger, Joleigh.

    Typefaces from 2020: Love Planet, Autumn Mittens (a paper cutout font), Your Favorite Pencil, Other Pen, Pear Shaped (handcrafted letters) Somewhere, Autumn Scarf (a children's book font), Moving Formula, Mixture, Aventure, Golden Light, After Hours, Letters and Roses, Fast Lane, Rosegold, Gentle Touch. Tenderly, Alaya Roza, Herbal Infusion, Mister Gordon, Bergamotte, Avenia (wild calligraphy), Jelly Cloud, Sunstone, Rosestone, Sweet Josefine, Second Song (script).

    Typefaces from 2021: Magique (a delicate fashion mag serif), Wonder Magnolia (a bold display serif), Wairel (a stylish miniserif), Daisy Flowers (a scrapbook script), Local Media (script), Delightful Monoline (script), Hallo Queen (a Halloween font), Magic Charm (a scrapbook script), Bloodred (a dripping blood font), Hello Georgia Script (an upright script), Panoramic (handcrafted), Vishenka (script), Strawberry Monday (a fat finger script), Earthboy (a scrapbook script), Martin+Hellen (emulating handwriting), Pretty Letters, Ricardo Montero, Goldwings (script), Sugar Melon (script), Pink Bottom (script), Loneliness (script), Astronal (a monolinear script).

    Typefaces from 2022: Oregon Highlights (a bold display sans), Mint Monday (a scrapbook script), The Kitchen (a melting chocolate font), Sunrays (a display serif), Movere (a stylish sans), Radellin (lapidary).

    Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Memory.rsl

    Archive of full scans of many old Cyrillic texts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mepoyd Ptyo

    Russian designer of (the Cyrillic version of) Blaze. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Merete Studio

    Novosibirsk, Siberia-based designer of the script typeface Funny Cupid (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    MetaType

    From its developer, Serge Vakulenko: "Metatype is a set of utilities and scripts for creating TrueType fonts using Metafont language. It also includes two font families, named TeX and TeX Math, based on the D. Knuth's Computer Modern fonts, but extended with Greek, Cyrillic and other characters. Metatype and TeX fonts can be used under the GPL license." The TeX family consists of TeXBold, TeXBoldItalic, TeXItalic, TeXMono, TeXMonoItalic, TeXMath, TeXMathBold, TeXMathBoldItalic, TeXMathItalic, TeXNarrow, TeX, TeXSans, TeXSansBold, TeXSansBoldItalic, TeXSansItalic, TeXWide. It comes in TTF and BDF formats. Free software in pre-alpha development, for Windows and X11/UNIX/Linux. The code is in C and Python. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Michael Ageev

    Russian designer of BedrockCyr after an original by Corel. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Michael Chereda
    [BrightHead Studio]

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    Michael Chernykh

    Art director in Moscow who made a custom display face for Lauren Coffee Dark Chocolate in 2017. Behane link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Michael Golovachev
    [Scorpy Design Studio]

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    Michael Gorenshtein

    designer, at Art Lebedev, of the curvy Latin / Cyrillic display sans typeface Kalamos (2019). He writes: Kalamos is a display typeface with reverse contrast characteristic of traditional Hebrew faces based on the Middle Easter calligraphy which employed qalam, a specially sharpened pen made of reed. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Michail Kishkarev

    Moscovite creator of the geometric experimental typefaces Karlygash (2013, free) and Mignon (2013, Cyrillic). In 2017, he designed the Cyrillic poster typeface Christmas Kotor (2017), which is named after Kotor in Montenegro. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mihail Grigorevich Rovenskiy

    Russian type and book designer (1902-1996), who worked for the publishing houses Izogiz, Goslitizdat and Izdatelstvo Inostrannoy Literaturi as art and technical editor. Staff type designer at VNII Polygraphmash from 1952-1972. Typeface creations: Bazhanov Display (Diploma of the Second Degree at All-Union Graphic-Poster-Book Exhibition in 1957), New Journal (1963; 1992-1995, Intermicro), Svetlana (1976-1981). At Polygraphmash, he created Bazhanov (1961, based on the lettering of Moscow book designer Dmitry Bazhanov (1902-1945). Paratype says (sic): Old-fashioned flavor of this design recreates the Soviet hand-lettering style of the 1940s). In 1976-1981, he designed the body text to accompany the latter face: Svetlana. ParaType link. FontShop link. Pic.

    Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Mihhail Zubehhin

    Creator of the old Slavonic typeface Klimentovica&Kurilovica (2007), which can be found here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mike VRPV

    Kirov, Russia-based designer of the free avant-garde sans typeface family How (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mikhael Khrustik
    [Fontesk]

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    Mikhail Beloglazov

    Moscow-based designer of the blackletter typeface Why Tiger Gothic (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mikhail Efremov

    Tula, Russia-based designer and art director, who created the (Latin) Cyrillic simulation face Samovar (2016). Samovar also has a Cyrillic version. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mikhail Kapralov

    Moscow-based designer of an experimental squarish Cyrillic typeface in 2017. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mikhail Kosmosov
    [Asterisk]

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    Mikhail Martynov

    Russian designer of Lorento (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mikhail Nikulin

    Yekaterinburg Russia-based designer of the free Cyrillic vector format connect-the-dots Thai simulation typeface UFO (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mikhail Sherman

    Metal and graphic designer and painter in Moscow. In 2016, he designed the painted decorative caps Cyrillic alphabet Pine Forest Morning. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mila Balzhieva

    Moscow-based designer of Vaghintara (2016). She explains: Agvan Dorjiev is a reformer of Mongolian vertical writing adapted to Buryat language. Vaghintara alphabet which he has created was the exact reproduction of Russian words in Buryat language popular between 1905-­1910. However, this particular font type was not properly used in Buryat language because of the Russian revolution. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Milk Letters

    Russia and Malaysia-based designer of the brush script typefaces Salty Hair (2017), Le Fontaine (2017), Mint Pistachio (2017) and Monday Love (2017), and Succu Spring (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Milya Ptitsyna

    Moscow-based designer. During her studies at the British Higher School of Art and design in Moscow, she created the modular octagonal (origami) typeface Master Flomaster (2012). She blended two fonts to make Fur Font (2013, free). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mio Horii

    Designer, at Art Lebedev, of the Latin / Cyrillic oriental simulation typeface Mio (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Misha (Michael) Nozik

    Type designer who is employed by Artem Gorbunov (Gorbunov Bureau) in Moscow. His typefaces there:

    • Lavish Shoestring (2016). A monoline script.
    • Olimpiada (2018). By Anna Danilova (and Michael Nozik) for olimpiada.ru. This sans typeface is based on the wayfinding font Bureausign.
    [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Misha Panfilov
    [Russian Fonts]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Misha Priemyshev

    Or Misha Priem for short. Graphic and urban designer in Vologda, Russia, who created the artsy hipster Latin / Cyrillic typeface Kurbanistika in 2016. On commission for the city of Vologda, he designed many illustrations as well as a fun decorative Cyrillic caps typeface in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Mister Chek
    [Andrey Chernevich]

    Russian designer in St. Petersburg, aka Mister Chek, b. 1983. Dafont carries his free demos. He sells his typefaces here: Horizons, Trueper (tattoo face), Black Queen (metal band face), King Arthur (blackletter).

    He created the free typefaces MCF Revolution Ink (2012, a Treefrog-style handwriting all-caps face), MCF Zelfis (2011, a tattoo font), MCF Bad Manners WW (2009, blackletter), MCF Star Worms (2012, blackletter / tattoo face), and MCF Funera (2010).

    Typefaces from 2016: Legion of Darwin, Galler, Petarda (tattoo font), Geroin (a rough brush), MCF Empire Cave, MCF Perun, Tawer, Barklay, Krechet (tattoo style), G Style, Amega Star, Pobeda, Brather Script, MCF Iraida Script.

    Typefaces from 2017: Black Fox (blackletter), Stone Head (Victorian), Alien Delon (hipster and trekkie styles).

    Typefaces from 2019: MCF Joker, MCF Mudster (inky).

    Dafont link. Devian Tart link. Abstract Fonts link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Modern Vector (was: Lauritta)

    Russian designer of the free calligraphic typeface LS Long Calligraphy (2016) and the high-contrast didone typeface family Babylon (2016). Other typefaces: Colorado (2017: sans), LS Burlesque (2017: inky calligraphic watercolor script). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Monkhood

    Old Church Slavonic site with these downloadable fonts: Evangelje-Plain, Irmologion-Acute (Vladislav V. Dorosh, Calmius Software, 1996), Irmologion-Breathing, Irmologion-BrthAcute, Irmologion-BrthCircumflex, Irmologion-BrthGrave, Irmologion-Circumflex, Irmologion-Erok, Irmologion-EtceteraTitles, Irmologion-Grave, Irmologion-SimplexTitled, Irmologion-SlovoTitled, Irmologion-Titles, Irmologion, IzhitsaCyrillic (ParaGraph, 1990), KirillicaNovaUnicode (Christoph Singer, 1999), KirillicaWincyr, Kirilttf (1994, Tanya Laleva / Miguel Angel Durán Pascual. Filología Eslava; Universidad Complutense (Madrid)), Lavra-Plain (1995), Novgorod-Plain (1995), OldChurchSlavonicCyr, OldChurchSlavonicGla, Orthodox (1994, SoftUnion Ltd, and 2000, N. Andrushchenko), OrthodoxDigits (same), OrthodoxDigitsLoose (same), OrthodoxLoose (same), Slavianskiy-Regular (1993, Gruppa Provincia, Nizhny Novgorod), UkrainianIzhitsa (ParaGraph, 1990). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Moritz Wolf

    Printer in St. Petersburg, ca. 1870, who ran his own foundry and stereotyping business. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Moscow State University of Printing Arts

    Alexander Tarbeev, the famous Russian type designer, teaches type design at the Type Design Workshop of the Moscow State University of Printing Arts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    MXMV Design
    [Setter Zet]

    Russian designer of the cyberpunk Japanese emulation typefaces CyberNippon (Katakana and Hiragana) in 2020. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    MyFonts: Russian deco

    A collection of commercial typefaces in the Russian art deco style, which leans against constructivism. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nadegda Ravaeva

    Ryazan, Russia-based designer of several sets of glowing vector format fonts (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nadejda K

    Lettering artist in Moscow who designed Pluvo Script (2019), White Frost (2019) and the color SVG script font Primus in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nadezda Gudeleva

    Moscow-based designer of Turkey Time (2020), Happy Pumpkin (2020), Naturaling (2020: a monolinear rounded organic sans), Best Friends (2019: a children's script), Autumn (2020), Camping Pack (2020), Pixel (2020), Skeleton (2020), Halloween Kid (2020), Cute Halloween (2019), Happy Pumpkin (2019: a cartoon font), Adventure (2019: an informal font, with camping dingbats as a bonus), Brush Font (2019), Summer (2019), School Icons (2019), Feel Time (2019: script), Memphis (2019: in the style of the Memphis Group), Happy Valentine's Day (2019: pixel font), Happy New Year (2018), Bridge (2018), Chalk (2018), the handcrafted Kitty (2018), Fantasm 3D (2018: a vector font), the monoline sans Gravitation (2018), the LED font FIFA (2018) and the monoline sports font Jordan (2018). Her icon sets in 2017 include Space Icons and Ice Cream Icons. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Nadezda Sokolova

    Designer of the Latin/Cyrillic sans family Afena (2010) while she was a student at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nadezda Trushina

    Moscow-based designer of the hairline modular ultra-condensed typeface Phasmida (2012) and the narrow squarish typeface Starship (2012).

    Cargocollective link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nadezhda Balashova

    Or Nadin Oldy. Perm, Russia-based designer of the handcrafted typefaces Winter Loves (2016, brush script), Mandarin Juicy (2016), Grumbler (2016), Careless (2016), Jovial (2016), Fabler (2016, hyper-curly, almost a vampire script) and Diletant (2016), and the script typeface Morning Regular (2016).

    Typefaces from 2019: Love Republic (script). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nadezhda Farafonova

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the Cyrillic brush typeface The Wild Drops (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    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. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Nadi Spasibenko
    [Artcoast Studio]

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    Nadiia Ravaieva

    Russian designer of Bengal Sparks (2016) and the neon effect Glowing Font series (2016, EPS format). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nadine Trushina

    Moscow, Russia-based designer of the ultra-condensed Latin typefaces Phasmida Display (2012) and Starship Display (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nadira Filatova

    Illustrator and motion graphics artist in Moscow, who garduated from Moscow State Academic Art College (2011), and started studies at the Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Industrial and Applied Arts in 2011. During her studies in Moscow, Nadira Filatova created the Cyrillic typeface Berliitz (2014) and the 3d Latin display typeface Think of Jack (2014). In 2020, she designed the stunning free multiline Latin and Cyrillic color font Moscow Metro that was inspired by the Moscow underground map. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nadya Davydowa

    During her studies in Moscow, Nadya Davydowa designed the Latin / Cyrillic poster typeface Kissel (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nadyr Rakhimov

    Type designer in Saint Petersburg, Russia, who is active in the TypeType team. TypeType is particularly stingy with its credits of who-designed-what, but it appears that Nadyr Rakhimov had a hand in many of the TypeType team typefaces. In 2018, I believe---but am not sure---that Nadezhda Polomoshnova, Phill Nurullin, Vika Usmanova, Nadyr Rakhimov and the TypeType Team co-designed TT Jenevers. In 2018, Ivan Gladkikh, Alexander Kirillov, Philipp Nurullin, Vika Usmanova, Marina Khodak, and Nadyr Rakhimov published TT Severs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nail Husyainov

    Moscow-based designer of the tweetware typefaces Kathnew (2015, hipster style), Research (2015, hipster font), Floatel (2015), Banger (2015, free), and Niles Front (2015, techno). He also made the free hipster font Pharaoh (2015), the free font Minima (2015), the free handcrafted typeface Ugly Kid (2015), and the free font Quip (2015).

    Aka Niles Company. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Naile Valiulin

    Moscow-based designer of the deconstructed Cyrillic didone typeface Muzej Panorama (2016), which was created for the imagined identity of the Museum Panorama Borodino Battle (between Russia and France) as part of a school project at the British Higher School of Art & Design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nani Kogua

    Moscow-based designer of the Latin / Cyrillic geometric sans typeface family Este (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Naruru Stachelschwein

    Kazan, Russia-based designer of the script typeface Nemesis (2018, with Denis Indeikin). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nastia Mileshina

    Graphic designer in Moscow who created the modular Cyrillic typeface Monoko in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nasty Davydova

    Moscow-based designer of Character Alphabet (2013), an ornamental cartoon character typeface for Cyrillic.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nastya Ens

    Moscow, Russia-based designer of the experimental typeface Mitosis (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nastya Levina

    Nastya Levina studied mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics of the St. Petersburg State University. In her second year she began to create websites on demand. As a student at TypeType Education in 2016-2017, she designed the Latin / Cyrillic stencil typeface Depot. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nata Bayduzha

    Moscow-based graphic designer. She created a useful informally hand-printed family of typefaces called Owl (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Natali Bondarenko

    Russian designer of Polka Dot Font (2015) and Hilarious (2015, handcrafted). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Natalia Popova

    During her studies at IED in Moscow in 2013, Natalia Popova created an unnamed modern typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Natalia Shmarova

    Graduate of Saint-Petersburg State Polytechnical University, and graphic designer in Saint Petersburg. She created the dingbat typeface Beetles (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Natalia Spivak

    Moscow-based designer of the modular counterless typeface Juke Box (2014, FontStruct). This font was designed during her studies at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow. FontStruct link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Natalia Tkachenko

    Moscow-based illustrator. Designer of the brush typeface Afisha Premiere (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Natalia Valgaeva

    Moscow-based designer of the display typeface Spike (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Natalia Vasilyeva

    Natalya Vasilyeva (from Barnaul, Siberia) is a type designer, book designer and calligrapher, also engaged in editing, publishing, photography and computer design. She published these typefaces, which, unless explicitly mentioned, are all done at Paratype:

    • Adonis (2002). A 4-style text typeface. She added a major update, Adonis New, in 2021.
    • Adventure (2000). A calligraphic script.
    • Aelita (2014). A transitional typeface family.
    • Astrosym (2010, Paratype).
    • Barnaul Grotesk (2007): a humanist sans in 8 styles.
    • Barry Gothic (1996, TypeMarket), a Cyrillic extension of Adobe's Charlemagne (1989).
    • Bella.
    • Blick (2008, ParaType): a decorative sans.
    • Calendula (2017, Paratype). A very humanistic sans typeface family.
    • Cometa.
    • Crassula (2018). An organic sans.
    • Deca Sans (2010) and Deca Serif (2010). It was designed to be readable at small sizes, thanks to its low contrast. In 2017, she added Deca Serif New.
    • Elina and Elina Decor (2011). A graceful, decorative and calligraphic set of typefaces.
    • Emploi (2009: Emploi Travesti and Emploi Ingenue) is pure calligraphic pleasure.
    • Express (2001): a Cyrillic version of a brush typeface by the same name designed for Ludwig&Mayer in 1957 by Walter Hoehnisch.
    • Hortensia (2000). A calligraphic typeface.
    • Illusion (2019). A calligraphic typeface.
    • Iowan Old Style (2017, Paratype). This is the Cyrillic extension of John Downer's Iowan Old Style (1990, Bitstream).
    • Journal and Journal Sans Old School (2019), which is a modernized digital version of the widely popular (geometric) Journal Sans, which became famous via its use in Science and Life magazine of the 1960s.
    • Kudryashev.
    • Liana (1998, TypeMarket): a flowing script based on Lainie of Soft Horizons.
    • Lockon (2008, ParaType): a slightly curly hanprinted script.
    • Margon (2012, Paratype). This was a major contribution---a serif font family with a temperate design, i.e., small serifs, moderate contrast, and tiny roundings on the corners. The Margon font family consists of 18 members divided into 4 groups of different proportions with indices 360, 380, 400, 430.
    • Master Flo (2007): simulation of a broad-nibbed pen.
    • Melody.
    • Mirandolina (2008, ParaType): a freestyle serif typeface family in seven styles.
    • Mister Earl.
    • Motiv (2003, Paratype). A cursive calligraphic script for Latin and Cyrillic.
    • Muffin (2017, Paratype). A five-style soft and rounded humanistic low-contrast sans serif based on broad nib writing.
    • Nat Flight (2009, ParaType). A text family.
    • Nat Grotesk (2007, Paratype). A geometric sans family.
    • Nat Vignette (2000-2002): a great set of ornamental and border typefaces).
    • NataliScript (2000). A calligraphic script.
    • Orbi Sans (2011) and Orbi (2010).
    • Pallada (2008, ParaType) has the same genetic roots as Mirandolina but comes in only 4 styles.
    • Prospect (1997-2001).
    • Sans Rounded (TypeMarket, 1998): an extension of VAG Rounded.
    • Scientia (2016, Paratype): a neutral sans for scientific publications. In that same genre, she designed the 22-style text family Hyperon (2020, Paratype) for publications on mathematics and physics. Each font is loaded with about 1100 glyphs, including many symbols. All fonts cover Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.
    • Selina (2007). A 9-style low-contrast modern type family.
    • Vesna. Zapf Elliptical 711.

    Klingspor link. MyFonts interview.

    View Natalia Vasilyeva's typefaces. Another listing of Natalia Vasilyeva's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Natalia Yanina

    Designer of the Latin/Cyrillic roman typeface Itelica (2009), which was part of her diploma work at the Moscow Department of Higher British Design School. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Natalie Dinnikova

    Graphic design student at the Polytechnic University of Saint Petersburg. She created a delicate display typeface called Tahoma Optical (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Natalie Thomson

    Natalie Thomson is a children's book illustrator based in Russia. In 2015, she created the fun decorative caps typeface Foppish Birdie for Latin and Cyrillic. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Nataliya Grishina

    Saratov, Russia-based designer of the handcrafted Latin / Cyrillic typeface Emily (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nataliya Kokornova

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the op-art Cyrillic typeface Polosa (2015) and of the experimental typeface Charms (2015), whichh was inspired by the work of Daniil Ivanovich Kharms. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nataliya Rashkina

    Illustrator and designer in Moscow who created Railway (2012), a Latin typeface that is based on a pattern of crossing railroad tracks. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Natalya Lyovina

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the cyrillicized version of AbeatbyKai (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Natalya Radnaeva

    Russian designer of the experimental typeface SK Nagot (2021: at Shriftovik) for Latin and Cyrillic. SK Nagot is a decorative typeface at the junction of industrial and classical graphic design. It was inspired by 3D printing technology. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Natalya Smirnova

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the experimental geometric 3d Cyrillic typeface Graphic Archaeology (2016), which was created as a project for the British Higher School of Art and Design. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Natasha Anisimova
    [Pixelwerk (was: Sobaka Pavlova)]

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    Natasha Klemazova

    Moscow-based designer of Unicorn Font (2017). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Natasha Merculova

    Graphic designer and illustrator in Ramenskoye, Russia. She created a special ornamental Cyrillic all caps typeface called Animalphabet (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Natasha Oi

    Natasha Oi practices graphic design, infographics, and photography in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 2010, she designed Symbolical font (2010). In 2011, she created an all-caps ransom note font for the brochure and invitations for the Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Naum Type
    [Pyotr Bushuev]

    Peter or Pyotr Bushuev is the Pskov, Russia-based designer of the geometric typeface families Umbero (2016, retro deco) and Kontora (2016, for Latin and Cyrillic). He also designed the brush typeface Burelom (2015).

    Typefaces from 2017: Juxta (Sans, Sans Mono, Script), Juxta Sans Mono, Ravensara Antiqua Stencil, Ravensara Sans, Ravensara Serif (a high contrast fashion mag font derived from didones; in Sans and Serif styles).

    Typefaces from 2019: Base + Bloom (experimental).

    Typefaces from 2020: Strikt (a viariable pixelish font on a 3x3 grid with two axes, weight and animation), Cascadeur (Pyotr writes: Cascadeur is a variable modular sans with 3 axes, a modernistic hommage to space-age typography).

    Type Department link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Nekrasov Central Library

    Moscow-based library which digitized its holdings. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    neooNPixels

    Russian font forum for discussing new commercial typefaces. In Russian. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Neue (or: Neue Foundry)
    [Alexander Alexandrowitsch Roth]

    Alexander Alexandrowitsch Roth, or just Alexander Roth, was born in the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic and immigrated from Dushanbe to Germany in 1993. He is a Berlin-based graphic designer who holds a bachelor degree in Media Production from the Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe University of Applied Sciences. Alexander is one of the founders of Ghostarmy---a conglomerate of several designers who are working among others for Erik Spiekermann, FSI FontShop International, FontShop Germany and the city of Wardenburg. In 2012, he graduated from TypeMedia at KABK in Den Haag. His graduation project was the high-contrast Uoma typeface which comes to life in large display sizes.

    He held positions as a graphic designer for FontFont, as a lead graphic designer for FontShop and as a marketing manager for Monotype's digital commerce businesses, before joining Monotype's type team.

    Roth set up Neue. Alexandra Schwarzwald is a type designer & typographer and joined Neue as business partner in October 2020.

    In 2020, he designed the 72-style typeface family Neue Radial, which is a compendium of sans genres: Neue Radial A follows the model of the original London underground typeface; Neue Radial B exemplifies the roots of a rational grotesque of the late twentieth century; Neue Radial C is a contemporary representative of the geometric sans, mechanically constructed to optically appeal to the appearance of a true compass and ruler typeface; avant-garde-esque elements ensure a smooth transition into Neue Radial D that reflects the tradition of neo-grotesques. The Soft versions (done with Alexandra Schwarzwald) were added in 2021: Neue Radial Soft A, Neue Radial Soft B (18 styles), Neue Radial Soft C, Neue Radial Soft D.

    Late in 2020, Neue released Neue Vektor (by Alexander Roth; 27 styles, describable as cold-hearted, utilitarian, DIN-like, and for engineers only), Neue Vektor CNC (a monolinear rounded sans in 14 styles), Neue OS Icons (by Alexandra Schwarzwald) and Neue UXUI Icons (by Alexandra Schwarzwald).

    Typefaces from 2021: Neue Rasant (a cold 15-style brutalist sans), Neue Singular (60 styles: a contemporary neo-grotesque sans-serif designed in three variants, H, D, and V according to stroke endings---H for horizontal, D for diagonal, and V for vertical). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Nevsky Type
    [Artem Nevsky]

    Russian designer of the crisp fashion mag sans font Miracle (2020) and the free fashion mag serif typeface New York (2020).

    Typefaces from 2021: NT Wagner (a round elephant feet serif in the Windsor genre), NT Josefine (a free didone descendant), Harmony (a didone modified for use in fashion mags). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    New Cyrillic

    Cyrillic typeface competition with a December 31, 2012 deadline. Unlike many competitions in which participants and winners have to pay, this competition actually pays the winners---there is a 15,000 Euro prize fund for the top three. The top ten projects for 2012:

    • Amsterdam by Evgeny Filippov
    • Argena Regular by Tomi Dzurovski
    • CloneRound Regular by Tomi Dzurovski
    • Flauto by Yuliya Tigina
    • Kalimantan by Ana Kutina
    • Mamontov Sans by Oleg Matsuyev
    • Metrofont Regular by Artyom Utkin
    • Napoleon by Ana Kutina
    • Ringvaart by Aleksander Koltsov
    • William Headline by Mariya Doryeuli
    Of these, the three lucky winners were Flauto by Yuliya Tigina, Metrofont Regular by Artyom Utkin, and William Headline by Mariya Doryeuli. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    New Ruble Sign

    Discussion of the new ruble sign by Yuri Gordon. In Russian. The Russian ruble sign, approved in 2013, looks like a Latin P (the Russian R) with an extra horizontal bar underneath. Easy to remember. Good consistent design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nick Nedashkovskiy

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the Cyrillic typefaces Condens (2015, condensed) and Old Pixel (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nick Nedashkovskiy
    [NN Type Foundry (or: NN Studio)]

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    Nick Niedaszkowski

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the Cyrillic typeface Condens (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nick Yartsev

    Moscow-based designer of the free pixel typeface Balaclava (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nickolai Yegorov

    Russian graphic designer and digital artist from Saint Petersburg, who created these great visit cards. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nickolay Boltachev

    Kirov, Russia-based type and graphic designer. Creator in 2008 of BeckettGothic (blackletter), Veloprofy (bike chain-inspired glyphs), Podval (type in the form of pressure meters), a few Cyrillc sans typefaces, and Slash (an oriental simulation typeface in Cyrillic). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Niia Frost

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based creator of several Latin typefaces in 2013. She also made some op-art designs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nikа Metelskaya

    Moscow-based designer of the Cyrillic typefaces Cheerful (2019), Rurun (2019: runic) and Kolchuga (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nikita Arkhipv

    During his studies in Moscow, Nikita Arkhipv designed the Cyrillic script typeface Jeto Schrift (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nikita Kanarev

    Or Nikita Kanryov. Graduate of Ilya Ruderman's course Type and Typography at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow (2010-2011). He created Cyrillic versions for Baton Turbo and Aino, the official font for the brand of Estonia. Based in Barnaul, Siberia, Nikita Kanarev set up his own type foundry in 2014. Designer of

    • Srotsky (2014). A Latin/Cyrillic typeface that simulates stonecut lettering.
    • Sirin (2014). A Latin / Cyrillic experiment with over 8000 ligatures.
    • Co-designer with Yury Ostromentsky and Ilya Ruderman at CSTM Fonts of the 18-style exprimental typeface family Lurk (2020). It is based on an earlier version that was specially designed for the Russian youtuber Yury Dud.
    • Archaism (2020, at Type Tomorrow). A variable mechanical inverse contrast grotesque with contrast and weight axes.
    • Cyrillic versions for the following fonts: Baton Turbo, Aino (the free official font for the brand of Estonia).

    Type Today link. Type Tomorrow link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Nikita Kita

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the free curly display typeface Monster Regular (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nikita Kriukov

    Moscow-based designer of Pixel Font (2017) and the dot matrix typeface Metamorphosis (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nikita Nelikhov

    Moscow-based designer of the molecular typeface Drexciya (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nikita Prokopov

    Moscow-based designer of the free monospaced programming font Fira Code (2015), which is based on Fira Mono (by Carrois and Edenspiekermann). GitHub link for FiraCode. Open Font Library link.

    There is a variable font with light weight in the Fira Code package. Elswehere we read that the variable version was contributed by Stephen Nixon.

    Github link for Nikita Prokopov. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nikita Sologubovskiy

    Artist, illustrator and designer based in Moscow. In 2016, he designed the squarish modular Latin typeface absurde (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nikita Vsesvetskii
    [Soft Union]

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    Nikolai Aleksiev

    Russian type designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nikolai Belkov

    Russian graphic designer, who was selected to design the pictograms for the 1976 Olympic Games in Moscow. He did go about it in a systematic and geometric way. A bit of the history: On the OCOG-80’s request, graduates from several art colleges took up the design of the pictographs of the insignia as the theme of their dissertations. With the help of the research institute of industrial aesthetics, the Organizing Committee chose the work submitted by Nikolai Belkov, a Mukhina Art School graduate from Leningrad. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nikolai Sirotkin

    Nikolai (Nick) Sirotkin is the Russian designer of fonts such as Taumfel (2007, connected script), Filada (2003), Billiard and Mini.

    Sirotkin, sometimes successfully, sues companies who illegally use even his free demo fonts: Typedrawers page on Sirotkin versus Eksmo (a Russian publisher) and Sirotkin versus Azertea.

    Old link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Nikolai Slobodin

    Designer of the Latin/Cyrillic family Verba Sans (2009), which was part of his diploma work at the Moscow Department of Higher British Design School. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nikolay Babanakov

    Russian designer of the handcrafted Latin typeface Kombucha (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nikolay Dubina
    [D-Studio (Moscow)]

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    Nikolay Nikolayevich Kudryashev

    Also, Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Kudryashev. Russian type designer, b. Moscow, 1908, d. Moscow, 1981. His name is also written Kudrashov sometimes. Intermicro published KudrashovC (1992-1995) based on his work. Some weights were co-designed by Zinaida A. Maslennikova. At Polygraphmash, he and Maslennikova designed the family Kudryashevskaya Encyclopedicheskaya (1960-1974). The latter family was digitized and finished by Vladimir Yefimov at Paratype and called Petersburg (1992). The math font of that family was digitized by Vladimir Yefimov at Polyraphmash in 1987 and became PT MathFont 1. The music font of that set became PT Nota 1 (Vladimir Yefimov at Polyraphmash, 1987). From 1986 until 2002, he developed the Paratype Parangon family, available in Latin and Cyrillic versions from URW.

    FontShop link. Paratype link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nil Petsko

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the thin squarish typeface Skerpka (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nina Arkhiptseva

    Graphic designer in Moscow who created the wavy typeface Sea Sans (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nina Guseva

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of a Cyrillic watercolor brush font (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nina Kulakova

    Under the art directorship of Jovanny Lemonad, Nina Kulakova designed the free handcrafted Latin typeface Freeride (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nina Mukha

    Designer, with Ivan Gladkikh (Jovanny Lemonad) of the free handcrafted typeface Free Ride (2016), published by Typetype in Russia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nina Pushkova

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the free font Novito Nova (2015). Behance link. Fontreactor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nina Pykhtina

    Moscow-based designer of Dracula (2018) and Services Icons (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nina Slipchenko

    Moscow-based designer of these handcrafted display typefaces for Latin and Cyrillic in 2018: Applepie, Modest, Breadbury. In 2020, she designed the monolinear humanist sans typeface Al9orithm (with a 9 instead of a g in the name). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nina Vinogradova

    Nizhny Novgorod, Russia-based designer of the modular Latin typeface Soft square (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nina Z

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of a useful free hand-printed Latin / Cyrillic typeface called Novito Nova (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    NN Type Foundry (or: NN Studio)
    [Nick Nedashkovskiy]

    Or Nikolay Nedashkovsky, type designer and font engineer based in Moscow, working at Paratype. He also started an experimental type coop, called Type Improvisation.

    Designer in 2020 at Paratype of Helsa Display, a slim and eccentric serif typeface for Latin and Cyrillic. Helsa Display is, in Nick's words a free interpretation of the narrow elzevirs of the beginning of XX century for use in titles and short texts.

    With Ksenia Erulevich and Konstantin Lukyanov, he co-designed the soccer shirt font Russian Premier League (2018, at Art Lebedev).

    Github link. Art Lebedev Studio link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    No Regular Fonts
    [Alexander Sheliketo]

    Goryachiy Klyuch, Russia-based creator of the unruly Rhyhorn (2016), the brush typeface Come Alive (2016), the free sans typeface North (2016), the free piano key typeface Kicker (2016), which is a bit in the style of Wim Crouwel's famous Hiroshima poster. He also made Fearless (2016), Zephyr (2016), the free rounded squarish typeface Futures (2016), and the 6-style display typeface Marlen (2016), which includes deco and stencil options. Skeleton (2016) is inspired by human skeletons.

    Typefaces from 2017: Rocket, Nerd (hipster family), Zerr (heavy brush style). Buy the fonts here. Graphicriver link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    No Regular Fonts

    Goryachly Klyuch, Russia-based designer of the free squarish (Latin) typeface Futures (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Nord Collective (or: Fontfirma)
    [Alex Frukta]

    A joint venture by Alex Frukta (Moscow; b. 1992, Saint Petersburg) and Vladimir Tomin in New York City, est. 2014. Their first typeface is Nord (2014, free). Together, they they created all the (constructivist style) graphics and typography for a Russian documentary called Kronshtadt (2014).

    In 2015, they published the great free Latin / Cyrillic headline sans typeface Kolikö.

    Typefaces from 2016: Bonecrusher, Turum (free).

    Typefaces from 2017: Kankin (a free Hitchcock era movie font).

    In 2018, he designed the free font Kirke.

    Typefaces from 2019: Kengo (handcrafted).

    Typefaces from 2020: Oko (pixelish), Accent, Skepta (a spurred horror font family).

    Typefaces from 2021: Ioto Animation (Alex Frukta).

    Earlier typefaces by Alex Frukta added to the collection: Kaori (2010: floral caps), Silverfake (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Northeast Type Foundry
    [Erick Dahl]

    Northeast Type Foundry is a digital type foundry based in Moscow, Russia, run by Erick Dahl, b. 1995. In 2019, he released Molecula, a grotesque sans serif of slightly condensed proportions. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Not Bad Typeface
    [Ilya Pazderin]

    During his studies at the School of Type design in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Ilya (or Ilja) Pazderin designed the experimental typeface Optica (2016-2017), which covers Latin and Cyrillic. Optica, which is based on Bookman, tries to alter the glyphs for readability at very small (micro) sizes.

    In 2018, Pazderin set up Not Bad Typeface in Saint Petersburg. In 2022, he published Superstar Grotesk, a free interpretation of the first Cyrillic versions of Royal Grotesk and Akzidenz Grotesk, the (pre-digital) Roublennaya typeface (1947, Anatoly Shchukin). Not quite though, since Roublennaya is a more geometric sans. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Oblako9

    Saint Petersburg-based designer of the compass and ruler logo for the Tao Restaurant. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Okami Tegra

    Graduate of Amur State University Of Humanities And Pedagogy, class of 2016, Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia-based designer of a wonderful Latin / Cyrillic typeface that is based on Old Slavonic writing (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Oksana Paley

    Moscow-based designer of the thin logotype Omonkot (2012, Cyrillic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Oksana Sergienko

    Graphic designer and typographer in Moscow. She screated the avant garde and ultra thin sans typeface Hair (2009, Paratype). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ola Chtak

    Moscow-based illustrator who drew a decorative floral alphabet in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ola Stepanova

    Russian graphic designer based in Moscow. In 2009, she created a symbol font for small print for the Afisha-Eda magazine. In 2017, she designed the angular Tomahawk typeface for Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Oleg Agafonov
    [Yoursdesign (or: Oleg and Katja)]

    [More]  ⦿

    Oleg Frolov

    Designer of the angular Latin/Cyrillic serif family called Brawler (2010) while he was a student at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow. This sturdy testosterone-laden family was created with newspaper print in mind. Promotional material for Brawler: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix. Brawler is free at Cyreal. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Oleg Karpinsky

    Ukrainian type designer (b. Vinnitsa, Ukraine, 1954) and graphic designer. Graduate of the Moscow Higher School of Design in 1980. Since 1993, affiliated with Paratype.

    Designer at Paratype of Dublon, Dublon Light (1994; or: Dublon Brus), Gvardia (2001), PT Orden (2001), PT Stroganov (2002), Ariergard (2001, a Cyrillic sans; +Rondo), Bublik (2004, a poster font at Paratype that won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition), Irakly BT (2004, Bitstream), Rossika (2004, Paratype), Chervonec Uzkj (2003, Bitstream).

    MyFonts sells Ariergard, Ariergard Rondo (2005, more circular shapes of this sans), Bublik, Chervonec Uzkj BT, Dublon, Gvardia, Irakly BT, Orden, Plastilin (2005), Quartal (2010), Rossika, Kartell (2006, 6 styles: simulates religious orthodox writing), Mellnik (2006, a humanist sans in 14 styles), Lunokhod (2006, think an organic version of Bank Gothic, 4 styles), Yess (2007, Paratype; a rounded display sans used in advertising posters for the Soviet state foreign trade company Soyuzchimexort in the early 1980s) and Stroganov.

    In 2009, he added a Latin alphabet to Svetlana Yermolaeva's Izhitsa (1988).

    In 2011, he cyrillicized Freehand 471 BT.

    In 2011, Oleg published Titla Brus Condensed at Paratype. This is a flared slab family that extends Titla Condensed (2009).

    In 2013, he designed the humanist sans typeface family Foros at Paratype.

    FontShop link. ParaType link. Klingspor link.

    Showcase of Oleg Karpinsky's typefaces at MyFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Oleg Katorsky

    Russian-American letter designer who trained at Harris and worked at Mergenthaler from the late 1960s on its Cyrillic series. Not sure if the last name is Kastorsky or Katorsky. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Oleg Kuzmin
    [Hellig]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Oleg Lyutov

    Russian creator (aka A55) at FontStruct in 2009 of Constructivist 1, Index Mono (based on the Russian code grids that was printed on envelopes to standardize the lettering---originally for numbers only), ABC, and Plain Square Mono (+Outline). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Oleg Macujev
    [Omtype]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Oleg Matison

    Russian designer of the free Latin / Cyrillic didone typeface Elisabethische (2018). It is a revival of the Jelisawethinskaja Lehmann-Garnitur (1904), with modern additions such as the rubel sign and proper German ß ligatures. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Oleg Motygin
    [Russian Izhitsa]

    [More]  ⦿

    Oleg Mushta

    Moscow, Russia-based designer of the angular experimental typeface Mondriburg (2017), which was influenced by the De Stijl movement, and Van Doesburg and Mondrian in particular. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Oleg Nobr

    Codesigner with Jovanny Lemonad and Lubov Kudrinskaya in 2008 of Nobr1, a free Cyrillic round informal face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Oleg Pashchenko

    Russian type designer (b. 1971) who graduated from Moscow State University majoring in computational mathematics and cybernetics. He currently works at Art Lebedev Studio. Togerther, Oleg Pashchenko, Irina Smirnova and Zakhar Yaschin designed the mysterious partly horror typeface Zwoelf (2008). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Oleg Pospelov

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the free didone typeface Oranienbaum (2012), which was produced under the art directorship of Jovanny Lemonad. Google Web Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Oleg Safronov

    Art director in Moscow. During his studies, he combined Helveica and arno Pro to create a hybrid Cyrillic typeface (2013). He also created Cyrillic Accident Font (2013, straight-edged). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Oleg Snarsky

    Russian designer. His creations were used by Alexei Chekulayev (Double Alex Font Studio) in 1993 to make the Arabic simulation typeface Arabskij (1970s). Most of his fonts were co-designed with Dubina nikolay. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Oleg Stepanov

    Aka Youhhou. Tbilisi, Georgia and now, Moscow-based Russian designer of Splinter (2016), Jazzy B (2015, a beatnik font), Maika (2015, great brush script for Latin and Cyrillic), Sciences Icons (2015), Shields Icons (2015), Marks (2015: icons), New Marker (2015), Barrier Display Font (2014, a hipster Latin typeface), Simple Stamp (2014, a free poster font), IT Business Icons (2015) and Oriental Icons (2014).

    Typefaces from 2017: Jeeks (a funky comic book typeface in all caps), Mick (2017, hand-drawn typeface inspired by 1980s graffiti), Fedot (a polyustav emulation font).

    Typefaces from 2018: Bubbaloon (bubblgum font), Blockbox, Badwulf (a hand-lettered display typeface), Sandy, Pirate Station, NewMarker, Level Up (pixelish), Helgis Black (an expressive display typeface inspired by album covers of progressive and psychedelic rock bands of the 70s). Creative Market link. ?u=mostrecent">Another Creative Market link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Oleg Tishchenkov

    Russian illustrator at Art Lebedev Studio since 2004, who was born in 1969 in Smolensk, Russia. In 2009, he designed Zheldor together with Elena Novoselova at Art Levedev Studio. Zheldor was originally intended for the Railroad movie credits, but was not used for that. Instead, it became a a grungy constructivist font retail font. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Oleg Zhuravlev

    Russian graphic designer. With Jovanny Lemonad, he created the octagonal family Bender (2009, free at TypeType). In 2009, he made the diagonally shaded typeface Absu. In 2010, he made the free hand-printed font Five Minutes, the octagonal typeface Red Apple, the corporate family Articul (organic), Toothy (Helvetica with horns), and the free dot matrix typeface Dited. MyFonts link. Behance link. Cargocollective link (with downloads). Typetype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Oles Berezhetskiy

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the display typefaces Stone Bridge (2016), Vintage Script (2016) and Hieroglyphic Alphabet (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olesia Skripak

    Kaliningrad, Russia-based designer of the handcrafted poster typeface Pumpkin (2016). It comes with a colored vector format set of letters. In 2017, she designed the children's book font Sunny Dino, and the handcrafted Spring. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olesia Volkova

    Moscow-based designer of the free AI-format Coffe Store Icon Set (2015). In 2018, she designed Chalk Circus Letters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Aleksandrova

    Olga Aleksandrova (Samara, Russia) designed the brush script typefaces Miss Agyness and Der Abend in 2016. Aka Holaholga. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Alekseenko

    Graphic designer in Altay, Russia. She created Barbariska (2015, a curly script), Petroglif (2015) and Broad Brush Font in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Balina

    New York City (ex-Moscow)-based art director and graphic designer Olga Balina was born in 1988. She is associated with Flëve, a design agency in New York that was founded by Vit Abramov.

    In 2008, she created Charlotte (Latin&Cyrillic). During her studies at British Higher School of Art & Design in Moscow, she created ALS Meringue (2009, a serif family for Art Lebedev Studio, done with Taisiya Lushenko). In 2009, she also created a dotted line pixel type for FLYmagazine. As a student project at the British Higher School of Art and Design in 2009, she made a Natural Alphabet using stone scratching.

    Mobispot Regular (2013) is a beautiful contemporary geometric grotesque for Latin and Cyrillic, designed by Olga Balina and Vit Abramov at Flëve for Mobispot Social Systems, a company that creates cool applications for life and business based on NFC technology.

    MyFonts link. Behance link. Behance link for Flëve. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Bortiokova

    Krimean artist and illustrator based in Simferopol. Her work includes Narrow (2015, a hand-drawn Latin alphabet), Romantic Alphabet (2015), Ice Cream Alphabet (2015), Snacks and Drinks Doodles (2015), Floral Brushes (2015) and Hand-drawn Zen Letters (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Buracevska

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of a gorgeous Cyrillic poster entitled Roadside Picnic (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Chekina

    Russian codesigner with Alexander Kokorin of Tsar Saltan, a display font which won an award at Paratype K2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Efimenko

    Student at Moscow University of Printing who created some fonts and logos in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Filatova

    Graphic designer in Moscow. Designer of the deco typeface Filaite (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Gambaryan

    Art director in Moscow who created Block (or Blok) Font (2011, free; created at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow) and Double Trouble (2012, a custom type for a store for twins). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Karpushina

    Designer of the Latin/Cyrillic very humanist Private Sans (2010, +Bold) while she was a student at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow. In 2011, she published the free contemporary serif face Lora and Vidaloka (a didone done with Alexei Vanyashin) with Cyreal.

    In 2012, Olga published the 3d display humanist sans stencil typeface Sirin Stencil at Google Web Fonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Kovalenko

    Sometimes it is just right---all the i's are dotted and all t's are crossed. Olga Kovalenko's Latin/Cyrillic plump sans typeface Biscuit (2013) has it all. Olga is based in Moscow. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Kovaleva

    As a student at HSE Art And Design School, Olga Kovaleva designed the Cyrillic typeface Gitana (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Kozlova

    Russian codesigner with Jovanny Lemonad of London (2008). She started her own type foundry in 2012. Typetype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Ktitorova
    [Triple Hely (or: Iris Letters)]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Kunichenko

    During her studies at the School of Type design in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Olga Kunichenko designed the modular informal display typeface Sontag (2016-2017), which covers Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Lapko
    [LHFONTS]

    [More]  ⦿

    Olga Moreau

    Designer and illustrator in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, who created the brush typeface Foxius in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Otryvanova

    Chelyabinsk, Ri=ussia-based designer of the colorful decorative caps typeface Loki Color (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Pankova

    Moscow-based graphic and type designer who graduated from the design department of Moscow Power Engineering Institute in 2009 and completed a two-year Type&Typography course at British Higher School of Art and Design in 2014. Pankova does stone carving, delivers lectures, organizes master classes on type and chalk lettering. Pankova collaborates with CSTM Fonts, Moscow Design Studio, Bang! Bang! Agency, Izdatelsky Dom MeshcheryakovаPpublishingHhouse, Mann, Ivanov and Ferber publishing company (MIF).

    She created the hexagonal typeface Yalo (2014) and the angular display typeface Cumber (2013) for Latin and Cyrillic. At the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow, she published the mag and newspaper typeface family Pulitzer (2014: Latin and Cyrillic) that was developed from a broad nib pen.

    In 2016, Ilya Ruderman and Olga Pankova published Big City Grotesque Pro at CSTM Fonts. Ilya Ruderman created the first version of (the humanist sans) BigCity Grotesque for Bolshoi Gorod magazine (Big City). It was the first magazine sans serif with Cyrillic ligatures, and won an award in 2009 in the international competition, Modern Cyrillic 2009. In the 2016 version, by Olga Pankova, the shapes of the letters have been updated, and there are new upright and italic styles, small capitals and new ligatures and non-alphabetic symbols.

    Pankova won an award in the Latin category at the 22nd Morisawa Type Design competition in 2019 for Courbe (or Curbe), an expressive display typeface inspired by the Soviet era. That font can be purchased from Type Today. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Papsheva

    Saratov, Russia-based designer of several sets of icons (sich as Origami Animals, Rome, Paris, London) and a few display alphabets. The alphabets and some icn sets were co-designed with Dima Evtushenko. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Pavlova
    [Olle Vita]

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    Olga Petrishcheva

    Moscow-based designer of the handcrafted Cyrillic typeface Garnitura Detskaja (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Ryabinkina

    Kursk, Russia-based designer of the 3d outline typeface Leshy (2003, with Fedor Saveliev at Paratype) and the labyrinthine font Labrus (2016). Klingspor link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Shadrina

    In a type design class in Moscow taught by Tagir Safayev, graphiccdesigner Olga Shadrina created the Celtic Latin / Cyrillic typeface Dublin (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Shvedina

    Chelyabinsk, Russia-based designer of the decorative caps Marine Alphabet (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Simonova

    Operating as SomStock. Russian designer of Marcador (2017, a fine brush script) and Bagel (2017, a medium brush script). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Taborskaya

    Mansi and Vogul (1966) are two Cyrillic prepared by Taborskaya (who is from Novosibirsk) for Skribnik Yelena. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Titova

    Russian letterer and logotype designer who made exceptional designs. Check out Optima (2010), for example. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Umpeleva

    Graduate of the Moscow State University of Printing Art, and of the TypeMedia program at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in Den Haag, The Netherlands, class of 2020.

    Moscow-based designer of the free font Tagesschrift (2005, Yanone, done together with Jan Gerner, A. Korolkova and V. Yefimov). Fontdeck link, where she is credited with the Paratype typeface PT Sans (2010). PT Sans can also be downloaded at Alex Barakin's site, at Fontspace, at Github, and at CTAN. Open Font Library link. The companion family PT Serif is also at CTAN. The full family, co-designed with Alexandra Korolkova and Vladimir Yefimov, will set you back over 1000 dollars however.

    Federico (2007) is based on the handwriting of Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936).

    Pragmatica Slab (2011, Paratype, Olga Umpeleva and Vladimir Yefimov) was designed as a complement to the popular type family Pragmatica by Vladimir Yefimov and Isabella Chaeva (1989-2004) by the addition of square slab serifs. Paratype writes: Pragmatica Slabserif was designed as a complement to the popular type family Pragmatica by Vladimir Yefimov and Isabella Chaeva (1989-2004) by addition of square serifs. Inspired by Helserif (Phil Martin, 1978 [note from Luc to self: I think Paratype errs here, since Ed Kelton made Helserif in 1976]) which was formed in the same way by addition of square serifs to Helvetica (Eduard Hoffman and Max Miedinger, 1957). First sketches of Pragmatica Slabserif were created by Vladimir Yefimov in 1988 during development of Pragmatica. Olga Umpeleva designed the whole slabserif type family of six weights basing on that sketches.

    She also did an upright connected educational script in 2011 at Paratype: Little Cecily (based on a Russian calligraphy sample book for primary schools, Propisi pryamogo pisma (Moscow, 1914)). Such scripts were implemented in school programs at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.

    In 2012, Olga published the curly upright script typeface Sevillana (Google Web Fonts, Brownfox Foundry) and the playful decorative typeface Henny Penny (Google Web Fonts and Brownfox).

    Typefaces from 2013: M.Video (a corporate typeface done with Ksenia Erulevich at Art Lebedev Studio), ALS Schlange Sans (Art Lebedev Studio: a rich sans family with rounded terminals, and a toolbox "f"), ALS Schlange Slab.

    Typefaces from 2015: Kudryashev Display (2015, Isabella Chaeva, Alexandra Korolkova and Olga Umpeleva). Kudryashev Display is a set of light and high-contrast typefaces based on Kudryashev text typeface. In addition to Kudryashev Display and Kudryashev Headline typefaces, the type family includes also two Peignotian sans-serif typefaces of the same weight and contrast, with some alternates. The serif styles were designed by Olga Umpeleva in 2011, the sans styles were created by Isabella Chaeva in 2015 with the participation of Alexandra Korolkova. The typeface was released by ParaType in 2015. Still in 2015, she designed Federico (a typeface based on the handwriting of Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936)).

    Typefaces from 2017: Fado (a formal broad nib calligraphic beauty).

    Typefaces from 2018: Kelpie (an inky and a monoline pair of scripts).

    Typefaces from 2020: Noordenwind (her graduation typeface at KABK).

    Typefaces from 2021: Westenwind (an experimental font that on purpose exaggerates the number and sizes of the serifs).

    Kernest link. MyFonts link. Google link. Klingspor link. Fontspace link. Behance link. Future Fonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Yukhta

    Graphic designer in Ekaterinburg, Russia, who created the Cyrillic display typeface Cats (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Zakharova
    [Favete Art]

    [More]  ⦿

    Olga Zolothukina

    Illustrator and calligrapher in Moscow, who created several ornamental alphabets in 2013 such as Matches and Chelobooki. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olga Zolotukhina

    Illustrator in Moscow who created several fun hand-drawn Cyrillic alphabets in 2013 and 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olia Leykina

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer, with Olexa Volochay at TypeType in 2016, of TT Lakes (54 fonts in all). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olich Stets

    Or Olga Stets. Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the handcrafted typeface Bosia (2016, for Latin and Cyrillic). She also drew a decorative all caps Cyrillic alphabet called Wild Squirrel (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olkas Voron

    Moscow-based designer who created some typefaces during her studies at BHSAD in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olle Vita
    [Olga Pavlova]

    Kaliningrad, Russia-based designer of the vector format decorative caps typefaces Floral Font (2015) and Christmas Font (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olya Gribova

    Moscow-based designer of Barbed Wire Font (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Olya Yakovleva

    Moscow-based designer of Jordan (2014, a squarish techno font for Latin and Cyrillic). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Omen Type
    [Frederik Jackson]

    Frederik Jackson (b. Russia, 1987), aka SoJa Design, and operating as Omen Type, created the fun shaky letter typeface Lazy Sans (2011), the comic book typeface Soup of Justice (2011), the grungy Creepshow (2011), and Crash Scene (2011, a glitch font based on Prodigy's logo). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Omtype
    [Oleg Macujev]

    Omtype is Oleg Macujev's Russian foundry and studio (est. 2008) located in Novokuznetsk in the Kemerovskaja region of Siberia, or more lately in Telbes, Russia. Graphic and type designer, calligrapher and typographer Oleg Macujev was born in Novokuznetsk in 1984. He graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University (design of mass media specialization). In 2004-2007 he studied at the Alexander Tarbeev Type Design Workshop of Moscow State University of Printing. From 2004 to 2009 Oleg worked as a graphic designer in different Moscow design studios and publishing houses. In 2007-2008 he also lectured on type and calligraphy at the National Institute of Modern Design. He received the second prize for excellence in type and graphic design in a student competition organized by ParaType for his Epiphany typeface (2008). He has obtained the Certificate of Excellence in Type Design at the Modern Cyrillic 2009 competition for the Epiphany and Fry typefaces. Since 2009 he has been living in Novokuznetsk and working as a freelance graphic designer. Samples of his calligraphy. Alternate URL. Behance link. His name is also written Oleg Matsuev. Klingspor link. His great collection of typefaces:

    • Default (2010). A condensed monospaced sans for Latin and Cyrillic.
    • Epiphany (2008). A monoline script based on Old Russian skoropis (cursive writing) of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. Award winner at Paratype K2009).
    • Fry (2008). A comic book style typeface that won an award at Paratype K2009 under the name Fray, and a Certificate of Excellence in Type Design at the Fry ProModern Cyrillic 2009 competition. Fry also received Second Prize in the display typeface category at Granshan 2011. Fry Pro (Latin, Greek, Cyrillic) was released in 2013. Oleg writes about this round sans: Fry was developed in 2008 specially for the Sky-Fish company (fish and seafood dealer). This type is designed for small texts and has a friendly and a fairytale historic flavor. Fry takes the openness and dynamism of humanist sans serif, the simple and softness of lubok's letters (primitive style) and the fluidity of shallow marine fry.
    • Lansere. An art-deco typeface inspired by lettering of Russian graphic artist, painter and sculptor Evgeniy Lansere (1875-1946), whose name is also spelled Eugene Lanseray.
    • Mamontov (2007-2008). A wood type with large incisions for ink traps. It has 25 weights and is based on Clarendon, except that the serifs are asymmetric (missing on one side). Mamontov won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014.
    • Pich (2014). Hand-drawn, almost a comic book typeface.
    • Ryba Kit (Fish-whale). Designed for large headlines and display typography, and based on halfustav handwriting.
    • Siberian (2013). A geometric unicase sans serif inspired by Russian avant-garde typography and old Siberian runic scripts (Orkhon-Yenisey script): The idea was to create a typeface so simple, cold and beautiful as the snow in Siberia. This typeface with its numerous stylistic sets could be used for Cyrillic simulation. Siberian won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014.
    • Slovolitnaya (2008). A pixel typeface based on the old forms of Cyrillic and works of the Russian style artists like Mihail Vrubel and Ivan Bilibin, who revived these forms in their design in the beginning of the 20th century.

    Typeface catalog. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    On Embedding

    Russian type and type tools site. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    O.O. Gerbek
    [Otton Osipovich Gerbek]

    Defunct Russian type foundry. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ossip I. Lehmann Type Foundry
    [Johannes Lehmann]

    Foundry in St. Petersburg in the late 19th century, est. 1854. Their typefaces include Renata (1901), Gasetny Chorny (Newspaper Black), Black Grotesk (1874), Yelisavetinsky (1904-1907, a didone family for Baltic, Cyrillic and Latin with shapes that go back to the Russian Academy of Sciences in the 18th century, after designs by Alexander Leo; for a free digital revival, see Elisabethische (2018) by Oleg Matison), Diamant (1937, a 3d shadow headline lineale), Obiknovennaya (1940s) and Obiknovennaya Novaya (1940s).

    Revivals include Standard Poster (a Paratype font by V. Yefimov, 1992, which was based on a design from 1986 at Polygraphmash, and which in turn was inspired by the fat didone styles of the Ossip Lehmann type foundry), Chekhovskoy (2017, by Marath Salychow), Elisabethische (by Marath Salychow, 2018), and Elizabeth (Paratype).

    In 2013, Vasily Biryukov published the Peignotian typeface Romanovsky at Paratype: Romanovsky is a font developed on the base of samples from the catalogue of Ossip Lehmann 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 differs from the original in many details.

    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.

    Lehmann's typeface 1812 by Lehmann Type Foundry (St. Petersburg). It was created for the centenary of the French invasion of Russia, known in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812 along the lines of decorative engraved inscriptions and ornamented typefaces of that time, presumably by the artist Alexandre Benois. It was used mainly for the decoration of luxurious elegant publications. Later, in 1917, this typeface was used on the Russian Provisional Government banknotes. In the Soviet period of time '1812' appeared to be one of the few typefaces included in the first Soviet type standard OST 1337. It was produced for manual typesetting until the early 1990s. This typeface could be seen on Soviet letterheads, forms, posters and even air tickets. It was revived and extended in 2020 by Viktor Kharyk and Konstantin Golovchenko as 1812. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    OSTYPE
    [Yury Ostromentsky]

    Yuri Ostromentsky is a type and graphic designer. He is a graduate of the Moscow State University of the Printing Arts (2002), where his graduation project was done under the supervision of Alexander Tarbeev. He has worked as a designer and art director for publishers and design studios. From 2004 to 2012, he served as art director of the magazine Bolshoi Gorod (Big City), for which he created several display typefaces as well as several original typefaces and Cyrillic versions of Latin fonts in collaboration with Ilya Ruderman. His typefaces were honored at the Contemporary Cyrillic 2009 and 2014 competitions. In 2004 he and Ruderman, Dmitri Yakovlev and Darya Yarzhambek created DailyType, a website.

    Yuri ran OSTYPE as part of KunstGroup.ru. His typefaces include PrinsenGracht [Text (+Caps, +Italic), Display (+Caps, +Italic)], Poza, SSN Antique, Pilar, and Gegangen. His type system Best Life Serif (codesigned with Ilya Ruderman) won an award at Paratype K2009.

    He became associated with Custom Fonts, and designed RIA in 2013. RIA won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014.

    In 2014, Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky founded CSTM. In 2015, Ilya and Yury published Kazimir, a didone typeface family for Latin and Cyrillic, taking as a model the typeface used in The History of Russian Philology by P. N. Polevoy (1900, A. F. Marx Publishing House).

    Typefaces from 2017: Stratos Cyrillic (at Production Type, with Ilya Ruderman; a Cyrillic version of Yoann Minet's 2016 geometric grotesque typeface Stratos: it received a Type Directors Club New York Certificate of Excellence 2017), Pseudo Russian.

    Co-designer with Nikita Kanarev and Ilya Ruderman at CSTM Fonts of the 18-style exprimental typeface family Lurk (2020). It is based on an earlier version that was specially designed for the Russian youtuber Yury Dud.

    Typefaces from 2021: CSTM Xprmnntl 03 (in uncial Cyrillic, gothic blackletter and inbetween styles). In 2021, CSTM Fonts released the 42-style sans family Loos (Latin, Cyrillic, Georgian), a typeface designed by Yury Ostromentsky, Ilya Ruderman, and Daria Zorkina. Advisers on Georgian included Alexander Sukiasov and Lasha Giorgadze. At the end of 2021, Ostromentsky designed and published the 20-style (+variable font) Elzevir-inspired Maregraphe at CSTM / Type Today wth the help of Mikhail Strukov and Ilya Ruderman.

    Typefaces from 2022: Zhivov (an experimental Latin / Cyrillic typeface based on early Cyrillic graphics). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    OT Lab
    [Denis A. Serikov]

    Denis Serikov (OT Lab) is the Moscow-based Russian designer of DionisiiOTF (2003), the caps font Remeslo (2002), the Cyrillic font Clip Condensed (2002), the dingbat fonts EL Symbols (2003), Notice (2002-2007, a useful dingbat family), Notice2 (2006) and Notice3 (Notice3 (2007, household icons) DisplayOTF (2002, dot matrix), Display (2009, +3D, gridded typefaces), Remeslo STD (2009, ornamental didone), Rusticus STD (2009, roman), Rusticus (2004, semi-uncial), Agatha (2001, like Toulouse Lautrec), Display 3D (2003, pixelized face), Grafoman (weather and finger dings), DestinyLight, Shashki (2010, a game of checkers font), and the Latin/Cyrillic font Joke. His commercial typefaces are listed here. They include Pi (2009, weather and other dingbats), TUI Type Pro (a rounded sans, 2008, at Dalton Maag) and White Wind (2005, a pixel face, at Dalton Maag). Scazanie (2005) is a future project.

    Metrofont (2013, free) contains navigation and warning signs for transportation systems.

    In 2018, he published the free Latin / Cyrillic / dingbat font Dacha.

    Forum / Blog (in Russian). Dafont link. Behance link. Font Squirrel link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Otton Osipovich Gerbek
    [O.O. Gerbek]

    [More]  ⦿

    Overtype
    [Evgeniy Agasyants]

    Udmurtia, Izhevsk, Russia-based type foundry, est. 2018. Their typefaces are mostly in the comic book or cartoon genre. They include OT Puppy (2018: brush style) and Chekharda (2018). Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Oxana Bu

    Samara, Russia-based designer of the Latin display typeface Bjork (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Oxana Doubovic

    Designer at Type Market (Moscow) of the Cyrillic font Jatran (1995). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    P. Kusanian

    Russian type designer who at Poligrefmash&Intermicro designed GranitC (1993-1996). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Paper Wings

    Saratov, Russia-based designer of the signage script typefaces Mountside (2019) and Shoreline (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    ParaType

    The main digital type foundry in Russia. ParaType was established as a font department of ParaGraph International in 1989 in Moscow, Russia. At that time in the Soviet Union, all typeface development was concentrated in a state research institute, Polygraphmash. It had the most complete collection of Cyrillic typefaces, which included revivals of Cyrillic typefaces developed by the Berthold and Lehmann type foundries established at the end of 19th century in St. Petersburg, and artwork from Vadim Lazurski, Galina Bannikova, Nikolay Kudryashov and other masters of type and graphic design of Soviet time. ParaType became the first privately-owned type foundry in many years. A license agreement with Polygraphmash allows ParaType to manufacture and distribute their typefaces. Most of Polygraphmash staff designers soon moved to ParaType. In the beginning of 1998, ParaType was separated from the parent company and inherited typefaces and font software from ParaGraph. The company was directed by Emil Yakupov until February 2014. After Yakupov's death, Irina Petrova took over the reins.

    Products include FastFont, a simple TrueType builder, ParaNoise, a builder for PostScript fonts with random contours, FontLab, a universal font editor and ScanFont, a font editor with scanning module. Random, customized fonts. Multilingual fonts including, Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Greek, Georgian and Hebrew fonts for Macintosh and Windows.

    Catalog. Designers. Alternate URL.

    Famous typefaces by Paratype include Academy, Pragmatica, Newton, Courier, Futura, Petersburg, Jakob, Kuenstler 480, ITC Studio Script, ITC Zapf Chancery, Amore CTT (2004, Fridman), Karolla, Inform, Hafiz (Arabic), Kolheti (Georgian), Benzion (Hebrew).

    The PT Sans (Open Font Library link), PT Serif and PT Mono families (2009-2012) are free. PT stands for Public Type. Another download site. PT Sans, for example, consists of PTSans-Bold, PTSans-BoldItalic, PTSans-Caption, PTSans-CaptionBold, PTSans-Italic, PTSans-Narrow, PTSans-NarrowBold, PTSans-Regular.

    Other free ParaType fonts include Courier Cyrillic, Pushkin (2005, handwriting font), and a complete font set for Cyrillic.

    Type designers include Vladimir Yefimov, Tagir Safayev, Lyubov Kuznetsova, Manvel Schmavonyan and Alexander Tarbeev. They give this description of the 370+ library: The Russian constructivist and avant garde movements of the early 20th century inspired many ParaType typefaces, including Rodchenko, Quadrat Grotesk, Ariergard, Unovis, Tauern, Dublon and Stroganov. The ParaType library also includes many excellent book and newspaper typefaces such as Octava, Lazurski, Bannikova, Neva or Petersburg. On the other hand, if you need a pretty typeface to knock your clients dead, meet the ParaType girls: Tatiana, Betina, Hortensia, Irina, Liana, Nataliscript, Nina, Olga and Vesna (also check Zhikharev who is not a girl but still very pretty). ParaType also excels in adding Cyrillic characters to existing Latin typefaces -- if your company is ever going to do business with Eastern Europe, you should make them part of your corporate identity! ParaType created CE and Cyrillic versions of popular typefaces licensed from other foundries, including Bell Gothic, Caslon, English 157, Futura, Original Garamond, Gothic 725, Humanist 531, Kis, Raleigh, and Zapf Elliptical 711.

    Finally, ParaType offers a handwriting font service out of its office in Saratoga, CA: 120 dollars a shot.

    View the ParaType typeface library. Another view of the ParaType typeface collection. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Paratype Lab

    Paratype's version of Future Fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    ParaType News

    ParaType news, in Russian. De-Fis is ParaType's e-zine. Russian type glossary. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pasha Larin
    [Larin Type Co]

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    Paul Glazkov
    [Level Up]

    [More]  ⦿

    Paul Hewitt

    Art director in Moscow who published these script typefaces in 2018: Planty, Jasmine, Marmalade (brush), Sophie (a signature font). In 2019, he designed Justices, Better Signature, Hey Babes, Dunes, Seville Signature, Mystery, Charleston, Saturday, Camellia, Botanica, Little Rock (monoline script), Darling, Sophia (a great signature script), Pacific and Pretty Peach. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pavel Drakunov

    Art director and calligrapher based in Moscow. In 2017, he published the wonderfully dramatic free vector format semi-uncial calligraphic typeface Beresta for Latin and Cyrillic, and the free experimental slavonic emulation typeface Mart. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pavel Efremov

    In 2014, Pavel Efremov, Danil Plyutenko and Aleksander Smolnikov co-designed the Praktik typeface during their studies at BHSAD in Moscow. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pavel Eliseev

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the painted typeface Umbra (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pavel Emelyanov

    Pavel Emelyanov (b. 1982, Kandalaksha, Russia) is a graphic designer, art director and web designer based in Murmansk. He is part of Ivan Gladkikh's typeType team.

    With Ivan Gladkikh, he designed the free font Prosto (2012), which covers Latin, Cyrillic and all East-European languages [see also Google Web Fonts].

    In 2018, Ivan Gladkikh and Pavel Emelyanov, with the technical assistance of Marina Khodak, Vika Usmanova and Nadyr Rakhimov, designed TT Commons. TT Commons is a universal sans family originally created for the branding and in-house use of TypeType, but it was finally released due to many requests. Pavel also helped with the design of TT Norms in 2018.

    In 2019, Pavel Emelyanov and Ivan Gladkikh released the 20-style geometric sans typeface TT Hoves, which is intended for use in architecture, design, industry, science, astronomy, drawing, high tech, research, space and statistics.

    Co-designer of TT Norms Std Condensed (2020: an 18-font family by Pavel Emelyanov, Yulia Gonina and the TypeType Team).

    In 2020, he was part of the Type Type team that designed TT Ramillas, a 20-style high contrast transitional serif by Pavel Emelyanov, Marina Khodak, Yulia Gonina and Kseniya Karataeva. TT Ramillas also contains variable styles.

    In 2021, Antonina Zhulkova, Pavel Emelyanov and Yulia Gonina (aided by Radik Tukhvatullin and Marina Khodak) co-designed the 32-style geometric sans TT Fors which comes in standard, display and variable versions. Still in 2021, she co-designed TT Commons Classic (a 24-style geometric sans by Ivan Gladkikh, the TypeType Team, Pavel Emelyanov and Marina Khodak; it includes two variable fonts). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Pavel Isaenko

    Art director in Moscow who created the circular typeface Garnitura Round in 2006 for Latin and Cyrillic scripts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pavel Korneev

    Russian designer of Fontocide, the Cyrillic/Latin version of Berry Brook's grunge font Fontocide. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pavel Korzhenko
    [Vintage Voyage Design]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Pavel Kuzanyan

    Also written Kusanyan. Russian type designer, book designer, graphic artist, illustrator and calligrapher, who lived in Moscow, 1901-1992. Creator of calligraphic typefaces such as PT Decor (1979), which was digitized at ParaType in 1989 by Gennady Baryshnikov with the assistance of Vladimir Yefimov. He made the severe typeface Granit in 1966 at Polygraphmash type design bureau. He also made Mir, Pushkinskiy dekorativnyi (1970), Narrow Modern Antique (1958), and the text families Kuzanyan and Neva (digital version and bold styles were designed for ParaType in 2002 by Lyubov Kuznetsova). ParaType link. Scan of a Cyrillic alphabet from 1967.

    Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pavel Michailovich Kuzanshn

    Russian type designer, b. 1901. Faces include Garnitura Kuzanshna (1961), Granit (1967), Neva (1970), Mir (1970), Puschkinskiy Dekorativny (1973) and Dekor. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pavel Nevsky

    Illustrator, graphic and type designer, and 3d modeler, b. 2001 in Moscow. He graduated from MGHPA (Faculty of Graphic Design of the Stroganov Academy) in 2018.

    In 2022, Matthew Grouss, Ksenia Churilova and Pavel Nevsky released the 16-weight constructivist typeface Nowar, a variable typeface that features Latin, Cyrillic and Hebrew scripts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Pavel Potapov

    Omsk, Russia-based designer of the rounded sans stencil font Trans Siberian (2015; Latin and Cyrillic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pavel Radok

    Russian designer of BB Play (2006, Art Lebedev). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pavel Radyuk

    Russian desiger at Art Lebedev Studio of BBPlay (2006), a pixelish typeface for Ergo screens. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pavel Skrylev

    Russian type designer who contributed to the GNU Freefont project: Cyrillic Extended-A (U+2DEO-U+2DFF) as well as many of the additions to Cyrillic Extended-B (U+A640-U+A65F). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pavel Storchilov
    [Airunreal]

    [More]  ⦿

    Pavel Tsakhilov

    Moscow-based designer of the hairline deco typeface Natalie (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pavel Zertsikel

    Pavel Zertsikel (Rostov na Donu, Russia) has some nice calligraphic examples. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pavel Zyumkin

    Russian designer of the high-contrast deco typeface Zum-Zum (2020, Art Lebedev Studio). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Peliken
    [Ksenya Kuznetsova]

    Or Ksenia Kuznetsova. Moscow-based designer of the tribal patterned color typeface Aleut (2018) and the dry brush typeface Drum (2018).

    In 2018, she added the stars-and-stripes color font America, the color ransom font Anon, the color font Mexifont, and the children's book font Hands Up.

    Typefaces from 2019: Handsup (a children;s book color font), Catsme (a cat-themed opentype SVG font), Crochet (an opentype SVG font).

    Typefaces from 2020: Branch (a Latin / Cyrillic typeface whose Latin component could be used for slavonic emulation purposes). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Pen Art
    [Max Orloff]

    Russian site in Moscow. Ubo is the designer of the free font Soviet Stencil (2009). Alternate URL where we learn that Ubo is Max Orloff (b. 1984). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Perpetual Motion

    Perpetual Motion (Moscow, Russia) created some experimental geometric typefaces in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Peter R. Rudneff

    Designer of the Cyrillic font Myfont1 (1995). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Peter Zeenoviev

    Russian designer at FontStruct in 2008 of BFEksika and BF Mnemonika Regular (pixel face). In 2009, he made PZ Grotepix Book. Aka petrzee. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Peter Zharnov

    Russian type and logotype designer. His fonts include EmpPix (2008) and Zhizn (2012, hand-printed).

    Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Philip Burok

    This Russian graffiti artist and illustrator created a stunning brush alphabet in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Philipp Fomin

    Russian graphic and type designer. His typefaces are mostly experimental and explore interesting paths: PF Square One (2009, +Rounded), PF Pixel, PF Beaten Pixel, PF Energetic (interesting high-legged pixel face), PF Alefbet. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Philipp Nurullin

    Or Phill Nurullin. Designer from Saint Petersburg, Russia, specializing in type design, typography and web design, active at TypeType. His typefaces include TT Backwards (2017): an experimental script and grotesque font family inspired by the typographic scenery in the USSR in the late 70s and early 80s, designed by Tanya Cherkiz, Sergey Kotelnikov, Philipp Nurullin and the TypeType Team.

    In 2017, Vika Usmanova, Philipp Nurullin, Olexa Volochay and the TypeType Team designed the condensed modular geometric grotesk typeface TT Tunnels.

    In 2018, Phill Nurullin, Nadyr Rakhimov, Olexa Volochay and the TypeType Team designed the humanist sans typeface family TT Wellingtons, while Nadezhda Polomoshnova, Vika Usmanova, Phill Nurullin, Nadyr Rakhimov and the TypeType Team co-designed TT Jenevers. In 2018, Sofia Yasenkova, Philipp Nurullin, and Vika Usmanova designed the modern serif TT Tricks at TypeType. TT Tricks has many stencil styles.

    In 2018, Ivan Gladkikh, Alexander Kirillov, Philipp Nurullin, Vika Usmanova, Marina Khodak, and Nadyr Rakhimov published TT Severs. Still 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. The TT Rounds family was reworked in 2018 into TT Rounds Neue by Ivan Gladkikh, Philipp Nurullin and the TypeType Team. TT Firs Neue (2018) is a cold Scandinavian sans family by Philipp Nurullin and Ivan Gladkikh, characterized by polyline early-Futura-like glyphs.

    Typefaces from 2020: TT Runs (a 20-style sports sans by the TypeType team in cooperation with Vika Usmanova, Antonina Zhulkova and Philipp Nurullin).

    In 2020, Philipp Nurullin and Konstantin Bulenkov published the free programming font family JetBrains Mono for Latin and Cyrillic. Google Fonts link. Fontsquirrel link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Piñata
    [Alex Denisov]

    Based in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Piñata is the experimental branch of the TypeType Team, which consists of Aleksandr Kudryavtsev, Sasha Denisov, Irina Gladkova, Nadyr Rakhimov, Olexa Volochay, Dmitry Greshnev, Tanya Cherkiz, and Pavel Emelyanov. Invited specialists include Maria Mizernitskaya, Philipp Nurullin, Olga Yumartova, Svetlana Malyshko, Konstantin Biryukov, Katya Kistrin, Alena Korobanova, Eugenia Pestova, Yuliana Morgun, Misha Panfilov and Dmitry Grekov. Its typefaces:

    • TT Pines (2014-2015). A sans based on paper cutouts.
    • TT Rabbits (2016). Ten handcrafted typefaces for children's books, with substyles April, Bro, Chilli, Dummy, Elf, Fatso, Goody, Hyper, Idol, Junior.
    • Inters (2017).
    • Blushes (2017).
    • Basilic (2017).
    • Dew (2017).
    • Espresso (2017).
    • Walls and Walls Rough (2017). A font family for wall menus.
    • Coats (2017).
    • Crimsons (2017).
    • Books Script (2017).
    • TT Souses (2017).
    Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Pixel Buddha

    Volgograd, Russia-based designer of the script typeface Alannah (2017) and the rounded all caps national park typeface Forestion (2021). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Pixelwerk (was: Sobaka Pavlova)
    [Natasha Anisimova]

    Sochi and/or Moscow, Russia-based designer of Stuva (2018: futuristic), Geometric Pattern (2016), the fine poster typeface Tall Stripes (2016, for Latin) and the colored EPS format deco typeface Five Decor (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    PIXLmeister
    [Albert Arzumanyan]

    Russian designer of the vampire script or fantasy font Castles N Fairies (2020). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Pokras Lampas

    Moscow based self-styled calligraffiti artist. He specializes in calligraphy on girls. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Polina Belenchuk

    During her studies at the British High School of Art and Design in Moscow, Polina Belenchuk designed the outlined display typeface Kapusta (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Polina Chistyakova
    [Innire]

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    Polina Larina

    Graphic designer and illustrator in Moscow. In 2016, she designed these semi-experimental typefaces for Laton and Cyrillic: Boyko, Pilma. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Polina Loseva

    Moscow-based designer of the free Latin / Cyrillic uncial typeface Legend (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Polina Ocean

    During her studies in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Polina Ocean created the Latin / Cyrillic stencil typeface Perspectiva (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Polina Okean

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the free semi-stencil typeface Perspective (or Perspectiva) (2015, Latin and Cyrillic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Polina Proday

    Moscow-based designer of a blackletter typeface in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Polina Tyurnikova

    Graphic designer in Moscow who created the eerie frilly display typeface Wildthings (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Polina Zimina

    Krasnoyarsk, Russia-based designer of Monster Alphabet (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Polly Khvostova

    Graphic designer in Samara, Russia, who deconstructed Georgia into a triplet of experimental typefaces in a project called Transformation (2013). She also made a set of icons called Zoo (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Polygraphmash

    Russian state foundry very active in the second half of the 20th century. MyFonts explains: "ParaType was established as a font department of ParaGraph International in 1989 in Moscow, Russia. At that time in the Soviet Union all typeface development was concentrated in one rather small group which belonged to a state research institute, Polygraphmash. It had the most complete and in fact the only one collection of Cyrillic typefaces. The collection included revivals of Cyrillic typefaces developed by Berthold and Lehmann type foundries established at the end of 19th century in St. Petersburg and artworks of Vadim Lazurski, Galina Bannikova, Nikolay Kudryashov and other masters of type and graphic design of Soviet time. ParaType became the first privately-owned type foundry in many years. A license agreement with Polygraphmash allows ParaType to manufacture and distribute their typefaces. Most of Polygraphmash staff designers soon moved to ParaType." Designers included Vera Chiminova, Igor Zhikharev, Mihail Grigorevich Rovenskiy, Svetlana Yermolaeva, Henrik Mnatsakanyan, Elvira Slysh, Vadim Vladimirovich Lazurski, Solomon Telingater, Elena Tzaregorodtseva, Emma Zakharova, Lyubov Alexeyevna Kuznetsova, Nikolay Nikolayevich Kudryashev, and Zinaida Maslennikova. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Popkern
    [Anna Seslavinskaya]

    Letterer, open source supporter, and visual designer from Russia (b. 1988) who is based in San Francisco. Graduate of BHSAD (the British Higher School of Art and Design) in Moscow, class of 2013. She founded Popkern. Her typefaces:

    • The hexagonal (student project) display typeface Sanity (2013). Free download.
    • The oriental simulation typeface Sangha (2014). free download. see also here. Extended to the free Sangha Kali in 2018. Both Sanity and Sangha cover Latin and Cyrillic.
    • The hipster typeface La Revolution Française (2015).
    • At Popkern, she published the oblique all caps sans typeface Twelkmeyer (2017). It was inspired by the pathos of the late revolutionary asceticism and architectural projects of V.F. Twelkmeyer. Dedicated site for Twelkmeyer.
    • Luftayah (2018).
    • The free blackletter typeface Health Goth. For a retail, version, see Type Tomorrow.

    Github link. Type Tomorrow link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Practic

    Russian foundry. Designers of exquisite ornaments and dingbats: Corners (1994), Lines (1994), Modern (1994), Vignette (1994), and Ornament 1 through 6 (1994). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Proektor

    Russian design (and occasionally type) mag in which Olga Ru (St. Petersburg) is involved. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Pyotr Bushuev
    [Naum Type]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Qilli Design
    [Veronika Golovko]

    Veronika Golovko or Veronika Qilli (Qilli Design, Novorossiysk, Russian Federation) specializes in scrapbook fonts. She designed the brush typefaces Michelly (2015) and Jemmer (2015), and the hand-painted font Bellious (2015). In 2016, she designed Gentle Air, Clouds Caprice, Drawing A Life, Sorcery (a curly vampire script), Magic Snow (brushed), Joy In Night (Halloween font), Autumn Madness (perhaps for children's books), Belles Script, and the brush typefaces Adeline and Melony Script.

    Typefaces from 2017: Hello Love (with heart textutres), Douillet (sketched), Tiny Joy (textured), Playful (paper cutout), Magic Days (brush), Gentle Air (curly script), Mirabelle (calligraphic script), Francy, Celine Modern (artsy beatnik style), La Balade, Mirelia (brush font), De Plaisir Autour (sic) (counterless), Artless (connected script).

    Typefaces from 2018: Golden Day (monoline script), Only Yesterday, Summer Day, Spring Dreams (decorative caps), Just Step.

    Typefaces from 2019: Only Joy, Angel Star, Amber Day (brush font), Magnoly, Clouds Caprice, Spring Dreams, Be Amazing, Starry.

    Typefaces from 2020: Funny Christmas, Starry, Mirabelle Script, Golden Day. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Quba Type (was: Graphic Studio 33)
    [Vladimir Platonov]

    Russian designer of Rubas (2020: octagonal, with eleven inline variants), Triagonal (2020: triangular, ocragonal), Tamitsa (2020: a squarish techno typeface), Falcon Sport (2020, +a squarish stencil), Kianda Pro (2020) and Kianda (2020: a squarish typeface).

    Typefaces from 2021: Eaglesport (an octagonal sports shirt font family). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Quothron (was: TJ Creative)
    [Arthur Ilyin]

    Tommy James or Arthur Quathron or Arthur Ilyin, claiming to be in the UK, b. 1990. MyFonts mentions that Arthur Ilyin is based in Russia. His type collection consists mainly of calligraphic or semi-calligraphic scripts. As Tommy James, he ran TJ Creative and designed these script typefaces in 2018: Ultralife Sansa, The Forest Factory, Sallie, Beginning, Dammiano, Embrain, Unforgiven, South Pimllin, Sloothine, Zeatoner, Autumn Mood, Roottenberg, Snallie Soul, Nindalla, Quick Cloud, Glimpse, Fall of the Ghost, Exella, Lamhawk, Rattun, The Shellra, Cinthia Font, The Quick Brown, The Yellon, Elevation, Morale, The Breat, So Fresh, Vander, Belashic, Snaus, Wanda, Weendovre, Avantyre, Gamodora, Bring, Rakhino, Kahendra, Some One, Horizon, The Monse, Across, The Nicco, The Pamele. Lovely Barthy was done at TJ Creative in 2019.

    After the switch to Quothron, he released these (mostly script) typefaces in 2019: Across, Adelmo, Anomutta Script, Armattuge, Autumn Mood, Avantyre, Battshion, Beginning, Belashic, Bimatter, Boshankem, Bring, Calligraphic, Cinthia, Creatie, Crittemo (a great swashy calligraphic typeface), Dammiano, Dannyfootto, Elevation, Embrain, Exella, Fall of the Ghost, Gamodora, Glimpse, Gybella (a curly script), Heeshland, Hermany, Horizon, Kahendra, Lamhawk, Lovely Jane, Margerlliny, Morale, Nindalla, Quick Cloud, Rakhino, Rattun, Rymand, Sallie, Salloomeg Script, Sheldon, Sloothine, Snallie Soul, Snaus, So Fresh, Some One, South Pimllin, Summer Faith, The Breat, The Heattoo, The Marttins, The Monse, The Nicco, The Pamele, The Quick Brown, The Shellra, The Wind First, The Yellon, Umbrella, Unforgiven, Vander, Wanda, Weendovre, Wild South, Zeatoner.

  • In 2020, he designed Quathman (a wild calligraphic script), Misttoy (a stylish script), Juwellina, Risky Choice, Dunkan Script, Adelmo, Amratty Script, Amitany, FinuttellaScript, Deellma, Unforgiven, Ingry Script, Christmas Miracle, Monttary, Dreamlike, Hichery, Fast Line (a brush script), Bertany (swashy calligraphy) and Lord Elliot (a wild calligraphic script).

    Typefaces from 2021: Willian (wild calligraphy). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

  • RA
    [Raisa Abramova]

    Vladivostok, Russia-based designer of Orange Mochi (2021: a great informal handwriting script for Latin and Cyrillic), Salty Cracker (2021: an angular typeface true to its name), Basely Bagel (2021: a children's book typeface), Small Baguette (a funky hand-printed typeface), Mooncake (a monolinear display sans) (2021). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Rachel Raye Leininger

    Rachel Raye Leininger grew up in Russia, and lives in Kansas City, KS. In 2017, she designed the calligraphic typeface Orsay. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Raisa Abramova
    [RA]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Ramiz Guseynov
    [TipografiaRamis]

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    Rapsound

    Russian creator of the font used in the Prince of Persia game by Ubisoft. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Red Studio
    [Alisa Katrevich]

    Moscow-based designer of Comics Font (2016) and Military Font (2016, a rough Russian military stencil typeface). All her fonts are in vector or image format. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Redcollegiya
    [Marina Sozonova]

    Marina Sozonova is a Russian graphic designer and a vector artist specializing in children's book and fun hand-lettered typefaces. In 2020, she released Fancy Kingdom MS (a curly all caps font for fairies), Ginger Mate MS (hand=crafted, unicase), Third Floor MS and Maybug MS.

    Typefaces from 2021: Cafeterio MS (a scrapbook font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    REECA: Russification of Macs

    [More]  ⦿

    Richard Mandona
    [RichardDesignCo]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    RichardDesignCo
    [Richard Mandona]

    Russian type designer based in Zambia. In 2021, he designed the 7-style Saprona, a muscular sans-serif with curved terminals, tall x-height, and narrow letter forms. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Ries

    Small foundry in Moscow, ca. 1870. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rii Che

    Moscow-based designer of a Cyrillic potato font simply called Potato Font (or Kartofel'nyj in Russian) (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rimma Fedetova

    Russian fashion photographer. Behance link. Designer of the modular papercut font Mozaika (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ringlet T
    [Lilla My]

    Omsk, Russia-based designer of an experimental Latin typeface created by superimposing circles (2015), and Point (2015). She also created a set of icons and several color fonts in 2015, including the free EPS format typeface Colorplus and the colorful circle-based font Double (2015).

    Typefaces from 2016: Cooking Icons, Font Bracket. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rita Galygina

    Voronezh, Russia-based designer of a Cyrillic dry brush typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rita Kuchukbaeva

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of some handcrafted Cyrillic alphabets in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rita Nicolaeva

    During her studies in Moscow, Rita Nicolaeva created the experimental typeface Octopus (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    RK Design

    Kazan, Russia-based designer of Geoma Sans (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Robot Smith
    [Evgeny Tkhorzhevsky]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    RockBee
    [Ivan Vasilev]

    Graphic, web and typeface designer Ivan Vasilyev runs RockBee in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

    Creator of RockBee Monsters (2009), a bouncy ornamental hand-printed face. Other typefaces include RB Steel (2009, a modular metallic typeface), RB Teknokrat (2009), RB Teknon (2009, techno), RB Naftalin (2009, a free chiseled look face), RB Blockerter (2011), RB Bubble Flight (2012, bubblegum typeface).

    Behance link. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. Alternate URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Roma Lyubimov

    Russian poster designer. He created the alphading alphabets (fonts, I guess) Killer Instinct and Fury. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Roma Voroneshski
    [Lebedev Studio]

    [More]  ⦿

    Roman

    Moscovite who made the retro font Director in 2010. Having Latin and Cyrillic characters, it was designed for movie credits and titles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Roman Alexeew

    Saint Petersburg-based designer of a 3d Cyrillic alphabet (2013) called Schloss. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Roman Avdiushkin
    [Uniontype]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Roman Dementev
    [Darumo]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Roman Ershov

    Russian type designer. At the end of 2018, TypeType published TT Supermolot Neue (Roman Ershov, Marina Khodak, Nadezhda Polomoshnova, Ivan Gladkikh and the TypeType Team). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Roman Gornitsky
    [Temporary State (was: Abstrkt)]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Roman Ilynykh

    Yekaterinburg, Russia-based designer. In 2020, he created the techno typeface Ceventa. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Roman Kalabaev
    [Harmony Type (was: Roman Joki, or:(was: Holytramp)]

    [More]  ⦿

    Roman Korolev
    [Kaer]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Roman Maganet
    [Maganet]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Roman Melikhov

    Russian designer of the unicase typeface Mixcase (2020), the squarish typeface Maler (2020) and the all caps logo font Conneqt (2020).

    Typefaces from 2021: Rouben (squarish). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Roman Paslavskiy

    Saratov, Russia-based creator of Kronshtadt (2020: an almost monolinear titling sans), Roundhouse (2018), Thunderbrother (2018: an old vintage logotype font), The Harmony (2018: weathered condensed sans), Searocks (2018: free), Number9 (2018), Volki (2018), Guper Sans (2017), the grungy titling typefaces Northern Highway (2017) and Goldfather (2017), Balatype Grunge (2017), Twinable (2017), the poster typeface Zokhan (2017), the clean rounded sans typeface Chlakh (2017), and the vintage sans typeface Agroable (2017).

    Aka seveniwe. Behance link. Dafont link. Graphicriver link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Roman Popov

    Russian designer (b. 1980) who used FontStruct in 2008 to make the pixel typeface Lest. In 2010, he made the fat counterless typeface Fade. He lives in Moscow. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Roman Postovoy
    [Supremat]

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    Roman Shamin

    Moscow-based information designer. For tables and information-packed presentations, he developed the free Latin/Cyrillic sans family Hattori Hanzo (2010, with Jovanny Lemonad). Typetype link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Roman Shchyukin
    [Zerotoohero]

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    Roman Sumtsov

    Moscow-based designer of the decorative inline (Cyrillic) typeface Amperiya Deko (2018) for IQ Goods. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Roman Volkov

    Königsberg, Russia-based designer of the handcrafted typefaces Mister Sketchnote (2017) and Mrs. Sketchnote (2017). Creative Market link. Blogspot link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Roman Yarosh

    A Moscovite who created a retro font for movie titles called Retrostylefont (2011).

    Another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Roman Yershov

    Designer of Molot (2008, with Jovanny Lemonad). This squarish grotesk was extended to Supermolot in 2013.

    Blog. Fontsquirrel link. Typetype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Rosa Type

    Russian foundry, est. 2011, located in the center of Moscow. Their typefaces are free and include ROSA Arion (2011, sans) and ROSA Verde (2011, another sans family). Arial and Verdana, one wonders? Anyway, the font families cover Latin and curillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rossinsky Mihail

    Graphic designer in St. Petersburg, Russia. He made the counterless geometric fat typeface D23IGN in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Roy's Russian Language Resources

    Russian font links. Great jump page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    RTVH

    During his studies in Moscow, RT VH created several experimental typefaces such as Three-Sided Font (2014), Jungle Font (2014) and Faery Font (2013: Latin and Cyrillic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ru Design

    Design site in Russian. Has font links for Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ruble symbol

    A new symbol representing the Russian ruble will be launched in 2007. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    ruCandy

    Moscow-based designer of these fonts in 2014: Funtastic, Silva, Big Three, Big Fish, Disco, Pirate Mars One. Graphicriver link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ruslan Abasov

    Ruslan Abasov is a freelance graphic designer working on projects within the range of booklets, posters, type design, illustrations, animations and visual identities. In 2020 and 2021 he designed Tannhäuser, a decorative blackletter typeface with large contrast that was inspired by Richard Wagner's romantic opera of the same name. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ruslan Khasanov

    Ekaterinburg, Russia-based designer of Sauce Type (2014: experimental), Lumen Type (2012, experimental). Other experimental alphabets include Volna (2014, free, Vekta (2013; not to be confused with Neil Summerour's Vekta, and nor renamed Vetka: a prismatic compass-and-ruler font ideal for op-art), Superbugs (2012), Sunbeam (2012), MicroType (2011) and Magma (2012).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ruslan Khasanov

    Yekaterinburg, Russia-based graphic designer and illustrator. Behance link. He created the modul;ar display typeface Horn (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ruslan Lobachev

    Russian graphic designer and occasional typographer. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ruslan Simashev

    Mytishchi, Russia-based designer of the dymo label font Perelom (2013). In 2013, he published the (free) ornamental mechanical tool-themed typeface Flaner and the (free) techno typeface family Stringer.

    Behance link. Hellofont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ruspismo

    Russian site run by Serge V K, devoted to Russian. It covers the history of the Russian language, its paleography, the Cyrillic script, and the Glagolitic characters. It contains photographs of manuscripts, and has information on fonts made in Russia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Russian constructivists

    The Russian constructivists of the 1920s and 1930s include Alexander Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova, Vladimir and George Stenberg and Gustav Klutsis. Their lettering is always geometrical. A typical Cyrillic family of typefaces was recreated by Tagir Safayev at ParaType in 1996-2002, called PT Rodchenko. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Russian Fonts
    [Misha Panfilov]

    Misha Panfilov (Russian Fonts, St. Petersburg, Russia) created the free Cyrillic simulation Latin/Cyrillic font Tsarevich (2014). Later in 2014, he published Pribambas (free poster font), Shadow (a strong sans), Galaktika (a rounded sci-fi typeface), the free hand-drawn typeface Beryozki (Latin & Cyrillic) and the free poster typeface Fantazyor.

    In 2016, he designed the Latin / Cyrillic display typeface Ogonyok, the Latin / Cyrillic typeface Gora (+Stencil) and the free constructivist / art nouveau / pre-Petrine Latin / Cyrillic typeface Dobrozrachniy (with Aleksander Moskovskin).

    Typefaces from 2017: RF Rostin (monospaced, ideal for programming), RF Rufo (condensed sans), Krabuler (a fun free children's book or comic book font; free; by Cyril Mikhailov and Misha Panfilov), RF Barbariska (handcrafted and friendly).

    Typefaces from 2018: RF Tone (a geometric sans with short descenders), RF Dewi.

    Typefaces from 2019: RF Takt (a geometric sans).

    Behance link. Home page. Creative Market link. Behance link for Russian Fonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Russian foundries, ca. 1870

    This list is extracted from the (German) text of Die Industrie Russlands in ihrer bisherigen Entwicklung und in ihrem gegenwärtigem Zustande mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der allgemeinen russischen Manufactur-Ausstellung im Jahre 1870 Industrielles Handbuch für das Gesammtgebiet des russischen Reiches, Band 1-2 (1872-1873, Friedrich Matthaï, Gera: Griesbach). The Finance Ministry reports ten foundries in 1870. A lot of type was imported from foundries like F. Flinsch (Frankfurt). The leading foundry in Russia was Osip Lehmann (founded in St. Petersburg in 1854). Also in St. Petersburg, one of the main printers there, Moritz Wolf, has started a foundry as well. There are other small foundries associated with the Academy of Sciences, with the Senate, with the Ministry of War, with the Office of the Emperor, and with the Interior Ministry, for example. Other small foundries include W. Besobrasow&Cie in St. Petersburg, and Iwan Glasunow (I presume also in that city). In Moscow can one find the oldest foundry in Russia (for Slavonic scripts), which is associated with the Sinodal printing company. Smaller foundries in Moscow include those of Ries and of Tschuksin. Mr. Steffenhagen runs a small foundry in Mietau. As Russia also comprised Poland then, we learn that Warsaw had three foundries, of which that of S. Orgelbrand (founded in 1836) was the largest and most impoortant. The other two were run by W. Schreiber and P. Swichotzki, respectively. Finally, the Alexander University in Helsingfors also had its own foundry, founded in 1842 and run by H. Hanemann. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Russian Izhitsa
    [Oleg Motygin]

    Russian Izhitsa is a metafont developed by Oleg Motygin. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Rustam Gabbasov
    [LetterBe]

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    Samuil Levich

    It was bound to happen. I am surprised that I had to wait until may 2016 before I saw my first Shit Font, but Samuil Levich (Chelyabinsk, Russia) obliged. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sana Svyazhin

    Graphic designer in Verkhnyaya Tura, Russia, who created the modular typeface Bossa Nova in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sarah B

    At Moscow State University of Printing Arts in 2019, Sarah B designed a hand-lettered alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sasha B. Perelman

    Graphic designer in Moscow who made the free vector font Carrote (2015, Latin and Cyrillic), which is based on carrot prints. He also made the free hexagonal typeface Vibrey (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sasha Bersym

    During his studies at the School of Type design in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Sasha Bersym designed the monolinear sans typeface Parazit (2016-2017), which covers Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sasha Bokova

    Fashion illustrator in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Wishlist (2013) is an ornamental caps typeface that consists of fashion accessories. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sasha Ermolenko

    Russian illustrator who created Pixel Antiqua (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sasha Koggio

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the free brush-lettered Latin typeface Handletter (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sasha Kolesnik

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the symbol font Microbos (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sasha Kurilenko

    Russian designer of SK Rohkea (2021), a modular poster font for Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Sasha Lend

    Belgorod, Russia-based designer of the free techno headline font Illuminateur (2016), the free circle--themed font Nota Subtilis (2016), and the free rounded monoline sans typeface Discographix (2016).

    For a Scandinavian poster, he created a runic hexagonal typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sasha Mitkalova

    Illustrator based in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. In 2020, Sasha released several sets of icons, including a useful set of hand-drawn botanical icons. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sasha Osipova

    Moscow-based designer of an untitled experimental typeface in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sasha Pavljenko

    Graphic designer in Rostov on Don, Russia, b. 1995. Designer of the all caps Latin Peignotian typeface Novoposelensky (2022). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sasha Saulich

    Graphic designer in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Creator of a high-contrast fashion mag Latin typeface called Creative Font (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sasha Selezneva

    Moscow-based designer of the painted Latin / Cyrillic typeface Looser (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sasha Snoom

    Sasha Snoom (Sestroretsk, Russia) works for KVO Crew. She designed the official LVO Crew font in 2014 in a ghoulish style. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Saza Pict

    Russian design and type blogger, b. 1985. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    School of Type Design
    [Seryozha Rasskazov]

    Simply called the School of Type Design, this study opportunity in Saint Petersburg, Russia, has been offered by its director and founder, Seryozha Rasskazov, since its inception in 2014 (with a small hiatus between 2021 and 2023). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Scorpy Design Studio
    [Michael Golovachev]

    Samara, Russia-based designer of several experimental typefaces, mostly, but not exclusively from 2009 until 2013. These include Ringrid (experimental), Jamaica, Stubdetail, Elisabeth, Displace, Oshi Kito (patterns), Radius (an arc-based minimalist font), Squarefont, SOS, Applefont2 (based on Apple's logo), Egypt Concept (hieroglyphic simulation font), Punto, Anomaly (2005), Worm Form, Middle, Bendliner (paperclip font), Mobile Module, Constructure, Twillinger (modular), Longliner (piano key typeface in Crouwel's style), Anomaly2 (connect-the-dots face), Anomaly Quadro, New Display, Strange Font, Ptich (Martian font), Eleven Element (circle and arc font), Home Station (octagonal, techno), Horizontal (squarish and modular), Strategy (swastika-based typeface), Twirl (wavy), Microtwirl, Absolute Logic, Minim, Moonoom, Hybread, Breakthrough (numerals), Industrial Garbage (2013), Unnecessary Element, Electro Station (2009-2010), Circle In Sphere, New Paisley, Vertigo Vertical.

    Noteworthy projects include Limiting Concentration (2010), an experiment with concentric circles.

    Behance link. Dribble link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Segey Golosov

    Digital artist in Moscow who made the Cyrillic hand-printed typeface Princeska (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Semyon Voronov

    Russian designer of the free octagonal / constructivist Latin / Cyrillic typeface Semyon Soviet (2020). Open Font Library link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sentimental Postman

    Russian designer of these handcrafted typefaces: Strawberry Jam, Round+Round, Mon Ami, Stranger (scratchy script). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Serezha Zhigarev

    Moscow, Russia-based designer who worked for BBDO, Q10, and HC Spartak Moscow. Designer of Russian Avant Garde Olympics Pictograms (2019) and the Latin / Cyrillic industrial font Radiotechnika (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Serg Borovikov

    Saint Petersburg-based creator of the free Latin / Cyrillic display typeface Odin (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Serge Agronsky

    Designer at Graphic bureau Az-Zet of the zodiac sign font LifeSigns (1995), the Cyrillic/Latin fonts AZGaramondExtraBoldC (1990-1995), ParagonNordC (1990-1995), and ELIZAZPS (1993). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Serge Lapin
    [Lapin Design]

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    Serge Pronin

    Designer from Moscow. Behance link. He created the pixel typeface Biznesgrad1 (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergei Anenko

    Moscow-based designer of the comic book Latin typeface Mr. Bean (2013).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergei Egorov

    Born in Moscow in 1963. A graduate of Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1985, he became a TeX specialist. Since 2003, he creates his own typefaces. Gaithersburg, MD-based designer of a Cyrillic Venetian typeface (2004) called Bucentoro. At TypeArt 05, he received awards for Bucentero and SPQR Caps. He is working on Bucentoro Greek (2006). In Bucentoro's low-contrast design, we can find influences of Nicholas Jenson, Francisco Griffo and Vadim Lazursky. Currently, Sergei Egorov lives in the Washington, DC, area.

    His Neacademia (2009, +Kursiv) won an award at Paratype K2009. It was published in 2011 at Rosetta Type: Neacademia is a Latin and Cyrillic type family inspired by the types cut by 15th century Italian punch-cutter Francesco Griffo da Bologna for the famous Venetian printer and publisher Aldus Pius Manutius. The family is designed for lengthy texts. Neacademia Subhead (Rosetta) followed in 2015. This typeface family has all the renaissance character and typographic finesse that was promised---it is absolutely stunning. In 2016, he added Neacademia Small text.

    Klingspor link. MyFonts link to his own foundry. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Sergei Kolesov

    Illustrator in Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia. Creator of the geometric bicolored Latin alphabet Retro (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergei Serov

    Sergei Serov is the president of the Golden Bee, an international biennale of graphic design, and of the Golden Bee Association, Moscow. He is the Editor in Chief of Soyuz Dizaynerov, a Russian journal of design. He is the academic secretary of the Academy of Graphic Design, Moscow, and the director of the Russian Design Centre. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergey Bykov
    [zao4nik]

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    Sergey Chekhonin

    Sergey Vasil'evich Tchehonine (Chekhonin) (b. 1878, Valdayka, Novgorod province, d. 1936, Loerrach, Germany) was a Russian graphic artist, portrait miniaturist, ceramicist, and illustrator, who belonged to the World of Art (Mir Iskusstva) group in early 20th century Russia. He was a master vignette, logo and illuminated letter drawer. Wikipedia: In 1928, Chekhonin left the Soviet Union and emigrated to Paris. There he worked in the field of artistic industry and stage set design. He also lived in Germany, worked in theaters and engaged himself in painting porcelain and working on book design, preferring them to decorative multi-color printing painting on fabrics.

    His lettering style influenced several type designers. Here are a few examples:

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    Sergey Gladinov

    Ekaterinburg, Russia-based designer of Xeno (2014, a Latin/Cyrillic hipster font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergey Godovalov
    [True Story Letterworks]

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    Sergey Golyashov

    Russian designer of the Cyrillic/Latin font OgilvieCyr (the original was by Kiwi Media). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergey Kanatyev

    Moscow-based designer who created several unnamed modular Latin fonts in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergey Kandakov

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the graffiti font Vandal (2017). Aka Vecster. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergey Kazakov

    Russian designer of the Cyrillic/Latin version of Galaxy (a font originally done by Fontalicious), Agitprop (1998-2000, originally from ICG: Latin and Cyrillic constructivist typeface), Prospect (original by ShyWedge), and the Cyrillic/Latin fonts CheapPizza and Macaroni (2000).

    Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergey Kharlamov

    Russian designer of the Cyrillic version of Porsche. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergey Komarov
    [ASCON]

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    Sergey Korkin

    Russian designer of the scratchy typeface Harizmix (2017) and the sans typefaces Serkorkin Standart (sic) (2013) and Serkorkin Poster (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergey Kotelnikov

    Russian motion and 3D designer based in Nizhny Tagil. In 2017, Sergei graduated from the six month font design course at TypeType Education. His graduation typeface there is the modrrn geometric Catrine.

    His typefaces include TT Backwards (2017): an experimental script and grotesque font family inspired by the typographic scenery in the USSR in the late 70s and early 80s, designed by Tanya Cherkiz, Sergey Kotelnikov, Philipp Nurullin and the TypeType Team.

    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. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Sergey Kulistov

    Russian designer of the Latin lettering typeface Bubble Handsketched (2015). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergey Lavrenov
    [Siberian Art]

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    Sergey Merkurov

    Sergey Dmitrievich Merkurov (b. 1881, Alexandropol, d. 1952, Moscow) was a prominent Soviet sculptor-monumentalist of Greek-Armenian descent. He was a People's Artist of the USSR, an academic at the Soviet Academy of Arts, and director of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts from 1944 to 1949. Merkurov was considered the greatest Soviet master of post-mortem masks. He made the three biggest monuments of Joseph Stalin in the USSR. In 1931, he published an erotic alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergey Mikheev
    [Sergio Storm]

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    Sergey Mironov

    Moscow, Russia-based professional photographer. Designer of the blackletter fonts Manuscript (2015) and Modern Gothic Blackletter (2015). In 2016, he designed the fat typeface Brush (2016).

    Typefaces from 2018: New Blackletter. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergey Pleshkov

    Together with Julia Krysanova (or Julia Artamanova), Moscow-based Sergey Pleshkov designed the flared (lapidary) Latin / Cyrillic text typeface Flandria in 2013. This typeface has its dedicated site. Flandria comes in Regular, Italic, Display and Poster (stencil). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergey Poluhin

    Sergey Poluhin (Saint Petersburg, Russia) created the Latin font Svod Display in 2015 and wrote: Svod is a display typeface inspired by the forms of architectural vaults of medieval cathedrals and the shape of their stained-glass windows. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergey Ryadovoy

    In 2016, Sergey Ryadovoy (Yekaterinburg, Russia) and Jovanny Lemonad co-designed the free black typeface Peace Sans (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergey Shanovich

    Designer at Type Market (Moscow) of the Cyrillic fonts Fita_church (1994), Fita_Poluustav (1995), Fita_Vjaz (1995), HeliosCond (1993), OpiumNew (1996), Palladium-Bold (1994), Romul (1995: after Carol Twombly's Trajan Pro), Secretary (1996, based on ITC American Type Writer). See also here. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergey Shapiro

    Moscow-based graphic and print designer, whose lettering in his logos is stunning. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergey Shapovalov
    [Shapovalov Fonts]

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    Sergey Vasenin

    Moscow, Russia-based designer. In 2020, Maxim Krasheninnikov and Sergey Vasenin co-designed the free painted letter font Maler, the display and brush pair Karlo Cham, and the octagonal typeface dead Author. Dribble link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergey Vladimirovich Kuznetsov
    [Character webzone]

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    Sergey Yakunin

    Bored with Arial, Sergey Yakunin (Ekaterinburg, Russia) created the Latin sans serif typeface Rayon (2013). He writes: Rayon is a sans-serif typeface in four weights, all with small caps. This typeface intended for heading text, large inscriptions and logotypes.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sergio Storm
    [Sergey Mikheev]

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer who studied at studied design courses at: Michigan State University and at California Institute of the Arts. In 2022, he released Gardariki (in the style of Wim Crouwel's piano key typefaces; for Latin and Cyrillic). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Serj Nikolaev

    Serj Nikolaev (Moscow) created a prismatic alphabet in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Seryozha Rasskazov
    [Zeh Foundry]

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    Seryozha Rasskazov
    [School of Type Design]

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    Setter Zet
    [MXMV Design]

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    Sexp

    Experimental graphical studio in Russia. Creators of the Latin / Cyrillic typeface J Sans (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Shapovalov Fonts
    [Sergey Shapovalov]

    Russian graphic designer and lettering artist who studied in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Designer of the pixel typeface Pixerius (2020) and the condensed sans Triplepass (2020), which has an octagonal version (Chop) and a stencil version (Stencil), and covers both Latin and Cyrillic.

    Typefaces from 2022: Leapfrog (a rounded children's book sans). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Shimanov Types
    [Alexander Shimanov]

    Russian graphic designer, graffiti writer, and lettering artist, b. 1980, USSR.

    Typefaces from 2022: ST Titan (retro futuristic).

    He released these Latin / Cyrillic typefaces in 2020 and 2021: Druzhba (a retro bold display font), Komsomol (stylish retro grotesque), Kooperativ (Soviet poster), Petrovica (Russian Emperor), ST-Bubblegum (ultracondensed), ST-Departament (80-90s sci-fi), ST-Druzhba (retro bold display), ST-Gaidar (cartoonish; a Flintstone or chiseled rock font), ST-Nizhegorodsky (Neo Cyrillic), ST-SimpleSquare (simple square), ST-Tokyo (oriental emulation), ST Saturn (retro futuristic), Stengazeta (retro grotesque). In 2019, he designed Meteoritika (a retro science font) and Agitaciya (Soviet propaganda). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Shriftovik Foundry
    [Tikhon Reztcov]

    At ATFI (Moscow) and later Shriftovik Foundry (also in Moscow), Tikhon Reztcov designed the free blocky typeface Markh (2018), SK Pencil (2018), Futark (2018), the free contructivist Latin / Cyrillic typeface ReSquare (2018), the free monoline display sans typeface ForestSmooth (2018) and the free scratchy font Ustroke (2018) for Latin and Cyrillic.

    Typefaces from 2019: SK Irrationalist (originally, a free constructivist typeface), SK Primo, SK Eliz (a free pixel font.

    Typefaces from 2020: SK Concretica (a caps only monumentalist or hipster typeface for Latin, Greek, Cyrilllic, Hebrew, katakana and hiragana), SK Brushwood (co-designed with Alexandra Valuikina), SK Cuber, SK Moralist (a fat finger font), SK Cynic (a pixel emulation font).

    Typefaces from 2021: SK Shriftovik (constructivist; Latin and Cyrillic), SK Phlegmatica (a square-shaped letter font), SK Glypher (almost a tape font). Behance link for Shriftovik Foundry. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Shuka Design
    [Ivan Velichko]

    Moscow-based designer at Shuka Design of the hipster sans typeface Gertrude (2017). Shuka Design's is true to its motto: liberté, visualité, identité. Behance link for Ivan Velichko. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Siberian Art
    [Sergey Lavrenov]

    Sergey Lavrenov (Siberian Art) designed the curly handcrafted decorative typeface Elf Line in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Silva Vasil

    During his studies at the High School of Graphic Design in Moscow, Silva Vasil designed a dada typeface called Brooklyn (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Simhoko

    Moscow-based web designer who released the all caps display-plus-stencil typeface Dront in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sinodal

    Printer in Moscow, ca. 1870, which had its own foundry. It was Russia's oldest foundry. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Slava Antipov
    [Black Orbit Art]

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    Slava Krivonosov

    Based in Kemerovo, Tomsk, Siberia, Slava Krivonosov created the free organic Latin typefaces Wikingg (2013) and Lampa (2013).

    In 2014, he added the free modular Latin / Cyrillic typeface Johny Strocker, the free sans titling typeface Docker (+Shaded, +Outline), and the free script typeface Hitchhiker. In 2016, Slava published the image format typeface Juicy. Graphicriver link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Slnc Design

    Russian designer of the free pixelized cross stitch font Retrogression for Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Slovolitni de Grande Tartaria
    [Dima Pole]

    Dima Pole (Slovolitni de Grande Tartaria, Yalta, Russia) is a Russian type designer [as a joke, he claimed on Behance to be from Russellstown, Ireland and on Hellofont he said that he was in Berjozovskii, Iceland].

    Designer of the clean sans typeface Hinton (2016), the lapidary typeface Gor (2016), and the handcrafted typefaces Pocherk 26, Zelo (calligraphic), Rusich, Etruria (based on Etruscan inscriptions, this handcrafted font tries to accurately simulate the writing of the Etruscans; published in 2018), Hors, Fufluns, and Fufluns Luna. Most of his fonts cover both Latin and Cyrillic.

    In 2017, he designed Garuspik (ultra-condensed; in Krug, Original and Kvadrat styles), Konung, which is a mixture of various medieval central European styles for Latin and Cyrillic. He also designed the contrast-rich typeface Retra, the blackletter typeface Getman, the eroded typeface family Hors, the Celtic typeface Keltichi, and the angst-ridden Dubrove (which was inspired by Moravian angular type design of 1930-50s) in 2017.

    Typefaces from 2018: Tartaria, Osovec (a wedge serif text typeface in one style), Maribor, Vinneta (a Latin / Cyrillic italic).

    Typefaces from 2019: Arkaim (East Slavic simulation style). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Smirnoff Timur

    Moscow-based designer of Bovardia (2017), a Cyrillic typeface that mixes Bodoni and Gvardia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Snow.coil.ru

    Small Russian archive. Contains Helios, the AG fonts, and Paratype DIN Condensed Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sofia Fadeeva

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the Cyrillic typeface Stroenie (2017). She also drew various calligraphic and other alphabets. Home page. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sofia Yasenkova

    Sofia (Saint Petersburg, Russia) has a Masters degree in information technology. As a student at TypeType Education, she designed the modern serif typeface Ditar (2018) for Latin and Cyrillic. In 2018, Sofia Yasenkova, Philipp Nurullin, and Vika Usmanova designed the modern serif TT Tricks at TypeType. TT Tricks has many stencil styles.

    Still in 2018, she helped Alex Slobzheninov with the Cyrillic part of the design of Object Sans. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Soft Union
    [Nikita Vsesvetskii]

    Cyrillic font makers whose type designer, Nikita Vsesvetskii, produced these fonts between 1993-1995: Arsis [similar to Monotype Onyx (1937, Gerry Powell), first cut by ATF], Cotlin [extension of Leslie Usherwood's Caxton of 1981], Debby, DesignCD, Diamonds (dot matrix), Dots (dot matrix), Dynar [extension of Alan Meeks' Dynamo (Letraset, 1968), which in turn borrows from K. Sommer's Dynamo (Ludwig and Mayer, 1930)], EdgeLine, Evangelie (1994, with A. Shishkin), Half-Ustav (1994), Luga [extension of Lubalin Graph by Herb Lubalin, 1974], LugaShadow, MotterTektura [similar to Othmar Motter's 1975 typeface by the same name], PerfoOval (dot matrix), PopularScript [based on Friedrich Poppl's Poppl-Exquisit, 1970], Psaltyr, Radar [based on Onyx by Gerry Powell, 1937], Ralenta-ExtraBold [based on Carl Dair's Raleigh, 1967], Secession, Secession Wien, Simeiz [based on IC Fenice, Aldo Novarese, 1977-1980], Tavrida, TrooverRoman [an extension of Trooper Roman, VGC]. Alternate URL. FontShop link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sofya Ozbozkurt

    Moscow-based graphic designer. She created the geometric alphabet Circle (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Solomon Benediktowitsch Telingater

    Soviet book and type designer, b. Tiflis, 1903, d. Moscow, 1969, best known for his constructivist work. His typefaces include Telingater Display (1959, Polygraphmash), Titulvnash Telingater (Titulnaya) and Akzidentnash Telingatera (or Akzidentnaya) (1955--1962). Telingater Display was awarded of the Silver Medal at the International Book Art Exhibition (IBA-59) at Leipzig (Germany) in 1959. See also here. He was a maestro of pictorial and decorative typography, as one can see in these posters and prints from 1927 and 1930.

    Julia Vazhova (Moscow) created a series of posters and sketches on Telingater in 2014, including a great portrait. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sonia Grig

    Graphic designer in Moscow, who created the outlined Cyrillic typeface Karkas (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sonia Grin

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Phobos (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sonja Kochina

    Graphic designer in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She created Drs (2012), a dingbat typeface with icons for different medical specialists. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sophia Evgenyeva Gannushkina

    Russian type designer, b. 1947, Moscow. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sophia Nikolaeva

    Graduate of the British Higher School of Art&Design. Moscow-based designer of a diamond-themed typeface in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sophia Safayeva

    Russian ex-graduate student of typography at the University of Reading, 2006. Creator of Novinka (2006; award winner at Paratype K2009), a Latin/Cyrillic family with a slab serif feel (in a broad sense). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sophie Azzheurova

    As a student at Moscow State University, Sophie Azzheurova designed the tall Latin / Cyrillic display typeface Azzfont (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Soviet Typography

    Examples of type in use in Russia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Spacejump
    [Vladimir Tomin]

    Vladimir Tomin is a graphic designer from Khabarovsk, Russia. Behance link. Paperworld (2009) is an alphabet (not a font) based on crumpled paper. In 2014, together with Alex Frukta, he created the type cooperative Nord Collective. Their first free font in that coop is called Nord (2014). In 2015, Frukta and Tomin published the free geometric sans typeface Kolikö. Creator of Kaboom (2010, a png-format collection of glyphs). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    SPSL
    [Igor Nastenko]

    SPSL is a Russian foundry, offering mostly fonts made by Igor Nastenko. These include Brush (1990, based E. Shaar and S. Hess's Flash No. 373), Chess (1989, Paratype), Circles, Clarendon (1990, based on H. Eidenbenz's Clarendon of 1953), Elegant (1996, based on Middleton's Coronet), Garland (1996, based on F. Scott Garland's font Enviro done at Letraset in 1982), GeomSlabSerif (1996, a Cyrillic extension of Frutiger's face), Hair-V, Hill, Keys, Old King (1995; based on B. Wolpe's Albertus, 1936, Profont, Ribbon, Russia (1993), Russia-Church, Russian Ornament1, Russian Ornament2, Russian Souvenir (1996), New Serif Condensed (1996, based on Gerry Powell's Arsis from 1938, now an Elsner&Flake font), New Skoryna (1993, now at Paratype), SOS (Morse coding), SQ2, Swordsman (1990, based on Clarendon Condensed), Ustav II (1996). FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stanislav Chiganov

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the Latin / Cyrillic calligraphic typeface Antarctic (2018) and the Latin / Cyrillic skyline typeface Journalism (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stanislav Semin

    Moscow-based designer of the Cyrillic typeface (or alphabet) Shrift Proletarskij (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Star Brand

    Moscow-based designer of Vogue font (2016) for Latin. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stas Arsenyev

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based creator (aka Scilla) of the Latin / Cyrillic typeface Violet (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stasia Popova

    Saint Petersburgm, Russia-based designer of the striped handcrafted display typeface Stripe (2016, for Latin and Cyrillic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    STC Practik

    Russian foundry. The font names have the STC prefix. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stefan Kovachev

    Russian designer of this Cyrillic typeface in 1971, which won Third Prize at the Comecon competition. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stefan Vanli

    Russian who studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam, b. 1992. He created the logo typeface Airport (2009) and the grungy Acogessic (2009). Typetype link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Steffenhagen

    Small foundry in Mietau, Russia, ca. 1870. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stepan Omyshev

    Solikamsk, Russia-based designer of Polygon 3D Typeface (2015), which was specially designed for animation and use in Cinema 4D. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stepan Yurov

    Russian creator of the fat market signage typeface Fleshburger Juice (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Stephania Kosyug

    Tomsk, Russia-based designer of the Latin crow-themed display typeface Birdy (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Steran Kuzhnetsov

    Russian designer of the pixel typeface Our Quinny (2016, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Studio Dezygn
    [Zahar]

    Russian studio where the blockish font Quasimode was designed by "Zahar". [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Studiowhiz

    Russian type and font download site for both Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Subud Russia

    Some Russian TrueType fonts, and info on Russification of web pages. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Supremat
    [Roman Postovoy]

    Roman Postovoy is a web and graphic designer based in Dedovsk, Russia. His typefaces mostly return to the Bauhaus period and the era of Swiss typography. In 2020, he published the 5-style wide geometric headline sans Benzin, the all caps Bauhaus typeface Weimar for Latin and Cyrillic, and the extra wide and heavy Hitchcockian typeface Anker.

    Still in 2020, he released Rigel, an all caps blackletter typeface which was inspired by a 1936 poster by American artist and illustrator Katherine Milhous for the Ephrata Cloister.

    Typefaces from 2021: Nucliometer (a piano key font), Lifeform (experimental), Uranus (a Latin // Hangul sci-fi typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Sven Mündnerand& Ilya Shipilovskikh

    For an exhibition at the Russian National Centre for Contemporary Arts, an untitled Cyrillic stencil typeface was developed in 2014. This project was curated by Sven Mündnerand& Ilya Shipilovskikh. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Sveta Sebyakina

    As a student in the British Higher School of art and Design, under the leadership of Ilya Ruderman, Sveta Sebyakina designed Alien (2009), a pixel font, and an experimental Plastic Cup font (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Svetlana Akatyeva

    Russian graphic designer. She made the soothing curly informal Cyrillic typeface Ackat in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Svetlana Efremenko

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the sketched Line Font (2017) and the art deco typeface Multiletter (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Svetlana Kolodiazhnaia

    Graphic designer in Moscow who created the pixel font Smetype (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Svetlana Kovaleva

    Moscow-based designer of the surrealist Cyrillic typeface called either Piranha or Guard Dogs of Surrealism (2020), which celebrates Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Svetlana Lovkova

    Moscow-based designer of the Cyrillic sans typeface MK Medium (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Svetlana Makarovskaya

    Moscow-based creator of the Latin / Cyrillic display typeface Atmosphere (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Svetlana Maksimova

    Moscow-based designer of the Cyrillic text typeface Sveta (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Svetlana Morozova

    Or jsut Sveta Morozova. Russian type designer. In 2013, she published the ultra-black slab display typeface Fatum at Paratype. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Svetlana Putintseva

    Moscow-based designer of of the blocky Latin / Cyrillic typeface Blanco (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Svetlana Sebyakina

    Russian creator of a number of Cyrillic pixel fonts in 2007. In 2011, her low-contrast readable serif typeface Alike (codesigned in 2009 with Alexei Vanyashin at Cyreal) was made available for free download in 2011 at Google Font Directory. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Svetlana Sebyakina

    Designer of the Latin/Cyrillic multi-faceted family Alike (2009), which was part of her diploma work at the Moscow Department of Higher British Design School. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Svetlana Solovyowa

    Moscow-based designer of the Cyrillic typeface Matchball (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Svetlana Tingaeva

    Graduate of Nizhny Novgorod State Pedagogical University, who is now located in Samara, Russia. Designer of a watercolor script typeface in 2015 and some vector format brush typefaces in 2016. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Svetlana Tsyganenko

    Siberian designer of the handcrafted typefaces Jungle (2016, African-themed font set), Elephant (2016), Elephant Lines (2016) and Tribal Elephant (2016). Aka Swet TS. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Svetlana Wittmann

    Novosibirsk, Russia-based designer of the tribal African font Hello Africa (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Svetlana Yermolaeva

    Russian type and graphic designer at Polygraphmash. She made the Cyrillic typeface Izhitsa (1988), based on Kyrillitsa (1982), inspired by the typographic poluustav of the Printing Office of the Russian Empire Academy of Science (late 19th century). A decorative (shadow) style was added at ParaGraph by Alexander Tarbeev in 1994, and a Latin alphabet followed in 2009 thanks to Oleg Karpinsky.

    At Intermicro, she designed Mysl (1992-1996, together with Isay Slutsker and Emma Zakharova). She also made Tip Bodoni, Kirillitsa, Izhitsa and created a Cyrillic version of ITC Anna (with Vladimir Yefimov and Alexander Tarbeev).

    FontShop link. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Swill Klitch

    Designer in Novosibirsk, Siberia. In 2016, he created the (Latin) blackboard bold typeface Leemtant. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    SynthesisSoft

    Russian foundry active in the early 1990s. Fonts are shattered over the web. They include Cyrillica Bulgarian (1994), Glagolica Bulgarian (1993), OldCyr Bold (1992), TmsCyr (1993), UnvEe UnvCyr, CourierCyr, CourierEe, CyrillicaBgEpigraph, CyrillicaOchrid1, CyrillicaOchridEpigraph, CyrillicaShafarik, CyrillicaShafarikEpigraph, Etymolog1, Etymolog3, OldCyr. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Szanowa.narod.ru

    Russian site for free Glagolitic fonts. We can download

    • By Vladislav V. Dorosh, Calmius Software, 2003: Irmologion-Caps-Ucs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-Caps-Ucs, Irmologion-Caps-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-Caps-ieUcs, Irmologion-Caps-kUcs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-Caps-kUcs, Irmologion-Ucs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-Ucs, Irmologion-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-ieUcs, Irmologion-kUcs-SpacedOut, Irmologion-kUcs.
    • By SoftUnion Ltd - A. Shishkin and N. Vsesvetskii; NAAsoft - N. Andrushchenko, 1994 and 2003: Orthodox.tt-Ucs8-Caps-SpacedOut, Orthodox.tt-Ucs8-Caps-tight, Orthodox.tt-Ucs8-Caps, Orthodox.tt-Ucs8-Drop-Caps, Orthodox.tt-Ucs8-SpacedOut, Orthodox.tt-Ucs8-tight, Orthodox.tt-Ucs8, Orthodox.tt-eRoos-SpacedOut, Orthodox.tt-eRoos, Orthodox.tt-ieERoos-SpacedOut, Orthodox.tt-ieERoos, Orthodox.tt-ieUcs8-Caps-SpacedOut, Orthodox.tt-ieUcs8-Caps, Orthodox.tt-ieUcs8-Drop-Caps, Orthodox.tt-ieUcs8-SpacedOut, Orthodox.tt-ieUcs8, Orthodox, OrthodoxDigits, OrthodoxDigitsLoose, OrthodoxLoose, OrthodoxOrnament.
    • By Nikita Simmons, 1994. Adapted to UCS by Vladislav V.Dorosh, 2001: Pochaevsk-Caps-Ucs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-Caps-Ucs, Pochaevsk-Caps-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-Caps-ieUcs, Pochaevsk-Caps-kUcs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-Caps-kUcs, Pochaevsk-Ucs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-Ucs, Pochaevsk-ieUcs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-ieUcs, Pochaevsk-kUcs-SpacedOut, Pochaevsk-kUcs.
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    Tag Design
    [Denis Kara]

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of Morion Bold (2016). The Latin part is not free. The Cyrillic part, including some arrows, is free.

    In 2018, he designed the octagonal typeface Salut. Graphicriver link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tagir Safayev

    Tagir Safayev is a Russian type and graphic designer. He created more than one hundred fonts, among which ITC Stenberg (1997, Cyrillic simulation face), which was originally called Rodchenko (a stencil font). Tagir Safayev is also active in book design and advertising. From 1991 until 2003 he worked as a type developer for ParaType. In 1995 he received the Rodchenko Award of the Society of Designers of Russia for Rodchenko typeface [look for Rodchenko here (italic version) and here, or for the ParaType family (1996-2002)]. He is a member of the Moscow Artists Union and of the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI), and a co-founder of the Type Designers Association, Moscow. He won an award at Bukvaraz 2001 for Serp'n'Molot (2001, meaning hammer and sickle; forms inspired by lettering of Sergey Chekhonin (1878-1936)). Professor of the National Design Institute of the Designers Union of Russia. Teacher at the Higher Academic School of Graphic Design in Moscow. Currently staff designer at ParaType in Moscow. Faces: Bloc (designed at ParaType in 1997 by Tagir Safayev for advertising and display typography; based on Block of H. Berthold, 1908 by Heinz Hoffmann), Black Grotesk (1997, based on Gasetny Chorny ("Newspaper Black"), of the O.I. Lehmann foundry, St.Petersburg, 1874, and Kompakte Grotesk (Haas)), PT Courier (1990, ParaGraph), PT Courier Monotonic Greek (1990), PT Courier Polytonic Greek (1990), PT DIN Condensed (1997), Birch (1995, handwriting, ParaGraph), PT FreeSet (1991-2000, based on the Frutiger typeface family), LEF Grotesque (1999), PT Epsilon (1995, handprinting), Etienne (Kremlin Pro (2010, Paratype), PT Hermes (1993; Based on Placard MT Condensed typeface (Hermes Grotesk by Wilhelm Woellmer, 1911) of the Lange type foundry (St.-Petersburg), an adaptation of Hermes Grotesk, of the Woellmer type foundry (Berlin, 1911). This sans serif with its old-fashion stability looks well in advertising and display typography), Bitstream Humanist Cyrillic 521 (1999), PT Plain Script (1995, comic book lettering), PT Irina (1995, caps-only comic book face), ITC Kabel Cyrillic (1993, after the Original Kabel, 1976, Vic Caruso), Frutiger (1992, after the 1976 original), Meta+ Cyrillic (2000), Mirra (1999), ITC New Baskerville Cyrillic (1993, ParaGraph), ITC Banco (2000: the Cyrillic version of the font by Phill Grimshaw, 1997, which in turn was based on Roger Excoffon's Banco at Fonderie Olive in 1952), Bank Gothic (1997: a Cyrillic version of the 1930-1933 original by Morris Fuller Benton at ATF), ITC Officina Sans Cyrillic (1995), PT Proun (1993, a Cyrillic version of Choose One/Ten), PT Rodchenko (1996), ITC Stenberg (1997), ITC Stenberg Inline (1997), Swift Cyrillic (2002), PT Yanus (1999, originally created as a corporate identity for Aeroflot), PT Unovis (2001, inspired by the Russian avant garde of the 1920s), this unfinished Cyrillic version of Trajan (1994-1996), and Serp n'Molot (2001). At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he spoke about the various Cyrillic adaptations of Cheltenham done in the last century, prior to his own Cyrillic extension for NYTimes Cheltenham, done in 2008.

    View Tagir Safayev's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Taisiya Lushenko

    Aka Taya. Russian designer at Art Lebedev Studio of these typefaces:

    • The sans family ALS Story (2008, together with Zakhar Yaschin).
    • The text family ALS Meringue (2009, with Olga Balina).
    • The antiqua typeface Flai (2015, with Vera Evstafieva).
    • Yandex (2013). A corporate typeface by Ksenia Erulevich, Taisiya Lushenko, and Elena Novoselova.
    • Zaryadye (2017). A humanistic grotesque, created specifically for Zaryadye park.
    • Ivolga (2018). A playful yet conservative formal script.
    • The elliptical sans typeface ALS Horizon (2019).
    [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Tamara Baleika

    Minsk, Belarus-based designer of Monatik (2018) and Alphabetic Zoo (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tambov State Technical University

    Russian Orthodox font archive with plenty of fonts used by that church. A non-exhaustive list of mostly Cyrillic fonts:

    • From DoubleAlex Team: Blagovest.
    • From SoftUnion: Half-Ustav and Evangelie, both by A. Shishkin and Nikita Vsesvetskii, 1994.
    • From TypeMarket: Ustav, Fita_Poluustav (1995), Fita_Vjaz (1995), Fita_church (1994), all by Serge Shanovich.
    • From Intersignal: SlavonicGothic, Slavonic-Plain, SlavonicCond-Plain, all made in 1991.
    • By Andrei Izotov (Moscow State University): Church AI (1995), Church plus (1995).
    • From VNLabs: CyrillicOld (1992).
    • From DS Studio: DSCyrillic (1999), DSRussia Demo (by Nikolay Dubina, 1999), DS Sholom (by Nikolay Dubina, 1999), DS UstavHand (by Nikolay Dubina, 1999).
    • From Atech: Decor-Bold (1991).
    • From Payne Loving Trust: Graeca (1993), a Greek font.
    • From Galaxie Software, Garland TX: Greek Parse (1992).
    • From Calmius Software: Irmologion (by Vladislav V. Dorosh, 1996).
    • From ParaGraph: Izhitsa (Dmitry Komissarov, 1992).
    • By Peter R. Rudneff: Myfont1 (1995), a Cyrillic font.
    • By Vladimir Romanov: Nestor (1999).
    • By Yuri A. Lyamin: SkazkaForSerge, a Cyrillic version of Arnold Boecklin.
    [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tanya Cherkiz

    Ekaterinburg, Russia-based lettering artist. Designer, with Ivan Gladkikh (Jovanny Lemonad), of the free retro script typeface Magnolia Script (2016), published by Typetype in Russia.

    TT Backwards (2017): an experimental script and grotesque font family inspired by the typographic scenery in the USSR in the late 70s and early 80s, designed by Tanya Cherkiz, Sergey Kotelnikov, Philipp Nurullin and the TypeType Team.

    In 2019, she set up her own type foundry, and prompltly published the connected monoline script typeface Austen Script. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Tanya Chursina

    Moscow, Russia-based designer of the textured Latin typeface Wood Type (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tanya Dunaeva

    Moscow-based designer of Simba Modul (2018) for Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tanya Emelyanova

    Illustrator in Saint Petersburg, Russia, who created several children's alphabets and a set of Funny Cactus icons in 2014. In 2015, she designed the handcrafted typeface Neva. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tanya Farba

    Moscow, Russia-based designer of the hand-painted Cyrillic typeface Handmade Font (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Taras Sgibnev

    Moscovite Taras Sgibnev says this about his experimental modular typeface Tatlium (2012): Tatlium was designed with a modular grid that was based on the photographed Tatlin's Tower replica inside Mayakovski's museum in Moscow [sic]. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tatiana Emeljanova

    Russian designer of Motion Light (2001). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tatiana Fasenda Biserova

    Codesigner with Jovanny Lemonad of the free squarish typeface Kazmann Sans (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tatiana Kostakova

    Designer of the Latin/Cyrillic children's book family Murz (2010) while she was a student at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow. She writes: Murz --- a child's nickname --- funny, ringing, short, easily pronounced. Murz is designed for the family project Mi LeTaLi, exactly for the second book Murz's ABC. [...] Yje typeface should be amiable, with «smile», positive like a pleasant fairy-tale, a bit strange, fairly strt, accurate like primers --- it is just what fascinating antique Murz is: Fervent like a baby's curl, rounded and soft like a child's cheek. Promotional material for Murz: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tatiana Kostysheva

    Tatiana Kostysheva (Tatiana Kost Design, Russia) designed a hand-sketched ampersand set and a collection of snowflakes in 2015. She also designed the watercolor splash font simply called Ink (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tatiana Kostysheva

    Tatiana Kostysheva (Tatiana Kost Design) is a Russian illustrator. In 2015, she created Ink Brush Font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tatiana Kuzmiichuk

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the wavy typeface Razrabotka (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tatiana Lyskova

    Russian type and web designer associated with ParaGraph. Since 1999, she is a head of Taitl Design (USA). She designed the Cyrillic version of Bernhard Condensed (1993, based on Lucian Bernhard's typeface from 1912 for the Bauer company), ITC Bauhaus (1994, ParaGraph, with assistance of Elvira Slysh) and ITC Beesknees (1994, ParaGraph, with Elvira Slysha), and ITC Franklin Gothic (with Isay Slutsker). She also made the art nouveau typeface PT Karolla (1994, ParaGraph, based on Karola Grotesk, of H. Berthold and Bauersche type foundries, and Haas' Boutique. URW has Latin and Cyrillic versions of PT Karolla. Its bold style is based on Hercules (early 20th century) and was added for ParaType by Manvel Shmavonyan in 2002).

    FontShop link. Paratype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Tatiana Makarova

    Moscow-based designer of a modular Cyrillic typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tatiana Nazarova

    Russian graphic and type designer. Creator of the prickly vampire font Stervella (2021), which covers Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Tatiana Nikitina

    Moscow-based designer of a Cyrillic steampunk-themed typeface in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tatiana Pastushkova

    Aka TasiPas. Mezhdurechensk, Siberia-based designer of the serif typeface Quffer (2018), the sans typeface Harbinger (2018), the handcrafted Latin typeface Buxton (2018) and the colourful plump decorative typeface Circus (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tatiana Roshal

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of an experimental Cyrillic typeface (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tatiana Rusalovskaya

    Graphic designer in Moscow who created Friendly Font (2013, Latin and Cyrillic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tatiana Rusalovskaya

    Under the supervision of Igor Mustaev, Tatiana Rusalovskaya designed the modular logotype Totem (2011) at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tatiana Udalova

    Student at the British Higher School Of Art and Design, and a designer in Moscow. She is a chuild of the remix era, and remixed Baskerville into Baskerville Pinthread (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tatiana Zhukova

    Graphic designer in Saint Petersburg, Russia. She created the display typeface Orava (2012). I also like her experimental typography in a dada-styled poster entitled Philippe Soupault (2012).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tatjana Malakhova

    Russian type designer. She received a TypeArt 05 award for the display family Bulrush. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Te Julia

    Moscow-based designer of the octagonal (Latin) typeface family Tuby (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tektov Dmitry Type
    [Dmitry Tektov]

    Ramenskoye, Russia-based type designer making Latin / Cyrillic fonts. In 2021, he released TD Stargorod (a Slavonic emulation font) and the all caps art deco typeface TD Kinoteatr.

    Typefaces from 2022: TD Kareliya (an unusual display typeface for Latin and Cyrillic), TD Pobeda (a pixelish poster typeface for Latin and Cyrillic), TD Empire (a tall accidental font), TD Fabrika (a sports font for Latin and Cyrillic).

    Typefaces from 2022: TD Skazka (an old Slavonic font for Latin and Cyrillic). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Temporary State (was: Abstrkt)
    [Roman Gornitsky]

    Moscow, and before that, St. Petersburg, Russia-based foundry, first called Abstrkt, and later extended to The Temporary State. All fonts are by Roman Gornitsky (b. 1986, Leningrad). In 2020, the foundry was located in Leipzig, Germany. Roman's fonts:

    • Krisis Sans (2008).
    • Lawyer Gothic (2008).
    • Littera Plain (2008) and Littera Text (2008). An interpretation of the most popular sans family in Russia.
    • Proto Sans (2008). A 42-style constructivist family.
    • Vremena (2009) and Vremena Grotesk (2009) each have eight styles, and are their interpretation of Times and Arial, respectively. See also Nowie Vremena (2011). Vremena was extended in 2016-2017 to the free typeface Wremena.
    • Fun City (2010). An extensive family of typefaces designed for multi-layered use. Each letter is designed on the same grid, so overlays can create great effects.
    • The Stroke Sans (2010).
    • Differentura (2010). A grotesk.
    • Lineatura (2011). A great art deco-meets avant garde family.

      Twentytwelve (in styles Slab N, Sans R, Sans C, Serif C, Sans G, Sans). Created in 2011-2012 at the Jan van Eyck Academy in The Netherlands, and inspired by Paul Renner's original designs for Futura. Extended in 2017 as Five Years Later.

    • Manege (2016). Manege was initially designed for the celebration of 200 years of Manege Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow: The shapes of the typeface are heavily influenced by monumental typefaces of late 1950s Stalinist architecture, as well as hand-drawn title pages of Soviet books of the same period and typefaces like Telingater, Lazurski, Trajan and even some Romain du Roi. Initially designed for all caps typesetting, Manege tries to combine in itself monumentality with clumsiness, a particular mixture of feelings one often gets from looking at old stone-carved inscriptions.
    • Panama and Panama Monospace (2017). A text typeface in the style of Century.
    • Soyuz Grotesk (2017). This free almost experimental sans is based on a Cyrillic version of Helvetica made by two students of the Moscow print Institute in 1963, Yuri Kurbatov and Maxim Zhukov.
    • Steinbeck (2018). A playful sans.
    • Gramatika (2020). Initially developed as a Helvetica-like typeface for Experimental Jetset's new visual identity of V-A-C Foundation (Moscow/Venice), it became a retail font (with some additions and changes) in 2020. Special attention was paid to spacing and multi-language diacritics, as well as dingbats that include arrows, chess symbols and weather icons.
    • Pressuru (2020). A compact sans.
    [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Terra Stitch

    Russian designer of some great illustrations and lettering for Cafe Bar Afrika in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Teslefantic

    Designers of the Cyrillic typeface Teslic's Document Cyr Normal (1993), which can be downloaded here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    TFaces
    [Alexander Tarbeev]

    Alexander Tarbeev is Russian type designer, graphic artist and tutor. He graduated from Moscow Electrotechnical Institute of Communication in 1979 and Moscow Polygraphic Institute in 1988, and worke in the type department of NII Polygrafmash (Institute for Scientific Research of Printing Machinery, Moscow). Between 1989 and 1997, Tarbeev worked as type designer at ParaGraph. He set up the type studio TFaces in Moscow.

    Designer of Cyrillic versions of ITC typefaces like ITC Garamond, ITC Benguiat Gothic, Friz Quadrata and other Cyrillic typefaces. Other typefaces by Alexander Tarbeev include BetinaScript, BigCity, Dagger, DenHaag, Diderot, Gauge, Jakob, Lissitzky, Montblanc, Matterhorn, Pankov, Pollock, Smarty and Tauern. He also designed typefaces for Russian magazines such as Afisha, Bolshoi Gorod, Kak, Smart Money, Ezhenedelny Zhurnal, and (the Russian version of) L'Officiel, and for newspapers such as Vedomosti and Noviye Izvestiya.

    Alexander Tarbeev is professor and head of type design department at Moscow State University for Printing Arts (currently a branch of Moscow Polytechnic University). He also taught at British Higher School of Art and Design (Moscow), and Moscow State University, Faculty of Journalism..

    Showcase of Alexander Tarbeev's typefaces at MyFonts.

    List of the new designs and the old typefaces designed since 1988 for NPO Poligraphmash, ParaGraph/ParaType and TFaces: Academy, AdverGothic, ITC Anna, ITC Baltica, ITC Benguiat Gothic (1994-1997, ParaGraph; he made the Hebrew typeface Benzion in 1991 based on Benguiat Gothic as well), ITC PT Benzion, FF Beowolf, PT Bernhard, PT BetinaScript (1992, based on the handwriting of the German graphic artist Betina Kuntzsch), PT Bodoni (1989-1997), MathFont 1 (1987, Polygraphmash, based on the math font of Kudryashevskaya Encyclopedicheskaya, 1960-74, a typeface by Nikolai Kudryashev and Zinaida Maslennikova), PT Compact, PT Courier (1997; the original Cyrillic weights were done by Tagir Safayev), PT Crash (1995), PT Dagger (1996), Den Haag, Dots, DoubleClick, PT Drunk (1997), Exposure, PT FixSys (1995, pixel font), ITC Friz Quadrata (1997, ParaGraph, based on the typeface by Ernst Friz for Visual Graphic Corp. in 1965), PT Futuris, ITC Garamond (1993-1995, based on Tony Stan's 1975 version), PT Graffiti (1996, ParaGraph), PT Hermes (1993, ParaGraph), Inform, Izhitsa (1994: he added a shadow syle to Svetlana Yermolaeva's 1988 original), PT Jakob (1994), [kAk), Lazurski, PT Matterhorn (1993), PT MonoCondensed (1990), PT Montblanc (1993), PT Newton (1994, ParaGraph, a phonetic font), PT Pollock (1995), PT Pragmatica (1989), Sketch, PT Star (1995), PT Tauern (1993, extra compressed), Titanic, PT Wind (1995, based on TextBook, 1987, by Emma Zakharova).

    Honorable Mention at the 3rd International Digital Type Design Contest by Linotype Library for Linotype Den Haag.

    Free fonts made for fun at FontStruct in 2008: giammba, schlange, squaresans, squaresans_heavy, TFa BCode (extremely condensed), TFa KnightRider.

    In 2019-2020, he designed the large text, headline and letterpress family Gauge (Type Today). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    The ABCs of Dobrolet

    Russian revolution poster showing a nicely decorated Cyrillic all-caps alphabet related to early 20th century aviation. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The inkpot fonts
    [Maria Danilova]

    The Inkpot is Maria Danilova's Russian foundry. Many Western pages on type are translated here in Russian. Her fonts at D-Studio include Shirley (2003), Intersidereal, Single Girl, Classmate (2003, handwriting). Link site. She also made Goedemorgen (2004, hand-printed), TheQuest (2004), Olivia (2004), Special Labwels (2004, dingbats) and PunchScript (2004, comic book face), Birds (2004, dingbats). Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The Klen

    Branding studio in Moscow, which created a special Cyrillic typeface for Theater Na Maloy Bronnoy in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    The Lettering Art: Works by Moscow Book Designers 1959-1974

    A book published in 1977 that paints a full picture of Russian typography at that time. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Theo Lutova

    Chelyabinsk, Russia-based designer of the display typeface Ozone (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tikhon Reztcov
    [Shriftovik Foundry]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Tim Xez

    Nizhny Novgorod, Russia-based designer of Swampy (2019), Bony (2019), the free bilined Latin / Cyrillic typeface Exterior (2017), the free Latin / Cyrillic bubblegum typeface Airfool (2017) and the free Latin / Cyrillic diamond-studded hipster typeface Komi (2016).

    Behance link. Creative Market link. Open Font Library link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tim Yarzhombek

    Moscow-based creator in 2008 of Beard Alphabet (not fontified yet). In 2015, he designed a handcrafted Latin / Cyrillic set of numbers. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Timofei Dekalo

    Inspired by the work of Vladimir Shukhov and the period of industrialization in the Soviet Union, Timofei Dekalo (Marafont, Moscow) created several decorative caps typefaces in 2014. He created quite a few other experimental geometric or multicolored fonts as well. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Timour Jgenti

    Russian-born designer of the freeware fonts Tangerine, New World Vibes, MacType and the outline typeface Iron Maiden, all 1996 designs for Lucifer Vision (defunct?). Now living in Paris.

    His fonts are not at his site, but live on at many freeware sites. Alternate URL. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Timur D

    Moscow-based designer of the handcrafted typefaces Kentucky (2017) and Travel (2017, free). The oddest thing is that inside the Travel font, we read that it was designed by the Compiègne, France-based outfit Luzala. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Timur Zima

    Novosibirsk, Russia-based graphic designer who created G Display (2017, a free octagonal typeface for Latin and Cyrillic), CyberSiberia (2017, futuristic, for Latin and Cyrillic), Forma Grotesk (2017, a great extra-condensed grotesk for Latin and Cyrillic), C'Est La Vie Sans (2017), which is based on retro grotesques. The Decor style has reverse (Italian) stress. Fellaz (2017) is described as a modern grotesk, and reminds me in many places of the original raw Futura.

    Creative Market link. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    TipografiaRamis
    [Ramiz Guseynov]

    Ramiz Guseynov was born in Russia and educated as an architect and graphic designer. After moving to the USA in 1991, where he worked as a graphic designer, Ramiz Guseynov became a part-time type designer who published his work at T-26. In 2004, he set up his own foundry, TipografiaRamis in Highland Park, IL.

    Klingspor link. Behance link.

    His typefaces:

    View Ramiz Guseynov's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Tipografika

    Intro to type (in Russian). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    TNAIA
    [Alan N. Po]

    Dr. Alan N. Po (TNAIA) made some Cyrillic/Latin fonts, such as DrPoGothicRu (1998), a Fraktur font, and DrPoDecorRu (1989). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tolya Dodko

    Tolya Doodko is a type and graphic designer from Moscow, who studied type design at the British Higher School of Art and Design. In 2018, Tolya created Monogamma and the monline Latin / Cyrillic sans typeface Abrakadabra. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Tolya Doodko
    [Zoloto Group]

    [More]  ⦿

    Tomat Design

    Tomat Design is a small team of multi-disciplinary designers based in Moscow. The studio was set up in December 2005 and specializes in concept creation, art direction, branding, typography, illustration and graphic design.

    Behance link.

    In 2011, they created the identity for ICTR (International Center for Tomographic Research), a chain of a specialized tomography diagnostics centers in Moscow. This identity included a liquid Latin/Cyrillic typeface family. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tommi Petrov

    Russian graphic designer and occasional typographer. TommiArt home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tomy James

    Type designer based in Perm, Russia. In 2018, he published these script typefaces: So Fresh, The Pamele, Bring, The Nicco, The Breat, The Monse, Horizon. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    totwo (or: Atelier Otadoya)

    Yana Kutyina and Andrey Belonogov together form totwo (or Atelier Otadoya), a studio in Moscow. Their typefaces include the award-winning calligraphic Latin / Cyrillic font Kalimantan (2012-2013) by Yana Kutyina. In 2014, they designed the counterless display typeface Nerpa. In 2016, they cooperated with Valery Golyzhenkov on the great vintage typeface system Triplet in Erste, Zweite and Dritte styles. Triplet won an award at Granshan 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Traint

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of Andrew's Sketch Font (2014: a 3d hand-drawn typeface for Latin). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Triangle & Cross
    [Vladimir Likh]

    Vlad Likh (Triangle & Cross) is an art director in Moscow. Creator of the free variable width Latin / Cyrillic sans font Konduktor (2013). In 2019 he designed the tall hairline sans typeface Option, which was inspired by geometric architectural fonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Triple Hely (or: Iris Letters)
    [Olga Ktitorova]

    TripleHely is the personal type foundry of Olga Ktitorova, a graphic designer from Moscow, Russia. After graduation at Moscow Institute of Contemporary Arts, she worked as an editorial designer.

    Creator of the Latin/Cyrillic slab serif typeface Tender (2009) and the script typefaces Cohen (2018: calligraphic), Symply (2017) and Hyptis (2017: brush script). In 2021, she released the brush script Glaciar. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Trismigist

    Russian creator of the Monster alphabet in 2008. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    True Story Letterworks
    [Sergey Godovalov]

    Ufa, Russia-based creator of Shihan (2015), which is a free squarish Latin / Cyrillic typeface that was inspired by Bashkirian geometrical ornaments. He also designed the tweetware Latin / Cyrillic slab serif typeface Ikra Slab (2015), and the tweetware constructivist Measure (2015, with special support for Bashkir).

    Typefaces from 2016: Igra Sans (free), the bilined Armatura (2016, a constructivist industrial stencil).

    In 2017, he designed the condensed all caps typeface Green Grove and the techno sans typeface Freezer.

    In 2018, he published the ultra-fat blocky typeface Container. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Truetype Font Tools

    Russian truetype font tool page by Konstantin Kazarnovsky. Mainly links. Cyrillic font jump page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tscherban Yuori

    Designer of the Cyrillic fonts Xorx_Toothy Cyr (2000) and Xorx_windy Cyr (2000), which can be found here and here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tschuksin

    Small foundry in Moscow, ca. 1870. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    TT Interphases (was: TT Interfaces)

    A major project in 2019 by the TypeType team in Saint Petersburg, Russia, meant to provide a sans typeface family that can be broadly used in modern media. There are four monospaced styles, and 20 other styles, with the goal of providing competition, in their own words, to Arial, Roboto, and San Francisco Text. While this bar is quite low, the Type Type team of nine members, listed below, did an extraordinary technical job in terms of hinting and opentype features. The initial brief:

    It should have the best proportions in the category, as well as a wide palette of styles, characters and OpenType features. The typeface should fit well in the layout when replacing the old interface font with our new typeface. [...] For programmers, we decided to make a monospaced version of the typeface with four styles. This typeface should become a universal and convenient tool for designers who actively use interface fonts in their projects. [...] The typeface should be beautiful, elegant and at the same time invisible and neutral. From the technical point of view, this typeface should be perfect, have the most modern hinting, as well as a variable version for those who are well versed in the subject.

    The team members:

    • Ivan Gladkikh (head of the project).
    • Irina Tatarskaya (manager).
    • Pavel Emelyanov (art director, author of the study and the basic font).
    • Marina Khodak (senior font designer, technical project manager).
    • Ksenia Karataeva (font designer, author of the monospace subfamily and the icon research).
    • Nadezhda Polomoshnova (font designer, author of the icons).
    • Victor Rubenko (technical engineer, programmer, hinting specialist).
    • Nadyr Rakhimov (font designer, technical engineer).
    • Yuri Nakonechny (technical engineer, debugger).
    [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Type Improvisation

    Type design cooperative in Russia. TimproFirst (2020, NN Type Foundry) is the result of the first type improvisation session, a process during which four designers (Nick Nedashkovskiy, Nikita Gaidook, Lesha Pushkarev and Vladimir Kolomeytsev) created a typeface in one file at the same time. Github link for Type Improvisation. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Type Market
    [Alexey Kustov]

    Type Market is a Russian type foundry. Alexey Kustov made most fonts at Type Market (Moscow) between 1993-1995. Many of these are cyrillizations of Western typefaces: Aksent (futuristic, based on a design by Yevgeny Dobrovinsky), Bebit (similar to Baby Teeth by Milton Glaser, Photo Lettering), Countdown [based on a 1965 original by Colin Brignall], Cricket, Crystal, Europe, Everest, Gals, Gill Sans (1993), Glasten, Helios, Luxor [1993; based on Colin Brignall's Aachen, 1967], Micra, Micogramma (1952, Aldo Novarese and A. Butti, digitized in 1993), Miniature, Mistral, New Zelek [1993, inspired by the typeface of G. Klikushin, 1987, which in turn was based on the typeface of Bronislav Zelek of Mecanorma], Oliver, Peignot (A.M. Cassandre, 1937, done in 1993), Penta, Plain [after an art deco typeface by A. Grachev], Rodeo (F. Pierpont, 1934, cyrillicized in 1993), Start [1993, like Aldo Novarese's Stop from 1971], Stencil Bold Cyrillic (1993, based on Milton Glaser's Stencil Bold (1973)), Techno28 [1993, a MICR font based on Letraset's Data 70 by R. Newman, 1970], Trafaret [1993, a stencil font based on Tom Hultgren's Traffic, Letraset, 1973], Traktir [1993, based on Elsner&Flake's Old Town], Viola [1996, based on Adobe's Willow]. These are Cyrillic fonts that are typically extensions of well-known Roman fonts. Other designers at Type Market include A. Shevtsov, Anton Bisiajew, Oxana Doubovic, A. Babaljan, S. Shanovich, D. Gulinoff, Viktoria Grigorenko, Anna Terentieva. Fonts not by Kustov: Anastasia Script, Arthur, Dikovina, Dikovina Bildchen, Fita Church, Fita Poluustav, Fita Vjaz, Funny, HeinrichScript, Industry, Jatran, Keyboard, Magic, Morris, Office Type Sans, Oliver New, OpiumNew, OrnamentTM, OrnamentTM2, Palladium, Regata, Roger Script, Romul, Secretary, Sonet Serif, Unicum Condensed, Zodiac1, Zodiac2.

    Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Type Today

    Russian commercial type cooperative that groups CSTM Fonts, Commercial Type, Valery Golyzhenkov, Vera Evstafieva, Elena Novoselova and Adam Katiy. It was founded by Moscow State University of Printing Arts graduates Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Type Tomorrow

    Russian type foundry. Designers Maks Barbulovic, Ilya Bazhanov, Alexander Cherepanov, Fer Cozzi, Lucas Descroix, Valery Golyzhenkov, Nikita Kanarev, Ilya Naumoff, Olga Pankova, Denis Serebryakov, Anna Seslavinskaya, Alex Slobzheninov, and Daria Zorkina. It also markets fonts for CSTM. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Type Trends
    [Vika Usmanova]

    Russian type designer who was part of the TypeType team in Saint Petersburg. As a student in the TypeType education program, she designed the modern text antiqua Guillaume (2016-2017). In 2019, she founded Type Trends.

    In 2017, Vika Usmanova released the octagonal Latin / Cyrillic typeface TT Mussels which includes a stencil subfamily. She also was part of TT Travels in 2017, a wide dense modern grotesque.

    In 2017, Vika Usmanova, Philipp Nurullin, and the TypeType Team designed the condensed modular geometric grotesk typeface TT Tunnels.

    In 2018, I believe---but am not sure---that Nadezhda Polomoshnova, Phill Nurullin, Vika Usmanova, Nadyr Rakhimov and the TypeType Team co-designed TT Jenevers. In 2018, Sofia Yasenkova, Philipp Nurullin, and Vika Usmanova designed the modern serif TT Tricks at TypeType. TT Tricks has many stencil styles.

    In 2018, Ivan Gladkikh, Alexander Kirillov, Philipp Nurullin, Vika Usmanova, Marina Khodak, and Nadyr Rakhimov published TT Severs. That same year, Vika Usmanova published the display sans ans script pair TT Nooks which took inspiration from the Empire State Building. Co-designer of TT Barrels (2018: a Scotch modern typeface by Inessa Mitrozor, Vika Usmanova, Marina Khodak, Nadezhda Polomoshnova and the TypeType Team).

    In 2019, Vika Usmanova and the TypeType Team designed TT Trailers, a modern narrow humanist grotesque, that is accompanied by a variable font version. TT Trailers is based on the concept of preserving the amount of white: when changing from thin to bold.

    In 2019, Vika published the free font Trappist, which started out as a custom type for a Belgian cafe in St. Petersburg. At TypeTrends, she released TT Alientz (Variable, serif, Grotesque) and TT Frantz, also in 2019. The latter ultra-condensed monospaced sans typeface has matching upper and lower case heights and comes as a variable type with a waistline axis.

    Typefaces from 2020: TT Geekette (2020; with the TypeType Team), TT Runs (a 20-style sports sans by the TypeType team in cooperation with Vika Usmanova, Antonina Zhulkova and Philipp Nurullin).

    In 2020, she co-designed TT Lakes Neue, a 91-style sans family by Vika Usmanova, Antonina Zhulkova and Kseniya Karataeva at TypeTypType. Tt is a functional sans-serif that draws inspiration from Finnish signs of the functionalism era. TT Lakes Neue is an almost monolinear sans, with ovals in the form of rounded rectangles, reminiscent of Nebiolo's Microgramma. It comprises a useful variable font.

    In 2021, Svetoslav Simov and Vika Usmanova dusted off the 18-style update of Fontfabric's geometric sans family Mont called Mont Blanc. It has very short descenders and medium-sized ascenders, two variable styles, and some redesigned glyphs. Its biggest problem will be the name---surely, the famous Swiss pen maker Mont Blanc will complain sooner or later about its trademark. I am puzzled about MyFonts, which did not catch this problem when they announced the typeface.

    In 2022, Vika Usmanova and Plamen Motev co-designed the wayfinding sans family Ways at Fontfabric. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    TypeArt05

    Russian type competition in March 2005. The jury consisted of Yuri Gordon, Vladimir Efimov, Dimitri Kirsanov, Tagir Safayev and Nikolay Dubina. The winners:

      Text designs
    • Helvetica Linotype: John Hudson (Canada)
    • Corbel: Jeremy Tankard (England)
    • Calibri: Luc(as) de Groot (Germany)
    • TheAntiqua: Luc(as) de Groot (Germany)
      Display designs
    • Daiga: Ekaterina Maslova (Russia)
    • EZZ: Anastasija Davydchik (Russia)
    • Fourty-nine face: Aleksandra Korolkova (Russia)
    • Polie: Vuga Radulovic (Serbia and Montenegro)
    • UniOpt: Viktor Kharik (Ukraine-Germany)
    • P22 Operina: James Grieshaber (USA)
    • Jedrilica: Ivana Dakic (Serbia and Montenegro)
    • SPQR Caps: Sergej Egorov (USA)
    • Calm Hour: Elena Kolesnikova (Russia)
    • Bulrush: Tatjana Malakhova (Russia)
    • DR Galushki: Dmitrij Rastvorsev (Ukraine)
    • Parangon Poluustav: Anatolij Kudrjavcev (Russia)
    • Parangon Ustav: Anatolij Kudrjavcev (Russia)
    • Multicross Cyr: Dmitrij Greshnev (Russia)
    • Cathedral and Pattern: Ivan Sharenkov (Russia)
      Text / Display type systems
    • Candara: Gary Munch (USA)
    • Bucentoro: Sergej Egorov (USA)
      Pi fonts
    • Output there is: Kirill Sirotin (Russia)
    • Blooming Meadow: Viktor Kharyk (Ukraine-Germany)
    • Astra: Andrej Belonogov (Russia)
    [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typefaces.ru

    Russian type design association. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    TypeMarket Font Library

    Russian outfit that writes this: "TypeMarket FontLibrary is precisely balanced with wide variety of Latin and non Latin fonts and also contains world largest Cyrillic font collection in PostScript and TrueType formats." Example: their Thames is a Cyrillic version of our Times, and so forth. Could not find their prices. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typemate
    [Vova Egoshin]

    Typemate (Saint Petersburg, Russia) is led by Natalya Yakimenko (project manager) and Vova Egoshin (designer and art director). In 2019, Vova started his own type foundry, simply called Vova Egoshin.

    At Typemate, Vova Egoshin created these free fonts for Latin and Cyrillic: Hater (2016, graffiti-inspired), Vinograd (2017, a free tattoo font), Schnobel (2017, a free handcrafted typeface), Bulky (2017, free). Behance link. Another Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typetersburg

    Type design meetings organized in Saint Petersburg, Russia in 2016 and 2017. Lecturers in 2016 and 2017 included Irina Smirnova, Dmitry Chernogaev, Maria Doreuli, Tagir Safaev, Dmitry Petrovsky, Lyudmila Sorokina, Ivan Velichko, Alexander Vasin, Natalya Velchinskaya, Yuri Yarmola, Rustam Gabbassov, Oleg Zhuravlev, Denis Masharov, Denis Bashev, Nikolai Nedashkovsky, Anton Popov, Sabina Aliyarova, Irina Lebedeva, Sergei Besov, Roman Shchukin, Andrei Bolonev, Anna Suvorova, Nikolai Butskikh and Sergei Rasskazov. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    TypeType
    [Ivan Gladkikh]

    Prolific Russian designer (b. 1986) whose real name is Ivan Gladkikh and working alias is Jovanny Lemonad . Jovanny lives in St. Petersburg. From 2003 until 2008, he studied audovisual engineering at The Bonch-Bruevich Saint-Petersburg State University of Telecommunications. In the early part of his career, most of his typefaces were free. In 2013, he set up the commercial type foundry TypeType. Most of his typefaces cover both Latin and Cyrillic.

    His typefaces include Scada Sans Two (2009), Furore (2009, octagonal), Fontin Sans Cyr (2009, the Cyrillic version of Jos Buivenga's Fontin Sans), Metro (2009, constructivist), Dited (2009, dot matrix: free), Days and Days One (2009, sans), and the attractive display typefaces Otscookie (2009, geometric and experimental), 20db (2008, high-contrast titling with didone features), Cuprum (2006-2012: a free sans family) and Molot (2008, with Roman Yershov). In 2008, he added to this list the grunge or handwriting typefaces FFUPuzzle, London (designed with Olga Kozlova) and Neucha (hand-printed), as well as the modern black display typeface 20db. Together with Eric Lebedco, he created the organic typeface Philosopher (2008). In 2006, he cooperated on the rounded Cyrillic typeface ZopaCyr. With Oleg Zhuravlev, he created the octagonal family Bender (2009, award winner at Paratype K2009). Creator of the corporate type family Ice and Flame (2009), an organic typeface based on Philosopher.

    CDMA (2010) is a rounded sans for corporate use. Nixie One (2011) is a free thin typewriter style face. Yeseva One (2011, as in "yes, Eva, bring me another beer") is a free ornamental serif face. Numans (2011) is a free wide sans face. https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Numans">Google download.

    Creations from 2012 include the frees typeface Oranienbaum (an antiqua created with Oleg Pospelov). He produced the free font Prosto (2012), which was designed by Pavel Emelyanov [see also Google Web Fonts]. Russo One (2012, Google Web Fonts) is a macho sans. Stalin One (2012) is a constructivist typeface co-designed with Alexey Maslov---it is free at Google Web Fonts.

    Typefaces from 2013: Imperial One (a free constructivist font based on the corporate font for the game role playing game The Mandate), Underdog (angular), Supermolot (an extension of his 2008 typeface Molot, a modern techie square grotesk with elements of Soviet style; extended in 2015 to TT Supermolot (by Olexa Volochay), in 2016 to TT Supermolot Condensed, and in 2018 to TT Supermolot Neue, by Roman Ershov, Marina Khodak, Nadezhda Polomoshnova, Ivan Gladkikh and the TypeType Team).

    In 2014, TypeType published TT Slabs (followed in 2015 by Olexa Volochay's TT Slabs Condensed), TT Drugs (by Nadyr Rakhimov, Phill Nurullin and Olexa Volochay: followed in 2015 by TT Drugs Condensed), TT Souses (hand-drawn sans family geared towards children's books and village design applications), TT Prosto Sans (followed in 2016 by Olexa Volochay's TT Prosto Sans Condensed), TT Rounds (a basic rounded sans typeface family by Olexa Volochay and Nadyr Rakhimov), TT Days Sans (TypeType: a pro version of his free font Days), TT Squares (an octagonal typeface family; see also TT Squares Condensed, 2016, by Olexa Volochay), TT Russo Sans), and TT Rounds Black.

    Typefaces from 2015: Free Ride, TT Compotes (a series of handcrafted typefaces), Hitch Hike (handcrafted typeface co-designed with Annastasia Samsonova), Accuratist (a hisper font by Jovanny Lemonad and Elena Shkerdina), Dita Sweet (a free art deco typeface co-designed by Ksenia Semirova and Jovanny Lemonad), TT Marks (a sign painting typeface family), TT Firs (a Scandinavian cold sans family, expanded in 2018 as TT Firs Neue by Philipp Nurullin and Ivan Gladkikh), Eleventh Square (art deco by Evgeny Tarasenko), TT Rounds Condensed, TT Books Script (a fifties style script), TT Crimsons (for short and emotional inscriptions), TT Masters (signage type), TT Inters (a great rhythmic script font), Frenchpress, TT Chocolates (a geometric grotesque with art deco hints), TT Bluescreens (30-style condensed sans family for movie trailers), TT Directors (designed for movie titling and trailers).

    Typefaces from 2016: TT Lovelies Script, TT Chocolates Condensed (by Olexa Volochay), TT Bells (an old style typeface family based om broad nib pens; by Nadyr Rakhimov and Olexa Volochay), TT Walls (a wall menu script family), TT Lakes (54 fonts in all; by Olia Leykina and Olexa Volochay), TT Corals (with Olexa Volochay: humanist sans typeface family), Bristol (children's hand), TT Octas (octagonal style, by Olexa Volochay), TT Teds (a narrow geometric sans family), TT Blushes (brush script), Romochka (handcrafted), TT Coats (a handcrafted antiqua), Bully (with Aigul Gilmutdinova), TT Rabbits (ten handcrafted typefaces for children's books, with substyles April, Bro, Chilli, Dummy, Elf, Fatso, Goody, Hyper, Idol, Junior), Suwikisu (free African-themed typeface based on a design by Egor Myznik), TT Moons (a condensed serif family), TT Cottons, Matias (by Vitaliy Tsygankov and Jovanny Lemonad), TT Pines (a sans based on paper cutouts).

    Typefaces from 2017: TT Backwards (an experimental script and grotesque font family inspired by the typographic scenery in the USSR in the late 70s and early 80s; by Tanya Cherkiz, Sergey Kotelnikov, Philipp Nurullin and the TypeType Team), TT Knickerbockers, TT Polls (modern modular slab serif inspired by American sports graphics; by Olexa Volochay, Tanya Cherkiz and Nadyr Rakhimov, TT Norms (by Nadyr Rakhimov and Olexa Volochay), TT Berlinerins (Script, Sans: based on vernacular type in Berlin, the sans emulates wood type), TT Milks, TT Pubs (didone; +Stencil), TT Limes (23 handcrafted typefaces, from Sans, to Slab and Dingbats), TT Hazelnuts (display sans).

    He also has a lively type blog (in Russian).

    Typefaces from 2018: Ivan Gladkikh and Pavel Emelyanov, with the technical assistance of Marina Khodak, Vika Usmanova and Nadyr Rakhimov, designed TT Commons. TT Commons is a universal sans family originally created for the branding and in-house use of TypeType, but it was finally released due to many requests. In 2018, Sofia Yasenkova, Philipp Nurullin, and Vika Usmanova designed the modern serif TT Tricks at TypeType. TT Tricks has many stencil styles. Still in 2018, Ivan Gladkikh, Alexander Kirillov, Philipp Nurullin, Vika Usmanova, Marina Khodak, and Nadyr Rakhimov published TT Severs. The TT Rounds family was reworked in 2018 into TT Rounds Neue by Ivan Gladkikh, Philipp Nurullin 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, Pavel Emelyanov and Ivan Gladkikh released the 20-style geometric sans typeface TT Hoves, which is intended for use in architecture, design, industry, science, astronomy, drawing, high tech, research, space and statistics.

    Typefaces from 2021: TT Commons Classic (a 24-style geometric sans by Ivan Gladkikh, the TypeType Team, Pavel Emelyanov and Marina Khodak; it includes two variable fonts).

    Alternate URL. Behance link---on Behance, he uses the name Ivan Gladkikh. Fontsquirrel link. Google font directory link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. Old home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    TypeType Education

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based type design school related to Ivan Gladkikh's type foundry TypeType. The training lasts six months and includes 192 hours of instruction. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typetype: Free Fonts

    In 2008, Ivan Gladkikh (Saint Petersburg, Russia) started a free fonts project aiming to poluraize free typefaces. More than 50 fonts and typefaces were created in collaboration with a significant number of famous and novice Russian designers. Since 2014, he also coordinates his efforts with Truetype School.

    The list of typefaces by 2016: 20db, Accuratist, Accuratist, Airport, Ardeco, Ardeco, Bender-Black, Bender-BlackItalic, Bender-Bold, Bender-BoldItalic, Bender-Italic, Bender-Light, Bender-LightItalic, Bender, Bicubik, Bristol, Bully, Cuprum-BoldItalic, Cuprum-Bold, Cuprum-Italic, Cuprum-Regular, Days, Dited, EleventhSquare, EleventhSquare, Epool, Flow, Flow-Bold, FontinSansCR-Bold, FontinSansCR-BoldItalic, FontinSansCR-Italic, FontinSansCR-Regular, FontinSansCR-SC, Freeride, Frenchpress, Furore, HattoriHanzo-Light, HattoriHanzo-LightItalic, HitchHike, ImperialOne, ImperialOne, Kazmann-Sans, London, Lumberjack, LumberjackInlineRough, LumberjackRough, LumberjackRoughShadow, Magnolia-Script, Matias, Matias, Metro, Molot, NixieOne, Oranienbaum, Otscookie, PeaceSans, PeaceSans, Philosopher-BoldItalic, Philosopher-Bold, Philosopher-Italic, Philosopher, Prosto, Romochka, RussoOne, Scada-BoldItalic, Scada-Bold, Scada-Italic, Scada, StalinistOne-Regular, Steamy, USSR-STENCIL, USSR-STENCIL, Underdog, Unimportant, UpheavalPro-Regular, Wes, Wes, YesevaOne, Zhizn, FFUPuzzle, FFUSuwiKisu. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typetype School

    Ivan Gladkikh, Saint Petersburg, Russia-based school and mentoring place related to his Typetype foundry. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    TypeType Team

    Based in Saint Petersburg, Russia, the TypeTeam consists of Aleksandr Kudryavtsev, Sasha Denisov, Irina Gladkova, Nadyr Rakhimov, Olexa Volochay, Dmitry Greshnev, Tanya Cherkiz, and Pavel Emelyanov. Invited specialists include Maria Mizernitskaya, Philipp Nurullin, Olga Yumartova, Svetlana Malyshko, Konstantin Biryukov, Katya Kistrin, Alena Korobanova, Eugenia Pestova, Yuliana Morgun, Misha Panfilov and Dmitry Grekov. Its experimental branch is called Piñata. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Typikon

    Russian type site with Cyrillic and Slavonic fonts: Abur, Greek, Knyazcyr, Lavra-Plain, Novgorod-Plain, OldChurchSlavonicCyr, OldChurchSlavonicGla, OrnamentTM, Peterb_Mod, Izhitsa, IzhitsaC, IzhitsaCTT, IzhitsaShadowC-Regular, PigraphBTT and OrnamentTT (1994, all six by Dmitry Komissarov), Putiata, BlagovestFiveDecor, BlagovestFiveRegular, BlagovestFiveRegularSerif, BlagovestFourNormal, BlagovestFourSerif, BlagovestOne, BlagovestSix, BlagovestThree, BlagovestTwo-Regular (all by DoubleAlex Team), FaithOrnaments (1994, Proclaim Communications), FitaPoluustav, Fita_church. FitaVjaz (the last three all 1995, Sergey Shanovich, Type Market Ltd. Moscow). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    typomania

    Russian typography page by Novikov Design (Sergei Novikov). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Typomania 2017

    The International Typographic Festival Typomania is an annual type, typography, calligraphy and video event. Typomania 2017 took place in the Moscow Museum from April 27 until May 4, 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Tyurin Misha

    Perm, Russia-based designer of an outlined typeface (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    UDR Design

    Yekaterinburg, Russia-based designer of the free typeface Barbari (2018, +Textured). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Uliana Shabanova

    Siberian designer of the counterless scrapbook font Nannaula (2021) and the shaky grandfather script Grandfami (2021). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Umbra95
    [Luiza Gasparyan]

    Russian designer of Lost Land (a horror font) (2021), Area 88, (grunge) (2021), Alessyia (inspired by typewriters) (2021), the Victorian fantasy font Morgain (2021) and the grungy street art font Urban Philosopher (2021). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Uniontype
    [Roman Avdiushkin]

    Uniontype is a Russian type foundry in Perm, est. 2016. Roman Avdiushkin is a Russian type designer, b. 1989. In 2016, he created the classic Americana signage typeface UT Triumph at Uniontype.

    In 2017, he published the monoline script typeface UT Laurelle. The monoline script typeface UT Sugar Cane and UT Marmalade, followed in 2018.

    Typefaces from 2019: UT Saturday (script).

    Typefaces from 2020: The Bystander Collection (eleven all caps fonts and a monoline script, inspired by the masters of art photography).

    You Work For Them link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    V. Demidov

    Russian designer of Rublenaya Outline (1957). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    V. Lyubarsky

    Russian designer of a cyrillization of Optima (1993, Zapf's original in 1969). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    V. Vyazminov

    Russian designer of Cyrillic versions of Americana, Arnold Boecklin, Amasone script, Broshur, Busorama, Davida, Flemish Script, Mister Earl. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vadim Vladimirovich Lazurski

    Moscow-based book designer and type designer, b. 1909 (Odessa), d. 1994 (Moscow). At Paratype, one can buy his font Lazurski (1962), of which many freeware versions exist as well. He worked for the state typographic institute Polygraphmash, where he made numerous typefaces such as Ribbon Antique (1965). A Lazurski Award has been established in his honor, and several typefaces called Lazurski circulate in the type ether. An example includes Vladimir Yefimov's Lazurski (1984-1996).

    Russian bio. FontShop link. Paratype link. Victor Kharyk's page on Lazurski. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Vadim Yaroshenko

    Designer of the dot matrix Latin/Cyrillic font Epson and of Dotf1 (2000). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vadim Yegorof

    Russian designer of Pechkin (1999). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Valentina Erofeeva

    Graphic designer and illustrator in Moscow who created the experimental Cyrillic display typefaces UFO (2015), Mangal (2015) and Mehanicheskij Ubivec (2014, "mechanical killer"). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Valentina Ivashchenko

    Russian designer of Stilla Cyrillic (1977). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Valentina Zigangirova

    Russian designer of SK Pupok (a plump and cuddly typeface) (2021). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Valentine Lugansky

    Moscow-based designer of the Latin / Cyrillic sans typeface Lugansky (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Valeria Pashkova

    During her studies at the School of Type design in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Valeria Pashkova designed the wide modern typeface Lerson (2016-2017), which covers Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Valeriya Besedina

    Moscow-based designer of the Latin / Cyrillic arts-and-crafts typeface American Horror Story (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Valeriya Klepikova

    Graphic and motion designer in Moscow, who created New Animal Alphabet in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Valeriya Plyushch

    Russian designer of SK Fushimi (2021, at Shriftovik). She writes: SK Fushimi is an accidental experimental font inspired by modern Japanese culture and aesthetics. Its futuristic geometric shapes pay homage to Japanese technology. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Valeriya Shumova

    Russian designer of SK Sofuto (2021), a bold Latin / Cyrillic display typeface inspired by graffiti culture. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Valery Golyzhenkov
    [Letterhead Studio VG Fonts]

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    Valery Moiseev

    Moscow-based designer who created the display type Linear (2015) in vector format. He also drew a great set of Monsters in vector format. Icon sets by him include 1000 Icons, Churches, Christmas, Flat Cars, Thin Line Icons. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Valery Zaveryaev
    [Gaslight (or: Valery Zaveryaev)]

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    Value Studio
    [Vladimir Ilnitskiy]

    Or Vladimir Ilnitzky. Vladimir Ilnitskiy (Value Studio, Murmansk, Russia) created several typefaces. These include Matryoshka (at Matryoshka), Value Studio (2014, a sans display face for Latin and Cyrillic) and Vender (2008). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vardo Design

    Russian designer of Felicita (2016, a dynamic brush script), Brambles (2016, rush script), Brambles Spike (2016), Brambles Swashes (2016, floral dingbats), White Soul (2016), Doppio (2016, handcrafted), Belamora (2016), TrimMark (2016), Vegano Upper (2016) and StrawScript (2016).

    Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Varvara

    Illustrator and graphic designer in Moscow who created the thin squarish typeface Tonkikh (2015) and the deco typeface Zhuks (2015), for Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Varya Sviridova

    Moscow, Russia-based designer of the Cyrillic display typeface Cockroach (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vasiliy Brodovikov

    Russian designer of SK Akademkniga (2021: a Latin / Cyrillic typeface in the monumental classic all caps sans genre, featuring medium contrast). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Vasiliy Gorbuntsov

    Moscow-based graphic designer. In 2016, he created a connect-the-dots typeface. All links to him or his font seem to have died. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vasiliy Khromov

    Moscow, Russia-based designer of the Cyrillic typeface Bodoni Comic Sans Crosstype (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vasiliy V. Bokov

    Vasiliy V. Bokov is the designer of the 612Koshey family, 1997. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vasilly Sychev

    Graphic designer in Saint Petersburg, Russia, who created several grid-based and modular typefaces in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    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. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Vasily Klyukin

    Born in 1976 in Moscow, and now a resident of Monaco, Klyukin graduated from the Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation in Moscow in 1998. Klyukin is a Russian businessman and co-founder of Sovcombank, a commercial bank. He manages real estate fund K2H, is keen on architecture and organized Stars-Bridge, a group for the support of the Russian contemporary art. He will be a space tourist with Virgin Galactic, and has climbed the Everest. Since 2010, Vasily has been engaged in architecture and design. He had released his architectural album Designing Legends.

    In 2016, he designed the free experimental Latin / Cyrillic typeface Skyscraper. Dafont link. Aka Michael Tsaturyan. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vasily Shishkin

    Russian designer who won an award at Bukvaraz 2001 for Economy. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vassyas Sonnov

    Moscow-based creator of the free oversmoothed typeface Haiko (2014, a circle-based typeface). It is advertised as free, but I can not find any download buttons. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vasya Kobelev

    Petrozavodsk, Russia-based designer of several refined sets of zodiac signs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vates Design
    [Alex Ivanov]

    Moscow-based illustrator specializing in vintage style, calligraphy, ornate crests and emblems. In 2014, Vates Design created the commercial copperplate script typeface Bodega Script and the engraved currency font Bold Price. In 2015, Vates added the copperplate gothic typeface Barracuda Display and the curly Austen Display. In 2016, they published the calligraphic chancery style November Script. Fonts from 2017 include Achievement (a brush script) and Black Spot (vintage style).

    In 2018, he designed the beautiful Spencerian penmanship font Jamaica Script, which was inspired by Louis Madarasz. In 2019, he released Rough Antiqua and Viking Caps (a rune and rune emulation typeface).

    Typefaces from 2020: Lodbrok (Celtic).

    Typefaces from 2021: Marquise (a calligraphic script).

    Link to a business that makes vintage coat-of-arms logos. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vavavka's Art
    [Ksenia Yusupova]

    Russian scrap design artist who created the Latin typefaces Imagination Stars (2015), Summer Time (2015), Monster Ink (2015), Handwritten Marker Font (2015), Blurred Brush (2015, a watercolor brush font), Graffiti (2015: graffiti brush), Elongated Thin Font (2015) and Space (2015). In 2016, she designed Birdie and Brush Font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vectorpixelstar
    [Vischeslav Polovinkin]

    Russian designer of Alien Hieroglyph (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vera Chiminova

    Russian type designer who designed Baltica (1951-1952, Polygraphmash; with Isay Slutsker, based on Jakob Erbar's Candida from Ludwig&Mayer, 1936). The digital version of Baltica is due to Alexander Tarbeev (1988) and is available from Paratype. Small capitals, additional Bold, Extra Bold, and Extra Condensed styles were developed by Manvel Shmavonyan and released by ParaType in 2008. FontShop link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vera Evstafieva
    [Infonta]

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    Vera Kormakova

    Moscow-based designer of the deconstructed Latin / Cyrillic typeface Zhuk (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Veronika Chelyapina

    Ramenskoye, Russia-based student-designer of the blackletter Latin / Cyrillic typeface Hedgehog (2015, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Veronika Golovko
    [Qilli Design]

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    Veronika Kiriyenko

    Moscow-based designer at Leo Burnett Moscow. Creator of the Cyrillic poster typeface Moms Alphabet (2014) and the fun Monster Alphabet (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Veronika Rubashkina

    Moscow-based designer of a gret movie poster called Leon (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Veronika Starikova

    Perm, Rusia-based designer of the medieval style Ancient Book Font (2016), which has a slavonic-themed set of initial caps. In 2017, she designed the vector decorative caps typeface Magic Garden.

    Typefaces from 2018: Blooming Garden (decorative initials), My India (super-decorative capitals). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Victor Kuchmin

    Russian designer of AZ McLeud (1990-1995, ATRI), based on American Uncial by Victor Hammer, 1943. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Victoria Gumarshina

    Graphic designer in Moscow who made the modular Latin / Cyrillic typeface Runder (2020). Runder uses only three shaps, a circle, a triangle and a line. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Victoria Silova

    During her studies at Stroganov University of Arts & Industry, Moscow-based Victoria Silova designed the experimental geometric typeface Bukva (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Victoria Utkina

    Moscow-based designer of an Cyrillic art deco typeface for jewelry store. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vika Nurislamova

    During her studies at the British Higher School of Art and Design (BHSAD) in Moscow, Vika Nurislamova designed the modular typeface Structura (2015).

    In 2018, she designed the octagonal typeface Gasmaster. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vika Usmanova
    [Type Trends]

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    Viktor Figirnov

    Russian designer of the beautifil numerals font family PostIndex (1999). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Viktor Fitzner

    Russian co-designer, with Aleksander Lubovenko at Paratype, of Wak (2018), a lively display typeface. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Viktor Pesotsky
    [Fontype]

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    Viktoria Grigorenko

    Designer at Type Market (Moscow) of the Cyrillic font family Osvald (1996, TypeMarket), which is a Cyrillic version of Cooper Black. FontShop link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Viktoriya Igoshina

    Moscow-based designer of the handcrafted typeface Slim (2018, for Latin and Cyrillic) and the squarish typeface Aksent (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Viktoriya Nestroynaya

    At the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow, Viktoriya Nestroynaya created the display typefaces Crosstype (2017) and Gestures (2017), and a painted experimental Cyrillic typeface (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Viktoriya Shehovcova

    Armavir, Russia-based designer of a multilined Cyrillic typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vintage Voyage Design
    [Pavel Korzhenko]

    Aka P. Rudakov and Pasha Korzhenko, and operating as Vintage Voyage Design. Perm, Russia-based designer of the vintage handcrafted typefaces West End (2015, spurred Western typeface family), Winter Holidays (2015), The Sugar Cane (2015, eroded signage script), Montana (2015), Canyons (2015), Forest Tramp (2015), Heart of Gold (2015, a think inky brush), La Fa Salt (2015, a connected monoline script), Robinson (2015, handcrafted), Rise (2015, rough brush), Stout (2015, +Stout Roughen), Jack's Guitar (2015) and Bough (2015).

    Typefaces from 2016: Chameleon (rough brush), Les Paul (beatnik style), 1994 Fancy, The First Division (an elegant handcrafted Peignotian typeface family), The Aviator, Ocean Beach (weathered athletic lettering font), Fenway Script (baseball script), Fenway Sans, Octanis (display family in Sans, Slab, Serif, and Rounded Sans sub-styles), Compare (a vintage wedge serif typeface inspired by the mafia), Unchained (Western typeface), The Selvedger (signage script), Driver (a retro speed emulation typeface family), Pasternak Script.

    Typefaces from 2017: The Bartender (a 14-font vintage typeface family with some letterpress styles), Easy Rider (a layered road movie brush script font), The New America (penmanship script), Ace of Spades (grungy), Cavalcade (a layered serif typeface inspired by American and European typography of early 20th century, from movie posters to design of alcohol bottles like Martini, Cinzano and Campari), Old Standard (sans, script), Season Times (Sans+Script), Roadstar (a vintage speed emulation techno font).

    Typefaces from 2018: VVDS Pacifica (a hand-lettered bold signage script inspired by American branding typography from the end of the 20th century), Le Bonjour (a retro sans), The Voyage Culture (font duo), Afterglow (a didone), VVDS The Bimbo (circus fonts), Two Letter Monogram, Diamond Monogram, Circle Monogram, Circle Frames, Harbour (a free decorative blackletter, +Harbour Decor: 2017-2018), Sandwich (a large 3d beveled typeface family), The Telegraph (transitional newspaper type), Golden Horn (a layered vintage typeface).

    Typefaces from 2019: VVDS Organum (a decorative typeface for operas and phantasms), The Pretender (a package inspired by vintage American sign painting), VVDS Praliner (an all caps sans for display), Le Bonjour (Peignotian), Kristopher (a fancy serif), Nurnberg (an expressionist, modernized blacletter), The British Telegraph (based on vintage British headline type), Halau (a tiki font), Halau Serif, Sign Painter (a monoline Script, a layerable Sans, and two Decor ornamental styles, all based on Victorian era signs).

    Typefaces from 2020: The Ruby (a 56-font and icon collection), VVDS Minorica (a handrwritten collection in ten styles), VVDS Rashfield (in the soft serif genre), VVDS London Oatmeal (Sans, Script), VVDS Sunshine Bridge (a creamy brush script), VVDS Benigne Sans (a wide geometric sans), VVDS La Truffe (a bold decorative didone), VVDS Big Tickle (a handcrafted retro family).

    Typefaces from 2021: VVDS Clementia (a stylish condensed serif), Urbanchrome (an SVG letterpress emulation font), VV Neonica (a 12-style neon font family), Grodsky (a stylish 4-style antiqua), The Country Blues (a throwback to the fifties), Surfbird (a 30-style western family), VVS Nobleman (a stylish serif in four styles).

    Behance link. Creative Market link. Vintage Voyage Design. You Work For Them link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Vischeslav Polovinkin
    [Vectorpixelstar]

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    Vision

    Russian designer of the hyper-experimental typeface Vision Division (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vitaliy Tsygankov
    [Limo Studio]

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    Vitaly Glyph

    Moscow-based designer of Latin and Cyrillic, or purely Cyrillic, fonts. There is a list of Cyrillizations of existing fonts: Atreyu, LHF Bounce Script, Modeka, Turnpike, PL Barnum, Good Times Regular, Playful JNL (Jeff Levine), Armageda, Showcard Gothic, SF Comic Script, Jolly Good Sans Basic, Enemy (Shaivanalla Perumal), House Slant (House Industries), House Brush (House Industries), Komika Axis (Apostrophic Labs), Snickers (Mark Simonson), Grand Hotel (AOETI), Wisdom Script (Lost Type), Mission Script (Lost Type), Cylburn (Lost Type), House Script (House Industries), House Holiday Gothic (House Industries), LHF Branding Iron (Letterheadfonts), LHF Fancy Full (Letterheadfonts), LHF Firehouse (Letterheadfonts), American West (FontMesa), Champ Ultra (BA Graphics), PL Davison Americana (Monotype), Blenny (Dalton Maag), Bigfish (Floodfonts), Same Same, But Different (Hanoded), Enemy (Lost Type), Special Forces (Typodermic), Serpentine (URW++), Ritts Cursive (Eurotypo), Voga Medium (CD Type), Hermes 1943 (Lukas Krakora), Brand (Lian Types), Tasty (Hubert Jocham), Bullet Regular (House Industries), Filmotype Athens (Filmotype), Signika (Anna Giedrys), Art Department (Jeff Levine), Borg (David Sum, aka titusprod).

    Original fonts made ca. 2015: GF Deathmatch (a super-macho typeface), GF Ram (pixel font), GF Mario (video game font), GF Mario Two, GF Oversize, GF Magnifica, Deadpool, GF Enroll (letterpress emulation), GF Happy Elephant (comic book style), GF Standout (compressed titling sans), Snickers Super (after the logo for Snickers), GF Bitrika (condensed display sans), Skazka (cartoon font), Minnesota (digitized Hamilton wood type), Alumnus (soft blackletter), Terminator Genisys, Comanchero (+Bevel (beveling using four layers)), Viko, Police (octagonal, athletic lettering), Terminator (after the movie), Old Poster font family, Lic Plate RUS, Lic Plate CT, Taurus Gothic, Slant GP (like Zelek), Brick Game (like Tetris), System Message, System Pixel, Digital 16s (LED).

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vitaly Ilyasov

    Branding and graphic designer in Moscow, who has made some experimental typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vitaly Kuzmin

    Designer at ParaType of the free 4-weight typeface family PT Root. Intended for screen reading, interfaces, websites, as well as wayfinding systems, PT Root UI is a modern uniwidth sans serif whose individual character widths are constant across all weights. It covers Latin and Cyrillic. See also the free extension Retni Sans (2018-2019).

    In 2019, Vitaly Kuzmin and Alexandra Korolkova co-designed the free sans serif typeface Golos Text at Paratype. It was originally commissioned by Smena (AIC Group) for state and social service websites. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vitoldas Bachenas

    Lithuanian book and type designer. At Polygraphmash type design bureau, he created the unusual low-contrast serif family Bachenas (1963). The digital version was developed for ParaType in 2003 by Lyubov Kuznetsova. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Vlad Ayuev

    Moscow-based creator of the experimental Cyrillic typeface Velvet Moss (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vlad Karavaev

    Tambov, Russia-based designer of a decorative all caps typeface (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vlad Martin

    Designer in Kirov, Russia, who imitated the old Slavic alphabet in his Cyrillic/latin creation generically named Poluustav (2013). He also made Gothic (2013, a German expressionist typeface in Latin and Cyrillic) and Devils Horns (2013).

    In 2014, he created the Latin / Cyrillic oriental simulation typeface Murakami (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vlad Mikhailov

    During his studies at BHSAD in Moscow, Vlad Mikhailov created the chalky typeface Dura (2014, Cyrillic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vlad Rudakov
    [Vladvertising Studio]

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    Vlad Viperov

    Russian designer in Volgograd (b. 1975) of Bambuchinnox (2013, a connect-the-dots typeface), Repivmanusc (2013), Viper78 (2012, free Latin display face), Argocksaz Viper 78 (2012, a monoline sans family), and Decor Viper78 (2012).

    In 2013, he created Decorissimant Viper 78, Tetraclericton and Gramoclericton.

    Typefaces from 2014: Mayuragifkas 222, Injancromvela, Nexarumpelstil, Rumpelstilnexz, Markofontina (necrocock style).

    In 2015, he made Arbycksazjan, Oxygetrompal, Kaplionixxaz and Bymberangiykas.

    Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vlada Ruzhitskaya

    Designer of the Latin/Cyrillic printed script typeface Sweet Cherry (2009), which was part of her diploma work at the Moscow Department of Higher British Design School. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vlada Smirnova

    Russian designer of the creamy script typeface Lanikai (2018) and the brush script typeface Cilantro (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vladimir

    Russian creator of Aqua (2010), a decorative rounded 3-d alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vladimir Alexandrowitsch Pavlikov

    Russian type designer and graphic artist (b. Kaluga, Russia, 1978) who won awards at Bukvaraz 2001 for Zentra and Quadrat Grotesk. He graduated from Kaluga Art School (1993) and Moscow Printing Institute (2000) and is based in Moscow. His typefaces:

    • Quadrat Grotesk (2001, ParaType), and Quadrat Grotesk New (ParaType), which is based on old Russian wooden types that were used for placard display composition at large sizes.
    • Flox (2000, ParaType) and Flox Rounded (2000, ParaType). Flex (2005) is a variation of Flox.
    • Smena (2006, ParaType). A 1940s advertising family originally designed in 1999-2001. Smena was awarded at the TypeArt (Moscow) type design competition in 2001.
    • The Cyrillic version of AdLib at ParaType in 1999. The original is by Freeman Craw, 1961, ATF.
    • The Pi font Zentra (2000). This typeface was a winner at the TDC2 2001 competition (Type Directors Club).
    • Dotage (2004, ParaType). A pixel family that features Shadow Left and Shadow Right sub-styles.
    • At Paratype, he did cyrillizations of fonts such as Ad Lib, FF Confidential, FF Dynamoe, FF Karton and FF OCR-F (with Tagir Safaev, 1999-2001).
    • The custom typeface Ruflex (2004).
    • In 2011, he co-designed Rationale One with Alexei Vanyashin and Olexa Volochay.
    • Lumiere (2012) is a custom typeface designed exclusively for Hollywood Reporter magazine's Russian edition. It was art-directed by Anton Aleynikov. It is based on The Font Bureau typeface Vonness Bold Compressed by David Berlow.

    FontShop link. Klingspor link. Behance link. Paratype link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Vladimir Alexenyevny

    Small (700) Cyrillic/Latin font archive. Direct access. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vladimir Anosov
    [Anonymous Typedesigners]

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    Vladimir Belokon

    Graphic designer in Moscow, who created the Latin / Cyrillic typeface Russian Dolls (2012, free) and the sci-fi typeface Axis Modul (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vladimir Egoshin
    [Vova Egoshin]

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    Vladimir Favorsky

    Russian graphic artist (1886-1964), who made some wwodcut type in the 1920s. Yuri Gordon created FaRer [1996; art deco typeface inspired by the work of Favorsky and Ivan Rerberg (1892-1957), especially by Favorsky's lettering of 1924 and by Rerberg's of 1935.] [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vladimir Ilnitskiy
    [Value Studio]

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    Vladimir Kolomeytsev

    As part of Kiosk Works (or: Playfaces Type foundry) in Moscow, Russia, Vladimir Kolomeytsev (Moscow) designed the experimental typeface Forma Bold (2019), influenced by Nebiolo's Forma. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vladimir Likh
    [Triangle & Cross]

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    Vladimir Makhalov

    Russian creator of the octagonal typeface Hamburger (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vladimir Melentshev

    Moscow-based designer of the vector format typeface Geometrical (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vladimir Platonov
    [Quba Type (was: Graphic Studio 33)]

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    Vladimir Romanov

    Freelance Moscow-based type designer of Cyrillic fonts. Fonts include Macarena, Margit, Nestor (1999), and Newland (1999). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vladimir Sedykh

    Graphic designer in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He designed some fonts in 2010. The knitting font FFF-Knit_this_shit (2010) is free. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vladimir Sernov

    Russian designer of Prototype Cyrillic (2001, second prize at Type Art, Moscow, 2001). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vladimir Smirnov

    Russian designer of the postal code font Zipcode (2000). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vladimir Sorokopudov

    Co-designer with Alexandra Gophmann of the Cyrillic font Ruritania (2005), which can be found here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vladimir Tomin
    [Spacejump]

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    Vladimir Tsagolov
    [Lomo Hiber]

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    Vladimir Vendiktorich Yefimov

    Vladimir Yefimov (b. Moscow, 1949, d. Moscow, 2012) was the art director and a co-founder of ParaType, Ltd., Moscow (since 1992; before that, starting in 1988, it was called ParaGraph, and he had been staff designer there since its inception). He lectured on type design at the Stroganov Higher School of Arts and Crafts, Moscow (1995-96) and the Higher Academical School of Graphic Design, Moscow (1997-98). He worked at the type department of NPO Polygraphmas (1973-1991). He is the designer of many Cyrillic typefaces, and several Indian, Greek, and Hebrew typefaces, and author on typography and type design.

    His typefaces include Bitstream Kis Cyrillic, AdverGothic (1989, after Advertisers Gothic by Robert Wiebking from 1917), Futuris, Futura PT (1991, 22 styles in all, after Renner's famous 1927 design), Compact (1991, ParaGraph, based on Anons by Gennady Baryshnikov), Decor (1989, after a typeface by Gennady Baryshnikov), Zhikharev (1989, after a 1953 original by Igor Zhikharev), Arthur (1994, TypeMarket, based on Agfa Marigold by Arthur Baker, 1989), Fraktura (1987, a Latin Fraktur typeface based on Justus E. Walbaum's Walbaum Fraktur), PT Didona (1992), PT ITC True Grit (1997, a Cyrillic version of Michael Stacey's ITC True Grit from 1995), PT Octava (2000, earlier (1996) called Scriptura Russica, a family commissioned by the Russian Bible Society and based on Lectura, 1969, by Dick Dooijes and Stone Print, 1991, by Sumner Stone. Octava won the Grand Prix of the Golden Biennale in 1996), Standard Poster (1992, based on a design from 1986 at Polygraphmash, inspired in turn by the fat didone style of the Ossip Lehmann type foundry (St.Petersburg)), Mason Sans Cyrillic (2002, Paratype, extending the Mason Sans family of Barnbrook at Emigre (1992)), Petersburg (1992), PT Compact (1991), PT ITC Fat Face (1993, with the help of Gennady Baryshnikov), PT ITC Zapf Chancery (1993, with the help of Gennady Baryshnikov), PT ITC Flora (1993, with help from Emma Zakharova, an extension of Unger's 1989 font ITC Flora), PT Pragmatica (1989, with Alexander Tarbeev and later Isabella Chaeva), the Cyrillic version of ITC Avant Garde Gothic (Paratype, 1993), the Cyrillic version of ITC Charter (1999, called PT ITC Charter) and the Cyrillic version of Barnbrook's Mason. He oversaw the development of the PT Sans (Open Font Library link) and PT Serif superfamilies in 2010-2011. PT Serif was co-designed with Olga Umpeleva and Alexandra Korolkova.

    In 2012, Isabella Chaeva and Vladimir Yefimov created a Cyrillic version of Roundhand BT (1966, Matthew Carter) for ParaType. The typeface was posthumously released.

    Yefimov Serif (2014) is a contemporary serif face, with low contrast, squarish shapes of round glyphs and emphasized business-like nature. It is one of the last original typefaces by Vladimir Yefimov. The typeface was completed by Maria Selezeneva and released by ParaType in 2014. The companion typeface is Yefimov Sans (2015, by Alexandra Korolkova and Maria Selezeneva).

    Adam Twardoch's announcement of his death: Today, the co-founder of ParaType, prolific type designer and teacher Vladimir Yefimov has died in Moscow. Both his original typefaces and his masterful Cyrillic extensions of existing Latin typefaces were truly impressive. He even attempted multi-script extensions such as that of ITC Avant Garde. Among my favorite text typefaces (or actually, serif screen typefaces) is Vladimir's Octava. Matthew Carter praised Vladimir's Cyrillic version of ITC Charter, which I think is one of the finest Cyrillic alphabets ever designed. I was also very fond of Vladimir's Cyrillic extension of Kis, which John Hudson described as "one of his favourite Cyrillic text types as well as a remarkable exercise in historic imagination." Vladimir often collaborated with other designers, many of them were his former students. One of the last projects that he participated in was the monumental PT Sans (Open Font Library link, Github link) and PT Serif project. But he was not only dedicated, skillful and artistically refined---but also kind, generous, modest, warm and funny. I first met him in 1998 at the ATypI Lyon conference, and greatly enjoyed all the subsequent occasions that I could spend some time with him. It's been a great pleasure and a true privilege knowing him (a bit).

    Brief CV. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about the origin and history of Cyrillic letters. At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he spoke about designing Latin/Cyrillic fonts.

    Obituary by Maxim Zhukov.

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    Vladimir Volovich
    [CM-Super font package]

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    Vladimir Vorobiev

    Vladimir Vorobiev (Pushkino, Russia) designed the gothic arch typeface Helma in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vladimir Yefimov: Obituary by Maxim Zhukov

    Maxim Zhukov's obituary was posted precisely 40 days after Yefimov's passing. I quote from that letter:

    The fortieth day of passing is widely observed in Russia, not only by the Orthodox faithful.

    Vladimir Venediktovich Yefimov, the pre-eminent Russian type designer and typographic expert, known to his friends as Volodya, or Jeff, died on the 23rd of February, at the age of 62.

    Vladimir was born in Moscow on May 6, 1949. He graduated from Moscow Printing Institute in 1973 with a major in graphic art and design. Vladimir began his career as a staff designer at the Type Design Department of the National Printing Research Institute (NIIPoligrafmash). His professional development was influenced by his senior fellow colleagues Mikhail Rovensky, Isay Slutsker, Lyubov' Kuznetsova, and Nikolay Kudryashov, all outstanding design professionals. From 1992 to 1998 Vladimir worked as a senior designer at ParaGraph International; in April 1998 he became one of the founders, and the art director, of ParaType, Inc.

    Since then Vladimir designed more than 60 type families (more than 200 type styles), of which many are now well known, without exaggeration, to any Cyrillic user. Among them are Pragmatica (1989), Adver Gothic (1989), Newton (1990), Petersburg, Didona (1992), Octava (1966), ITC Charter Cyrillic and Kis Cyrillic (1999).

    Vladimir's typefaces are widely recognized in the professional community world-wide for their superb quality. They won awards at many exhibitions and competitions, including the Certificate of Merit of the Academy of Graphic Design; the Grand Prix of the Golden Bee, Moscow International Biennial of Graphic Design; the Certificate of Design Excellence of the Type Directors Club, and others.

    Vladimir taught a course in the history of type design at a number of Moscow-based design schools: Stroganov State University of Industrial Art; Higher Academical School of Graphic Design, British Higher School of Art and Design.

    He authored, edited, and contributed to, many books on type design and typography, including a series "Great typefaces" (Book 1: The Beginnings. Moscow: ParaType, 2006; Book 2: The Serifs. Moscow: ParaType, 2007); Language Culture Type: International Type Design in the Age of Unicode, John D. Berry, ed. (New York: Graphis, 2002); Russian editions of Peter Karow's Font Technology: Description and Tools (Moscow, Mir Publishers, 2001), Erik Spiekermann's Über Schrift (Moscow: ParaType, 2005), Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style (Moscow: D. Aronov, Publisher, 2008), Jan Tschichold's The Form of the Book (Moscow: Art. Lebedev Studio, 2008).

    Vladimir's mastery of design, his talks at the international typographic fora, and his multiple, productive contacts with foreign colleagues, his profound and multi-faceted erudition, his irresistible charm and charisma, have secured the international recognition of the achievements of the Russian type design school. It is not least due to his efforts that the type design and production in Russia has been revived, and has caught up with the current international level.

    Vladimir was a full member of the Academy of Graphic Design (since 1995), and its Vice-President (since 2012), a member of the Association Typographique Internationale (since 1996), and a member of the Moscow Artist Union (since 1997).

    Vladimir's typefaces, his books, his gentle charm and his lovely smile will remain with us forever.

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    Vladimir Yudin

    Tver, Russia-based designer of the decorative Cyrillic steampunk typeface Pipeline (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vladislav Monakhov

    Russian designer of the all caps deco sans typeface Soradolphia (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vladislav V. Dorosh
    [Calmius Software]

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    Vladislav Zhuk

    Russian designer at Frog 1812 of Frog 1812 Sans (2021; with Dmitry Alekseev and Vsevolod Syzdykov). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Vladislav Zorin

    Zheleznogorsk, Russia-based designer of the free vector format techno font ZVX Xeno (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vladlen Erium

    Russian designer of Somaton (2000, Paratype), an angular family that simulates old mechanics and Greek at the same time. In 2010, he made DJ Parade, a wide futuristic sans.

    FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Vladvertising Studio
    [Vlad Rudakov]

    Design studio in Toronto. Run by Vlad Rudakov (b. 1988, Russia), it started selling fonts in 2010 via MyFonts. Its first font is the Treefrog-genre typeface Reading Frequency (2010). In 2013, Vlad published the plump counterless typeface Donut.

    Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    VM Studio

    Russian outfit. Some of their Cyrillic fonts, such as Blood Cyrillic (1996), are at other sites. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vmeluvdt Ubnvkhtpch

    Russian designer of the Cyrillic font KnyazCyr. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    VN Labs

    Russian-Vietnamese outfit that used to make some Cyrillic fonts from 1991-1993: CyrillicBrushMedium, CyrillicChancellor, CyrillicCompressedMedium, CyrillicCooper, CyrillicCooper, CyrillicGaramondItalic, CyrillicGoth, CyrillicGoth, CyrillicHeavy, CyrillicHelvetBold, CyrillicHelvetBoldItalic, CyrillicHelvetMedium, CyrillicHover, CyrillicOld, CyrillicOld, CyrillicRibbon, CyrillicTimesBold, CyrillicTimesBoldItalic, CyrillicTimesMedium. They also sell Vietnamese fonts. Oddly enough, it seems to be located in Laguna Hills, CA, now, and the fonts can no longer be found on their site. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vova Egoshin
    [Typemate]

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    Vova Egoshin
    [Vladimir Egoshin]

    Vova Egoshin co-founded Typemate in Saint Petersburg, Russia, together with Natalya Yakimenko. In 2019, he set up Vova Egoshin.

    Typefaces from 2019: Choowee (a Latin / Cyrillic typeface with enough curves and body to be seen on children's book covers and in comics). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Vsevolod Abramov

    Moscow-based designer of the free Latin / Cyrillic typeface Lena (2017). He also cyrillicized Ben Dalrymple's Geared Slab here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vsevolod Kovtun

    Russian type designer who used to run the Russian foundry Litera (now seemingly gone?). With K. Prokofiev, he designed Amsterdam_vp (1999). He also designed DOMOSEDvk (1994-1998), Zanesennyj (1999), SetterVK-black (1999) and SetterVK-white (1999). Some of his fonts can be downloaded here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Vsevolod Syzdykov

    Russian designer at Frog 1812 of Frog 1812 Sans (2021; with Dmitry Alekseev and Vladislav Zhuk). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Vsevolod Vlasenko
    [Letterhead Studio VV Fonts]

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    Vyaz

    A Cyrillic style: Scribal Vyaz is a decorative style for book titles. Originated in Byzantine books in the 11th century, spread in Russia since late 14th century but flourished in Russia only in the 16th century. One of the major features is a mast ligature (stems of neighbouring letters comprise one stroke). Quite often neighbouring letters are placed one above another and have common strokes, or smaller letters are places inside bigger ones. As a result letters form a continuous ornate band. Vyaz is not easily translated from script to type due to numerous ligatures. Example. Wikipedia: Vyaz is a decorative style of Cyrillic calligraphy characterised by tall, condensed and interlocking letters forming a dense and continous band of text. The style originated in Byzantine (Greek) books in the 11th century, and is related to the style of Greek uncial lettering employed in Orthodox icons. It spread in Russia and flourished particularly in the 16th century. Three kinds of interlocking are typically found in vyaz lettering: stem ligation in which adjacent letters share a common stem, letters or parts of letters stacked vertically, and enclosure of smaller letters within larger ones. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    W. Besobrasow&Cie

    Printer in St. Petersburg, ca. 1870, who ran his own foundry. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    W. Chufarofsky

    Most of Chufarosky's fonts are here (browse around on that site). Designer with M. Slutsker of the Cyrillic fonts a_RomanusCaps, a_StamperCameoSpinDow (Arsenal, 1997), as well as AlgeriusNrCmDn, AlgeriusNrCmUp, AlgeriusNrDcCm, AlgeriusCmDc2Cmb, AlgeriusCmDgStr, AlgeriusCmFtz1, AlbionicTitulCmGrd and AlbionicTitulCmWb and many more. Chufarofsky was heavily involved in the Arsenal mega-collection of the early 1990s. Fonts by him in that collection include AAlbionicBW, AAlbionicNrOtl, AAlbionicTitulCm, AAlbionicTitulCmDn, AAlbionicTitulCmTw, AAlbionicTitulCmUp, AAlbionicTitulNrCm, AAlbionicTitulNrSh, AAlbionicTtlRgBt, AAlgerius, AAlgeriusCaps, AAlgeriusCapsNr, AAlgeriusCmFtz1, AAlgeriusNr, AAlgeriusNrCm, AAlgeriusNrCmDn, AAlgeriusNrCmUp, AAlgeriusNrDcCm, AAlgeriusOtl, AAlternaOtl, AAlternaSh, AAlternaTitul3D, AAlternaTitulBW, AAlternaTitulCmDnOtl, AAlternaTitulCmOtl, AAlternaTitulCmUpOtl, AAlternaTitulNrCm, AAntiqueGr, AAntiqueTitulDcFr, AAntiqueTitulGr, AAntiqueTitulTrCmDnOtl, AAntiqueTitulTrCmOtl, AAntiqueTitulTrCmUpOtl, AAntiqueTitulTradyCm, AAntiqueTrady, AAntiqueTradyNr, AAntiqueTtlTrdCmDn, AAntiqueTtlTrdCmUp, AAvanteBs, AAvanteBsExtraBold, AAvanteBsExtraBoldItalic, AAvanteBsItalic, AAvanteIntBold, AAvanteIntBoldItalic, AAvanteIntBook, AAvanteIntBookItalic, AAvanteLtDemiBold, AAvanteLtDemiBoldItalic, AAvanteLtLight, AAvanteLtLightItalic, AAvanteTckHeavy, AAvanteTckHeavyItalic, AAvanteTckMedium, AAvanteTckMediumItalic, AAvanteTitlerCpsLCBold, AAvanteTitlerCpsLCBoldItalic, AAvanteTitlerCpsLCLight, AAvanteTitlerCpsLCLightItalic, ABentTitul, ABentTitulCmDnNr, ABentTitulCmDnOtlNr, ABentTitulCmTwNr, ABentTitulCmUpNr, ABentTitulCmUpOtlNr, ABighausTitulCmDnOtl, ABighausTitulCmOtl, ABighausTitulCmUpOtl, ABighausTitulOtlDr, ABodoniNova, ABodoniNovaBold, ABodoniNovaBoldItalic, ABodoniNovaBrkBold, ABodoniNovaBrkBoldItalic, ABodoniNovaItalic, ABodoniNovaNr, ABodoniNovaNrBold, ABodoniNovaNrBoldItalic, ABodoniNovaNrItalic, ABodoniOrtoNrTtlCmDn, ABodoniOrtoNrTtlCmUp, ABodoniOrtoTitulBlack, ABodoniOrtoTitulNrBlack, ABodoniOrtoTitulSpDnBlack, ABodoniOrtoTitulSpUpBlack, ABosaNova, ABosaNovaBWBold, ABosaNovaBold, ABosaNovaCm, ABosaNovaCmBold, ABosaNovaCmDnOtl, ABosaNovaCmGr, ABosaNovaCmUpOtl, ABosaNovaDc2Fr, ABosaNovaDcFr, ABosaNovaOtlBold, ABosaNovaSh, ABosaNovaSl, ABragga, ABraggaDr, ABraggaOtl, ABraggaOtlSh, ABraggaStars, ABraggaStrip, ABraggaTitulDcFr, ABraggaTitulGr, ABraggaTitulMar, ABraggaTitulMarDn, ABraggaTitulMarUp, ABraggaTitulOtlDcFr, ABraggaTitulSpDn, ABraggaTitulSpUp, ABremen, ABremenBldOtl, ABremenBold, ABremenBoldItalic, ABremenCaps, ABremenCapsBold, ABremenCapsBoldItalic, ABremenCapsItalic, ABremenCapsNr, ABremenCapsNrBold, ABremenCapsNrBoldItalic, ABremenCapsNrItalic, ABremenCm, ABremenCm3D, ABremenCmObl, ABremenCmOtl, ABremenCmOtlObl, ABremenCmOtlRevObl, ABremenCmRevObl, ABremenDcFr, ABremenItalic, ABremenNr, ABremenNrBold, ABremenNrBoldItalic, ABremenNrItalic, ABremenSl, ABremenlCmOtl3DSh, ACampus, ACampus2OtlBold, ACampusBW, ACampusBWBold, ACampusBold, ACampusCaps, ACampusCapsBold, ACampusCapsNr, ACampusCmCorner, ACampusCmDn, ACampusCmOtlBold, ACampusCmUp, ACampusGrDcFr, ACampusGrav, ACampusGravBold, ACampusMarine, ACampusMarineDn, ACampusMarineUp, ACampusNr, ACampusOtl, ACampusOtl3DShad, ACampusOtlBold, ACampusOtlDcFr, ACampusOtlShBold, ACampusPrLying, ACampusPrspDnSh, ACampusSl, ACampusSpots, ACampusStrip, ACampusStripDn, ACampusStripUp, ACityNova, ACityNovaBold, ACityNovaBoldItalic, ACityNovaItalic, ACityNovaLt, ACityNovaLtItalic, ACityNovaOtlBold, ACityNovaTitulBWBold, ACityNovaTitulBWLt, ACityNovaTitulCmBold, ACityNovaTitulIntStr, ACityNovaTitulStars, ACityNovaTtD3StrCmb, ACityNovaTtD4StrCmb, ACityNovaTtlCmGr, ACityNovaTtlCmOtl, ACityNovaTtlCmSp, ACityNovaTtlCmSwLt, ACityNovaTtlCmTwLt, ACityNovaTtlShTwLt, ACityNovaTtlSpDnLt, ACityNovaTtlSpUpLt, AConceptoNrBold, AConceptoNrBoldItalic, AConceptoTitulGr, AConceptoTitulLdBk, AConceptoTitulLdBkSh, AConceptoTitulNrBW, AConceptoTitulNrCm, AConceptoTitulNrCmGr, AConceptoTitulNrLdGd, AConceptoTitulSpDnOtl, AConceptoTitulSpUpOtl, AConceptoTtlCmOtlDnNr, AConceptoTtlCmOtlUpNr, ACooperBlackCm, ACooperBlackCmDn, ACooperBlackCmObl, ACooperBlackCmTw, ACooperBlackCmUp, ACooperBlackOtl, ACooperBlackTiulBW, ACopperGothCapsBold, ACopperGothCmDnOtl, ACopperGothCmUpOtl, ACopperGothCpsExp, ACopperGothTitulBold, ACopperGothTitulSh, AFuturaRound, AFuturaRoundBold, AFuturaRoundBoldItalic, AFuturaRoundDemi, AFuturaRoundDemiItalic, AFuturaRoundItalic, AFuturica, AFuturicaBlack, AFuturicaBlackItalic, AFuturicaBook, AFuturicaBookItalic, AFuturicaBsBold, AFuturicaBsBoldItalic, AFuturicaBsLight, AFuturicaBsLightItalic, AFuturicaExtraBlack, AFuturicaExtraBlackItalic, AFuturicaExtraBold, AFuturicaExtraBoldItalic, AFuturicaItalic, AFuturicaLtSemiBold, AFuturicaLtSemiBoldItalic, AFuturicaLtThin, AFuturicaLtThinItalic, AFuturicaMedium, AFuturicaMediumItalic, AFuturicaNord, AFuturicaNordItalic, AGrotic, AGroticBold, AGroticBoldItalic, AGroticExtraBlack, AGroticExtraBlackItalic, AGroticExtraBold, AGroticExtraBoldItalic, AGroticItalic, AGroticLt, AGroticLtBold, AGroticLtBoldItalic, AGroticLtItalic, AGrotoCmOtlDn, AGrotoCmOtlUp, AHuxleyRough, AMachinaOrtoSht, AMachinaOrtoSpt, AModernoCaps, AModernoCapsItalic, ARubricaCnBold, ARubricaCnBoldItalic, ARubricaXtCn, ARubricaXtCnItalic, ASignboardTitulDrp, SimplerBU3DExtr, a_AlbionicTitulBrk-Bold, a_AlbionicTitulInfl-Bold, a_AlbionicTtlCmDc1Cmb-Bold, a_AlbionicTtlCmDc2Cmb-Bold, a_AlgeriusBlw, a_AlgeriusBrk, a_AlgeriusCmDc1Cmb, a_AlgeriusCmDc2Cmb, a_AlgeriusRough, a_AlternaBrk, a_AlternaCmDc1Cb, a_AlternaCmDc2Cb, a_AlternaCmDc3Cb, a_AlternaCmDc4Cb, a_AlternaSw, a_AlternaTitulCmDvBk, a_AntiqueTradyBrk, a_AntiqueTradyTtlB&W, a_AntiqueTrdCmDc1Cb, a_AntiqueTrdCmDc2Cb, a_AntiqueTrdCmDc3Cb, a_Assuan-Bold, a_Assuan, a_AssuanBrk-Bold, a_AssuanBrk, a_AssuanNr-Bold, a_AssuanNr, a_AssuanOtl, a_AssuanTitul3DUp-Bold, a_AssuanTitulB&W-Bold, a_AssuanTitulCm, a_AssuanTitulCm1St, a_AssuanTitulCmBrk, a_AssuanTitulCmFr, a_AssuanTitulCmOtl, a_AvanteCmGrdStr-Bold, a_AvanteCpsLCBrk-Bold, a_AvanteCpsLCBrk-Light, a_AvanteCpsLCBrkHll, a_AvanteOtl-Heavy, a_AvanteTitul2Otl-Heavy, a_AvanteTitulB&W-Heavy, a_AvanteTitulCm-Bold, a_AvanteTitulCmFsh, a_AvanteTitulCmFshOtl, a_AvanteTitulCmOtl-Bold, a_AvanteTitulGr-Heavy, a_AvanteTitulInline, a_AvanteTitulStr-Heavy, a_BentTitulBrk, a_BentTitulCmNr, a_BentTitulCmOtlNr, a_BentTitulDcFr, a_BentTitulNr, a_BentTitulOtl, a_BentTitulRoughNr, a_BighausTitul-ExtraBold, a_BighausTitul3D, a_BighausTitulB&W, a_BighausTitulBrk-ExtraBold, a_BighausTitulBrkHll, a_BighausTitulCm, a_BighausTitulCmGr, a_BighausTitulOtl, a_BodoniOrtoNrTtlCm, a_BodoniOrtoTitulSh-Black, a_BosaNovaCmOtl, a_BosaNovaCpsBrk, a_BosaNovaGdStr-Bold, a_BraggaTitul, a_ConceptoTitulBrOtl, a_ConceptoTitulBroken, a_ConceptoTitulNrFy, a_ConceptoTitulNrWv, a_ConceptoTitulOtl, a_ConceptoTtlCmBr, a_ConceptoTtlCmOtlNr, a_CooperBlack, a_CooperBlackNr, a_CooperBlackRg, a_CopperGothCm, a_CopperGothCmOtl, a_CopperGothDcFr-Bold, a_CopperGothSl, a_CopperGothTitul3D, a_CopperGothTitulB&W-Bold, a_EmpirialBrk, a_GroticRoghXBlack, a_GroticRough-Bold, a_GroticRoughObl-Bold, a_GroticSh-Bold-Italic, a_GroticSh-Bold, a_GroticTitulB&WHv, a_GroticTitulCmB&WHv, a_GroticTitulCmOtlHv, a_GroticTitulCmSwHv, a_GroticTitulGrHv, a_GroticTitulHvCm, a_GroticTitulOtlHv, a_GroticTitulShHv, a_Groto, a_GrotoB&W, a_GrotoCm, a_GrotoCmGr, a_GrotoCmOtl, a_GrotoGr, a_GrotoOtl, a_GrotoSh, a_GrotoStrGr, a_HuxleyRough-Bold, a_JasperCaps-Bold, a_JasperCapsNr-Bold, a_JasperCapsOtlNr, a_JasperCapsSh, a_LatinoTitulBr, a_LatinoTitulPlDc, a_MachinaNova3DSh, a_MachinaNovaBrk, a_MachinaNovaDrp-Regular, a_MachinaNovaStDc, a_MachinaNovaStarD-Bold, a_MachinaOrtoCaps-Bold, a_MachinaOrtoCaps, a_MachinaOrtoCmSw, a_MachinaOrtoDgStr, a_MachinaOrtoSls-Bold, a_MachinaOrtoSls, a_ModernoOtl3DSh, a_MonumentoTtlDcCm, a_MonumentoTtlNrCmSw-Bold, a_MonumentoTtlNrDcCm, a_SimplerE3D, a_SimplerStrs, a_StamperBrk.

    Most of the Chufarovsky-Slutsker typefaces are at Arsenal, and were digitizations of earlier Western typefaces. An example would be Avant Garde Gothic Book Cyrillic (1970, Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase, digitized in 1997). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Wang Dang

    Russian designer of the artsy stencil typeface One Signal (2017). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Wassily Kandinsky

    Russian painter and art theorist, 1866-1944. He taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. After that, he moved to France, where he died. Picture. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    We Gonna Rock

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based creator of some graffiti, and a graffiti-inspired Cyrillic font, Sasha Ken (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Why Not Type

    Russian foundry, est. 2010. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Woodoor Kind

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of several Latin display typefaces in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    WOweb

    Russian font archive, 3300 fonts strong. Most fonts have just Latin or mixed Latin and Cyrillic character sets. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Xander Ink

    Ekaterinburg, Russia-based designer of these Latin and./or Cyrillic typeface: Blodorn, Accidental (slavonic style), Inked People (tattoo font) and Simple Things, all in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Xaotik
    [Anton Izorkin]

    Russian graphic designer (b. 1983) who lives in Cheboksary. He created the futuristic typeface UniTek (2005), Simplistic Font (2008, futuristic sans), the experimental Concept Remixed (2009), the organic condensed typeface Unnipolis (2008), and the organic techno font Reactor (2007; see also Reaktor (2008)). Font2u link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Xenia Malkova

    Moscow-based designer of the Latin / Cyrillic didone typeface Botntan (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    xfont.ru

    Large Russian font archive. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Xorx
    [Yuri Tscherban]

    Russian designers of XorxWindyCyr and XorxToothyCyr (2000), two Cyrillic/Latin display fonts. The typographer is Yuri Tscherban. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Y. Warhol

    Russian type designer of Beast Impact, BeastVersusButtercrumb (after an original Latin version by UddiUddi), SaffronCyr and SpreadTall. His company is called Beast Inside Arts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yan Kittsel

    Web designer Yan Kittsel (Saint Petersburg) created Runur (2013, an alchemic rune-like typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yan Snim
    [Znakomesto]

    [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Yana Dumcheva

    Artist, graphic designer and illustrator in Saint Petersburg, Russia. In 2017, graphic and icon designer. In 2017, she published various sets of icons and added a Cyrillic to Aoife Mooney's slab serif typeface Biorhyme. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yana Etkina

    Moscow-based designer of the modular Latin display typeface Hexagon (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yana Kabaeva

    Moscow-based designer of the handcrafted typefaces Caramel (2017), Melissa (2017, retro connected script), Dark Side (2017), Summer Wine (2017) and Cutie (2017).

    Aka Yashroom. Graphicriver link. Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yana Khodkina

    Vologda, Russia-based designer of the handcrafted typeface Greeniya (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yana Klink

    Russian illustrator and type designer who graduated from the Institute of Architecture. Creator of the calligraphic script typeface ALS Klinkopis (2008, Art Lebedev Studio; jointly with Irina Smirnova). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Yana Kutyina

    Moscow-based designer of Nerpa (2014, with Andrey Belogonov), Kalimantan (2012-2013, an award-winning calligraphic face), Powerview (2010, with Andrey Belogonov), a scanbat font with players like Bush, Castro, Gorbachev, Osama Bin-Laden, and Reagan. Napoleon (2012) is a fat slab typeface that won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014. Vataga (2008, Paratype, with Andrey Belogonov) is a really funny dingbat face. Lustre (2008, Paratype) is a dingbat with women's accessories.

    In 2016, Yana Kutyina and Andrey Belogonov cooperated with Valery Golyzhenkov on the great vintage typeface system Triplet in Erste, Zweite and Dritte styles. Triplet won an award at Granshan 2017.

    Paratype link. Her name is also spelled Anna Kutina. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Yana Lebedeva

    Saint Petersburg, Russia-based designer of the experimental typefaces Medik (2016, inspired by glasses) and Mons (2016, circle-themed). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yana Mukhareva

    Moscow-based designer of the multiline Latin / Cyrillic typeface Reshotka (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yana Nosenko

    Russian type designer based in Moscow. In 2017, she published the (great!) constructivist typeface family Mayak at Paratype. For Mayak, she was assisted by Dmitry Kirsanov. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Yana Plustcheva

    Moscow-based designer of the Latin / Cyrillic display typeface RukaFin (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yanah Maurakh

    Designer of the Latin/Cyrillic hookish typeface Echoes (2009), which was part of his diploma work at the Moscow Department of Higher British Design School. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yanek Iontef
    [Fontef]

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    Yaroslav Samoilov
    [BraveBros]

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    Yarvu

    Russian creator of FontStruct fonts in 2009: BUD Pixel (Cyrillic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yarzhombeck Kunst Group
    [Dasha Yarzhambek]

    Dasha Yarzhambek (or Yarzhombeck) is a Russian type designer, who cofounded Daily Type with Yury Gordon, Yury Ostromentsky, Dmitry Jakovlev and Ilya Ruderman in 2005. Ogle his lettering here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yauheni Bialiuha

    Yauheni Bialiuha (Re:Vision, Saint Petersburg, Russia) made an experimental counterless Latin font in 2010. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yegor Kotenko

    Russian creator of QZ Teletype (2012, dot matrix face) and QZ Teletype II (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yegor Nachinkin

    Designer of SBibSlav (2003), a Slavic Orthodox typeface (2000). See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yelena Madyankina

    Moscow, Russia-based designer of the modular squarish 3d Cyrillic typeface Raketa (2015). Co-designer with Jovanny Lemonad of the free typeface Wes (2016), which is named after Wes Anderson. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yelena Zotikova

    Russian designer who won an award at Bukvaraz 2001 for "Made in China". [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yevgeny Evstigneev

    Graduate of Obninsk Franco-Russian Institute of Business Administration with a degree in Organizational Management, After moving to St. Petersburg in 2008, he worked as a designer. As a student at TypeType Education in 2016-2017, he designed the great perfectly spaced and balanced round sans typeface Circus. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ylyaru Designer

    Voronezh, Russia-based designer of Artania (2013), a free techno Cyrillic typeface.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yoursdesign (or: Oleg and Katja)
    [Oleg Agafonov]

    Tula, Russia-based design studio, whose owners (Oleg and Kate, or Oleg Agafonov and Katja Buzova) studied at British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow (2012-2014) and Tula State University (2006-2010). In 2016, they created the handcrafted / crayon typeface I Am Berliner. They are now based in Berlin.

    Typefaces from 2017: YD Modernist (monospaced sans).

    Behence link for Oleg Agafonov. Behance link for Ekaterina Buzova. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yulia Brodskaya

    Russian-born graphic artist and illustrator, who is the author of some great typographic posters and designs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yulia Chernova

    Moscow, Russia-based designer of the handcrafted Latin / Cyrillic typefaces Giraffe (2019) and Kishki (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yulia Gonina

    Graphic and type designer (b. Moscow) in Saint Petersburg, Russia, who started studying at UNIC in Moscow in 2015. In 2018, she published a book, Jacques-François Rosart Revival that documents not only Rosart's life but also some of her revivals of Rosart's typefaces. Hers are called Rosart Text and Display and include italics. After graduation, she joined the TypeType team.

    In 2020, Antonina Zhulkova, Yulia Gonina and Kseniya Karataeva co-designed the octagonal typeface family TT Octosquares at TypeType. TT Octosquares comes with a 3-axis variable type option.

    Co-designer of TT Norms Std Condensed (2020: an 18-font family by Pavel Emelyanov, Yulia Gonina and the TypeType Team).

    In 2020, she was part of the Type Type team that designed TT Ramillas, a 20-style high contrast transitional serif by Pavel Emelyanov, Marina Khodak, Yulia Gonina and Kseniya Karataeva. TT Ramillas also contains variable styles.

    In 2021, Antonina Zhulkova and Yulia Gonina designed TT Autonomous, a 25-style wide brutalist technological sans family that includes a monospaced subfamily and a trio of variable fonts.

    In 2021, she designed the thin roman capital lettering typeface TT Ricordi Todi which was inspired by plaques with engraved street names from the small Italian town of Todi. Later in 2021, Antonina Zhulkova, Pavel Emelyanov and Yulia Gonina (aided by Radik Tukhvatullin and Marina Khodak) co-designed the 32-style geometric sans TT Fors which comes in standard, display and variable versions.

    Typefaces from 2022: TT Arlen (six fonts and a variable typeface; TT Arlen is an expressive bold haedline grot by Yulia Gonina, Eugene Tantsurin and the TypeType team), TT Fellows (a monolinear sans with 18 static fonts and one variable font; by Antonina Zhulkova, Yulia Gonina and the TypeType team). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Yulia Ivankovich

    Russian designer of the gouache brush font Odnom Nachertanii (2016) for Latin and Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yulia Malakhova

    Graphic designer in Moscow who created the Cyrillic typeface Manhole (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yulia Samsonova

    Moscow-based creator of the octagonal typeface Gradient (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yulia Sokolova

    Russian designer of the handcrafted typeface Bananito (2017, +Symbols). Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yulia Tigina

    Moscow-based designer of the Latin, Cyrillic and Greek typeface family Flauto (2012). She explains: Flauto is a venetian serif typefamily with 56 typefaces for text and display setting. It is the second part of my diploma project in the Moscow State University of Printing Arts, the director of the project is Aleksandr Tarbeev. I have designed typefaces with optical compensations for the different sizes: there are 8 typefaces (Light, Light Italic, Book, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, ExtraBold, Black) for 7 ranges (6-7, 8-9, 10-13, 14-20, 21-35, 36-71, 72 pt). Flauto won an award at New Cyrillic 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yuliana Morgun

    Russian 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. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Yuliana Mychko

    Moscow-based designer who created Font Gaudi (2013) at the British High School of Art and Design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yuliya Dostoevskaya

    Graphic designer in Moscow who created a Cyrillic pixel typeface in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yuliya Solovieva

    Graphic designer in Moscow. In 2017, she created the free Latin EPS vector format connect-the-dots typeface Aura. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yura Konstantinov

    Vladivostok-based creator of the expressive Logofaces and of the architecturally conceived Happy New Font in 2012.

    Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yuri A. Lyamin

    Designer of the font SkazkaForSerge, a Cyrillic version of Arnold Boecklin. He also made GothicRusMedium (1992). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yuri Frolov

    Russian designer at Paratype of Alien Alphabet (2007), quite experimental. ParaType sells this dingbat face. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Yuri Gherchuk

    Yuri Gherchuk, Ph.D. in Fine Arts, is an art historian and critic specializing in typography, book design, and illustration. He is the author of several books and many articles on graphics and book design, type, and environmental typographics. He lectures on the history of graphics and book design. Yuri Gherchuk is a member of the Art Critics and Art Historians Association, and of the Moscow Artists Union. Speaker at ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yuri Gordon
    [Letterhead Studio YG]

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    Yuri Gulitov

    Russian designer who won an award at Bukvaraz 2001 for Calligraphic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yuri Mesr

    Moscow-based graphic designer who made TechnoSpot (2010). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yuri Tscherban
    [Xorx]

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    Yuri Yarmola

    FontLab co-developer (in 1991), and font software guru. He lives and works in St Petersburg, Russia, as Vice President Research&Development of FontLab Ltd. At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he spoke about letter fitting in FontLab Studio, and about glyph metrics and kerning. He spoke again at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, as well as at countless type tech meetings all over the world. Pic of Yarmola and Ted Harrison at ATypI 1998. Harrison is currently the President of FontLab, and Yarmola is Vice-President.

    At ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam, he introduced a new type design tool that should make the process lighter and smarter. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Yurij Slam

    Pyatigorsk, Russia-based designer of the bilined heart-themed typeface Happy Saint Valentine's Day (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yuriy Markov

    Russian designer of Kompakt (1974). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yuriy Nako
    [Yurlick Yuriy]

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    Yuriy Skomorokhov

    During his studies in Moscow, Yuriy Skomorokhov created a blackletter and an Old Slavonic typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yurlick Yuriy
    [Yuriy Nako]

    Or Yuriy Nako. Kazan, Russia-based designer of the brush script font Fresh Herbs (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yury Fedorchenko

    Krasnodar, Russia-based designer. Behance link. He created a modular triangular alphabet in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Yury Ostromentsky
    [OSTYPE]

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    Yury Veselov

    Moscow-based designer of these Latin / Cyrillic typefaces in 2017: Minton 52, Stardate (a trekkie font), Bowsprit (an angular display typeface), Ghost Dancer (a high contrast display typeface). In 2018, he designed Single Malt. In 2019, he added the display typeface Drongo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zahar
    [Studio Dezygn]

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    Zakhar Yaschin
    [FontaZY]

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    zao4nik
    [Sergey Bykov]

    Krasnodar, Russia-based designer of the brush typefaces Tim (2016), Zao4nik No 3 (2016), and Zao4Nik (2016). In 2017, he created Script August 20 (+Cyrillic), Script August 10, Script August 8, Timofey (brush style), Monoline 01 and 02, Fast Brush, Direct Step 0.1 (squarish), Simple 0.1 (brush), Wednesday X, Evening Type, Panda 0.1 (thick brush script), Evening Rain Script, Summer Morning, Summer Evening, and Bakinskay (a connected signage script; Latin and Cyrillic).

    In 2018, he published Spring 2018, Cheese (SVG style, 3d), Orange Summer (a comic book font), Svetlanka (script), Svetlana, Range Summer Glitch, Turgeneva, Turgeneva Script and Free Brush. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zeh Foundry
    [Seryozha Rasskazov]

    Seryozha Rasskazov is a graphic and type designer, lettering artist, and sign painter from St. Petersburg, Russia, who studied at ECAL's Master in Type Design program in Lausanne, 2020-2022. Under the supervision of Kai Bernau, he designed the optically optimized variable didone stencil typeface Didonist (2021).

    We believe that he created the art nouveau typeface Flory (2021) at Zeh Foundry. He may also have been involved in the development of the Latin / Cyrillic hipster family Russian Tourist Brand (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zero Resolution

    Russian site with original and not-so-original free fonts for Latin and Cyrillic: Amsterdamvp, CyrillicGoth (blackletter, VNLabs 1992), Invest (1993, bank note etched letters), DSNote (Dubina Nikolay, 2000), StillTimeCyr (by Dubina Nikolay, based on a Ray Larabie handwriting font), UnrealTournament (gothic, by rahdick@gmx.de), AlternaTitulB&W, CampusOtl-Bold (athletic lettering), China (1999, oriental simulation), Epson1 (dot matrix). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zerotoohero
    [Roman Shchyukin]

    Bryansk, Russia-based cofounder in 2011 with Valery Zaveryaev of the Russian type foundry Gaslight.

    Typefaces from 2011: Bad Script (Google Web Fonts: an informal hand-printed typeface).

    Typefaces from 2012: Quadratish Serif, Quadratish Solid, Rock Logo (a metal band font co-designed with Valery Zaveryaev), Delgado (an elegant tall and thin fashion mag typeface for Latin and Cyrillic), Teco, Teco Sans (an octagonal military typeface family), Teco Symbol, Teco Sans Stencil, Teco Serif, Wide Display and Wide Display Ribbon (unicase headline typefaces), Actio (a spurred inline typeface), Roz, Wary (a pop art typeface that won an award at Modern Cyrillic 2014),

    Typefaces from 2013: Delgado Sans, MNSTR Shadow and MNSTR Line (free inline typefaces), Gen (techno), Tesla (+Round).

    Typefaces from 2014: Sofya (a monoline script font, released by Gaslight).

    Typefaces from 2015: Aorta (a piano key stencil typeface), MxMy (Peignotian caps).

    Typefaces from 2016: Fada (all caps sans for titling), Barbecue (a circle-themed deco typeface first called BarBQ), Fada (by Roman Shchyukin), Pleinair, Rawer (sans, +stencil, +outline), Misty (by Valery Zaveryaev), Agio (by Valery Zaveryaev).

    Typefaces from 2019, done at his own new foundry Zerotoohero Design: Premium (for the Russian channel Premium), Shock Sans (a weathered typeface done for the Russian channel Shoking), Harvest (for the Russian restaurant Urojai), Grotesque (One, Two: for Plates Studio), Comedy (a custom cartoon font for Shandesign Studio).

    Typefaces at Zerotoohero, not identified with Roman Shchyukin: Lovely (by Shandesign, for the Russian channel Lubimoe), Wolf Sans (created for a Russian IT company). Behance link for Zerotoohero. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Zhanar Bereketova

    Russian designer of the experimental geometric typeface Krok (2018). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Zheka Tkhorzhevskiy

    Zheka is a graphic designer, calligrapher and illustrator in Vladivostok. He has made some great logos that showcase his lettering prowess. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Ziel Graphic
    [Ilya Zakharov]

    During his studies at the HSE Art and Design School in Korolyov, Moscow, Russia-based Ilya Zakharov designed the free circle-themed display typeface Dreaming (2017), the free sans typeface Prefectura (2017), the free rounded squarish sans typeface Bardo (2017, for Latin and Cyrillic) and the free pixel typeface Font Over (2017).

    In 2018, he published the free experimental sans typeface Akrotiri and the free display typeface Digiskel.

    Typefaces from 2019: Books of War (free), Quittance (free), Gorod (a free wide all caps slab serif).

    Typefaces from 2020: Raider (a free fire-themed all caps typeface), Templegarten, Obrazec (a free chamfered typeface), Obrazec 2.0.

    Typefaces from 2021: Wata (a free high-contrast display typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zinaida A. Maslennikova

    Russian type designer who worked with Nikolai Kudryashev on the family Kudryashevskaya Encyclopedicheskaya at Polygraphmash, from 1960-1974. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Znakomesto
    [Yan Snim]

    Yan Snim is a type/graphic/sound designer and musician based in Moscow with a keen interest in all things medieval. He makes Latin / Cyrillic typefaces. In 2021, he published Gaudeamus, a blackletter font that would fit nicely on beer bottles and medieval music sheets. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

    Zoloto Group
    [Tolya Doodko]

    Moscow-based design studio of Tolya Doodko and Andrey Trukhan. Between 2017 and 2020, art director Andrei Trukhan and in-house type designer Tolya Doodko made great use of CSTM's wayfinding font Navigo (2017: by Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zoran Tasevski

    Designer of the Cyrillic font C_Arabia (1993). He resides in Skopje, Macedonia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zoya Belikova

    Podolsk, Russia-based designer of the hipster Cyrillic typeface Trifont (2015) and the deco Cyrillic font Kit (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

    Zoya Sokolova

    Aka meookami. Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia-based designer of the alphading font Fly Butterfly (2018), the wedding calligraphy typeface Maganda (2018) and the Tuscan Western typeface Westild (2018: for Latin and Cyrillic). [Google] [More]  ⦿