Amalta

About

Amalta is based on the designer’s own calligraphic studies using a flat brush. Overlapping strokes and terminals are characteristic for Amalta. It features powerful black shapes and vivid counterparts.

There are alternative characters with swashes in Amalta which can be applied with the help of OpenType or manually. Swash alternates in both Cyrillic and Latin have their historical prototypes in Medieval scripts.

Specimen (PDF, 274 KB)

Features

Standard ligatures, swashes, one stylistic set, proportional oldstyle figures

Languages

Afrikaans, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Gaelic (Irish), Galician, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Uzbek (lat)

Authors

Vera Evstafieva

Vera Evstafieva is a type designer, calligrapher and teacher. She is a graduate of the Moscow State University of Printing Arts, working under Alexander Tarbeev, and she has a MA degree in type design from the Type & Media program at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague (2004). She has worked with Typotheque, in the Hague, and has taught calligraphy and type design at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow. For several years she worked as a type designer at the Art. Lebedev Studio. Vera established her own design studio, Infonta, in 2010, while continuing to work as a freelance type designer, calligrapher and teacher. She was a winner in the international type-design competition Modern Cyrillic 2014 and TDC² 2011.

Typefaces by Vera Evstafieva: Amalta, Apriori, Aspera, Basileus, ALS Direct, ALS Dulsinea, Iona, Lilienthal Grotesk, Rossica.

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