A student project by Arina Levitskaya supervised by Evgeny Korneev, Moscow Utopian is a book on how social utopias shaped Moscow’s architectural image during the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, what ‘factory kitchens’ were built for, and why the so-called paper architecture is valuable. The book’s typography is set in CSTM Xprmntl 02 Italic by CSTM Fonts and Oceanic Text by Interval Type.

Oceanic is a collection of three serifs — monospaced, text, and display — and two sans serifs — one embracing the Modernist approach and the other inheriting its design decisions from the Oceanic serif. The typefaces are inspired by the fat serif faces of the 18th and 19th centuries and the earliest grotesques of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

CSTM Xprmntl is a family that brings together three radically different typefaces: a regular ultra-closed sans serif with exaggerated, twisting stroke terminals, a high-contrast serif italic with deliberately straightened strokes in its diagonal characters, and a rough, heavy sans serif with reverse contrast in both its strokes and proportions. All three work great together, but do not get lost when applied on their own.