The industrial background of the early 20th century typography gave Struve its well-adjusted underlying proportions and robust appearance. Struve preserves the dust of locomotive plates, reworking it into a consistent design approach.

Most of Struve’s alternative forms were found by examining various kinds of early 20th-century typographic ephemera. The designs made by artists, typographers, and even writers of that time were carefully analysed, reinvented, and turned into a clear system of stylistic sets.

Kaffee Hag coffee packaging, 1910. Designed by Alfred Runge and Eduard Scotland
Poster for for Opening of Wiener Werkstätte Showroom, 1905. Designed by Josef Hoffmann

Struve type family’s design is based on a regular stem grid, which significantly influences its rhythm. Letter widths are categorised into various groups, facilitating the calculation of various parameters, from side bearings to kerning pairs. This approach, known as Patterning, was first described by Frank E. Blokland, though its roots can be traced back to the Renaissance era.

Struve — also available as a variable font — comes in five weights, from Light to Bold, and supports many minority languages such as Pintupi-Luritja used in the Australian deserts, Záparo spoken in Peru, Chickasaw, native to the indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States, and the Yukaghir languages found in the Russian Far East.

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Struve was created by Eugene Yukechev. Eugene obtained a degree in philology and graduated from the British Higher School of Art and Design’s Type and Typography programme. He pursued further education at the Plantin Institute of Typography in Antwerp. In 2013, he founded Schrift Publishers, a publishing house with an extensive editorial programme and an online periodical called Type Journal. In 2024, together with partners from Schrift Publishers, Eugene launched a type design studio, the Schrift Foundry.