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2023

Qommodore

Italic

Production Type, Hugues Gentile, Yury Ostromentsky, CSTM Fonts, Ilya Ruderman

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А это я в трусах и в майке под одеялом с головой бегу по солнечной лужайке, и мой сурок со мнойА это я в трусах и в майке под одеялом с головой бегу по солнечной лужайке, и мой сурок со мной
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Исследуется механизм спонтанно возникающих и саморазрушающихся коммуникаций.Исследуется механизм спонтанно возникающих и саморазрушающихся коммуникаций.
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Далее даются описания плачевного положения дел милейшего Карла Яновича, его изношенной одежды, его скитаний по чужим углам. Описываются также и трагикомические приключения с его многострадальной рукописью, т. е. тем единственным, что все еще привязывает его к этой жизниДалее даются описания плачевного положения дел милейшего Карла Яновича, его изношенной одежды, его скитаний по чужим углам. Описываются также и трагикомические приключения с его многострадальной рукописью, т. е. тем единственным, что все еще привязывает его к этой жизни
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Prince John held his high festival in the Castle of Ashby. This was not the same building of which the stately ruins still interest the traveller, and which was erected at a later period by the Lord Hastings, High Chamberlain of England, one of the first victims of the tyranny of Richard the Third, and yet better known as one of Shakspeare’s characters than by his historical fame. The castle and town of Ashby, at this time, belonged to Roger de Quincy.Prince John held his high festival in the Castle of Ashby. This was not the same building of which the stately ruins still interest the traveller, and which was erected at a later period by the Lord Hastings, High Chamberlain of England, one of the first victims of the tyranny of Richard the Third, and yet better known as one of Shakspeare’s characters than by his historical fame. The castle and town of Ashby, at this time, belonged to Roger de Quincy.
About

Qommodore is an amalgam of different constructs with a completely new experimental texture. Born out of the creative encounter between Hugues Gentile and Jean-Baptiste Levée, Qommodore is the merger of their common interest for monospaced serif.

Qommodore is a high-contrast serif, drawn with the construction of 19th-century display types. But its proportions are monospace, forcing many of the natural widths of the 19th century out of the equation.

Like most high-contrast serifs, Qommodore gains weight only in its thick strokes, and the hairlines stay hairlines throughout. The typeface comprises six weights, beginning with a skeleton frame in ExtraLight that will feel wider than its bolder weights. In ExtraBold, Qommodore’s thick strokes borrow from the interior space, thus creating a dramatic and glitchy texture.

All-capital titles will set beautifully as small as 60pt in ExtraLight and set a more traditional tone. As you increase the weight, increase the scale, and drop the character count to maintain comfort in reading while enjoying all of the quirky details.

The typeface invites designers to enjoy a mashup of details like the intricate serifs on lowercase t, the graceful ß, eponymous Q, stifling Bold W and Extra Bold m, corseted R and even the delightful punctuation.

Specimen (PDF, 847 KB)
Features

Case sensitive forms, proportional lining figures, ordinals, fractions, denominator, numerator, subscript / inferiors, superscript / superiors, slashed zero, six stylistic sets

Languages

Afrikaans, Azeri (cyr), Azeri (lat), Bashkir, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chechen, Chuvash, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Gaelic (Irish), Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ingush, Italian, Kazakh, Kurdish (lat), Kyrghiz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Moldavian (cyr), Mongolian (cyr), Mongolian (lat), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tadzhik, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Ukrainian, Uzbek (Cyr), Uzbek (lat)

Authors

Production Type

Based in Paris, Production Type is a digital type design agency founded in 2014 by Jean-Baptiste Levée. Its activities span from the exclusive online distribution of its retail type for design professionals, to the creation of custom typefaces for the industrial, luxury, and media sectors. Production Type’s collection is well known for gathering talented and innovative designers, and strives to release contemporary, unique typefaces for demanding designers. Through numerous awards (D&AD, Type Directors Club, Tokyo TDC…), the agency has also been acclaimed for its projects for Renault, Vanity Fair or Courrèges.

Hugues Gentile

After an MA degree in typeface design at École Estienne, Hugues Gentile followed the EsadType postgraduate program in Amiens, where he developed typefaces for complex Latin-Bengali typesettings. He is a senior typeface designer at Production Type.

Yury Ostromentsky

Graphic and type designer, co-founder of type.today store. Graduate of the Moscow State University of Printing Arts (Department of Arts and Technical Design of Printed Materials). Yury worked as a designer and art director for publishers and design studios. From 2004 to 2012, he was art director with Bolshoy Gorod (Big City) magazine. In 2004, he and lya Ruderman, Dmitry Yakovlev, and Daria Yarzhambek launched the DailyType webpage. Later in 2014, Yury and Ilya Ruderman founded CSTM Fonts type design studio which released Pilar, Big City Grotesque, Kazimir, Navigo, Normalidad, RIA Typeface, Lurk, Loos, Maregraph typefaces and CSTM Xprmntl series, as well as Cyrillic versions of Druk, Graphik, Spectral, Stratos and Apoc. The works by Ostromentsky and CSTM Fonts were awarded by European Design Award, Granshan and Modern Cyrillic Competition.

CSTM Fonts

Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky (CSTM Fonts)

They are both graphic and type designers. Founders of CSTM Fonts (2014) type foundry and a new font distributor type.today (2016).

Graduated from Moscow State University of Print (Graphic Design Department), where they took Alexander Tarbeev’s classes. Later Ilya Ruderman graduated from Type & Media (Royal Academy of Art), the Hague, the Netherlands. After graduation he was a tutor of Type&Typography course at British Higher School of Art and Design, Moscow (2008-2015), was an art-director of information agency RIA Novosti. He is an author of cyrillic versions of such typeface as Lava, Graphik, Neutraface and others, that was made for such studios as Typotheque, Commercial Type, Typonine and House Industries. He is an author of: Permian typeface, Big City Grotesque and several other corporate typefaces.

Before 2013 Yury Ostromentsky worked mostly as an editorial designer and art-director of BigCity Magazine, where he used his personal lettering, that was the base of the Pilar typeface, released by CSTM Fonts last year. He is an author of several book series designs and logotypes.

Both typefaces of Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky were the winners of such type design competitions as Modern Cyrillic 2009, Modern Cyrillic 2014, Granshan 2011, European Design Award 2012. Kazimir typeface and Tele2 Typefamily, the CSTM Fonts’s latest releases, were among the winners of Granshan 2015.

Ilya Ruderman

Ilya is a type and graphic designer and teacher, lives and works in Barcelona. 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 a MA degree in type design from the Type & Media program at the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague (2005). After completing the program, he returned to Moscow, where he has collaborated for a number of media: Kommersant, Afisha, Moskovskiye Novosti, Bolshoi Gorod and Men’s Health Russia. In 2005-2007 he was art director for Afisha’s city guidebooks, following which he was art director for RIA-Novosti, a news agency, for several years. In 2007–2015 he has also supervised the curriculum in type and typography at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow. He has been very active as a consultant on Cyrillic since 2008. In 2014 he founded CSTM Fonts with Yury Ostromentsky.

Typefaces by Ilya Ruderman: BigCity Grotesque Pro, Kazimir, Kazimir Text, Navigo, Permian (a typeface-brand for the city of Perm) and Cyrillic versions of: Austin, Dala Floda, Graphik, Marlene, Moscow Sans (as a consultant), Typonine Sans, Thema.

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