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Zhivov

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CSTM Fonts, Yury Ostromentsky, Nikita Kanarev

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Торт ребята не доели: остался один целый кусок и один надкусанныйТорт ребята не доели: остался один целый кусок и один надкусанный
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The Latin alphabet was used in the earliest Asturian texts. Although the Academia de la Llingua Asturiana published orthographic rules in 1981, different spelling rules are used in Terra de Miranda.The Latin alphabet was used in the earliest Asturian texts. Although the Academia de la Llingua Asturiana published orthographic rules in 1981, different spelling rules are used in Terra de Miranda.
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Ученик купил в магазине некоторое количество тетрадей. Из них две были в линейку, две в косую линейку, остальные в клетку. Придя домой, ученик аккуратно сложил купленные тетради на столе. Потом ученик сел за стол и стал думать.Ученик купил в магазине некоторое количество тетрадей. Из них две были в линейку, две в косую линейку, остальные в клетку. Придя домой, ученик аккуратно сложил купленные тетради на столе. Потом ученик сел за стол и стал думать.
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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

Zhivov is a reflection on what the Cyrillic script might have looked like if it hadn’t been reformed by Peter the Great in the early 18th century — as well as an experiment that goes in the reverse direction of that reform. While the change sought to bring Cyrillic letterforms closer to the shapes of their Latin counterparts, Zhivov does the opposite, applying Old Church Slavonic principles of letter construction to the Latin script.

The typeface is named after the philologist Victor Zhivov, with whom Yury Ostromentsky once had the pleasure of discussing Old Russian writing and, in particular, the critical lack of a universal and comprehensive typographic tool for scholars studying Old Russian (Old East Slavic) language and literature.

Zhivov’s glyphs are stripped of contrast, decorative elements, and stylistic features tied to a specific time period or any particular scribe. That is why the typeface would be equally appropriate for setting both, say, books on the Ostromir Gospels and content addressing birchbark manuscripts.

Zhivov supports the entire Old Church Slavonic part of Unicode: alternative glyph forms for certain characters, superscript symbols, ligatures, Old Church Slavonic numerals, as well as a number of characters not covered by the Cyrillic block of Unicode but found in manuscripts.

The typeface is free of charge for scholars working with Old Church Slavonic language and literature. If you’re looking to use Zhivov in your work, please contact us at yury@type.today, and we will send you the font files.

Specimen (PDF, 2 MB)
Features

Standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures, historical ligatures, proportional lining figures, six stylistic sets

Languages

Afrikaans, Albanian, Azeri (lat), Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Cyrillic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Gaelic (Irish), Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Kurdish (lat), Latvian, Lithuanian, Mongolian (lat), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek (lat)

Authors

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.

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.

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