David Březina—multilingual typography & typeface design

Skolar—a contemporary serif for scholarly publications

Cyrillic

Cyrillic extension of Skolar is being actively developed to become, together with Latin and Greek, part of the Skolar Pro family. The family will support all European languages. It will be released early in 2010.

The Cyrillic has been designed as a close complement to Latin with help from an experienced consultant Alexandra Korolkova. Similarly to the Latin it has a conventional letter structure, yet contemporary modulation. It will support most of the Slavic languages using Cyrillic script and include small caps, superiors, inferiors, and ordinals.

Skolar Pro Cyrillic was awarded by Special Diploma at the international type design competition Modern Cyrillic 2009 and won the first prize in the Cyrillic text type category at Granshan 2009.

Acknowledgements

Thanks belong to Sophya Safayeva, Veronika Burian and Tom Grace for their kind and useful comments.

Specimens

Cyrillic Regular Cyrillic Regular Cyrillic Regular

See more specimens in the downloads section

Further links

TypeTogether

The best type foundry in the world. My typeface Skolar was released with them.

MA Typeface Design at Reading

Website of the MA Typeface Design course presenting the students’ work from 2000 to 2009.

Magazine TYPO

Czech-English quarterly magazine on typography and visual communication.

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