We've taken the best from old style fonts created before the digital age and added sharp and contemporary geometric shapes to the traditional style. TT Runs by TypeType TT Drugs by TypeType TT Tunnels by TypeType TT Marxiana by TypeType Petersburg publishing house A.
In our project, we decided to focus on a specific set of fonts that were used in the preparation and printing of the "Niva" magazine in , namely its Antiqua and Italic, Grotesque and Elzevir. As part of the TT Marxiana project, we sought to adhere to strict historicity and maintain maximum proximity to the paper source. As a result, with the TT Marxiana font family, a modern designer gets a full-fledged and functional set of different fonts, which allows using modern methods and using modern software to create, for example, a magazine in a design typical of the late 19th century.
The TT Marxiana project started in the late summer of and from the very beginning went beyond the traditional projects of TypeType because of the importance of preserving the historical identity. Since up to this point, we had never before reconstructed the font from historical paper sources and with such a level of elaboration and attention to detail, it took us two years to implement this project.
You can read more about all stages of the project in our blog, and here we will briefly talk about the result. As it turned out, drawing a font following the scanned pages of a century-old magazine is a very difficult task. In fact, such a font reconstruction very much resembles archaeological excavations or solving a complex cipher, and all these efforts are needed only in order to finally understand what steps need to be taken so that the resulting font is not just an antiqua, but the specific and accurate antiqua from "Niva" magazine.
In addition, due to the specifics of printing, same characters in the old magazine setting looked completely different, which greatly complicated the task. In one place, there was less ink than needed, and the letter in the reference was not well-printed and thin, in some other place there was more ink and the letter had flooded. An important task was to preserve and convey this feeling of typographic printing, but at the same time it was important to identify the common logic and character of the dot gains so that the font would form a harmonious, single, but at the same time lively picture.
Since the "Niva" magazine was historically published in Russian, the magazine had no shortage of references for the reconstruction of Cyrillic characters, but there were not many Latin letters in the magazine at all. In addition, the paper source lacked a part of punctuation, diacritics, there were no currency signs nor ligatures at all — we developed all these characters based on font catalogs of the 19—20 centuries, trying to reflect characteristic details from the main character composition to the max.
So, for example, the Germandbls character, which is not in the original "Niva" set, we first found in one of the font catalogs, but still significantly redesigned it. We decided that in such a voluminous project, only graphic similarities with the original source are not enough and we came up with a feature that can be used to exchange modern Russian spelling for pre-revolutionary spelling.
This feature works in all fonts of the TT Marxiana font family. TT Marxiana Antiqua is a scotch style serif, the drawing of which carefully preserved some of the artifacts obtained by printing, namely dot gain, a slight deformation of the letters and other visual nuances.
TT Marxiana Antiqua has an interesting stylistic set that imitates the old setting and in which some of the signs are made with deliberate sticking or roughness. Using this set will provide an opportunity to further simulate the setting of that great time. TT Marxiana Grotesque is a rather thick and bold old grotesk. Its drawing also maximally preserved the defects obtained during printing and characteristic of its paper reference. In addition to pre-revolutionary spelling, TT Marxiana Grotesque has a decorative set with an inversion.
This is a set of uppercase characters, numbers and punctuation, which allows you to type inverse headers, i. As a result of using this set, you get the text against black bars — this way of displaying was very characteristic for print advertising at the turn of the century. In addition, about 30 decorative indicator stubs were drawn for this set: arrows, hands, clubs, etc. TT Marxiana Elzevir is a title or header font and is a compilation of monastic Elzevir that.
TT Barrels by TypeType TT Corals by TypeType TT Corals is a modern humanist sans-serif which has many typical traits of the beginning of the 20th century. For increased functionality, we created 6 typefaces of various weights: thin, light, regular, bold, extra bold, and black.
TT Milks by TypeType TT Polls by TypeType TT Alientz by TypeTrends As part of this project, we decided to investigate the influence of a foreign substance and the consequent transformation of the original forms, which ultimately leads to extreme visual changes. Each font contains more than glyphs.
In addition to broad language support including Cyrillic , the typeface has stylish ligatures, contextual alternates, and old-style figures. Variability in the typeface affects the changes in the overall style of the font—moving the slider to adjust the variable axis, you can go from a laconic grotesque to an extreme serif. TT Alientz Grotesque is a fairly neat hipster grotesque, but with its own small features.
In the design of some letters of the grotesque you can find small sharp elements that add uniqueness and character to the font when used in large inscriptions and headings. At the same time, when you use the font in a small size of the size and in text blocks, sharp elements do not greatly affect its readability.
The design of some letters of the grotesque is quite peculiar and is intended to emphasize the initial concept of slight 'alienness'. Unlike the grotesque, the serif is dynamic, viscous, ductile and very prickly. Serif has a lot of smooth lines and not quite standard strokes contrast. It can be noted that most serifs in the antiqua are pointed inward, not outward. Despite its extremeness, the serif will look good both in large and in small body sizes.
TT Commons 2. The design of the typeface was developed for the widest possible range of tasks with which any quality corporate font is required to cope. The history of TT Commons originates from the new TypeType logo, which appeared in late as part of the rebranding project.
Ideas embedded in the logo formed the basis of two fully developed faces regular and medium , which in early became the official corporate typeface of the TypeType Foundry.
Initially, we did not plan to release TT Commons for sale, but given the number of incoming requests, we changed our decision. At the same time, we have significantly improved the typeface: we increased the number of faces to 18, added small capitals for the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, expanded the character case to glyphs, introduced 18 OpenType features, and included experimental hinting performed at our studio by our team. Low contrast strokes and averaged drawing of letters makes TT Commons excellent for large arrays of text.
On the other hand, an individually developed design of each glyph makes it possible to use it successfully as a display font. The typeface intentionally does not have distinctive decorative details. On the contrary, it wins hearts with his laconism, simplicity and sharpness of forms, which set the seasoned corporate style for years to come. And small capitals, stylistic alternates, ligatures, arrows, different types of figures and other features ordn, frac, case, c2sc, smcp, sinf, sups, numr, dnom, tnum, onum, lnum, pnum, liga, dlig, calt, salt, ss01 add significant functionality.
If you are in doubt about which typeface to choose, pick TT Commons, it will definitely work. TT Geekette by TypeTrends In this project, we wanted to get away from simplifications and dry geometry and to experiment with the smoothness, softness and plasticity of forms.
And in order to make the project a little more stylish and serious, we decided to make the font monospaced. When creating TT Geekette, we did not rely on traditional writing techniques or on the influence of pen movement on the font pattern.
Variability in TT Geekette is influenced by contrast buildup in the font—moving the slider to adjust the variability axis, you gradually move from a completely non-contrast monolinear serif font to a font with a pronounced reverse contrast.
In addition, with the help of the variability slider, you can remove serifs from the monolinear essence of the font. Each style contains over glyphs. And yes, technically the typeface can be used in programming, at least you are guaranteed to get your share of bright emotions. At the moment, not all graphic editors, programs and browsers support variable fonts. You can check the status of support for the variability of your software here: v-fonts.
TT Interphases by TypeType Useful links:History of TT Interphases creation Specimen Graphic presentation at BehanceBased on the positive experience in creating typefaces such as TT Norms Pro, TT Commons and TT Hoves, we once came up with the ambitious idea of trying to create the perfect typeface to work in modern interfaces on most known mobile and web platforms. We took this project very seriously and, before proceeding with the design itself, we carried out rather extensive research work.
You can learn the detailed history of the typeface creation in the article by the link, and here we will tell you what we got in the end.
TT Interfaces consists of 24 styles: 18 styles in the basic family, 4 monospaced fonts, and 2 variable fonts. Brush Calligraphy Capitals Cartoon Celtic Chinese Chiseled 1. Christmas Classic Comic Condensed Cool Curly Cyrillic Decorative Destroy Dingbats Distorted Dotted Easter Elegant Elvish Eroded Esoteric Experimental Fancy Fantastic Fire Fixed Width Formal Fun Futuristic Games Geometric 6.
Geometrics 2. Gothic Graffiti Greek Grid Groovy Grotesque 4. Halloween Handwritten Heads Hindi 1.
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