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Kyiv

Kyiv

by Apostrof
Individual Styles from $40.00 USD
Complete family of 12 fonts: $400.00 USD
Kyiv Font Family was designed by Viktor Kharyk and published by Apostrof. Kyiv contains 12 styles and family package options.

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About Kyiv Font Family


The font Kyiv is an attempt to unite old-style antiqua with the Ukrainian tradition and modern requirements. Besides having usual italics the Renaissance tradition of "semi-italics" renewed, compact weights are also provided. Special charm is added by decorative motives of chestnut leaves and flowers. The weights are included in a way to promote the solution of various tasks both text, and an accidental set in various combinations. The font Kyiv was awarded the 2nd prize in category of text fonts in the first Ukrainian typeface competition Ruthenia in 2010.

Designers: Viktor Kharyk

Publisher: Apostrof

Foundry: Apostrof

Design Owner: Apostrof

MyFonts debut: May 13, 2016

Kyiv

About Apostrof

Ukrainian typefoundry 'Apostrof' was founded in 2012 by Viktor Kharyk and Konstantin Golovchenko for implementation of the ideas, researches and development in the area of font design. Konstantin (aka Salmoose) is engaged in researches of history of typefaces and printing. He examines the question of revival of a half-forgotten typefaces of old foundries. In addition he deals with OpenType-programming. Viktor specializes on development of multilingual fonts and opportunities of coexistence of different writing systems within one graphic system. Thus main tasks of our foundry are: restoring and developing interesting half-forgotten typefaces, adapting the above mentioned for different writing systems, designing new original fonts of different styles with a wide range of code pages supported, as well as decorative and experimental fonts, publishing research materials in history and theory of typefaces and typography.

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