Proto Grotesk

$ 280.00

License:
COMMERCIAL
Format:
OTF
Glyphs:
1032
Features:
Version:
1.000
Published:
2016
LocalFonts:
06/08/2020
Styles:
Complete family of 4 fonts
Designer:
Jean-Baptiste Levee, Ilya Ruderman, Yury Ostromentsky
Copyright:
© 2016 by Production Systems SAS. All rights reserved.

Description

Description

Over the last hundred years or so, utilitarian typefaces have shed most of their quirks and eccentricities on the way to becoming more versatile and universal. That makes some sense, but there’s no reason type can’t be both steadfast and peculiar. Drawing from an early German sans serif used for catalog text, Proto Grotesk revives an era when clunkiness was a virtue. Its pedigree is varied, vacillating between Egyptian and Modern, round and edged, even sans and slab. Despite these contradictions, its posture is nothing less than sturdy and forthright. Proto Grotesk is strange but steady.

Design, Publisher, Copyright, License

Design: Jean-Baptiste Levee, Ilya Ruderman, Yury Ostromentsky

Publisher: Production Systems SAS

Copyright 2016 by Production Systems SAS. All rights reserved.

License: COMMERCIAL

Jean-Baptiste Levée

Jean-Baptiste Levée

Jean-Baptiste Levée is a French type designer based in Paris. He is a co-founder of the Bureau des Affaires Typographiques, and teaches typeface design at ESAD Amiens (and before that, at the Caen-Cherbourg school of Arts & Media and at the University of Corte). His latest work is mostly published at Production Type which he manages.

Ilya Ruderman

Ilya Ruderman

Ilya Ruderman, a type and graphic designer and teacher, lives and works in Moscow. 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. Since 2007 he has 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.

Yury Ostromentsky

Yury Ostromentsky

Yury Ostromentsky is a type and graphic designer. 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 worked as a designer and art director for publishers and design studios. From 2004 to 2012, he served as art director of the magazine Bolshoi Gorod (Big City), for which he created several display typefaces as well as several original typefaces and Cyrillic versions of Latin fonts in collaboration with Ilya Ruderman. His typefaces were honored at the Contemporary Cyrillic 2009 and 2014 competitions. In 2004 he and Ruderman, Dmitri Yakovlev and Darya Yarzhambek created DailyType, a website. In March 2014, again with Ruderman, he founded CSTM Fonts.

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Vendor Information

Vendor: Stefan Peev
Rating: 3.00 rating from 2 reviews
Company: CONTEXT Ltd