Name: Kazimir &amp; Kazimir Text
SKU: 0000000248
Availability: InStock

Description

Kazimir

Kazimir is a Modern serif style typeface with five weights, from light to bold, with matched italics. The face has slightly narrowed proportions, long extenders and dynamic strokes reminiscent of the rhythms of transitional serifs. Kazimir is a reworking of book typography of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and specifically of the typeface used in the book, History of Russian Literature, by P. N. Polevoy, published by A. F. Marks in 1900. Kazimir blends various features of pre-revolutionary Russian typography with contemporary ideas of fashion, form and harmony.

It also contains two stylistic sets, one default and one alternate, called Regular and Irregular, respectively. The latter set offers characters in bizarre shapes that are difficult to imagine as a text face but that works well in large sizes.

Released in early 2015, Kazimir was later extended with it’s text version Kazimir Text.

Kazimir Text

Kazimir Text is a Modern serif typeface with a quite simple graphic idea. It is a Text version of display Kazimir typeface. Kazimir Text has a bit wider proportions, a bit lower contrast and much wider codepage with extended language support compare to Kazimir. A set of stylistic alternatives called Irregular was also reconsidered — they became also more suitable for text usage. The amount of styles also became much wider: 11 romans and 11 italics.

Design, Publisher, Copyright, License

Design: Ilya Ruderman, Yury Ostromentsky

Publisher: CSTM Fonts

Specimen: Kazimir (PDF, 528 KB)

Specimen: Kazimir Text (PDF, 1 MB)

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.

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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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Typefaces: BigCity Grotesque Pro, Navigo, Kazimir & Kazimir Text, Druk, Druk Condensed, Druk Text, Druk Text Wide, Druk Wide, Stratos, Proto Grotesk
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