Cyrillicsly: Serious about Cyrillic

Award-winning type designers, Krista Radoeva and Maria Doreuli will demonstrate how to create a Cyrillic extension to your own Latin font.

Learn the history and design fundamentals for designing Cyrillic typefaces in this four-day workshop. Through a combination of lectures, exercises, independent work, and feedback sessions, you will gain an understanding of the structure and the logic behind the Cyrillic script.

The instructors will provide an in-depth look into history, writing, calligraphy, and the contemporary state of the Cyrillic script in order to develop an understanding of the basic structure of letterforms. They will then offer a well-structured system on how to approach designing Cyrillic letterforms.

Besides the basic Cyrillic, participants will become aware of country-specific alternatives. The mentors will share research on extended Cyrillic — not only Bulgarian and Serbian localised forms, but a huge amount of mysterious letters that are being used in hidden parts of Russia and in many of the post-Soviet countries.

Objectives

• Understanding of history and context of the Cyrillic script
• Learn about the differences and similarities between Latin and Cyrillic
• Design Basic Cyrillic for your Latin typeface in a systematic way
• We’ll also cover different character sets & languages, localised forms, Extended Cyrillic

Required Materials

• A Latin typeface they will be expanding to Cyrillic
• A computer with any font editor