New Cyrillic Type Design competition
New Cyrillic Type Design Competition has published a catalogue of sumbitted works. Notice the Bulgarian-style Cyrillic set.
Recommended reading on the HIstory of Cyrillic (In Russian )http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/6246573/
Learn to write Serbian Cyrillic
There’s a great resource that will teach you to write Serbian Cyrillic: http://www.cirilica.com/cirilica/Strane/LepsaCir/LepsaCir5.html
This is how Serbians normally write the т in handwritten style. The overscore on the top is meant to disambiguate with ш.
Here’s the correct way of putting it down in printed style.
How about a historic sample of handwritten Cyrillic? Zechariah Orfelin’s Propisi, Sremski Karlovci, 1776.
This is how schoolchildren learn to write. Fill in the dots to complete the Serbian Cyrillic Alphabet.
Forms with swashes
Semi-handwritten (Slanted) forms
Serbian localized forms (Roman)
Cyrillic is the fourth most widespread writing system in the world covering over 1/6 surface of the world. There is a number of languages that use Cyrillic in writing. Some of them, including Serbian, have developed their own localized forms.
Why do we (still) use Cyrillic
A presentation by Alexei Vanyashin given at the TypoLub conference in Lublin, Poland (November 18, 2012). It overviews the history of Cyrillic and explains why Cyrillic should be letterspaced differently than Latin.
This talk was also presented at the Mota Italic gallery in Berlin November 24, 2012.
Cyrillic kern strings
Kern String #1 Source: http://typedesignclass.livejournal.com/97458.html
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Sample Cyrillic Texts
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Source: http://rdd.me/am27e7nb
Cyrillic Sentence Case (Basic Russian Alphabet)
Все счастливые семьи похожи друг на друга, каждая несчастливая семья несчастлива по-своему. Все смешалось в доме Облонских. Жена узнала, что муж был в связи с бывшею в их доме француженкою-гувернанткой, и объявила мужу, что не может жить с ним в одном доме. Положение это продолжалось уже третий день и мучительно чувствовалось и самими супругами, и всеми членами семьи, и домочадцами.
Miroslav Gospel Manuscript, 1180
Vladimir Yefimov’s article on Peter the Great’s Civil Type reform(1708-1710).
