New Cyrillic Type Design competition
New Cyrillic Type Design Competition has published a catalogue of sumbitted works. Notice the Bulgarian-style Cyrillic set.
Educational platform on Cyrillic for type designers. Now you don't have to learn Russian to design Cyrillic.
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/
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.
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.
Kern String #1 Source: http://typedesignclass.livejournal.com/97458.html
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Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Source: http://rdd.me/am27e7nb
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