Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Fonts are in the news, so I'm going to take the opportunity to port over an old thread: what was typography like in the Soviet Union? Spoiler: they did not just have 1 font everyone had to use. As a matter of fact, there were 39. One of them, you can see here, used to great effect for "Chernobyl." 9569130
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/12/2025This bad boy is Журнальная рубленая (Zhurnalnaya Roublennaya / Magazine Sans); a hard-working typeface with plenty of wonky, slightly drunk character. It's been modernized by Grilli Type Foundry as GT Eesti, updating it with cool features like variable widths and not looking like shit.fontsinuse.comZhurnalnaya Roublennaya: A Poor Man’s FuturaAn unusual geometric sans, born out of necessity in a Soviet Union of limited type choices, sparks new study and revivals. 21054
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Magazine Sans was designed in the 60s, as part of a typographic revival that began in 1946 with the release of ГОСТ 3489 «Шрифты типографские» - Government Standard 3489 "Fonts, Typographical" The reset was necessary because a lot of the printing houses had their tools melted down for the war. 2682