Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/12/2025And before you think that it was all boring body copy typography, there were also some fun display ones. Russian-speaking readers, and those who want to flip through more photos of the types, can do so here: typejournal.ru/articles/OST... 1380
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/12/2025OST 1337 wasn't universal. Publication houses used old types they had lying around (and there were shortages of the new ones). Typographic movements springing up the 20s and 30s would meet the same fate that Russia's famous type foundries, like Lehmann's, did during WWI: converted for the war effort 1280
Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 10/12/2025Which brings us back to the post-war era and ГОСТ 3489. Although it would continue to evolve, many typefaces survived until 1991 and even beyond. "Regular" got a new cut in "Regular New." Elizabetinskaya lives on as Elizabeth. In place of Uchebnaya, we got Schkolnaya and Bukvarnaya. 1190
