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Korolev font family
Designed by Rian Hughes in 2023
Up to 108 Typefaces / 6 Value Packs
Supports at least 21 languages (Std / OT CFF)
Available licenses for all styles:
Supports up to 70 languages.
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Supports up to 8 OpenType features.
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DF Korolev is a 72 weight geometric sans serif family based on lettering by an anonymous Soviet graphic designer from the propaganda displays at the Communist Red Square parade in 1937. It has been named in honor of Sergey Pavlovich Korolyov, or Korolev, considered by many to be the father of practical astronomics. Rational and robust, it is also elegant and refined.
Tracings done in Illustrator over a photograph featuring this type pinned down some of the basic character shapes. These were then imported into FontLab, where the full glyph complement was developed. The lower-case has been designed from scratch, and adheres to the structural logic of the uppercase as closely as possible. The complete Korolev super-family includes standard, italic, condensed, and compressed versions, each in five weights.
Try the ‘rounded’ and ‘rough’ companion families. The Alternate families come with a double-story “a”.