10 Articles About Typography
1. 21st Century Ukrainian Society and Fonts
A text version of Yevgen Sadko’s speech at ATypI Paris 2023. A look at Ukrainian society as two groups: font users and font designers. Description of changes in attitude to fonts of these groups in four periods: 1991–2005 (post-soviet time), 2005–2014 (awareness of independence), 2014–2022 (hybrid war), 2022–2023 (full-scale war).
2. Fonts for Ukrainian Cities (2022)
An article by Yevgen Sadko about fonts for Ukrainian cities: Mariupol, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Slavutych and others, that have become major world news because of the destruction, tragedies and war crimes of russia.
3. Ten Font Features and Their Use in Design
This article by Yevgen Sadko explains which fonts you should choose to convey different emotions and how even the smallest change in font details will alter the reader’s attitude towards the content.
4. The Poetics of Ukrainian Typography
An article by Oleksiy Chekal about the graphic image and typeface dedicated to the Centenary of Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts.
5. Ukrainian Custom Typefaces 2014–2021
An article by Olena Ruda and Yevgen Sadko about Ukrainian type designers creating custom and licensed fonts from Maidan (2014) to the present days.
6. Font Pairs for Logos, Headings, Subheadings
An article by Yevgen Sadko about finding good font combinations. To save your time we have put together the experience of typography professionals and created the Font Pairing Helper!
7. Fonts by Female Type Designers
A research by Yevgen Sadko on the fonts created by women on the example of Rentafont’s font collection. What kind of fonts do women create? Do they gravitate to particular class or mood? What about commercial success?
8. The First Typeface for the Mars Colony
Yevgen Sadko’s story about how Rentafont released the first multi-global typeface. Mars Type for Mars should be as Gill Sans is for England or Helvetica is for the whole Earth.
9. ASMR: A Fast Growing Trend Looking for Its Own Style
Yevgen Sadko’s research about stylistic attributes of ASMR as a genre of video art, with the world’s first font collection for ASMR videos.
10. Ukrainian Cyrillic Lettering of 20th century
Works of Ukrainian artists of the 20th century in different styles: Ukrainian Baroque, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Constructivism, Modernism, Brutalism etc. Collected by Marchela Mozhyna, edited by Yevgen Sadko.
