Modern Fonts

DietDidot

Post author:ParaTypestaff
Post published:February 24, 2020
Post category:modern

The typeface was designed at Double Alex Font Studio by Alexey Chekulaev in 2006 based on Didot by Firmin Didot, 1799.

Elizabeth

Post author:ParaTypestaff
Post published:1999
Post category:modern

The hand composition typeface was developed at the Ossip Lehmann type foundry (St. Petersburg) in 1904-07 (after designs by Alexander Leo?). It was redeveloped at Polygraphmash in 1960s for slugcasting…

Journal Sans Old School

Post author:ParaTypestaff
Post published:2019
Post category:modern

Journal Sans Old School is a new, modernized digital version of the widely popular Journal Sans. The new typeface preserves the character of the geometric sans from the famous “Science…

Kudryashev

Post author:ParaTypestaff
Post published:2020
Post category:modern

The typeface (formerly known as Kudryashevskaya Entsiklopedicheskaya) was designed in 1960-1974 by Nikolay Kudryashev and Zinaida Maslennikova at Polygraphmash type design bureau for the Bol'shaya Sovetskaya Entsiklopedia (the Large Soviet...

Kuzanyan

Post author:ParaTypestaff
Post published:2001
Post category:modern

The hand composition typeface was created at Polygraphmash type design bureau in 1959 by a well-known Soviet book and type designer Pavel Kuzanyan (1901-1992). It was reproduced in the 1960s…

Levnam

Post author:ParaTypestaff
Post published:2020
Post category:modern

Levnam is a sans-serif family with quite wide proportions, slightly thickened terminals and wide sidebearings. The font is well suitable for setting text in small point sizes, similar to Bell…

Margon

Post author:ParaTypestaff
Post published:2011
Post category:modern

Margon is a serif font family with a temperate design -- small serifs, moderate contrast, tiny roundings on the corners make it calm and serene. The Margon font family consists…

Mediator Serif

Post author:ParaTypestaff
Post published:2020
Post category:modern

Mediator Serif is a balanced contemporary serif typeface that performs well both in display sizes (like in packaging or branding) and body text (books or periodicals where narrow styles will…

Mellnik Text

Post author:ParaTypestaff
Post published:2020
Post category:modern

Mellnik is a sans serif of humanist style (in a way) that was developed by Oleg Karpinsky and released by ParaType in 2006. The type family contains 9 styles with…

Narevik

Post author:ParaTypestaff
Post published:2011
Post category:modern

Narevik consists of 7 styles -- 4 uprights (including black) and 3 italics. It’s a type of dynamic low contrast design with slightly rounded triangle serifs and drops which conveys…