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KudryashevSans

ParaType · Nikolai Kudryashev, Zinaida Maslennikova · 1960

sans-serifhumanist sans
KudryashevSans specimen from ParaType

A Soviet-era humanist sans designed between 1960 and 1974 at Polygraphmash for the Large Soviet Encyclopaedia, available here in a single Regular weight.

About

Nikolai Kudryashev and Zinaida Maslennikova developed this typeface over more than a decade for use in one of the Soviet Union's most ambitious publishing projects. Its origins in dense encyclopaedic text setting give it a conservative, readable character. Only a single Regular style is available.

Classification

Designed at the Polygraphmash type design bureau for encyclopaedic text setting, this is a Soviet-era humanist sans with characteristics suited to long-form reading in dense reference contexts.

Weights

Regular

Languages

LatinCyrillic

Tags

soviethumanisttextencyclopaediacyrillicconservativehistorical

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