MegaMegaTypeType
A Cyrillic humanist serif originally developed at Polygraphmash in 1968 by Anatoly Shchukin, digitised by Viktor Kharyk for ParaType with display and text variants, old-style figures and small caps.
About
Rooted in Shchukin's lettering for Soviet-era book covers, Ladoga was one of the earliest attempts to bring the Renaissance antiqua tradition to Cyrillic type design. The digital revival, released in 2010 and expanded with bold text styles in 2013, offers broad-pen calligraphic character alongside practical text readability. OpenType features include old-style figures, small caps, alternates and additional decorative characters, making it well-suited to fiction, historical publishing and art literature.
Classification
Renaissance antiqua style with broad-pen calligraphic roots, drawing from humanistic minuscule letterforms. The Cyrillic-first design sits firmly in the humanist serif tradition, analogous to early Latin types of the Renaissance period.