Novosti
Novosti is a text typeface inspired by our contemporary news media landscape: unreliable, sensational, and less critical of those in power. Novosti signifies courageous human communication in a time when genuine, proletarian journalism is not the standard.
The core character set of Novosti Regular, designed for body copy using the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, is complete. However, I would like to expand upon this concept and create a family of typefaces, including but not limited to complementary Italics, expanded punctuation and numerals, as well as additional glyphs to accommodate Cyrillic localizations.
Initial research began by surveying the landscape of contemporary newspaper typefaces and their development. Next, I studied various perspectives on Non-Latin typeface design, exploring typefaces as cultural identity and the democratization of design knowledge and tools. Additionally, my interest in non-Latin scripts from the perspective of an outsider, with a lifelong curiosity for languages, seeking to develop cultural understanding proved to be a personal motivating force behind the typeface.
Specimen 1.0