Designed by Lev Malanov and Yelena Tzaregorodtseva, Journal is a serif font style household. This typeface has four styles and was published by ParaType.

Journal type household is a low-contrast text face of the Ionic-Legibility group. It was developed at the Polygraphmash Type Style Bureau in 3 styles in 1951-- 53 by Lev Malanov and Elena Tsaregorodtseva. The font styles were based on Cyrillic version of Excelsior that was established in 1936 in Moscow by teacher Michael Shchelkunov, Nikolay Kudryashev et al., that in its turn was based on Excelcior by Chauncey H. Griffith, 1931, Mergenthaler Linotype. Digital variation was established in ParaGraph (ParaType) in 1991. In 2012-- 13 designer Natalia Vasilyeva made some corrections in original digital information, extended character set and add vibrant italic style. The family was rereleased in ParaType in 2013.

.Font Family:
· Journal Regular
· Journal Italic
· Journal Bold
· Journal Bold Italic