Designers: TypeType
Team,
Nadezhda
Polomoshnova,
Marina
Khodak,
Inessa
MitrozorThe TT Tsars font household is a collection of serif display screen entitling typefaces that are stylized to look like the font styles of the start, the middle and the end of the XVIII century. The project is based upon title typefaces, that is, the typefaces that were used to develop book title pages. The concept for the job TT Tsars was born after a small study of the historical development of the Cyrillic type and is likewise based on Abram Shchitsgal's book "Russian Civil Type".
.At the very start of the project, we had actually established a basic universal skeleton for the forms of all characters in all subfamilies of the household, and in the future we included styles, visual features, artefacts and other subtleties normal of the offered duration onto the skeleton. Yes, from the historical precision perspective it might be that such an approach is not constantly justified, however we have accomplished our objective and as a result we have actually created completely combinable serifs that can be used to design an inscription for a particular time period.
.The TT Tsars typeface family includes 20 fonts: 5 different subfamilies, each of which consists of 4 fonts. Each typeface includes 580 glyphs, other than for the TT Tsars E subfamily, in which each font includes 464 characters. Instead of lowercase characters in the typeface, little capitals are used, which likewise recommends that the typeface is rather a display screen than text one. In TT Tsars you can discover a big number of ligatures (for Latin and Cyrillic alphabets), arrows and lots of useful OpenType functions, such as: frac, ordn, sinf, sups, numr, dnom, case, onum, tnum, pnum, lnum, salt (ss01), dlig.
.Time-related attributes of the subfamilies are distributed as follows:
- TT Tsars A-- the beginning of the 18th century (Latin and Cyrillic)
- TT Tsars B-- the beginning of the 18th century (Latin and Cyrillic)
- TT Tsars C-- the middle of 18th century (Latin and Cyrillic)
- TT Tsars D-- completion of the 18th century (Latin and Cyrillic)
- TT Tsars E-- conditionally the start of the 18th century (only Latin)
TT Tsars A and TT Tsars B households (both the beginning of the 18th century) have different beginning points: for TT Tsars A it is Latin, for TT Tsars B it is Cyrillic. The development of the TT Tsars A family began in Latin, the font style is based upon the royal serif Romain du Return of investment. Cyrillic alphabet is harmoniously matched to the Latin. The advancement of the TT Tsars B family started in Cyrillic, which is based upon a Russian civil type. Characteristic aspects are the curved one-sided serifs of triangular characters (A, X, Y), drops appear in the letter Ж, the middle strokes В and P are adjacent to the primary stroke. Latin was drawn to match with Cyrillic. It is still based upon the royal serif, but somewhat changed: the letters B and P are closed, and the upper bar of the letter A rose. This was done for the visual combination of Cyrillic and Latin and at the same time to make a difference in between TT Tsars A and TT Tsars B.
.TT Tsars C is now the middle of the 18th century. Cyrillic alphabet itself did not stall and progressed, and by the middle of the 18th century its types have actually changed and ended up being to look the way they are revealed in this font style family. Latin kinds are following the Cyrillic. The figures are also slightly customized and adjusted to the type design. In TT Tsars C, Cyrillic and Latin characters are created in parallel. A distinguishing characteristic of the Cyrillic alphabet in TT Tsars C is the recurring influence of the flat pen. This is obvious in such signs as З, Ж, K. The shape of the letters Р, Ц, Щ, Э is very characteristic of the duration. In the Latin alphabet, a particular leg appears at the letter R. For both languages, there is a normal C characterised by an upper serif and the look of large, even somewhat bolding serifs on horizontals (T, E, Г, L).
.TT Tsars D is currently completion of the 18th century, when with the development of printing, the forms of some Cyrillic characters had altered and developed into brand-new skeletons of letters that we shifted into Latin. The figures were likewise elegant. In this typeface, both Cyrillic and Latin are stylistically executed with different serifs and are therefore rationally separated. The end of the century is characterized by the decrease of decorative components. Straight, blueprint-like legs of the letters Я, R, K, Ж. Serifs are very pronounced and triangular. E and Э are one-sided on the middle horizontal line. A very characteristic C with 2 serifs appears in the Latin alphabet.
.TT Tsars E is a steampunk fantasy typeface, its theme is a Latinized Russian Сivil type (likewise referred to as Grazhdansky type which emerged after Peter the Great's language reform), that includes only the Latin alphabet. There is no historical analogue to this typeface, it is solely our reflections on the subject of what would have happened if the civil font had actually established further and received a Latin counterpart. We pictured such a situation in which the civil type was exported to Europe and began to live its own life.
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