The Mysteries of Cyrillic :
Its Features. Its Properties. Its Quirks.

Maxim Zhukov

Cyrillic... Whazzat?! It looks familiar, and yet so different. How different it really is? And in what way? Yes, it's got that 'inverted R' thing. And it all looks like caps and small caps anyway. Look ma, no lower case. How do you get to design a Cyrillic font, now when they all ask for it? Do you have to be Russian? Yikes. It's all Greek to me (shucks, they are asking for the Greek too)... Unicode schmunicode.

Hang in there! Help is on the way. Maxim Zhukov's presentation will highlight those tricky special features and secret relationships of letter-forms that have to be kept in mind when designing a Cyrillic typeface.

About Maxim :

Maxim Zhukov is a typographic coordinator for the United Nations. His main occupation is multilingual typography. Zhukov is involved in type design, consulting for individual designers and type foundries. For a few years he taught typographic design at his alma mater, Moscow Printing Institute. He writes on typography and type design. He is a member of a number of Russian and American professional societies and associations. He is a member of the ATypI Board of Directors, and the ATypI Country Delegate for Russia.

Sponsored by The Society of Scribes, The Grolier Club, and Type Directors Club

6:00pm Wednesday 10 July 2002

The Grolier Club
47 East 60th Street
New York, NY 10022

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F : 1- 212-838-2445
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The Mysteries of Cyrillic