font_designer: Tagir Safayev

Black Grotesk

Black Grotesk font

Designed at ParaType in 1997 by Tagir Safayev. Based on Gasetny Chorny (“Newspaper Black”), of Ossip Lehmann foundry, St.-Petersburg, 1874, and Kompakte Grotesk of Haas. An old-fashioned German sans serif “Grotesque”. For use in...

Plain Script

Plain Script font

Designed at ParaType in 1995 by Tagir Safayev. Based on informal handwriting (caps-only). For use in advertising and display typography.

Yanus

Yanus font

Designed at ParaType in 1997 by Tagir Safayev. Inspired by Neulin Sans of Ray Gun magazine (1996). The first version of the typeface was created as part of corporate identity program for Aeroflot–Russian International...

Unovis

Unovis font

PT Unovis™ was designed for ParaType in 2001 by Tagir Safayev. Inspired by the shapes of lettering of the Russian Avant Garde artists of Kazimir Malevich’s circle at the beginning of the 20th century....

Olga

Olga font

Based on informal pen handwriting. A set of Western and Central European characters was added in 2011 by Gennady Fridman. For use in advertising and display typography.

OCR One

OCR One font

Designed at ParaType in 1997 by Tagir Safayev. Based on OCR-A typeface (1968) of American Type Founders. A simple sans serif typeface designed to meet the requirements of the US Bureau of Standards for...

Rodchenko

Rodchenko font

Designed at ParaType in 1996-2002 by Tagir Safayev. Inspired by works of Russian Constructivists of the 1920s and 30s: Alexander Rodchenko, Varvara Stepanova, Vladimir and George Stenberg, Gustav Klutsis and others. A geometrical, caps...

Lehmann

Lehmann font

PT Lehmann™ was designed for ParaType in 2002 by Tagir Safayev. Inspired by letterforms of Shiroky (Wide) Renaissance typeface and other fonts of Ossip Lehmann foundry, St.-Petersburg, c. 1874. A face of the so-called...

Irina

Irina font

Designed at ParaType in 1995 by Tagir Safayev. Based on informal handwriting (caps-only). For use in advertising and display typography.

FreeSet

FreeSet font

The type family in four basic styles was designed in ParaType (ParaGraph) in 1992 by Tagir Safayev. Based on Frutiger, of Mergenthaler Linotype, 1976 by Adrian Frutiger. Frutiger font was originally designed for use...