font_foundry: Simeon out West

Pravoslavnie

Pravoslavnie font

This is the first of several Eastern fonts I have created and is the prize of the collection. The Pravoslavnie font is highly decorative, with a more complicated letter ‘a’ and a series of...

Suzdal

Suzdal font

Suzdal is a font based on a hand-lettered souvenir that I brought back from the Vladimir/Suzdal region in 2001. Suzdal includes a character set for Modern Greek, and most of the characters used in...

Vladimir

Vladimir font

Vladimir is a font based on a hand-lettered souvenir that I brought back from the Vladimir/Suzdal region in 2001. Vladimir includes characters for Cyrillic and most Eastern and Central European languages. The Vladimir/Suzdal region...

Alexandria

Alexandria font

Alexandria is the first of the non-Russian fonts I created. It is a Coptic font, inspired by a brush script from Egypt’s Hellenic period and a Coptic font designed by Peter J Gentry, a...

Muscovite Manuscript

Muscovite Manuscript font

Muscovite Manuscript is another result of many fruitless years of looking for a satisfactory font based on Old Russian Prayer books suitable for use with the Latin alphabet.

Svati Sava

Svati Sava font

The Svati Sava font is a Latin Alphabet layout of a Serbian font. The original letterforms of this font struck me in their modern simplicity while retaing a traditional Eastern European feel and I...

Adis Ababa

Adis Ababa font

Adis Ababa is a font based on an ancient Ge’ez script. The Ge’ez alphabet is the written language of the ancient ancestors of the Ethiopian and Eritrean nation. It is not a Latin or...

Alaskaya

Alaskaya font

Alaskaya is another result of many fruitless years of looking for satisfactory fonts based on Old Russian Iconography suitable for use with the Latin alphabet. The origins of the Alaskaya font are the lettering...

Thebes

Thebes font

Thebes is a font based on an ancient Coptic script. The Copts are Egyptian Christians, and theirspoken language is a dialect of ancient Egyptian. Their letters, however, are Hellenized andresemble the Greek Alphabet and...

Radonezh

Radonezh font

The Radonezh font is a Latin alphabet layout based on Russian Lettering I have seen. The font is designed to give a classic Medieval Eastern European feel with a hand-lettered style. Radonezh comes with...