Yevgeniy Anfalov

25/06/2025

New logotype for

15/03/2025

10/02/2025

Abeceda is a 10-day workshop focusing on Cyrillic for newbies in the Type Design and Typography Studio at UMPRUM, Prague/ summer semester 2024 . The aim was to gain a new perspective on the Latin script through the new, unfamiliar forms such as the Cyrillic script. At first glance, a foreign script looks like an indecipherable texture. However, Cyrillic and Latin have a common basis: Greek. The challenge of learning the basic alphabet, looking more closely at the forms, and finding common rules trains the discipline of observation. Some students created a font from scratch using Cyrillic historical references, others expanded existing fonts, and some practiced calligraphy and lettering. Cyrillic is going through a renaissance, and it is also good if „outsiders“ contribute to Cyrillic type design too. The booklet was printed in offset at by Jaroslav Jandourek. Many thanks to Jan Čumlivski, Filip Kraus and for the opportunity and lovely time!

24/07/2024

azaqstan, Labyrinths of Post-Colonial Discourse. Edited by Alima Bisenova, published by Tselinny, Kazakhstan.

I designed this book in summer 2022 and was assisting me along the way. The format is 130x195 mm so the volume is easy to carry, despite its thickness and thanks to its lightweight. The book is text- heavy: its layout follows the reader’s pragmatism. There are enough margins and room for footnotes, and all the cross-references are set in margins and linked to respective images. The book is unique of its kind as it is the first collective work on Kazakh post-colonialism. The main language is Russian, functioning as a lingua franca for all post-Soviet countries.

The main carrier of the book’s identity is the font KTF Labyrinth, made by Yevgen specifically for its occasion. It takes on the metaphor of a labyrinth as derived from the book’s title and is being used on the cover as well as on the chapter titles.

All in all, the book was made under limitations in paper stock (using the only suitable materials that were anticipated „blindly“ at the distance) and printed at rather a fast pace, including night shifts – most likely resulting in a slight misplacement of the cover, which is shifted downward to 3 mm. All the print supervision was handed out to who did his best to describe the outcome via smartphone videos and using LANGUAGE. The book production reflects its time and social conditions for sure. However, the book is an important lecture on Kazakh culture and has come to the world in a print run of 1,000 exemplars.

09/07/2024

An ABC with a little homage to Munari, made with students of Hochschule Niederrhein Krefeld. Thanks

14/05/2024

Works by students of from the workshop “B-Sides and Bootlegs”. The topic of the workshop is an ultra-fast remix of fonts from LP album covers. Printed on Riso.

13/04/2024

I made an LP cover for It’s a first official use of KTF Olivier by and myself — after Rygor Klikushyn) “II” is out on

04/03/2024

26/02/2024

Words by Steven Heller 💞
https://www.printmag.com/daily-heller/the-daily-heller-kyiv-type-foundry/?fbclid=IwAR3PDJV-d3YtUIYDeMmT4Oaw8wMnXuG08VZs9-ifc10VxHWDn-eHGRrgsyY

The letterforms of the Kyiv Metro reveal a fair amount about its history—and a new type family honors its legacy.

19/02/2024

Hey, KTF Jermilov ain’t a free font:) But KTF Metro is! 🆎Ⓜ️

Entirely free of charge for Ukrainians. As Ukraine is still in the state of emergency, we'd like to ask you for a donation. Use our PayPal ( https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/kyivtypefoundry ), and we'll distribute the money among those in a need and report by the end of 2024.

Echoing WWII events, in 2022 Kyiv Metro became the bomb shelter for thousands of its inhabitants. This sad fact is another big milestone in its rich history, which continues to be written. Built six decades ago, it carries 1.32 million passengers a day (2016) and is one of the most beautiful manmade creations in Ukraine. As part of station architecture, the letters of the Kyiv metro tell us a lot about its history. It’s a book. You can read it in many directions. Exiting on each station, you’ll notice different letterings. “Look at them, analyze and make fonts on their basis”, we told to our students in our summer 2023 workshop called “Kyiv Metro Fonts”.

So they did it within a week, and we took and carefully finished 5 most representative of them. The result is a family release called KTF Metro, aiming to preserve the typographic memory of the city. Additionally, we interviewed Oleg Totsky, a metro historian and specialist. His answers open up a context in which Kyiv Metro letters emerged and supplement the showcased typefaces respectively. Support Ukrainian and Cyrillic type design! 🔴🔵🟢

https://www.kyivtypefoundry.com/projects/kyiv-metro-fonts

Huge thanks to:
Oles Gergun
Vadym Axeev
Control Team
Nazariy Kondratiuk
Dasha Lennhren
Matvii Masliukov
Arsen Batyuchok
Ross Sokolovski
Oleg Totsky
Ostap Yaschschuk
Jan Horcik
Oleksandr Kolod'ko
And all the KTF Workshop #1 participants

Logo: Nazariy Kondratiuk
Motion: Oleksandr Stelmakh
Sound: Dusty Baron