A one-person type studio. I draw retail text families and custom lettering for small publishers, record labels and design studios that care how a paragraph sits on the page.
Request a specimenA workhorse book serif with short extenders, drawn for long reading at small sizes. Includes small caps and three figure sets.
A quiet grotesque with slightly narrowed caps. Built for signage and interface work where space is tight but tone matters.
High-contrast display cut with exaggerated terminals. Intended for covers and posters at 48pt and up, never for body copy.
I have been drawing letterforms for about twelve years, the first six of them inside other people's studios and the rest on my own. Most of the work arrives as a quiet problem: a wordmark that reads badly at small sizes, a book family that needs a companion italic, a magazine that has outgrown the face it licensed years ago.
Everything is drawn by hand first and only then taken into Glyphs. I still believe a family earns its spacing on paper before anyone types a single line in it.
Retail families are licensed per use: desktop, web, app and broadcast. Licences are perpetual, there is no yearly renewal, and a trial cut of any family is available on request for internal evaluation.
Custom work is quoted as a flat project fee after a short call. Drawing a two-weight wordmark usually takes three to four weeks; a full text family runs considerably longer and is billed in stages.
Specimens, trials and project enquiries — studio@ruin3.rasssvet.art. I answer most mail within a couple of working days.