The TypoLab of the Visual Communication department at HEAD – Genève invites you to the conference: Kyiv Metro Fonts by Yevgeniy Anfalov, type designer (https://kyivtypefoundry.com), which will take place on Wednesday 29 October at 12.30pm.

This conference presents Kyiv Metro Fonts, a typeface family developed from a week-long student workshop organised during summer 2023. Considering Kyiv's metro stations as sites of typographic discovery, the project documents, analyses and reinterprets the system's original lettering to create a set of five digital typefaces, serving as vehicles for transmitting this urban history. The presentation addresses the family's roots in the city's past and present, the need for a critical and balanced approach to revival, as well as the reclamation of Cyrillic heritage from the Soviet era in Ukraine. Among the five typefaces, KTF Metro Roman served as a springboard for further development, extending the three-dimensional letter forms, interplay of light and experiments with colour font technology, offering a renewed vision of Capitalis Monumentalis through contemporary tools.

Yevgeniy Anfalov (born 1986 in Kyiv) is a designer and typographer based in Germany. He studied visual communication in Hanover and obtained a master's degree in art direction and type design at ECAL. In 2021, he founded Kyiv Type Foundry (KTF), a platform at the crossroads of Latin and Cyrillic alphabets, which offers a contemporary interpretation of Cyrillic heritage and produces high-quality typefaces. Since the release of LL Heymland with Lineto in 2020, he has collaborated with type foundries worldwide. KTF was notably commissioned to redesign a typeface for Leica. Anfalov has taught at HAW Hamburg and HfK Bremen, presented at ATypI, and regularly leads type design workshops internationally.

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