Tomorrow Yury Ostromentsky

Yury Ostromentsky

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About the designer

Graphic and type designer, co-founder of type.today store. Graduate of the Moscow State University of Printing Arts (Department of Arts and Technical Design of Printed Materials). Yury worked as a designer and art director for publishers and design studios. From 2004 to 2012, he was art director with Bolshoy Gorod (Big City) magazine. In 2004, he and lya Ruderman, Dmitry Yakovlev, and Daria Yarzhambek launched the DailyType webpage. Later in 2014, Yury and Ilya Ruderman founded CSTM Fonts type design studio which released Pilar, Big City Grotesque, Kazimir, Navigo, Normalidad, RIA Typeface, Lurk, Loos, Maregraph typefaces and CSTM Xprmntl series, as well as Cyrillic versions of Druk, Graphik, Spectral, Stratos and Apoc. The works by Ostromentsky and CSTM Fonts were awarded by European Design Award, Granshan and Modern Cyrillic Competition.

More about the designer

Pilar in use: Nick Nedashkovskiy

Here is a series of designs by Nick Nedashkovskiy with Pilar

New typeface: Navigo

New arrival at type.today collection — geometrick grotesque Navigo by Custom Fonts

Valery Golyzhenkov: “The type is over”

Valery Golyzhenkov, type and graphic designer, the cofounder of LetterHead studio talks about past, present and future in type design, about the snobbery in the industry and about type itself as an unexpected natural occurrence

Navigo in use: “Zaryadye”

There is an ongoing design competition in Moscow.

New font: CSTM Emoji

A new font — the CSTM Emoji character font is a set of emoticons drawn up by the artist Alexei Ostromentsky. The collection comprises illustrations conveying a range of emotions via facial expressions, gestures, and assorted objects. The symbols are arranged in the standard Unicode emoji cells and are duplicated in the cells for the English alphabet and numbers.

New fonts: RIA Typeface

RIA Typeface is a font family created especially for the RIA Novosti news agency. Each face of this font has been created for a particular function, size, and usage context. Ilya Ruderman the agency’s Art Director from 2011-2014, recounts the story of this font’s creation and its special features.

New typeface: Stratos

A family that rethinks concepts of weight and width, spanning multiple hierarchies within a single style.

Cyrillic fonts of 2016

Each year that goes by sees yet more new fonts coming out onto the market. And the Cyrillic market is growing steadily too. Together with our colleagues from the typejournal.ru, we have compiled the fullest list of new typefaces with Cyrillic. Later we arranged them into categories, purely based on our own subjective preferences and notions of beauty.

New Typeface: CSTM Xprmntl 01

The CSTM Xprmntl 01 typeface inaugurates type.today’s new series of ”fast fonts”.

New typeface: Druk

Druk is a study in extremes, featuring the narrowest, widest, and heaviest typefaces in the Commercial Type library to date. Starting from Medium and going up to Super, Druk is uncompromisingly bold.

Kazimir by CSTM Fonts in use

Conversation of founders of type.today Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky about todayness in type design and typography.

Kazimir in use. Natasha Shendrik specially for type.today

The Grand Type Tour 2016. The Results

In the spring of 2016, type.today announced its plans to give a series of lectures outside Moscow on the typefaces from our collection. We invited all who were willing to help organise free lectures to get in touch with us. And this is what happened.

CSTM Xprmntl has moved!

CSTM Xprmntl 01 and CSTM Xprmntl 02 are now on sale at tomorrow.type.today

Alexei Bystrov: “We need more than new letters”

Alexey Bystrov — design director and co-founder of “Look at Media” and “Frank”. Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky discussed with Alexey contemporary typography, modern applications and type design industry

Tomorrow: type.today’s new store

We would like to take a look at the near future: what happens with typography tomorrow? With this in mind, we have launched a second storefront of our shop — with wild font experiments and a new licensing model.

Kazimir Text in use

Kazimir Text by CSTM Fonts in use

Pilar by CSTM Fonts in use

Kazimir in use. Kirill Blagodatskikh specially for type.today

Typeface for the channel of Yury Dud, one of the most popular Russian video bloggers

These days, we see a growing number of custom fonts — developed specifically for a project. A font that Yury Dud (one of the most popular Russian YouTubers) uses for titles and captions on his channel is a great example of what tasks this tool can solve.

Navigo in use: wayfinding systems by Zoloto Group

Navigo (CSTM Fonts) became a key element in many wayfinding systems, designed at Zoloto Group (Moscow).

New typeface: CSTM Xprmntl 02

The CSTM Xprmntl 02 font family is another representative of the “quick fonts” series at type.today

New typeface: Proto Grotesk

Over the last hundred years or so, utilitarian typefaces have shed most of their quirks and eccentricities on the way to becoming more versatile and universal. That makes some sense, but there’s no reason type can’t be both steadfast and peculiar

CSTM Xprmntl 02: packaging kosher food and exploring Moscow

We are always excited to see our fonts in use, but sometimes we are even more excited by how they are used. Today, we present CSTM Xprmntl 02 in a diploma student project, and on print materials for kosher grocery shop

Sulliwan Studio used Navigo by CSTM Fonts in a visual identity for Coopywriters Agency.

Anastasia Cherepanova: “I wish to see type shifting to physical space, to some multisensual dimension”

Last December we handed Asya Cherepanova the keys to our Instagram. Weeks later, we chatted about the syncretic future of type, designing custom type for zines, and the shortcomings of type education resources.

New typeface: Lurk

Yury Dud, the famed Russian youtuber, has been using this typeface in his videos for over a year. Now you can buy it on our Today storefront. Noisy, discreet, sassy, funny, serious, wild: 18 tones for telling different stories in the same single typographic language

New typeface: Normalidad

New family by CSTM Fonts, a workhorse with great display potential. The offering is also very flexible: choose any of the 30 static and 12 variable files, no need to overpay for font styles you don’t need

New typeface: Navigo Italic

Handy, long-awaited release: the font at ease with wayfinding, utility and branding typography now has italics

Maxim Balabin: “Reading is the simplest way to put information in your head”

Art director at Bookmate, Maxim Balabin is an old friend and a loyal customer of type.today. We sat down to discuss the fate of the printed book in the digital age, Maxim’s book covers for Individuum, and why most books are so ridiculously ugly (at least, in Russia)

Tomorrow’s new typeface: CSTM Xprmntl 03

Blackletter, old Russian uncial: mix to taste. The third typeface of the hit type series by CSTM Fonts

New typeface: Graphik Georgian

The global sans serif hit, now aware of Mkhedruli and Mtavruli. Designed by Yury Ostromentsky, with native consultation from Alexander Sukiasov

Calendar 2021: Esh Print×tomorrow.type.today

12 designers, 12 wild typographies, 12 fancy riso prints — and the year full of our typefaces

Curbe and CSTM Xprmntl 01 in use: Satori Vasaras Avīze Nr.8, 2020

Designer and typographer Alexey Murashko told us about his experiments on applying stroke to the body text, hanging schoolchildren’s heads, combining (seemingly!) non-compatible — but also about his experiments on himself.

“Georgian typography is now catching up” What’s happening in Georgian type?

Having released Graphik Georgian, we decided to learn more about today’s Georgian typography. What was lost during the first years of independence, why getting commission for a corporate typeface is easier than releasing a retail one, and what happens next — in the words of Georgian graphic and type designers

Alexander Cherepanov: “If you want to draw a typeface, you have empty space facing you”

Author of Transgender Grotesk talks about zines, type education and self-education, experience at art directing, and working with depression

Pilar in use: 1962. Nikolay Kozakov. Diaries

One year in the life of a 30-year-old truck driver: in a book, a set of cards and a vinyl record designed by Kirill Gluschenko

New typeface: Loos

Technical, but humane sans serif for every occasion

New typeface: Grato and Gratimo

A couple of geometric serifs for any occasion. Inside — 42 styles and a story of how seemingly invisible details change the functionality of a typeface

Larik Gordon: “Serif brings everything to a higher level”

Founder and Art Director of Airborne Ape Studio takes a shopping tour of type shops and explains what corporations and web designers have to do for a long and happy life of serifs

Loos in use: Dina’s wine

Loos Georgian in the most Georgian medium!

New typeface: Maregraphe

From Marseille with love: 20 styles and a set of alternates — modern and slightly wild serif typeface by Yury Ostromentsky

Loos in use: A room and a half

For two years, ‘A room and a half’ where Joseph Brodsky spent 17 years of his life has been a museum that speaks one of CSTM Fonts-designed typefaces (+ the typeface with Cyrillic by CSTM Fonts).

New typefaces: Maregraphe Mega Compressed and Mega Extended

Welcome the widest and the narrowest serifs in our library (and perhaps even in the entire world!)

Xprmntl 01 in use: Stereo

A multipurpose audio app and the quietest Xprmntl 01 stylistic set