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1 style,
2020

Windward

Denis Bashev, Mikhail Strukov

  • Desktop
    $25
  • Web
    $25
  • App
    $30
  • Desktop
    $25
  • Web
    $25
  • App
    $30
About

A brisk backslope typeface, where the graphics of Comic Sans is combined with the dynamics of street art tags. Originally, the designer Denis Bashev came up with such a mix for the titling of the documentary Sasha from Russia — a movie about the standup comedian Alexander Nezlobin trying to win over America. The graphic idea didn’t make its way to this film — but eventually materialised as a font. In translating the initial vector outlines into a fully valid font file Denis was helped by the type designer Mikhail Strukov — the graduate from Ilya Ruderman’s course at BHSD and Frank Blokland’s class at Plantin Institute of Typography, designing custom typefaces since 2015 and collaborating with CSTM Fonts and Samarskaya & Partners agency.

Features

Standard ligatures, swashes, one stylistic set, contextual ligatures

Languages

Afrikaans, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, French, Gaelic (Irish), Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Kurdish (lat), Latvian, Lithuanian, Mongolian (lat), Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovene, Spain, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek (lat)

Authors

Denis Bashev

Denis Bashev is graphic designer, head of Dilettant studio. Author of many logos and visual identities, including sport-themed pictograms for the 2014 Winter Olympics and corporate identities for the British electrobus manufacturer Arrival and https://silasveta.com/ Multimedia Production Studio. Delivered lectures and taught at the HSE Art and Design School, British Higher School of Design, Strelka Institute, Ikra school of innovations and creative thinking, Bang Bang Education. Awarded by Red Dot Design Award, Adc, Red Apple and many others. Denis is into type and typography. In 2020, supported by CSTM Fonts (namely by Mikhail Strukov, Ilya Ruderman, and Yury Ostromentsky), he released his first typeface, Windward.

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