Type Specimen | Research | Compilation Post
Lora is a well-balanced contemporary serif with roots in calligraphy. It is a text typeface with moderate contrast well suited for body text.
A paragraph set in Lora will make a memorable appearance because of its brushed curves in contrast with driving serifs. The overall typographic voice of Lora perfectly conveys the mood of a modern-day story, or an art essay.
Technically Lora is optimized for screen appearance, and works equally well in print. Designed by Olga Karpushina in 2011. Cyrillic extension designed by Alexei Vanyashin in May, 2013.
Lora is a versatile text family of four styles: Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold Italic. Its typographic voice is calligraphy inspired.
Modern calligraphy ranges from functional hand-lettered inscriptions and designs to fine-art pieces where the abstract expression of the handwritten mark may or may not compromise the legibility of the letters. Classical calligraphy differs from typography and non-classical hand-lettering, though a calligrapher may create all of these; characters are historically disciplined yet fluid and spontaneous, at the moment of writing.
Calligraphy continues to flourish in the forms of wedding and event invitations, font design, typography original hand-lettered logo design, religious art, announcements, graphic design, calligraphic art, cut stone inscriptions and memorial documents. It is also used for props and moving images for film and television, testimonials, birth and death certificates, maps, and other works involving writing.
Olga Karpushina was born in Moscow in 1987. She studied design in the Moscow state pedagogical university and the British higher school of art and design. Currently she is focused on human centered design and is working on product, service, strategy, and business model design projects.
I’m a design researcher. I’m keen on product, service, strategy and business model design.
— I worked for the top design research and service design companies in Russia (Lumiknows, Experience Lab, Signbox);
— designed a service and a customer experience strategy for the innovative museum space “Open museum”;
— designed a service and a customer experience strategy for the shopping mall SportEx;
— took part as an art director in creating of the toolkit on design thinking methodology for Sberbank (a largest bank in Russia);
— took part in doing the design research for the deaf blind support fund So-edineniye;
— took part in doing the design research and creating the design brief for a financial company;
— studied trends for Philips and Sberbank;
— took part as a designer and a lecturer in organization of design thinking courses and strategy sessions;
— designed more than 25 corporate identity projects;
— also designed Lora typeface for Google Fonts.
The Cyrillic script is named after Saint Cyril, a missionary from Byzantium who, along with his brother, Saint Methodius, created the Glagolitic script. Modern Cyrillic alphabets developed from the Early Cyrillic script, which was developed during the 9th century in the First Bulgarian Empire (AD 681-1018) by a decree of Boris I of Bulgaria (Борис I). It is thought that St. Kliment of Ohrid, a disciple of Cyril and Methodius, was responsible for the script. The Early Cyrillic script was based on the Greek uncial script with ligatures and extra letters from the Glagolitic and Old Church Slavonic scripts for sounds not used in Greek.
Capital and lowercase letters were not distinguished in old manuscripts
Yeri (Ы) was originally a ligature of Yer and I (Ъ + I = Ы).
Iotation was indicated by ligatures formed with the letter I: Ꙗ (not ancestor of modern Ya, Я, which is derived from Ѧ), Ѥ, Ю (ligature of I and ОУ), Ѩ, Ѭ.
Many letters had variant forms and commonly used ligatures, for example И = І = Ї, Ѡ = Ѻ, ѠТ = Ѿ.
The Cyrillic alphabet has been adapted to write more than 50 different languages, mainly in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe. In many cases additional letters are used, some of which are adaptations of standard Cyrillic letters, while others are taken from the Greek or Latin alphabets.
Alexei Vanyashin is a typeface designer, educator, and researcher, based in Geneva, Switzerland. His design and research interests include:
- Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek Typeface Design;
- Readability and Legibility issues;
- History of Cyrillic Typography;
- Detailed and Structured Typography;
- Web Typography.
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Lora
http://www.identifont.com/show?2VTL
https://www.linkedin.com/in/okarpush/?trk=public-profile-join-page
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/cyrillic.htm
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