Alexandra_Korolkova

Alexandra Korolkova

Alexandra Korolkova

Russian typeface designer (born 1984)

Alexandra Korolkova (Russian: Александра Королькова) (born 1984) is a Russian typeface designer.[1][2] She was awarded the infrequently presented Prix Charles Peignot in 2013 by the Association Typographique Internationale, becoming the first Russian prizewinner.[3][4]

Alexandra Korolkova in 2016

Korolkova's best-known work is probably the PT Fonts project, a partly open-source project commissioned by the Russian Ministry of Communications as a single family able to support all the common variations of the Cyrillic script.[5][6][7][8]

Korolkova works for the company ParaType and studied at the Moscow State University of Printing Arts.[9][10] She is the author of the book Living Typography (Russian: Живая типографика) and has also given lectures on Cyrillic letter structure.[11][12][13] She has also designed the typeface FF Carina for FontShop.[14][15]

References

  1. [1]
    "Alexandra Korolkova interview". MyFonts. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  2. [2]
    "Three Designers from Moscow interview". MyFonts. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  3. [3]
    "Prix Charles Peignot". ATypI. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  4. [4]
    "Interview with Alexandra Korolkova". Typejournal.ru. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  5. [5]
    "Public Fonts for Minority Languages of Russia". ParaType. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  6. [6]
    Создан шрифт, поддерживающий все языки народов России (in Russian). Vesti. 2010-01-13. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
  7. [7]
    Разработан новый шрифт с поддержкой всех языков Российской Федерации (in Russian). Rossiyskaya Gazeta. 2010-01-14. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
  8. [8]
    "New version of PT Sans". 2010-04-02. Archived from the original on 2010-08-19. Retrieved 2010-08-04.
  9. [9]
    Coles, Stephen. "Typeface review: Aphrosine". Typographica. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
  10. [10]
    Coles, Stephen. "New Additions: April 2016". Identifont. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
  11. [11]
    "Workshop programme". ATypI. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  12. [12]
    "Typo Speaker: Alexandra Korolkova". Typo. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  13. [13]
    "Живая типографика - about the book". Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  14. [14]
    Sudweeks, David. "Interview with Alexandra Korolkova". FontShop. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
  15. [15]
    Coles, Stephen. "New Additions: November 2016". Identifont. Retrieved 7 December 2016.



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