Alexandra Korolkova ( rus, Александра Королькова) (born 1984) is a Russian

typeface A typeface (or font family) is the design of lettering that can include variations in size, weight (e.g. bold), slope (e.g. italic), width (e.g. condensed), and so on. Each of these variations of the typeface is a font. There are list of type ...

designer. She was awarded the infrequently presented

Prix Charles Peignot The Prix Charles Peignot (Charles Peignot Prize) is a major award in typeface design, given "to a designer under the age of 35 who has made an outstanding contribution to type design". It is awarded irregularly, typically every three to five years, ...

in 2013 by the

Association Typographique Internationale The ATypI () or Association Typographique Internationale (the International Typography Association) is an international non-profit organisation dedicated to typography and type design. The primary activity of the association is an annual fall confe ...

, becoming the first Russian prizewinner. Korolkova's best-known work is probably the

PT Fonts The Public Type or PT Fonts are a family of free/libre fonts released from 2009 onwards, comprising PT Sans, PT Serif and PT Mono. They were commissioned from the design agency ParaType by Rospechat, a department of the Russian Ministry of Comm ...

project, a partly open-source project commissioned by the

Russian Ministry of Communications The Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation (russian: Министерство цифрового развития, связи и массовых коммуникаций Российской Фед ...

as a single family able to support all the common variations of the

Cyrillic script The Cyrillic script ( ), Slavonic script or the Slavic script, is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic languages, Slavic, Turkic languages, Turkic, Mongolic languages, ...

. Korolkova works for the company ParaType and studied at the

Moscow State University of Printing Arts Moscow State University of Printing Arts of Ivan Fedorov (MSUPA (MGUP in Russian); former name: Moscow Polygraphic Institute, Moscow State Academy of Printing) is Russia's largest university in the field of preparing specialists in printing and pu ...

. She is the author of the book ''Living Typography'' ( rus, Живая типографика) and has also given lectures on Cyrillic letter structure. She has also designed the typeface FF Carina for

FontShop FontShop International was an international manufacturer of digital typefaces ( fonts), based in Berlin. It was one of the largest digital type foundries. The ''FontFont'' library of fonts contains designs by 160 type designers, among them renown ...

References

External links

Fonts on MyFonts
(some self-released)
ParaType page

Personal website
Living people Russian designers 1984 births Russian typographers and type designers {{Russia-artist-stub