More Cryillic

I'm growing to quite like these little characters they allow for so much tweaking and development.

My aim for this project is to create a full typeface which has strong connection to two or more countries within Europe, not including the UK, and so far I have kept things on one route looking at the Cyrillic character sets and playing with their design.

These characters have strong bold lines which allow for an easier design of the character with different bars and serifs differentiating them from each other. But because of this it does allow for curves to be added without taking any legibility away from the letterform.

Cyrillic Experiments

I wanted to start by looking at something new, and Cyrillic is very new to me.

I don't have any knowledge of the language it self apart from knowing that it is the base to many Eastern European languages, and is now the third most used character set below Latin and Greek.

I find that the letter forms themselves show immediate connection to Russia this being the main country using/founding the Cyrillic alphabet.
I wanted to look at how Latin logo's that I am familiar with would look when written using these characters, I used a web based application
(http://www.agora.org.mk/goodbytes/enmkonvert/default.asp)
to translate the characters for me and then redesigned the packet using a typeface face that matched or came close to that of a real 'Rizla' packet. I do understand that there may be some mistakes through translation.

I choose this for my first experiment as I felt that the original typeface allowed editions to be made to work with the Cyrillic aplabet. I did however learn that this is a very difficult task the image above is a quick rendition to get me used to the characters and help my further experiments.

Now to try some more of my favorite logo's and see where that gets me......

Euro Type

I will be using this space over the next few months to document parts of my research project into European Typography, leading to the development of my own European font. I will be looking at languages other than English taking into consideration Cyrillic and Greek characters, as well as looking at different forms of script, such as German Fraktur ( or BlackLetter) and Arabic calligraphy, with the final aim to create a typeface featuring all the characters required to write any of the languages from around Europe (bar Arabic).

Each week I will add a small research article accompanied with imagery of my interpretation, these will all have a large impact on my final design.

Any critique will be appreciated.

Thank you and Enjoy!