Ludmila Kruglova

Bold, rounded and super cool. Those are the attributes of my latest font “Vinyle”, french for vinyl.

In this epoque where all fields of Design are giving a lot of importance and attention to Typography and Lettering, I felt it was my duty to contribute with something that could really stand alone and ‘say something else’ that just words to be read.

I've found that lately in the world, regarding a finished piece of design, the role of Typography (and of letters in general) went from being secondary, (like a minor player or a supporting actor) to the most important one. People are starting to understand the beauty of a well-done letter: they want their storefronts with unique scripts, they want to drink coffee surrounded by lettered blackboards, they want to buy books with astonishing covers with swashes ‘por doquier’.

I'm more than happy to be alive in a present where even the most unimaginable friends of mine, (who couldn't spot differences between comic sans and helvetica before) are now conscious of the importance of a letter, or let’s say: Of the ‘voice’ of Typography.

With Vinyle I tried to make a font with power. Following the nowadays trend of, let me say, “the vintage sans renaissance”.

This time I put my brushes and nibs aside and experimented with something new. It wasn't easy, if you will pardon, for me to see swashes all over the place withouth the classic calligraphic ‘thick and thins’, but with after some weeks of work I started to love them.

Like I already showed you in other creations (1) let me finish with the phrase: GEOMETRY IS SEXY!

TIPS

Vinyle has a lot of attitude, it shouts “here I am!” it really can ‘design an entire piece’ for you with just a word or two: It was designed with a 10 degree slant on purpose so the user may rotate it (like on the posters) that amount of degrees in order to see better results.

Use Vinyle with the ‘fi’ standard ligatures activates for better kerning and ligatures!

NOTES

(1) See my font Selfie, the ‘little sister’ of Vinyle.

With Skill I wanted to create something wild. Something that splashed the letters with life. To do this, I knew I'd have to break the barrier between analog and digital, so I took my best brush and started to play.

Throughout the years as a type-designer I've met and become fan of many calligraphers. My belief that only a good calligrapher can make good typography (1) has become even stronger. I'm now absolutely sure that only practice improves the skill, especially in this field. So, with this in mind, I started a font which was a challenge for me because sometimes the gap between paper and screen can be gigantic.

Skill is another of my attemps (2) to capture the spirit of the pointed brush, its expressiveness, the passions and fears of the artist. This font is about freedom. Freedom everywhere. Movement, velocity, passion. To achieve this, many alternates and ligatures per glyph were designed. Use it on magazines, posters, book covers, music albums, t-shirts, skates, tattoos.

TIPS

Thanks to Open-Type, the font gives the user the chance to play and get many wonderful results: In example, using the font with “discretionary ligatures” activated will give more life to the written word. Some letters will jump of the base, while others will ligate or not with the following (typical of gestural calligraphy).

Adobe Illustrator is recommended.

STYLES

Skill is the most complete style. It has all the alternates and ligatures that can be seen in the posters and more!

Skill Standard is a variant with no decorative glyphs. It has the basic alphabet and some ligatures for better legibility.

Northberg is an excellent pairing font for creating vintage designs, very good for logos, posters, book covers, signs and much more.

This product contains 6 fonts including script font, sans serif and slab serif.

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This is a cute story about a mother and her son. :)

About a decade ago my own mother got very interested in my work. She used to say my letters had so many swirls and dazzling swashes, and suggested my job seemed to be very fun. She wondered if she could ever try to make her own alphabet... Well, she is a civil engineer and a maths teacher, and appeared to be a little tired of exact sciences...

I remember answering this, while she was listening with her typical tender look: -"Mamá... While type-design may be a really enjoyable thing to do, it also involves having a great eye and knowledge about the history of letters: nice curves and shapes require a meticulous study and, like it happens in many fields, practice makes perfect"-. Well, she raised her eyebrows at me. -"and so what?"-

She didn't have any experience neither in the field of art nor in the field of graphic design so, I told her that if she really wanted to get into this she should borrow some of my calligraphic books from my beloved shelves in my office. So... she did.

Some weeks after that, she came to me with many sketches made with pencils and markers: some letters where very nice and unique while others naturally needed some work. I remember she added ball terminals to all of her letters (even if they didn't need them) because that was one of the rules she imposed.

After some back and forth, we had the basis for what would be today, ten years later, the seed of this lovely font Girasol.

Her proposal was nice, something I was not accustomed to do, that’s why many years later I decided to watch it with fresh new eyes and finished it.

While she was in charge of making the lowercase letters, I helped with the uppercase and also added my hallmark in the alternates, already seen in others of my expressive fonts.

The result is an upright decorative font that follows the behavior of the copperplate nib with a naive touch that makes it really cute and useful for a wide range of products.

Many alternates per glyph make Girasol a very fun to use font which will delight you. Above posters are a proof of that!

This font is a gift for my mother, Susana, who, in spite of her exacts academic background, taught me that beauty can also be found in the imperfect.

Baloon is a great font for your christmas time

Magic Winter is our new product. This is a trio font that can be paired with each other.

Magic Winter comes with Magic Winter script with hundreds of alternate, Magic Winter sans, and Magic Winter Slab. Magic Winter is really a good font for logos, blogs / web headlines, clothing, winter, quotes, invitations, posters, cafe / restaurant signs, and many others.

We also provide bonus doodles and editable logos for this font, so you can create many designs for your project.
To access all OpenType Stylistic alternates, you need a program that supports OpenType features such as Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop,CorelDraw and Microsoft word.
For every questions or help, please contact me.Thank You

INCLUDED :

Amilya is a calligraphy, Brush, modern, brushed, and beautiful script, ideal for use in elegant designs. This font has a look that makes and adds a lot of femininity to all types of projects.logos, typographic quotes, magazine or book covers, website headers, clothing, Flowers, Weddings, brands, packaging designs, etc., Include Alternatives.

This font is available in OTF, TTF & Web Font

Regards,

Aqeela