nick nedashkovskiy i a a co-founder of the reublic of letters type foundry. type designer and font engineer with 9+ years of experience specializing in extended Latin, Cyrillic and Greek.
through the years, in parallel of developingmy personal work, he collaborated with the likes of apple, deltec bank, future london academy, ony, paratype foundry, samarkand airlines, schrift foundry, transparancy international, zaryadye park, to name a few. during this time, nick participated in the creation of 50+ typefaces.
nick has organised several training programmes in the saint petersburg university and design school of the higher school of economic on type design for non-type designers, course in tagir safaev’s type school and some online courses on the bang-bang education platform and at the typomania school.
[[[ p e t p r o j e c t s ]]]
> type improvisation <
it is a way to look more freely at the workflow of the type designers. this is the live broadcast during which four participants work on the same file, share tricks and techniques
> around typeface <
knowledge base and library of links to materials useful for type designers
knowledge base and library of links to materials useful for type designers
> typo breakfast <
a blog dedicated to the peculiarities of font creation, tricks of work and interesting examples of typedesign and typography
a blog dedicated to the peculiarities of font creation, tricks of work and interesting examples of typedesign and typography
> boring sketches<
present blog for quick sketches of experimental letters
present blog for quick sketches of experimental letters
[[[ a w a r d s ]]]
granshan'22 silver prize
granshan'22 special mention
if.design.award'18
tdc typeface design'18 ceo
graphis'18 silver
cannes lions design'17 silver
red apple'16 bronze
adcr'16 gold
adcr'16 silver
kiaf'16 silver
red apple'16 bronze
white square'16 bronze
sreda'16 gold
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glyphs.app || robofont || fontlab || vtt || python || font mastering: technical audit, opentype features building, ps and tt hinting, kerning, work with font tables, file generation || creating extended latin and cyrillic scripts || variable fonts with hoi || complex interpolations of the variable fonts