Belwe medium Cyrillic, Found in newspaper print ~1934

[Marko]

Hi all,

Here is a little "Type Specimen". 

You can view it online or download it.

I made this while taking a few days from my regular work. I liked the font so i captured it from an old newspapers in 1934. There were around 32 editions of the paper i looked at, but i believe i could find more places it was being used.

After i got help identifying the font i compared it to existing digitalisations. There are six of them in roman latin and one i cyrillic. I think none of them had the feel of the printed version. Cyrillic version was done by copying different contemporary styles. If anyone is interested i could make comparisons.  Anyway, i am pretty certain no one saw this typeface, at least in cyrillic, for a very long time.

If you have any thoughts let me know. I am wondering would this be interesting, or even legal, for another digitalisation? I never made a typeface but i do find stuff like this time to time. Namely: Erbar in cyrillic and a non digitalised version of Gill Sans in Cyrillic.

Cheers,

Marko

 

 

 

 

 

Belwe Medium Cyrillic.pdf

[Riccardo Sartori]

On 6/1/2016 at 6:24 AM, Marko said:

I am wondering would this be interesting, or even legal, for another digitalisation?

About the legality of it, it would depend on a series of different factors (the typeface, the name, the country...). As for interestingness, in recent years there has been a growing movement towards the development of non-Latin typeface designs, but, of course, the final judge is always the market. Luckily, it seems there is hope on that front too.

My advice would be to contact the foundries that already offer a digitalisation of the typeface, asking if they would be interested in adding or revamping a Cyrillic version.

Keep in mind that nowadays it would probably made more sense, market-wise, working on something like Erbar rather than Belwe.

[Riccardo Sartori]

On 11/10/2016 at 4:23 PM, Riccardo Sartori said:

nowadays it would probably made more sense, market-wise, working on something like Erbar rather than Belwe.

Case in point.