Grimys Antiqua is a Renaissance-inspired serif typeface distinguished by its humanist structure and attention to detail. Balancing the gestural elegance of its calligraphic heritage with a sharp, contemporary precision, the typeface exhibits a distinctive crispness in both its terminals and its more expressive Italics. Particularly noteworthy is the horizontal emphasis within its counterforms, which serves not only to visually anchor the text block but also enhances legibility at reduced point sizes — as is the case in this thesis — without sacrificing aesthetic character.

Grimys Antiqua currently consists of 10 weights and includes over 600 glyphs per style, with the first two — Regular and Italic, set for a release in the summer of 2025. The typeface challenges the prevailing market standards for Cyrillic typefaces by adopting the so-called “humanistic” Cyrillic lowercase as main character set, rather than relegating it to a localized secondary role. Humanistic Cyrillic is widely regarded by type designers as an evolutionary step in the development of Cyrillic script — one that respectfully challenges the status quo. In this context, the “standardized” Cyrillic is increasingly viewed as a “historical” variant. Embracing the humanistic Cyrillic enhances multiscript consistency and improves overall legibility.

The story continues with the upcoming updates (..) Design: Trifon Andreev
Production and Mastering: Trifon Andreev
Released: Upcoming (Mid 2025)

Character Map

Language Support:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Asu, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bemba, Bena, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chiga, Colognian, Cornish, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Embu, English, Erzya, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, Ganda, German, Gusii, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Inari Sami, Indonesian, Interlingua, Irish, Italian, Javanese, Jju, Jola-Fonyi, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Kamba, Kikuyu, Kinyarwanda, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Low German, Lower Serbian, Luo, Luxembourgish, Luyia, Machame, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Malagasy, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Meru, Morisyen, North Ndebele, Northern Sami, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Nyankole, Oromo, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Rombo, Rundi, Russian, Rwa, Samburu, Sango, Sangu, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Shambala, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Taita, Teso, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vunjo, Walser, Welsh, Zulu

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