Ruslan Display - Google Fonts

About

The Ruslan Display font is based on a 1970s typeface made by Ukrainian designer Oleg Snarsky, which evokes the ustav and semiustav styles of the 11th–16th centuries, known as the Ruthenian period. This is featured in the signage of Kiev's Teremky metro station, and in a collection of Snarsky's typefaces in the book “Шрифты-алфавиты для рекламных и декоративно-оформительских работ“ published in 1979 and available online.

It was digitized and extended with an original Latin complement by Russian designer Denis Masharov, in collaboration with Vladimir Rabdu, in 2011. The name means ‘lion’.

Suitable for lettering, Ruslan Display can also be used to set short texts and supports Latin and Cyrillic.

Designers

Oleg Snarsky

Denis Masharov

Denis Masharov was a designer, teacher, and an active member of the Russian typographic community. He passed away suddenly on September 1st, 2021.

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Vladimir Rabdu

When you have some text, how can you choose a typeface? Many people—professional designers included—go through an app’s font menu until we find one we like. But the aim of this Google Fonts Knowledge module is to show that there are many considerations that can improve our type choices. By setting some useful constraints to aid our type selection, we can also develop a critical eye for analyzing type along the way.