Post #2597588
2026-03-26 11:41 UTC
@QuentinJuhel@post.lurk.org @dobody@mastodon.design Trade of matrices for typesetting machines was easier, and definitely analog and digital phototype in the 1960–80s.
Cyrillic foundry type companies probably traded matrices among themselves and with Latin-using partners or mother companies (Berthold for instance had a branch in Russia). Cyrillic was developed from Latin design and localised characters for the different languages using Cyrillic.
Do you have any concrete example/typeface we can help with?
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@dobody@mastodon.design 2026-03-26 14:40
@kupfers@mastodon.social Thanks a big lot for chipping in! Context is this article I wrote (pardon my French) on Bulgarian typography, with the few sources I could get my hands on. Early Cyrillic prints in Church Slavonic by Szweipolt Fiol (1490s?) and printers in Vilnius (in Ukrainian) seem to use an Ustav style (Cyrillic uncial-like) old Cyr script. Peter I's Russian reforms seem not to trickle down to BG, and in 1838 the ¿first? BG press in Thessaloniki still uses Ustav characters. 1/2 @QuentinJuhel@post.lurk.org