Cyrillize it!

by Yana Vekshyna

Cyrillic is a script applied by more than 250 million people across Europe and Asia using more than 100 languages. Within the last 15 years it has become increasingly more visible, popular, and utilized in the West.

The Ukrainian author reflects on the relevance of Cyrillic in today’s world, looks at its history and current design trends, provides an overview of the typographic rules and offers practical advice on designing with Cyrillic type. The book also includes interviews with graphic and type design professionals.

In our globalized world, in which multiscripturalism is increasingly important, Cyrillize it! offers designers a method for professionally and successfully handling a different script system. Featuring a playful and esthetically appealing design, and a number of outstanding examples of contemporary graphic design, the publication is also of interest to everybody generally curious about Cyrillic design and related cultures.

Genres: Design

160 pages, Hardcover

Published October 1, 2022

Reviews

[Amadeus Cameron · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fairly practical and nicely designed book about the ways that Cyrillic as a script was created, used, butchered, and where it ultimately landed. Also provides some good ways to approach designing with Cyrillic - history influences the liberties you can take as a designer, and the book gives some examples of how to approach these novel (to a Latin-based designer) letterforms.

Selfishly, I bought this book because it mentions the Glagolitic script, but I was attracted to it’s great printing and interesting layout - now I walk away with a book full of inspiration of contextual Cyrillic uses.

[Estuardo Choc Salazar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very informative and well designed book. For a Latin American everything was new and interesting, specially the Bulgarian Cyrillic part.