MOS typeface hero collage with a large white serif letter g on black

MOS. A modern take on “Garalde”, renaissance roman type

Inspired by work of Francesco Griffo and Claude Garamond. It has humanistic proportions, weighed forms and calm representation. Due to the reduced contrast and sufficient x-height suitable for a paragraph text, but a number of sharp decisions the typeface opens up his character in display sizes.

Graduated from Bolditalic course.

Mos has only one master (regular, 300), Latin (52 glyphs) and Cyrillic (68 glyphs) set, numbers, and some other basic non-alphabet signs. I spent about 200 hours on it. The font has raw sidebearings and no kerning.

MOS specimen on a dark book cover with skull illustration

Green bottle label featuring a large serif letter g

Classical sculpture specimen with serif text columns

Sculpture busts with typeset text panels

Orange flower editorial spread with MOS typography

Yellow floral background with Sincerus MOS and Cyrillic display type

Large word grade in high-contrast serif with abstract shapes

Typographic spread with Top 40 in 1987 and date numerals

ETNA and Cyrillic crane headline with body text columns

Latin and Cyrillic uppercase alphabet specimen

Latin and Cyrillic lowercase alphabet specimen

Symbols punctuation and numerals specimen

Behind the scenes collage of sketches prints and studio photos

Details

Scope
Design

Year
2020

Type Design Workshop

Teachers
Dmitry Goloub, Ludmila Sorokina, Viktor Pushkarev, Nick Nedashkovskiy, Vitaly Kuzmin, Aleksandra Korolkova, Anya Rusanova