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Paradoxically, the population of a huge country mostly uses fonts designed by
a private American company. With all due respect for Microsoft, even knowing
their careful and thougfhtful approach to national traditions, we cannot expect
them to be able to embrace the boundless and solve the problems of preservation
and development of writing of small peoples of Russia.
The following decision is logical in this situation. The State may order a set
of national fonts to be developed and made available for free downloading
online. In addition, it is desirable that these fonts are included in the localized
operating systems distributed on the territory of Russia (Apple Macintosh and
Microsoft Windows). These fonts should support all titular languages of the
entities of the Russian Federation.
These considerations and the desire to get universal modern fonts, consistent
with the idea of good Cyrillic became the basis of work on the design of the
PT Sans – PT Serif typeface system by the ParaType Inc. in 2009–2011with
support by the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications 76 .
The Structure and Composition of the PT Sans – PT Serif Typeface System
In 2009, ParaType developed and presented PT Sans, the first typeface of the
project. In 2010 an antique font PT Serif was developed in the same proportions.
Figure 2. PT Sans – PT Serif typeface system. Basic font styles.
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PT Sans and PT Serif were designed by Alexandra Korolkova with participation of Olga Umpeleva and
under supervision of Vladimir Yefimov, ParaType Art Director.
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