KTF Metro Fonts

Echoing WWII events, in 2022 Kyiv Metro became the bomb shelter for thousands of its inhabitants. This sad fact is another big milestone in its rich history, which continues to be written. Built six decades ago, it carries 1.32 mln. passengers a day (2016) and is one of the most beautiful manmade creations in Ukraine. As part of station architecture, the letters of the Kyiv metro tell us a lot about its history. It’s a book. You can read it in many directions. Exiting on each station, you'll notice different letterings. “Look at them, analyze and make fonts on their basis”, we told to our students in our summer 2023 workshop called “Kyiv Metro Fonts”. So they did it within a week, and we took and carefully finished 5 most representative of them. The result is a family release called KTF Metro, aiming to preserve the typographic memory of the city. Additionally, Yevgen Anfalov interviewed Oleg Totsky, a metro historian. His answers open up a context in which Kyiv Metro letters emerged and supplement the showcased typefaces respectively. KTF Metro is free for Ukrainians. For the rest of the world: as Ukraine is still in the state of emergency, we'd like to ask you for a donation. Use our PayPal, and we’ll distribute the money among those in a need and report in 2024. [kyivtypefoundry.com]