About this font family
The typeface was designed at the Polygraphmash type design bureau in 1949-61 (project manager Elena Tsaregorodtseva).
Based on Shkolnaya (‘School’) typeface, 1939 (project manager Evgeny Chernevsky), a version of Century Schoolbook of American Type Founders, 1915-1923 by Morris F.Benton.
The low-contrast text typeface of the Ionic-Legibility group, it is designed expressly for schoolbooks and children books.
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Available formats
available in all of the styles: