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Sasha Kulikov is an artist and graphic designer working in print and digital formats, collaborating with artists, researchers, collectives, institutions on visual identities, typefaces, publications, exhibitions, and websites. For trials or inquiries, please send an email.

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Pagava Sans

Pagava Sans is a typeface designed for the exhibition Silent Cities by Georgian-born French artist Vera Pagava (1907–1988) and the publication Point par Point, extending the exhibition's narratives. It reflects the essence of Pagava's pointillist series Untitled, Venice, which was revealed to the public for the first time at the exhibition. Echoing Pagava’s insight, “I can draw lines, but that does not express what I have to say. A line is insufficiently plastic. I type point by point,” Pagava Sans integrates the artist’s mark-making approach into the realm of type design.

Year: 2023
Styles: Thin, Light, Book, Regular
Formats: TTF, OTF, WOFF, WOFF2
Credits: Sasha Kulikov, Timur Akhmetov

Languages: Georgian (Mkhedruli), English
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Clerk Cyrillic

Clerk is a one-weight display-typeface in which each letter features more gaps than functionally necessary (a hyper stencil?). Instead, these gaps become ornamental and contribute to define the typeface’s texture. Clerk is based on a piece of lettering, likely drawn by the Dutch architect Samuel de Clerq (1876–1962) in the 1920s for facade on the savings bank of The Hague—a building which he designed.

Year: 2023
Style: Regular
Formats: OTF, WOFF, WOFF2
Credits: Kasper Rasmussen Pyndt, Sasha Kulikov
Publisher: Approximate Type

Languages:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chechen, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Kinyarwanda, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Maori, Montenegrin, Norwegian, Ossetic, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sami (Inari), Sami (Northern), Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Serbian (Cyrillic), Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sorbian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek (Cyrillic), Vietnamese, Welsh and more.
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Roundsquare

Roundsquare is a digital interpretation of the 1970s modernist display typeface created by the Samoan-born New Zealand graphic designer Joseph Churchward.

Year: 2022
Formats: OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2
Style: Regular
Credits: Sasha Kulikov

Languages:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chechen, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Kinyarwanda, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Maori, Montenegrin, Norwegian, Ossetic, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sami (Inari), Sami (Northern), Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Serbian (Cyrillic), Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sorbian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek (Cyrillic), Vietnamese, Welsh and more.
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Literary

Literary is based on a typeface from a German specimen by the Berthold Type Foundry, Lateinisch. It is related to the Dutch tradition of typeface design and belongs to the Elsevier genre. In the early 20th century, Berthold released a Cyrillic version of Lateinisch. After the Bolshevik Revolution, many typefaces were melted down, but a few survived, including Lateinisch. It was chosen for standardization and became the USSR's equivalent of Times New Roman, with a vast number of books being set in this typeface. Due to its widespread use in Soviet publications, it became visually iconic, inseparably linked to the identity of the texts and the era it represents.

Year: 2022–2023
Formats: OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2
Style: Light, Regular, Bold
Credits: Sasha Kulikov

Languages:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chechen, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Kinyarwanda, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Maori, Montenegrin, Norwegian, Ossetic, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sami (Inari), Sami (Northern), Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Serbian (Cyrillic), Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sorbian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek (Cyrillic), Vietnamese, Welsh and more.
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Pinus

Pinus is a display typeface created as part of an expedition to a nature reserve. During the trip, pieces of fallen bark from Pinus nigra palassiana, a pine tree native to eastern Turkey, northern Iran, and the Caucasus, were collected and examined for shapes resembling letters, numbers and symbols. The selected pieces were then photographed, vectorized, and compiled into a font file.

Year: 2021
Formats: OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2
Style: Regular
Credits: Sasha Kulikov

Languages:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chechen, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Kinyarwanda, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Maori, Montenegrin, Norwegian, Ossetic, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sami (Inari), Sami (Northern), Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Serbian (Cyrillic), Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sorbian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek (Cyrillic), Vietnamese, Welsh.
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Hershey

Hershey is a typeface originating from the early digital era, inspired by the work of Dr. Allen Vincent Hershey. In the late 1960s, Dr. Hershey developed various vector-based typefaces for military aircraft displays in the US.

Year: 2022
Formats: OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2
Style: Regular
Credits: Sasha Kulikov

Languages:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Belarusian, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chechen, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Friulian, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Hawaiian, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Kinyarwanda, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Maltese, Maori, Montenegrin, Norwegian, Ossetic, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sami (Inari), Sami (Northern), Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Serbian (Cyrillic), Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sorbian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek (Cyrillic), Vietnamese, Welsh.
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Magnitola

Magnitola is a monospaced display typeface inspired by the structure of a sixteen-segment display (SISD). Its modular monospaced design makes it suitable for use in motion design, allowing for easy assembly and reassembly of its elements.

Year: 2023
Formats: OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2
Style: Regular
Credits: Sasha Kulikov