LL Heymland
Lineto · Yevgeniy Anfalov · 2020
A titling typeface by Yevgeniy Anfalov derived from a calligraphic study attributed to Soviet graphic artist Solomon Telingater, itself a geometricised reading of Rudolf Koch's Koch Antiqua.
About
Anfalov traced the letterforms from an unsigned, undated single-page study found in Telingater's estate, stripping what he considered superfluous detail and unifying the shapes before reintroducing optical corrections to avoid a purely mechanical result. The typeface covers full Latin and Cyrillic character sets, with Cyrillic shapes drawn partly from a 1970 Russian manual on type design, making the whole family a chain of interpretation running from 1920s Germany through Soviet-era Moscow to the present. Custom ligatures drawn for its debut in TATE ETC. magazine in summer 2020 have since been added to the release font.
Classification
A titling typeface derived from Roman capitals, drawing on Koch Antiqua's decorative early-1920s character while being systematically geometricised; suited only to display use in its single-weight, all-caps orientation.