The Kingfall typeface is used for headlines, initials, and chapter decorations of the manual book for the tabletop role-playing game from Mendercap. Dwellers Under the High Grave is a 56-page setting for the Ironsworn family of games, and Sundered Isles in particular. It draws inspiration from the early modern history, folklore and landscapes of Ukraine. Writing and layout by Michael Chumak, with illustrations by Roman Dubina. The text typeface is Equity.

Витоки (Vytoky; Ukrainian for “Origins”) is a guide to key Ukrainian traditions from the Zagoriy Foundation about auditing the traditions of the past in order to return them to modern practices and choose what we take into the future. The guide is developed for all Ukrainians who care about their own roots.

In 2024, Vytoky were rebranded by designers Yana Piiavska and Anastasia Reshetylo, with the Quietism Variable font used in guide books, website, social posters, etc. The guide books (both printed and online) are published in seasonal cycles like Winter, Spring-Summer, or Easter.

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Списки (Spysky, “Lists”) is a new book by Myroslav Laiuk, published by Ukraïner publishing house in May 20, 2025. It contains reports and essays about losses during the war, about what is valuable to a person and why. Quietism Poster Regular by Michael Rafailyk is used in the book’s cover and titles.

The book is the result of three years of work: trips, interviews, observations, textual and photographic documentation of what Ukrainians call their greatest losses during the war. It follows up on Myroslav’s previous book, Bakhmut, for which he was awarded the Yuriy Shevelyov Prize in 2024.

These are testimonies of military and civilian personnel and reflections of the author. These are the photos that Myroslav Laiuk took during three years of trips and observations: from the front line to the rear hospitals. These are stories about art in Kharkiv and the moment of the shelling of Derzhprom, about flooded Kherson, about the work of the rehabilitation center near Lviv and the Kyiv military hospital during the capture of Avdiivka. These are also stories about fighters who lost their sight, about a firefighter who came to his own house on call, about children who study at a school opposite the Kinburn Spit and lose their childhood. These are stories about how Ukrainian classics interpret the concept of freedom and land and how this affects modern narratives.

Три королі повертаються додому (“The three kings return home”) is a book by Halyna Pahutyak, published by the Ще одну сторінку (One more page) publishing house and is available for order from their parent company Ranok publishing house. The book is designed by Anna Gavryliuk and illustrated by Natalka Soiko. Kingfall by Michael Rafailyk is used for the cover and titles. The text font is Fiorina by Andriy Konstantynov. Photography by Ola Rafailyk.

If you believe and look closely, you can see a real miracle even among the well-known age-old Christmas rituals. In the established traditions of Christmas holidays, Halyna Pahutyak notices a subtle, incomprehensible magic of a miracle and shares with readers a piece of her Christmas on the village.

Слуга з Добромиля (“The Servant from Dobromil”) is the second book (along with This Is Your Destiny) by Halyna Pahutyak, published by Ще одну сторінку (“One more page”), and is available for order from their parent company, Ranok publishing house.

For the book The Servant from Dobromil, the author Halyna Pahutyak became the laureate of the Shevchenko Prize in 2010. The book is designed and illustrated by Anna Gavryliuk. The Morta typeface by Michael Rafailyk is used on the cover and titles, while the body copy is set in Fiorina Text by Andriy Konstantynov.

The Servant from Dobromil begins to tell his story of seven hundred years. He, a dhampir—the son of an ogre and a witch—was born in these lands, saw their prosperity and decline. Now, he has returned to close the circle of time, where the past and the future are layered like the land on which the Dobromyl Monastery stands.

After several centuries of total russification of Ukraine by the Russian Empire, the reverse process – derussification – is finally taking place. Hundreds of thousands of names of cities, streets, metro stations, and brands are either returning their original Ukrainian names or getting new ones.

On 29 April 2024, the metro station Пушкинская (Pushkinskaya) in the city of Kharkiv was renamed to Ярослава Мудрого (Yaroslava Mudroho, in English: Yaroslav the Wise, Grand Prince of Kiev in the XI century). In July 2024, Kharkiv Metropolitan employees installed eight sets of letters with the new name on the walls of the station.

For the inscription, the Kharkiv Metropolitan used Sealt, a font family developed by Michael Rafailyk in 2021. Sealt is inspired by the oldest saltworks in Eastern Europe, founded in 1250 in Drohobych, Ukraine. Sealt means salt in Old English, so most letters are rough and sharp like salt crystals and seem to be carved out of the rock.

The book Фіолетова тінь (“Purple Shadow”) is a collection of mystical Ukrainian prose, compiled by Anastasia Bidonko.

A fairy tale intertwined with reality, a belief lost in history, magic hidden in a story. Ukrainian classics have created stories that will make you fall in love with the atmosphere of the Ukrainian mystical night. The selection includes texts of short prose by Ukrainian writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Among them are Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko, Natalia Kobrynska, Bohdan Lepky, Svyatoslav Olshenko-Vilkha, Anna Barvinok and others.

The book was designed by Anna Gavryliuk, using illustrations by Masha Foya and Sealt by Michael Rafailyk for the cover, headlines, and page numbers. The text typeface is Fiorina by Andriy Konstantynov. Фіолетова тінь was published by One more page.

Photography by Ola Rafailyk

Grboth is a leather workshop that manufactures genuine leather accessories such as belts, bracelets, chevrons, wallets. The workshop wanted to emphasize the locality of production, so it used the Quietism typeface, designed and developed in the same city. The mirror-image capital letters were cast in aluminum as separate stamps. Then the stamps are fixed in a special form, which is fixed in the press. After warming up, the form presses the inscription on the leather product. Both Latin and Cyrillic alphabets were produced, each letter in several copies, so that's enough to compose a small phrase or the product owner's name.

The book is published by the Ще одну сторінку (One more page) publishing house and is available for order from their parent company Ranok publishing house.

Се твоя доля (“This is your destiny”) is a book by Halyna Pahutyak, a representative of Ukrainian gothic and magical realism and laureate of the Shevchenko Prize. “I just like everything unusual and wonderful. This is also a reality. I want everyone to know that in this gloomy everyday life there are many doors that open to other worlds. I find and show some of them”, Halyna says.​​​​​​

When a good story meets a right typography, a little miracle happens. The designer and illustrator of the book, Anna Gavryliuk, felt this vibe of magical stories and perfectly synthesized it with an illustration and typography.

The Morta typeface used on the cover and titles is all about strange and unknown, and is therefore a good visual key to opening the doors to the magical worlds of Halyna Pahutyak. “While working on concept sketches, I synthesized such theses as historical and cartoon, mystical and attractive. The slant of the italics is flipped the other way to give the feeling of looking from the other side, from behind a mirror,” Michael Rafailyk, says about his Morta concept.

Fiorina Text was used for the body text. It’s a typeface by Andriy Konstantynov, who is also a Ukrainian developer.