A revision of Latinskaya (Berthold, St.Petersburg, 1901), which is a Cyrillic
version of Lateinisch
(Berthold, Berlin, 1899).
Designed at Polygraphmash [ParaType/MyFonts] a.k.a. the NII OGIZ
type design bureau [ParaType] around 1940. Other sources date
Literaturnaya to 1937 and credit it to “Schchukin,
T. Breyev and G. Bannikova”.
[Devroye]
Literaturnaya became the favorite text typeface of
Soviet typography.
A digital version was developed at ParaGraph in 1996 by
Lyubov Kuznetsova, spanning two weights in roman
and italic (used for sample). [ParaType] See also Quant
Antiqua. In 2017, Marath Salychow made another digitization named
Literaturnaya Book (roman only). Roman Gornitsky’s interpretation is called
Literatura (More…
A revision of Latinskaya (Berthold, St.Petersburg, 1901), which is a Cyrillic version of Lateinisch (Berthold, Berlin, 1899). Designed at Polygraphmash [ParaType/MyFonts] a.k.a. the NII OGIZ type design bureau [ParaType] around 1940. Other sources date Literaturnaya to 1937 and credit it to “Schchukin, T. Breyev and G. Bannikova”. [Devroye] Literaturnaya became the favorite text typeface of Soviet typography.
A digital version was developed at ParaGraph in 1996 by Lyubov Kuznetsova, spanning two weights in roman and italic (used for sample). [ParaType] See also Quant Antiqua. In 2017, Marath Salychow made another digitization named Literaturnaya Book (roman only). Roman Gornitsky’s interpretation is called Literatura (The Temporary State, 2026).
