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These standard Microsoft Cyrillic fonts are available on all modern versions of Windows, even when it's a non-Russian Windows (for non-Russian Windows 3.1/3.11 it's not the case and a user must download those free non-Microsoft fonts offered in the next section). Russian Screen & Printer Fonts. Most of the Web pages on this site use custom Cyrillic fonts with accented vowels (for marking primary and secondary word stress) that are not included in the standard fonts.
AdvertisementStraight from mother Russia and from patient and ambitious designers comes this collection of 61 free Russian fonts, some Cyrillic fonts, but other just having the Russian influence on the characters.
I initially wanted to make the article only with Cyrillic fonts to help the Russian designers with their typography for posters, flyers, brochures or other print design projects.
However, I found very little of them and more regular fonts, but with the soviet influence stamped on their characters.
The fonts are available for free download but you should check their licenses in case you want to use them for commercial projects.
Free Russian fonts (an overview)
- kolikö
- FAKEDES
- Kanyon
- Bemount
- Highliner
- Pelmeshka
- Tsarevich
- Shadow
- Beryozki
- Idealist Sans
- PH Free
- Uni Sans Free
- Panton
- Nord
- Sports World (Typeface)
- Ralev001
- Arsenal
- POIRET
- Ruslan
- Kankin
- Yeseva
- Sansus Webissimo
- and several more
Now let’s look at them in detail.
kolikö
Kolikö by Fontfirma is a new free type family with Latin and Cyrillic letters.
Font family consists of 3 unique font styles — regular, thin and bold. It is a geometric forms sans serif with plain curves and a clean, functional structure.
So it’s most suitable for headlines of all sizes, but it does work well in a variety of text lengths.
FAKEDES
Kanyon
Bemount
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While searching for cool fonts, check out this font combinations video from The Web Designer YouTube channel.
In this video I’ll give you quick tips for combining fonts and then give you popular combinations that you can use in your own designs.
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Highliner
Highliner is a condensed grotesque with low contrast in 3 weights: light, regular and bold. It contains a standard set of characters and cyrillic. It is a great font for headlines or infographics.
Pelmeshka
![Font Font](http://learnrussian.rt.com/s/content/cyr_system/vista/10.jpg)
Positive and funny font. Perfect for use in titles and children’s books. Retains its connection to the original Bodoni typeface, and we all love this beautiful and modern serif font.
Peleshka looks good in modern layouts. It’s suitable for books, lettering, signs, logos, magazines.
Not suitable for a funeral. Although, it depends on how you mark up.
Tsarevich
Shadow
Beryozki
Idealist Sans
PH Free
Uni Sans Free
Panton
Nord
Sports World (Typeface)
Ralev001
This is actually a Bulgarian font, but it’s still pretty cool.
Arsenal
POIRET
Ruslan
Kankin
Yeseva
Sansus Webissimo
Zopa
Myra Caps
Days
Yanone Kaffeesatz
Yanone Kaffesatz is a condensed humanist sans-serif of four weights designed by Jan Gerner for his own type foundry Yanone.
Casper
Cyberia
Rusnish Helvetica
Papyrus Plain Cyrillic
Papyrus font with Cyrillic support. It is drawn specifically for forced subtitles in the movie Avatar, so the system font will be seen exactly as the Avatar.
Gulag decay
Kremlin
Hetarosia
Russian
Kremlin Bolshevik
Rushin
Have you ever seen some Russian writing and tried to pronounce it like it looks, even though you know probably none of those letters are pronounced like the Latin alphabet letter they look like?
That is what this font is based on. I took all the Cyrillic letters and matched them up with the Latin alphabet letters they look like.
The author threw out all the Cyrillic letters that didn’t look like anything and filled in the remaining characters with the regular Latin alphabet.
The result is that you can type out a phrase and it will look like Cyrillic lettering while being perfectly readable English.
VKB Konqa
Kremlin Minister
Chyelovek
This is a font based on the block-print style typeface commonly found on eastern-bloc propaganda posters throughout the 1930’s and 40’s. It has been adapted for the Roman alphabet (the original was predominantly Cyrillic).
Soviet
Kremlin Grand Duke
Kremlin Georgian 3D
Raskalnikov
Based on lettering from a 1925 Soviet poster by one very strange (and unidentified) comrade, this Russian font is named after the main character is Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment and was, not coincidentally, Boris Badenov’s favorite swear word.
Back in the USSR
Koruptor and the bitches
Kremlin Kiev
Kremlin Alexander
Gagarin
Csar
Kremlin Kommisar
Red October
Kremlin Empire
Kremlin Kourier II
Kyrilla
Eurocentric
Russian quality
Ural
Red October Stencil
Kremlin Orthodox Church
Nyet
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CloseStraight from mother Russia and from patient and ambitious designers comes this collection of 61 free Russian fonts, some Cyrillic fonts, but other just having the Russian influence on the characters.
I initially wanted to make the article only with Cyrillic fonts to help the Russian designers with their typography for posters, flyers, brochures or other print design projects.
However, I found very little of them and more regular fonts, but with the soviet influence stamped on their characters.
The fonts are available for free download but you should check their licenses in case you want to use them for commercial projects.
Free Russian fonts (an overview)
- kolikö
- FAKEDES
- Kanyon
- Bemount
- Highliner
- Pelmeshka
- Tsarevich
- Shadow
- Beryozki
- Idealist Sans
- PH Free
- Uni Sans Free
- Panton
- Nord
- Sports World (Typeface)
- Ralev001
- Arsenal
- POIRET
- Ruslan
- Kankin
- Yeseva
- Sansus Webissimo
- and several more
Now let’s look at them in detail.
kolikö
Kolikö by Fontfirma is a new free type family with Latin and Cyrillic letters.
Font family consists of 3 unique font styles — regular, thin and bold. It is a geometric forms sans serif with plain curves and a clean, functional structure.
So it’s most suitable for headlines of all sizes, but it does work well in a variety of text lengths.
FAKEDES
Kanyon
Bemount
--
While searching for cool fonts, check out this font combinations video from The Web Designer YouTube channel.
In this video I’ll give you quick tips for combining fonts and then give you popular combinations that you can use in your own designs.
--
Highliner
Highliner is a condensed grotesque with low contrast in 3 weights: light, regular and bold. It contains a standard set of characters and cyrillic. It is a great font for headlines or infographics.
Pelmeshka
AdvertisementPositive and funny font. Perfect for use in titles and children’s books. Retains its connection to the original Bodoni typeface, and we all love this beautiful and modern serif font.
Peleshka looks good in modern layouts. It’s suitable for books, lettering, signs, logos, magazines.
Not suitable for a funeral. Although, it depends on how you mark up.
Tsarevich
Shadow
Beryozki
Idealist Sans
PH Free
Uni Sans Free
Panton
Nord
Sports World (Typeface)
Ralev001
This is actually a Bulgarian font, but it’s still pretty cool.
Arsenal
POIRET
Ruslan
Kankin
Yeseva
Sansus Webissimo
Zopa
Myra Caps
Days
Yanone Kaffeesatz
Yanone Kaffesatz is a condensed humanist sans-serif of four weights designed by Jan Gerner for his own type foundry Yanone.
Casper
Cyberia
Rusnish Helvetica
Papyrus Plain Cyrillic
Papyrus font with Cyrillic support. It is drawn specifically for forced subtitles in the movie Avatar, so the system font will be seen exactly as the Avatar.
Gulag decay
Kremlin
Hetarosia
Russian
Kremlin Bolshevik
Rushin
Have you ever seen some Russian writing and tried to pronounce it like it looks, even though you know probably none of those letters are pronounced like the Latin alphabet letter they look like?
That is what this font is based on. I took all the Cyrillic letters and matched them up with the Latin alphabet letters they look like.
The author threw out all the Cyrillic letters that didn’t look like anything and filled in the remaining characters with the regular Latin alphabet.
The result is that you can type out a phrase and it will look like Cyrillic lettering while being perfectly readable English.
VKB Konqa
Kremlin Minister
Chyelovek
This is a font based on the block-print style typeface commonly found on eastern-bloc propaganda posters throughout the 1930’s and 40’s. It has been adapted for the Roman alphabet (the original was predominantly Cyrillic).
Soviet
Kremlin Grand Duke
Kremlin Georgian 3D
Raskalnikov
Based on lettering from a 1925 Soviet poster by one very strange (and unidentified) comrade, this Russian font is named after the main character is Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment and was, not coincidentally, Boris Badenov’s favorite swear word.