BigCity Grotesque was originally designed by Ilya Ruderman for Bol'shoi Gorod (Big City) magazine, rooted in old-style serif structures characteristic of humanist sans serifs. Olga Pankova later expanded the typeface, refining letterforms and adding small capitals, new styles, ligatures, and non-alphabetic symbols. The Pro version covers display to demanding text settings and includes old-style figures, numerator and denominator sets, localized glyph forms, and over 1,000 Cyrillic and Latin ligatures.