CSTM Fonts

Design work for CSTM Fonts, collected from the studios behind it.

Design cases by studio

A preview of 6 cases across 1 studio. The full collection is included with Pro.

Display Typeface for Bolshoy Gorod Headlines
Pilar is a geometric sans serif designed for large display use, rooted in European Art Déco typography. The first version was drawn by Yury Ostromentsky for the headlines of Bol'shoy Gorod (Big City) magazine in 2012. The family now includes four stylistic sets—Regular Open, Wide Closed, Narrow, and Wild—each offering a distinct variant of every alphanumeric glyph within a single coherent graphic system.
Letterform, Numeral, Cyrillic Script, Ligature

Text Typeface for CSTM Fonts
Kazimir Text is a text-oriented version of the display typeface Kazimir, featuring slightly wider proportions and reduced stroke contrast. Its character set is substantially expanded relative to the display version, covering more languages. The Irregular stylistic alternates set was revised to be more suitable for continuous text use.
Cyrillic Alphabet, Latin Alphabet, Variable Font

Typeface Design for CSTM Xprmntl 02
CSTM Xprmntl 02 is part of CSTM Fonts' 'quick fonts' series, uniting three stylistically incompatible styles—a closed sans serif with curling stroke endings, a contrast serif with straightened diagonal strokes, and a rough sans serif with inverted stroke contrast—within a single family. The project treats cross-classification compatibility as its central design question. It also marks the first Georgian-script support for CSTM Fonts, developed with input from Tbilisi-based designer Alexander Sukiasov.
Georgian Script, Swash Lettering, Ligature

Emoji Character Font for CSTM Fonts
CSTM Emoji is a character font comprising emoticons illustrated by artist Alexey Ostromentsky. The collection covers emotions through facial expressions, gestures, and objects. Glyphs occupy standard Unicode emoji slots and are duplicated in the Latin alphabet and numeral cells. The high detail of the drawings means the font is recommended for large display sizes only.
Human Face, Heart, Christmas Tree, Emoji

Typeface Series for CSTM Fonts
Backslanted is an ongoing type series by CSTM Fonts comprising backslanted typefaces across varied styles, weights, and angles. The series uses a ruler and driver as defining drawing tools, keeping optical compensation to a minimum. Launched in 2022, it currently includes two sans serifs (Regular and Super), a Script, and a Blackletter, all supporting Extended Latin, Extended Georgian, and Cyrillic.
Cyrillic Script, Georgian Script, Ruler-drawn Letterforms

Typeface Design for Old Church Slavonic Scholarship
Zhivov inverts the logic of Peter the Great's 18th-century Cyrillic reform: where that reform pushed Cyrillic letterforms toward Latin shapes, Zhivov applies Old Church Slavonic construction principles to the Latin script. Designed by CSTM Fonts, it strips glyphs of contrast, decoration, and period-specific stylistic markers, making it equally appropriate for books on the Ostromir Gospels and content addressing birchbark manuscripts. It provides comprehensive Unicode Old Church Slavonic coverage, including alternative glyph forms, superscript symbols, ligatures, OCS numerals, and manuscript characters absent from the standard Cyrillic Unicode block. The typeface is offered free of charge to scholars working with Old Church Slavonic language and literature.
Cyrillic Script, Latin Alphabet, Manuscript, Old Church Slavonic, Variable Font