Industry: Design

Pahin

A typeface named after a plant shoot, built to grow across 36 styles

Pahin is an expressive flared serif designed by Maksym Kobuzan, released in 2024 under Blaze Type. Its forms draw from botanical motifs—stems, flowers, and thorns—set against soft, flowing lines rooted in calligraphic tradition. The family spans 36 styles across 6 weights, 3 optical sizes (Text, Headline, Display), and true italics, with a variable file covering all three axes including a roman-to-italic axis. The name derives from the Ukrainian word «Пагін», meaning "plant shoot," and the family supports Extended Latin and Ukrainian Cyrillic.

Set in Pahin

Insights

The variable file enables smooth interpolation between roman and italic within a single file, alongside weight and optical size axes.
Three optical sizes (Text, Headline, Display) are offered across the family.
An alternative glyph set features looping forms described as resembling grapevines, extending the botanical concept into a distinct expressive register.