Typeface Design for Prisma Latin & Cyrillic

Twenty years, eight designers, one revival

LL Prisma revives and expands Rudolf Koch's decorative caps-only typeface Prisma (1930), first released by Lineto in 2017. Eight designers contributed across two decades, culminating in a 2023 super-family that consolidates 23 Latin styles from Prismaset A and B with 23 newly matched Cyrillic styles by Viktoriya Grabowska. The 2023 release also introduced new kerning and formal corrections for greater consistency across the family.

Set in LL Prisma

Insights

The design system is built on modular principles of repetition, difference, connection, subtraction, and overlay derived from Koch's original five-line structure.
Styles were grouped into pairs for the 2023 release, so each purchased style delivers two Latin cuts and two Cyrillic cuts.
Font engineering and mastering was handled by Alphabet, Berlin, separate from the type design contributors.
Development spanned from James Goggin's initial exploration in 2003 through Prismaset A (2017) and Prismaset B (2019) before unification in 2023.