Typeface Design for Stravinsky

Didot contrast meets Grotesque form

Stravinsky is a display typeface by Ilya Naumoff that fuses 18th-century Didot-style vertical contrast and squarish counters with contemporary sans-serif Grotesk structure. The design is deliberately experimental, described as relying on a hidden underlying order. Its character shifts depending on pairing, reading as either classical or strikingly contemporary.

Set in Stravinsky

Insights

The design combines high vertical contrast and squarish counters from the 18th-century Didot tradition with the structural vocabulary of contemporary sans-serif Grotesk — an atypical fusion for a display face.
The typeface is positioned for display use: highlighting, teasers, and direct statements rather than extended text.
Its contextual flexibility — shifting between traditional and experimental depending on pairing — is a stated design intention, not incidental.