Ruslan Display

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Weights and styles

• Regular 400Ruslan Display Regular

About Ruslan Display

Ruslan Display is a display typeface of broad, heavy capitals cut with wedge-shaped strokes. Its source, according to the official notes, is a typeface made in the 1970s by Oleg Snarsky, a designer from Ukraine, and it recalls the ustav and semi-ustav book hands of the eleventh to sixteenth centuries; the lettering appears on the signs of the Teremky metro station in Kyiv and in a 1979 book of Snarsky's alphabets. In 2011 the Russian designer Denis Masharov digitised it together with Vladimir Rabdu and drew a Latin to accompany the Cyrillic. The specimen shows letters that are wider than they are tall, with sharp thick-to-thin transitions, an A whose left leg sweeps in as a curve, and a Y that drops a long tail below the line. Lowercase keys give the same capital shapes. The single Regular style has 454 glyphs.

Where Ruslan Display works

Posters with a Slavic historical theme

The forms recall ustav manuscript writing, which suits folk festivals, exhibitions and history events.

Cyrillic signage and titles

The design originated in Cyrillic lettering used on metro station signs, and Russian, Ukrainian and Bulgarian letters are included.

Book covers and game titles

Wide wedge-cut capitals fill a cover line and give fairy-tale or epic subjects a period flavour.

Short wordmarks

A name of a few letters gains a strong silhouette from the sweeping A and long-tailed Y.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, latin, latin-ext. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Ruslan Display

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Ruslan Display on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Ruslan Display";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/RuslanDisplay-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Ruslan Display", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Ruslan Display with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Ruslan+Display&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Capital forms only

The lowercase row in the specimen repeats the capitals, so mixed-case setting is not available.

One style

Ruslan Display has Regular 400 only.

Latin was added later

The Cyrillic follows Snarsky's 1970s design; the Latin is an original addition from the 2011 digitisation.

FAQs

Collections with Ruslan Display

• Fonts that support Cyrillic

  Open-license families with Cyrillic glyphs beside Latin: text sans and serifs, a monospace, scripts and display faces.

Similar fonts

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