Gt-eesti.com Website Review

Please wait a moment. Подождите, пожалуйста. This is the story of the typeface GT Eesti, from its origins in Soviet Russia in 1940 to its rebirth in Switzerland 2016. (Журнальная рубленая), designed 1947 by Anatoly Schukin. ЭССР Эстонская Советская Социалис­тическая Республика From 1944–1991, Estonia was a Republic of the Soviet Union. At the time Estonian graphic designers had just a handful of typefaces to In 2009 Swiss graphic designer Urs Lehni brought a couple of Estonian children’s books to the attention of his students, Reto Moser & Tobias Rechsteiner. They were immediately hooked by the books and especially its typeface. And so they started digitizing Eesti based on While shaping the typeface’s character, more books featuring Eesti in both Latin and Cyrillic were discovered. This was the impulse to get to the bottom of its origins, so Moser, together with the two Grilli Type founders, undertook a trip to the home of its original In February 2015, Team Grilli met Professor Ivar Sakk, head of the graphic design department of the Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn. the aim to end up with an original, contemporary typeface that still carries the spirit of its prototype. This is the resulting typeface, GT Eesti, and those are the wonderful people who helped us make it a reality: