Kyiv Type Foundry have digitised six typefaces from historical Kyiv subway station signage.

[matt@oslo.town]

Kyiv Type Foundry have digitised six typefaces from historical Kyiv subway station signage. Their new 'Metro Fonts' are free for Ukrainians to use, donation-based for the rest of the world. Donations will be given to those in need.

Kyiv Metro Fonts @ Kyiv Type Foundry

Kyiv Metro Fonts is a free font package, aiming to preserve the typographic memory of the city of Kyiv and it's metro.

(www.kyivtypefoundry.com)

#Typography #Fonts #Type #Kyiv #KyivTypeFoundry #PublicTransport #Metro #Underground #Ukraine

[forteller@tutoteket.no]

@matt @monokrom ^^

[david_megginson@mstdn.ca]

@matt Is that the Metro stop for the main rail station? (I'm assuming the word means the same in Ukrainian as it does in Russian, weirdly derived from the Vauxhall pleasure garden in 19th-century London).

#language #Ukrainian

[matt@oslo.town]

@OlgaPatlyuk ️

[david_megginson@mstdn.ca]

@DrMcStrange I just dug in a little deeper: it appears that the first Russian rail terminal in St Petersburg in the 1830s had a pleasure garden (a "Vauxhall") attached to it to entice vistors.

People ended up using the word to describe the whole terminal complex rather than just the pleasure garden, then it was downcoded to a generic eponym for other terminals as the rail lines spread through the Tsarist Empire (much as any periodic thermal spring is called a "geyser" in English, after Geysir in Iceland).

@matt

#language #rail #russian #ukrainian