To help Ukraine rebuild its economy and create new businesses, we’ve made Unity Sans. This font was designed specifically for the We Build Ukraine project, as yet another brick in rebuilding the country.
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Unity Sans is rich in options. Each letter has several alternate styles to create combinations however you like. The font has three styles: “Basic” for text-heavy typesetting, and “Display/Display Max” for expressive typography. Unity Sans has 40 available sets and 293 alternative letters that you can play with, depending on the task and level of expression. We tried to count all the possible alternate letter combinations — and we failed. There are just too many of them, in a good way.
40 available sets and 293 alternative letters
Unity Sans proportions
Berthold Grotesk specimen page
As a historical reference, we used Berthold Grotesk, a forgotten German sans serif. One could say it’s a distant relative of the well-known Futura, re-discovered and Cyrillized. Due to its long ascenders, this font has a warm and lively character — unlike most other geometric grotesques. The font has been reconstructed and then streamlined for modern use. The idea of variability and diversity of alternative forms was inspired by the Ukrainian font designer and artist Oleh Snarskyi’s (1923 – 2015) lettering albums from the 70-es.
From O. Snarsky book “Fonts and Alphabets for Advertising”
Berthold Grotesk and Oleh Snarskyi’s heritage
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Unity Sans was voluntarily developed by Kyiv Type Foundry and their colleagues from around the globe (except fог terrorist country), in close cooperation with the Banda agency and Ukrainian-made site builder Control.
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