About • Schrift Foundry

About

Schrift Foundry started from more than a decade of experience in typography and publishing at Schrift Publishers, founded by Eugene Yukechev and Rustam Gabbasov in 2013. Over the years, Schrift Publishers released dozens publications on typography and the art of type. Among their notable book releases are monographs on Solomon Telingater, Vladimir Favorsky, Adrian Frutiger, Villu Toots, and a translation of Eric Gill’s “An Essay on Typography”.
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In 2020, Schrift Foundry was established with the arrival of Dmitry Pilikov, marking a new phase in their work and bringing a more focused, systematic approach to type production. By 2024, the foundry offered a diverse collection of fonts and provided custom type production for a wide range of customers. Their typefaces are designed to balance form and function, whether for book layouts or large-scale media projects.
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Schrift Foundry approaches typography as both an art and a craft. Their designs reflect a curiosity of how people engage with text, resulting in fonts that are not only visually appealing but also practical and reliable across different contexts.

Imprint:
Scrift Publishers, Inc.
8 The Green STE A
Dover, DE 19901, US
EIN 92-3108129
info@schriftfoundry.com

Founders

Eugene Yukechev
Typographer, type designer and publisher. After obtaining a degree in philology (2001) and practicing editorial and graphic design for a decade, Eugene moved to Moscow to study type design. He is a graduate of the Type and Typography program at the British Higher School of Art and Design in Moscow (2010) and of the Expert class Type design at the Plantin Institute of Typography in Antwerp (2020). Since 2013, he has been running the publishing house Schrift Publishers and the Russian online journal Type Journal. Finally, he settled in Berlin where he applied himself to publishing and type design.

Rustam Gabbasov
Writer, publisher and curator. Graduated from Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow (2005–2011) with a Master's in creative writing. In 2011 Rustam came to the Type & Typography course at the British Higher School of Art & Design. Since 2013 he has been working as an independent professional, editor and co-publisher at The Type Journal — online journal devoted to type design, visual culture and typography. Curator of a number of exhibitions dedicated to the Soviet avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s. Among them ‘VkHUTEMAS: School of the Avant-Garde’ (The Moscow Museum, 2021), ‘Boris Titov: compression of life’ (Avangard Center on Shabolovka, 2022), ‘Alphabet and Soviet Ottepel. The Typographic Experiments of Solomon Telingater in the 1950s–1960s’ (Voznesensky Centre, 2023).

Dmitry Pilikov
Дизайнер и арт-директор из Сибири. В 2006 закончил Новосибирский государственный технический университет, кафедру вычислительной техники, но быстро обнаружил интерес к дизайну продуктов, карт. В 2013 учился в Мастерской Димы Барбанеля, где стал интересоваться дизайном шрифта. Выступал частым заказчиком шрифтов многим дизайнерам. Сотрудничает с картографическим сервисом 2ГИС, журналом и издательством «Шрифт» и несколькими стартапами по всему миру.

Team

Ari Kardashev

Based in Sydney, Australia, Dave works part-time for Klim as a Typeface Designer. Dave graduated with a Bachelor of Communication Design from Swinburne University in 2005. He worked as a graphic designer for six years before gaining a Masters in Typeface Design from the Royal Academy of Art at The Hague in 2012. His graduating typeface, Blanco, won gold at The Morisawa Type Design Competition the same

Sveta Vinogradova

Nick Nedashkovsky

Шрифтовой энтузиаст, программист-самоучка и исследователь тайного шрифтового знания. Главный принцип: авторитеты — ничто, интерес — всё. Соавтор материалов на тему самоорганизации письменности как живого явления, нечеловеческой коммуникации пропорций с пропорциями и концепции информационной алхимии. Разрабатывает знаковые составы словолитни, инструменты для работы с шрифтовыми файлами и многочисленные технологические тупики.

Maks Ilyinov

Vladimir Pushkarev

Владимир разрабатывает и поддерживает сайты «Шрифта», следит за нашей визуальной системой, помогает в организации проектов.В свободное время занимается ревайвалом, вдохновляется модернизмом прошлого века и Возрождением. Преподавал детям на курсе «Буквы», чему очень рад. В прошлом работал дизайнером сайтов в студии. Попал в коллектив летом 2020 года.

Natalia Gareeva

Sonja provides sales support to Klim’s corporate customers, as well as general customer support for all font licensing and merchandise inquiries. She is also the main admin support for the Klim team. Before working for Klim, her professional background was in Film and TV production, HR and admin support in roles in Germany, UK and Australia. Sonja is originally from Bamberg, Germany, but now lives in Wellington, close to Klim HQ.

Nauel Benku

Peter manages Klim’s technical strategy. As a full stack software engineer he looks after Klim’s digital presence and provides tools and processes to streamline typeface production, sales and business administration. Originally from Belgium he has worked with Klim since 2017 and officially joined the foundry in 2020.

Alisa Vorobey

Schrift Designers

Eugene Yukechev

Struve
Bering Stencil

Rustam Gabbasov

Retropecan
Zhivago

Dmitry Pilikov

Bering Stencil
Bering Text
Stepler

External Designers

Oleg Turbaba ↗

Iconoteka

Savva Terentyev ↗