Typeface design studio Contrast Foundry. We design fonts for passionate graphic designers working on projects that they love.
Contacts
Feel free to contact us for licensing, pricing or possible collaboration: [email protected].
Follow us on Instagram to see fonts in use and what we are currently up to.
Contrast Foundry Inc.
1890 Bryant St, Unit #413
San Francisco, CA, 94110
Clients
The typefaces we designed are used by ABBYY, Coca-Cola, Fader Magazine, The Breakfast, Manychat, Nike, Selfridges, SFFILM and others.
Our client list includes Ania at Lucie, BBDO, Brilliant, Collins, Comme des Garçons, Google, Muse, Pentagram, Strelka Institute, TikTok, Turner Duckworth.
Awards
2026
Type Directors Club / CoFo Raffine
Type Directors Club / CoFo Sans Arabic
ADC / Silver & Bronze / Hamburgerfonts
ADC / Bronze / CoFo Raffine
ADC / Merrit / CoFo Sans Arabic
Tokyo TDC / CoFo Raffine
2025
Communication Arts/ Hamburgerfonts
Communication Arts / CoFo Raffine
Communication Arts / CoFo Sans Arabic
Red Dot X 2 / Hamburgerfonts
D&AD Shortlist / Hamburgerfonts
2023
Communication Arts / CoFo Kabeltouw
2021
Communication Arts / Apt Buildings
2020
Red Dot Award / May: A Typeface to Remember
Communication Arts / Contrast Foundry Farm Specimen
2019
Modern Cyrillic / William
2018
Communication Arts / Oktyabr Logo
2016
Printmag / Best in Class
2015
Granshan/ Special Mention / Sputnik Display
Granshan / Special Mention / Weber Slab
2014
Morisawa / Silver Prize / Chimera
Type Directors Club / Chimera
2013
New Cyrillic Award / William
2011
Granshan / First Prize / William
Letter.2 Award / William
Publications
2025
The Brand Identity
Print Magazine
2024
The Brand Identity
Lowers Magazine Interview with Liza Rasskazova
Communication Arts Magazine
2023
Art & Design Magazine of China
Graphic Languages—A Visual Guide to the World’s Writing Systems
2022
Readymag Reciprocity: what actually shapes the spirit of a typeface
Cyrillize it! A guide on Cyrillic typography for graphic designers
New Aesthetic 3
2021
AIGA Eye on Design
2020
Future Fonts Interview
O-1 Magazine
2019
Typographica Favorite typefaces of 2018
Type.today Interview with Maria Doreuli
Fontstand Interview
2018
Bi-Scriptual
TypoTalks Interview with Maria Doreuli
2016
Dutch Alphabets
2014
Typejournal Interview with Maria Doreuli
Speaking & workshops
2024
ECAL / Lausanne, Switzerland
2023
KABK / The Hague, NL
Croatian Designers Association / Zagreb, Croatia
2022
Letrástica / Guadalajara Mexico
Practica Program
NERD / Saint Petersburg, Russia
2021
Type@Cooper / New York, USA
Typographics / New York, USA
California College of Arts / San Francisco, USA
Sulliwan Studio / Moscow, Russia
2020
Portland State University / Portland, USA
2019
Avito Tech / Moscow, Russia
KABK / The Hague, NL
Fontstand / Porto, Portugal
Edu Berkley / San Francisco, USA
Letterform Archive / San Francisco, USA
2018
Projector / Kyiv, Ukraine
All Eyes on Type / Rotterdam, NL
2017
Typomania School / Moscow, Russia
Typeworks / Bern, Switzerland
Typostammtisch / Zürich, Switzerland
ECAL / Lausanne, Switzerland
2016
Typofest / Sofia, Bulgaria
Lettering workshop / Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2014
Typofest / Sofia, Bulgaria
2013
Serebro Nabora / Moscow, Russia
ATypI / Amsterdam, NL
Exhibitions
2023
Advertising Type / New York, USA
THE F*WORD Guerrilla Girls and Feminist Graphic Design / Hamburg, Germany
2018
Typomania Festival / Moscow, Russia
2016
AtypI, Granshan winners / Warsaw, Poland
2015
Biennial Tipos Latinos / Santiago, Chile
The Three Schools / Moscow, Russia
33 / Moscow, Russia
2014
Type Directors Clu / New York, US
Layers / Moscow, Russia
Golden Bee / Moscow, Russia
12 Typefaces from all over the world / Sofia, Bulgaria
2013
Type Masters / Moscow, Russia
Type Masters / Brisbane, Australia
Mastering Type / Berlin, Germany
New Cyrillic Competition / Moscow, Russia
2012
AtypI, Letter.2 Winners / Hong Kong, China
2011
Granshan winners / Munich, Germany
Granshan winners / Erevan, Armenia
2010
Project Fabrika / Moscow, Russia
2009
AtypI, Свято Кирилицi / Dublin, Ireland
Свято Кирилицi / Kharkiv, Ukraine
Maria Doreuli
Founder, type designer, and creative director based in San Francisco—raising typefaces and sourdough with equal care.
Liza Rasskazova
Creative director, type and graphic designer—captivated by urban inspiration and dedicated to raising the cutest border collie.
Anastasia Balashova
Our CEO, manager, and educational program coordinator—gave up drawing fonts to help others learn about them.
Egor Golovyrin
Type designer and lettering artist—our hands of gold. Meticulous designer and wild MTB rider.
Maria Kosheleva
Graphic and type designer—brings a distinctive Chuvash touch to the CoFo collection. Has a feel for letters and knitting, and moonlights as the team’s fortune teller.
Anna Khorash
Type designer and Hebrew expert—finding inspiration in drawing italics and building strength in rock climbing.
Polina Baydin
Our designer and brand manager. Calls Montreal home and explores the world through pop music, from Taylor Swift to Fountains D.C. She keeps up with the latest releases and pulls off a mean pull-up. Rightly proud of that last one.
Tasya Petelina
Type designer and engineer by day, passionate traveler by night—making sure our fonts and coffee are both tasty and well balanced.
Roman Avdiushkin
Type engineer and trained chef—uses his kitchen secrets to cook up delicious fonts. Fuelled by fine kebabs and music from around the world.
Kat Barannikova
Editor-in-chief and copywriter—brewing strong tea and even stronger stories.
Collaborators
Ayarpi Akopyan
Anatolii Grashchenko
Daniel Grumer
Elena Novoselova
Gor Jihanian
Irena Vlachou
Khajag Apelian
Kimya Gandhi
Krista Radoeva
Lana Soufeh
Manau Quellec
Noe Blanco
Oleksandr Parkhomovskyy
Susanna Agababyan
Varvara Mikhaylova
Wael Morcos
Yanek Iontef