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: info@contrastfoundry.com.

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Contrast Foundry Inc.
803 Kirkaldy Ct,
Sunnyvale, CA, USA, 94087

Clients

The typefaces we designed are used by Coca-Cola, Nike, Yandex, Tretyakov Gallery, Strelka Institute, Théâtre de Belleville, The Art Newspaper, Fader Magazine, The Khudozhestvenny Cinema, LaModa and others.

Our client list includes BBDO, Comme des Garçons, Google, Pentagram, Redmadrobot, Strelka Institute.

Awards

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

2024
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

T1 (Umprum)

2020
Zeh Media How a Type Designer Works
Future Fonts Interview
O-1 Magazine

2019
Typographica Favorite typefaces of 2018
Type.today Interview with Maria Doreuli
Fontstand Interview

2018
Hacer y Componer
Bi-Scriptual
TypoTalks Interview with Maria Doreuli

2016
Dutch Alphabets

2014
Typejournal Interview with Maria Doreuli

Speaking & workshops

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
Shkola
/ Saint-Petersburg, Russia

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

Maria Doreuli ↑

Founder, type designer, and creative director—channeling passion and sourdough expertise to bring innovative typefaces to life.

 

Egor Golovyrin ↗

Type designer and lettering artist—our hands of gold. Meticulous designer and wild MTB rider.

Nikita Sapozhkov

Nikita Sapozhkov ↑

Type and graphic designer—changed four countries in a year and finds stability in creating strong typefaces and wordmarks.

 

Liza Rasskazova ↗

CEO, type and graphic designer—captivated by urban inspiration and dedicated to raising the cutest border collie.

Anna Khorash

Anna Khorash ↑

Type designer and Hebrew expert—finding inspiration in drawing italics and building strength in rock climbing.

 

Anastasia Balashova ↗

Manager and educational program coordinator—refused to draw fonts so she could nurture growth and knowledge in the realm of typography.

Tasya Petelina

Kate Barannikova ↑

Writer and Copywriter at CoFo. The creative mind behind all CoFo texts, crafting narratives that connect and inspire

 

Tasya Petelina ↗

Type designer and engineer by day, cook the rest of the time—making sure our fonts are both delicious and healthy.

Collaborators

Collaborators

Elena Novoselova, Krista Radoeva, Susanna Agababyan, Manau Quellec

 

 

 

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