Neacademia is a Latin and Cyrillic type family inspired by the types cut by 15th century Italian punchcutter Francesco Griffo for the famous Venetian printer and publisher Aldus Manutius. The family comprises different versions optimised for specific point sizes, as was traditional in metal type. While the display sizes maintain a visual link to calligraphic roots, text sizes exhibit more typographic qualities, following the hand of the carver, not the calligrapher.
Neacademia was designed with specific allowances for letterpress photopolymer printing. Printed digitally, it can tolerate – and even benefit from – low resolution, rough paper, and low-grade presswork. It also adopts a more traditional approach to kerning and caps-spacing – instead of a multitude of kerning pairs, it makes use of alternative letterforms. In many ways, it feels like using metal type again!
Read more about the development of Neacademia here.
Sergei Egorov was born in Moscow. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology in 1985. Today, he lives near Washington DC. In the early 90s Sergei got acquainted with Donald Knuth’s type-setting system TeX and everyday TeX programming has gradually grown into a genuine interest across his work in typography and book design. The scope of his interests extends to Cyrillic, Greek, and Latin palaeography, as well as typographic history. Sergei has been creating his own typefaces since 2003.
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This novel, situated in the 1950s on a small island along the southern coast, tells a life-changing story of three sisters. The author, Mirjam Kristensen, is an exquisite prosaist and storyteller. The book designed by Frode Bo Helland, is set in Neacademia, and published by Forlaget October.
Parenthesis is a journal publication that conveys bookbinding, typography, collecting, publishing and related areas. It is published twice a year, with a Fall and a Spring issue and supplied to members of the Fine Press Book Associations. Each issue is unique in its design and produced alternatively between North America and Europe. This issue was designed and typeset by Andrew Steeves in Neacademia by Sergei Egorov and printed at Gaspereau Press, Kentville, Nova Scotia. Current and past issues can be directly ordered from FPBA website.
This debut book from Dana Mills portrays contemporary rural life with unsentimental clarity. It presents a collection of short stories balancing between overwhelming circumstances, strange beauty and hope. For this beautiful yet simple design Andrew Steeves from Gaspereau Press selected Sergei Egorov’s typeface Neacademia. It was awarded in the 32nd edition of The Alcuin Awards, Canada’s national competition for excellence in book design.
One of the signatures of the first Russian translation of Hypnerotomachia Poliphili by Francesco Colonna (first published by Aldus Manutius in 1499). The translation is by Prof. B. M. Sokolov, and it is a work in progress. The book’s typography is by Sergei Egorov, set in his Neacademia Caption scheduled for release later in 2014.
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