Now finalised as a font, Syrillic began in 2001 as part of a university project in typography design and branding.
Initially it was only the letters used in the SRULI RECHT logo.
it
was first created by bumping up a white stroke on a white page so that
very little of the font body remained, then condensing the kerning to
lose sections of the letters. Leaning toward the love of soviet and
constructivist design the letters hint at Cyrillic, an alphabet often
credited to being created by Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius in the 9th
Century.
Primarily the initial idea was to reduce as much of the
letter as possible and allow the eye to fill in the gaps and missing
lines based on familiarity and suggestion.
Post university the letters in the logo were developed into those used now with Nimrod Weis
of Eness design.
Taking
what was originally a raw attack at chopping and inverting letters, we
reformed a more refined logo typeface, still very similar to the
original, but playing more on the repetition of letter shapes - where
the T and L are the same shape, so is the E and F.
More
recently, in talking with Jarred Ebehardt
of WeAreNotYou, it was opined
there was room to develop it into a full typeface for titling products.
Over a three to four month period a typeface was extrapolated from the
ideas of the logo through email conversation of written words and
attachments containing the font as ideas were sent back and forth.
Jarred proposed a set of letters based on the ideas behind the logo.
I chopped them up, put them back together, and returned them.
He did the same.
I did the same.
We
repeated this process till just a few days past when we both felt it
was as balanced as we could get it with two minds on one thing.
