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I am looking for fonts that have a Russian Constructivist look and feel to them. Something that would perhaps have cyrillic alphabet characters, but it would also need to be well adapted to english. I am creating a CD packaging project of Russian composers. Here are some sketches of what I am sort of thinking about but am at a lack to find a good font to use.
Picture of Type usage idea #1
Type idea #2
Thanks for your help.

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A couple of recent designs with both Cyrillic and Latin characters, shown in the Language Culture Type book from ATypI/Graphis:

Rouble by Andrey Belonogov

Serp'n'Molot by Tagir Safayev (based on letterforms designed by Sergey Chekhonin in the early 20th century: not strictly Constructivist, but very wonderful).

I'm not sure where you could get either, but the good people at www.paratype.com should be able to help you.

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