About
I am interested in the point where a letterform becomes a system: how it establishes hierarchy, carries a distinctive voice and moves between a book, an identity, an interface and a screen. I design typefaces, but I also explore how typography can organise information and shape the way people encounter it.
My background in type design taught me to work with precision: to research historical forms, build coherent families, and balance Latin and Cyrillic. It also taught me to think systematically—from the smallest detail of a letter to its role within typography, identity and communication.
I have always been drawn to the intersection of design and technology, particularly to the way digital tools and new workflows can extend creative practice. From this perspective, typography becomes a connecting structure across visual identities, editorial and digital design, promotional graphics and motion—adapting consistently to publications, campaigns, interfaces and animated content.
Services
I can contribute to projects that require both detailed letterform work and a wider understanding of communication systems.
- Typeface Design — Original retail and custom typefaces developed from concept to production.
- Latin & Cyrillic — Cyrillic extensions, localisation and coherent multiscript systems.
- Family Development — Italics, additional styles, character-set expansion, spacing, kerning and OpenType features.
- Visual Identity & Campaigns — Brand systems, promotional graphics and coordinated materials for print, web and social media.
- Typography & Motion — Animated type specimens, website loops, launch films and motion graphics for brands and typefaces.
- Web Design Support — Website structure, content preparation, responsive layouts and basic HTML/CSS implementation.
Selected work with ParaType
Nearly a decade of work on original families, historical redesigns, italics and multilingual extensions.
- PT Pearl — a contemporary Baroque serif with a stencil companion, developed independently from 2017 to 2020 and acquired by ParaType
- Circe Slab — italic styles designed in 2020
- Circe — italic styles designed in 2018
- Ida — an original grotesque comprising 18 Latin and Cyrillic styles, released in 2017
- Stem Text — italic styles designed in 2016
- Journal Sans New — a revival of the Soviet typeface Journal Sans, released in 2014
Earlier typeface credits may appear under Maria Selezeneva or Maria Kharlamova (Selezeneva) — see the designer record on MyFonts.