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 shape a complete visual experience.
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 the way typography shapes an identity and becomes part of a coherent visual system.
Today, I bring this approach to visual identities, editorial and digital design, promotional graphics and motion. I develop typography-led systems that can adapt across publications, campaigns, interfaces and animated content—allowing a typeface to be experienced not simply as a font file, but as a flexible and expressive visual language.
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 — contemporary Baroque serif with a stencil companion, developed independently 2017–2020, acquired by ParaType
- Ida — original grotesque, 18 styles in Latin and Cyrillic, 2017
- Journal Sans New — redesign of the Soviet Journal Sans, 2014
- Circe — italic styles, 2018
- Stem Text — collaborative development, 2014–2015
Earlier typeface credits may appear under Maria Selezeneva or Maria Kharlamova (Selezeneva) — see the designer record on MyFonts.