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KTF02: Rublena • Kyiv Type Foundry

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Rublena is the most used black grotesk on the ex-USSR terrain. It originated at the end of the XIX century in the city of Danzig (German Empire) as Zeitungs-Grotesque. Ever since this metal type was copied and distributed all around the globe in a broad variety of names and versions: Zeitungs-Grotesque, Fette Steinschrift, Breite fette Grotesque or Газетный Древній Черный to name a few. According to researcher Dr. Dan Reynolds, “it was once the protype for a heavy sans serif in German type-making.”* Rublena is an “orphan child” of the metal type era. This type came out just one year before copyright law (“Geschmacksmustergesetz”) went into effect in 1876, which predestined the font to be bootlegged by different foundries, let alone the designer’s name remained unknown. Due to the high commercial success, some foundries cut Cyrillic versions, and the font quickly became popular in the Russian Empire. After the October Revolution of 1917, all the types were expropriated from private ente

KTF02: Rublena • Kyiv Type Foundry KTF02: Rublena Black PDF Specimen Download trial Rublena is the most used black grotesk on the ex-USSR terrain. It originated at the end of the XIX century in the city of Danzig (German Empire) as Zeitungs-Grotesque. Ever since this metal type was copied and distributed all around the globe in a broad variety of names and versions: Zeitungs-Grotesque, Fette Steinschrift, Breite fette Grotesque or Газетный Древній Черный to name a few. According to researcher Dr. Dan Reynolds, “it was once the protype for a heavy sans serif in German type-making.”* Rublena is

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