Bies Font
„Bies Font”
Diploma font for „Bieszczady’s Bestiary”
Mentor: MA Anna Wieluńska
I designed the font „Bies font” specifically for this book. The font references the nature of mountain woods, which is where it’s woodtype character comes from. I made it to seem hewn in wood or stone. It gets it’s variability and irregularity from boikos’ typography, which I studied from old gravestones around Bieszczady mountains. As for the shapes and proportions of certain letters, they are inspired by orthodox church art. The font includes several symbols characteristic of the region, such as the carpatian rosette. I also made the stylistic choice to swap certain letters for their “cyrillicized” analogues.
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Graphics, 2021
