Zakhar Yashchin
Zakhar Yashchin is a self taught font designer from Oryol, Russia. Born in 1976, he studied journalism and advertising at Voronezh University, and from 1998 worked as a graphic and web designer in several small design companies in Voronezh and Oryol. He began making custom fonts in 1999 and sold them via the ParaType on-line store (Auction family, Kvadrat family, Guenter, HarryPlotter, Kapelka and Kapelka New, Nazhdak, and Mojito).
In 2005 he worked as a font designer in the Moscow-based Art. Lebedev Studio, Ekibastuz, Story, and Zwoelf, as well as several logos and letterings), then in 2007 was an art director of the RuTube project in Oryol. Since 2009 he has been working as an freelance designer and independent fontmaker. Several font families he made under his own brand FontaZY (Lorna, Barberry, Armavir, Korobok, and New Year Poster) are sold on MyFonts.
He has designed custom fonts for books, advertising, magazines, videogames, and animation. He has also created comic-book fonts and lettering for some graphic novels (Russian translations of Art Spiegelman's "Maus", Alan Moore's "From Hell", David B's "Epileptic", Craig Thompson's "Blankets", Marjane Satrapi's "Persepolis", Lorenzo Matotti's "Stigmates", Joann Sfar's "Rabbi's cat", and some others).
[Zakhar Yashchin, November 2018]
Web: http://fontazy.biz/
Fonts designed by Zakhar Yashchin
