Vera Evstafieva
@infonta.bsky.social
Type designer. Calligrapher. Lettering designer.
Passionate about letterforms of all kinds. Culture, research, fun.
Raising two bilingual kids. Addicted to long walks.
Passionate about letterforms of all kinds. Culture, research, fun.
Raising two bilingual kids. Addicted to long walks.
I'll try this Ink tonight to celebrate my calligraphy workshop!
My hand moved toward it without even asking me 😀
My hand moved toward it without even asking me 😀
November 14, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I'll try this Ink tonight to celebrate my calligraphy workshop!
My hand moved toward it without even asking me 😀
My hand moved toward it without even asking me 😀
Though I managed to make about 40 people curious and happy with calligraphy tonight…
by 10:30 p.m. every shop was closed, and the celebratory wine remained a dream… z-z-z
by 10:30 p.m. every shop was closed, and the celebratory wine remained a dream… z-z-z
November 13, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Though I managed to make about 40 people curious and happy with calligraphy tonight…
by 10:30 p.m. every shop was closed, and the celebratory wine remained a dream… z-z-z
by 10:30 p.m. every shop was closed, and the celebratory wine remained a dream… z-z-z
Tomorrow I'm going to pretend I'm a calligrapher for a day — for a night, if to be precise.
So I cut some of my sketches — and made some little souvenirs for the public
#lettering #calligraphy #badge #cmyk #brushcalligraphy #veraevstafieva #love #uk
So I cut some of my sketches — and made some little souvenirs for the public
#lettering #calligraphy #badge #cmyk #brushcalligraphy #veraevstafieva #love #uk
November 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Tomorrow I'm going to pretend I'm a calligrapher for a day — for a night, if to be precise.
So I cut some of my sketches — and made some little souvenirs for the public
#lettering #calligraphy #badge #cmyk #brushcalligraphy #veraevstafieva #love #uk
So I cut some of my sketches — and made some little souvenirs for the public
#lettering #calligraphy #badge #cmyk #brushcalligraphy #veraevstafieva #love #uk
And this nerve running through K ⚡
My Birra Lambic typeface in glorious use by Barry Thomas ⚒️
#letters #stone #fontinuse
My Birra Lambic typeface in glorious use by Barry Thomas ⚒️
#letters #stone #fontinuse
FECK is in the shop: www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop/index.h...
£125 UK delivered. I won't be repeating this style - bit of a mare to carve - though there may be more fecks in the fecking future.
£125 UK delivered. I won't be repeating this style - bit of a mare to carve - though there may be more fecks in the fecking future.
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
And this nerve running through K ⚡
My Birra Lambic typeface in glorious use by Barry Thomas ⚒️
#letters #stone #fontinuse
My Birra Lambic typeface in glorious use by Barry Thomas ⚒️
#letters #stone #fontinuse
For making long-lasting letter objects — a dummy for stone carving and mallet for lettering in wood are on the way to me, now I need to decide about the sharpening tool for chisels which I already have. No promises at this stage 😊 only fun.
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 PM
For making long-lasting letter objects — a dummy for stone carving and mallet for lettering in wood are on the way to me, now I need to decide about the sharpening tool for chisels which I already have. No promises at this stage 😊 only fun.
Found some photos from Malta (absolutely my place — those endless stairs in Valetta!), from many years ago when buses there were still decorated with hand lettering.
Remembered one of bus rides when a strong thunderstorm started and everyone in the bus started praying...
#lettering #Malta
Remembered one of bus rides when a strong thunderstorm started and everyone in the bus started praying...
#lettering #Malta
November 8, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Found some photos from Malta (absolutely my place — those endless stairs in Valetta!), from many years ago when buses there were still decorated with hand lettering.
Remembered one of bus rides when a strong thunderstorm started and everyone in the bus started praying...
#lettering #Malta
Remembered one of bus rides when a strong thunderstorm started and everyone in the bus started praying...
#lettering #Malta
Evening vanity search along the shelves
#sketchbook #lettering #typedesign #cyrillic #letters #freehand #veraevstafieva
#sketchbook #lettering #typedesign #cyrillic #letters #freehand #veraevstafieva
November 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Evening vanity search along the shelves
#sketchbook #lettering #typedesign #cyrillic #letters #freehand #veraevstafieva
#sketchbook #lettering #typedesign #cyrillic #letters #freehand #veraevstafieva
Sometimes you practice for yourself and suddenly a commission comes — and you take your old sketches to work — for a new typeface!
These are sketches for Birra Lambic design, my search the type's character. I can see one more idea there 🙂
#font #lettering #calligraphy #designprocess #birra #sketch
These are sketches for Birra Lambic design, my search the type's character. I can see one more idea there 🙂
#font #lettering #calligraphy #designprocess #birra #sketch
November 7, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Sometimes you practice for yourself and suddenly a commission comes — and you take your old sketches to work — for a new typeface!
These are sketches for Birra Lambic design, my search the type's character. I can see one more idea there 🙂
#font #lettering #calligraphy #designprocess #birra #sketch
These are sketches for Birra Lambic design, my search the type's character. I can see one more idea there 🙂
#font #lettering #calligraphy #designprocess #birra #sketch
November 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
A commercial… for a font?
Yes! For letterform design itself.
Have a look — I’m lucky to have this one, created by Darden Studio for my Birra Lambic typeface — youtu.be/mQTsILs3SdU?...
#font #typedesign #birra #fun #commission #veraevstafieva #uk #openforcommissions #original
Yes! For letterform design itself.
Have a look — I’m lucky to have this one, created by Darden Studio for my Birra Lambic typeface — youtu.be/mQTsILs3SdU?...
#font #typedesign #birra #fun #commission #veraevstafieva #uk #openforcommissions #original
November 6, 2025 at 11:35 AM
A commercial… for a font?
Yes! For letterform design itself.
Have a look — I’m lucky to have this one, created by Darden Studio for my Birra Lambic typeface — youtu.be/mQTsILs3SdU?...
#font #typedesign #birra #fun #commission #veraevstafieva #uk #openforcommissions #original
Yes! For letterform design itself.
Have a look — I’m lucky to have this one, created by Darden Studio for my Birra Lambic typeface — youtu.be/mQTsILs3SdU?...
#font #typedesign #birra #fun #commission #veraevstafieva #uk #openforcommissions #original
November 5, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Secretly here — as I've got only a few followers so far :)
Wrote it in preparation for a talk.
Warning — it is slow, real time.
#calligraphy #demo #intersections #home #brushlettering #veraevstafieva #unique #cmyk
Wrote it in preparation for a talk.
Warning — it is slow, real time.
#calligraphy #demo #intersections #home #brushlettering #veraevstafieva #unique #cmyk
November 4, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Secretly here — as I've got only a few followers so far :)
Wrote it in preparation for a talk.
Warning — it is slow, real time.
#calligraphy #demo #intersections #home #brushlettering #veraevstafieva #unique #cmyk
Wrote it in preparation for a talk.
Warning — it is slow, real time.
#calligraphy #demo #intersections #home #brushlettering #veraevstafieva #unique #cmyk
Font in use: Amalta
Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson
#font #fontinuse #Amalta #ink #quote #typography #typedesign #poster #type #veraevstafieva
Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson
#font #fontinuse #Amalta #ink #quote #typography #typedesign #poster #type #veraevstafieva
November 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Font in use: Amalta
Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson
#font #fontinuse #Amalta #ink #quote #typography #typedesign #poster #type #veraevstafieva
Quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson
#font #fontinuse #Amalta #ink #quote #typography #typedesign #poster #type #veraevstafieva
November 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Monogram — TK — designed for the radio-electronics engineer who was once into analogue black & white photography
Purely typographic
#design #monogram #commission #engineer #photography #logo #veraevstafieva #minimal #typography
Purely typographic
#design #monogram #commission #engineer #photography #logo #veraevstafieva #minimal #typography
November 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Monogram — TK — designed for the radio-electronics engineer who was once into analogue black & white photography
Purely typographic
#design #monogram #commission #engineer #photography #logo #veraevstafieva #minimal #typography
Purely typographic
#design #monogram #commission #engineer #photography #logo #veraevstafieva #minimal #typography
You can practise on-on-on! or no-no-no! depending on whether optimist or pessimist you are 😀
But look for the purple shapes here!
Why do I write with a brush and use translucent ink? — to watch this. Privately
#cmyk #calligraphy #brush #letters #no #veraevstafieva #cambridge
But look for the purple shapes here!
Why do I write with a brush and use translucent ink? — to watch this. Privately
#cmyk #calligraphy #brush #letters #no #veraevstafieva #cambridge
November 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
You can practise on-on-on! or no-no-no! depending on whether optimist or pessimist you are 😀
But look for the purple shapes here!
Why do I write with a brush and use translucent ink? — to watch this. Privately
#cmyk #calligraphy #brush #letters #no #veraevstafieva #cambridge
But look for the purple shapes here!
Why do I write with a brush and use translucent ink? — to watch this. Privately
#cmyk #calligraphy #brush #letters #no #veraevstafieva #cambridge
One of the most used typefaces of mine is ALS Direct, designed in 2006 for way finding, focusing on Cyrillic — for that scale of signs like in shopping malls, airports and in the streets. I already left ArtLebedev Studio, when Direct was chosen to be the default way finding font in Moscow
#font
#font
October 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
One of the most used typefaces of mine is ALS Direct, designed in 2006 for way finding, focusing on Cyrillic — for that scale of signs like in shopping malls, airports and in the streets. I already left ArtLebedev Studio, when Direct was chosen to be the default way finding font in Moscow
#font
#font
Reposted by Vera Evstafieva
Some summer freedom 😀
October 30, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Some summer freedom 😀
Are you productive?.. 😜
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#amaltafont #autumn #produce #letters #typedesign #cutout #a #beauty #paper
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#amaltafont #autumn #produce #letters #typedesign #cutout #a #beauty #paper
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Are you productive?.. 😜
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#amaltafont #autumn #produce #letters #typedesign #cutout #a #beauty #paper
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#amaltafont #autumn #produce #letters #typedesign #cutout #a #beauty #paper
Letters I designed years ago together with the product design team of ArtLebedev Studio to appear well in a silicone ice tray and be easily extracted.
This is the word Eternity from Andersen's "The Snow Queen", the word which Kai had to compose from ice peaces. Egor Zhgun's concept.
#ice #design
This is the word Eternity from Andersen's "The Snow Queen", the word which Kai had to compose from ice peaces. Egor Zhgun's concept.
#ice #design
October 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Lombardic letters – monospaced! (shall I write a thesis on this? 😅 ) Victorian times, Round church in Cambridge
Look at n and u, a couple of letters are mirrored – curious if this was intentional
#letters #monospaced #victorian #roundchurch #lombardic #cambridge #uk #history #curiosity
Look at n and u, a couple of letters are mirrored – curious if this was intentional
#letters #monospaced #victorian #roundchurch #lombardic #cambridge #uk #history #curiosity
October 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Lombardic letters – monospaced! (shall I write a thesis on this? 😅 ) Victorian times, Round church in Cambridge
Look at n and u, a couple of letters are mirrored – curious if this was intentional
#letters #monospaced #victorian #roundchurch #lombardic #cambridge #uk #history #curiosity
Look at n and u, a couple of letters are mirrored – curious if this was intentional
#letters #monospaced #victorian #roundchurch #lombardic #cambridge #uk #history #curiosity
Hello from Cambridge — lovely finding this morning as I strolled along St John's street. Who carved these letters? May I guess that this could be Will Carter — letter r! — please tell me if you know
#lettering #beautiful #cambridge #guess #university #stjohns #door #design #letteringinwood
#lettering #beautiful #cambridge #guess #university #stjohns #door #design #letteringinwood
October 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Hello from Cambridge — lovely finding this morning as I strolled along St John's street. Who carved these letters? May I guess that this could be Will Carter — letter r! — please tell me if you know
#lettering #beautiful #cambridge #guess #university #stjohns #door #design #letteringinwood
#lettering #beautiful #cambridge #guess #university #stjohns #door #design #letteringinwood