Ukraine designed its own national typeface so it doesn’t have to use Russian fonts

Ukraine has had enough of Russian fonts. Amid the country’s invasion by Russia, Ukrainians will no longer have to read any official documents set in a Russian typeface after a just-unveiled typeface goes into full effect. The new national font is called Zakon, “law” in Ukrainian. Designers, military personnel, and Ukrainian citizens have for years called for their country to swap out Russian-designed Cyrillic fonts like Izhitsa, which appears on official documents, certif...