What is the Sabon® Cyrillic font?

In the early 1960s, the German Master Printers’ Association requested that a new typeface be designed and produced in identical form on both Linotype and Monotype machines so that text and technical composition would match. Walter Cunz at Stempel responded by commissioning Jan Tschichold to design a new version of Claude Garamond’s serene and classical Roman. Its bold, and particularly its italic styles are limited by the requirements of Linotype casting machines, forcing the character widths of a given letter to match between styles, giving the italic its characteristic narrow f. The family’s name is taken from Jacques Sabon, who introduced Garamond’s Romans to Frankfurt. Sabon has long been a favorite of typographers for setting book text, due to its smooth texture , and in large part because Tschichold’s book typography remains world famous.

Sabon® Cyrillic Font families

The Sabon® Cyrillic includes the following font families:

• Sabon Cyrillic Cyrillic Roman
• Sabon Cyrillic Cyrillic Italic
• Sabon Cyrillic Cyrillic Bold
• Sabon Cyrillic Cyrillic Bold Italic

Sabon® Cyrillic Preview

Here is a preview of how Sabon® Cyrillic will look. For more previews using your own text as an example, click here.