A Superfamily Of Serifs From Mint Type: Skema Pro
Established by Andriy Konstantynov in 2004, Mint Type was the first Ukrainian digital type foundry to offer their work through international distributors. Over the years that have followed since it opened its doors to the world, Mint Type has gone on to carve out a name for itself in the world of typography, particularly because of its focus on Cyrillic character sets. Multilingual support is a vital characteristic for any graphic designer who caters to a global market, and Mint Type is dedicated to providing quality type designs that meet those needs at every turn.
Andriy got his start as a graphic designer with a background in IT, eventually obtaining his masters degree in Advanced Typography. He loves what he does and it shows through his work. While Mint Type offers its own retail fonts, it also crafts custom type designs and develops Cyrillic letter sets for existing Latin typefaces. Headquartered in Kyiv, Ukraine, Mint Type provides the graphic design world with masterfully crafted, contemporary type designs that work beautifully in a variety of design settings and applications.
One of their more recent releases is Skema Pro, a supermassive family that features 84 fonts through six distinctive serif typefaces, each with their own intent and purpose.
Skema Pro Livro is a low contrast, low x-height typeface that was specifically designed with reader comfort in mind. Skema Pro Livro has a classic quality to its architecture and serifs, making it beautifully suited to books and printed texts.
Skema Pro Text offers a low contrast with a medium x-height and features an equally comfortable reading experience as Livro does, with a bit more of a contemporary feel that’s well suited to long-form text of any kind – both in print and digital displays.
Skema Pro Omni is a more contrasted version of Skema Pro Text, featuring medium contrast and a medium x-height. Its uses are essentially the same, but it carries itself with a more formal stance.
Out of the entire family, Skema Pro News offers the best reading experience for headlines and editorials in both printed newspapers and digital news applications.
Skema Pro Title has medium contrast and a large x-height. It was designed to function well in larger text sizes, offering contemporary detailing for subheadings and pull-quotes.
Skema Pro Display carries itself with a large x-height and high contrast, displaying its key characteristics in larger text sizes, including headlines, displays, posters, and signage.
Each member of the Skema Pro family is available in ExtraLight, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, and ExtraBold with corresponding italics for each. Versatility is not just limited to its wide range of weights and styles; Skema Pro offers a host of additional features that include capitals to small caps, case sensitive forms, fractions, discretionary ligatures, standard ligatures, ordinals, subscript, superscript, oldstyle figures, tabular figures, and stylistic alternates.
Skema Pro’s multilingual support is extensive, covering Basic Latin, Western European, Euro, Catalan, Baltic, Turkish, Central European, Romanian, Pan African Latin, Dutch, Latin Ligatures, and Basic Cyrillic for exceptional global accessibility.
If you’re a designer who typically needs Cyrillic character sets, you definitely won’t want to miss the rest of Mint Type’s portfolio on YouWorkForThem. They currently offer 29 products, a varied collection sans serifs, serifs, and slab serifs to suit a wide variety of design projects.
