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.
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
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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
My workspace and the habitat of many letters
Table 2 meters long — good, but still not large enough 🤭
#design #studio #workshop #letters #fonts #cambridge #uk #typedesign #workspace #lettering #calligraphy
Table 2 meters long — good, but still not large enough 🤭
#design #studio #workshop #letters #fonts #cambridge #uk #typedesign #workspace #lettering #calligraphy
October 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
My workspace and the habitat of many letters
Table 2 meters long — good, but still not large enough 🤭
#design #studio #workshop #letters #fonts #cambridge #uk #typedesign #workspace #lettering #calligraphy
Table 2 meters long — good, but still not large enough 🤭
#design #studio #workshop #letters #fonts #cambridge #uk #typedesign #workspace #lettering #calligraphy
My Birra Lambic typeface and calligraphy pages in Letter Exchange yearbook, a couple of years ago. I write with a flat brush — and actually the Birra Lambic design was based on some of my calligraphic sketches, a blend of Celtic and Italic
#typedesign #calligraphy #original #font #veraevstafieva
#typedesign #calligraphy #original #font #veraevstafieva
October 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
My Birra Lambic typeface and calligraphy pages in Letter Exchange yearbook, a couple of years ago. I write with a flat brush — and actually the Birra Lambic design was based on some of my calligraphic sketches, a blend of Celtic and Italic
#typedesign #calligraphy #original #font #veraevstafieva
#typedesign #calligraphy #original #font #veraevstafieva
My stone-scratching from the times when I studied in the Netherlands
This piece of marble was so small and soft that I didn't need any dummy and cut it with a chisel alone
Given to my friend I met there, the harpsichord player
This piece of marble was so small and soft that I didn't need any dummy and cut it with a chisel alone
Given to my friend I met there, the harpsichord player
October 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
My stone-scratching from the times when I studied in the Netherlands
This piece of marble was so small and soft that I didn't need any dummy and cut it with a chisel alone
Given to my friend I met there, the harpsichord player
This piece of marble was so small and soft that I didn't need any dummy and cut it with a chisel alone
Given to my friend I met there, the harpsichord player
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SalivaryGlandCancer.uk fundraiser time 😃
25% off everything in the shop, and I'll give a further 25% to SGCUK in your name.
Starts now, ends Sunday noon. UK only, first come etc etc.
www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop
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25% off everything in the shop, and I'll give a further 25% to SGCUK in your name.
Starts now, ends Sunday noon. UK only, first come etc etc.
www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop
Please repost for max coverage. Thank you x
Salivary Gland Cancer UK
We’re a charity for those with rare salivary gland cancers such as Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma.
www.salivaryglandcancer.uk
October 23, 2025 at 8:11 AM
SalivaryGlandCancer.uk fundraiser time 😃
25% off everything in the shop, and I'll give a further 25% to SGCUK in your name.
Starts now, ends Sunday noon. UK only, first come etc etc.
www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop
Please repost for max coverage. Thank you x
25% off everything in the shop, and I'll give a further 25% to SGCUK in your name.
Starts now, ends Sunday noon. UK only, first come etc etc.
www.poorfrankraw.co.uk/shop
Please repost for max coverage. Thank you x
Our autumn. Morning
October 22, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Our autumn. Morning