Alexei Vanyashin
Founder at Cyreal
Almaty Region, Kazakhstan
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexei Vanyashin is a founder and type designer with over a decade of experience building multi-script typefaces and leading a niche design studio, Cyreal, from Almaty Region. He combines deep technical skill in font development with scholarly expertise in Cyrillic and Greek scripts, evidenced by a long tenure as Cyrillic Script Chair at the Granshan competition. Alexei has taught typography and FontLab workflows at several institutions, bridging practical production and pedagogy for motion designers and graphic students. His work blends classical training from Stroganov and the British Higher School of Art and Design with hands-on type design practice, making him as comfortable setting typographic standards as shipping retail and custom fonts. Less obvious: he moves fluidly between competitive judging, classroom mentorship, and the detailed engineering of font families, giving him a rare 360° perspective on contemporary type design.
10 years of coding experience
Graphic Design/Communication Design, Graphic Design/Communication Design at Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and IndustryType&Typography, Type&Typography at British Higher School of Art and Design
Github Skills (78)
font-size10
phonetics10
lora10
command-line-tool10
cyrillic10
slugify10
cjk10
latin10
slug10
opentype-fonts10
opentype10
fonts10
quality-assurance10
handwriting10
woff10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
alexeiva/jura
Jun 2016 - Feb 2025
Jura open-source font by Daniel Johnson
Contributions:4 releases, 24 PRs, 146 pushes in 8 years 9 months
fontjohnson
ossobuffo/jura
Jun 2016 - Jan 2018
Jura font: http://danieljohnson.name/fonts/jura
Contributions:44 commits, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 1 year 6 months
fontfonts
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