Anya Danilova
Cyrillic Script Newcomer
Type Designer
Anya Danilova is a type designer based in the Netherlands. She studied at Moscow State University of Printing Arts, attending Alexander Tarbeev’s type design workshop. In 2019, she obtained her Master’s degree in 2019 from Type and Media at The Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. In 2020, she won a Gerard Unger scholarship with her MA graduation typeface Rezak, which was published with Type Together. She also works with such foundries as Typotheque, Grilli Type and ABC Dinamo. Apart from working with typefaces, she loves writing and talking about them, she writes for type.today about various sides of typography and type design.
Her interest extends to exploring diverse scripts, presently dedicating her free time to delving into Georgian and Armenian scripts, as well as creating letterings and posters while seeing how fonts and scripts behave in different graphical environments.