2011 Winner
Typeface Design
Balkan
Balkan
Category—Typeface Design
2011 Winner
Typeface Design
Balkan
Designer(s)
Nikola Djurek and Marija Juza, Zagreb, Croatia
Additional Credits
FOUNDRY: Typonine Font Foundry
CONCEPT:
Balkan is a bi-script typeface system consisting of Latin and Cyrillic scripts. It is based on the study of a phenomenon known as the Balkan sprachbund, the linguistic features shared between different languages because of their proximity. The typeface system also represents an attempt to identify the features shared by some South Slavic languages: Bosnian, Montenegrin, Croatian and Serbian.