Zhurnalnaya Roublennaya

Fonts In Use explores the history of Zhurnalnaya Roublennaya, aka “poor man’s Futura”, an unusual geometric sans born out of necessity in a Soviet Union of limited type choices. It’s not the delicious (and divisive) type used throughout Chernobyl – that’s a custom face designed specifically for the series – but it’s in the same haunting abandoned ballpark.