Blesk

Blesk is a chromatic typeface inspired by vintage book covers and designed for magazines, headlines, theater, animated titles, three-dimensional printing, literary foils, mysteries & other display needs.

The name Blesk borrows the Czech word for lightning, flash or thunder. The drawing plays off the contrast of semi-conventional zaftig letterforms with subtle Eastern-European tinge, contrasting them with sharp lightning-bolt inlines.

Blesk starts with a primer solid style (capable of handling longer text blocks), and includes inline, left & right which integrate into louder layering potential of over seven distinct combinations. Intermingling styles allow for shape-shifting; from a dimensional look via complementary colors, to more dramatic clashes that can be uniquely emphasized when printed off-register, bringing in sense of age, modernism, and craftsmanship.

Featured in Print Magazine’s spring 2015 issue, and Typographica’s Best of 2015.

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With over nine years of type design expertise, we’ve contributed to dozens of font families and are now starting to release our own directly to designers. Blesk is the first lil’ losharik to come out, while all future type will be coming out under the Solonka Type Foundry imprint.