Mirela Belcheva – Astra

Astra is a humanist serif type family designed to meet the demands of complex text environments, such as dictionaries and reference materials, particularly in the fields of language learning and translation. Its calm personality, and clear and functional presence, add to its versatility and allow it, nevertheless, to adapt to different types of text, both printed and on screen. Its neutrality ensures that it can be used in a variety of contexts and applications, without being limited by specific use cases. The family comes in two optical sizes: Display and Text, the latter with a range of weights from Light to Bold, one of which includes a Cyrillic extension.

Diploma project (2024)

Students: Mirela Belcheva

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