TYPE DESIGN

Maria Kosheleva – Selime

by Maria Kosheleva

Selime is a contemporary humanist serif typeface designed for comfortable, immersive reading. Developed with a focus on long-form texts in the Chuvash language — a Turkic language spoken primarily in the Chuvash Republic of Russia — it combines cultural specificity with wide usability across both Cyrillic and Latin scripts. Drawing inspiration from the earliest Chuvash typefaces and 20th-century Dutch humanist serif design traditions, Selime reimagines these influences through a contemporary typographic voice. The family includes five weights with matching italics, providing flexibility for editorial, literary, and multilingual publishing.