This Is Your Destiny by Halyna Pahutyak
The book is published by the Ще одну сторінку (One more page) publishing house and is available for order from their parent company Ranok publishing house.
Се твоя доля (“This is your destiny”) is a book by Halyna Pahutyak, a representative of Ukrainian gothic and magical realism and laureate of the Shevchenko Prize. “I just like everything unusual and wonderful. This is also a reality. I want everyone to know that in this gloomy everyday life there are many doors that open to other worlds. I find and show some of them”, Halyna says.
When a good story meets a right typography, a little miracle happens. The designer and illustrator of the book, Anna Gavryliuk, felt this vibe of magical stories and perfectly synthesized it with an illustration and typography.
The Morta typeface used on the cover and titles is all about strange and unknown, and is therefore a good visual key to opening the doors to the magical worlds of Halyna Pahutyak. “While working on concept sketches, I synthesized such theses as historical and cartoon, mystical and attractive. The slant of the italics is flipped the other way to give the feeling of looking from the other side, from behind a mirror,” Michael Rafailyk, says about his Morta concept.
Fiorina Text was used for the body text. It’s a typeface by Andriy Konstantynov, who is also a Ukrainian developer.
