When working on ‘Rocketbank Without Borders’ project spring 2019, I discovered that there was only one available font for Russian sign language alphabet. It was created back in 2001 and basically consists of scanned pictures put into a font file.
At first I tried to re-draw what I found, but it didn’t look like what I wanted (at all). So, I took photos of all signs and worked with the photos after.
Sign language alphabet is used by people with hearing loss when there is no particular gesture for a word and separate letters are needed. For example, there is a gesture for ‘bread’, but ‘singularity’ or ‘Montana’ would require letters. And this is what my font is here for.
If you noticed some inaccuracy or an obvious error, please, feel free to email me on ilya.zherikov@gmail.com
The font is distributed under SIL Open Font License. You can use it in any projects, including commercial ones. You can even make changes to it, but in that case distribute the file on the same, free for all, conditions. This is a must.
Fonts and source files are available on GitHub
Design: Ilya Zherikov
Consulting on sign language: Sergey Razumov, Zaur Grigoryev
Precious tips and nitpicking: Nikita Vasilevskiy, Evgeny Filatov
