Borys Kosmynka

Typeface designer, based in Warsaw.

I design and produce typefaces – custom commissions, brand faces, and the technical work that makes them behave correctly in use. Most of what I do sits between drawing letters and engineering the systems that hold them together.


Work with me

Custom typefaces. Brand and display typefaces, from brief through to production-ready fonts.

Type production and engineering. Variable fonts, OpenType implementation, glyph expansion, and font QA – including production work on other designers' drawings.

Typographic consulting. Type selection, pairing, and typographic systems for teams that need to get it right once.


Roles

Co-founder – Capitalics Warsaw Type Foundry, since 2023

Board member – ATypI, since 2025

Typography tutor – Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, since 2024

Senior Type Designer – Brody Associates, 2024–2026

Mentor on the STGU (Stowarzyszenie Twórców Grafiki Użytkowej) Mentorship Programme, 2026. Co-founder of Letter Luvvers, Bristol, 2022–2024; formerly an STGU board member.


Selected work

Tropical Groove – custom display typeface for Captain Jack (Kompania Piwowarska), through BNA Branding Agency. TDBK, 2025.

Built around a repeatable structural idea rather than isolated decorative gestures, it turned a logotype into a complete typographic language the brand can speak in consistently.

Memoria – custom type family for Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, designed alongside Marcin Wolny's rebrand of the institution. TDBK, 2022–2023.

Five weights and italics across Latin and Ukrainian-first Cyrillic, built on asymmetric serifs that carry display character without costing the family its text performance. Bronze Sword for typography, KTR 2024.


Contact

[email protected]

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