Ruslan Display
Type with Purpose
Good typography guides attention, improves understanding, and makes communication effortless.
The Anatomy of a Typeface
By FontSide · June 2026
Every typeface is a system of decisions — about stroke contrast, x-height, spacing, and rhythm. The best ones feel invisible: you stop seeing the letters and start hearing the voice behind them. That transparency is the hardest thing to design.
A high x-height opens up the counters and makes small text breathe. Tight tracking pulls a headline together; loose tracking gives a caption room to exhale. None of these choices are accidents — they are arguments about how reading should feel.
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Package Manager
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1. Install Package
pnpm add @fontsource/ruslan-display 2. Import in App
// Please select at least one weight and style 3. CSS Usage
body {
font-family: "Ruslan Display", system-ui;
} Google Fonts CDN
Use Google's CDN to embed the fonts directly via HTML.
HTML <head>
<!-- Please select at least one weight and style --> Fontsource CDN
Skip the build step by adding this directly to your global CSS file.
Global CSS
/* Please select at least one weight and style */ Background & Story
The Ruslan Display font is based on a 1970s typeface made by Ukrainian designer Oleg Snarsky, which evokes the ustav and semiustav styles of the 11th–16th centuries, known as the Ruthenian period. This is featured in the signage of Kiev's Teremky metro station, and in a collection of Snarsky's typefaces in the book “Шрифты-алфавиты для рекламных и декоративно-оформительских работ“ published in 1979 and available online.
It was digitized and extended with an original Latin complement by Russian designer Denis Masharov, in collaboration with Vladimir Rabdu, in 2011. The name means ‘lion’.
Suitable for lettering, Ruslan Display can also be used to set short texts and supports Latin and Cyrillic.Tags & Moods
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Install
pnpm add @fontsource/ruslan-display Designed by
Oleg Snarsky, Denis Masharov, Vladimir Rabdu
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License
OFL-1.1