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 Groovecustom 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.

Memoriacustom 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

info@kosmynka.com

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