This typeface came out as a side idea while I was working on one logotype. Suddenly I came up with an idea of creating “tuned” version of the typeface, based on that logo. The “tuning” turned me in a completely different direction and in a few hours of haste I was looking at a completely different typeface. A few days later I made this font available for free, since it wasn't meant to be at all :-).

A few months later, I saw my typeface used in the menu in one pizzeria. I was amazed and glad and happy and proud, all at the same time.

Oh, by the way: the logo I was working on was of different style and even of another stem’s widths. So, this is truly a font of it’s own design.

Naftalin has both Latin and Cyrillic sets, since it was used with both.