Here’s something a lot of designers don’t know: not all premium fonts support the same alphabets. When you’re working on a project that needs to work in English and Russian, or English and Greek, you can’t just grab any font and assume it’ll handle everything. Most premium display fonts are built primarily — sometimes exclusively — around Latin characters. When you need Cyrillic or Greek, you’re often forced to switch fonts mid-project, which breaks visual consistency and creates typographic mismatches that are hard to fix.
This is one of those problems that sounds minor until you’re actually in the middle of it.
What a lot of people don’t realize is that Burntilldead Studio has been quietly building out this exact capability. Three fonts in the catalog — Alyona, Malevice Pro, and Malevice Inkbleed — all support Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek. And not in a limited or partial way: we’re talking full nine-weight families where the multilingual support is built into every weight from Thin to Black.
Here’s a proper look at all three, what makes each one distinct, and how to choose between them depending on your project.
Cyrillic is the writing system used across an enormous geographic range — Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Serbia, Belarus, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and many Central Asian countries. Combined, these represent hundreds of millions of people and some of the world’s most significant consumer markets. Designing for any of these markets without a font that handles Cyrillic properly means either compromising on quality or juggling multiple font families.
Greek, while used in a smaller geographic region, appears far beyond Greece itself — in academic publishing, mathematical notation, scientific documentation, and international standards. For designers working in those fields, Greek character support is a practical necessity.
Having a single premium font family that handles all three scripts — Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek — with consistent visual quality isn’t just convenient. It’s the difference between a brand that looks cohesive across languages and one that reveals its seams the moment it crosses a border.
Alyona is the most refined of the three — a Classic-Elegant font family built around sharp lines and smooth curves that together create a luxurious, classy aesthetic. If your project needs to feel premium, sophisticated, and timeless across multiple languages, Alyona is the one to reach for.
The Design
Alyona’s visual character is built on contrast — precise, sharp letterform construction balanced against smooth, flowing curves. The result feels both contemporary and classical, which gives it that rare quality of looking current without dating itself quickly. The ligatures and alternates add another layer of exclusivity, letting designers customize character combinations for a more bespoke feel in logo work or lettering.
Cyrillic and Greek Coverage
Alyona supports Cyrillic across the lighter weights (Thin through Medium) and Greek across the heavier weights (Semi Bold through Black). This weight-based split is worth knowing upfront so you can plan your typography system accordingly — the lighter Cyrillic weights are ideal for elegant international branding, while the heavier Greek weights bring Alyona’s sharp presence to bolder display applications.
Best For
Where Alyona leans into luxury and refinement, Malevice Pro is about clean professionalism. A Modern-Contemporary sans-serif, it was designed to be balanced and functional across a genuinely wide range of design applications — from digital UI to brand identity to editorial work — without sacrificing personality in the process.
The Design
Malevice Pro has the hallmarks of a well-made modern sans-serif: clean geometry, balanced proportions, strong readability across sizes. What prevents it from disappearing into the sea of generic sans-serifs is its set of unique alternates — these add enough distinctiveness that the font has its own character without compromising the clean professional base.
Cyrillic and Greek Coverage
This is where Malevice Pro’s advantage over Alyona becomes clear: full Cyrillic and Greek support across all nine weights, from Thin to Black. No weight-based restrictions. Whether you’re setting thin editorial text in Russian or bold display headlines in Greek, every weight in the family is available to you. For designers building complete brand systems or UI products for multilingual audiences, this full-range coverage is genuinely significant.
Best For
Malevice Inkbleed shares Malevice Pro’s foundational structure — smooth, rounded letterforms, clean proportions — but adds one defining quality: an inkbleed effect on every character. This effect mimics the way real ink spreads slightly when pressed onto an absorbent surface, giving the font a warmth and tactile quality that digital type often lacks.
The Design
The inkbleed effect in Malevice Inkbleed is subtle and well-calibrated — it adds texture and character without making the font hard to read. At display sizes, the effect becomes more visible and adds genuine visual richness. The smooth rounded base letterforms give it warmth even before the inkbleed quality comes into play, making this a font that feels approachable and handcrafted rather than cold and mechanical.
Cyrillic and Greek Coverage
Like Malevice Pro, Malevice Inkbleed supports Cyrillic and Greek across all nine weights — and the inkbleed effect carries through to the Cyrillic and Greek characters consistently. This means you can set Russian or Greek text in Malevice Inkbleed and the handcrafted, textured quality reads the same as it does in the Latin characters. That consistency across scripts is harder to achieve than it sounds, and it’s what makes Malevice Inkbleed genuinely useful for multilingual projects where character and warmth are part of the brief.
Best For
The ability to work consistently across Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek without switching fonts is a practical advantage that matters more as design projects become increasingly global. Alyona, Malevice Pro, and Malevice Inkbleed each bring a different aesthetic to that capability — one elegant and luxurious, one clean and professional, one warm and textured — which means there’s a genuine choice to make based on your project’s personality rather than just its technical requirements.
All three are available at Burntilldead Studio with Desktop, Broadcast, Publishing, and Extended license options. If you’re working on a project that needs to cross language borders without losing typographic quality, any of these three is worth a serious look.
