This book is devoted to typography of a decade complicated and tragic, as well as bold and vivid — revolutionary twenties of the 20th century. This period will have been remembered by its unprecedented freedom and unspent hopes, amateurism full of inspiration and a creative chorus… As well as by total, fatally accelerated by the revolution, dissociation of art to old and new, traditional and path-breaking, right and left. It is hardly surprising that there were two popular typefaces at that time too: Chekhonin-style and geometrical, caps only square sans (palochny).