Manifesto
A typeface is the body of a word. It is the physical form of your thought, and it is never neutral. We learned to distinguish between languages, but for a long time we did not notice how the enemy kept "speaking" to us through the voice of symbols.
We do not blame anyone for the past. We all lived in that inertia, choosing convenient fonts without thinking about who created them. But today this blind spot is gone. We finally see that using russian Cyrillic means allowing the enemy to keep shaping our visual space.
Ukrainian graphic culture has deep roots. Generations of artists fought for every letter we have, for every expressive sign, and for the right to have our own visual identity. Today, we are their voices. Your font choice is not just a technical decision – it is a gesture of respect for our history and our freedom.
Shryftoriz is a tool of our shared hygiene. It is not meant to limit you, but to highlight what is hidden. We detect russian fonts to make room for Ukrainian ones. We reveal inertia so that you can make your own choice. Our words deserve a dignified, clean body.
Shryftoriz is the first font "antivirus" in the world, built on a substantial database of 325 Ukrainian fonts and 1,298 fonts with russian ties. It works directly in your browser (and will come to other platforms in the future). It is free in the Chrome Web Store for desktop browsers based on Chromium (Google Chrome, ChatGPT Atlas, Dia, and others). Shryftoriz runs autonomously in the background and, if you wish, can be triggered manually on the active tab. Once installed it becomes available in Canva (www.canva.com), extending its font list section and marking both russian and Ukrainian fonts. We recommend pinning Shryftoriz to your browser toolbar so you can see when no hostile fonts with russian ties are present on a site. Shryftoriz has three indicator colors: white – nothing found or a scan is in progress, green – a Ukrainian font has been detected, red – a russian font has been detected.