Andrey Kudryavtsev was born in Irkutsk near the Lake Baikal in 1980. He started typedesign in 2008. He participated in the Rodrigo Araya's RodrigoTypo project in Chile as a consultant and designer of the cyrillic parts of several font families and was shortlisted twice for the Tipos Latinos Biennial. He participated as a co-author of the Qwincey FY typefamily in the French project Fontyou. His header type Czarevitch was awarded the Glyphs prize at the Modern Cyrillic 2019 international competition. He participated as co-author designer in the project of universal typefamily Onest for Moldova.