The Hyperboloid is a revival of the modular grotesk designed by Kyiv artist Oleksandr Kononov for a series of science fiction books in the 1980s. The font named from the title of book "The Hyperboloid of the Engineer Garin" which was written by Oleksiy Tolstoy. The writer predicted the invention of the laser. Hyperboloid has dense kerning and counter in letterforms looks like it was cutting by a thin beam of laser light.

The Hyperboloid was created as a diploma project in the 80s. Oleksandr Kononov used it for design about 30 book covers of the science fiction series. Hyperboloid was presented at the exhibition "The Art of Type of the USSR" in 1984 in New York. Poster with the Cyrillic and Latin alphabet of font Hyperboloid was hanged in the UN exhibition hall.

The artist Oleksandr Kononov graduated from the Polygraphic Institute named by Ivan Fedorov. He worked as a book designer in Kyiv until 1991. He created book designs for a lot of publishing houses in Ukraine, including designs of gift editions for the “Mystetstvo” publishing house. He worked with his wife as a team. The couple worked for television and film as design artists, they created websites and interior design, including interior design for a museum in Cape Town and an IT company.

Soviet design was closed to the influence of world trends for a long time. The 1980s marked the beginning of a new era in the development of Ukrainian design. We feel the influence of desire of Ukrainian designers of the 1980 to be a part of the international community and its reflects in letterforms of Hyperboloid by Oleksandr Kononov.

The Hyperboloid potentially becomes actually in modern times of globalization and believing in a science-fiction future.