Printer's marks by Sergei Chekhonin show exquisite skill, the inventiveness of composition and a tendency to elegant calligraphy and delicate patterns. His early works, for example the trademark of Arion, are similar in composition to bookplates. The copyright symbol of the writer Arkady Averchenko and the priner's mark of the publishing house of the Community of St. Eugenia that made out in colours are more interesting. During the post-revolutionary years, the master's works were filled with motion, they became brighter, as for instance, the emblem of the Communist International.

Printer's marks as a form of small graphics did not exist for long: in the late 1920s all private publishers were closed, and the single State Publishing House with its own colophon was established. The universal style of printer's emblems of the Soviet era not much inherited from traditions of the World of Art association.