Adela de Bara

Designer at type-o-tones in Barcelona who created Adelita. Home page. FontShop link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adri Valls

While studying in Barcelona, Adri Valls designed the squarish typeface New Trink (2013) and a modular typeface called Moludar (sic) (2013) and Moludar Neue (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adria Molins

As a design student in Barcelona, Adria Molins created the modular typeface Graciosa (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adriá Gómez

Graphic designer in Barcelona, b. 1990. Creator of the free modular typeface Johanna (2012).

Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Adrià Chalaux

Catalan graphic and type designer and illustrator, b. 1986, Barcelona. Graphic design student at ELISAVA University. Creator of Hol'em Regular (2007, heavy slab serif face) and Ecstasi (2007, a script logotype). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrià Grandia

Catalan designer of the scratchy font Diatriba, of the corroded font Dead End, and of the ancient caps font Ot. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrià Gual

From Barcelona, he is the Garcia fonts designer of Afligidos deudos (1996, grunge). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adriana Sanchez

Adriana Sanlo (or Adriana Sanchez) is the Barcelona-based creator of the grungy typeface Agency Grotesque (2012).

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Afu Sanchez

Afu Sánchez (Barcelona) created the ultra-fat modular face Tasious (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aida Novoa

Great graphic designer from Valencia, Spain. At Behance, she showed a trendy blingy smoky New York typographic poster (2009). In 2010, she made an equally good poster for Berlin. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alba Boyer

Alba Boyer Margalef was born in 1990 in El Perello, and studied at ELISAVA. She is now a freelance designer in Barcelona. In 2013, she designed a serifless didone called Dorina.

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Alba Durana

Barcelona-based designer (b. 1986) who made the strong bold face Dakats (2010), and the ornamental Lombardic face Aribau (2010). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Albert Corbeto

Type historian at Reial Academia de Bones Lletres in Barcelona. Born in Barcelona in 1971, Corbeto is responsible for all the publishing activities of the Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona and the Asociación de Bibliófilos de Barcelona. His field of investigation is the history of printing types and, in particular, the work of Spanish punchcutters throughout the second half of the eighteenth century. At ATypI 2006 in Lisbon, he spoke about the efforts around 1750-1770 to set up the Royal Library type foundry by Juan de Santander and Gerónimo A. Gil. Speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, where he talked about the punches from the Spanish Royal Printing House. Soon he will publish a specimen and text book on all this.

Interview by Unostiposduros. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Albert Folch
[Folch Studio]

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Albert Grebol

Design graduate from ESDI, who works in Barcelona. Creator of the nibbed caps typefaces Add Shadow Left and Add Shadow Right (2013), and the modular typeface Colb (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Albert Pereta
[La Foneria]

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Albert Pereta Farré

Catalan graphic designer. His designs include Nenufar, loked Piece, Loked Stencil, Landeth. No sales or downloads. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Albert Ramon

Barcelona-based designer of Josefina's Type (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Albert Vives

Catalan creator of the free hand-printed font Zrylux (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alberto Romagosa

Barcelona-based designer, b. 1989. He studied at the Swiss-School of Barcelona. His typeface AR Vulcano (2011-2012) has a high-contrast condensed octagonal design for application in fashion mags.

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Alex Camacho Pizarro

Graphic designer and illustrator from Barcelona who works in London. Behance link.

Creator of Die Modularität (2012), De Palo (2011), Scriptura (2011, a calligraphic connected script), this triangle/circle based modular type, of GoodBye (experimental type based on Barcelona's night lights), and of a geometric custom-designed face for the Aroy Restaurant in Barcelona.

Cargo collecive link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Gifreu

Graphic designer from Figueres (Spain). He designed Network at Garcia fonts. He created Pilgrim, Montaplex (1997) and Kennedy (1997) at [T26]. Bondage (a set of 16 fonts) was announced but never released by [T26].

Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alex Trochut

Barcelona-based grandson of Joan Trochut of Super-Veloz fame. Fantastic graphic designer in his own right. He is the codesigner with Andreu Balius of SuperVeloz (2005, TypeRepublic), a digital version of his grandfather's typeface. It won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition. Balius says about this face originally created by Joan Trochut from 1920-1980: Super-Veloz could be considered as an Ornamental type design, but in its core it is an experimental typeface based on a set of modular features that, with the combining of its modules, a great range of typefaces, ornaments ---even illustrations---, could be made. That is perhaps the most interesting experiment in early modern type design ever made in Spain during the immediate years after the War. The lecture, considering the borders between type design and ornament design, will introduce the context where Joan Trochut's Super-Veloz was produced (from sketches to published brochures and speciments) in 1942. Also will explain how Super-Veloz works. It is really a "type-ornament" design that could be considered on the edge of what we call type design.

Alex Trochut's lettering must be seen to be believed---it has to be genetic transmission. Recurring themes include adorned initials and modular types. His numerical all-caps alphabet for British Airways is phenomenal and pushes the bling-bling to the fashionable extreme. Stunning dollar sign drawn by him in 2007 for Acido Surtido.

In 2009, he published Neo Deco at HypeForType. Noteworthy type treatments of that year include Nixon and the Futurecraft logo.

In 2012, he designed Trojan Font (like Trajan). He also did some stunning multiline alphabet for V Magazine. Also noteworthy is a swashy calligraphic logo for Wiz Khalifa and Atlantic Records.

Typographic picture by TDC55.

Behance link. Debutart link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexis Rom

Barcelona-based creator of the simple handprinting typeface called Alexis (1997, Garcia Fonts). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alfredo Graziani

Born in Buenos Aires, and a resident designer in Barcelona, Alfredo Graziani is the codesigner with Alejandro Paul at Umbrella Type of the medieval script Mama Script (2004). At Sudtipos, he created the script face Milk Script (2004, with Alejandro Paul), as well as Divina. Typedia link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alicia García

Palma de Mallorca-based creator of a nice typographic collection of posters entitled Carteles Leo Bassi (2011), which mix the Western circus poster style and art nouveau elements. Typefaces created by er include the paper cut face Diplodocus (2011), and the octagonal typeface That Tune (2012).

View her Y Modaba poster (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alter Order
[Pedro Azevedo Gonçalves]

Alter Order is the web alias for Pedro Gonçalves, a Portuguese art director based in Barcelona. Creator of the ultra black slab face Gorda Slab (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alva Aur

Alva Aur (Valencia, Spain) designed the Witch Lab typeface (2012, alchemic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amaia Arrazola

Barcelona-based illustrator. Look at the informal lettering in her posters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana V. Francès

Ana V. Francès (or A-GRPHCS in Valencia, Spain) created a bichromatic typeface in 2012.

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Andrea Carandini

Designer from Barcelona who created Hair Type (2011). I am not sure that this is a font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea De Los Mozos

Graphic designer in Barcelona. In 2010, she designed Motorhead (an angular metal rock band face) and Cupcake (a playful serif face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Fusinski

In Laura Meseguer's class in Barcelona, Andrea Fusinski designed a German expressionist typeface called Shelley (2013).

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Andrea Garcia

Barcelona-based graphic designer and illustrator, who made Bubble Line type (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Ruiz

As a design student in Barcelona, Andrea Ruiz created the modular typeface Crear (2013).

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Andreu Balius Planelles
[Garcia Fonts&Co]

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Andreu Balius Planelles
[Type Republic]

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Andreu Balius Planelles

Born in Barcelona in 1962, Andreu Balius studied Sociology in the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, and graphic design at the IDEP School. He founded Garcia Fonts&Co in Barcelona in 1993 to show his experimental designs. He cofounded Typerware in 1996 with Joancarles P. Casasín. Typerware existed until 2001 and was based in Santa Maria de Martorelles, a village near Barcelona. He cofounded Type Republic (see also here), and ran Andreu Balius (tipo)graphic design. He is presently an associate professor at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.

Balius won a Bukvaraz 2001 award for Pradell. Pradell also won an award at the TDC2 Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2002. SuperVeloz (codesigned with Alex Trochut) won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition.

At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke on Pradell and Super-Veloz. Speaker at ATypI 2006 in Lisbon. At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he spoke about the Imprenta Real.

Author of Type at work. The use of Type in Editorial Design, published in English by BIS (Amsterdam, 2003).

FontFont link. Linotype link. Behance link.

His production:

• Garcia/Typerware offers about 50 fonts, including some very artsy faces, such as Fabrique (Andreu Balius), Futuda, Garcia Bodoni (Typerware), Alkimia (Estudi Xarop), Ariadna (pixel font, 1988-1989), Garcia Bitmap (1993), Playtext (Andreu Balius, 1995), Matilde Script (Andreu Balius, 1994: an embroidery face), Fabrique (1993, Andreu Balius) and Dinamo (1993, Balius and Casasin at Typerware), Helvetica Fondue (1993-1994), Futuda (1993), Ozo Type (1994), Tiparracus (1994, dingbats), Mi mama Me Soba Script (1994), Parkinson (1994), Garcia Bodoni (1995), Garcia snack's (1993-1995), Juan Castillo Script (1995, irregular handwriting), and Vizente Fuster (1995), all by Andreu Balius and Joancarles Casasin, 1993-1995; Water Knife (Laudelino L.Q., 1995); Alquimia (Estudi Xarop, 1995); Jam Jamie (Malcolm Webb, 1996); Network (Alex Gifreu, 1996); Panxo-Pinxo (David Molins, 1996); Euroface 80 mph (Peter Bilak, 1996); Inmaculatta (Roberto Saenz Maguregui, 1997); Proceso Sans (by Argentinan Pablo Cosgaya, 1996); Afligidos deudos (Adria Gual, 1996); Route 66 (Francesc Vidal, 1997); Popular (Sergi Ibanez, 1997); Visible (handwriting by Fabrice Trovato, 1997); SoundFile (Reto Brunner, 1998); Ninja type (kana-lookalike alphabet by Charly Brown, 1995); Vertigo (Charly Brown, 1996); Loop UltraNormal (Franco and Sven, 1996); Inercia (Inigo Jerez, 1996).
• Fontshop: FF Fontsoup.
• ITC: ITC Temble (1996, a great subdued ghoulish face). With Joancarles P. Casasin, he created ITC Belter (1996) and ITC Belter Mega Outline (1996).
• Typerware: Czeska was developed from Vojtech Preissig's woodtype faces. Andreu Balius completed the design and included an italic version and a large variety of ligatures (both for regular and italic).
• Type Republic: Pradell, Trochut, SuperVeloz, SV Marfil Caps (2004), SV Fauno Caps. Pradell was freely inspired from punches cut by catalan punchcutter Eudald Pradell (1721-1788), and is considered to be Balius' main work. Trochut is based on specimens from the 1940s by Joan Trochut. SuperVeloz is a collection of the type modules designed by Joan Trochut and produced at José Iranzo foundry in the beginning of the 40's, in Barcelona. Digitized and recovered by Andreu Balius and Alex Trochut in 2004. Example of such composition of modules include the great art nouveau faces SV Fauno Caps and SV Marfil Caps. In 2007, he added Taüll, a blackletter type. Still in 2007, he did the revival Elizabeth ND, which was based on an old type of Elizabeth Friedlander.
• In 2008, he created the Vogue mag like family Carmen (Display, Fiesta, Regular), which are rooted in the didone style. Carmen, and its flirtatious companion Carmen Fiesta, were both reviewed by Typographica.
• Barna (2011) and Barna Stencil (2011).
• In 2012, Trochut was published as a free font family at Google Web Fonts. It was based on Joan Trochut-Blanchard's Bisonte.
• Lladro (2012) is a custom sans typeface done for the Lladro company.
• Rioja (2013) is a grotesque typeface that was custom-designed for Universidad de La Rioja.

Andreu Zaragoza

Barcelona-based creator of the typographic poster La Mano Larga (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angel Alvarez
[Tipode]

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Ania Kruk

Ania Kruk (b. 1987, Poznan, Poland) is a designer in Barcelona. She has studied towards an MA in design at the University of Aerts in Poznan, 2005-2011 and obtained a Masters in Advanced Typography and Editorial Design in 2010 at Eina (Escola de Disseny i Art, Barcelona).

She created the text face Arnie (2011). She writes: Arnie is a text typeface designed for books and poetry. Due to calligraphic origin, rather classical proportions and flat curves, it seems solid and stable. While big counters and varying line weight make it look light and airy in long texts. She also created the signage script face Cookie (2011), which is free at Google Web Fonts. Panna Kotta (2010) is an upright italic. Ladaco (2008) is inspired in Polish folkloric cut-outs.

Krotta One (2012, Google Web Fonts) is an italic typeface. It was renamed Kotta a few days later.

Behance link. Google Web Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Barbal

Barcelona-based creator of some geometric typefaces in 2013.

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Anna Carbonell

Barcelona-based designer of the geometric sans display typeface Pinocchio (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Muni

Freelance graphic designer in Barcelona, who created the connect-the-dots font Linkup (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antidesign
[Santi Vilagran Casanovas]

Freelance designer in Girona, Spain. Behance link. He created the multiline neon-look techno face Adtype01 (2010) and the futuristic face Adtype00 (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antoni Morillas

Catalan designer of the decorative futuristic font Diagonal ND (1970, Neufville), named after the main street in Barcelona. [The MyFonts page gives 2000 as a date, a bit confusing!] FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Antonio Lopez
[Fundicion de Antonio Lopez]

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Antonio Prado

Barcelona-based creator of an identity typeface Soldevila (2012) for a restaurant by that name in Calders, Catalunya. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ariadna Veas

Barcelona-based designer of the wavy display face Belafonte (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arturo Gonzalez Casas

Combine the principle of the piano key typeface first introduced by Wim Crouwel and that of interlocking letters, and you have the Kawasaki Display typeface designed by Barcelona-based designer Arturo Gonzalez Casas in 2013.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ashley Breunich

Graphic designer in New York City, who created a font based on the mosaics of Gaudi called Barcelona (2012). It was used in an imaginary rebranding of that city. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Atelier Laia
[Santos Bregaña]

Spanish typefoundry, est. 2013. One of its founders, Santos Bregaña, writes: Of Croatian origin, Santos Bregaña is born by chance in the city of Pamplona in 1965 on the very day that Le Corbusier drowns in Cap Martin. After studying architecture in San Sebastian and Barcelona he launches the Laia Atelier in 1996 where he focuses on interior design, and on graphic and industrial design projects associated with the culinary culture and business. In 2008 he receives, along with co-creator Anne Ibañez Guridi, the Art Director's Club of New York Sphere Award for their body of work for the restaurant Mugaritz. He leads Tabula, a publishing house dedicated to the spread of culture and gastronomy, and is a speaker on public forums and seminars related to high cuisine. His porcelain designs and his O! Luna, Tabula, and Linneo collections have received international praise and are in many of the best restaurants and hotels in the world.

In 2013 Atelier Iaia published the calligraphic Iturzaeta-inspired typeface Lamia, a joint effort of Santos Bregaña, Julen Cano Linazasor and Maore Sagarzazu: The Lamia font is inspired by the work of the most famous calligrapher of the Basque Country, Jose Francisco de Iturzaeta Eizaguirre (Getaria, 1788-Madrid, 1853). His writing method was compulsory in Spanish schools since 1835. His "unpolished Spanish font" tried to be more effective than the more commercial English version by avoiding embellishments and excessive rear tearing. More akin with the liberal values imported by the French, his offerings sought uniformity, speed and efficiency to ensure that those in the less-favored echelons of society had an effective communication tool. From his "General collection of characters of European Letters" published in Madrid in 1833, we have chosen the "lower case pancilla reformed" represented in one of the prints. We have tried to reinterpret it by keeping its essence but also ensuring that it is viable for potential contemporary uses which, thanks to its good readability and effectiveness in longer texts, basically means as a decorative or display font. The upper case was generated using the lower case as a reference.

Waskonia (2013, Santos Bregaña) is inspired by Basq gravestones from the 8th century.

Earlier work of Santos Bregaña includes the Kai family (1999, with Mikel Enparantza) at Garagefonts.

FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Atipus

Design studio in Barcelona, est. 1998. They made the geometric display face Blanch (2011) for the Fruita Blanch brand. Free download. Lost Type link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aurelio Sánchez
[Fluorink]

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Bababau
[Xavier Puig]

Xavier Puig is a type and graphic designer, born in Artés, Barcelona. He moved to London in 2003 where he graduated in Visual Communication and Typography at the London College of Communication. He created the severe octagonal face Ihavebeenwaitingforyou (2009) and the LED face Water In My Casio (2009). In 2010, he added Sexything. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baimu Studio

Baimu Studio (Barcelona) created the display typeface Roundone (2012) and the elliptical Baimu house face (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

BaseLAB
[Joancarles P. Casasín]

Barcelona-based foundry involved in custom font work, est. 2005. Original fonts: Inclusive (2007), Urbanium (2005, a bold display face), Handwritten, Eixample (2008, octagonal and rounded), Screech (2008) and Begyptienne. Modified fonts (or re-fonts in their words) include Le Grand Palais (stencil, for La Force de l'Art, Paris, 2006), BeTV (for a Belgian TV channel), and VijfTV (a modification of Chalet for a Flemish TV station). Their custom types include Atrapalo, Kipling (a fashion mag family done in 2011), STM Montreal (2011, for the Montreal transportation system), Dialogue, Kidswa, Hangar and Costa Design. One of the main collaborators is Joancarles P. Casasín. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Begoña Viñuela

Designer, b. Bilbao, 1987, who graduated in 2010 with a degree in Fine Arts and a specialty in Graphic Design from the University of the Basque Country. She also obtained a Masters degree in typography from the University of Barcelona.

She created La Botica de Bernarda (2012, a retro display face). That typeface was co-designed with Mariana Alvarez Matijasevic.

Other type designs by Begoña include Bambola Script, which was created in Ricardo Rousselot's studio called Gruppo Erre. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bernat Gramage/Toni Benlliure
[Estudi Xarop]

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Birgit Palma

Austrian graphic designer located in Barcelona. She created the ornamental caps alphabet Reproduction (2012).

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Blackletra
[Daniel Sabino]

Brazilian type designer Daniel Sabino de Souza studied under Laura Meseguer at the Eina-Escuela Superior de Disseny in Barcelona. His foundry in Sao Paulo is called Blackletra.

He won an award at Tipos Latinos 2012 and at TDC 2013 for Karol. In 2012, he won the Silver Prize in the Latin category of the Morisawa Type Design Competition for Hashar, a beautiful angular connected script face.

In 2013, he published Karol at Type O Tones.

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bocr

Designer and illustrator in Barcelona who made a few typefaces in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bogidar Mascareñas

Editorial and graphic designer in Barcelona who designed a macho poster headline face in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bruno Carbonell

Graphic designer in Barcelona, who created Fedora Serif in 2012 and Ritual Serif (an esoteric face based on ancient blood rites and a bit of alchemy---think Jonathan Barnbrook) in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bruno Selles
[Vasava Artworks]

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Caligraft
[Ricard Marxer Piñón]

Beautiful (programmed) experimental letters derived from fonts. This is based on the Masters Thesis in Digital Arts, obtained in 2005 by the Catalan designer Ricard Marxer Piñón, 2006. For this, he wrote the "Geomerative" library of programs, which includes a truetype importer and interpreter.

Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carles Cosa

Aka Charly Brown, he designed Ninja Type and Vertigo at Garcia fonts. Lives and works in Barcelona. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Bermúdez

Graphic designer in Barcelona who created Fucktype (sic) (2011), a fat rounded face that is based on the logotype of Yoigo. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Galan Rubio

Carlos Galan Rubio (Barcelona) created the delicate display typeface Gracia Divina in 2012, which was custom designed for a store that sells religious articles.

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Carlos Romera

Barcelona-based designer and illustrator. Creator of the grungy alphabet Smokey (2009). Pic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carmen Marin

During her studies in Barcelona, Carmen Marin created the monoline modular typeface Blumenblatt (2013), for which she was inspired by petals. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carolina Trebol

Graphic designer in Figueres, Catalunya. She published the free basic sans face Marvel (2011, Google Web Fonts). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Catalana de tipos

Barcelona-based group headed by Laura Meseguer and Eduardo Manso which organizes frequent conferences and workshops on type. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ceferino Gorchs

Lettering artist from Barcelona who created this alphabet. A font called Gorchs was made in 2007 by Josep Patau Bellart (Astramat). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cel Tico Petit

Designer at Astramat, a Catalan foundry (part of ANTAVIANA SERVEIS INTERACTIUS, SCCL) located in Lleida. He made the grunge fonts FAXADA (2001), Gastada (2001), and Tiquet (2001). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cesc Aldabó

Designer in Barcelona. Behance link. Critters inspired him to create the experimental typeface Climb (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ch. Engel

Barcelona-based lettering artist. An example of his craft. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chema Sanchez

Chema Sanchez, or just snchz, is the Barcelona-based designer who created the fat angular typeface Alfonso (2012), the rounded type family Major18 (2005), the custom typeface Corpos Danone (2006).

Behance link.

A graduate of Bau, Escola Superior de Disseny, Chema works at Battlegroup since 2002. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christopher Burke
[Hibernia Type]

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Connare.com
[Vincent Connare]

Vincent Connare (b. 1960, Boston) is an ex-painter turned type designer, who holds an MA in typeface design from the University of Reading. in the late eighties/early nineties Connare worked in the Ikarus, Intellifont and TrueType teams for Agfa/Compugraphic, and was one of the first type designers to learn TrueType hinting. Then he joined Microsoft, where hw designed or had a big hand in Trebuchet (1996) and Comic Sans (1995). At Connare.com (Seattle), he designed the transitional book text face Magpie in 2000. He designed WildStyle for the Agfa Creative Alliance. He created Fabula (a font for children's texts in Basque, Catalan, Dutch, English, French, Frisian, Irish, Spanish and Welsh), Amaze (for mazes), and Vixar ASCII (1995, for Microsoft). And he is an expert TrueType font hinter!

Agfa's page on him. Note that there is a movement by Isaac Stanfield to ban Comic Sans, discussed at Typographica and Typophile. Interview by Karen Huang. Piece by Emily Steel.

Vincent Connare joined Dalton Maag in the spring of 2001 as production manager. At Dalton mag he was part of the team that developed Ubuntu and Nokia Pure. Can Comic Sans look good in design? Check Markku Ylisirniö's Comic Sans poster. At Ampersand in 2011, he concluded "I just wanted to let it go; it just looks ridiculous" explaining why he was not involved with Ascender's Comic Sans Pro. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cora Elizabeta Gomes

Designer in Barcelona who created Xilora (2010, grunge) and COR (2010, handprinted). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Corey Danks

Graphic design student in Philadelphia, PA, who created the angular and textured Sort Sol typeface (2012), which was inspired by large flocks of starlings. [Google] [More]  ⦿

cristianjr

Barcelona-based designer of Stencil Type (2012), a piano key typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cristina Gómez

Designer in Barcelona, who created the wonderful art deco typeface Goms (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cuarto Congreso internacional de Tipografía

A conference subtitled La letra dibujada was eld from June 18-20, 2010, in the Escuela de Arte y Superior de Diseño de Valencia, Valencia, Spain. Speakers included Gerrit Noordzij, Ken Barber, Ale Paul, Ricardo Rousselot, Javier Mariscal, James Mosley, Claude Mediavilla, Keith Adams, Marian Bantjes, Pepe Gimeno, Jose Ramon Penela, Pilar Cano and Sergio Jimenez. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cuatro Tipos

Design site and blog, in Spanish. It is much more concerned with mag design than typogrophy. Run by four guys from Valencia: Javier Perez Belmonte, Diego Obiol, Tomas Gorria, and Herminio Javier Fernandez. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Damià Rotger Miró
[Dúctil]

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Daniel Gago Valbuena

Barcelona-based designer of an unnamed curly typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Rodríguez Valero

Daniel Rodríguez Valero received his PhD in Arts in 2006 from University of Barcelona, where he also got a Postgraduate in Digital Typography. He teaches Typographic Design and Digital Typography in the Arts Faculty (University of Barcelona) since 1999, and Graphic Design in Advertising studies (University of Alicante) since 2002. He teaches Digital Typography at the máster ibérico em design, Oporto (Portugal). He has created a new system for type design called Constructor in collaboration with Marc Antoni Malagarriga I Picas, a programmer. Constructor is a glyph editor based on calligraphic curves, which he presented at TypeTech, ATypI in Brighton in 2007.

He writes: Constructor is a new tool for type design, open source and cross-platform, based on a calligraphic heritage that provides new possibilities. It can be combined with production tools like Fontographer or FontLab, because its finality is to construct outlines extrapolating some instructions or parameters given by the user. It works with only one master and produces different letterforms that can be copied/pasted to a font editor. It will help to design quickly a complete family, so the benefits of this new system for type designers are tremendous. He claims to be inspired in part by Gerrit Noordzij's theory of type design as explained in The stroke of the pen. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Sabino
[Blackletra]

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David J. Pascual Clavell

As a student in Barcelona, David Pascual created the stencil typeface The New Deco (2013).

Behance link. Aka David Spagetti. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Lopez

Barcelona-based designer of the 3d school project typeface Cube (2013) and of the geometric sans typeface Felicity (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Molins

Graphic designer from Sant Feliu del Llobregat near Barcelona. Designed Panxo-Panxo and Panxo-Pinxo (1996) at Garcia fonts. Both are grungy. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Ortega Ruedas

Barcelona-based designer of Diari (2012, a serifed text face in the style of Times Roman).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

deCamping Estudio

Barcelona-based studio which designed the rounded display face Bitbath (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Denis Zacaryas

Graphic designer in Barcelona. In 2012, he created the display typeface Pantoja.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dennis Campos

Located both in Venezuela and in Barcelona, this web designer created the ultimate minimalist ultra fat boxy font Black Block Box in 2008. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dorian

Studio in Barcelona. Their oeuvre includes a number of wine labels, such as Alfaro Barroco, for which a special set of ornamental initials was created in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dos BCN
[Jimmie Zu]

Creative studio in Barcelona run by Jimmie Zu. In 2013, they published the hexagonal display typeface Hexelia, the alchemic Benet Doble Line, and the compass-and-ruler typeface Sensilist. Rainbow is a fun display typeface.

Behance link. Another Behance link. Hellofont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dúctil
[Damià Rotger Miró]

Damià Rotger Miró (Menorca) is a type designer, letterer and graphic designer at Dúctil in Palma de Mallorca.

His creations in 2008-2009: Lullius (2009, a blackletter named in honor of Ramon Llull (Palma de Mallorca, 1232-1316)), Dúctil (2009, sans family), Crespell (2008, a soft organic sans), Miona (2008, an award winning and stunning serif), Concu (2007, sans family), Lullius Rotunda (2009).

In 2010, these fonts were added: Cintax (octagonal, modular), Lullius Textura, Lullius Borders, Moll (+Italic).

The sans family Ductil was designed in 2011.

In 2012, we find these new typefaces: Nuada, Lullius Textura Modula. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eduard Fossas Pastor

Barcelona-based graphic designer who made Koala (2011), a monoline geometric sans face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eduard Puig Sanchez

Ripoll-based designer of the shadow headline face Icy (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eduardo Manso
[Emtype]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Edy Type
[Ricardo Victor Rousselot Schmitt]

Ricardo Victor Rousselot is a calligrapher and type designer born in Argentina in 1936. He was trained in the sixties in Chicago in the studio Ficho&Corley Inc., which was led by a disciple of Frederic Goudy and Oswald Cooper, Carl Corley. After that, he returned to Buenos Aires, and in 1975, he settled permanently in Barcelona, where he teaches at the University of Barcelona.

His typefaces include Carlomagno (1997-2000) and Uncial Romana (1996), released by Neufville.

He sells his fonts nowadays through his foundry, Edy Type. For example, in 2010, Edy Type launched the lively connected handwriting font Despeinada, which, Ricardo says, tries to find the middle between Mistral and Zapfino. Chevronne (2010, not my favorite) is based on mediaeval / gothic forms but tries to be contemporary. Drumbeat (2011) is a calligraphic script face, and Bambola (2011) is a curly signage script.

Klingspor link Behance link. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

EINA, Escola de Disseny i Art

School in Barcelona that started a postgraduate type design program in 2003. Teachers include Laura Meseguer, José Manuel Urós (Type-o-Tones), and Iñigo Jerez. The Master's in Advanced Typography is coordinated by Enric Jardí. Other teachers not mentioned above include Allan Daastrup, Josep Babiloni, Arcàngela Regis, Eduardo Manso, Joan Carles Casasín, Josep Maria Pujol, Oriol Miró, Keith Adams, Ricardo Feriche, Patricia Ballesté, Flor Helguera, Teresa Domingo, Raquel Pelta, Enric Jardí, Jaume Serra, Fernando Gutiérrez and Luis Mendo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emil Kozak

Highly original freelance designer in Barcelona. He made the free art deco typeface EMILKOZAK.COM|fartdeco (2005). This typeface won the Fifth Annual Amagasaki Hanshin Sen Award in 2006 for best typonomy. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emtype
[Eduardo Manso]

Emtype is the foundry in Buenos Aires that was founded in 1997 by Eduardo Manso. Eduardo was born in Buenos Aires in 1972 and studied graphic design at the Escuela de Artes Visuales Martín A. Malharro and at the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, both in Mar del Plata. Art director of the Argentinian graphic design mag "el Huevo". He currently lives in Barcelona. His typefaces include the pixel font family Dixplay (2003, Emtype), the grunge font Eroxion (1997) and Rina Linea and Rina (2001), all at at Bitstream, the text family Bohemia (2004), Andromeda ([T-26]), Garadonis, Fluxus, Ovalus (2005, free dot matrix face), Relato (2005, advertised as a muscular serif family), Relato Sans (2005, which won an award at TDC2 2006), Merss (2000, ITC), Argot (2004, winner of an award at TDC2 2004), Flour, and Flour Inline.

Argot was renamed Bohemia (published in 2004 with Linotype), and won an award at the Linotype International Type Design Contest 2003. EMT lorena won an award at TDC2 2007.

He custom designed Sunday Times Modern (2008) for the Sunday Times.

Still in 2008, he published Geogrotesque, a semimodular geometric display face in 7 styles. Geogrotesque won an award at Tipos Latinos 2010. This was followed in 2009 by Geogrotesque Stencil.

He created the custom face La Grilla.

Periodico (Text, Display) was originally commissioned by the Spanish daily newspaper 'ABC', and was published as a 30-font family with lots of old Spanish ingredients in 2011.

Ciutadella (2012) was originally commissioned by Mario Eskenazi's studio. It is a versatile geometric sans serif, a simple, clean and direct family.

Myfonts page. Linotype page. Behance link. FontShop link. Klingspor link.

Catalog of Eduardo Manso's typefaces.

View Eduardo Manso's typefaces.

View even more of Eduardo Manso's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Enric Crous-Vidal

Type designer born in Lerida, Spain (1908), who lived and worked mostly in Paris, where he had emigrated to during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). He died in 1987 in Noyon. All his fonts are available from Neufville. He was the founder of the movement that is known as Grafía Latina, which promoted the need to create a new system of typically Latin (as opposed to cold geometric nordic) typographic structures, graphics, alphabets and decorative ornaments.

FontShop link.

As art director of the Fonderie Typographique Française, he designed these fonts:

• Champs Elysées (1956).
• Flash (1953). Digital forms include Neufville's Flash ND and the URW copy called Flashes by Ralph M. Unger (2007).
• Aragón: an art deco face. This was digitized by Nick Curtis as La Reyna Catalina NF, 2006).
• Ilerda (1945, Neufville). This typeface is also known as Champs Élysées in France, where it was published by FTF.
• Les Catalanes (1952). A Western saloon font that was never produced. It was digitized by Nick Curtis as Daliwood NF (2006), and by Harold Lohner as Cattle Annie (2006).
• Paris Light (1953), Paris Medium (1953), Paris Bold (1953): all published at Neufville
• Fuga de Arabescos (1954, Neufville): flowing ornaments.

View Enric Crous-Vidal's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Enric Huguet

Catalan type designer who made Nova Gótica Huguet (1964-1970), Expo82 (a custom design for the 1982 exposition in Barcelona). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Enric Jardi

Born in Barcelona in 1964. Graphic design teacher at Elisava in Barcelona since 1988. Director of the Master on Advanced Typography at the Eina school of art and design, in collaboration with the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He also teaches a Master's course on art direction and advertising at Ramon Llull University. Author of Twenty-two tips on typography (that some designers will never reveal) and twenty-two things you should never do with typefaces (that some typographers will never tell you) (Actar).

At type-o-tones in Barcelona, Enric Jardi created Neeskens, Retòrica Buida (1995), Retòrica-Plena (1995), Deseada (1995), Escher, Magothic, Mayayo (great display font!), Peter Sellers, Poca, Radiorama (1995), Verdaguera (1995), Wilma (1995-2007: a chromatic type system), Xiquets Forever (1995, dingbats).

Interview by MyFonts.

Klingspor link. Type-o-tones link. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Estefania Mata

Spanish designer (b. 1985) from Malaga who now lives in Barcelona. Dafont link. Creator of the free fat poster face La Unica (2011).

Fontsquirrel link.

Aka Estefania Hormigo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Estudi Xarop
[Bernat Gramage/Toni Benlliure]

A Xàtiva, Valencia-based graphic design studio founded in 1993 by Toni Benlliure and Bernat Gramage. They designed Alquimia (1995, grunge) at Garcia Fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Estudio Mariscal
[Javier Mariscal]

Estudio Mariscal is a Barcelona-based design studio that experimented a lot with letters in designs. It created Hannover-Modern in 1996-1997 (for the World Exposition in 2000 in Hannover), available at type-o-tones. The resident type designer is Javier Mariscal. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Etna Santacreu

Etna Santacreu (aka Fluna Daiyunel) is a designer in Barcelona (b. 1990) who created the hand-printed Fluna's Handwriting (2009, FontCapture). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eudald Pradell

Catalan punchcutter (b. Ripoll, 1721, d. 1788). Andreu Balius won a Bukvaraz award for the typeface Pradell at Bukvaraz 2001. He was Spain's most important punchcutter in the 18th century. He was commissioned by King Carlos III to provide new typefaces for the Imprenta Real in Madrid. Read about Pradell and the Fundición del convento de San José de Barcelona (by Albert Corbeto). Balius writes about his Pradell typeface family: Eudald Pradell (1721-1788) was born within a family of gunsmiths and learned the practice of being an armourer with his father, adquiring the knowledge of making punches. Pradell first established his own workshop in Barcelona. Despite he was illiterate, he was able to produce one of the most appreciated typefaces ever cut in Spain. His fame as a punchcutter increased and King Carlos III gave him a pension in order to provide new type designs at the Royal printing house in Madrid, where he finally moved and set up his foundry. During the 19th century Pradell was forgotten, those "golden" ages of printing in Spain were part of the past. During the past four years (2000-2004) I have initiated an investigation on the work of Eudald Pradell with the aim of reclaim the memory of the punchcutter and his work. The result from that introspection is the Latin text family "Pradell", inspired from 18th century spanish type specimens. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Eva Barcelo

Illustrator and designer in Palma de Mallorca. She created some hand-drawn school fonts, both connected and non-connected, in 2013, in a learning to read project called Pipo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Evelin Toledano

Evelin Toledano (Barcelona) showed Täxtur in 2013 on Behance. It is possible that this typeface was designed by her. [Google] [More]  ⦿

FC Barcelona, Real Madrid

FC Barcelona (2009), Premier League (2007), and Real Madrid 2009 (2009) are athletic lettering typefaces made a designer who wishes to remain anonymous. Even though I know the designer, I am classifying these typefaces now as orphaned. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Federico Landini

Designer in Barcelona who was born in 1982 in Pistoia, Italy. MyFonts link. MyFonts foundry link. Behance link. He created the ultra fat counterless face Virgola Mobile (2010) and the elegant art deco face Fabrizio (2011). In 2011, he created an original octagonal face called Excellens: Excellens is the first font totally created using Microsoft EXCEL 97. The glyph design was done using a standard EXCEL 97 worksheet, adding some border and diagonal color to draw the letters shape. The final result is something that reminds one of the Cholo Graffiti Calligraphy used by Mexican gangs in Los Angeles, but in a new digital and elegant way. Anunnaki (2011) is an artificial language font.

Federico Landini and Jonathan Calugo cooperated on Chinotto Regular (2012), a sans face custom designed for the Pistoia Underground Festival.

Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ferran Millan Oliveras

Graduate of the University of Reading in 2011 who lives in Catalunya and/or the UK. He created the Latin / Arabic face Bubblegum (2011) during his studies there. Bubblegum is soft and rounded, but is remarkably well-suited for small text thanks the careful use of inktraps.

In 2012, he won the Bronze Prize in the Latin category of the Morisawa Type Design Competition for Baldufa. Baldufa was also crowned at TDC 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Flavio Morais

Designer at type-o-tones in Barcelona who made Analfabeta Regular and Pics (1997, with Joan Barjau).

FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fluorink
[Aurelio Sánchez]

Art direction and graphic design by Aurelio Sánchez in Barcelona. Behance link. Creator of the counterless modular face Expanded (2009) and the 3d face Compact Box Type (2006), created in a workshop led by Andreu Balius. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Folch Studio
[Albert Folch]

Albert Folch established Folch Studio in Barcelona in 2004. Folch Studio's typefaces:

• In 2006: FS Schoolbook Mono Italic (by Omar Sosa), Cordinate Bold (by Miquel Polidano), Times Screen (a pixelized version of Times, by Miquel Polidano), FS Courier (by Omar Sosa), A80172536 (by Omar Sosa).
• In 2007: FS Trivial, FS Futura (by Miquel Polidano).
• In 2008: FS Ugly Italic (by Miquel Polidano and Reto Moser).
• In 2012: Dear (a corporate font for Dear Collective in Madrid).

Typecache link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Francesc Moretó

Barcelona-based designer. Behance link. Creator of Fills de Moretó (2012). Behance link. Creator of Fills de Moretó (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Francesc Vidal

Artist and cultural activist in Reus, near Tarragona. At Garcia fonts, Vidal designed Route 66 (1997), a scratchy white on black font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Franko Rosas

Graphic designer in San Diego and Tijuana, who created the block faces Powinaky, Liber and SqL in 2010. Baika (2010) is a thin avant-garde face. On Behance though, he mentions Barcelona as his home base. Finalist in the 17th Annual San Diego Latino Film Festival's Poster Competition. Besides some custom typefaces, he also designed experimental faces such as Liber13 (high-contrast squarish poster face) and Lisa The Lush. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fundición Tipográfica Bauer (or: Bauertypes)

Distributor in Barcelona of Neufville fonts, est. 1995. The fonts can also be bought at MyFonts. Ownership: the successors of Georg and Carlos Hartmann: Wolfgang and Vivian Hartmann. Digital type production director is Antoni Amate. Bauertypes also has a nice set of books and typoe catalogs for sale. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Fundición Tipográfica José Iranzo
[José Iranzo]

Fundición Tipográfica José Iranzo is a Spanish foundry which published type faces in the 1940s such as the heavy script font Pulido, the commercial modern face Publicidad (1930) and Supertipo Veloz (1942, see Neufville). Located in Barcelona and Madrid. José Iranzo published Catálogos : Tipos (Madrid, 1968). Catalog in PDF format (thanks to J.R. Penela). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fundición Tipográfica Nacional

Spanish foundry active in the 20th century, with offices in Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia. It made typefaces such as Numantina, Numancia, Hispalis (digitally revived by Red Rooster as Schiller Antiqua), Grotesca Nacional, Nueva Grotesca, Vigorosa, Clasico Nacional, Electra, Imperio, Radar (brush script), Romana, Ingles 15, and Rusinol (C. Winkow).

Catalogo de la Fundicion Tipografica Nacional. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Fundicion de Antonio Lopez
[Antonio Lopez]

Late 19th century foundry in Barcelona, which worked mostly with types imported from France and Germany. Their work can be found in Fundicion de caractéres de imprenta y fábrica de tintas de imprimir de Antonio Lopez (Barcelona, 1869). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Garcia Fonts&Co
[Andreu Balius Planelles]

Experimental foundry, est. 1993 in Barcelona by Andreu Balius who lives in Santa Maria de Martorelles near Barcelona. It existed for a few years and evolved into Typerware.

Garcia/Typerware offered about 50 fonts, including some very artsy faces, such as Garcia Bitmap (1993), Playtext (Andreu Balius, 1995), Matilde Script (Andreu Balius, 1994: an embroidery face), Helvetica Fondue (1993-1994), Futuda (1993), Ozo Type (1994), Tiparracus (1994, dingbats), (Mi mama) Me soba Script (1994), Parkinson (1994), Garcia Bodoni (1995), Garcia snack's (1993-1995), Juan Castillo Script (1995, irregular handwriting of an old man, Typerware), and Vizente Fuster (1995), all by Andreu Balius and Joancarles Casasin, 1993-1995.

The list of typefaces as of 2007: Afligidos deudos (1996, grunge face by Adi&arave; Gual), Alexis (1997, handwriting face by Alexis Rom), Alfallufat, (1998, fun display family by Saíz), Alquimia (1995, grunge face by Estudi Xarop), Ariadna (1988-1989, pixel face by Andreu Balius), Braille (1999, by "Txarly Brown", a Braille simulation face), Bubbles (1996, dot matrix face by Franco Bonaventura), BuckShot (1994, total grunge by Malcolm Webb), Bunghole (1996, grungy pixel face by Michael G. Kippenhan), Calypso (1997, Txarly Brown), Cartolina (2000, poster stencil face by Jordi Fosch), Cero (2001, sans face by Miguel M. Velacoracho), Dinamo (1993, Andreu Balius), Dr. Zaius (1997, André Nossek), Euroface 80mph ad 100mph (1996, Peter Bilak: a joke typeface that reads more easily as one speeds up on a highway), Fabrique (1993, Andreu Balius), Floridax (1997, a stunning stencil face by Txarly Brown), Freddie Frog (1996, Malcolm Webb), Funny (2001, caps for kids, by Jordi Fosch), Futuda (1993, grunge by Balius and Perez Casasin), Game (2002, by Miguel M. Velacoracho), Garage (1997, grune by Fabrice Trovato), Garcia Bitmap (1993, Balius), Garcia Bodoni (1995, an experimental Bodoni by Balius and Perez Casasin), Garcia Snack's (1993-1995, snack bar lettering by Balius and Perez Casasin), Helvetica Fondue (1993-1994, Helvetica with cheese holes; by Balius and Perez Casasin), Hispana (1996, by José M. Ribagorda), Hokvo (1994, pixel style face by Perez Casasin), Inercia (1996, a rounded sans by Inigo Jerez), Inmaculatta (1997, grunge by Roberto Saenz Maguregui), Jam Jamie (1996, painted letter simulation face by Malcolm Webb), Janson (1997, grunge by Harald Weber), Juan Castillo Script (1995, by Balius and Perez Casasin, based on the handwriting of an old man in Albacete), Joroña (2001, Kafkaesque caps by Jordi Fosch), Kentucky (1997, grune by André Nossek), Loop Ultra (1996, Franco Bonaventura), Loreakop (1995, irregular hand by Txarly Brown), Martí Hand Script (1998, Saíz), Matilde Script (1993-1994, Balius), MCK mono (2005, pixel face by Milos Radosavljevic), Mi Mama Me Soba Script (1994, grunge script by Balius and Perez Casasin), Network (1996, Alex Gifreu), Ninja type (1995, kana-lookalike by Txarly Brown), Ozó Type (1994, an overprinted type by Balius and Perez Casasin), Pantacas (1998, grunge by Nicolas Gallardo), Panxo Pinxo (1996, David Molins), Parkinson (1994, grunge face by Balius and Perez Casasin), Playtext (1993-1996, Balius), Popular (1997, Sergi Ibañez), Proceso Sans (1996, only crosses, by Pablo Cosgaya), Rocky (1997, grunge by Harald Weber), Route 66 (1997, Francesc Vidal), Sablon (2005, a stencil face by Marcus Schreiter), Simple (2001, experimental typeface by Romulo Fernandez), Skupitajo (1998, graffiti letters by Nicolas Gallardo), SoundFiles (1998, totally off-the-wall experimental face by Reto Brunner), Surface (2001, grunge by Jordi Fosch), Temble (1993, Balius), Tiparracus (1994, dingbats by Balius and Perez Casasin), Trash (1996, grunge face by Matthias Rawald), Vertigo (1996, a Kafkaesque face by Txarly Brown), Visible (handwriting by Fabrice Trovato, 1997), Vizente Fuster (1995, handwriting by Balius and Perez Casasin based on scripts seen in the Sant Antoni market), Water Knife (1995, a medieval calligraphic script revival by Laudelino L.Q), Weird (1996, an experimental face by Mladen Balog). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Georgina Llados

Designer in Barcelona, who published a small booklet enttled Sixties and Type. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gerald Puig
[Tipocondriac]

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Gilbert Bages

Photographer in barcelona who created the modular art deco typeface DecoPop (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gina Serret

Graphic designer in Sabadell, Catalunya, who was born in Barcelona. Behance link.

Gina's Canica (2011) is a typeface to be used in publications for children. It has been designed from shapes which are simple, clean, easy to distinguish, and pleasant to read. It was developed within the Eina Master's in Advanced Typography in Barcelona. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Giuseppe Salerno
[Resistenza]

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Google Maps Typewriter Machine
[Marc Antoni Malagarriga i Picas]

A free on-line tool to write text using letters found as patterns in google maps. By Marc Antoni Malagarriga i Picas at the University of Barcelona. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hector Carillo Aspano

Barcelona-based graphic designer who created the avant garde experimental typeface AMFE (2013), and of Scanogram (2013).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hector Carrillo Aspano

Creator of Bowman (2010), a font specially made as a typographic tribute to 2001: A Space Odyssey. Hector is located in Barcelona and was born in 1988. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Helena Pérez Garcia

Graphic designer, illustrator and photographer in Valencia, Spain, who created a thin monoline face called Miranda Sans (2011), a slabby didone face called Cecilia (2011) and an experimental minimalist face called Rota (2011, with Pablo Funcia). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hibernia Type
[Christopher Burke]

Hibernia Type is run by Christopher Burke (b. 1967), the British designer of the text face Celeste (FontFont, 1999-2000) and Celeste Sans (2004). His balanced sans serif text face Pragma ND (1995) is available from Neufville. Chris got a Ph from, and later taught typography at the University of Reading from 1996-2001. He was instrumental in setting up the MA program in type design at Reading. In 2002, he finished Parable, which was published at FontFont as FF Parable.

Author of Renner, Paul: The Art of Typography, Hyphen Press, 1999 (U&LC review). His essay Jan Tschichold&Sabon, written in the specimen book Linotype Sabon Next (Linotype, 2002), is is a must for anyone wishing to understand Tschichold. FontFont bio. FontShop link. MyFonts listing. Chris lived (still lives?) in Barcelona.

Klingspor link.

View Christopher Burke's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Hio Massaguer

Hio Massaguer (b. 1983, Girona) is a graphic designer in Barcelona. He made the ornamental caps typeface Bones (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hubert Gotard

Born in Rumily, Gotard settled in Barcelona in 1581, where he was an active type founder and printer until about 1590. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ignasi Albero

Graphic designer from Barcelona, who created a clean marker pen typeface called Marker (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Imprenta Ramirez

Late 19th century foundry in Barcelona, which worked mostly with types imported from France and Germany. Predecessor of Fundicion Neufville in Barcelona. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Index Book

Book publisher in Barcelona, which has an active section on typography. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Inquietto
[Oscar Marchal]

Oscar Marchal (Inquietto; b. 1977) is an art director and creative director in Barcelona, who specializes in motion graphics, animation, 3D graphics, illustration, graphic design, cinema, TV graphics and multimedia applications. He has made some experimental typefaces: Pena (2009), Buga (2009), Sticky (2008), Rec (2008). Extravaganzza (2008) is a free sans face that can be found here. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Iñigo Jerez Quintana
[Textaxis]

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Irene Clua

Art director in Barcelona and Andorra, who studied at IDEP, School of Design in Barcelona. She lives in Andorra. Her typefaces include Escola Andorrana (2013, layered geometric face), and Marmott (2013, a serifed text typeface).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Isaac Art Grant
[Krisp Designs]

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Isaac Ballesté Martorell

Catalan graphic designer who lives in Olot and/or Montblanch. He created the sans family Alfa (2012), in which he attempts to offer total neutrality by taking common legible features from all famous sans typefaces.

Black Flag (2013) is a poster typeface motivated by revolutions. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Isaac Claramunt

Barcelona-based designer of the piano key typeface Quicktype (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

James George Dunn
[Type For Now]

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Jaume Osman Granda

Jaume Osman Granda is a designer from Vilanova i la Geltrú, near Barcelona. He studied multimedia programming at the Polytechnic University in Terrassa.

Creator of the 3d hand-printed typeface Cubitus, which can be had for free at Dafont as Creator of Cubus (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jaume Ros

Designer at type-o-tones in Barcelona who created Despatxada (1997) and Frankie Dos. FontShop link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Javier Mariscal
[Estudio Mariscal]

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Jimmie Zu
[Dos BCN]

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Joan A. Alegret
[La Tipomatika]

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Joan Barjau

Born in Barcelona in 1950, Joan Barjau is a graphic and type designer, cartoonist, illustrator, painter, and animator who taught at Eina in Barcelona from 1984-1993. Designer at type-o-tones in Barcelona who made Analfabeta Regular (1999, with Flavio Morais), Analfabeta Pics (1999, with Flavio Morais), Ebu Script (2007, a technical script done with José Manuel Urós), Iva (1995-1998), Jeune Adrian (1997), MeMimas (1991-2007, upright connected script done with José Manuel Urós; a Spanish school script commissioned in 1991 by publisher Barcanova), MeMimasAlternate, the great Sniff (1995), Talqual (1997, handwriting), Tschicholina (1997, unicase font inspired by Tschichold), Xiquets Primitives (1995, dingbats), Zubizarreta (1997, an award winner at Bukvaraz 2001; Zubizarreta Tosca is clearly Kafkaesque; the whole family is a mix between Neanderthal simplicity and Basque toughness).

Interview by MyFonts.

FontShop link. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Joan Marti Mas
[TypePhases (was: vigital tipografia)]

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Joan Miro

Surrealist Catalan painter, 1893-1983. His work spawned a lot of interest from the part of type designers, who created a number of typefaces in his unique style. The one most taken with Miro's art is undoubtedly Manfred Klein. A listing of the key typefaces influenced by Miró:

• Miroh (2012): By Wecsley Oliveira.
• Patens (2012): By Melissa Lee Pierce.
• Juan Miro (2003): By Sara Ludwig.
• P22 Catalan (2003): by Terry Wüdenbachs at P22.
• Mirobattz (2005), Mironikas (2006), Mirodish (2004), Mouse Learn Miro (2003), Romi Petito (2003), MyMaestroMrMiro (2006) and MirosWitchesMedium (2006): By Manfred Klein
• Jill's Miro: By Jill Bell.
• BB Miro EF (1995): By Simone Schöpp (ex Simone May).
• ITC Peter's Miro (1997): By John Peter.

Joan Ramon Pastor Rovira
[Ultra Types]

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Joan Trochut-Blanchard

Catalan designer (b. 1920, Caldes de Montbui, d. 1980, Barcelona) of Bisonte (Fonderie Typographique Française, 1950), Juventud (script face at the Fonderie Typographique Francaise, 1950; Hutchings mentions the Gans Foundry: this is, in fact, the Gans version of his Muriel), Muriel (Fonderie Typographique Française, 1950, a script face), Novadam (a logotype from the 1940s; also called Sphlex) and the modular art deco family Supertipo Veloz (Fundición José Iranzo, 1942).

Rebecca Alaccari and Patrick Griffin (Canada Type) published a revival and elaborate extension of Muriel as Blanchard. Novadam, a great geometric black modern face, was digitized by Nick Curtis as Novadam Obese (2005). Nick Curtis's Conga Line NF (2002) and Super Bob Triline are based on SuperVeloz.

Super Veloz allows snap-on serifs and incredible modularity, thanks to the implementation by Andreu Balius and Alex Trochut.

Bibliography on SuperTipo Veloz: Enric Satué and Mario Esquenazi, SuperTipo Veloz. Un sistema tipográfico para el pequeño impresor, Cuadernos de Comunicación 1. Barcelona, 1989; V. Martínez Sicluna, Teoría y práctica de la Tipografía Gustavo Gili. Barcelona, 1945; Joan and Esteban Trochut, NOVADAM (vol. 1, 2, 3 y 4), Sadag. Barcelona; Joan y Esteban Trochut, ABUNDANCIA (catalog), Barcelona (1950's).

Digital descendants: Conga Line NF (1999-2002, Nick Curtis); the lower case of Astoria Titling (Nick Curtis) is based on Super Veloz. Andreu Balius's free family Trochut (2012, Google Web Fonts) is based on Bisonte. Balius and Alex Trochut codesigned Super Veloz in 2005.

Klingspor link.

The ultimate tribute to Trochut-Blanchard is Superveloz net. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Joan Zenor

During his studies in Barcelona, Joan Zenor created Quantum Zen (2013, FontStruct). FontStruct link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joancarles P. Casasín
[BaseLAB]

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Joancarles P. Casasín

Catalan type designer who made ITC Belter and FF FontSoup.

He is co-principal of Typerware with Andreu Balius, in Barcelona. At Typerware, he codesigned the following original fonts with Andreu Balius: TW Czeska, TW FaxFont amily, TW NotTypeWriterButPrinter, FF FontSoup, Matilde Script, Garcia Bodoni. Check the Canas Cister Abbey font project. Check also the award winning font Universitas Salamantini by the Typerware duo.

In 2010, he created Adineue Bold for Adidas. For the fashion brand Kipling, he designed a vogueish typeface called Kipling (2012). For the STM Montreal (the transport authority of Montreal), he created a custom typeface called STM Montreal (2011).

Interview with Penela. Fontfont link. FontShop link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Joancarles P. Casasín
[Typerware]

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Joaquim Massana
[Tipos Reunidos (or: Petit Comite)]

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Joel Arss

Designer in Barcelona. His Oboe typeface (2012) has a negative axis and is remarkably sturdy and readable. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joel Lozano

Barcelona-based codesigner with Robin Frank at T-26 of dingbats and letters derived from a motorcycle: Mototype (2008, 4 styles). The free Network Font (2011) is a monospaced, yet experimental concoction.

Behance link. . [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jordi
[Tipografia Lleida]

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Jordi Bosch

Graphic designer in Barcelona who created an unnamed stencil typeface for a school project in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jordi Collell

Catalan designer at FontStruct in 2008 of bb_tempo_extended_3, bbtempo (pixel face), bbtempo_bold, bbtempo_condensed. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jordi Embodas
[Tipografies]

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Jordi Fosch

Tarragona-based Catalan designer of the typewriter font called Let32,2, and of the comic book font Love Gun. He also made Escher Desigual and FoschWords 1. In 2000, he created the poster stencil face called Cartolina (2000). In 2001, he designed the grunge face Surface (Garcia Fonts), the Kafkaesque all-caps face Jroña (Garcia Fonts) and the all-caps kids face Funny (Garcia Fonts). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jordi Huaman

Barcelona-based designer of a really really ultra-fat rounded face, based on the architecture in the Eixample neighborhood of Barcelona. The face is called Eixample (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jorge León Dumpierrez

Born in 1987 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, this graphic designer worked in Bacelona for two years at Folch Studio and Clase BCN. Today, he lives in the Canary Islands.

He created Foster (2010, a didone italic) and the display faces Joker Serif and Joker Slab Serif (2010). Tauromaquia (2012) was inspired by bull fights. Futura and medieval symbology influenced Jorge in the creation of the alchemic typeface Avariciya (2013). Tiempo (2013) is a Peignotian sans.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jornadas Tipograficas

July 7-11, 2009: a week of exhibits, conferences and workshops about typography, editorial design and typographic motion, organized by Bau, Escola Superior de Disseny, Barcelona. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jose Alberto Gonzalez Vega

Alberto Gonzalez (b. 1977, Algeciras) runs Plus Design in Barcelona. He created FAT BROSS (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

José Iranzo
[Fundición Tipográfica José Iranzo]

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José Manuel Urós
[Neue]

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José Manuel Urós

Aka Josema Uros. Self-taught programmer in Barcelona, b. 1956, who set up the typefoundry Type-O-Tones in 1992. He is also involved in Neue in Barcelona. Since 1993 he has been teaching at Eina, Elisava, ESDI and IDEP. His typefaces:

• Arboria (2013). An art deco or architectural sans family published by Type O Tones.
• Designer at type-o-tones in Barcelona of Ebu Script (2007). This is a techno script created together with Joan Barjau.
• Chico (2009).
• Hannover Modern (Type o Tones).
• Joost (1995-2010). Also done at Type o Tones, this is a monoline geometric / organic family with an odd Futura Black style paino key Stencil thrown in. He writes that the inspiration came from the Bauhaus Dessau im Gewerbemuseum Basel exhibition poster, designed in 1929 by Franz Ehrlich after a sketch by Joost Schmidt, and hence the name Joost.
• Memimas (2007). A connected upright script, done with Joan Barjau at Type o Tones.
• Matricia (2007). A dot matrix face done at TypeOTones done with Pera Ribalta.
• Mundo Demibold (Type o Tones).
• Vulcano (2007, TypeOTones). A typeface developed together with Tori Alimbau and Luis Mendo.
• At KABK in Den Haag, where he did graduate work in type design, he created Rumba as a final project (2004).

Interview by MyFonts.

Klingspor link. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Josep Baqués

Catalan painter, sculptor and graphic designer, b. 1931, Barcelona. He created Zurich (ca. 1968), a roman all caps face, that can be seen here, here and here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Josep M. Ganyet

Designer associated with Ars Virtualis and Tipos Reunidos in Barcelona. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Josep Maria Pujol

Typography professor at the Escola Eina. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Josep Pascó

Catalan lettering artist: check Mosaicos E.F. Escofet y Cia. (1908). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Josep Pep Patau i Bellart
[Tipo Pepel (was: Antaviana Typeface Division, or: Astramat)]

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Josep Román

Barcelona-based graphic designer who created the commercial typefaces Elia (2012, a humanist sans) and Lausana (2012, a condensed display face loosely based on Futura) at The Type Foundry.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Josh Abrams

Student in the Masters in Typography program at EINA in Barcelona. He is working on Filler Sans (2011) and Holden (2011, serif face). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juan Cantero

Barcelona-based creator of Mason (2011, a fat didone display face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juan Dávila

Designer at type-o-tones in Barcelona. In 1992, he made the grunge face Frankie together with Laura Meseguer.

Home page. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Juan Sebastián Rodríguez-Moranta

Architect and publicist. Designer (b. 1972) of the rounded titling face Terondaremorena (2008). Juan lives in Barcelona and his company there is called Inside Consultores. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Judith Musachs

As a design student in Barcelona, Judith Musachs created the modular typeface Hellen Hopper (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karina Goto

Karina Goto graduated from the Masters program in advanced typography at EINA, Barcelona in 2013. Before that, she obtained an MBA in branding from Rio Branco University. She created the decorative fashion mag typeface Makeup in 2013 during her studies there. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karina Mosqueda

Illustrator in Barcelona, who drew the all caps illustrative alphabet Abecedario (2010), which as far as I know has not been "fonted" yet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kentaro Terajima

Japanese graphic/editorial designer who is currently living in Barcelona, Spain. Behance link. His typefaces:

• Alps (2011). A bilined display typeface inspired by the lettering of Japanese artist Shinro Ohtake.
• Abend (2012). An art deco grotesk inspired by German news headlines from the 1930s.
• 156 (2011). A clean sans face inspired by the shapes of numbers in the streets of Sao Paulo.
• Colophon (2011). An avant-garde face based on the movie The War of Roses (1989).

Kentaro Terajima

Japanese graphic designer in Barcelona, where he studied at Eina. In 2010 he created the large x-height roman faces 06RM and 12RM so that Latin text could be set in small sizes alongside Japanese text (and in particular, with the Japanese font Ryumin M-KL). He also recreated the 1930s German newspaper art deco styles in his elegant typeface Tageszeitung (2010). He is also involved in an information typography project for the Barcelona metro. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kickingbird
[Seymour Caprice]

I like the description of this Catalan foundry at MyFonts: A foundry with a home in Catalunya. Kickingbird font work takes place in the quiet treehouse headquarters near a former Barcelona textile homestead. Font sketches are completed anywhere a notebook is handy... in the cafes of Gràcia, on the RENFE railway or outside the cloisters of Santa Maria del Mar. Font design inspiration comes from many sources. Faded broadside wall manifestoes in Ravel, broken floor tiles washed up on the shores of Vilassar de Mar or from old cigar boxes found at the Mercat de Sant Antoni. For those who know Barcelona, sweet memories. The designer, Seymour Caprice, created the vernacular faces Pop Manta (2009: Pop Manta has been described as "Morris Fuller Benton meets Roy Lichtenstein". Benton's 1903 neo-grotesque letter shapes set to a Pop Art beat.) and Locutorio (2011).

Typefaces from 2013: Bathysphere. This is a steampunk sans described as follows: This steam era typeface, created by Gustav Schroeder in 1884, found popular use on soap box labels and tobacco tins during its initial release. Then, later, a successful and stout revival of Gustav's face, named Othello, was carried out by Morris Fuller Benton in 1934, and the typeface's appeal widened to include items such as broadside posters featuring Boris Karloff's Frankenstein. After metal gave way to film type, Gustav's creation experienced a brief fashion moment in the 1960's, but then disappeared entirely, never re-surfacing as a full digital typeface. With the release of Bathysphere, the typeface comes full circle, having been completely redrawn from scratch using Gustav's original specimens. The new extended language support establishes the typeface firmly in the modern era, while Bathysphere's refinement of subtle blunt corners restores a deep-sea grace to this iron giant. However, Nick Curtis's Iago NF (2011) is also based on Othello, and is close in execution. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Krisp Designs
[Isaac Art Grant]

Barcelona-based Isaac Grant (Krisp Designs) created the circular monoline face Tax Free (2011), the modular face Monotone (2011, free), and the octagonal display face Brandold (2011).

Behance link. MyFonts link.

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La Foneria
[Albert Pereta]

Albert Pereta is a communication designer associated with Eina University in Barcelona. In 2010, he and Santi Grau co-founded the foundry La Foneria. Designer of some beautiful fonts: Kadabra (2010, a high-contrast octagonal didone), Coconut (a warm Latin signage face), Kranne (a thin slab serif), Locked. [Google] [More]  ⦿

La pagina de las fuentes

For about 200USD, you can buy here a 3200 professional font CD (or so they say). These are allegedly not pirated, no rip-offs, and not shareware/freeware fonts. So what are they? [Google] [More]  ⦿

La Tipomatika
[Joan A. Alegret]

Joan A. Alegret ("La Tipomàtika") is a Barcelona-based Catalan designer (b. 1987) who studied graphic communication at Escola Massana in Barcelona. Creator of the free geometric sans families Candela (2009), Cicle (2007) and Newcicle (2007), and the absolutely rectangular sans family Simply Mono (2007).

Joan's first commercial typeface is the didone fat face Bendita (2011), done for Bonart magazine. Muro (2013) is a heavy sans face.

Dafont link. Font Squirrel link. Fontsy link. Kernest link. Klingspor link. Behance link. Old URL. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Lamosca

Barcelona-based free fonts outfit. Creations: Toch, Closer, Cegada, PickUp. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lara Captan

Graphic designer in Lebanon. Creator of the angular chancery typeface Cancellarecta (2012) at The Cooper Union. She graduated from Escola de Disseny i Art in Barcelona. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lara Lozano

Spanish (Catalan?) designer of some experimental typefaces, such as Rose (2010), a face in which the dots are rose petals. She also made a face called Buit (2010) but I can't find a sample anywhere. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lasse Johnsen

Barcelona-based designer of Snap (2005, display). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laudelino L.Q.

Barcelona-based graphic designer, who created a revival of a medieval calligraphic script called Water Knife (1995, Garcia Fonts). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laura Klamburg

Designer at type-o-tones in Barcelona who made Surreal Post Indian (1999, a triline font, in two weights, One and Two). Home page. FontShop link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laura Mata

Graphic Design student at Graphic Design student based in Barcelona, most of the projects shown here are made at EINA (Escola de Disseny i Art de Barcelona). During her studies in 2012, she created the straight-edged typeface Mikado. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laura Meseguer

Designer (b. Barcelona, 1968) at type-o-tones in Barcelona. She publishes as well as promotes all her type designs through her own type foundry, Type-Ø-Tones. In 2003-2004, she took a year off and took the postgraduate Type and Media course at KABK (Royal Academy of Art) in The Hague, Holland. She is a professor of typography in Spain. Author of TypoMag. Typography in Magazines (IndexBook) and co-author of Cómo crear tipograías. Del boceto a la pantalla (Tipo E). MyFonts link. Fontshop link. Her typefaces:

• Adelita.
• Cortada: her first typeface. In 2012, she published the angular signage face Cortada Dos at Type O Tones.
• Frankie (1992, a grunge font done with Juan Dávila). Frankie is the result of a process of erosion, photocopying, scanning and digitisation based on the Franklin Gothic type (1904, Morris Fuller Benton).
• Gallard.
• Guapa (2011). A thin monoline curlified display face with an art deco aroma. Followed in 2012 by Guapa Deco.
• Lola.
• Multi (2012). A magazine type family, with weights from hairline to black.
• Rumba (2003-2007): this semi-script family won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition.
• In 2009, the low-to-zero contrast Alexander Girard family was published by House Industries. It consists of Girard Sky, Girard Script, Girard Display, Girard Sansusie and Girard Slab in many weights and styles. It was created by Laura Meseguer based on the lettering used to announce the textile designs that Alexander Girard did for Herman Miller in 1955.
• Magasin (2013, Type o Tones) is a connected retro-chic upright script typeface. She writes: Some examples that have inspired me are Corvinus (Imre Reiner, 1934) and Quirinus (Alessandro Butti, 1939) and the later Fluidum (1951), a kind of non-connected script version of Quirinus, also designed by Alessandro Butti for Nebiolo foundry.

Le Moustache!

Le Moustache is based in Palma de Mallorca. They created the ultra-black experimental face Payopony (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lletraferits

Barcelona-based Spanish type design blog. It is run by these people: zorglub, rare, PHOTO&GRAPHIC, Carlos Cabanas, Ángel, Arnau, Álvaro, Ángel, Josep Patau Bellart, lletraferit, clau4ni, Raúl Campuzano, Dídac Ballester, Andreu Balius, Eduardo Manso, txo, Txusmarcano, Víctor Palau.

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LletresCAT

Catalan free font outfit. At Dafont, they published these fonts in 2011: Jubiaco (angular), Garamgarde, Munster (gothic), Cotidiana (fat finger face), Titulo (a fat inline headline face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lluís Bartra
[Lughdailh]

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Lua Ribeira

Graphic designer in Barcelona, who did some experimental typography. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lucia Walter

Fine Arts graduate from the University of Barcelona, who is now at Central Saint Martins College of Art&Design in the UK. She revived a 1931 face by Carlos Winkow, called Elzeviriano Ibarra (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lucía Castro Triay
[P.A.R.]

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Lughdailh
[Lluís Bartra]

Catalan designer of Arepas y Queso (2006, irregular hand), Belisa Plumilla Regular (2006), Lughdailh Regular (2006) and Mariana Peluso (2006, great curly handwriting). Dafont link. Fontsy link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luis Alonso

Luis studied Graphic Design at ESDI (Ramón Llull University) and earned his Masters degree in Advanced Typography at Escola Eina (Autonomous University of Barcelona). Since 2006 he has worked from Plam on various projects related to, above all, corporate identity and editorial design. He is working as a type designer, along with Ricardo Santos and Charlie Zinno, with whom he founded in 2011 the type design collective Tiponautas. With Santos, he designed the techno sans families Lab Slab Pro (2011) and Lab Sans Pro (2011).

Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Luis Llabrés Manso

Born in 1977, Luis Llabrés obtained a BA in Advanced Graphic Design from IDEP, Barcelona, in 2003, and runs 4L Design. He lives in Amsterdam. In 2003, he created the typeface Scalextric (aka Superslot), based on car game racetracks. He claims that Renault stole his type design and is really surprised how Renault obtained the font data---he suspects that one of the judges of a type competition (Tipografias Urbanas, Barcelona, 2003) leaked it. Renault was sued but the initial judgment was with Renault, claiming that Llabres added nothing new in creating letters based on shapes of tracks in car games. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luis Mendo

Designer at type-o-tones in Barcelona who made Design Or Die (1997, techno face), and Vulcano (2007, with Tori Alimbau and José Manuel Urós). Mendo lives in Amsterdam. FontShop link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Manfred Klein
[Manfred Klein's Fonteria]

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Manfred Klein's Fonteria
[Manfred Klein]

Frankfurt-based designer (b. 1932) whose creative output is so large that he deserves a separate web page. His URL at Moorstation from 2000-2007. New page on him by Florian Rochler. Font squirrel link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Manuel Peleguer

Goldsmith in Valencia, who cut some printing characters between 1780 and 1784 in response to an order of the "Real Sociedad Económica Valenciana de Amigos del Pais". He started a press and a foundry in Valencia in 1784. His fonts include a modern transitional typeface that is being revived, recovered and digitized by Josep "Pep" Patau Bellart in Barcelona. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marc Antoni Malagarriga i Picas
[Google Maps Typewriter Machine]

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Marc Borrell

Designer in Vilanova i la Geltru near Barcelona. Interior design student in the Graduate School of Design Elisava, which is part of Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

Creator of the semi-stencil typeface Claim Claim (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marc Gibert Cadevall

Barcelona-based graphic and typeface designer. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marc Mars

Designer (b. Vic), based in Barcelona, aka Marc Vila. He made Cubic Sans (2012). This free 3d typeface is very loosely based on Comic Sans.

Behance link. Download page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marc Monguilod

Graphic designer in Barcelona. He created the sturdy slab serif typeface Gustaf in 2009. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marc Salinas

Catalan designer of the grunge stencil face Transfer (1996). He runs a Spanish language type blog. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marc Valls

Barcelona-based designer of Network Type (2012), a multiline prismatic typeface that was influenced by Alex Trochut's Hyper Dunk. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marc Vila

Graphic designer in Vic, Catalunya who studied in Northampton, UK, and who also uses the name Marc Mars. Creator of the free 3d typeface Cubic Sans (2012).

Behance link. Download page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maria Chiara Cuppone

Designer in Barcelona who created the circle-based display face Baco (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maria Herrera Vicalvaro

Art director in Barcelona. Creator of a 3d wood alphabet (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maria Miró

Maria Miró (Sabadell, near Barcelona) created the angular blackboard bold typeface Geometric Lines (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maria Montes

Maria Montes (Melboure, Australia) created Milosz Italic at Eina, Barcelona, in 2011.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marian Garriz Jimenez

Graphic designer in Barcelona. In 2010, she made the textile texture face Bamba. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marian Riquelme

A Mexican graphic designer based in Barcelona. Creator of Milkee (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mariana Alvarez Matijasevic

Designer in Medellin, Colombia, who studied typography at the University of Barcelona. Behance link.

She created La Botica de Bernarda (2012, a retro display face). That typeface was co-designed with Begoña Viñuela. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mariano Garcia Cruz

Spanish designer in Barcelona. During a workshop of Alex Trochut and Marta Cerdá, he designed this experimental typeface in 2010. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marina Salazar

Barcelona-based creator of Barbie Font (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marina Sauri

Based in San Francisco, Marina Sauri designed the paper fold typeface Streamers (2009) as part of a project at EINA (Escola de disseny i Art de Barcelona). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mario Arturo

Barcelona-based graphic designer (b. 1963). Dafont carries his free fonts, which are often revivals, or fonts based on scans from Dover books. The list of his typefaces:

• Amarfil (2012). Traced from the Dubbelde Auguftyn Capitalen typeface by father and son Izakk and Johan Enschedé.
• Better Heather (2000): a cleanup of De Nada's script font Heather.
• Brennan (2012). A heavy slab serif typeface.
• Brook Flair (2012). Mario explains: This font is traced from the book Alphabete 2 by Erhardt D. Stiebner and Helmut Huber for Novum Press (1990). I added the missing swashy characters and punctuations. From what I understand, this is a variation of a typeface called Macbeth that was designed in the 1950's for Filmotype.
• Dean Martin and Dean Martin Swing (2012). A retro font and its curly cousin.
• Doris Day: an upright connected script.
• Galeries (2001): based on a type that appeared on a receipt from a store called Galeries Sant Jordi in the 1960s in Pineda de Mar, Catalunya.
• Halo Handletter (1997): taken from Brushstroke and Free-Style Alphabets-100 Complete Fonts (Dover).
• Helvelow: based on Helvetica.
• Individual (or: Initial): calligraphic all caps face. Scanned from an alphabet book.
• Japan (1997): a brush stroke font based on a scan from Brushstroke and Free-Style Alphabets-100 Complete Fonts (Dover).
• Masana (2011). An upright connected script family inspired by the handwriting of Catalan photographer Josep Masana from Barcelona who was also a publicist in the 1930's. Followed by Masana Grata, Masana Maxima and Masana Extras in 2011.
• Mister Sinatra and Mister Sinatra Slim (2012).
• Oz's Wizard (2012). Based on scans of L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), which used a typeface designed by Goudy.
• PetuniaBounce (1997): based on a Dan Solo face from Brushstroke and Free-Style Alphabets-100 Complete Fonts (Dover).
• Riddle: based on the typeface used on the Frank Sinatra&Nelson Riddle LP "Only the Lonely". With help from Harold Lohner.
• Rom (2001): inspired by Barcelona's Rom Caffe logo.
• Rough Spring: based on Spring by Letterperfect.
• Sahara (2000): based on the font Arbot.
• South Pacific. Inspired by a phrase from The ABC of Lettering (1965, J.I. Biegeleisen, Harper & Row Publishers,NY. See also this OFL link.
• Thick Deco: art deco face.

Klingspor link. Dafont link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mariona Guiu

Barcelona-based creator of the script typeface Turista (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marta Cerdá Alimbau

Designer in Barcelona. Behance link. She has been working since 2008 on some gorgeous typefaces, such as Ophelie, Rigid (2010, a piano key font that she proclaims to be a grandchild of Josef Albers), and Gallo Guapo, which mix high contrast and extreme quaint roundness. In 2011, she made the ornamental watch number face Nido.

Debutart link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marta Comas

Illustrator and graphic designer in Barcelona, who created a cute children's alphabet in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marta Sánchez

Graphic design student at Elisava in Barcelona, who created the heavy octagonal typeface Box Type (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marta Serras

Barcelona-based creator of The Thread Font (2012), an experimental typeface that started out by winding a thread around pins in a grid. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marta Vargas

Marta Vargas (b. Barcelona, 1990) is a graphic design student who currently lives in Barcelona, where she attends ELISAVA Design School. Behance link.

She created Svenska (2012, a Peignotian typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marta Veludo

Barcelona-based illustrator and designer. Behance link. Her illustrative caps face The No Name Horses (2011) was made on commission for an independent film by Lorena Medina. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Martí Saíz

Sabadell-based creator of the fun display family called Alfallufat (1998, Garcia Fonts) and the handprinting face Martí Hand (1998). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Martin Allais

Graphic designer in Barcelona who makes extraordinary typographical posters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matias Porta

Barcelona-based creator of the modular typefaces Tipo06 (2012) and Bastard (2012: a 3d face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mecanic Dentista

Andorra-based creator (b. 1970) of the free hairline typeface Dayona Elegant (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Melani Lleonart

Valencia, Spain-based designer of the multiline typeface Pattern Type (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mercè Núñez Mayoral

Graphic designer in Barcelona, b. 1984, Barcelona. Graduate of Escuela Superior de Diseño Bau (Barcelona). Creator of Ariadna (2013).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Meri Prat

Vic, Catalunya-based designer of Droid Voice (2012, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michela Berzano

Graphic and web designer from Barcelona who created the fat squarish face Dora (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michelle Barrios

Barcelona-based designer of an arc and straight line typeface called Circles Groove (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel Gallardo

Designer at type-o-tones in Barcelona who made Gallard (a lively font family!). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel Morales

Spanish designer, b. 1991 in Santa Coloma de Gramanet near Barcelona. At FontStruct, where he is known as ieeeh, he created the paper-fold typeface ModularCo (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel Pedraza

Author, ca. 1945, of Rotulacion Decorativa no. 1 (Ediciones ARS, Barcelona) and Rotulacion Decorativa no. 5 (Ediciones ARS, Barcelona). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel Plasencia
[Naok Art]

[More]  ⦿

Mikel Romero

Born in Pamplona in 1987 who obtained a Masters in typography and type design from EINA in Barcelona. He designed Macca (2011, a typewriter style Egyptian family), Straw (2011, a display face), and Rokel (2011, a sans face for texts). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miquel Polidano

Spanish designer of several typefaces at Folch Studio. These include Cordinate Bold, Times Screen (a pixelized version of Times), FS Futura (2007) and FS Ugly Italic (2008, with Reto Moser). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Moises Carracedo Martin
[Unografik]

[More]  ⦿

Monica Iglesias

Graphic designer in Barcelona. She created the script typeface Dinosaure (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Monica Ramos

Barcelona-based designer of the typeface Architexture (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Monica Simo

Barcelona-based designer (b. 1985) of Simo Cosmo (2013, an experimental 3d outline typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Montse Galbany

Graphic designer in Barcelona, who created the grotesque face Panamericana (2012) for information signage. It is based on DIN. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nacho Lambertini

Designer in Mallorca and Madrid. For a course project, he designed Caminito Regular (2011). Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Naok Art
[Miguel Plasencia]

Miguel Plasencia (Naok Art, Barcelona) is a graphic designer and art director. In 2010, he created the handlettered font Tipo Traper. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Neruuu

Art director and illustrator in Barcelona. His typefaces include Fecunda (2012, LED style), Tan Sols, Maneira (comic book face), and an unnamed piano key face.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Neue
[José Manuel Urós]

Neue is a digital studio in Barcelona, run by José Manuel Urós (b. 1956), who founded Type-O-Tones in 1992. In 2013, it created a grotesque type family called Arboria.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Neufville Digital

Fundicion Tipografica Neufville SA is a foundry based in Barcelona, headed by Wolfgang Hartmann, which writes about itself: Neufville Digital produces and markets the fonts from Fundicion Tipografica Neufville, Bauersche Giesserei, Ludwig&Mayer, Fonderie Typographique Française and Fundicion Tipografica Nacional.

List of typefaces. MyFonts link.

Fonts include a newly digitized Futura family (Paul Renner, 1928), in the Bauer Classics collection.

In the collection Grafia Latina, we find Diagonal ND (Antoni Morillas, 1970), Uncial Romana (Ricardo Rousselot, 1996), Pascal ND (José Mendoza y Almeida, 1959), Sully-Jonquieres (José Mendoza y Almeida, 1980), Fidelio ND (José Mendoza y Almeida), Llerda ND, Paris ND, Flash ND and Arabescos ND, all by Enric Crous Vidal (1945 to 1953). They write: Within the GRAPHIE LATINE collection Neufville Digital releases the works of famous typographers like José Mendoza y Almeida, René Ponot, Tomas Vellvé, Antonio Morillas, Ricard Giralt Miracle, Ricardo Rousselot, Juan Trochut and others. The BAUER CLASSICS collection includes the many typefaces from the Bauersche Giesserei. The first fontfamily available is FUTURA that has been completely digitized anew to meet today's professional demands. Many other fonts are to follow. Neufville Digital produces and markets the fonts from Fundición Tipográfica Neufville, Bauersche Giesserei, Ludwig&Mayer, Fonderie Typographique Française and Fundición Tipográfica Nacional. You will certainly be familiar with famous typefaces like Futura, Bauer Bodoni, Weiss, Folio, Imprimatur and many others from the rich type founding era. Neufville Digital digitizes them from their original artwork using state of the art technology and makes them available in compliance with the latest standards.

Among the fonts to be reissued, we cite a few.

From Ludwig&Mayer: Allemannia Fraktur (1908), Allright (1936), Altenburger Gotisch (1928), Bastard Mediaeval, Beatrice (1931), Chic, Cochin (1922), Commerciale, Diplomat (1964), Firmin Didot (1929), Hallo (1956), Kombinette (1932), Krimhilde (1934), Kupferplatte (1950), Largo (1939), Magnet (1951), Wolfram (1930). From FT Neufville: Antiqua (1850).

From FT Nacional: Astur (1940), Belinda (like 15th century Spanish calligraphic writing, with fine curved serifs on the tips of the ascenders), Cervantes, Elzeviriano, Hispalis (1940), Imperio (1949), Inglés (1940), Interpol (1950), Numantina (1940; for a digital version, see Nick Curtis's Numancia NF (2011)), Radar (1940), Romana, Victoriana (1940).

From the Bauersche Giesserei: Astoria (1911), Azurée (1908), Baron (1911), Baroness (1911), Baskerville-Antiqua (1923), Batarde (1915), Bauer Bodoni (1926), Fette Antiqua (1850), Lithographia (1895), Manuskript Gotisch (1899), Noblesse (1908), Steile Futura, Stephanie (1890), Times-Antiqua, Venus (1907).

From FT Française: Bizerte, Italienne, Romantiques (1937), Stylo (1937). Their Catalogo de tipos (1978) shows many other typefaces too, so, with some repetition, we find the handwriting/script faces Vigor, Sinfonia, Privat, Sirena, Maxim, Litografia, Leyenda (Legend), Bernhard Cursive and Adagio, the federal money typeface Azuree (1908), the typewriter family Ibematic, OCR A-1, the blackletter face Gotico (or Manuskript-Gotisch), the outline fonts Royal and Columna, the checkbook face Litho, the display faces Nobleza and Carnaby, the Egyptian family Epoca (=Beton), as well as Homera (=Hyperion), Corvinus, Volta and Impressum. Galaxy ND (2006) is a mysterious, organic and quite useless typeface.

Go here for a description of the old printing machines.

Check also the Fundicion Tipografica Bauer in Barcelona and Visualogik Technology and Design in the Netherlands.

Showcase of Neufville's fonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Nicolás Gallardo

Barcelona-based graphic designer, who created the graffiti face Skupitajo (1998, Garcia Fonts) and the grunge face Pantacas (1998, Garcia Fonts). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nikolay Vanchev

Stara Zagora, Bulgaria-born designer (b. 1988) who works in Sofia and Barcelona. Creator of FF Null (2012, with Svetoslav Simov). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Noa Paz Gimenez

During her studies at EINA in Barcelona, Noa Paz Gimenez created the modular typefaces Modular (2013) and Moved (2013) and the sans typeface Titidolm (2013, a redesign of Titillium).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Noe Blanco

Originally from Barcelona, Noe is a graphic designer and type designer currently living in Amsterdam. She holds a BA in Graphic Design from BAU, School of Design and a MA in Advanced Typography at Eina, Escola de Disseny i Art, where her interest in type design began and where she created her first typeface. Since 2008, she has been working as a graphic designer for different studios in Barcelona. She is a graduate of the Type Media program at KABK, Den Haag, class of 2012.

Her graduation typeface was Minima (2012), a text typeface families woth sans and serif components. The sans is roundish and flared, and both read very well at small point sizes.

In 2013, together with Jordi Embodas, she designed the commercial rounded grotesk typeface Bulo Rounded (2013, Tipografies). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Nuria Bringué Bergua

Barcelona-based graphic designer who created some ornamental caps for the Festa Xica Pont de Suert (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Olga Robles

Type designer at Tipos Reunidos in Barcelona. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Oriol

Barcelona-based illustrator and graphic designer who created a pixel face in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oriol Bèdia

Berlin-based designer who seems to have made some typefaces according to his Behance face, but I could find no confirmation that he has actually created complete alphabets. Before his Berlin stint, he studied communication in Barcelona. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oriol Esparraguera

Oriol's fonts are available for free via Fontsqurrel. They include the basic Afta Sans (2011) and Afta Serif (2011) families. I think Oriol is based in Catalunya. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oriol Torrano Mur

Oriol is based in Santa Perpetua de Mogoda near Barcelona. During his graphic desiugn studies, he created the modular typeface Baloo (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Orion Castellar

Barcelona-based designer of Bombon (2012), an organic monoline sans typeface made for a chocolate shop. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oscar Bagur

Menorca-based Oscar Bagur iruns this wonderful type page (in Catalan). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oscar Marchal
[Inquietto]

[More]  ⦿

Oscar Medina

Barcelona-based creator of the modular art deco typeface Thirties Gothic (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oscar Noguera

Illustrator and graphic designer in Barcelona. Behance link. He made the object-inspired experimental typeface ObjecType (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paloma Martinez

Print and web designer in Barcelona. Creator of the elliptical face Brida Slab (2011), a snowboarding competitions typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pangramas
[Pedro Sanoja]

Pangramas is Pedro Sanoja in Barcelona. His typefaces include Hibrido (2008, a great sketch face), Kinetica (2009, experimental), and PobleNou (2009, based on things found in the Poble Nou area of Barcelona in which I lived for a few months in 1998 while visiting Pompeu Fabra University). Behance link. Before his Barcelona days, Pedro lived in Caracas, Venezuela, where he was a typographer and web designer. In fact, it was there that he first created Hibrido. He also made Vokodek Rmx 001 (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

P.A.R.
[Lucía Castro Triay]

P.A.R is a graphic design studio based in Barcelona, founded and run by Iris Tarraga and Lucía Castro. P.A.R. published the geometric sans headline face Tocho in 2012.

Lucía Castro designed the wedgy display face Claxon (2009), Ignore (2009: a grotesque caps-only typeface).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Patrice Barnabé

Barcelona-based graphic designer who created the alchemic typeface Kyrie (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pau Lamuà

Illustrator and graphic designer in La Bisbal d'Empordà, Girona, Catalunya. Creator of the fat counterless face Troquel (2010; see also Hype For Type) and the VAG-Rounded style face 1M2 (2009). Creator of the monospaced font family 1M2 (2009).

Behance link. MyFonts link. Pau Lamua Foundry. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Pau Misser
[PM Fonts]

[More]  ⦿

Pauerr Alekumsalaam

Barcelona-based designer of the free experimental multiline typeface Fusion (2012, Adobe Illustrator format), and of the connected script signage typeface Dolorosa (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paula Mastrangelo

Paula Mastrangelo, who lives in Barcelona, writes about her typeface Laski (2012): Laski is the result of my work in the Master in Advanced Typography in Eina, School of Design and Art. This type is designed for use in a child's daily newspaper.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pedro Azevedo Gonçalves
[Alter Order]

[More]  ⦿

Pedro Baños

Barcelona-based creator (b. 1987) of Hipot (2012) and Bloquer (2013, a monospaced and blocky face).

Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pedro de Madariaga

Author in Valencia of Libro Subtilissimo intitulado Honra de escribanos (1565), a writing manual. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pedro Guitton

Author of A homage to typography (2009, Index Book, Barcelona). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pedro Miguel Lopes

Design student at Design Academy IDEP, Barcelona. He created the serif face Invicta (2010).

Another Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pedro Sanoja
[Pangramas]

[More]  ⦿

Pera Ribalta

Designer at type-o-tones in Barcelona who made Matricia and Matricia Dos (1997, a dot matrix font, with José Manuel Urós). FontShop link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pere Torrent-Peret

Designer at type-o-tones in Barcelona. He made the squarish face Poca (2007) together with Enric Jardi. It comes in Regular and Ninots (robotic pixel dingbats) styles. FontShop link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pilar Cano

Graduate from the University of Reading, 2006, who started out life in Barcelona, and works there. After graduation, still in 2006, she co-founded Mídori, a graphic design studio specialised in editorial design. Coauthor, with Marta Serrats, of Typosphere (2007, Harper Collins). Creator of these typefaces:

• Edita (2006), an informal sans family that also covers kana for Japanese. This typeface was finally published in 2009 at Type Together. It was followed in 2011 by additional weights in Edita Book.
• Techarí (2006, +Extra) comes from a commission in which the brief consisted of the creation of a typeface family to be used for the design of the third disc of the band called Ojos de Brujo based in Barcelona. This disc was called Techarí, which means free in Caló, the language of the Spanish gypsies---it also has a stencil version.
• In 2010, she is working on an elliptical sans that covers Latin, Cyrillic and Greek.
• Techarí (2010) is an extremely elegant custom family.

  Xuppis (2012) is a commissioned logotype for a candy shop in El Masnou, Barcelona.

  Together with Lluis Sinol, she designed the custom sans typeface SEAT (2013) for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.

Interview by Unostiposduros. Cargo Collective link. MyFonts link. Behance link. Wiki page. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Pilar Torcal

Barcelona-based creator of Galang (2012, an alchemic typeface).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

PM Fonts
[Pau Misser]

Pau Misser is the founder of PM Fonts and the Barcelona-based creator of free futuristic fonts. He will send them if you first send something you created. The list: PmnatjaItalic, Pmnatja, Pmoliosa (2001), Pmagrafia, PMbustiaBold, PMbustia, PmcapsigranyBold, PmcapsigranyDemiBold, PmcapsigranyExtraBold, PmcapsigranySemiBold, PmcapsigranyUltraBold, Pmcapsigrany, PMoliosa, PMnatja, PMdelit, PMescacsBold, Pmescacs, PMfastigCondensed, PMfastig, PMguix, PMmeravellaThin, PMmeravella, PMpantalla, PMquelcom, PMreg, PMsembla, PMtrifasic. Interview. At Typephases, we find the screen font Pantalla, and the geometric display font Sembla. At Die Gestalten, one can buy Agrafia (LED simulation), Bustia (futuristic), Escacs, Fastig, Hodierna, Natja, Oliosa, trifasic (futuristic), Quelcome. [Google] [More]  ⦿

pnitas

Pnitas (Barcelona) is a digital imaging freelancer. She created an ornamental alphabet called Abecedario (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pol Campmany

Spanish designer in Barcelona who made a series of Didot posters in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pol Solsona

Pol Solsona (Sabadell, Catalunya, and Helsinki, Finland) created the experimental typeface Fuck Stereotypes (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Polopgraphic

Creators of a couple of nice posters that advertise music events in 2009 in Sabadell, Catalunya. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pons Designo

Pons Designo, a studio in Palma de Mallorca, created the World Crisis typeface in 2013.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ra Eu

Barcelona-based designer. His free shadowed typeface Isaac Oplup (2013) is an homage to Isaac Diaz Pardo (1920-2012), a Galician intellectual, painter, ceramicist, designer, editor and entrepreneur.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rafa Goicoechea

Barcelona-based designer of the alchemic typeface Mana Sans (2011). He writes: A commissioned display font I designed for the Mexican band Maná in late 2011. It was finally used for one of their songs on the new album, as part of the visuals for their live shows on the last tour around South America and USA. Available from Ultra Types.

Other fonts by him from 2012 include Geoda (a geometrically designed font), Modula Mono (a monospaced bold organic caps set, available from Ten Dollar Fonts), Mana (alchemic), and Marina (this three-style text family is his final project for the Masters in Advanced Typography at EINA).

Behance link. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Raffael Ferran i Peralta

Catalan creator of Gamaliel (2010, Open Font Library), a blackletter face. This was part of his project at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. The type is based on the gothic letters used by the Barcelonese printer Joan Rosembach in 1496.

Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Raimon Guirado

Graphic designer in Barcelona, b. 1990, who graduated from Elisava in 2012. Designer of Fausto (2013), a heavy sans typeface that is based on late XIXth century wood grotesque typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ramirez y Rialp

Barcelona-based foundry which became Fundición Typográfica Neufville in 1885. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ramon Stirling

Spanish author of the calligraphy and penmanship book Bellezas de Caligrafia (1844, Joaquin Verdaguer, Barcelona). Stirling was active in Barcelona.

This book led to the development of various modern script typefaces, such as Alejandro Paul's Bellissima Script (2013). Ramon's influence can also be seen in Ramiro Espinoza's Medusa (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ramon Tosas

Designer of Iva, a typeface commissioned to Joan Barjau at Type-O-Tones. Tosas died some time ago. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Randi Verges

Barcelona-based designer, who created a piano key typeface in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Raquel Pelta
[Visual.gi]

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Resistenza
[Giuseppe Salerno]

Giuseppe Salerno (aka Resistenza.es) is an Italian graphic designer, specializing in web design. He lived in Torino, Amsterdam, Madrid, and Valencia, and currently works in Berlin.

In 2010, he made the circular multiline face Afrobeat (+Light), the fat counterless face Vito Sans (2010), Wonderwall (2010, like a skeletal construction), the high-contrast art deco face Zaza (2010), and the pure Italian vintage art deco face Luxx (futurism).

His type blog is called It's Not My Type. Behance link. Klingspor link. Creattica link.

Other work: an art deco poster.

Direct links to his fonts: Zaza, Afrobeat, Vito Sans, Luxx, Wonder Wall, Afrobeat Light.

Creations from 2011: Ratatan, Bodoni At Home (a handpainted Bodoni), Arcanotype (2011, delicate caps, individually drawn using Chinese ink on Japanese calligraphy paper), Babushka (2011), Dolce Caffe (2011, handprinted), Adelaida (handprinted poster face), Monella (octagonal).

Production in 2012: Ampersanders (a font with many ampersands), BLAQ (an ornamental blackletter caps face inspired by Henry W. Troy), The Bay (handprinted all caps poster face), Bratislove (an artsy hand-drawn typeface), Modernissimo, Clementina (hand-printed caps), Afrobeat Gothic (angular multiline face).

Typefaces from 2013: Starburst (calligraphic gestural light script), Caramello Script, Copperlove (copperplate script), Yma Italic (retro script), Sonica Brush. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Reto Moser

Designer at Folch Studio (Barcelona) of FS Ugly Italic (2008, with Miquel Polidano).

Grotesk cc is Tobias Rechsteiner, Reto Moser, and Simon Renfer in Bern, Switzerland. The former two designed GT Haptik (2009), which is a grotesk face in which the letters are optimized to be read blindfolded and by touching them. GT Haptik was published at Grilli Type. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rhythm n Type

Typefoundry in Barcelona, est. 2011. Creators of the fatty didone face Bendita (2011).

Postscript: Joan Alegret's typefoundry, La Tipomatika seems related---at least, the typeface Bendiat seems to be shared across these two typefoundries in Barcelona. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ricard Giralt Miracle

Designer and type designer. Born and died in Barcelona, 1911-1994. In 1947, he founded Filograf, Institut d'Art Gràfic, where among other things, he created typefaces. His faces include GAUDI (1962, available from Neufville), XENIUS, HELIOS, GAYA CIENCIA (1973), BIBLOS, POMPEYA and MARYLAND. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ricard Marxer Piñón
[Caligraft]

[More]  ⦿

Ricardo Victor Rousselot Schmitt
[Edy Type]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Riccardo De Franceschi

Italian graduate from the type design program at the University of Reading in 2010, who lives and works in Piedmont and Lombardy in Northern Italy, and publishes typefaces at Sorkin Type. His typefaces:

• His graduation project included the design of Ginnasio: The Ginnasio family is designed to set bilingual vocabularies, namely polytonic Greek English and Latin English. These dictionaries are used in secondary schools to translate texts from classical Greece and Rome into the student's own language. A Thai font is added, intended to set bilingual vocabularies as well. Ginnasio won First Prize at Granshan 2010 for Greek types.
• Gravitas One (2011, Sorkin Type, and Google Font Directory). He writes: Gravitas One is modeled on the "UK fat face" which is a kind of very heavy advertising type created during the industrial revolution in England. The letter forms are characterized by an attention getting and strong contrast between the very heavy vertical shapes and the thin horizontal ones. The contrast of the design means that it will be most useful when set from medium to large sizes.
• Still at Sorkin Type, he created the wedge-serif black face Goblin One (2011): Goblin One was inspired by a hand painted sign above a pub in the town of Reading (UK). Goblin One is a somewhat wide medium contrast design with a large x-height.
• Asset One (2011, Sorkin Type) was inspired by the engraved letters found on United States dollar bills.
• Contrail One (2011, Sorkin Type; free at Google Font Directory), it is based on handmade sans letters seen on UK posters.
• Wellfleet (2012, Google Web Fonts and Sorkin Type) is a versatile low-contrast slab serif text typeface with a a bouncy and upbeat feeling. It was inspired by German poster lettering.
• Emblema One (2012, Google Web Fonts). An oblique fat trendy stencil face for posters.
• Sonsie One (2012, Google Web Fonts). Sonsie One is a large x-height signage face.
• Vampiro One (2012, Google Web Fonts) is a near-monoline fat angular script face .

Google Plus link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Robert Roman

Robert Roman (Barcelona) is an art director. Dinamic Tipo (2011) was created by him for Claims of Herokid. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roberta Sisti

Graphic designer in Barcelona. Creator of the hip alphading face Imperfect Type (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roderic Molins

Graphic designer in Barcelona. He made the futuristic (techno) face Handgloves (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rouli Diamond

Athens, Greece and Barcelona-based graphic designer. He created the piano key stencil face MAP Stencil (2010, Latin and Greek), the prismatic typeface 3D (2012), and the alchemic typeface Stigma (2012).

In 2013, Rouli designed the tall thin typeface Sentient Adult.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sabina Irina Chipara

Graduate of the Design Department of the National University of Art in Bucharest, Romania. She created MoRo (2012, Modern Romanesc: an artsy typeface), Arhaic Romanesc, Moro Regular, and Moro Bold. She writes: MoRo is a modern version of archaic Romanian types. The design of the MoRo letters combines the features of Cyrillic glyphs with Latin shapes.

In 2012, during an Advanced Typography Masters at EINA, Barcelona, she developed Zagoris.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Salvador Dali

The great surrealist Salvador Dali (1904-1989) created a pornographic alphabet that he called Paule Gala (1931, France). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sandra Domper

Barcelona-based designer of Dakhla (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sandra Vilarrubias

Graphic designer in Barcelona. Creator of Tubular Type (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Santi Vilagran Casanovas
[Antidesign]

[More]  ⦿

Santiago Amaya

Designer and illustrator in Barcelona, aka Xato. Behance link.

Creator of the spiky hexagonal typeface Uglymann (2012).

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Santiago Durieux

Designer in Barcelona of the ornamental caps face Old Electricity (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Santos Bregaña
[Atelier Laia]

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Sergi Delgado

Sergi Delgado is a graphic designer and illustrator in Barcelona. He created the piano key modular stencil typeface Gado (2013).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sergi Ibánez

Designed Popular (1997) at Garcia fonts, a display/dingbat mix. Works in Barcelona. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sergio Cullell

Born in Barcelona in 1981, Sergio Cullell is a graphic designer with a very novel logo, one for which he created a special geometric font called Confetti (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Serialize
[Xavier Lanau]

Catalan foundry, est. 2008 by Xavier Lanau, who lives in Barcelona. He designed the feminine sans family Apparata (2008) as aprt of a project for his Masters degree in typography art EINA. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Seymour Caprice
[Kickingbird]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Shlomo Sham

Israeli designer who runs Salvador Brand, a specialist in developing lifestyle brands through licensing of properties, associated with the Spanish artist, Salvador Dali.

Creator of the hand-printed typeface VS1 (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Silvio Diaz Labrador

Designer in Barcelona, who created the slab serif typeface Scuadra (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sufian H

Barcelona-based designer of Sky Round (2013, modular). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sufian HM

Barcelona-based creator of the modular typeface Skyround (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Superveloz Net

A tribute to Joan Trochut-Blanchard modular type system, Supertipo Veloz (1942) by a Catalan group that includes Andreu Balius and Alex Trochut. It includes a nice sandbox. It was started in 2003. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tania Alvarez Zaldivar

Talented Mexican graphic designer and digital artist based in Montreal, who is pushing the boundaries of experimental typography with creations like Fabric Type (2009), which was developed at Concordia University in Montreal. Examples: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Sukkhos (Mr. Softie) | Overseas Type (2010, done at Concordia University in Montreal) | Moda Barcelona (2011).

In 2010, she designed the map face Cartola, which grew out of a project at EINA in Barcelona and is based on Mrs Eaves. Mar 34 (2011) designed exclusively for the identity of Estruch, a restaurant located at the Plaza of the Cathedral in downtown Barcelona. The project was made in collaboration with Raquel Quevedo, who used the typeface for designing a graphic system for the identity. Both the face&the graphic design are based on postal service paraphernalia. Momo (2011) is a typeface that is developed based on the concepts of dada by El Lissitsky&Kurt Schwitters. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tanit Boronat

Tanit Boronat (Valencia, Spain), together with Albert Gómez and Ana Civera, created Versa (2013, a beveled typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tercer Congreso de Tipografía

A conference subtitled "Glocal. Tipografía en la Era de la Globalización" was held from June 20-22, 2008, in the Escuela de Arte y Superior de Diseño de Valencia, Valencia, Spain. Flickr group. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Teresa Martinez

During her studies in Barcelona, Teresa Martinez created the modular foliate typeface Alba (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Terry Wüdenbachs

Snowboarder from Liechtenstein, who designs typefaces at P22 and its descendant foundries such as HWT. The list:

• His first font was the whacky P22 Catalan (2003), which was inspired by Antonio Gaudi, Joán Miro and Salvador Dali.
• In 2004, he created BlancoNeg, Mexican Relics (100 dingbats from pre-Columbian Mexico), Sniplash (a 60s cartoon face) and Durer Caps (after Dü'rer's 1525 original).
• In 2005, he added P22 Mystic (art nouveau).
• The curly P22 Festiva and P22 Huffer Pro (comic book face) followed in 2009.
• In 2010, he designed two revivals of Nebiolo work, P22 Nebiornaments, and P22 Slogan (after the 1957 brush font by the same name by Aldo Novarese).
• In 2012, he created P22 CoDependent, a set of two art deco typefaces that revive of the Independant typeface from 1930 created by Dutch designer Johannes Nicolaas Coenraad Collette along with Jos Dufour from Belgium.
• In 2012, Terry joined forces with Richard Kegler and published the multilayered Western circus font HWT American Chromatic at Hamilton Wood Type.

  In 2013, he designed HWT Arabesque for Hamilton Wood Type. This art nouveau / psychedelic typeface was originally produced by the Morgans & Wilcox Co. and the Wm. Page Co. as almost identical designs. Both manufacturers were acquired by Hamilton and offered briefly by Hamilton as design #618.

Klingspor link.

View Terry Wüdenbachs's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Textaxis
[Iñigo Jerez Quintana]

Spanish/Catalan foundry run by Barcelona-based Iñigo Jerez Quintana since 1995. His beautiful typefaces include Poster (2013, plus Display and Monster styles: a fat excessive didone family published by Type O Tones), Scozia (2011, didone), Amy, CX Type, School (fat octagonal face), Hidalgo, ASM, 112 Type, Point (2011, rounded typewriter family), Papers (2011, a fat fashion mag didone display family), Slim (2011), Batin (2005, neat garalde family), Palo (2000), Dinamo (1999), Oneline (1998), On Serif (2001), On Sans (2001; with On-Serif, a winner at Bukvaraz 2001), Blok (2004, poster face), Blak (heavy version of Blok), Track (2004, octagonal), Plus (2004, octagonal), Bonus (2004, ink trap face), Interfunktionen (2004, old typewriter), SuiteSerif (2003), Xquare (2003), Interpol (2002), Maeda (2002), Luomo (2002), Borneo (2002), Suite (2001), Self (1999, sans family), Valeria (1997, liquid serif), Inercia (1995, a rounded organic sans done at Garcia Fonts), Latina Sans (1998, a winner at Bukvaraz 2001), Latina Serif (1998), Textaxis (2000, sans).

Suite won an award at the TDC2 2003 competition. His Quixote text family (2005) won an award at TDC2 2006 and at Tipo-Q.

FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Theresa Martinez

During er studies in Barcelona, Thersa Martinez designed th modular organic typeface Alba (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tipo Pepel (was: Antaviana Typeface Division, or: Astramat)
[Josep Pep Patau i Bellart]

Antaviana Typeface Division is a Catalan foundry, est. ca. 2002. It went also under the name Astramat and was also known as ANTAVIANA SERVEIS INTERACTIUS, SCCL. Located in Lleida, it is run by Josep Patau i Bellart (b. 1971, Les Borges Blanques, Lleida). Patau i Bellart offered free fonts, as well as commercial fonts. In 2011, he started Tipo Pepel [MyFonts link] in Les Borges Blanques. Josep Patau's typefaces:

• Free typefaces: Lletraferida (2011, a didone), Negrona (2011, a revival of Lucian Bernhard's Bernhard Negro, 1930), Perolet, Lango, Gimenells, Arbeka, Rosango, Antaviana, FoxScript (old typewriter), Unregistered, and FistroRatted (grunge).
• At Astramat, one could download these fonts: Anmari (2002), Antaviana (1996), Arbeka (2002), FAXADA (2001, by Cel Tico Petit), FoxScriptNormal (1996, old typewriter), Gastada (2001, another grunge font by Cel Tico Petit), Gimenells (2001, pixel font), Gorchs (2007, script font), Klander (1999, pixel font), Lang (2001, pixel font family), Masterfly (2007, T-26), Omellons (2001, pixel font family), Perolet (2001, Bauhaus style), Pixelade (2001, pixel font), Rosango (1996), Tiquet (2001, grunge font by Cel Tico Petit), Ultrafat (2007, T-26), Fistro Ratted. Fontspace link for Astramat.
• T-26 fonts: the screen face PixScript (2004), the screen icon dingbat font Pixelade Icons (2003), the art nouveau headline font Gisele (2003, angular art deco titling face), Masterfly (2007), Gopal (2004), Gourmet (2004, based on a type from the 1923 ATF catalog), Confetti (2006, connected fifties style face based on a 1930 type called Escritura Maravilla and Escritura Energica by the José Iranzo foundry in Barcelona), the pixel family Bit Kit (2003), Houdini Icons (20 pixel web icon dingbat faces, 2004).
• At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he explained the typographic work of the goldsmith Manuel Peleguer: The aim of this paper is to give an account of the project Peleguer, the recovering and digitialization of the work of the goldsmiths Manuel Peleguer, both father and son, who cut some printing characters between 1780 and 1784 in response to an order of the "Real Sociedad Económica Valenciana de Amigos del Pais". The result was a modern transitional typeface, with good legibility and neoclasical forms, equal in quality to those made by the Real Press (Imprenta Real) in Madrid by Pradell, Espinosa or Gerónimo Gil. Peleguer founded a press and a font foundry in 1784. Patau Bellart created a type family based on Peleguer's work called Peleguer (2009, + Ornaments). More samples: i, ii, iii.
• Anduaga, a calligraphic face from the 18th century, won the Laus Prize (said to be the Spanish equivalent of the type Oscars). Anduaga is the interpretation of the script that Joseph of Anduaga proposed for teaching the first letters in the 1780 book Arte de escribir por reglas y sin Muestras ...
• Valliciergo (2011) is a 100+-glyph calligraphic / copperplate script font that is inspired by samples from Caligrafía inglesa published in Madrid in the late nineteenth century by Spanish calligrapher Vicente Fernández Valliciergo.
• Dafont page, where one can download Ventura Edding (2008, hand-printed).
• Kids Script (2011). An upright connected school script.
• Trajana Sans (2011) is a sans-serif typeface family based on the shapes and proportions of the characters on the Trajan Column in Rome.
• Farrerons Serif (2011) is a very readable family with angular and humanistic underpinnings.
• Chupada (2012) is an ultra-condensed font family noted for their exaggerated x-height, which consists of five different weights.
• Chopped Black (2012) was inspired by the font Pabst Heavy, designed by Chauncey Hawley Griffith in 1928 for Linotype. It was Linotype's version of ATF's popular Cooper Black.
• Paralex (2012) is a 12-style geometric slab typeface family.
• Boxed (2013) is an 18-weight squarish sans family.

Additional links: Dafont. MyFonts page. Alternate URL. Fontspace link. Fontfreak page. Patau Bellart is also involved in the type information site Unos Tipos Duros. Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link.

Interview by Unostiposduros. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Tipocondriac
[Gerald Puig]

Experimental Catalan font foundry offering these Mac and PC fonts by Gerald Puig: Manifesto, Obsolet, Serifos Gor, Serifos Zzzzzzzz, Bustop. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tipode
[Angel Alvarez]

Graphic designer from Valencia, Spain. He has a site with Spanish and Catalan language type material, including an interview with Fred Smeijers and the history of typefounding in Valencia. He is working on the stone and garden inspired Lhorta (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tipografia Esoterica

From Magic Soft in Barcelona: six dingbat fonts, Zodiaco, Astrologia, Runas (3), and I-Ching. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tipografia Lleida
[Jordi]

Jordi at Tipografia Lleida is the Catalan designer of Lleida 1. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tipografies
[Jordi Embodas]

Jordi Embodas is a Barcelona-based graphic designer, b. 1978. He set up Tipografies in Barcelona. Home page.

Designer of the type family Orenga (2005-2008) and of Pona (2009, text face), which can be considered as a a calligraphic sans family, with flared glyphs. Pona Display followed in 2011.

In 2012, he designed Bulo (a legible sans family, from Hair Blond to Ultra Black).

In 2013, he completed Trola (a text serif family).

Behance link. Village link. Another link. Klingspor link.

Interview by Unostiposduros. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Tiponautas

Type design collective founded in 2011 by Luis Alonso (Barcelona), Ricardo Santos (Lisbon) and Charlie Zinno (Buenos Aires).

Ricardo Santos and Luis Alonso codesigned designed the techno sans families Lab Slab Pro (2011) and Lab Sans Pro (2011).

In 2012, Ricardo Santos published the great and large garalde family Tramuntana Pro (which has optical corrections), accompanied by Tramuntana Dingbats (a set of beautiful arrows).

Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Tipos Reunidos (or: Petit Comite)
[Joaquim Massana]

Barcelona-based type and graphic and visual identity designers who published these fonts in 2006 at T-26: Brotxa (2007, fat hand-printed face), Canvas (a stencil experiment), Mequetrefe (2007, T-26, an informal 3-d block letter family), Cuca (an informal printed script family), LaFuente (playful script and dingbats for sales signs). Other fonts: Dotdotis, Diario tuc-tuc (2005), Diamant. Petit Comite, the other name for Tipos Reunidos, was established by Quim Massana (the type designer) and Yolanda Martín. Tatiana Vallejo is a Mexican designer who also contributes. The Don family (T-26, 2007) is a fat didone display font with stylistic changes--it includes Don Paco Bold, Don Pancho Bold, Don Pascual Bold and Don Pepito Bold, and Cobalt (2002, T-26) is a 3-weight stencil family.

MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Tois Estudio Creativo

Located in Barcelona, Tois Estudio Creativo made the 3d typeface Indigo (2013).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tomás Vellvé y Mengual

Catalan type designer (aka Tomás Vellvé), who, at FT Neufville in 1971 created Vellvé, a simple rounded sans serif family, which was published at the Creative Alliance. Born in 1927 in Barcelona, he started his graphic arts work for Rieusset, SA, in Barcelona, but moved to Madrid in 1948 to continue his studies, and returned in 1950 to Barcelona to run his own studio. He created posters and was an illustrator and graphic artist. His only typeface was Vellvé. He died in 1998. Vellvé was extended to a 3-style ffamily by Nick Curtis in 2009, as Velveteen Round NF. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Toni Santiño

Art director in Barcelona, who made several typefaces during his career: Grapa (1996, stick-based face), Ona (1995, wavy letters), Rasca (1999, grungy face), Rasca Outline (1999), Zary (2001). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Toni Selles

Catalan designer at Vasava Artworks in Barcelona who created the stencil font VSV Rotula (2001, free). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tori Alimbau

Designer at type-o-tones in Barcelona who made Vulcano (1997, with José Manuel Urós). Tori Alimbau, Luis Mendo and José Manuel Urós designed DesignOrDie. FontShop link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

TwoPoints.net

Design bureau in Barcelona and Berlin, est. 2007. They designed quite a few typefaces, but none of them seem to be downloadable or even retail. The list:

• TpFloral (2006) is a modular typeface inspired by Kombinationsschrift (1926, Josef Albers). It is based upon two basic elements, a quarter circle and a square.
• TpStretch (2002).
• TpKurier Sans and Serif (2006). A redesign of Courier. Followed by TpKurier-Contrast (2008), TpKurier-Filled (2009) and TpKurier-Calligraphic (2010).
• TpMartini (2008) is a didone family that was used for the identity of Bambi Mint.
• TpLlum (2008) is a typeface that was designed for the festival Montjuïc de Nit. It was published in 2012 by Vette Letters.
• TpDuro (2010) is a blackletter typeface.

Type For Now
[James George Dunn]

Typographer and graphic designer in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He created Barcelona Octagon (2010), a name that everyone who has visited Barcelona will understand. In 2011, he added the experimental faces Interlaced and Eixample. Airship 27 (2011, Lost Type) is a tall condensed industrial sans face. Valley Fold (2013) is an origami typeface.

Behance link. Another Behance link. Personal site of James George Dunn. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Type Republic
[Andreu Balius Planelles]

Catalan foundry in which Andreu Balius is involved. Some fonts sold through MyFonts:

• Pradell (2003). This is a Latin text family based on original Spanish 18th century type specimens cut by Catalan punchcutter Eudald Pradell (1721-1788). Balius won a Bukvaraz 2001 award for Pradell. Pradell also won an award at the TDC2 Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2002.
• In 2008, Balius designed the curly dance-fest themed Carmen for the new edition of Prosper Merimée's drama. In 2012, Type Republic designed the fashion didone face Carmen Fine Display for Victoria's Secret.
• Mecano (2007, geometric sans).
• Taüll (2007, Basque meets blackletter).
• Czeska (after woodcuts by Vojtech Preissig).
• Super Veloz (2005, with Alex Trochut). This fantastic layered type system is based on Joan Trochut-Blanchard's modular typeface. SV Marfil (2004) and SV Fauno were created from Superveloz modules.
• Barna (2011). A slightly humanist textbook sans, Barna Stencil (2011).
• Trochut.
• Matilde (connected pixel script).

Behance link. Old URL. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Type-ø-Tone versus FontShop

FontShop's Petra Weitz wrote this to ATypI: "A short aside by Erich Alb a few days ago mentioned the fact that FontShop sells a font which Adrian Frutiger considers to be a bad rip-off of one of his typefaces. In the FontBook we have credited the original designer, too. Based on the information supplied by the foundry, Type-ø-Tones of Barcelona, we had no reason to suspect any foul play involved. Here's the copy from Type-ø-Tone's catalogue: Tschicholina and Jeune Adrian are homages to two experimental projects carried out by two of the greatest typographers of all times. Tschicholina was inspired by a project by Jan Tschichold dating from around 1929. It is a *universal* font without distinction between upper and lower cases, and which has always been considered to have very little future; Jeune Adrian is another experiment with the same characteristics, made by the master Adrian Frutiger (everybody stand up!).... For FontShop's own FontFonts, we do make sure that new designs don't conflict with anybody's previous rights, but when it comes to the foundries who license us their fonts for distribution, we have to rely on their information. There have been cases where we thought a "new" font looked like something we'd seen before, and then we went back to the supplier to get the story. In this case, however, we took Type-ø-Tone's word and we are convinced that they naively did not see any harm in it. We will contact Joan Barjau and advise him to contact Adrian Frutiger." [Google] [More]  ⦿

type-o-tones

Barcelona-based foundry run by Joan Barjau, Enric Jardi, Laura Meseguer, and José Manuel Urós. Check also here. Fantastic fonts. links page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

TypePhases (was: vigital tipografia)
[Joan Marti Mas]

Joan Marti Mas' dingbats and fonts. Joan Mas is a Catalan type designer, illustrator and graphic designer in Palma, who offers free and commercial fonts. His free fonts include Cu-tbo-rough (2004, handwriting), Dalicanya (2004), Pero Jefe (2004), Corbatins (2004), Cartelia (2004), Carusses (heads), Ataques, Scroonge (grunge), Tooman (tribal dingbats), Kinky Boots (2004), Viatge Quimic (2004, psychedelic face), Kool Aid Acid Text (2004), CU-TBO (2004, comic book family), Psychopaths (2002), CapsBats (2002), Plantiya (1999), Illustries (2000), Illustrisms (2000 and 2012: vintage scanbats), Amano (handwriting, 2000), DeskSpace dingbats, Bruegheliana, Fazzes, Whimsies (2000), Ombres, Defora (grunge), Antypepatics (great facial caricatures, some even Picasso-esque), Honcho, Ataques, Taques au gogo, Scroonge, Lletraparits, Collbats (named after the cartoon artist Josep Coll, 1924-1984), Homoningos (2002-2004, human figures), Viatge Quimic (2002, lettering based on ideas of Austrian designer Alfred Roller from the early 20th century), Mandicho (child's hand), Sinky (comic book), Tipejos (human figure outlines), Embrush.

Commercial fonts: Genteta I, II and III, Absurdies (mad men dingbats), The Joy of Reading (2001), Fontorio (handwriting), Simpa (handwriting), Entestats (2004, dingbats of heads), Incipials 1, Deaf Crab, Racana, Emplomada, Phalopha, Feedback, DaMarka, Bizarries, Brrrush, Threedee, Capsbats 1,2&3 (very original: human heads with things in them), Manualita (handwriting), Ombres 2&3. He (note: Joan is a man's name in Catalonia) also has a sub-page on font creation and typography.

Type links. An excellent font-making tutorial. MyFonts link. Dafont link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Typerware
[Joancarles P. Casasín]

Typerware is a foundry in Barcelona set up in 1993 by Andreu Balius and Joancarles P. Casasín. It offers the following original fonts: TW Czeska, TW FaxFont, TW NotTypeWriterButPrinter, FF FontSoup, Matilde Script, Garcia Bodoni.

Canas Cister Abbey font project.

Creators of the the award-winning typeface Universitas Salamantini (Andreu Balius and Joancarles P. Casasín).

Interview with Penela. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Typosphere

Type and graphic design book published in 2007 by Mao Mao in Barcelona. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ultra Types
[Joan Ramon Pastor Rovira]

Wete, or Wete Cacahuete, or Joan Ramon Pastor Rovira, is Barcelona-based graphic and type designer, b. 1984. He set up Ultra Types in 2012.

Typefaces created by him include the useless monstrosity called Combo (2009), the hand-printed Deibi (2009, free), the text face Alba Serif (2010), and the fantastic geometric/mathematical caps face Roke 1984 (2010; see also this poster by Shreya Gupta, 2012). TP Duro (2011) is a blackletter face. Favela (2011) is a free tattoo face.

In 2012, he designed an experimental / futuristic set of numbers for a Yorokobu magazine section called Numerografia. Still in 2012, he created the Alexander Grotesk typeface family (which can be bought at Ten Dollar Fonts), and Ut One (modular, arc-based).

In 2013, he designed Stela UT (a layered stencil font).

Behance link. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Unografik
[Moises Carracedo Martin]

Graphic designer and art director in Barcelona. His slab serif typeface Deck (2012) relates to the world of skateboarding. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Urikane Parker

Illustrator from Barcelona, who made Pipe Font (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

V. Guillamon

Valencia-based designer of Shit Lettering (2011) (sic), Anek (2011, outline face), and Eimer (2011, hand-printed poster face). Home page with nice typography. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Valístika Studio

Art design studio that outputs some interesting typographical work such as the Hot Nights poster (2009) and the Valistika Pro font (2011). Behance link. Valístika is located in Barcelona. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vasava Artworks
[Bruno Selles]

Catalan designer Bruno Selles at Vasava Artworks in Barcelona created fonts like VSV-Alergia-Bold, VSV-Alergia-Regular, VSV-ByPass-StencilBold, VSV-Epidermis-Black, VSV-Leila-Bold, VSV-Leila-Medium, VSV-Melon (Light and Regular), VSV-DingDong (I and II), VSV-Lengua-RoundedRegular, VSV-Pachuca-Regular, VSV-Pachuca-Suau, VSV-Romina-Bold, VSV-Romina-Light, VSV-Romina-Regular, VSV-RominaRounded-Light, VSV-RominaRounded-Regular, VSV-Rotula-Regular (2001, by Toni Selles, used to be a free stencil font), VSV-Tirania-Caps, VSV-Tirania-RoundedCaps, ADN, ADN-katakana (pixel fonts, 1998), Neurona, Neurona-katakana (pixel fonts, 1999) and Retina. Some fonts used to be free (but they have gone totally commercial now, it seems). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Victor Bregante

Barcelona-based graphic designer, who created some typefaces. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Victor Oliva

Catalan author of Introducción al estudio del arte del alfabeto en Cataluña (Verdaguer, 1913), a book about the history of the alphabet. Pic of the Epistolae Sancti Augustini alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Victoria Pashkova

Graphic designer in Barcelona, who used FontStruct to make the pixel font Vice (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Victoria Salsas Dejuan

Vicky Salsas was born in Barcxelona in 1989, and obtained a Masters in fashion design from the London College of fashion, as wiell as a degree from EINA in Barcelona. In 2011, she designed the avant garde typeface Borwicks. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vincent Connare
[Connare.com]

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Visual.gi
[Raquel Pelta]

Raquel Pelta's Spanish web site (Visual Magazine). Has lots of type information, but many links do not work for me. Raquel Pelta is a graphic design historian and holds a PhD in Arts. She is professor of history of design at Elisava School of Design (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), and editor of Visual magazine (2001-2004). She is curator of exhibitions related to the first and second Spanish Typographical Conferences, held in Valencia in 2004 and 2006. At ATypi 2006 in Lisbon she spoke about the post-war resurgence of Spanish type design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Weeetabix

Barcelona-based designer of the display typeface HAVTT (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Woodcutter Manero

Barcelona-based creator of the counterless hand-printed typefaces Woodcutter Dripping Nightmare (2012) and Woodcutter MMXII (2012).

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Xavi Palouzie

Graphic designer from Barcelona who made the potato stamp typeface Geo Basic Fifteen (2013), in which all letters are crafted from fifteen basic geometric shapes.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Xavier

Xavier (aka xapadisseny) is the Catalan designer of the beautiful free hand-printed typeface family Carta (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Xavier Lanau
[Serialize]

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Xavier Puig
[Bababau]

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Zozu Edzech

Designer and art director in Barcelona. Behance link.

Creator of the ornamental slab face Suede (2011), the multiline ornamental titling face Nando (2011) and the circle-themed geometric face Cercles (2011).

In 2012, Zozu designed the free alchemic typeface Nina.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Zyan Graphics

Zyan Graphics (Barcelona) is the creator of the free display font family Niewe (2013).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿