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Designer at type-o-tones in Barcelona who created Adelita. Home page. FontShop link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Catalan designer of the scratchy font Diatriba, of the corroded font Dead End, and of the ancient caps font Ot. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
From Barcelona, he is the Garcia fonts designer of Afligidos deudos (1996, grunge). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Afu Sánchez (Barcelona) created the ultra-fat modular face Tasious (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Barcelona-based designer (b. 1986) who made the strong bold face Dakats (2010), and the ornamental Lombardic face Aribau (2010). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Catalan graphic designer. His designs include Nenufar, loked Piece, Loked Stencil, Landeth. No sales or downloads. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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'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 2008. In 2009, he published Neo Deco at HypeForType. 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] ⦿ |
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] ⦿ | |
Palma de Mallorca-based creator of a nice typographioc 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
| 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] ⦿ |
Barcelona-based illustrator. Look at the informal lettering in her posters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer from Barcelona who created Hair Type (2011). I am not sure that this is a font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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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. 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). His production:
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Barcelona-based creator of the typographic poster La Mano Larga (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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. | |
Antidesign
| 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] ⦿ |
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] ⦿ | |
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Bababau
| 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] ⦿ |
BaseLAB
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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] ⦿ | |
Designer and illustrator in Barcelona who made a few typefaces in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Editorial and graphic designer in Barcelona who designed a macho poster headline face in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Caligraft
| 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] ⦿ |
Aka Charly Brown, he designed Ninja Type and Vertigo at Garcia fonts. Lives and works in Barcelona. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Barcelona-based designer and illustrator. Creator of the grungy alphabet Smokey (2009). Pic. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Figueres, Catalunya. At Google Font Directory, she published her basic sans face Marvel (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ |
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] ⦿ | |
Designer in Barcelona. Behance link. Critters inspired him to create the experimental typeface Climb (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Barcelona-based lettering artist. An example of his craft. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A graduate of Bau, Escola Superior de Disseny, Chema works at Battlegroup since 2002. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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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] ⦿ |
Designer in Barcelona who created Xilora (2010, grunge) and COR (2010, handprinted). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer from Sant Feliu del Llobregat near Barcelona. Designed Panxo-Panxo and Panxo-Pinxo (1996) at Garcia fonts. Both are grungy. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Barcelona-based studio which designed the rounded display face Bitbath (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Dúctil
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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] ⦿ |
Barcelona-based graphic designer who made Koala (2011), a monoline geometric sans face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Edy Type
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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] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
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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 is working on Milonga, and 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] ⦿ |
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. As art director of the Fonderie Typographique Française, he designed these fonts:
View Enric Crous-Vidal's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Catalan type designer who made Nova Gótica Huguet (1964-1970), Expo82 (a custom design for the 1982 exposition in Barcelona). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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 (1996), Xiquets Forever (1995, dingbats). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Estudi Xarop
| 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
| 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 (aka Fluna Daiyunel) is a designer in Barcelona (b. 1990) who created the handprinted Fluna's Handwriting (2009, FontCapture). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Catalan typographer (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] ⦿ | |
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Designer at type-o-tones in Barcelona who made Analfabeta Regular and Pics (1997, with Joan Barjau). FontShop link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fluorink
| 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] ⦿ |
Barcelona-based designer. Behance link. Creator of Fills de Moretó (2012). Behance link. Creator of Fills de Moretó (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Artist and cultural activist in Reus, near Tarragona. At Garcia fonts, Vidal designed Route 66 (1997), a scratchy white on black font. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
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
| 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), Clasico Nacional, Electra, Imperio, Radar (brush script), Romana, Ingles 15, and Rusinol (C. Winkow). Catalogo de la Fundicion Tipografica Nacional. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fundicion de 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
| 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 Juan Castillo Script (script of an old man; Typerware), 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), and Vizente Fuster (1995), all by Andreu Balius and Joancarles Casasin, 1993-1995. The list 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] ⦿ |
Designer in Barcelona, who published a small booklet enttled Sixties and Type. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Google Maps Typewriter Machine
| 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] ⦿ |
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] ⦿ | |
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Hibernia Type
| 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. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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] ⦿ |
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] ⦿ |
Book publisher in Barcelona, which has an active section on typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Inquietto
| 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] ⦿ |
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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. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at type-o-tones in Barcelona who created Despatxada (1997) and Frankie Dos. FontShop link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
FontShop link. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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) is based on SuperVeloz. Super Veloz allows snap-on serifs and incredible modularity, thanks to the implementation by Typerware. Nice examples of this were created by Phan Nguyen: 123456789 10. 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. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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. Interview with Penela. Fontshop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Barcelona. His Oboe typeface (2012) has a negative axis and is remarkably sturdy and readable. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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. | |
Catalan designer at FontStruct in 2008 of bb_tempo_extended_3, bbtempo (pixel face), bbtempo_bold, bbtempo_condensed. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Born in 1987 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, this graphic designer now lives in Barcelona. Behance link. He created Foster (2010, a didone italic) and the display faces Joker Serif and Joker Slab Serif (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Alberto Gonzalez (b. 1977, Algeciras) runs Plus Design in Barcelona. He created FAT BROSS (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Designer associated with Ars Virtualis and Tipos Reunidos in Barcelona. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Catalan lettering artist: check Mosaicos E.F. Escofet y Cia. (1908). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Barcelona-based creator of Mason (2011, a fat didone display face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
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Kickingbird
| 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). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Krisp Designs
| 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. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
La Foneria
| 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] ⦿ |
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 ("La Tipomatika") is the Catalan designer (b. 1987) of the free geometric sans families Candela (2009), Cicle (2007) and Newcicle (2007), and the absolutely rectangular sans family Simply Mono (2007). Dafont link. Font Squirrel link. Fontsy link. Kernest link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Barcelona-based free fonts outfit. Creations: Toch, Closer, Cegada, PickUp. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ |
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] ⦿ | |
Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Le Moustache is based in Palma de Mallorca. They created the ultra-black experimental face Payopony (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graphic designer in Barcelona, who did some experimental typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Lughdailh
| 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 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] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
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's Fonteria
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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] ⦿ |
Barcelona-based graphic and typeface designer. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer (b. Vic), based in Barcelona. He made Cubic Sans (2012). This free 3d typeface is very loosely based on Comic Sans. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Barcelona. He created the sturdy slab serif typeface Gustaf in 2009. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Catalan designer of the grunge stencil face Transfer (1996). He runs a Spanish language type blog. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Barcelona who created the circle-based display face Baco (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Barcelona. In 2010, she made the textile texture face Bamba. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Spanish designer in Barcelona. During a workshop of Alex Trochut and Marta Cerdá, he designed this experimental typeface in 2010. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Barcelona-based graphic designer (b. 1963). Dafont carries his free fonts, which are often revivals, or fonts based on scans from Dover books. Fontspace link. The list:
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Debutart link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Barcelona who makes extraordinary typographical posters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Barcelona-based creator of the modular typefaces Tipo06 (2012) and Bastard (2012: a 3d face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vic, Catalunya-based designer of Droid Voice (2012, FontStruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic and web designer from Barcelona who created the fat squarish face Dora (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at type-o-tones in Barcelona who made Gallard (a lively font family!). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Graphic designer in Barcelona. She created the script typeface Dinosaure (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Designer in Mallorca and Madrid. For a course project, he designed Caminito Regular (2011). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Naok Art
| Miguel Plasencia (Naok Art, Barcelona) is a graphic designer and art director. In 2010, he created the handlettered font Tipo Traper. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fonts include a newly digitized Futura family (Paul Renner, 1928), in the Bauer Classics collection. Go here for a description of the old printing machines. 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). Check also the Fundicion Tipografica Bauer in Barcelona and Visualogik Technology and Design in the Netherlands. Font list. More details: "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. | |
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] ⦿ |
Barcelona-based designer. Blackwood (2011) is an rnamental all-caps face that takes its inspiration from a mixture of the woodcuts of the early 18th century and fat typefaces of today's magazines. Other faces: Cabriole (2011, serif text family), Terabyte (2011, a monoline corporate typeface in current development for Aspa Company), Sutturah (fat signage face, published by Rosetta Type). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer at Tipos Reunidos in Barcelona. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Barcelona-based illustrator and graphic designer who created a pixel face in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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'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] ⦿ | |
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Menorca-based Oscar Bagur iruns this wonderful type page (in Catalan). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator and graphic designer in Barcelona. Behance link. He made the object-inspired experimental typeface ObjecType (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Print and web designer in Barcelona. Creator of the elliptical face Brida Slab (2011), a snowboarding competitions typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pangramas
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Lucía Castro designed the wedgy display face Claxon (2009), Ignore (2009: a grotesque caps-only typeface). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ |
Design student at Design Academy IDEP, Barcelona. He created the serif face Invicta (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
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PM Fonts
| 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 (Barcelona) is a digital imaging freelancer. She created an ornamental alphabet called Abecedario (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Spanish designer in Barcelona who made a series of Didot posters in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ |
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Azerbaijani designer of FC Barcelona (2009), Premier League (2007), and Real Madrid 2009 (2009). Fontsy link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ramirez y Rialp | Barcelona-based foundry which became Fundición Typográfica Neufville in 1885. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer of Iva, a typeface commissioned to Joan Barjau at Type-O-Tones. Tosas died some time ago. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Barcelona-based designer, who created a piano key typeface in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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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: 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. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Typefoundry in Barcelona, est. 2011. Creators of the fatty didone face Bendita (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
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Robert Roman (Barcelona) is an art director. Dinamic Tipo (2011) was created by him for Claims of Herokid. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Barcelona. Creator of the hip alphading face Imperfect Type (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Barcelona. He made the futuristic (techno) face Handgloves (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Barcelona-based designer of Dakhla (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Barcelona. Creator of Tubular Type (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Barcelona of the ornamental caps face Old Electricity (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designed Popular (1997) at Garcia fonts, a display/dingbat mix. Works in Barcelona. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Barcelona-based creator of the modular typeface Skyround (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
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Textaxis
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Tipo Pepel (was: Antaviana Typeface Division, or: Astramat)
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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. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Tipocondriac
| Experimental Catalan font foundry offering these Mac and PC fonts by Gerald Puig: Manifesto, Obsolet, Serifos Gor, Serifos Zzzzzzzz, Bustop. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Tipode
| 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] ⦿ |
From Magic Soft in Barcelona: six dingbat fonts, Zodiaco, Astrologia, Runas (3), and I-Ching. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tipografia Lleida
| Jordi at Tipografia Lleida is the Catalan designer of Lleida 1. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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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. In2012, he designed Bulo (a legible sans family). Behance link. Village link. Another link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Tipos Reunidos (or: Petit Comite)
| Barcelona-based type and graphic and visual identity designers who published these fonts in 2006 at T-26: Brotxa (2007, fat handprinted 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] ⦿ |
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Catalan designer at Vasava Artworks in Barcelona who created the stencil font VSV Rotula (2001, free). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
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:
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Type Republic
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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] ⦿ | |
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TypePhases (was: vigital tipografia)
| Joan Marti Mas' dingbats and fonts. Joan Mas is a Catalan typographer, 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), Amano (handwriting, 2000), DeskSpace dingbats, Bruegheliana, Fazzes, Whimsies, 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, 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
| Typerware is a foundry in Barcelona set up by Andreu Balius and Joancarles P. Casasíin. It offers the following original fonts: 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 Typerware (Andreu Balius and Joancarles P. Casasín). Interview with Penela. MyFonts page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Joint web page of the Spanish foundries Typerware (by Juan Carlos Pacheco) and Garcia Fonts (by Andreu Balius). In 1993, Andreu Balius and Joan Carles P. Casasín founded Typerware in Barcelona. Garcia is an experimental type project from the early nineties. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type and graphic design book published in 2007 by Mao Mao in Barcelona. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator from Barcelona, who made Pipe Font (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Vasava Artworks
| 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] ⦿ |
Barcelona-based graphic designer, who created some typefaces. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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] ⦿ | |
Visual.gi
| 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] ⦿ |
Wete Cacahuete
| Wete, or Wete Cacahuete, or Joan Ramon Pastor Rovira, is the Barcelona-based graphic designer, b. 1984, who created the useless monstrosity called Combo (2009). He also made the handprinted Deibi (2009, free), the text face Alba Serif (2010), and the fantastic geometric/mathematical caps face Roka 1984 (2010). TP Duro (2011) is a blackletter face. Favela (2011) is a free tattoo face. He designed an experimental / futuristic set of numbers for a Yorokobu magazine section called Numerografia (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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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 
Graphic designer in Barcelona. In 2010, she designed 
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). 
Design studio in Barcelona, est. 1998. They made the 
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 
Chema Sanchez, or just snchz, is the Barcelona-based designer who created the fat angular typeface 
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 
Damià Rotger Miró (Menorca) is a type designer, letterer and graphic designer at Dúctil in Palma de Mallorca. 
Ricardo Rousselot is a calligrapher and type designer born in Argentina in 1936. He made 
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 
Spanish designer (b. 1985) from Malaga who now lives in Barcelona. 
Designer in Barcelona who was born in 1982 in Pistoia, Italy. 
Graphic designer in Sabadell, Catalunya, who was born in Barcelona. 
Graphic designer, illustrator and photographer in Valencia, Spain, who created a thin monoline face called 
Catalan graphic designer who lives in Olot. He created the sans family 
Designer (b. 1950) at type-o-tones in Barcelona who made Analfabeta Regular (1999, with Flavio Morais), Analfabeta Pics (1999, with Flavio Morais), 
Catalan designer (b. 1920, Caldes de Montbui, d. 1980, Barcelona) of Bisonte (Fonderie Typographique Française, 1950), 
Self-taught programmer in Barcelona, b. 1956. 
Catalan painter, sculptor and graphic designer, b. 1931, Barcelona. He created 
Japanese graphic/editorial designer who is currently living in Barcelona, Spain. 
Japanese graphic designer in Barcelona, where he studied at Eina. In 2010 he created the large x-height roman faces 
Designer (b. Barcelona, 1968) at 
Catalan free font outfit. At Dafont, they published these fonts in 2011: 
Frankfurt-based designer (b. 1932) whose creative output is so large that he deserves a 
Designer in Barcelona. 
Author, ca. 1945, of Rotulacion Decorativa no. 1 (Ediciones ARS, Barcelona) and 
Born in Pamplona in 1987 who obtained a Masters in typography and type design from EINA in Barcelona. He designed 
Graphic designer in Barcelona, who created the grotesque face 
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." 
Barcelona-based designer of 
Pangramas is Pedro Sanoja in Barcelona. His typefaces include 
P.A.R is a graphic design studio based in Barcelona, founded and run by 
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 
Catalan creator of 
Giuseppe Salerno (aka 
Italian graduate from the type design program at the 
Born in Barcelona in 1981, 
Catalan foundry, est. 2008 by Xavier Lanau, who lives in Barcelona. He designed the feminine sans family 
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: 
Snowboarder from Liechtenstein, who designs typefaces at P22. The list: 
Spanish/Catalan foundry run by Barcelona-based Iñigo Jerez Quintana since 1995. His beautiful typefaces 
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 
Catalan foundry in which Andreu Balius is involved. Some fonts sold through 
Barcelona-based foundry run by Joan Barjau, Enric Jardi, Laura Meseguer, and José Manuel Urós. Check also 
Valencia-based designer of 
Art design studio that outputs some interesting typographical work such as the 
