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Type design in Costa Rica

Luc Devroye
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
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Arnold Hoepker

Graphic designer in San Jose, Costa Rica, who made the free round Victorian informal text face Pavo Royal (2011), Zaguatica (2012, a free masculine sans), the free angular and very readable face Lorena (2011), and the free multiline face Telefono (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carla Zetina-Yglesias

Carla is a graphic designer originally from Costa Rica. She attended the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, and graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art + Design (2007). She lives in Minneapolis, MN. With Chank Diesel, she is working on a curly bilined script face called Willow Whisp (2011). Behance link. She designed Aguas Frescas (2011, Chank Foundry: an outlined hand-drawn curly display type family in Horchata and Tamarindo styles). Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Carlitos Salazar

Creator of Petitrolium (2009, letters reminiscent of an oil spill) and California Roll (2009, rounded). Carlitos is a graphic designer and illustrator from Costa Rica. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Claudio Corrales

Art director in San Jose, Costa Rica. He made the thin geometric sans face Fuerza Natural in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Hernández

Designer in San Jose, Costa Rica. Creator of the spurred and wavy serif typeface Serpentes Vestigium (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eduardo Chang

Talented graphic designer in San José, Costa Rica, who is originally from El Salvador. Creator of these typefaces:

  • Ahora (2012). This typeface is based on an art deco design used in a San Salvador publication in 1943. Free download. Images of Ahora: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi.
  • Cronos (2012). An elegant beautiful rounded poster typeface. Images of Cronos: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Federico Abrahams

Aka Bicho. Designer in San Jose, Costa Rica, b. 1974. He created the decorative face Malajeno (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Haime Luna

Costa Rican designer, b. 1975. Home page. He/she created Cabaret Voltaire (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Heber Xavier Arroyo

Costa Rican architectural designer, technical illustrator, and typographer.. Creator of Techni Sans (2010), the rounded sans face AR Techni (2010), Cipher Code (2011, a Masonic symbol face done at FontStruct), and the squarish faces Q-Module (2011, FontStruct) and Cynthe (2011). Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

JBantha Headquarters

This Costa Rican designer (b. 1989) created the free face Lecker (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marco Bonilla

Cartago, Costa Rica-based creator of the neon sign font Neonia (2012).

Alsoo enjoy the calligraphic Sakura logo (2012) by the Cartago, Costa Rica-based graphic designer. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Margherita Valle

Designer from Costa Rica. Her typefaces include Catalano (2012) and Abono Organico (2012, a display face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel Cabrera

Migual Cabrera (b. 1982, Costa Rica) studied Fine Arts and became an editorial illustrator in San Jose, Costa Rica. Known as Monfa, he created among other things the award-winning illustrative alphabet Mascaradas (2011). Arista (2011) is an experimental 3-d paper-fold face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pixel Canibal
[Jonathan Rodríguez]

Pixel Canibal is Jonathan Rodriguez's site. He is a Costa Rican, born in 1983. Educated at UNA (Costa Rica) and Bauhaus University (Germany), he does graphic design in a very broad sense. Creator of the art deco typeface Generación (2009), Pig (2009) and the stunning brushed-figures all caps alphabet Dayana (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ronosa

Costa Rican designer in 2009 at FontStruct of the modular faces Blasphemy, ROF Top, ROF Top Simple, Wireless, Flaggers, Mi-Letra, Monarchy, and Stardots. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sergio Blanco

Costa Rican designer (b. 1974) of the modular geometric face Noviembre 29 (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Xnexno

Costa Rican graphic designer who made some typographic posters such as one called Cello (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿