Carlos Segura

Born in 1956 in Santiago, Cuba, Segura founded the design firm Segura Inc in 1991 and the type foundry [T-26] in 1994 in Chicago. He made Square 40 and Square 45 (2006, athletic lettering), 26FacesA, Peepod (2000, great ornaments), Boxspring, Dingura, FaxfontFine, FaxfontStandard, FaxfontTone, FlacoSolid, FreeBeCaps, FreeDom-Normal, Mattress, Neo-Bold, Pintor (2006, wallpainting face).

Interview at typographer.com. Emodigi site. Interview. Another interview. CV. Catalog of Carlos Segura's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Chad Geran

Chad Geran is a cartoonist and illustrator in Regina, Canada. Behance link. He practices typography on book covers and posters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cubanica Fonts
[Pablo A. Medina]

Pablo A. Medina designs all fonts at Cubanica Fonts in New York. He is a Communication Design professor at Parsons the New School for Design and lives in the East Village of New York City. He has also taught at Maryland Institute College of Art. MyFonts page.

Cubanica fonts: Medina Gothic (2005, a clean sans family), Diablitos (2011), Calaveras (2011), Sailor Gothic (2003), Imbalance (2002, an experimental sans), North Bergen (1996, a vernacular sans), Cuba (1996, 3d signage face based on a sign for the restaurant La Flor de Cuba on Bergenline Avenue in Union City, New Jersey), Vitrina (1996, connected lettering signage face), 1st Avenue, Sombra, 24hrs, Union Square (a bold stitching font), Calaveras (2011, based on a signage style in Buenos Aires called Fileteado), and Marquee. At Plazm, he made First Avenue (Plazm, 2000, based on an old metal neon sign) and Vitrina. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Javier Fuentes

Boston-based designer who was born in Cuba and raised in Venezuela. Behance link. He created the geometric outline face Jeroglifico (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lettering in Havana

Pictures from Havana (by yours truly, dated April 2003), and a brief report on type in Cuba. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mesa

"The Mesa Polyglot alphabet was invented by Juan Mesa (b. 1928), a Cuban-American living in Miami. It was designed as an easy-to-learn and simple-to-use alternative international alphabet." A Mesa font by Nicholas Fabian is included. See also here for MesaAnalogMedium (2001). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nsibidi

From Nigeria and Cameroon: this script was invented by the Ejagham people of southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon. The ideographs represent life among the Ejagham. Today, nsibidi is still widely used by Cuban blacks and called anaforuana and used by such secret societies as the Abakua. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Richard Frick

Swiss typographer who spoke at the Typocircle in London about Cuban typography on January 23, 2003. Author of Satztechnik und Typografie (GDP Verlag, coauthored with Christine Graber, Renata Minoretti, Martin Sommer), and Plakatkunst der kubanischen Revolution (RiFri-Edition). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Studio for Transcultural Design-Creative Solutions

Foundry in Vienna that makes gorgeous commercial fonts for African languages. These pictograms are so nice that I will list each of them. The complete font set retails for about 1000 USD.

• Akelouke1: cave writing from the Sahara, 5000BC.
• Bete: symbols from Cote d'Ivoire, 1956.
• Mezzouliet: cave writing from the Sahara, 5000BC.
• Indalag: cave writing from the Sahara, 5000BC.
• Adinkra: modern symbols from Ghana.
• Meroitic: Egyptian hieroglyphs.
• Celto-Iberic: Spanish and North-African runes.
• Canary: runes from the Canary Islands.
• Bamum: pictograms from Liberia, 1890 and 1894.
• Loma: Liberian script, 1930.
• Vai: Liberian script, 1894. The Vai script was devised by Momulu Duwalu Bukele in about 1833 (Near Cape Mount, Liberia).
• Nsibidi: a complex Nigerian system of pictograms and ideograms, known as Nsibidi (or Nsiberi) has been used traditionally in the cross river area of Nigeria, especially among the Ekoi, Igbo and Ibibio.
• Nubian: Ethiopian script.
• Amharic: Another Ethiopian script.
• Ibo Geneva Style: Geneva with proper diacritics for Ibo.
• Nigerian Times.
• Pan African Arial Style.
• Orisha Arial Style.
• Djuka: A pictogram language from Suriname, 1910.
• Voodoo (Veve): A particularly elegant set of pictograms found in Haiti.
• Abakuá: Pictograms from Cuba, 1980.
• Cabbal: Pictograms from Tobago, 1990.

T-26
[Carlos Segura]

T-26 was founded in 1994 by the Cuban designer Carlos Segura, and is located in Chicago. It is one of the world's most prolific font producers, with over 1900 fonts made by about 200 designers.

List of font names and package numbers.

Segura himself made a few fonts, including Chopsticks (2002), Square45 (2000, a 5-weight font family with LCD-like lettering, with Tnop Wangsillapakun), Square 40 (1995, based on lettering found a 1940s propaganda sign).

Latest releases.

View T-26's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿