Ricard Garcia

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Ricard Garcia Barcelona-based designer and lettering artist. In 2015 he received his BA in Graphic Design from the University of Barcelona. Graduate of the Type Media program at KABK in Den Haag, The Netherlands, class of 2019. His typefaces: Prelude, his graduation typeface at KABK, is a display sans that has calligraphic traits in the heavier weights. It has many styles that make this humanistic ensemble a wonderful and useful toolbox, even for short texts. It won an award at 23TDC. With Andreu Balius at Type Republic, he designed Patufet (2018-2019), a warm text family inspired by Catalan folk tales. For hairlines, one can't go thinner than Patufet Finet. In 2020, they added Patufet Mono. For hairlines, one can't go thinner than Patufet Finet, and for fatness, one can't go fatter than Patufet Obes, another 2020 addition. Still with Andreu Balius, he developed Poblet (2018: Solid, Diamond, Bevel), a stylish titling or display typeface that includes a vintage inline style. The heavy sign painter's typeface Raval (2020, Type Republic). Later renamed Ravals. The stroke-based Casual. This typeface was developed by combining the calligraphic origin of a sign painting model to a parametric world built by code. Nina (ca. 2015). A hand-printed typeface based on the handwriting of Antonia Monroig, in which each glyph has four versions. Globe (2020). An artsy typeface that fits well in Gaudi's universe. Groundbeat (2020). A stencil family by Andreu Balius and Ricard Garcia. The Superveloz Centenary Collection (2020, by Andreu Balius and Ricard Garcia at Type Republic). Designed to honor Joan Trochut's 1942 masterpiece. It consists of SV Mambo, SV Jazz, SV Bebop, SV Bolero, SV Swing and SV Twist. In 2021, Ricard Garcia and Andreu Balius added the large family SuperVeloz Caps which consists of SV Caps Bebop SV Caps Bolero SV Caps Jazz SV Caps Mambo SV Caps Swing and SV Caps Twist. Github link.	EXTERNAL LINKS Ricard Garcia Behance page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type design in Catalunya ⦿ Very thin (hairline sans) typefaces ⦿ Signage typefaces ⦿ Monospaced fonts ⦿ Ornamental caps typefaces ⦿ Stencil fonts ⦿