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).

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Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type design in Catalunya ⦿ Architectural lettering/typefaces ⦿ Pixel/bitmap fonts ⦿ Stencil fonts ⦿ Piano key typefaces ⦿ Bauhaus and type design ⦿

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