Rubén Fontana

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Rubén Fontana Argentinian type designer (b. 1942, Buenos Aires). He began his career in the Department of Graphic Design at the Instituto Di Tella, directed by Juan Carlos Distefano. Ruben Fontana introduced typography in the graphic design program at the University of Buenos Aires, where he taught until 1997. Editor of the magazine tipoGráfica, for which he designed the font FontanaND (1998-2002), which won an award at the TDC2 2003 competition. Creator of the serif text family Aura (2003). Designer of La Nación (2001) for the newspaper by that name. Creator of Andralis (2001-2004, Neufville). He runs Fontana Diseño in Buenos Aires, and is the author of Pensamiento Tipográfico (2003). Biography. In 2007, he published the organic sans family Chaco Señal, which won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008 in the extensive text family category. In 2008, Cha co was published. In 2010, he created the multi-style news headline family Palestina. Palestina was published by Tipo. In 2012, Fontana created the humanist sans family Distefano Sans and the accompanying Distefano Slab. It was named after one of Argentina's most notable graphic designers. In 2020, Ruben Fontana received the TDC Medal for a lifetime of outstanding contributions to the field of typography.	EXTERNAL LINKS Rubén Fontana MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type design in Argentina ⦿