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Rubén Fontana
Argentinian type designer (b. 1942, Buenos Aires) who 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 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. |
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file name: Ruben Fontana Fontana N D 2001
file name: Ruben Fontana Andralis N D 2001
file name: Ruben Fontana Andralis N D Bold 2001
file name: Ruben Fontana chaco 09
file name: Ruben Fontana Chaco release2009
file name: Ruben Fontana Aura 2003
file name: Tipo Palestina 2011
file name: Ruben Fontana Palestina 2010
file name: Ruben Fontana Palestina 2010d
file name: Ruben Fontana Palestina Bold 2010
file name: Ruben Fontana Palestina Ultra Black 2010
file name: Ruben Fontana Distefano Sans 2012
file name: Ruben Fontana Distefano Sans Black 2012
file name: Ruben Fontana Distefano Sans Black 2012b
file name: Ruben Fontana Distefano Slab Bold 2012
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