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Ruben R Dias (was: Item Zero) [Rúben Dias]

Portuguese designer Rúben Dias graduated in design from IADE. He ran Item Zero and built his own letterpress studio, where he prints and experiments with both metal and wood type. Since 2012 he has been working on a doctoral degree on Portuguese Royal Printing Office typefaces at the Technical University of Lisbon's School of Architecture (FA-UTL). He teaches typography at ESAD.CR (Escola Superior de Arte e Design) and ESTAL and holds workshops on type and typography all across Portugal. In 2013, Aprígio Morgado, Ricardo Santos and Rúben Dias cofounded the type foundry Tipos da Letras.

Designer of the promising font Oban (2002), which resulted in the production of a formidable sans family, Oban (2006), in which all straight lines have been replaced by curvatures one could find on TV screens from the 1960s. An elegant display family! It got raving reviews and was compared in style with Mayo (Peter Bruhn), Gregarious (Mike Kohnke), Crank8 Plus/Minus (Henk Elenga), Ectoplasm (T-26) and Armchair Modern (PsyOps).

Type designs include Medro (2008), Quarto (2006), Arco (2009), Euro 2012 (2010, a rounded sans).

In 2012, he published the elliptical sans family Taca at Fountain Type and republished it in 2015 at his own type foundry. He calls it a squircle---neither square nor circle, and explains: We usually associate the rounded, convex box with the television screens of the 1960s and Aldo Novarese's classic typeface, Eurostile. But whereas Eurostile is cold and machined, Taca is warm and rugged, as if it was molded from clay or carved from stone. It adds a bit of anthroposophic warmth and mystery.

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