Promodesign

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Promodesign [Crystian Cruz] Promodesign is a Brazilian graphic design company of Crystian Cruz in Sao Paulo. Crystian Cruz and Beto Shibata used to run the Tipos Maléficos foundry. He is also associated with Agencia Africa. Presently he is type director at Africa Propaganda. Alternate URL. Since 1999 he has been working as art director for a major Brazilian magazines and as type consultant for publishing companies and design studios. He specializes in commissioned type design. He obtained an MA in typeface design from The University of Reading (2009), based on his type family Quartzo, a typeface system for magazines. He lectures at IED Sao Paulo. His fonts: His award winning graffiti font Brasilero (2001: first prize at the Tipografia Brasilis in display typography 2001) can be freely downloaded. In 2009, he was still improving and extending Brasilero to include optional characters with typical mistakes or alternate forms used for graffiti. At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he spoke on the Brasilero project. Cruz Sans (2002). Rodan QR (2002). Quartzo (2009) comes in Display, Text, Pocket and Cyrillic sets. Its outlines are slightly "broken" to enhance readability at small sizes for magazines. Also, his use of Opentype features to make barchart and ratings characters is quite clever. Quartzo (2013) is a complete typeface system for magazines. In 2014, Crystian Cruz and Marina Chaccur codesigned the sans custom typeface UOL for the Brazilian internet provider. Behance link.	EXTERNAL LINKS Promodesign Behance page MyFonts search Monotype search Google search INTERNAL LINKS The Brazilian type scene ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Sites with only a few free fonts ⦿ Graffiti fonts ⦿ Readability & Legibility ⦿ Cyrillic type design ⦿ Corporate typefaces ⦿