Felipe Cáceres C. was born in 1982 in Santiago de Chile. He is a graphic designer from the Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana and has a diploma in typography from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He is one of the cofounders of the Unión de los Tipógrafos in Santiago. He currently works as a designer in the graphic, type and information studio Filete in Santiago. Designer of Altazor (2008), a winner in the Tipos Latinos 2008 competition for best text family. At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he spoke on the history of type design in Chile. I thought he introduced an upright script there, called Grafito. I thought he introduced an upright script there, called Grafito.

In 2007, Moisés Arancibia and Pablo González set up SMOG (or: Santiago Motion Graphics). There, Moisés Arancibia designed about 12 free display typefaces. For many of these, Felipe Cáceres helped out with the final production. These typefaces include Alpaca (a slab face), Mafia (an experimental face), Mokeka (a display face), Matas (a display face), Central (a display face), Chacon (a black rounded face), and Bikini (a squarish face).

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