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Pedro Arilla

Spanish type foundry, est. 2016 by Pedro Arilla (b. 1984, Ejea de los Caballeros), who runs Don Serifa, a beautiful and informative Spanish type blog, and is based in Zaragoza, Spain. Pedro studied graphic design at Escuela Superior de Diseño de Aragón. In 2018, he joined Fontsmith as type designer.

His typefaces include the free didone typeface Valentina (2012).

In 2016, he published the humanist sans typeface family Mestre, which, in his own words, is a German & Dutch-inspired geometric sans-serif.

In 2017, Pedro graduated from the University of Reading with the multi-script typeface pair Rock (for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic) and Roll (for Latin, Arabic and Japanese).

In 2018, Fontsmith published the mammoth sans family FS Industrie.

Still in 2018, Arilla released FS Neruda at Fontsmith. This transitional storytelling text family is named after Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.

The Lost & Foundry family of fonts was designed in 2018 by Fontsmith's designers Stuart de Rozario and Pedro Arilla together with M&C Saatchi London: FS Berwick FS Cattle, FS Century, FS Charity, FS Marlborough, FS Portland, FS St James. The campaign was developed by Fontsmith, M&C Saatchi London and Line Form Colour. The crumbling typefaces of Soho were recovered to be sold online as a collection of display fonts, to fund the House of St Barnabas's work with London's homeless.

In 2020, Monotype released Bunbury, FS Rosa (a soft serif family influenced by Cooper Black and Windsor), FS Renaissance, a stencil serif typeface by Pedro Arilla and Craig Black.

Behance link. Home page for Pedro Arilla.

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INTERNAL LINKS
The Spanish type scene ⦿ Type blogs ⦿ Type news ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Sites with only a few free fonts ⦿ Modern style [Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Thorowgood, Computer Modern, etc.] ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ The Spanish type scene ⦿ Type design in Japan ⦿ Typefaces and type design for Arabic ⦿ Cyrillic type design ⦿ Greek/Coptic ⦿