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Talavera Type Workshop [Jesús E. Barrientos]

Talavera Type Workshop is Jesus Barrientos's typefoundry in Puebla, Mexico. He has a Masters in Type Design from Estudio Gestalt in Veracruz.

Barrientos designed Vecchia Romana (2008), a winner in the Tipos Latinos 2008 competition for best text family.

At Tipos Latinos 2012, he won awards in the display type category for Agony, and Ecstasy. Speaker at ATypI 2014 in Barcelona.

In 2012, these commercial fonts were offered via MyFonts: Vecchia (Venetian), Ochenteros (counterless geometric face), Escuadra (squarish), Signorina, Ecstasy (blackletter), Agony (a script).

Kyrenia TTW (2014) is a calligraphic script family.

In 2014, after heaving studied Elzevir in depth, Jesus published his Leidener typeface family. The actual letters were developed from those found in Constantini Imperiatoris (1611) and Exercitationum Mathematicarum (1657), which were printed by Louis and John Elzevir in their workshop in Leiden.

Klingspor link. IT FADU link.

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EXTERNAL LINKS
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INTERNAL LINKS
Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Type design in Mexico ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Blackletter fonts ⦿ Venetian or antiqua typefaces ⦿ Elzevir ⦿ Calligraphic typefaces ⦿