Talavera Type Workshop

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Talavera Type Workshop [Jesús Eladio Barrientos Mora] Talavera Type Workshop is Jesus Barrientos's type foundry in Puebla, Mexico. He has a Masters in Type Design from Estudio Gestalt in Veracruz, class of 2013. Presently he is a professor at Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico. 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. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw. Graduate of the TDi program in 2018 at the University of Reading. 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. In 2017, he published the pixelish typeface Kader at Letter Inc. In 2018, he designed Malaguenya and the grungy Rapenburg. Typefaces from 2020: Nimbo TTW (kaleidoscopic mandalas). Typefaces from 2021: Keizer (a superb 5-style display serif with Titling, Inline, Openface, Initials and Outline options; Keizer has its roots in early XXth century cartography), Blacken (a blackletter inspired by the gothic-cholo style, Mexican sign painting and some delicious Belgian beer). IT FADU link. Fontown link. View Talavera's typefaces.	EXTERNAL LINKS Talavera Type Workshop [Buy fonts] [Designer info] Klingspor Museum page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Type design in Mexico ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Blackletter fonts ⦿ Venetian or antiqua typefaces ⦿ Elzevir ⦿ Calligraphic typefaces ⦿ Pixel/bitmap fonts ⦿ Dingbats (original) ⦿