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Joaquim José Ventura da Silva

Portuguese calligrapher, d. 1849, who wrote Regras methodicas para se aprender a escrever os caracteres das letras Ingleza, Portugueza, Aldina, Romana, Gotica-Italica e Gotica-Germanica in 1820. It had a "Portuguese Script".

Dino dos Santos's 2006 typeface Ventura (2006) was based on his calligraphy from ca. 1802. It won an award at TDC 2008.

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file name: Dino Dos Santos Ventura 2007


file name: Dino Dos Santos Ventura 2007


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