Sandra Garcia

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Sandra Garcia Sandra Garcia (b. Bogota, Colombia) first studied at the Universidad del Area Andina, Bogota and then obtained a Masters in typography from Centro de Estudios Gestalt in Veracruz, Mexico. Freelance designer and teacher at Universidad de la Comunicacion, in Mexico City. Sandra created the wayfinding sans typeface Colectiva in 2017 together with Tipas Type, a type foundry she co-founded. Colectiva was originally designed for Mexico City's subway system. In 2019, she published Emperatriz at Latinotype. She collaborated on the design of the typographic family Woun Iek for the native Wounaan Colombian language. In 2017, she received the Clap international award for the project Xantolo, a font for children's publications. Xantolo was part of Tipas Type, a space created by women to promote female work in the typographic field. For a Mexican beer brand, Sandra Garcia and Tipas Type designed the splendid blackletter typeface Corona (2018) and the copperplate calligraphic typeface Especial (2019). In 2019, Dafne Martinez, Monica Munguia, and Sandra Garcia finally released the roundish informal children's book typeface Xantolo and the wood type / slab serif typeface Xihtli. In 2019, Dafne Martinez and Sandra Garcia designed the copperplate calligraphic typeface Especial for a common Mexican beer brand In 2021, Dafne Martinez and Sandra Garcia published Achtli (Book, Didactic), a rounded sans typeface for early readers. In 2022, Sandra Garcia released the ultra-condensed reverse stress Western typefaces Extra C and Extra C Variable at Tipastype. Speaker at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo. Co-author of the book Elementype, a practical guide to typographic use.	EXTERNAL LINKS Sandra Garcia [Designer info] Behance page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type design in Mexico ⦿ Map/Travel dingbats ⦿ Colombian type design ⦿ Children's handwriting fonts ⦿ Native-American fonts ⦿ Corporate typefaces ⦿ Copperplate ⦿ Blackletter fonts ⦿ Wood Type ⦿ Books on type design ⦿ School fonts ⦿ Corporate typefaces ⦿ Western fonts ⦿