21 Lab

Design studio in Monterrey, Mexico. Behance link. The offer Free Font 21 (2010, a free paperclip face) and the counterless gometric alphabet Navia (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

323 Productions
[Arnie Gabriel Gonzales]

Original anarchist fonts by 323 Productions (Arnie G. Gonzales, Los Angeles, CA): the formidable dingbat font Anarquia v1.0 beta, with revolutionary glyphs, and drawings of the world's great anarchists. And Calaveras 323 (1999), a horror scanbat font with glyphs related to the Dia de los muertos. It can also be found here.

Old web site. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Acatl Ichtyes Niu

Mexican designer (b. 1989) who created Guardians Unite in 2010. His home page is called Pixel grid. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Acolina

Small rune font archive. Has, for example, from Ecological Linguistics, their Maya glyph fonts DaysBF, DaysCodBold, DaysCodBoldItalic, DaysCodItalic, DaysCod, all made in 1994. From the American Philological Association, Jeffrey Rusten's Greek font Athenian (1991). Also, the Maya glyph fonts Abaj, AbajBold, TunBold, Tun, Wuuj, WuujBold, WuujBoldItalic, WuujItalic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adolfo Rojas

Designer, b. 1974, who lives in San Juan del Rio in Mexico. He created Adolphus (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adolfo Rojas

Mexican designer of Adolphus (2008, Peignotian). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrian Dorame

Mexican designer of the handwriting font ABC Melo (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adriana García

Mexican designer of the Pica face (2011). She made some fun illustrations such as Caracol Caracolcaracolito (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alan Zero15

Mexico City-based illustrator and graphic designer. He made the angular, electric techno face TipoZero (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Albatross (or: Font Deals)
[Jay Hilgert]

Foundry in Oklahoma City, OK, est. 2008. Creators of the informal outline face Tire Shop (2008). This font was designed by Jay Hilgert. He also made the informal 3d shadow face Blox (2008), the futuristic family Naughty Astronaut (2011, +Cowboy), the Western face ABTS Gunsmoke (2011), the connected retro script face ABTS Milk (2011) and the 3-d wood face Baja California (2008). Before Albatross, Jay Hilgert ran Bittbox (or: BB Free Fonts), a site dedicated to free clipart and vector art. He has made a stunning four-style family called BB Petie Boy (2008), which includes an ornamental caps style, a grunge style, a blackboard style and a sketch style. In 2008, he made Fusty Saddle, 23rd Street (a graffiti font) and Whiteboard Modern. In 2009, he followed up with Oil Change (3d, hand-drawn). In 2011, he created ABTS Feather Pen, ABTS Oklahoma, ABTS Aviator (2011, art deco caps face), and ABTS Day of the Dead (ornamental skulls, Mexican style), ABTS Crestwing (2011, an inline caps face), Helios Pro (2011).

Dafont link. In 2011, he started Font Deals. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alberto Arellano

Alberto Arellano (Memela Studio, Guadalajara, Mexico) designed Cali (2010, octagonal) and Marga (2010, geometric display sans). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alberto Valencia

Calligraphy and typography teacher in Veracruz, Mexico. Creator of Carabali, Mercedes (sans), the top or bottom half-only alphabet font Mocha (2004), Cartel Extendida and Border, mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alboleyda Valdovinos

As a student at Gestalt in Mexico, Valdovinos designed the serif face Sonera in 2006. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aldo Ojeda Campos

Mexican designer of Sinapsis (2007), a futuristic Bank Gothic style font, Galactic Troop[ers (2010, futuristic), and Madame Butterfly (2009, rounded sans). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alejandro Cisneros Estrada

Illustrator from Mexico City. He created a number of typefaces in 2010: i, ii, iii. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alejandro Lo Celso

Alejandro Lo Celso, a graphic and type designer born in 1970 in Córdoba, Argentina, was art director at several publishing media in Buenos Aires. He has written several articles for typo magazines, and taught typography at the University of Buenos Aires. In 2000 he completed his MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading (UK). In 2001, he obtained a post-diploma at the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique, Nancy (France). He teaches typography at the Universidad de las Americas in Puebla, Mexico, and at Centro Gestalt in Veracruz, and is Principal of Pampa Type in Mexico City. His Rayuela (Hopscotch) type family was a winner at the Bukva:raz type design competition held by the ATypI, Moscow 2001. Quimera (2002) is a display family that contains an admirable heavy condensed sans, Quimera Compacta. MyFonts page. Lo Celso's face Borges won a Judge's award at the 2002 Morisawa Competition. Someone said that he lives in Mexico now. Interview. Arlt (2005, +Arlt Blanca, 2008) won an award at the Creative Review Type Competition 2005. Rayuela Chocolate 2.0 (2005) won at TDC2 2006. In 2009, Lo Celso, François Chastanet, Géraud Souliol and Laure Afchain cooperated on the identity type for the city of Toulouse, called Garonne. At Tipos Latinos 2010, he won awards for Perec (+Perec Blanca, +Perec Negra) and Margarita. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alejandro Magallanes

Mexican designer of Cinematográfica, mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alejandro Salinas

Monterrey, Mexico-based creator of Fame (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandro Mattt Briones

Mexican creator of Maming (2012, spindly), the pixelish face Mattta Ahari (2011), Coluca Modern Side (2011, an ocragonal semi-stencil face), the sturdy poster face La Camerino (2011), the grungy Indieo (2010), the condensed faces Tipulada (2011) and Condenzel (2011), the experimental face Autobahn (2011), the squarish NRCO (2011) and the experimental Vai Gone (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alphabytes
[Rob Leuschke]

St. Louis lettering artist Robert Leuschke (who grew up and lives in St. Charles, MO) has made some 250 calligraphic fonts for greeting cards, including many for Hallmark Cards, of which about 80 are commercially available: ITC Arid (1997), a flowing handwriting [see also here], ITC Chivalry (2003), Saliere (1997), Love (2003), SendFlowers (1988), Whisper (2003), RugeBoogie (2004), Ambiance (2004, an informal calligraphic design for Bitstream), and a handprinting font, Roelandt. The IRC Chat Font (smilies) is free.

In 2003, he found an outlet for his work through P22 and published P22Corinthia, P22ImperialScript, P22OhLey [simulating Mexican writing], P22Petemoss and P22Ruthie.

He also made RUSerius (2007, curly handwriting), Alex Brush (2003), Cherish Font (2003), ChildrenPlay ROB (2003), Ephesis (1988), Inspiration (2003), JackieO (2003), Licorice (2003), OoohBabyROB (2004), TheNautiGal (2006), Gideon (2009, roman), Corinthia (2009, calligraphic), Puppies Play (2009), Monte Carlo (2011).

Rob Leuschke's bio. Klingspor PDF.

MyFonts interview. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ana Alvarado

Monterrey, Mexico-based creator of the curly sea snail-inspired AI-format typeface Mood Board (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Karen Guerra

Mexican designer who used iFontmaker in 2011 to create Ascriptt, a fat finger handprinted face, Sketchy (2011, a sketched face), and Fingeferanna (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anagrama

Anagrama are a brand and design agency based in Mexico. They developed a sans face for Sofia in 2012 [Sofia is a building designed by architect Cesar Pelli for One Development Group l ocated in San Pedro, Mexico]. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Rmz

Graphic designer in Monterrey, Mexico, who created a handprinted typeface (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Rodriguez Mier

Graphic design student from Nuevo Leon, Mexico. She created the dingbat face Huevos Duros (2011). Devian tart link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

André Mooij

Graphic and type designer in Monterrey, Mexico. Behance link. In 2012, he created the rounded monoline sans typeface Milla. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrés Calva

Mexican creator of the pixel typeface Abo Mando (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angel Rodriguez

Web and graphic designer in Monterrey, Mexico. Behance link. Creator of the grunge face Anhell RDZ (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angeles Moreno

Mexican designer of the handprinted Bolita, the kids faces Nino and Bíblica, the unicase Bauhaus, the round face Aqua, the grunge faces Gap and Heart, the handwriting faces Pessoa and Pincelazo, Geometrics, Matisse, the minimalist face Moogdula, Offset, the sans face Quatro, the windowed face Ventana, Voluble, Starline, Santa Clara, the trekkie face Wet Alien, and the experimental face Chida, mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anhell Inferno

Mexican creator of Factor Ciencia (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antonio de Espinosa

Spanish type founder based in Sevilla, who emigrated to Mexico and is thought to be the first Spanish typographer in North America. He created a large number of Gothic, roman and cursive faces. He printed mainly religious oeuvres, from about 1560 until about 1571. Cristóbal Henestrosa, who wrote Espinosa. Rescate de una tipografía novohispana (México, Designio, 2005), writes: He worked with Juan Pablos (first printer on the American continent) since 1551 and he began his independent job in 1559, with Maturino Gilberti's Grammatica Maturini and finalized with the second edition of Graduale Dominicale in 1576, the year he died. It is not completely clear that he cut typography, althought there is a contract (1550) in which he promises to cut type for Juan Pablos, but he is the second printer in all of America and the first one who preferred roman and cursive type over the gothic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Apostolos Syropoulos

Xanthi-based designer of the Greek type1 font family Phaistos (2004, with Stratos Doumanis). He also created the "oinuit" system, a set of Lambda (Omega LaTeX) typesetting tools for the Inuktitut language which comes bundled with the type 1 family Inuit (2002). In 2007, he published the Philokalia package, which includes a free Philokalia OpenType font developed with Ioannis Gamvets. It was specially made to print the Philokalia books. The UM Typewriter font family (2008, for OpenType fonts) is a monospaced font family that was built from glyphs from the CB Greek fonts, the CyrTUG Cyrillic alphabet fonts ("LH"), and the standard Computer Modern font family. Epi-Olmec (2008) is an Aztec dingbat font. In support of the href="http://openfontlibrary.org/member/asyropoulos">Open Font Library, he created the rune font Icelandic (2008: this font includes most "magical" staves that have been "used" in Iceland. Original drawings from the Museum of Sorcery&Witchcraft). He also made Asana Math (2007), which also has references to Young Ryu (2000) and Claudio Beccari (1997-1999). Kernest link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

ARGOTypo
[Jonathan Cuervo]

Mexican design company. Jonathan Cuervo mixed blackletter and antiqua in the creation of the stunning Corvus type family (2010-2012), which won an award at Tipos Latinos 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arjuna Ortega

Chihuahua, Mexico-based creator (b. 1984) of the dingbat face 360 (2008) and the handwriting face My Mom's Font (2010). I have no idea what these glyphs represent. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Armando Hernández Marroquín

Mexican designer of the TrueType fonts Chess Alfonso-X, Chess Chess Harlequin, Condal, Chess Leipzig, Chess Kingdom, Chess Magnetic, Chess Mark, Chess Marroquin, Chess Maya, Chess Mediaeval, Chess Merida, Chess Millennia, Chess Miscel, Chess Motif, Chess Usual. All freeware. Also made the free PostScript font set FigurineSymbol (6 faces) for use in text. Armando lives in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Armin Vit

Born and raised in Mexico City, Armin Vit is a graphic designer and writer now living in Austin, Texas. He is co-founder of UnderConsideration and its myriad sites. His last employment position was at Pentagram. He now runs UnderConsideration's Department of Design. With his partner, Bryony, he has co-authored the books Women of Design and Graphic Design Referenced. Designer of the futuristic fonts Modular (2001) and Tirkovet, and of Stress (letters obtained without lifting the pen). He attended the School of Graphic Design at Anahuac University in Mexico City and taught typeface design at the Portfolio Center, marchFIRST, Atlanta, GA. Home page. After Atlanta, he moved on to Chicago, and later to Austin. At TypeCon 2003, he told this dream about Hrant Papazian, I quote: I dreamt that Hrant came to my house, the weird thing is that it was his typophile picture only (since that is as far as I know what Hrant looks like). So he came in, and went "Number Two" in my bathroom without flushing, after that, he headed out to the kitchen to hang out and stuff. So I go into my bathroom and see these unflushed turds in my toilet. I go up to Hrant and say "Excuse me, Hrant, you left your turds in my toilet." His response involved handing me a plunger and adding "This should fix it." And that was it. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arquepoetica

Art and type experiments at Universita Autonoma de Mexico, which sets out to prove that the real world is coming to an end and visual reality is taking over. Check out Gramapoetica, which shows many modular letters and typefaces. Flickr page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Art Serrano
[Cecilia Rodríguez]

Cecelia "Cecy" Rodriguez ("Art Serrano", Tampico, Mexico) designed the techno face Electric Feel (2010), Chilly (2009, handprinted, hairline) and Crazy Diamond (2009, black face with small holes). Fontsy link Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

art-e-fact

Mexican creator of Netz Demo (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arturo León Resendiz

Mexican designer of Smooth, mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arturo Madrazo

Mexican designer of the handwriting face Molde, mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ash Kamiya

Mexican designer of Puebla 79 (2010). In Nueva Espana (2010), Kamiya scan-fonted a typeface used in the printing of Nueva Espana in the XVIth century. Concilium II (2010) is a geometric, almost symbolic, headline sans face. All the fonts have religious roots. [Google] [More]  ⦿

asimplekender

Designer of the multiline Aztec symbol face Zero (2008, FontStruct) and of Blocky (2008, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

ATypI 2009

A brief report (with pictures) of the ATypI meeting held in October 2009 in Mexico City, by your humble servant. [Google] [More]  ⦿

ATypI 2009

ATypI 2009 was organized by Ricardo Salas and Roger Black in Mexico City, 26-30 October 2009, and had as theme The Heart of the letter. This week-long event consisted of two days of workshops and small events held at Anáhuac University's hilltop campus, and three days at MIDE in the Centro Histórico, the historic center of the city. Program. Flickr site. Twitter. The Faces of ATypI by Laurence Penney is a beautiful sepia photo collection of mug shots. Pics by Eli Castellanos. Report by Jean-Baptiste Levée. Jan Middensorp's pictures about the Balduino/Ietswaart event. Eben Sorkin's pictures. Henrique Nardi's photographs. The FontFont set of pictures. Luc's report. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Augusto Elorza

Mexican designer (b. 1989) of the curly font Letras Locas (2009), the informal One Leash (2009), the outline face White Squared (2009) and the handprinted MyWord (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aviv Studio
[Luis Miguel Torres]

Aviv Studio in Monterrey and Mexico City consists of Diego L. Rodriguez (from Madrid, Spain) and Luis Miguel Torres. Typefaces:

• The funky futuristic alchemic caps face Alquimia (2011). Its ornamental caps are based on mathematical objects. Joint work of Torres and Rodriguez.
• Jagger (2010-2011). A sans family created by Torres.
• The futuristic alchemic face Kinesis (2011).
• Qabalah (2012). A fashion mag face.

B. A. Valeria

Mexican designer of the rectangular display face Leche Entera (2004, with Felipe de J. Coca), mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

B. Vázquez

Mexican designer of Godiniana (with K. Godines and P. Marroqui), mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benjamin Morales Lugo

Zacatecas-based creator of Técnica Uno Sans (2010, grotesk). This typeface was created for the identity of the Escuela Secundaria Técnica Uno de Zacatecas, México. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bennudiseño
[Diana Pazo]

Diana Pazo (Guadalajara, Mexico) is a graphic design freelancer. She created the free futuristic display face Bennudiseno (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Berserker Studio
[Christopher Mooij]

Berserker Studio is Christopher Mooij's graphic design studio in Monterrey, Mexico. He created La Revolucion and Green in 2009. He designed the hairline geometric faces This is her type (2010) and BRSRKR (2010), and the experimental geometric faces Bibo (2010), Nova (2010) and Balla (2010). At the end of 2010, he started work on a big avant garde sans family called República Sans. Raw (2011) is a modular experimental face. Behance link. Cargo Collective link. Another Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Blue Typo
[Manuel Guerrero]

Manolo Guerrero (Blue Typo, San Luis Potosi, Mexico) is the Mexican creator of Deconstructa (2005, grunge), Hybrid Screen (2005), and Optica (2008, an optical illusion texture face). Optica won an award at TDC2 2009 and a grand prize at Tipos Latinos 2010 (in the experimental type category) and can be bought at MyFonts under the Cocijotype label. Optica is a tribute to Colombian artist Omar Rayo's optical art. Behance link. FontStructions by him in 2009 include Block 02 (stencil). In 2009, he also made the experimental face MiniBlock (Cocijotype). In 2010, Sticky was published---it is an experimental brick face. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Boudewijn Ietswaart

Dutch letterer about whom Jan Middendorp will speak at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City. Middendorp writes: During my research for Dutch Type, I chanced upon the work of Boudewijn Ietswaart, an extremely talented lettering artist and illustrator whose work is virtually unknown in his native Netherlands. Further research led to my locating him - now retired - in Amsterdam, where I interviewed him and made photographic reproductions of some of his work. Ietswaart spent most of his professional life as a graphic designer in Mexico, Venezuela and Barcelona and only did a small portion of his work for Dutch publishers. He later became a scientific illustrator and abandoned lettering altogether. Ietswaart was extremely prolific during his two years in Mexico, c. 1960, where he had gone to assist UNESCO collaborator Alexander Stols - a well-known publisher - as the typographic specialist. After I mentioned Ietswaart to my contacts of the Círculo de Tipógrafos in Mexico last year, they researched what information they could find, and also located many of Ietswaart's works in antiquarian bookshops. They soon warmed up to the idea of reviving some of his alphabets as fonts, and present the work during ATypI 09 in the context of the cultural climate of the era. At the Flickr site documenting his years in Mexico in 1961 and 1962, we read: In 1961 a young Dutch designer, Boudewijn Ietswaart, arrived in Mexico City. Schooled in hand lettering and a master of many graphic techniques Ietswaart came to the effervescent capital of Mexico as an assistant to Alexandre Stols, himself a famous book designer who had been sent abroad as part of a UNESCO. Ietswaart was enormously productive these two years as a designer of book covers for the Fondo de Cultura Económica and the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). A list of his work for the UNESCO spans more than 50 titles. Ietswaart himself, now 72, is modest about his efforts, saying he was "allowed to do the titles" and noting the pretentiousness of being sent on an aid mission to a publishing company of international stature such as the Fondo de Cultura Económica. Nonetheless he took seriously his goal of making the presentation of mass produced books on academic subjects more accessible. A revision of his work gleaned from Mexico City's second-hand bookshops displays a playful, fresh and elegant style to the layman's eye. For an expert on hand lettering there is more to be seen in Ietswaart's designs. Jan Middendorp, author of Dutch Type, the canonical book on the history of typography in the Netherlands, titles one chapter the "Unrecognized brilliance of Boudewijn Ietswaart" giving Ietswaart pride of place among Holland's great designers of letters. Nonetheless Ietswaart is still virtually unknown, largely because he was working as a freelance designer outside of his own country. This period was also a golden age in Mexican letters. Gabriel Garcia Marquez moved to Mexico in 1961 and Nobel Prize winners Octavio Paz and Carlos Fuentes were regulars in the scene around the great Fondo de Cultura Económica. Artists such as the Catalan Vicente Rojo worked in the design section. And Mexico in general was at the peak of its 20th century cultural glory. After his two-year stay in Mexico Ietswaart moved to Spain and Venezuela, eventually leaving book design and moving into scientific illustration. He is now retired and living in Amsterdam. In 2008 during its investigations of Dutch typography the Círculo de Tipógrafosógrafos, a group of young designers in Mexico City, stumbled on the work of Ietswaart by way of Middendorp. Inspired by the designs of an unknown foreigner in the golden age of their country's letters the Circulo de Tipógrafos has undertaken a project to convert his hand lettered alphabets into digital fonts compatible with computers anywhere, thereby commemorating the work of Ietswaart and this particularly important period in Mexican cultural history. The aim of the Circulo de Tipógrafos is to present these fonts during the yearly congress of the Association Typographique International, the organisation of the international type community, which is to be held towards the end of October 2009 in Mexico City. This presentation is to be accompanied by an exposition to be held in a major venue in the city's historical centre.

Boudewijn Ietswaart passed away on December 23, 2010.

Examples of his lettering borrowed from that Flickr site mentioned above: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bran

Mexican graphic designer who created a number of typefaces, some of which are free. Also known as Fractal Eye. The list of fonts, all made between 2006 and 2008: Tulip, Fragments of Eter (upright connected script), Next Level (display sans), Ironbeauty, Esquizofrenia (grunge), Nü, Yellow Move (a great art deco sans), The King and Queen (grunge calligraphy), Foelia (dot matrix), Ank (sketch face), Further, One and Four, Quiñók, Defekto, Mondula (more calligraphic grunge). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bree Marman

Designer (b. 1980) in Sonora, Mexico, who is involved in The Cowboy Fashion Journal. He created Guadalupe (2012), Luchitas (2011, a Mexican wrestling poster font), Cherito (2011, spiky Western face), Republica Mexicana (2011, map silhouette face), Yolasm (2011), the tattoo face Vaquerojado (2012), Bree (2011), the memo note face Queretarotaro (2010) and the multiline display face Villajuarez Son Display (2011). Aka Yon Dir.

Behance link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bruno Perotto

Art director in Saltillo, Mexico. His neo-grotesque face Cities (2010) will soon be available for free, he promises. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cabrera Typo
[Alejandro Cabrera Avila]

Cabrera Typo in Ciudad Valles, Mexico, is the experimental free font outfit of graphic designer Alejandro Cabrera Avila, b. 1970. Creator of CT Pro Lamina (2009, heavy octagonal fare) and CT Aztech (2008, pixel face). Dafont page. All his fonts have been made with FontStruct, where he is known as superhuasteco. Ring (2010) is a lucha libre poster font. Creator in 2008 of aztech (pixel face). Aka superhuasteco. In 2009, he added Pro Lamina (bold octagonal), Pro Lamina 2 (a stencil version), Pro Lamina Segmentada (stencil), Pro Lamina Stencil, Huaxteca (pixel), Texteca (pixel face), Kroma (sturdy), Kromix (+Black), and the Kromos family (Franklin Gothic style). In 2010, he created the lucha libre poster font Ring, and the pixel faces Pro Lamina TNR Pix, Jorongo, Aztechno, Aztech and Yarda Px. The squarish condensed face Pole was added in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carl Marius Struzik Krull

Danish designer from Copenhagen, b. 1975. He studied graphic arts at the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts in 1997-1998 and at the Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Poland, in 1999. Creator the free grunge typewriter family Traveling Typewriter (2006) and of the squared LCD pixel face ChessType (2008). Dafont link. Yet another URL. Yet another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carla Zetina-Yglesias

Carla is a graphic designer originally from Costa Rica. She attended the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City, and graduated from the Minneapolis College of Art + Design (2007). She lives in Minneapolis, MN. With Chank Diesel, she is working on a curly bilined script face called Willow Whisp (2011). Behance link. She designed Aguas Frescas (2011, Chank Foundry: an outlined hand-drawn curly display type family in Horchata and Tamarindo styles). Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Carlos A. Gonzalez

Mexican creator (b. 1983) of Cockhand (2007, handwriting) and Gallinero (2008, brush face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Armando Carreño Martínez

Mexican photographer and graphic designer who lives in Monterrey. He created the tall display sans Zicatela (2011) and the squarish bold display face Hellen (2011). Don Diablo (2011) is an oblique techno face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Lizarraga

Cancun, Mexico-based creator of the monoline stencil typeface Discordia Grotesque (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Zubia

Carlos Zubia (Perro Bravo) is a designer in Chihuahua, Mexico. He created the octagonal typeface Ara (2010). Russell Brands link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carloz Aleman

Based in Monterrey, Mexico, Carloz Aleman designed an experimental typeface based on X-ray experiments. The result is a good-looking poster typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carloz Aleman

Monterrey, Mexico-based creator of the exclamation-point inspired Exclamativa (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carolina Rodríguez

Mexican designer of Hendrix (psychedelic) and Iyul (an Arabic simulation face), mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

César Evangelista

Mexican designer of the poster face Tin-Tán, mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

César Rodríguez

Mexican type designer in Queretaro. Award winner at Tipos Latinos 2010 for his experimental face Masiva. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ceci Peralta

Graphic designer in Monterrey, Mexico, who created a strong blackboard bold style face, Verano88 (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Centro de Estudios Gestalt

Located in Veracruz, Mexico, this design school offers a typographic program at the Masters level. Teachers include Francisco Calles, Gabriel Martínez Meave, Diego Mier and Alejandro LoCelso. People say that this is now the place to be in Mexico for type design studies. Contacts for those interested: Carmina Crespo Hernández and Francisco Calles Trejo. Old URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cha

Mexican designer of the comic book face Chismógrafo, the kafkesque Primero Be, and the hairy Puas, mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christian Antolin

Graphic designer from Guadalajara, Mexico, who made a Dia de Muertos font in 2010, as well as Kushtie Script (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chuy Dominguez

Mexican creator of Bikinny (2012, a display typeface).

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chyrllene K

Daughter of Iza W, who started producing type at Intellecta in 2010. She is credited with these faces:

• ABC Hand (2011). A sign language face.
• Pencraft (2010): a penmanship face with uppercase based on Swagger Capitals (Carl Stephen Junge, at Barnhart Brothers&Spindler), and lowercase based on Sidney Gaunt's Pencraft Oldstyle series (1914), as displayed in the BBS catalog from 1922.
• Bonsai Paufo (2010): a dingbat face.
• Jugendstil Flowers (2011).
• Libertee Ornaments (2011): done with Paulo W.
• MesoAmerican (+Two) (2011): native Indian dingbat faces.
• Tribalism (2011): three faces with ornaments and fleurons, done together with Iza W and Paulo W.
• Cripto (2011). With Paulo W.
• Bruce 1065 Soft Serifs (2011). Very Victorian.

Círculo de Tipógrafos

A select dynamic group of type design specialists in Mexico, est. 2007. Their goals are to educate, research and publish. For example, in 2009, they published Jan van Krimpen Modernidad y Tradición, with text provided by Jan Middendorp. Their grandest project to date is the research on book cover designer Boudewijn Ietswaart, which led them to develop the Balduino type family, which was unveiled at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City. The group consists of Rebeca Durán, Raul García Plancarte, Cristóbal Henestrosa, Noemí Hernández, Feike de Jong, David Kimura, Alejandro Lo Celso, Isaías Loaiza, Nadia Méndez, David Ortíz, Mauricio Rivera, and Óscar Yáñez. Logo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cocijotype
[Elí Castellanos Chávez]

A 2004 graduate of Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi. As a student at CEAD in Mexico, Elí Castellanos Chávez (b. 1980) designed the serif face Barronegro in 2006. This text face was based on the cultural heritage of Oaxaca, as found on local posters, menus, shops, clothing, and art. He is the director of Cocijotype, a foundry located in Oaxaca, and teaches editorial design and typography in Loma Bonita, Mexico. Cocijotype was earlier called Sexytype. Behance link. Flickr page.

Their typefaces:

• Koch's Neuland inspired Elí to create Barrilito (2009). This face won an award at Tipos Latinos 2010 in the script category.
• Barricada (2008, Sudtipos) is a fat rounded signage face that was awarded in the Tipos Latinos 2008 competition in the non-text category.
• Lucecita (2009) is a dot matrix LED font. It won an award at Tipos Latinos 2010 in the screen face category.
• Barronegro (2009) is a text family on which he has been working between 2006 and 2009.
• Miniblock (2009, by Manuel Guerrero) is created to stack letters next to each other to look like labyrinths. It won an award in the Tipos Latinos 2008 competition for best text family.
• Optica (2008, Manolo Guerrero) is a tribute to Colombian artist Omar Rayo's optical art.
• Block02 (2009, Manolo Guerrero) is a FontStruct font that is part pixelized, part stencil.
• Quincha (2009, Diego Sanz) is the quechua word for stone wall. Letters can be packed together in a way that reminds one of ancient Inca art.
• Casiopea (2010) is a corporate or signage type family that comes in six weights including Bold and Thin.
• Zipolite (2011). A mix of grotesk and humanist.

Cris Garcia de Vinuesa

Mexico City-based designer. Creator of Abraxha (2011), a monoline avant garde display face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cristina Paoli

Graduate from the MA Typo/Graphic program at the LCC in London. Her thesis was on the use of blackletters in Mexico. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cuarta Bienal de Tipografía latinoamericana

Conference held from 28-30 April 2010 in Veracruz, Mexico, at the Centro de Estudios Gestalt. Speakers included Juan Manuel Arboleyda, Francisco Calles, Marina Garone, Manuel Guerrero Salinas, Cristóbal Henestrosa, Gabriel Martínez Meave, Jorge Medrano, Héctor Montes de Oca G., John Moore, José M. Morelos, Quique Ollervides, Fernando Rodríguez, Luis Romero "Watchavato", Raul Plancarte and Oscar Yáñez. The workshops:

• Safari tipográfico: Juan Manuel Arboleyda
• Tipografía experimental: Manuel Guerrero Salinas
• Y este signo para qué sirve?: ortotipografía: Cristóbal Henestrosa
• Diseño caligráfico: Gabriel Martínez Meave
• Type Rocks!!! tipografía, música, cartel, revista: Héctor Montes de Oca
• Analogías y metáforas en el cartel: José M. Morelos
• Ambigramas o Porqué no ver las cosas alrevés?: John Moore
• Letra a mano: Quique Ollervides
• Logo-Lab :): Raul García Plancarte
• Diseño de los otros signos y símbolos: Oscar Yáñez
• Esténcil tipográfico: Luis Romero "Watchavato"

Cyber Estudio
[Eduardo González]

Type studio in Santa Catarina, Nuevo León, Mexico. It is run by graphic designer Eduardo Gonz&aacue;lez (b. 1957, Monterrey, Mexico), a graduate of the Universidad de Monterrey. He has worked in newspapers as an editorial and advertising designer for El Norte of Monterrey, Vanguardia of Saltillo, Coahuila and El Diario de Ciudad Victoria. He has redisigned the Vanguardia in 1995 and El Diario de Ciudad Victoria in 1998 and 2010. In 2011, he designed the dingbat face MexiGrecas, which was inspired by the fretworks of some Mexican pre-colombian temples such as Uxmal, El Tajín and Mitla [these designs are also preserved in Mexican clothing from the pre-Columbian era until today]. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dani Who

Designer in Mexico City who has worked as a graphic designer at Condé Nast in Mexico City. She designed the clean Peignotian all caps sans typeface temporarily called Confidential Project (2012). She also created the high-contrast display face Paleta (2011), which comes with a pile of ligatures. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Alberto Cohen Sasbon

Mexican designer (b. 1987) who created the at deco face Pongo (2011). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Galindo

Monterrey, Mexico-based creator of the sci-fi typeface Space Type (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Hosoya

Web and graphic designer in Mexico City, who created Future Block (2009, a fat futuristic octagonal face). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Olán

Daniel Olán (Nueva Leon, Mexico) designed the hairline display face Prólogo (2011; images: i, ii). Creator of the rounded squarish face Act #1 (2011). He is also a gifted photographer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Zuñiga

Mexican designer of the slightly rebellious sans face Freire (2006), done as a student project at CEAD. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Danniela

Mexican creator of the angular face AliciaWonderland (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dario Vazquez

Designer in Guadalajara, Mexico, whose studio is called Bimabel. He created the Peignotian fashion mag caps face Animex (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dark Leader

Mexican designer (b. 1980) of the children's handwriting font Swivels1 (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Jiménez

Mexican designer of Polifónica (octagonal), mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Kimura

David studied Graphic Design at the Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City and Visual Communication at the Basel School of Design. He was a founding partner of the studios Kimera and Bésame Mucho. Since 2005 he works with Gabriela Varela as Varela+Kimurain editorial design. Their work has been published and exhibited in Mexico, Germany, Argentina, the United States and Japan. He received the TDC's Certificate of Typographic Excellence in 2009 and the Quorum prize in 2007 and 2008. He has taught in undergraduate and master's degree programs at the Universidad Iberoamericana and the Centro de Estudios Gestalt, both in Mexico City. He is a member of the Círculo de Tipógrafos. Designer of Chayote (1999) and Plasma, sans serif faces mentioned here, and of Sofia Sans (2005, organic). Speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Ortíz Villegas

David holds a Masters degree in type design from the Centro de Estudios Gestalt, and a Masters degree in editorial design from Universidad Anáhuac del Norte. Mexican designer of Cadore Romain (2008), a winner in the Tipos Latinos 2008 competition for best text family. Pic. Member of Círculo de Tipógrafos in Mexico. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Denise Koehler

Partner of Jan Koehler in Deniart Systems, which operated from 1993-2009 in Toronto, and then in Litomerice (Czech Republic). Her typefaces include: Skeleton Alphabet, Sanskrit Writing, White Magick Symbols, Theban Alphabet, Tolkien Tengwanda Namarie, Tolkien Tengwanda Gothic, Sublimina, Semaphore, RongoRongo, Powers Of Marduk, Phaistos Disk Glyphs, Passing The River, Old Persian Cuneiform, Morse Code, Meso Deko, Maya Month Glyphs, Maya Day Names, Masonic Writing, Malachim Writing, Magi Writing, Hypnotica, Egyptian Hieroglyphics Basic, Egyptian Hieroglyphics - The Egyptologist, Hebrew Basic, Greco (Greek face), Futhark, Enochian Writing, Egyptian Hieroglyphics - Deities, Medieval Dragons, Dinosauria, Egyptian Hieroglyphics - Dendera, Daggers Alphabet, Coptic Alphabet, Chinese Zodiac Symbols, Tolkien Certar, Celtic Astrologer Symbols, Celestial Writing, Castles&Shields, Braille Alpha, Black Magick, Aztec Day Signs, Astrologer Symbols, Angelica, American Sign Alphabet, Alchemy Symbols, Tolkien Aglab, Fontazia AquaFlorium (2010, fish tank dingbats), Snow Crystals (2010), Star Crystals (2010, more snow-like structures but having 8 instead of 6 axes of symmetry), Karika Swirls (2010), Karika Hearts (2010), Karika Encore (2011), Fontazia Chateaux (2011), Fontazia Chateaux Deux (2011), Fontazia Insomnia (2011), 21 Emmerson (2011), 4 Point Greek Fret (2011), 4 Point Florals (2011), 4 Point Deco (2011), Mykonos (2011), Harmonics (2011, a zig-zag face), Fontazia Motyl (2011, butterfly dings), Holiday Penguins NF (2011, Christmas dingbats), Fontazia Christmas Tree (2011), Eggs Galoe (2012, Easter egg font). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Diana Edith Domínguez Ruiz

Mexican type designer. Award winner at Tipos Latinos 2010 for her text face Kafka Regular. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dick Pape

Dick Pape (Dallas, TX) is digitizing the Dan Solo books one by one, and has digitized many other sources of alphabets and images. He started making fonts ca. 2007. In 2009, he was doing Solo's art deco tome. He is on several font-making forums such as High Logic, and is interested in revivals. "Toto" writes: Dick Pape made hundreds of fonts and here are the links to most of his fonts. This list has not been updated and later additions are found in Rapidshare folders. I've missed some and some links had been deleted by Rapidshare during its migration from .de to .com. Some have also been sent directly to the group, like those based on Mada's alphas. It is hard to tell whether the font has been made by Dick Pape. The only indication that he created the fonts is that the font have "DP" as font vendor and/or has "Digitized by TTD" in the trademark field. Both are not present in some of his fonts. He seems not to want to take credit. He is just a guy who wants to digitize anything he likes. In 2010, he made Bultaco, based on the logotype for Bultaco Motorcycles---see Freehostia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dick Pape: ornamental typefaces
[Dick Pape]

Ornamental typefaces made in 2008-2010 by Dick Pape: Abstract Alphabet (2009), Aged Ornaments (2009), Ancient Mortises (2008), Angel Alpha (2009), Angelica Alpha (2009), Ani-Red Jello Alpha (2009), Antique Alphabet (2009), Arabesque Design (2009), Art Deco Dingbat Images (2010), Art Deco Frames (2010), AlphabetArt, AndrewHolmesArtA, AndrewHolmesArtB, AndrewHolmesArtC, AndrewHolmesArtD, AndrewHolmesArtE, AndrewHolmesArtF, AvonInitials, BritishAirwaysNumbers, CaFaitDur, CelticDesignDark, CelticDesigns-Light, Continnental, EckenFlowerBorders, GermanGothicManuscript, KafkaFlourishes, LaxtonCommonRevival, NiceOldAlphabet, Portent, RomanoAlphabet, Weissranken-Initialen, Babylon Initials (2009), Bird Drawings Alphabet (2008), Black Buttons (2010, +Bold), Bold Cameo (2009), Bubble Gum (2010, +Condensed, +Extended), Charcoal family (2010), Chinese Flowers (2008), Chiswick Press (2007), ChrisGreen (2010), Calligraphia Latina (2010), Cardio Black&White (2010), Electronic Alphabet (2011), EstupidoEspezial1, EstupidoEspezial2 (2010, based on the Hoefler Swash variant of OCR_A), TokoFont, Clip People (2010), Compass Rose (2008), Coptic Letters (2010), Cubes, Cups, Cute Lolo Animals, Dark Herald (2011, Celtic caps), Dave's Glyphs, Design Images, Digital Auto Sampler, Drinking Scenes, Drinking Utensils, DunHuang Art, Eating Signs, EcoLeaf, Eduardo Recife, Eggs And Milk, Electronic Alphabet (2011), Extra Initials, Extra Ornaments, Fantasy Butterflies, Fantasy Dragon FX, Fantasy Monster Skulls, Far Away Places Images, Festival Books Borders, Festival Books Initials, Festival Books Ornaments, Fire Letters, Fire Letters Cameo, Fire Letters Monospaced, Fire Letters Monospaced, Floral Initials, Florentine Initials, Florentine Initials Reverse, Flower Panels, Flower Panels Outline, Flower Vines, Fresh Fish, Funky, Funny Numbers, Furore Mexican (2011), Futorisugi Face, Garden Nouveau Initials, Give me a break, Gothic Metal Initials, Goudy Initials, Graph Glyphs, Halbfette Egyptienne, Haunted Initials, Hollandisch-Gothic (2008), Holly Alpha, Hula Ribbon, Hula Ribbon 2, Hula Ribbon1, India Designs, Japanese Design Parts, Japanese Design Templates A, Japanese Design Templates B, Jugendstil A, Jugendstil B, Kelt Ornaments 1, Kelt Ornaments 2, Lichte Jonisch, Mayan Affixes A, Mayan Affixes B, Mayan Main Signs A, Mayan Main Signs B, Mayan Profiles, Mc Call's Magazine, Mimbres Pottery, Moderne-Zelda (2010, after a Dan X., Solo alphabet), Moderne-Zelda Black, More Drinkings Scenes, Mostly Fish, Moto Bykes, Mythological&Fantastic I, Mythological&Fantastic II, Mythological&Fantastic III, Mythological&Fantastic IV, Mythological&Fantastic V, Mythological&Fantastic VI, Mythological&Fantastic VII, Native Designs-Mexico&Peru 1, Native Designs-Mexico&Peru 2, Native Designs-Mexico&Peru 3, New Music, Objects of Nature, Old English Images, Ondawall Versal (2011), Panels&Frames, Random Doodles, RangeMurata, Rankin-Initialen, Really Black Alphabet, Rons Old Patterns, Rons Old Patterns Bare, Rosart Initials, Rustic Alphabet, Sacon Inititals, Schmale Jonisch, Sea Shells of Nature, Shuttershock Vector Demo, Simple China Images, Simple Doodles, Snails&Slugs, Softsquare, Some Guitars, Soviet Founders, Soviet Life Posters I, Soviet Life Posters II, Soviet Life Posters III, Soviet Life Posters IV, Soviet Propaganda Posters, Splish-Splash, Strange Black Blobs, Tauba Auerbach, The Goetia, Tribal Dividers, Tribal Flames, ViaFaceDon Black, ViaFaceDon Black Hats, ViaFaceDon Outline, ViaFaceDon Speckled, Viking Design A, Viking Design B, White Buttons, Wood Type Cheltenham Bold, ZEart Designs, Zelek, Zelek Black, Zelek Boldline, Zelek Shadline.

Diego Gamboa

Monterrey, Mexico-based graphic designer who made the squarish typeface EPA (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diego Mier y Terán

Diego holds a Masters from the KABK in Den Haag, 2004. His thesis project was entitled Tuhun. A typographic exploration of the Mixtec language. He made the stencil face Nairobi Quality, the text face Tuhun (2006), the text face Viko (2004), and a font for the Mixtec language of Oaxaca, Mexico. Currently living in Mexico and working with his wife, Kythzia Barrera, in their studio called Frutas y Verduras. He teaches at the Universidad Iberoamericana, in Mexico City. Mainly interested in typography, graphic design and organic agriculture. Speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, where he explained the challenges posed by native languages in Mexico. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diego Sanz Salas

Peruvian creator (b. 1984, Arequipa) at FontStruct in 2009 of Sencilla (+Cuadrada, +Morena), a family that covers Latin, Cyrillic, Extended Latin, Hebrew, Greek, Armenian, Coptic, Arabic, Thai, and Devanagari. At FontStruct in 2008, he made mercury and mercury_bold. At Cocijotype, he created the artsy Incan stone wall-inspired Quincha (2009), which according to this site is the first commercial font made in Peru. It won an award in the experimental category at Tipos Latinos 2010.

Amarilis (2011) is an ornamental caps face, which can be bought here.

Chicha (2012) is a bouncy curvy layered set of typefaces published by Cocijotype.

MyFonts link. Logo. Interview in March 2010. Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dixie's Delights
[Michelle Dixon]

This used to be a wonderful page, but Michelle Dixon seems to have retired from the font making business. There used to be five shareware dingbats fonts: African Ornaments One, Cave Painting Dingbats One, Mayan Dingbats, Pre-Columbian Ornaments One, and Printers' Ornaments One (Mac PS), plus about 45 other original fonts (not shareware). In her wonderful collection, the following of Michelle Dixon's creations stand out: Arrighi Copybook, ItalianMosaicOrnaments, Beautiful, LondonHouse, Love Letter Typewriter, Gaudy Medium, Rusty Nail-Medium (the last four are all old typewriter fonts), and the display fonts Isla Bella, La Negrita, Arty Nouveau, Victorian, Art Nouveau Fonts, Bad Dog-Black, Berlin, Caslon Frenzy, Dixon's Vixens Caps, AntiqueMonoTW, DangerousTypoWriter, Elegant Nouveau Initial Caps, Fruitbasket, Matador, Manhattan, Modern Scribe, Ovid, Spillage, Tacos, Tolstoy, Typewriter, Love Letter, Basketcase, ChiliPepperDingbats, Postage Stamps, Garish Monde, Taco Modern, and Beautiful Ink. All fonts are between 5 and 30 dollars a piece, but often there are four fonts per face. In August 98, the absolutely gorgeous calligraphic font Beautiful Ink became available as a 10USD shareware font in Windows TrueType. Check also here. Many designs by Blake Haber. Located in Santa Barbara, CA. Dafont link. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dr. Reverb Snorkel

Designer (b. 1982) in Puebla, Mexico, of Los Snorks (2010, handprinted). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dynamite Printworks
[Tim Gibbon]

Mal de Ojo (2008) is a dingbat/sans font scanned from letterpressed Mexican religious pamphlets by Tim Gibbon. Home page. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ecological Linguistics
[Lloyd Anderson]

Located at P.O. Box 15156, Washington, D.C., 20003, this outfit published Arab language fonts, as well as fonts for Sinhalese, Tamil, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Telugu, and Tibetan. In addition, it had Kharoshti, Brahmi and Harappan symbols, and sold typefaces for many "complex alphabets". Free truetype fonts with plenty of Maya icons, made in 1997 by "Ecological Linguistics": Abaj, AbajBold, DaysBF, DaysCodBold, DaysCodBoldItalic, DaysCodItalic, DaysCod, TunBold, Tun, Wuuj, WuujBold, WuujBoldItalic, WuujItalic. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Edgar Alejandro Reyes Ramírez

Puebla-based Mexican designer of the liquid face Cell Zero, El Chalán, Morphosys, the experimental face Euphoria and the system font face A6, mentioned here. His faces also include PS BellyBoy, PS Iskra (thin geometric) and PS La Morena. Creator of the free sans face PS Isomatriz (2009). Award winner at Tipos Latinos 2010 for his experimental face Ps Pronts OS29. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Edgar Jeronimo Navarrete Ureña

Originally from Mexico City (b. 1983), Edgar seems to be based in Dubai now. He designed the futuristic face Neutronium (2009). He created the experimental faces Kooler o Normal (2009), Naujoks Love (2009) and Edgarpiramide (2009) and the comic book face Jeronimo Cartoon (2009). Alternate URL. Additional link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Edgar Tolentino Otero

Mexican graphic designer whose posters and covers can be found here and here. He has made some techno and experimental fonts, such as "Techy". With Pablo Impallari, he made the basic monoline sans face Terminal Dosis Light (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Edgar Zaga

Mexican designer of Ambigua, mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eduardo Garza

Monterrey, Nexico-based type and graphic designer. Creator of Prepa Liceo (2009), a display sans based on a combination of Helvetica, Avant Garde and Avenir. [Google] [More]  ⦿

El Grand Chamaco

Born in 1982 in Los Ramones, Mexico, this illustrator made a groovy free typeface, called Sombrero. Free download via Behance. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eleo

Tijuana, Mexico-based youngster (b. 1984) who uses the alias Sex Magnet. Creator of the splashy handprinted font Angeleobardo (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elite Latina

Free fonts at this Guatemalan site include Ab'ajA (1995, Mayan dingbats), TunA (1995, same as previous one), WuujA (1995, more Mayan dingbats), Maya (1994, Mayan numerals), OKMAFonetica (1996, phonetic font). See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elmer Hidalgo

Queretaro, Mexico-based designer of Cutline, mentioned here. He also made a heavy display slab serif and an artsy squarish face in 2010. No downloads. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emanuel Jochum

Visual designer who is studying at FH Vorarlberg in Dornbirn, Austria. Behance link. He created the informal handprinted face Curva (2011---a competitor for Comic sans?) while visiting the University of Monterrey, Mexico. Jochum does not speak Polish. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emiliano Gordillo

I had a good laugh when I saw Emiliano's funny poster of January 18, 2012, the day when the internet protested the upcoming dangerous SOPA bill in the United States. His poster is entitled Di No A Este Sopa. Emiliano lives in Mexico City. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emilio Correa

Emilio Correa (Emilio Graphics) is a Mexican illustrator and graphic designer. He created the fat counterless face BUUG (2011). Estelar (2011) is a (free) squared design inspired by prehispanic Mexican architecture. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Encuadre de Instituciones de Enseñanza Superior de Diseño Gráfico y Diseño de la Comunicación Gráfica, A. C.

Listing of Mexican institutions in the design field, but not necessarily offering type design or typography courses. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Enigma Design

Design consortium in Puebla, Mexico. Behance link. They created some logotypes and typefaces for branding, such as a type family, UDLAP, for the Universidad de las Americas Puebla. Croqueta (2012) is an informal sans typeface. Tentempié (2012) is custom designed for a Spanish restaurant by that name. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Enigma Diseño

Outfit in Puebla, Mexico, which produced the informal sans typeface Croqueta (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Enrique Ollervides

Aka Quique Ollervides Uribe. After studying graphic design at the Universidad Intercontinental in Mexico City, Quique joined forces with Cha! and founded Hula+Hula, a design studio strongly influenced by uninhibited use of color, humor, odd typography and lots of hand drawn elements. They have worked for MTV Latin America, Cartoon Network, KidRobot, Nike, Frito-Lay, L'Oreal, Televisa and various major record labels. His work has been shown and published in galleries and books from Mexico to Japan, and some of his fonts F76F73 are distributed by T26. In 2006 he co-founded KONG, Mexico's first low-brow art and design store and gallery. He taught typography at the Universidad Intercontinental during the years 1997-2006 and at CENTRO in 2006.

Designer at T-26 of Polvora (2007, T-26, a cross between old typewriter, Western, and Spanish inquisition), LED Gothic (2003, T-26) [see also here]. Designer at the Argentinian outfit SantoTipo of Los fierros and Luchita Payol (2000-2009; +LaRuda, + Tecnica). Picture. He runs the Hula Hula foundry, where he published Khaki (a clean sans face). He also made the fluid Fabio, Gú, the handwritten Ingenua, the hand dingbat face Mutis, Polilla, Suave, Tabique, Taka San, Urbe, the experimental face HH Pólvora (2006), the hookish Acerina and the blocky Bloke, shown at Tiypo.

Enrique spoke at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City.

T-26 link. MyFonts link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Eric Olivares

Mexican designer of the display face Cyre Type, mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erick Torres

Freelance graphic designer from Mexico. He created geometric alphabets such as Circa (2009) and Tipo (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erik Trejo

Designer in Leon, Mexico, who made the classical roman face Capichi (2010). Behance link. He also does typographic posters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erik Villarreal

Erik Villarreal (Monterrey, Mexico) designed the logotype for the city of Salamanca in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ernesto Alonso

Mexican graphic designer who created the condensed monoline sans family Ipanema (2012, Ten Dollar Fonts), which has a multiline weight, Ipanema Sport. He also made the piano key face Nueva Letra (2012, Ten Dollar Fonts). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ernesto Peña

Ernesto Peña (Tampico, Mexico) created the pixel face Bitman Regular (2011). Gargantua (2011, a massive counterless face) was designed for the commemorative T-shirt for Tampico Cultural Radio. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ernesto Peña Alonso

Mexican designer. Dafont link.

Creator of the pencil font Coraje Leve (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ernesto Salones

Mexican creator of the condensed angular face Prototype (2011) and the modular typeface SEYB (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Escobas
[Eduardo Escobar]

Mexican foundry of Eduardo Escobar, which sells its fonts through MyFonts. Creations include the wrestling dingbats face YaVez (2006), the great wrestling mask face DosDeTres (2005), the soccer dingbat face Futboles (2006, by Guillermo Serrano), and the grunge faces LepperGothic (2006) and Monaca (2006), both by Guillermo Serrano. The fonts are also marketed via Volcano Type at MyFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Esmeralda Soto

Smeralda Soto (b. 1988) lives in Baja, Mexico. Alternate URL. Creator of the chalky blackboard face Ermanita (2008). Fontsy link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Esther Iturralde

Illustrator and designer in Mexico City. She created the modernized serif face Iturralde (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Estudio Arellano Type Foundry
[Enrique Arellano]

Enrique Arellano (b. Colombia) runs Estudio Arellano Type Foundry in Mexico City. Behance link. Creator of Barata Display (2012, a free signage tyeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Estudio CH
[Cristóbal Henestrosa]

Cristóbal Henestrosa (Estudio CH, Tlalpan, Mexico) is the Mexican designer (b. 1979, Mexico City) who co-founded Círculo de Tipógrafos in Mexico. He is professor at four universities in Mexico and an award-winning type designer [read on for details]. Henestrosa has a bachelor's degree in graphic communications from the National School of Plastic Arts (ENAP) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where his student project in 2003 was Espinosa, and a Master's degree in typographic design from the Center for Gestalt Studies, Veracruz, August 2009, where his thesis was entitled Fondo. La familia del Fondo de Cultura Económica. He has been a teacher at various institutions, including the UNAM and the National Fine Arts Institute's School of Design. He lives in Heroes de Padierna, Mexico.

Designer of Espinosa, mentioned here.

Author of Espinosa. Rescate de una tipografía novohispana (México, Designio, 2005), a book about Antonio de Espinosa, a 16th century Mexican typographer, who in all likelihood cut the Espinosa type.

The commissioned text family Fondo (2007) won an award in the TDC2 2008 competition and at Tipos Latinos 2008 (for extensive type family).

Creator of the angry handprinted face Prejidenjia (2008, with Luis Novoa).

Speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, where he introduced the work of 16th century printer Antonio de Espinosa to the world. Espinosa Nova (2009) won an award at TDC2 2010 and a grand prize at Tipos Latinos 2010.

Guaca Rock (2009) is a stone chisel face based on the logotype of the rock band Botellita de Jerez.

Gandhi (jointly designed with Raul Plancarte) won an award at Tipos Latinos 2012.

Fontsy link. Dafont link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Estudio Manifiesto Futura SA de CV

Mexican design studio in Monterrey. In 2010, they created an experimental futuristic typeface called Polar. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ezpa

Mexican creator of the cubist typeface Ezpa (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fatima Ciaros

Graphic designer in Mexico. Creator of the bubblegum typeface Manis (2012).

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Federico Jordan

Mexican illustrator who is working on a font to match the lettering on a poster for Priester matches drawn by Lucian Bernhard at the age of 18. He also made interesting icons (2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fermin Cardenas

Based in Tamaulipas, Mexico, Fermin Cardenas is the designer at FontStruct in 2008 of basic_5x7, basic_5x7_v2, rawiswar2, sq2_10x10_3. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fernanda Cervera Macias

Mexico City-based graphic designer. She created an artistic typeface called Charleston (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fernando Villarreal

Fernando Villarreal (Monterrey, Mexico) designed the condensed techno face Webminster (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Font Monkey
[P.D. Magnus]

Font Monkey (P.D. Magnus) offers these free fonts: 4fun_lib (LED font), 4fun_str, Fearth, Gomo (oriental look), HSRunesAlethic, HSRunesSimple, Ambages (Mayan look lettering), DecoCard, Memo2Self (handwriting). Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fontstage

Publisher of several free fonts at Google Web Fonts in 2011: Fresca is an informal sans; and Viga is a heavy angry macho sans. Designer of the free Google Web Font Chango (2011), about which he/she writes: Chango is a display face based on letters drawn by Mexican illustrator Ernesto "Chango" García Cabral. It's big annd heavy, ideal for head-line body sizes with a humorous touch. Passion One (2011, Google Web Fonts is an Impact-like family. Felipa (2012) is a calligraphic typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Francisco Calles Trejo

Francisco Calles studied graphic design at the UNAM, Mexico, and obtained a Master's Degrees in Visual Arts, Design Management and Design Processes. A frequent speaker at and organizer of type conferences, he publishes Tiypo magazine, and is the director of the National Typography Conference in Mexico and coordinator of the Mexico chapter of the Latin American Typography Biennial. He is a professor at several universities in Mexico, president of the Mexican Association of Graphic Design Schools, Encuadre, and coordinator of the Masters in Typesetter Design of the Centro de Estudios Gestalt (CEG) in Veracruz [Maestro en Diseño Tipográfico del Centro del Estudios Gestalt del puerto de Veracruz]. Speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City. He lives in Veracruz. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Francisco Kloss

Gerardo Francisco Kloss Fernández del Castillo is a Mexican academic specializing in typography. As director of the graphic design career at UAM Xochimilco, he is developing an integral model to evaluate legibility. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Francisco López Bustamante

Graphic designer in Guadalajara, Mexico, who works at Memela Studio. Behance link. His typefaces include the seductive multiline beauty, Miami Deco Type (2011), the Italian Western face El Solitario (2011), and the arts and crafts face Poiret (2011). Later in 2011, he promises the fashion mag face Marais Serif, and made the alchemic typeface Arcan. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Francisco Toscano

Mexican designer of MimoFont Regular, a typeface that won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008 in the non-text face category. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Franko Rosas

Graphic designer in San Diego and Tijuana, who created the block faces Powinaky, Liber and SqL in 2010. Baika (2010) is a thin avant-garde face. On Behance though, he mentions Barcelona as his home base. Finalist in the 17th Annual San Diego Latino Film Festival's Poster Competition. Besides some custom typefaces, he also designed experimental faces such as Liber13 (high-contrast squarish poster face) and Lisa The Lush. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gabriela Benavides

Designer in Monterrey, Mexico, who created Eterna (2011) and Stellar (2011, art deco). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gabriela Varela Andrade

Type design graduate from the University of Reading who created Tlayuda (2004), which was developed under the supervision of Gerard Unger and Gerry Leonidas. It has a roman, a sans and an italic. She lives in Mexico City, and is a prtner of David Kimura in Varela+Kimura. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gandhi
[Cristobal Henestrosa]

Gandhi (2012) is a free typeface family in Sans and Serif styles of four weights each. It was made by Cristobal Henestrosa, Raúl Plancarte, David Kimura and Gabriela Varela.

The blurb: Gandhi, the biggest bookstore chain in Mexico is giving away a full type family named Gandhi. The web page states that the typeface will ease Mexicans' reading by: having big body size, being light and thus achieving ideal weight when printed under less than ideal conditions by ink spread (the page cites inkjet printing), unadorned and undistracting, designed for body copy but friendly when used big. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Genrus

Mexican designer of the handprinted face Genrus Hand (2011, iFontMaker). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ginny Garza Pérez

Graphic designer in Tampico, Mexico. Behance link.

Creator of Ginny Brush (2012, handprinted). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gio Cervera

Mexican creator of Anonima (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Giselda Ojeda

Mexican designer of the dingbat face Grisasea, mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gloria Magdalena Vargas Limón

Mexican designer of Ellis Roman (2008), a winner in the Tipos Latinos 2008 competition for best text family. Earlier, as a student at CEAD, she created Minina (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gonzalo García Barcha

Mexican designer of the serif face Enrico, mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Grafemas
[Abel Marquez]

Abel Marquez (aka Abeloko) runs Grafemas, where he posts his typefaces, most of which are handprinted. He is a professor at Universidad de Montemorelos, Mexico. He describes himself: Visual artist and designer, university professor, prosumer, mountain biker and minister. Associate Communication Director, Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Inter-American Division.

Behance link. Home page.

Creator of the outlined handprinted face Cuadratica (2011, iFontMaker). Caracoleado (2011, iFontMaker) is a neat outlined handprinted face. Other downloadable fonts at Grafemas, all made in 2011: Hilo, HiloBold, Lomo, Moles1, condedo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Grafito Design
[Raul Andres Perez Canseco]

Designers of some free fonts. Raul Andres Perez Canseco (b. 1967) lives in Oaxaca, Mexico. He created the Mexican-look poster font Talacha (2007). Other fonts, all free: Square Kids (2011, white on black), Chamaco (2011, facial dingbats), Buen Chico (2011, funny dingbats), Chango Marango (2011, curly), Fayuca (comic book face), Andrea Karime (2010, a bouncy comic book style face), Appo Paint (2009), Dibujosenlinea (2007, dingbats), Aracnoide (2009, scary handwriting), Maropawi Club (2002, groovy), LCD, LCD Phone (2006, dot matrix), Overload (2011, poster font), Spider Gotic (2004), Fenix Header (2002), Corporea (2005). Dafont link. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Grummedia
[Graham David Blakelock]

Ilkley, UK-based foundry of Graham David Blakelock (b. 1947, York, England). MyFonts sells his fonts. These include faces used in role playing games, often with a medieval look, all published in 2005: Fifteen36 (Venetian with rough edges), Fourteen64 (Venetian with rough edges), High German (blackletter), ItalicHand (inspired by 11th or 12th century Carolingian hand drawn cursive), Old Russian (fake Cyrillic), Ye-As-Ta (rotated brush style caps), Good Taste (2006), Hieroglyph Informal (2006), Kanjur (2006, Indic simulation face), Mayan (2006, dingbats and Mayan-looking letters), Pepper (2006), Salt (2006). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Guillermo Padilla

Mexican illustrator who made Ah Carbon (2011, grunge face). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Guillermo Sariñana

Designer in 2008 at Pambo in Tijuana, Mexico, of the upright fat script Unidad. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Guillermo Serrano

Mexican designer at the Mexican foundry of Eduardo Escobar, called Escobas. He created the soccer dingbat face Futboles (2006) and the grunge faces LepperGothic (2006) and Monaca (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Héctor Montes de Oca

Mexican designer of the bouncy display face Bunker and the squarish Montesquieu (2006), mentioned here. Director of Tiypo Magazine in Mexico City. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hector Herrera

Designer from Juarez, Mexico, who resides mostly in Mexico City. He published fonts at Garagefonts, including Menino (2000, a techno face) and Plastilina (1999). At Tiypo, he shows Sado.

FontShop link. . [Google] [More]  ⦿

Heidi Puon

Mexican designer of Julia (2008), a winner in the Tipos Latinos 2008 competition for best text family. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hernando G. Villa

Mexican-American artist, based in Los Angeles. He began his career illustrating books around 1910. Later achieved fame as a poster designer, creating the Chief and other posters for the Santa Fe Railroad in the 1930s. His lettering on a 1923 ad for Piera Nova was the inspiration for Raconteur NF (2008, Nick Curtis). It is an über-stylish art deco face ideally suited for the lounge of Elliot Spitzer's Emperor's Club. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Hula Hula
[Enrique Ollervides Uribe]

Mexican foundry run by Enrique "Quique" Ollervides from Mexico City. Faces include Polvora (2005-2007, a gunslinger face). Other faces: Bicolor (2007, fat VAG Rounded style in two colors), Bloke (2000, blocky), Fierros (2001, grid-based), Khaki (2002, sans), LED Gothic (2000), Luchita Payol (2001, lively poster lettering, with Mexican wrestling dingbats thrown in the ring as well), Mono (2006, experimental geometric face), Mutis (1999, sign language hands), Primero B (1999, designed by Cha, cutout lettering), Tabique (1999, corporate identity for Escenica), Urbe (2000, octagonal). Enrique is a speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Isaac Pedraza

Mexican designer of the fat blocky face Pool Party (2010). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Isaías Loaiza Ramírez

Mexican designer of Profeta (2007) and Pumscript (2007, co-designed with Gabriel Martinez Meave). He spoke at Typecon 2007 in Seattle on Mexico, Forging the Character (survey of Mexican type design). Home page. Vespa: an example of his calligraphic interests. He lives in Puebla, where he is professor at the Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla. Member of Círculo de Tipógrafos in Mexico. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ismael Castillo

Mexican designer of Britney Femme Fatale (2011, avant garde). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ismael Fino

Graphic designer in Guadalajara, Mexico. Textures inspired him to create the geometric textured typeface FN Tekture (2010), FN RE EVO (2011), and the spurred military typeface Nacion Gothic (2012). Monotypo (2012) is a hairline fashion mag sans typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Israel de la Rosa

Mexico City-based graphic designer who made the angular display face RGB in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Itzá Villavicencio Urbieta

Graphic designer in Mexico City. She created the calligraphic typeface Gardenia (2011). It has 824 characters and ligatures. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Iván W. Jiménez

Mexican designer of Ene O, 7even, the poster face Socia, mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ixipcalli
[Francisco Arellano]

Foundry in Ixipcalli, Mexico, run by Mexico City-based Francisco Arellano (b. 1981). Creator of the free monoline sans faces Coamei (2011) and Copilme (2011), the informal monoline face InColhua (2011), and Huelic (2011).

In 2012, they published the commercial typefaces Caronta (a monoline humanistic sans with a large x-height), Tecpana, Naolica (a monoline, elliptical sans family), Auloe (a rounded contrast-laden sans family), Olpan (monoline sans family), Kaodai (monoline sans), Ocelca (a tribel organic type family), Qatana (a Peignotian sans family), and the elegant wide sans family Ekon.

Dafont link. Aka Jef Triforce. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

J. Eric S. Thompson

Author of A Catalog of Maya Hierogrlyphs (1962, University of Oklahoma Press). It is a catalogue of most of the glyphs known up to the time of its publication. [Google] [More]  ⦿

j909

Music Producer&Graphic Designer from Guadalajara Mexico, who has a band called Somnus Corporation. Creator at FontStruct of the kitchen tile face Electrica Grid. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jasho Salazar

Mexican graphic designer in Aguascalientes. His typefaces include the multilined art deco custom face Dandy Lab (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Javier Mateos

Monterrey, Mexicobased creator of Amaneze (a free grotesk headline face in .ai format). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Javier ZHX

Mexican graphic designer (b. 1988), who created the graffiti fonts Blazter Tagg (2006) and Javier's Style (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jaws Laffayette

Mexican designer of the free comic book face Laffayette Comic Pro (2006). Font Squirrel link. There is something fishy about this font, as reported by Antonio G. de Santiago: Laffayette Comic Pro is Antonio G. de Santiago's Comic Pro, edited, name changed, slightly manipulated an pirated by a hacker from Mexico. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jay Castruita

Monterrey, Mexico-based designer of the arts and crafts style display typeface Metropolis (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jesús E. Barrientos

Mexican designer of Vecchia Romana (2008), a winner in the Tipos Latinos 2008 competition for best text family. He lives in Puebla. Director of Talavera Type Workshop. At Tipos Latinos 2012, he won awards in he display type category for Agony, and Ecstasy.

Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jesús Martínez Partida

Mexican designer (b. 1985) of Datura (2008), a free text family with an incunabulic feel and many glyphs, and Renaissans book (2009, a sans). Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joanne W. Kline

Joanne W. Kline (Ingonyama) is the designer of the free Aztec-look font Chapultepec (2001). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joaquim Ramalho

Portuguese creator of the octagonal face 7ABL3 (2010) and the white-on-black ransom note face crew Hassan (2010). KINZ, his home page and design blog. Maia Ideograph (2010) is a face of ornaments used on Maian calendars. [Google] [More]  ⦿

John Moore

Born in 1951, John Moore is a Venezuelan type designer. He studied graphic design in the Institute of graphic design Neumann from 1972 until 1976. In 1980 he took a workshop with Milton Glaser and since 1983 he has worked as an art director and creative director in many advertising agencies. He designs type since 1976. His typefaces Gordis (a fattish comic book family) and Tepuy won awards at Tipos Latinos 2008 in the non-text and experimental typeface categories, respectively. At Tipos Latinos 2010, he won twice in the display category, for Victorina and Radio Time. MyFonts link. Behance link. Poster.

His typefaces: VE Inconexa (2006, outline architectural face), VE Makiritare (2006, Aztec-style double script), VE Moho (2006), VE Palaima (2006, futuristic, Amazonian), Radio Time (fifties style script, with Alejandro Paul at Sudtipos), Fruta (stencil, influenced by Glaser?), Glaser Stencil Round, Gothike (sharp-edges), Aqua (ultra round), Club, Caracas (sans), Factor (hookish), Space Lab (futuristic family), Robin (headline), Victorina (multiline Victorian poster typeface which won an award at Tipos Latinos 2010), Victorina Black Shadow (2011), Waterman (2010, a flowing undulating script family), Spacelab (2010, futuristic) and RobinBienalII (2005). Sudtipos sells these fonts of his via MyFonts: Makiritare (bilined, based on woven baskets), Palaima (experimental, runic), Precolombino (petroglyphs), Tepuy (rounded version of Makiritare), Roadline (2009, fifties diner font), Sacred Geo (2011, a geometric dingbat font that won an award at Tipos Latinos 2012), DeCoro (2011, art deco family), Sacred Geo Tiling (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

JonahFonts
[John Nahmias]

Type and logotype company in Polanco, Mexico, run by John Nahmias (b. 1935, New York City). John is a graphic designer who started his career in 1952 in a New York studio with Lucian Bernhard. He left that company in 1958. He now lives in Mexico where he paints and runs his own studio. John's typefaces, mostly but not exclusively scripts, are sold by MyFonts.

• A: Altura (2007, a serif family for covers), Amplia (2008, connected script in the style of Mistral; see also New Amplia (2010)), Annabel Lee (2011, upright connected monoline script), Aristide (2007, grunge), Aros (2009) Arroba (2010, a directionally challenged heavy slab serif), Artichoke (2011, fat signage script).
• B: Bonafide (2009, sans family), Buggy Ride, Bulwark (2011, oddly-serifed).
• C: Caravan Script (2007), Casual Brush (2007), Chatter (2010, influenced by signage), Cherry Lane (2011, fat round signage face), Chit Chat (2009, comic book style), Circuitry (2007, rounded octagonal face), Claxon (2009), Coliseum (2007), Cornerstone, Cornerstone Flair, Credititle (2009).
• D: Designers Gothic (2009, a poster sans family).
• E: Epoch (2009, organic), Etiquette (2009, casual script).
• F: Fabius (2008, a fat-nibbed pen face), Feather Pen (2007), Fidelity Caps (2009), Fountain Pen (2007), Front Page (2011).
• G: Gallivant (6 styles), Garabato (2008, informal hand), Georgie (2011, upright connected script).
• H: Hacienda (2008, handprinted), Honcho (2007). Lucian Bernhard's Magnetype font series is being revived in 2010 by John Namias, starting with Bernhard's Community Low and Community Condensed, which is called Harpsichord.
• I: Interum (2007).
• J: Janagrace (2007, flowing script), Jonah Brush (2010, basic signage font), Jonahpad (2008, handprinted), Joyscript (2007), Juggler (2010, signage / comic book face), Juke Box (2009, calligraphic).
• L: La Rotonda (2009), Lyanna (2008, brush script).
• M: Mark (2010, a grungy marker script), Medalist (2008, flat-nibbed pen script), Meridia script (2009),Metrolite (2011), Mulberry Road (2011, fat retro diner script).
• N: Nebbiolo (2012, a monoline fashion mag sans family).
• P: Palazzo (2007), Paloma (connected script), Pinot Noir (2009, calligraphic), Pony Tale (2009, signage face).
• Q: Qualico (2009, semi-serif 1970s family).
• R: Rave (2011), Regalo (2010, an organic family), Reto (2012).
• S: Scriptelle (2007), Scriptonah (2007; John Downer writes: Scriptonah, in any of its four weights, is not particularly pretty or delicate, but it is far from homely. It is firm and fibrous. It is raw.), Scriptonite (2010, a packaging script), Showtime (2011), Sign Brush (2010, a lively signage face), Singular (2009), Starlette (2009), Steletto (2007, condensed), Steletto Oldstyle, Steletto OS Flair, Steletto Serif, Stumpy (2011, display sans), Suite Slab (2011).
• T: Talento (2007, script), Tiggly Wiggly (2009, handprinted), Tingle (2009, comic book face), Tubo, Twiggs (2009, handprinted).
• U: Unigram (2011, monoline unicase family).
• W: Wordscript (2007, almost a brush script).
• Y: Yacqui (2009, Mayan look face).
• Z: Ziggy (2007).

Jorge Aguilar

Jorge Aguilar (Reaktor Lab, Guadalajara, Mexico) is mainly into graphic design and illustration. His Solera family of faces (2011: Solera 2D, Solera 3D and Solera Canto) is designed for chrome jobs---smooth and flashy. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jorge Alderete

B-Movie is a great dingbat font of creatures, created in 2002 for T26 by Jorge Alderete.

CV. Jorge is an illustrator, who was born in Argentina in 1971. He studied at the National University at La Plata, Buenos Aires majoring in graphic design and visual communication. He now lives in Mexico City and works as an illustrator for numerous Mexican and Spanish magazines. Home page.

At Union Fonts, he published Rubias Morenas Pelirojas (a dingbat font) and Unplugged in 2003 and Saratoga (a fifties face; see also at T-26) in 2004.

At SinergiaLab in Argentina, he created the dingbat face SLChe, which was subsequently published at Sudtipos.

At Tiypo, we find Che (a guerilla dingbat face), Platillo (condensed squarish), RMP (dings of female heads), Saratoga and Unplugged. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jorge Bedoy

Chihuahua-based Mexican designer (b. 1984) of Yodeb (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jorge de Buen Unna

Jorge de Buen studied Graphic Design in Mexico City. In 1994 he moved to Tijuana to work in marketing and communication projects for the Agua Caliente race and sports books. He has conducted several workshops and conferences at many important Latin American institutions. The second edition of his book Manual de diseno editorial (Santillana, 2000) is published in 2003, and the third edition in 2009. He spoke at ATypI 2003 in Vancouver on a new approach to typometry, and at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City on quotation marks (las comillas), where he pointed out that the <<...>> used in Spanish were just a natural evolution of the standard quotation marks (66...99).

He designed Unna Romana (2003), Unna (2004, serif family, done at Imprimatur) and Bardahlkia (1994). He often shows up in LA for type activities.

He moved to Querétaro in 2009 and is graphic designer there---his studio is called Imprimatvr.

In 2011, he placed Unna up for free download at the Google Font Directory, and started cooperating with Hector Gatti and Pablo Cosgaya at Omnibus Type.

At Tipos Latinos 2012, Jorge won an award in the text category for Unna regular.

Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jorge Iván Moreno Majul

Mexican type designer. Award winner at Tipos Latinos 2010 for his screen face Wixarika. At Tipos Latinos 2012, he won an award for the experimental typeface Antorcha. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jose Eduardo

Mexican creator of Colcol (2009) and Isalbar (2009), both made with FontStruct. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jose Luis Acosta

Mexican designer of the delicate text face Enrico (2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

José Antonio Rivas Zarate

Designer from Monterrey, Mexico. He created the squarish condensed faces Nipan (2011), Galatea (2011), the circle-based face Vicios (2011), and Extensible (2011). In 2012, he made Monterrey. [Google] [More]  ⦿

José Gestoso Pérez

Author of Documentos para la historia de la primitiva tipografia mexicana, La Andalucía Moderna, 1908. [Google] [More]  ⦿

José Guadalupe Posada

Mexican lithographer and engraver, b. Aguascalientes, 1852, d. Mexico City, 1913. P22 Posada (2003, P22, James Grieshaber, Richard Kegler) is based on his lettering. The latter family contains some of Posada's favorite dingbats such as skulls. Site about Posada. Alphabet made with skeletons. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

José Luis Cóyotl Mixcoatl

Mexican designer in Puebla of the 4-weight semi-blackletter display family El Chamuco (2004, T-26), the pixel/modular family Zoomanic (2007, an award winner at Tipos Latinos 2010), the script face Santanara (2004, consisting of Cha Cha Cha and Rhumba), the purely geometric and linear Mixcoatl (2005), the octagonal face Vulcana (2004), and of the pixelated face Pixetl (2004, T-26).

At Tiypo, we find his futuristic face Cachirul, the futuristic Rayos Gama, Forever, the starry face Galaxia, Gen, Gum Sans, Gum Organica, the squarish Ix Sans, the organic Latex, Mimetic, Monique, the techno face Neutron, Pancracia, Pixetl, the Broadway face Pocket, Super, the script face Santanera, and the octagonal Vulcana.

In 2012, he designed the angular typeface Anahuak.

He lives in Tlaxcalancingo, Puebla. His company is called The Coyote Lab of Design. At Tipos Latinos 2010, he won awards for Zoomanic and for Cubomatics Icons.

Klingspor link. T-26 link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

José Velázquez

Monterrey, Mexico-based designer of Fontera (2011) and VUJ (2012, octagonal). Creator of the neon typeface Rech Neon PseudoScript (2012) done for Brazilian film maker Rafael Rech.

Behance link. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

José Velazquez

Graphic designer in Monterrey, Mexico. Antler (2011) is a piano key face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juan Carlos Cue Vidal

Mexican designer of Ollin (2008), a winner in the Tipos Latinos 2008 competition for best text family. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juan Diosdado

Designer of the chiseled look faces Novus scriptum (2001) and Bucky (2004). He lives in San Pedro Garza García in the state of Nueva Leon in Mexico. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juan Manuel Arboleyda

Graphic and type designer, b. Tapachula Chis, Mexico, 1978. He obtained a Mhere. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juan Manuel Escobar Bernal

Mexican designer of Partofme (2012), Moonstone (2011), Princess And The Frog (2011), When the goes sun scene (2011, avant garde), Jessie Normal (2011, grunge face), Grachi (2011, bouncy spiky face), Grachi 2 (2011), Tangled (2011, tattoo face), Femme 2 (2011), and Carly (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juan Pablo Romo

As a student at Universidad Anahuac in Mexico City, Romo designed the calligraphic serif face Fuga in 2006. [Google] [More]  ⦿

K. Godines

Mexican designer of Godiniana (with B. Vázquez and P. Marroqui), mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karen Santiago

Graphic designer and photographer in Coatzacoalcos, Mexico. She created the art deco Gabba Gabba Type (2009). Free download. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karina GG

Designer from Queretaro, Mexico, b. 1984. Alternate URL. She created the ornamental face Fondi KPZ (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karla Isabel

Creator in Guanajuato, Mexico, of Isamantica (2012, a display face with bicephalic terminals). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karla Lopez

Monterrey, Mexico-based creator of a floriated caps typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kimera Type (was: Diseño Kimera)
[Gabriel Martinez Meave]

Kimera Type (was: Diseño Kimera) is a Mexican design firm founded in 1994 by Gabriel Martinez Meave (b. Mexico City, 1972), who is by far Mexico's most prolific and talented type designer. Meave.org deals with illustrations and other occult arts. Behance link. Speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City. Interview. Some of his early faces were published at Tiypo. Diseño Kimera has made numerous custom fonts for Mexican clients. His typefaces:

• Arcana (2000, +Manuscript) won an award at Bukvaraz in 2001. The script font Arcana was traced out with a pointed metal quill and then digitized to give it a thoroughly 19th century look. It won an award at TDC 2000.
• In 2006, he made the powerful serif face Artifex.
• Aztlan (1998) is a fun artsy slab serif.
• Basilica (1999, +Rotunda) is an extra-condensed experimental font based on a modern high-contrast design. Award winner at TDC2.
• Comanda (handwritten).
• Darka (2005) is a roman blackletter face. This face wo an award at TDC2 2006. Images: i, ii, iii.
• Economista is a text face created for the Mexican business newspaper El Economista.
• Ferra Sabs, commisioned by the the department stores El Palacio de Hierro.
• Fulgora (medieval).
• Indio (handwriting). Commissioned for a beer ad.
• Integra a contemporary roman sans family.
• For Lagarto (2001) is based on the hand of a 16th century Mexican calligrapher. It won an award at Bukvaraz 2011.
• Mexica (1996) is a large octagonal font family created to set text in náhuatl.
• Mystix is a rune font based on a secret alphabet for a Delaware Punch promotional program.
• Neocodex (1996) is an organic family.
• At Adobe he designed the OpenType face Organica (2000), a semiserif.
• Pearson Calligraphic (1999).
• Presidencia (2008) won an award at TDC2 2008 and at Tipos Latinos 2008 (for extensive text family). He writes about Presidencia Sans: Inspired by Toltec and Aztec architecture, the letterforms of Presidencia follow a humanist sans-serif scheme that combines Mexican character with Latin structure. This grand family was commissioned by the Mexican Federal Government, to suit its new identity program, impeccably designed by Mexican firm Ideograma. The type family comprises twenty variants, to cover a full spectrum of possibilities, from official documents to corporate signage, billboards and nation-wide campaigns in all media.
• Puuc, according to Meave, was inspired by the Mayan puuc style of modular architecture.
• Rondana (2002) is a rounded character family in the style of VAG Round.
• Sol and Solida. Sol was made for a beer ad.
• In 2011, he created the Telcel Sans family, which was commissioned by Mexico's main telecommunications company for use in corporate communication, advertising and printed matter, as well as billboards, television and many other visual media. It won an award at Tipos Latinos 2012.
• Tlatoani Sans won an award at Tipos Latinos 2010.
• Tolteca.

Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Kpricornium Arcanum

Mexican digital artist and typographer. He created the octagonal ultra-black face Qbo (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kraken

Illustrator and street artist in Mexico City. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lamatas un Slazdi
[Kristians Sics]

Design studio, est. 1999 in Riga, Latvia. They are doing some type design under the guidance of Kristians Sics, aka Chris Lamatas. No sales or downloads as far as I can tell. Kristians Sics (b. 1961, Riga), who studied at the Art Academy of Latvia, now lives in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where he is a graphic designer and illustrator. In 2010, Sics established the commercial foundry Lamatas un Slazdi. Typefaces (from 2010 or just before 2010):

• Burtnieks: comic book face. Covers Latin and Cyrillic.
• Cukurgrauds: meaning Sugarcube, this face is for children's or comic books.
• Dienasgaisma: pleasant informal face; for restaurant menus or invitations to art galleries. I guess that this became Gaisma (2010), which was advertised by Kristians as an art nouveau family. Images: Greek and Cyrillic, Greek, Latin and Greek, Latin, sample, example.
• Fette Deutsche Schrift (2011). Fette Deutsche Schrift also known as Koch-Fraktur or Kochschrift was created by Rudolf Koch for Klingspor foundry between 1908 and 1910.
• Frio (2011). A 15-style elliptical family with pereft balance and proportions.
• Jaquizaca: comic book style.
• Kochschrifts: after Rudolf Koch's Kochschrift (1910).
• Lamatas: a mix between ransom note faces and informal wood types.
• Liturgisch: after Otto Hupp's Liturgisch.
• Ozollapa: a psychedelic face.
• Pastkaste: an elliptical / hexagonal corporate face for inbox.lv.
• Periodika: advertised as a typewriter face, but it isn't.
• Piektdiena: informal sans. Contains Cyrillic.
• Tautumeita: an all caps display face.
• TradeGothicBlurred: blurred Trade Gothic Extended.
• Zebiekste: inspired by an architect's hand.

Laura Browne

FontStructor who made Aztech (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Laura Caso Barrera

Obtained a Ph.D. degree in 2001 on the topic of Mayan culture. She spoke at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City on the Mayan codices and script, which initially was not known to be phonetic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Letrizmo (was: Karakta Fonts)
[Victor Yb Delgado Revueltas]

Commercial foundry with sometimes a free font, all by Victor Yb Delgado (b. 1967, Mexico City), located in Mexico City. In its life as Karakta, we found Nimale Bats (animal dingbats), Tariacuri, ExboyKF (futuristic), Zarza (marker tip), Kofika (casual handwriting), Moneyca, Xirivella KF (handwriting), Negroni (2003, handwriting), Boetticher (Western font), Incalli, Globose (futuristic). Before Karakta, Delgado founded and ran Roxy Fonts (defunct) where he was involved in calligraphy, corporate type, logos, personal types, and type in general. There was also talk there of a font called Polara, and a free font, Weirdiac. See also here. At Letrizmo, starting in 2007, we find Negroni, Nimali (animal shapes) and Toisy (a gorgeous art deco face). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

LFCF (was: El Serif de Chocolate)
[Luis Fernando Carvente Flores]

Luis Fernando Carvente Flores is a type designer and illustrator in Pueblo de Zaragoza, Mexico. Initially, he made free fonts published via Dafont, and using the foundry name El Serif de Chocolate.

Creator of Spatha Serif (2010), Spatha Sans, Musa Ornata (2008, fat round signage face), Knema (2010), Musa (2009), Bascula (2009, athletic lettering face; +College), Toeris (2009, a western heavy slab serif face), Golondrina (2010, in Africana and Europea styles, all blackletter), and Memela Fraktur (2009, blackletter).

In 2010, he turned commercial and set up LFCF.

In 2011, he published the free blackletter face Carmilia and the tropical typeface Babalu.

In 2012, he added the (free) thin ornamental typeface Ferrica Light.

Klingspor link. Dafont link. Behance link. Home page with a typography blog and a calligraphy blog in Spanish. Behance link. Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Lourdes

Mexican designer from Jalisco, who created Twilight (2009, organic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lucia Zuniga

Graphic design student, born in Monterrey, Mexico, and living in Dallas, TX. She created a techno face called ModernPop (2010). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luis Angel Uribe

Mexican youngster, b. 1988. Creator of the scratchy handprinted face Bichochos (2009), the 3d mechanical face Pandimencional (2010), the blackletter grunge BichOGothic (2009), Bicho (2009), (((o))) brushhhh (2009), (((o))) O Basic (2009, hairline geometric sans), and Bicho Plumon (2009). Blog. Fontsy link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luis Angel Arroyo

Mexican designer of Brassia, mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luis Guillermo Galvan Morales

Mexican designer of Bagally (2012, fat finger face), Memos Hand (2012) and Luis Candara (2012, calligraphic). Aka Pixeluigi. Luis was born in 1992 in Tampico. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luis Humberto Munoz

Mexican designer of Afterfaber, mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luis Novoa

Mexican co-designer with Cristóbal Henestrosa of the angry handprinted face Prejidenjia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luisa Martinez

Author of the article "The novohispanic books as bearers of medieval and renaissance elements" (MM1 Annual, volume 3, Mexico City, 2001). It explains the history of Mexican typography. [Google] [More]  ⦿

LuRo

Creator of the modular face JHOBO (2010). LuRo lives in Puebla, Mexico. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Macizo.com (or: Macizotype)
[Leonardo Vázquez]

Leonardo Vázquez (Macizotype, Mexico City) is the Mexican designer of Bunker (2005, a monolithic display face, which won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition. It uses the rounded stone features found in Aztec sculptures and designs. Designer of Señal Mexico (2000, a Mexican highway sign face, with four styles called Rural, Nacional, Mediana and Asfalto), mentioned here. He also made Proteo (2005, sans), Lectura (2007, a text family in Regular, Negro and Versalitas styles), and Libre. Leonardo is a graphic and type designer. After finishing his studies in Mexico City, Leonardo worked in several design studios and advertising agencies. In 1998 he settled in France where he studied in the Atelier National en Recherche Tipographique in Nancy. Leonardo returned to Mexico in 2001, where he works in his own studio macizo.com. Speaker at TypeCon 2007 and at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Madai Maddie Luna

Graphic designer in Mexico, b. 1991. She created the pixel faces eme (2010) and oneovertwo (2010) and the handprinted Larala (2010). Aka Maddiesh. In 2010, she created these pixel fonts: bitxie, nanana, tridixie. She also made Julio's-Handwriting (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maho Cuevas

Mexican designer, b. 1980. Dafont link.

She designed the free handprinted typeface Memento Mori (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Manfred Klein's Fonteria
[Manfred Klein]

Frankfurt-based designer (b. 1932) whose creative output is so large that he deserves a separate web page. His URL at Moorstation from 2000-2007. New page on him by Florian Rochler. Font squirrel link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mara Espejel

Mara is a typographer and designer in Mexico City. She made some promising typefaces: Keranium (2009) is a fine display face, used, with success, on the cover of the Mexican mag Orgásmica (2009). Nectar (2010) is very much in the same style. She also made some type anatomy posters in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marco

Mexican creator of the free squarish face Liebe Ist Für Alle Da (2010), after the album titling font by German band Rammstein. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marco Aguayo

Creator in Colima, Mexico, of Aprim (2011, handprinted) and Secondo (2012, fat finger face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marco Trujillo López

Mexican designer of Alice in Wonderland (2010), a face with a slightly Halloweenish look. Devian Tart link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maria José Torrero Heredia

Type designer from Monterrey, Mexico. With Jeroen Krielaars, he created the modular experimental family Binary 2.0 (2011, Calango). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Maria (Lourdes) Villarreal

Mexican designer (b. 1989) of Se Cortó (2011, experimental display face), El rastro del pintalabios (2011, handorinted) and Cuadro Cuadro Cuadro (2011, texture face). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

María Esther Pérez Salas

Author of "La primera tipografía mexicana" (2003, Editorial Designio) and "El establecimiento tipográfico de ignacio cumplido: 1832 - 1896" (2003, Editorial Designio). [Google] [More]  ⦿

María José Orellana García

Mexican designer of the hairline handprinted face Flow Prou (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

María José Torrero Heredia

Hermosillo, Mexico-based comedian and illustrator, who created the modular purely geometric face Binary (2011). Pic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mari&Yoyii

Chilean creator in 2010 of the handprinted SweetFont_KeepOnRockiing (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mariana Montes de Oca

Originally from Mexico, Mariana now studies media arts in Vancouver. She created a typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marina Garone Gravier

Graphic designer, type researcher and typographer (b. 1971, Argentina), who teaches at different Mexican universities. She majored in Graphic Communication Design at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, campus Xochimilco, at Mexico City (1991-1994). She followed the Master Degree Program in Industrial Design at Univerisdad Nacional Autónoma de México (1996-1998), specializing in design history and theory. She studied type design at Schule für Gestaltung, Basel, Switzerland (2000). She published articles about design criticism, history of typography and gender at Dediseño, DX, Hoja por Hoja and Libros de México in Mexico, Tipográfica (Argentina), and Design Issues. She is partner of Editorial Designio, a Mexican press, and associated editor of Tiypo, the first Mexican magazine of typography. Currently, she works on a history of Mexican Graphic Design and researches type design for indigenous Latin-American languages. She spoke at and helped organize ATypI 2009 in Mexico City. At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, she spoke on Colonial Typography for Native Languages of Latin America (XVI-XIX Century). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mauricio Deer Olague

Mexican creator of Chentenario (2011, ornamental caps). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mauricio Malacay

Mexican designer of the circle-inspired face Alien Lines (2008), and the angry Street Voice (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mauricio Rivera

Mauricio studied in the Masters program in type design at Centro de Estudios Gestalt, Veracruz, Mexico, and is a member of Círculo de Tipógrafos in Mexico. Before that, he obtained a degree in visual communication from Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas at UNAM, and was professor of typography and the history of the book. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mauricio Tello

Mexican designer of the sans face Altiva (2006), done as a student project at Gestalt. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mauricio Vital Michel

Mexican type designer, who is junior VP at Cacahuate Garapiñado Type, Mexico. Award winner at Tipos Latinos 2010 for his screen script face Coqueta. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Max Project

Designers of the Mexican dingbat font Mapuche (2002). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Max Salzmann

German type designer: Salzmann-Fraktur (normal and kräftig, 1910) (1909, J.G. Schelter&Giesecke; for a digital version, see Delbanco's DS-Salzmann-Fraktur, 2001; some say the face was made in 1915). At Schelter&Giesecke, he made the decorative faces Dolmen (1921-1922, J.G. Schelter&Giesecke; digitized by Nick Curtis in 2011 as Salzmann Deco NF) and Zierdolmen (1922; digitized by Nick Curtis in 2011 as Salzmann Deco Deco NF) as well as halbfette u. schmale Salzmannschrift (1907; some say 1910). He also designed Salzmann Antiqua (1910), Salzmann Kursiv (1911) and Salzmann Antiqua Halbfette (1912) at Schelter&Giesecke. FontShop link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mayra Cavazos

Mayra Cavazos (Monterrey, Mexico) created Cram Font (2012, fat finger typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mexican universities

For type design studies in Mexico, the main place is Centro de Estudios Gestalt para el Diseño in Veracruz [see elsewhere on this page]. Other programs that offer occasional courses and/or touch upon type design or typography, include Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas, UNAM, Maestría en Diseño de la Información, Anahuac University (Mexico City, private and expensive), Maestría en diseño y producción editorial, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco Campus, and outside Mexico City, Diplomado en Tipografía y Diseño Editorial, University of Guadalajara, and Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mexico

MyFonts' view of typography in Mexico. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mexico
[Manfred Klein]

On the subject of Mexico, the Mayas and the Aztecs, Manfred Klein made these typefaces: Aztecish, Aztekbats, BienMaya (2004), BienMayaInvers (2006), MayanMexicanSymbols, MexiKOrnaments, OpenButtons, OpenButtonsSquare, OpenButtonsThree, PreColumBats, PreColumbus, AmericaBeforeColumbus, ColumbusTraces (2005), EighteenMayanMonths (2005), MesoFauna02 (2006), ColumbusAntePortas (2006), ColtecsBats (2006), Ei Des Columbus (2006), MayaKowski (2007), KL Artifacts (2007), Aztecish (2007), TribalisticaFigures (dingbats). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Mexinbat

A Mexican dingbat font made in 2006 by various Mexican designers associated wit Tiypo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel Ángel Padriñán Alba

Graduate of ENAP-UNAM in Mexico City. Creator of these typefaces: Espiral (2008; spiraly, curly, and free), Bolis (2009, signage), Ligera (2009), and Itálica, a typeface that won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008 in the experimental type category. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel Angel Rios Garcia

Miguel Rios, for short. Mexican graphic designer, b. 1988, who lives in Monterrey. Web site. He created the handwriting faces GoBoom (2008, handprinted) and Brook 23 (2009, handprinted). He also made Full Circle (2010, counterless). Alternate URL. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel Campos

Mexican designer of Song Khan, Doppia and Cajón, mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel Durán

Mexican designer of the liquid face Spinner, mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel Luna

Graphic designer and illustrator in Cuernavaca, Mexico. He made some dingbats in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel Reyes Cabrera

Mexican type designer. Award winner at Tipos Latinos 2010 for his text face Sancho and for his script face Plastilina [not to be confused with Hector Herrera's face from 1999 at Garage Fonts under the same name]. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel Venegas

Mexican creator of Jose (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mindofone Fonts

Creator of Mexico 86 (2011), a bilined headline face that was modeled after the Mexico 1986 World Cup logo font, which in turn was based on Avant Garde Extra Light. Free download at abfonts.

Creator of Twin Mo 1 (2012, bilined). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mónica Peón

Mexican designer of the flowy face Marel, mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Monobrauw

Monobrauw is a type foundry est. in 2010 by Jorge Páez, a student of graphic design at CEDIM in Monterrey, Mexico. Behance link. He made a typographic phot reportage of Bruges in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mosh Katoblepas

Mexican graphic designer who lives in München, aka Mosh el Cabrón. He created Rincón de Pacífico (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Motitta Corp

Mexican designer of the fat handprinted face Porcupine (2009). She also made the handprinted 3d typeface Wuwu Perspectiva (2012).

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

MyFonts: Mexican typefaces

MyFonts selection of Mexican typefaces, i.e., typefaces that look Mexican or have a Mexican symbolism. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nacho Peón

Mexican designer of the hookish Coatl, Dolorosa, Incompleta, the gothic face Mexican Gothic, Semisans, Tacubaya, Telerisa (a free sans face), the futuristic Zaz, the angry poster face Bolivar and the hookish faces Bump and Antibump, mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nadia Méndez García

Born in Mexico City and a graduate of Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Xochimilco, Mexican designer Nadia Méndez created Galia Roman (2007, her Masters project at Gestalt) (+Italic, +Versalitas, 2008), a winner in the Tipos Latinos 2008 competition for best text family. Co-founding member of Círculo de Tipógrafos in Mexico. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nelly María Falcón Vidal

Mexican designer of Falcony Font Romana (2008), a winner in the Tipos Latinos 2008 competition for best text family. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Neo el feo

León, Mexico-based designer (b. 1986) of the dripping blood face Necropsy (2007) and the grunge faces Serial Killer (2007) and Paint it Black (2007). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Noe Araujo

Graphic design student in Monterrey, Mexico, b. 1990. Dafont link.

Creator of the thin chisel font New Theory (2012). Free download. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Noemi Hernández

Member of Círculo de Tipógrafos in Mexico. She graduated from the visual communication program at ENAP/UNAM. She lives in Tlahuac, Mexico, and helped design some characters in the Balduino family (2009), which was based on the lettering of Boudewijn Ietswaart. She works at the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Odile Morales

Saltillo, Mexico-based designer (b. 1988) of Pistyl (2011) and Rokyodil (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Omar Guadarrama

Mexican designer of the signage face El Santo (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Omar Ruiz Diaz

Designer in Nueva Leon, Mexico. In 2012, he created an experimental typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Omnibus Type

Omnibus (est. 2011) is a coop that focuses on web typography and high quality web fonts. They released Rosario (2011, Hector Gatti), Unna (2011, Jorge de Buen), Chivo One (2011, Hector Gatti), Asap (2012, Pablo Cosgaya) and Sansita One (2011, Pablo Cosgaya). All can be found at the Google Font Directory. All designers are from Argentina and Mexico. Another URL.

Google Plus link. Fontsquirrel link.

Catalog of typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

One Eye

Mexican type designer. His first face is Cinta Adhesiva (2011, Wordshape), a font codesigned with Ian Lynam. Cinta Adhesiva (2011) began as a typeface designed for the masthead of a graffiti fanzine called Free Copy---the monumental letters painted by L.A.-based graffiti writers Crae and Hael greatly influenced the feel of the typeface. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Oscar Borrego

Óscar Borrego is the Mexican designer of the high contrast sans face Almatica (2004). Designer at the Argentinian outfit SantoTipo of Tequila Heights Sobria&Borracha (2001). At Tiypo, we find Frankenhauss and the futuristic Freon 22. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oscar Fuentevilla

Monterrey, Mexico-based designer of the fashion mag hairline sans face Thin Frank (2011) and of the pixel dingbat face Simbolos Positivos (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oscar Octavio Osorio Cortés

Mexican type designer who lives in Munich, b. 1971. Flickr page. He created the experimental modern face Rincón del Pacífico. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oscar Salinas

Óscar Salinas is the Mexican designer of Gruexa (2004, a face with Basque influences) and Mitla, mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oscar Yáñez

Oscar Yáñez has a Bachelor's degree in Graphic Communication Design from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) and a Master's degree in Typographic Design from the Centro de Estudios Gestalt.

Designer of Fabrica Texto, Italica, Versalita, Bold (2008) and Lucrecia Texto, Itálica, Versalita, Bold, both winners in the Tipos Latinos 2008 competition for best text family. Grand prize winner at Tipos Latinos 2010 for his titling type family Carlota. Other typefaces by him include Aion, Moneda, and Condesa.

In 2012, he created Amate, a type that was designed for a newspaper in Cuernavaca. Dorotea (2012) is a Latin / Greek / Cyrillic typeface family created for text in books and periodicals.

At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he spoke eloquently about Boudewijn Ietswaart and the development of the Balduino typeface (by the Círculo de Tipógrafos). He lives in Mexico City and is Design Editor at GEE. Founding member of Círculo de Tipógrafos in Mexico.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

P. Marroqui

Mexican designer of Godiniana (with B. Vázquez and K. Godines), mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pablo Rovalo

Mexican designer of the 3-d poster face Santo Domingo (1993, FUSE), mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Palafotz

Mexican creator (b. 1992) of the handprinted faces Marker Palafotz (2012) and Palafotz (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pambo
[Diego Negrete Olmedo]

Pambo is a Mexican design collective in Tijuana to which Diego Negrete belongs. He has designed some fonts such as Pasele (2008), a fat bubblegum typeface that won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008 in the experimental type category. It is sold by T26. His script face Picacho won an award at Tipos Latinos 2010. Guillermo Sariñana created Unidad (upright heavy script). The typeface 604 (experimental, art deco) (free download) rounds out the offering.

MyFonts link. Klingspor link. FADU-UBA link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Pedro Santoyo

Mexican designer of Bique (with M. Arboleyda) and Newular, mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pepe Montelongo

Designer in Guadalajara, Mexico. In 2001, he created Destrux (a pixel face), and the geometric squarish faces Protex, Roma and Cartel. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Perla Janeth

Perla Janeth from Mexico (b. 1993) created the handprinted face CoffeeSweet16 (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Peter Lorenz

Peter Lorenz (Memela Studio, Guadalajara, Mexico) designed Fina (2011, a tall hairline all-caps face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Philip Bouwsma

Type designer born in Boston in 1948 who created many exquisite designs such as Alexia (1992), Sallando Italic, Dorothea or Cresci Rotunda. His work shows the influence of masters such as Arthur Baker.

• A list of faces done for Agfa (which became Monotype): Alligators, Aureus Uncial, Carmela, Connach (a Gaelic font), Corvallis, Cresci Rotunda, Dorothea, Francesca (1994), Hrabanus (1994, Monotype: Based on the lettering of Hrabanus Maurus, c. 776-856, archbishop of Mainz and author of many commentaries on the scriptures), Lexie's Animals, Ludovico, LudovicoWoodcut, Mantegna, Mariposa, Mariposa Sans, Mexican Birds, Borders&Symbols, Monmouth (1994, a Lombardic / blackletter face), Neuhengen, Ophelia Italic, Palatino Rotundo, Percival, Poggio Bookhand, Pompeii Capitals, Ramsey (1997, Lombardic face), Sallando Italic, Synthetica, Thalia Italic, Trieste, van der Hoef Capitals (Monotype, an art deco face after 1920 lettering by Dutch artist Christian van der Hoef), and Wolfdance.
• At Alphabets Inc: Alexia, Benedict Uncial, BouwsmaScript, Juliana and Weissenau.
• A complete list of all Philip Bouwsma fonts on the Creative Alliance v9.0 CD: Alligators (1994, letters made up from alligators), Carmela, Clemente Rotunda, Corvallis, Corvallis Oblique, Corvallis Sans, Corvallis Sans Oblique, Dorothea, Fransesca Gothic (1996, Lombardic / blackletter style), Hrabanus, Lexie's Animals, Lombardic Capitals (1994, Monotype), Ludovico Smooth, Ludovico Smooth Flourishes, Mariposa, Mariposa Bold, Mariposa Book, Mariposa BookItalic, Mariposa Black, Mariposa Medium, Mariposa Sans, Mariposa Sans Bold, Mariposa Sans Book, Mariposa Sans BookItalic, Mariposa Sans Black, Mariposa Sans Medium, Mexican Birds, Polenta Black Italic, Polenta Italic, Ter Gast, Ter Gast Alternates, Wolfdance, Schildersblad, Tresillian.
• From 2005 on, he started publishing his typefaces at Canada Type. There he published a fantastic calligraphic blackletter-inspired family, Torquemada, and Bouwsma Script (2006), an extension of his 1994 handwriting face. Still at Canada Type, he updated Alexia in 2006, and added Luminari in 2008, a Lombardic / uncial font influenced by the prolific humanist Poggio Bracciolini from the early fifteenth century (+Greek, +Cyrillic, +Celtic). The 8-style Bouwsma Text (2008, Canada Type) is a full-bodied truly "roman" family well worth visiting. The 5-style Mirabel calligraphic script family Mirabel (2008, Canada Type) is based on the handwriting of Beverly Bouwsma (Philip's mother), which she developed in the 1930s. Styx (2008, Canada Type) is a 4-font connected calligraphic script family with rough and smooth variations. But his grandest achievement is perhaps Maestro (2009), a 40 style chancery family, in 2 weights each, with 3350 characters per font, codesigned with Patrick Griffin at Canada Type. Still in 2009, he designed the 6-style calligraphic family Tupelo. In 2010, his main contribution, with Patrick Griffin, is the calligraphic uncial family Testament II. His Lorenzo family (2010, Canada Type) is has both chancery and calligraphic styles. In 2011, he published the Carolingian script family Symposium Pro, with the help of Patrick Griffin. Images: i, i, i, i, i, i.

Pipirisnais

Pipirisnais is a studio run by two Mexican designers. Dafont link. Creators of the handprinted shadow outline face La Boldyta (2011). Zopenco (2011) is a commercial handprinted poster face. Graphicriver link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pixilate Designs
[Kemie Guaida]

Download the following beautiful handwriting and handprinting fonts made by Mexican designer Kemie Guaida, who now seems to be located in Sweden: Balderas (2002), BlackoutSans (2001), BlackoutSerif (2001), Manita (2001, a simplistic hand, done with Jorge Villalobos), Manita Dingbats (2000), Leonel (based on characters drawn by architect Leonel Terres, 1999-2001), Montreal Architect (1998), Patchanka (2001), Marginal (2001), Soli (1998, with Solange Guaida), OnderBold (2001), Kemie (2001), Rafa (2001), Unicase (2001). Pixel/bitmap faces include Antenna8, Antenna10, Antenna11, AntennaSemi, Beachball, Egghead (2002), Gardenias (connected pixel script), Ladybug, Lilabit, Pixilated (2002), Roundabout, Sober, Stoneheart and Unipixel. She was working on the connected script face Monolinear (2004). Further typefaces include Lu Px (2004, another architecture's handwriting face), Tokig Px (2012, handprinted), Rolig Serif Px (2008), Lango Px (2008).

Alternate URL. Klingspor link.

View Kemie Guaida's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Pixteca

Mexican creator of the iFontMaker font Callijoules (2010, handprinted). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pollo Graphic Design
[Gerardo Pinzon]

Graphic design student from Queretaro, Mexico, who operates as Pollo Graphic Design. His typeface Portatil (2010) is a monoline geometric minimalist sans with a few curls on selected letters. Creator of the excellent experimental display faces Summer (2011) and Liquit (2010). Dafont link. Another Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Poske Montaño

Graphic designer in Ecatepec, Mexico, who made PoskePixel (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Psychedelic Type
[Humberto Mondaca Gillan]

Humberto Mondaca Gillan (Psychedelic Type) is the Mexico City-based creator in 2009 of the psychedelic fonts Psychedelia HM, 1960s Hippie and 1960s Symbols. In 2010, he created the bellbottom face Iron Butterfly HM, as well as Butterly Bleu HM. All his fonts are free. Alternate URL. Home page. Another URL. Open Font Library link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Psy--Ops Type Foundry
[Rodrigo Xavier Cavazos]

Psy/Ops is Rodrigo Cavazos's foundry which initially consisted of artists and designers from the San Francisco Bay Area mainly interested in experimental typ[e, type on the fringe. Their early work included Ruzena Antikva (1998) and the gorgeous RetabloAntiguo (1994). Other Rodrigo Cavazos creations: Faceplate Sans (free demo; see also at T-26), Adaptive Mono, Trillium (1995, T-26), Eidetic (EideticNeo at Emigre, 2000; the unicase version is called Eidetic Neo Omni), Eidetic Modern (1998, the sans version of Eidetic Neo), VM74 (1996), Spanner, Slag, Alembic (1995, T-26), CrucibleBurnin, DefaultGothic, DevilleThruster, Faceplate, Gnomad (1997, T-26), Oculus (1996, T-26, an organic face), Peregrine and Peregrine Titling (1996, Monotype), Phalanx (1996, chunky; Monotype), Philomela, Caligrafia de Bula and Caligrafia de Bula Regio (decorated initials), Transaxle Script (1994, a fifties font), Faceplate Sans, and Skiffledog. Other designers include Tomi Haaparanta, Gábor Kóthay, Lars Bergquist, Julien Janiszewski, Stefan Kjartansson, Stefan Hattenbach, Robert Beck, Todd Masui, Evan Sornstein, Michel Valois, and Steve Mehallo. Cavazos' Alembic, Gnomad, Skiffledog, Stigmata and other fonts are also available from T-26. Is also called Roderigo Zscori-Cavaz. Under this name, his families Crucible, Phalanx and Retablo may be viewed here. Creator of the free pixel faces CR21 (2009) and CR21 Modern (2009), downloadable from Dafont. Involved in 21 Lab, a design studio which started at the design school in Monterrey, Mexico.

In 2010, he did custom work via T-26. For example, three prominent lettering styles from the famous Jack Daniel's Black Label (ca. 1904) were developed into complete fonts. Jasper is based on the familiar logo lettering (and bearing Jack Daniel's given first name). Lynchburg Script (2010) is based on the Tennessee lettering in the label. Finally, the solid mechanical typeface Motlow is named for Lem Motlow, the nephew of Jack Daniel who managed and later inherited the Distillery.

View Rodrigo Cavazos's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Rafael Saldaña

Mexican creator of the alphading family Rilakkuma (2011).

The dingbat font Mayan Glyphs (2012) is based upon Mayan glyphs from the Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs (1962, J. Eric S. Thompson, University of Oklahoma Press), pages 719 to 781.

Devian Tart link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ramón Delgado Ramírez

Designer (b. 1991) of Metropolana (2011) who lives in Tampico, Mexico. This ultra-condensed font was modeled after the 1926 movie Metropolis. He also made a typeface after the Canon logo, called Canon (2011). Roja (2011) is pure constructivism. Nuevo Vago (2011) is handprinted. Dafont link. Autoportrait. Calls himself Pepe Legba. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Raúl García Plancarte

Born in the Yucatan in 1980, he obtained a graphic design degree from Centro de Estudios Gestalt in Veracruz. Co-founder of Círculo de Tipógrafos in Mexico.

Designer of Kukulkan Regular (2008), a winner in the Tipos Latinos 2008 competition for best text family. At Tipos Latinos 2010, it won a grand prize for text family. Tauran Regular (2006) won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008 for best extensive text family. He also made Expres Neo Slab> (2007), Sedna (2009, an award winner at Tipos Latinos 2010) and Célula (2009).

At Tipos Latinos 2012, Comex and Gandhi (codesigned with Cristobal Henestrosa) won awards in the typeface family category. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rebeca Durán

Rebeca Sarahí Durán Hernández (b. 1986, Mexico) holds a degree in visual communication from the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (known as UNAM). Currently she works as graphic design editor for the magazine twist. Member of Círculo de Tipógrafos in Mexico. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Revista Tiypo

Mexican type magazine started in 2003. It also showcases typefaces by most Mexican typec designers. Director: Héctor Montes de Oca. Editor: Francisco Calles. Coeditor: Nacho Peón. Design: Héctor Montes de Oca and Nacho Peón. Editorial Board: Luis Almeida, Francisco Calles, Eduardo Danilo, Gonzalo García, Uziel Karp, David Kimura, Domingo Martínez, Gabriel Martínez, Héctor Montes de Oca, Ángeles Moreno, Eric Olivares, Enrique Ollervides, Ignacio Peón. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ricardo Ruiz

Morelia, Mexico-based designer. Dafont link. He created the experimental faces Drop (2011), .40 (2010) and the high-contrast display face Typocalli (2010). In 2011, he published the free Treefrog-style handprinted face Watermark, which as inspired by the handwriting for Enya's CD cover for "Watermark". [Google] [More]  ⦿

Richard Mitchell

Aka the "Undergrond Grammarian". Designer of Amazigh-GraphicLight (a Berber font), ThebGL (Greekish runes, 1994), Morelife, Landliebe (2001), Scarlett (2007, a gorgeous Mexican party theme font), Graphic Light, and Light Painter (1994). Font Squirrel link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roberto Hidalgo

Mexico city-based designer. Creator of the serif face Escrebida Open Sans (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roberto Robles Quiroz

Mexican type designer. Award winner at Tipos Latinos 2010 for his screen face Verpix. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rocket Out

Mexican designer of Hndfont (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rodrigo Maceda del Rio

Tlalpa, Mexico-based art director. Creator of Collette (2007), an exaggerated curly face, almost good enough as an Indic simulation font. In 2010, he made the fat counterless face ROMA. He works at ROM, a design and identity studio in Mexico City. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rodrigo Navarro Bolado

Designer in Tampico, Mexico, b. 1986, who created the tattoo font Garbancera (2011), the clawed overlay font family Nahual or Nahual Claw (2011), the informal sans face Carnala (2010), and the blackletter typeface Vestigia (2011). Kimiko Demi Bold (2011) is an elegant fat poster face. Guadalupe FF (2011) is a display sans.

Home page. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. Behance link. Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Rodrigo Serna

Designer in Mexico City. In 2011, he created Anre Sans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rothion

Mexican artist who designed the grunge face Waw (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Salvador Rodríguez

Tampico, Mexico-based creator (b. 1990) of the pixel face Pixel Verde (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sergio Fajardo Aleman

Mexico City-based web and graphic designer, b. 1987, who is studying graphic design at the Universidad del Valle de Mexico. His typographic work includes the futuristic Thunderbop (2007), done as part of a school project. Alternate URL. Download site. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Serif Studio

Design studio in Mexico City. In 2007, they designed the psychedelic face Hendrix. In 2010, the poster face Bunker Font followed. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Singular

Mexican design studio in Monterrey. Behance link.

Creator of Libertina (2012, experimental typeface), Hubbletype (2012, a sci-fi family), and Singularity (2012, a hyper-condensed thin typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Socker One

Mexico City-based designer of the pixel face Tetris Sans (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

SpaceStation (also: hmeneses)

Mexican designer of Spiderman (1997), made after the 1979 movie by that name. He also designed the futuristic CloneWars (2003). He uses the nickname Hmeneses, and copyrights his fonts to "SpaceStation". Another font is Underworld, based on the movie Underworld Evolution (2006), as an alternative to Jim Marcus's commercial face T26 Eremaeus. [Google] [More]  ⦿

ssaamm

FontStructor who made these fonts in 2009: 5x5 (pixel face), SignaPix (pixel script), MegaPixel, Steamwriter, Minimalista (4x4 pixel face), Square Off (programming font), 12segment (pixel face), Oriental Theatre, (+Smooth: condensed piano key faces), 7x7:1 basic Serif (pixel face), 7x7:2 Classic (pixel face), Square On, Sharp Perforation, Modern Monospace.

In 2010, he created Squeaky, Texico (a gorgeous Tex-Mex party headline face), Dutts Sans, Dutts Serif (dotted faces), Concrete Block (octagonal). Squareplane (+Sharp) and Tacky (a coffee bean font), Cancerous (pixl), Squrave (pixelish), Variable (pixel face), Impossible (pixel), Super (dotted), S-Video Real, Odds and Ends, Edward, Reversey, Rocky, Tacky (dotted), It Pops (athletic lettering), Bulge, Brick Block (3d face), Whoops, Gradient, Uniform Heavy, Uniform 2, Here Is Your Receipt, Filmstrip, 4444, Offf, Leave It To The Mind, Wayvee, Illusiyellow, Jot It Down, QweABC, Bleach, 5x7 Practicali, Fancy 5x7 (pixel), Crispy, NoNoNo, S-Video, Blockish.

Creations from 2012: Hardclips (military stencil). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Steve Ross

Canadian graduate (b. Ottawa) from the type design program at the University of Reading in 2010. He grew up in Halifax. Interested through his wife in the Mayan culture, Steve designed the typeface Yukatek at Reading. His motivation: A modern text typeface for books, with custom features for Mayan languages. In 2011, Steve joined the Adobe Type Team. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Talavera

Typefoundry in Puebla, Mexico. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Tania Alvarez Zaldivar

Talented Mexican graphic designer and digital artist based in Montreal, who is pushing the boundaries of experimental typography with creations like Fabric Type (2009), which was developed at Concordia University in Montreal. Examples: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Sukkhos (Mr. Softie) | Overseas Type (2010, done at Concordia University in Montreal) | Moda Barcelona (2011).

In 2010, she designed the map face Cartola, which grew out of a project at EINA in Barcelona and is based on Mrs Eaves. Mar 34 (2011) designed exclusively for the identity of Estruch, a restaurant located at the Plaza of the Cathedral in downtown Barcelona. The project was made in collaboration with Raquel Quevedo, who used the typeface for designing a graphic system for the identity. Both the face&the graphic design are based on postal service paraphernalia. Momo (2011) is a typeface that is developed based on the concepts of dada by El Lissitsky&Kurt Schwitters. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tavo Montañez

Illustrator and graphic designer in Aguas Calientes, Mexico. He drew a great all-caps alphabet for the Prison for Young Offenders in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tecolotl Productions

From SWFTE, the Quetzalcoatl family (1993). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Terry Wüdenbachs

Snowboarder from Liechtenstein, who designs typefaces at P22. The list:

• His first font was the whacky P22 Catalan (2003), which was inspired by Antonio Gaudi, Joán Miro and Salvador Dali.
• In 2004, he created BlancoNeg, Mexican Relics (100 dingbats from pre-Columbian Mexico), Sniplash (a 60s cartoon face) and Durer Caps (after Dü'rer's 1525 original).
• In 2005, he added P22 Mystic (art nouveau).
• The curly P22 Festiva and P22 Huffer Pro (comic book face) followed in 2009.
• In 2010, he designed two revivals of Nebiolo work, P22 Nebiornaments, and P22 Slogan (after the 1957 brush font by the same name by Aldo Novarese).
• In 2012, he created P22 CoDependent, a set of two art deco typefaces that revive of the Independant typeface from 1930 created by Dutch designer Johannes Nicolaas Coenraad Collette along with Jos Dufour from Belgium.

Tipografilia

Two Mexican type meetings held in Puebla, organized by Paco Calles. One, held at the Universidad Intercontinental, is described here: speakers included Luisa Martínez Leal, Nacho Peón, Francisco Calles, Gerardo Kloss, Eduardo Danilo, Alejandro Tapia, Gabriel Martínez Meave, tipográficas Antonio Rivera, María Esther Pérez Salas, Abelardo Rodríguez, Tullia Bassani, Leonel Sagahón, Mónica Puigferrat, Jorge de Buen, and Quique Ollervides. The second one, held in May 2003 at the same place, Tipografilia02, included as speakers Gonzalez Garcia Barcha, Carlota Blanco, Alejandro Lo Celso, Maria Teresa Peralta, Jose Luis Acosta, Luis Almeida, Mauricio Lopez, Victor Sandoval, Juan Carlos Fernandez, Susana Casaron, Hector Montes de Oca, Roman Esqueda, Zalma Jalluf, Clara Azcue and Ruben Fontana. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tipografilia 03

On 14-15 April 2005, Paco Calles (Francisco Calles Trejo) organized the third Tipografilia meeting at Universidad Intercontinental in Mexico City. Speakers included Carmen Castaneda, Diego Mier y Terán, Mauricio Rivera, Cristóbal Henestrosa, Ernesto Guteérrez Cortes, Jorge Medrano, Veronica Juarez, Yolanda Garibay, and Domingo Martinez. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tipografilia 04

National Mexican typography conference, held from 15-16 March 2007 at the School of Graphic Design of the Universidad Intercontinental in Mexico City. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tipografilia 06

National Mexican typography conference, held from 3-4 March 2011 at the Facultad del Hábitat, UASLP, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. The speakers: Rubén Pineda, Alejandro Cabrera, Manuel Guerrero. Jesús Barrientos, Gabriel Martínez Meave, Elí Castellanos, Iván Moreno, Isaías Loaiza, Javier Echavarrí, Héctor Montes de Oca. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tonatiuh Moreno

Mexican cartoonist, animator and writer (b. 1973) from Guadalajara. Designer of the free fonts KI Comic (2000, comic book face) and the elegant informal Epistolar (2004). Devian tart link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Typeco.com
[James Grieshaber]

James Grieshaber earned a BFA in Graphic Design from Rochester Institute of Technology. Based first in Rochester, NY, and now in Chicago, IL, Grieshaber ran Typeco, a typographic services and solutions company established in 2002. James Grieshaber (b. Detroit, 1967) most recently was on staff of P22 Type Foundry, where he designed many type families and helped establish International House of Fonts. He has been honoured with an award of Excellence in Type Design from Association Typographique International (ATypI) for his Gothic Gothic (2004, blend of blackletter and English style), and by TypeArt'05 (for Operina Cyrillic). Designer and Co-editor of the Indie Fonts book series, Grieshaber now teaches typography at RIT and runs Typeco. MyFonts sells his fonts now. YouWorkForThem sells the Super Duty family (stencil), Glyphic Neue, the Trapper families, Chunk Feeder, Gothic Gothic and Cusp. Identifont page. FontShop link. Behance link. Details on some of his faces:

• Gothic Gothic (2001), an extended blackletter codesigned with Christina Torre. In 2004, he received an award of Excellence in Type Design from Association Typographique International (ATypI) for his Gothic Gothic type design.
• The Glyphic Neue display family was inspired by the Op Art style of lettering in the United States that ran rampant in many photo type houses in the 1960's and 1970's---I like to call it the "piano key style".
• Chunkfeeder (2002) is a beautiful monospaced octagonal OCR-like family.
• Cypher (2003, an LED/LCD family) has 24 weights. Of these, Cypher7 is free.
• Duty (2002) is a sans face codesigned at T26 with Lee Fasciani.
• The stencil family Super Duty (2004) has 8 variations. There are also techno variant called Superduty Condensed, Superduty Regular, Superduty Narrow and Superduty Text.
• Cusp (2001-2005): a techno display family with 18 weights, including an LED style, art deco styles and Cusp De Stijl.
• Trapper (2004) is an 8-weight exaggerated ink trap font family which comes in Trapper Round and Trapper Sharp versions.
• Zaftig (2008, Typeco) is a super-fat face.
• P22 Operina (2003, in Romano, Corsivo and Fiore versions) is based on Vicentino Ludovico degli Arrighi's calligraphy used in his 1522 instructional lettering book La Operina da Imparare di scrivere littera Cancellarescha. This book contains what is considered to be the earliest printed examples of Chancery Cursive. P22 Operina won an award at TypeArt 05. Operina Pro contains over 1200 glyphs. In 2010, Paulo Heitlinger compared P22 Operina favorably to another digital chancery font, Poetica (by Robert Slimbach, Adobe), which, according to him [and I agree], lacks vigor and dynamism.
• P22 Posada (2003, with Richard Kegler): based on lettering of Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada (1851-1913) that was used for some of his posters and broadsides.
• P22 Arts and Crafts Tall (1995, art nouveau), P22 Arts and Crafts Hunter (1995). Both based on alphabets by Dard Hunter, 1908-1910.
• P22 Art Deco Chic (2002), based on the Art Deco hand lettering of Samuel Welo, ca. 1930. P22 Art Deco Display (2002) is a Broadway style face.
• Churchy (2002).
• He offered (offers?) a handwriting font service for 100 USD. Free trial face Reenie Beanie (2002). Signature font service for 50 USD. Reenie Beanie (2002) is now offered (as a joke, I assume) as part of the Google open font directory (for free web fonts).
• P22 Garamouche (2004, with Richard Kegler). Comes with Garamouche Ornaments (2004).
• Segoe Print (2006, Monotype Imaging). [Isn't this Googlee's competition?] This is an informally handprinted face co-designed with Brian Allen, Carl Crossgrove, James Grieshaber and Karl Leuthold at Ascender.
• P22 Cezanne Pro (2006). Has over 1,200 glyphs.
• P22 Yule (2005; Heavy, Inline): a stone chisel family with a hint of Neuland.
• P22 Numismatic (2005): originally offered by the Devinne Press, and based on ornaments and letters used by 15th and 16th century engravers of seals and coins; however it looks very much like Otto Hupp's Numismatisch (1900, Genzsch&Heyse).
• Black Ops One (2011) is a military stencil face, available at the Google Font Directory.
• Short Stack (2011) is Grieshaber's free contribution to the Comic Sans genre. It was published by Sorkin Type and can be downloaded from Dafont.
• Atomic Age (2011) is a free font at Google Font Directory. It was inspired by 1950s era connected scripts seen on nameplates of American cars.
• Supermercado One (2011, Google Font Directory) is a low contrast semi geometric typeface inspired by naive industrial letters. More a signage face than a web font.

Typemade
[Santiago Orozco]

Santiago Orozco (b. 1981, Monterrey) is Typemade in Monterrey, Mexico. Google Font Directory link. He is currently also working for DaniloBlack as an information architect.

He created the free geometric sans face Josefin Std (2010) using a small x-height. This was followed by Josefin Slab, and both were extended to many weights. Free downloads from the Google Font Directory. In 2011, he published Dorsa (a modern interpretation of the ultra-condensed face Empire (1937, Morris Fuller Benton, ATF) with some personal details thrown in), Antic, Clark Hairline, a sans serif with a calligraphic touch. Scans of Josefina: I, II, III. Behance link. He explains: The idea for create this typeface was to make it geometric, elegant and kind of vintage, special for titling. It is based on 1927 Rudolf Koch's Kabel, 1930 Rudolf Wolf's Memphis, 1927 Paul Renner's Futura.

Typefaces from 2012: Antic Slab (Google Web Fonts: designed for use in the headlines of newspapers and magazines), Antic Didone (Google Web Fonts). Italiana (Google Web Fonts) was designed for use in the headlines of newspapers and magazines. Italiana is inspired by the calligraphy of the Italian masters.

Google Plus link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Typografik
[Mauricio Reyes]

Mauricio Reyes is the designer of the ITC Binary family (1997), a semi-serif family that blends elements of Helvetica and Times. The type designer was born in Mexico City, trained in London, and now lives in Falls Church, VA, in the Washington, D.C., area where he operates his studio Typografik. ITC Binary was chosen as the official font for the 2000 Olympic games in Sydney Australia and was used by Nike, Swatch, IBM, NBC and Coca-Cola. He also made the Beta pixel family. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Typoidea
[Paco (Francisco) Aguayo]

Typoidea is an outfit in Guadalajara, Mexico, run by Paco Aguayo, the Jalisco-based designer at the Argentinian outfit SantoTipo of Sapucai Picada and Mofles. Aguayo also designed the bitmap font family SacrilegaPX (2001) and the pixel font family Escritura PX. At Tiypo, you can also find Artimania, Hija de Perra, and La Neta (simulating paint). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Typonauten

Bremen- and Hamburg-based foundry with several commercial fonts: Dimitri (Cyrillic simulation), Flarrow, Grebbelinsky (nice dingbats), Killvetica, Litterae Diaboli, Mosaixxs, Nautilo (pixel font), Navtilo (pixel font), R2D2 (futuristic), Sheffield (sans), Singapur (2002, a gambling dingbat font), Oklahoma (2002, Egyptienne), Transarc, Uxmal (unicase with Mexican ornaments), Weimar (Bauhaus style), Estelec (Cyrillic simulation), Trixel (2002, free pixel font), Sport1. The foundry was created in 1998 by Christoph Hanser, Ingo Krepinsky and Stefan Krömer. It is involved in typography, corporate design and illustrations. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tzk

Mexican youngster (b. 1992) who made Halo (2008) after the lettering for the Halo game. A readme file found near the font mentions Will Turnbow as the creator (of either the font or the game). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí

One of only two places in Mexico where one can study typography. The other one is the Centro de Estudios Gestalt, located in Veracruz. Until 1999-2000, the Universidad Intercontinental also offered type design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Víctor M. Martínez

Mexican designer of Confundida, Demasiado Corazón (dingbats), Hellvética (non caps), Tzompantli (2003, a great splashy hand), mentioned here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Víctor Manuel Martínez Beltrán

Mexican designer of La Mancha Caps&Small Caps, a typeface that won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008 in the non-text face category. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vicente Lamónaca

This Montevideo-based designer (b. 1967, Mexico City) created the experimental faces Quetzal and Equis Normal. He also made Chau Trouville (2010, a slab serif), Chau Philomène (2010, Google Web Fonts), Chau La Madeleine (2010, slightly elliptical), Chau Marbella and Chau La Madeleine (2010), Económica Sans Serif (2007, see also MyFonts, Google Web Fonts, and Tipotype).

Lamónaca moved to Montevideo in 1985 and has a degree in graphic design from the University ORT Uruguay. Since 2000, he teaches in the Faculty of Communication and Design at this university. Since 2005 he is also teaching Typography II. He is a partner of the design studio Taller de Comunicación. Economica is said to be the fitst digital typeface made in Uruguay. He is Director of Tipografia-Montevideo, Uruguay's first site dedicated entirely to typography. In 2011, he started his own blog, type portal and foundry, called Fábrica de tipos.

Bio. Google Plus link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Victor Daniel Sheckels

Des Moines, IA-based artist. Alternate URL. Creator of the Mayan symbology fonts MaianNeptune (2007), MaianQuiet (2007), MaianTempest (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Votum Sanguinis

Los Angeles-based outfit with many Mexican influences. Alternate page. In 2010, they designed a number of gothic (blackletter or horror) fonts, including Fontorror, Pakalian, Posada Diablo, Llorona. Nican Mopohua Regular (grungy), Federico Fellini Amarcord (art deco--after the movie). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Xplaye

Mexican studio in Monterrey. Behance link. They created TRON Legacy (2011) after the final credits of the successful 2010 movie. Free >EPS format download. [Google] [More]  ⦿