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Type design in Peru



[Drawing by Arthur C. Perry, 1913]

Luc Devroye
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
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Angel Alejandro

Graphic designer in Trujillo, Peru, who made an arc-themed typeface called Circle (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antonio Ricardo

Peruvian printer in Lima. In 1584, he printed the first publication in South America. The type used in that publication can be seen in the font GLC 1584 Pragmatica Lima (2011, Gilles Le Corré). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Blima Faingold

Student in Peru who created a typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Candelaria Moreno

Peruvian type designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cayo Navarro

Peruvian graphic and web designer. At FontStruct, he created a number of pixel fonts in 2009, such as gridnPix75 (+Light, +nLite), OCR-APix6, cayoPix45, ScrptPix5, sCapsPix4, SerifPix6, moSpPix57, ClassPix5, MicriPix4, CorpoPix5, and BminiPix5. Other fonts there include Proton Type (2009), the geometric pxlNotSqr (2009) and the sturdy headline faces Woznian (2009, inspired by bitmap fonts like Chicago and Charcoal) and Gizmatik (2009), his best font. In 2009, he added NuevoSolStile (in the Eurostile/Microgramma mold), MacroBold (ultra-fat), Steam Punker, Funkadeliai, Monocodigo, FS Mini, FS Remix (horizontally striped), BlackSQRda (blackletter), Fontscript, Scanografia (vertical striping of letters), Stencikal, Bloxed (white on black), BlackSQRda, NSS Unicase (unicase), NuevoSolStile (unicase). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cesar Hernandez
[Design Factory]

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Criovision Agency

Criovision is a visual identity company. Over at Dafont, one can download Criovision (2010), a futuristic all caps typeface. Their offices are in Lima, Peru and Paracin, Serbia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Design Factory
[Cesar Hernandez]

Cesar Hernandez is a Peruvian designer who studied in England and makes custom type in Brugg in Switzerland, where he founded Design Factory. A screen font, Loft 04-06 is shown on his home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dick Pape
[Dick Pape: Mayan Signs]

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Dick Pape: Mayan Signs
[Dick Pape]

Dick Pape created the following Indian ornamental tyopefaces: MayanAffixesA, MayanAffixesB, MayanMainSignsA, MayanMainSignsB, MayanProfiles (2006). All these Mayan symbol faces are based on The Mayan Epigraphic Database Project (MED). Furthermore, he created NativeDesigns-MexicoPeru (1, 2 and 3, done in 2009, and credited to Maarten Hesselt van Dinter), NativeDesignsfromIndia.

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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. It is based upon Peruvian market signs.

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

Fabian de la Flor

Creator of fat counterless faces such as Zerotonin (2010), Continnental (2009) and Portent (2009). His art and illustration company is called Ample. Born in Lima, Peru, he currently lives in Miami, FL, where he obtained a BFA from Miami International University.

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Ignazio Balboa

Freelance designer in Lima, Peru, who created the bilined typeface Panibo (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

IS Creative Studio
[Richars Meza]

Design studio in Lima, Peru. For a show called Ficciones Asiaticas, they created a paper-fold typeface called Ficciones (2011). IS Creative Studio was established January 2010 by Richars Meza (b. 1973). He has lived and worked in New York, Tokyo and Madrid.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Javier Guevara Valle

Designer in Lima, Peru, b. 1988. Creator of SSF4 Abuket (2010, a brush face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jose Miyashiro

Creator from Lima (Peru) of the fat squarish face Beatpixel (2009, FontStruct). Home page. Aka Beatpeep. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leslie Pascual

Designer in Lima, Peru, who created the children's book caps typeface Oso (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Melissa Thereliz

Trujillo, Peru-based creator of the handwriting face Tehzeta (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel Carillo

Peruvian creator (aka Doriard) of the octagonal outline EPS-format font Tetramino (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ricardo Neira C

Graphic designer in Lima, Peru, who created Burn Type (2012) based on burnt matches. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Richars Meza
[IS Creative Studio]

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shadowcatxavier

Peruvian creator of the gothic outline font Vampirella Fangs (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Stephano Tarazona

Designer in Lima, Peru, who created the alchemic typeface Mochica (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ted Forbes

American traffic engineer who in 1945 proposed American Highway Gothic for the American highways. This typeface, and its derivatives emigrated to many countries, including Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Peru, Chile, Thailand and Malaysia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Thalia Echevarria

Lima, Peru-based designer of Shipibo (2013), a display face inspired by Inca symbolisms.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Victorino Laínez

Peruvian typefounder from the 19th century, b. Lima, 1799. He established Sociedad Tipográfica de Santiago in Santiago, Chile, in 1853. [Google] [More]  ⦿