Adriana Fonseca

Adriana Fonseca (Lisbon) created Lavor Sans (2012, monoline sans with some curvy elements). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandra Mendes

Since 2003, Alexandra Mendes runs Blank, a Porto, Portugal-based brand identity and graphic design agency.

Licht Punt (2010) is the geometrically precise custom typeface used in the Sky High project for the Radisson Blu hotel in Hasselt, Belgium.

In 2011, she published the art deco family Rosetta, and wrote: Rosetta font was designed by Alexandra Mendes for an upcoming branding project. The typeface design is inspired in all things lovely and luscious of the female intimate universe: lingerie, lace, blush powder, négligé, bustier, lip gloss and other lavish niceties. Should feel as a flirt, the subtle wink of the eye, a roseate glow. Rosetta is a coquette who flirts with life, winking her eyes, batting her lashes, flicking her hair, leaving her scent behind as she passes on the street, turning heads, with her whispering lips and waddling feline walk. Teasing and feigned disinterest to test the reliability of her admirers. Tall slenderizing lines and delicate curves shape the form of Rosetta. The typeface look is minimal and contemporary but reminiscent of a certain "je ne sais quoi" of Art Deco. There's a pure linear geometric symmetry to the font, to create a look of elegant modernity, that exudes a flair for glamour. Rosetta is a font family set composed by the styles: Rosetta, Rosetta Blush, Rosetta Bloom, Rosetta Bud. Images of Rosetta: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandre Lopes

Lisbon-based creator of the monoline caps face Angle (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandre Matos

Portuguese photographer and designer in Viana do Castelo, Portugal. Alexandre obtained a degree in Graphic Design at IPCA (Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave) in Barcelos in 2010. He created the elegant squarish typeface Finez (2010) and the geometric circle arc-themed sans face Ronde (2010, his graduation work). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandre Relvão

Designer from Coimbra, Portugal, who made Quebra-Costas (2011, elliptical), Broad Nip (2011), Wine and Modern Delicatessen (2011, an angular face) and Primavera em Fevereiro (2011, a refined high-contrast sans). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandrino José das Neves

Portuguese type founder and director of the Imprensa Nacional Portuguesa until 1821, when he left to start his own business. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alter Order
[Pedro Azevedo Gonçalves]

Alter Order is the web alias for Pedro Gonçalves, a Portuguese art director based in Barcelona. Creator of the ultra black slab face Gorda Slab (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Catarina Mendes

Portuguese photographer and graphic design student who lives in Amarante. She created the beautiful neo-humanist sans face Kamora (2011). This face has ball terminals and flared strokes. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Dias

Braga, Portugal-based designer of the serif face Joanna (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Raquel Araujo

Editorial designer and illustrator in Guimaraes, Portugal. Creator of a brush all-caps alphabet in 2010 while studying at ESEIG. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Starhan

Brazilian graphic design graduate from IADE, Portugal (in 2011), who is now located in Glasgow. Creator of Pinho (2010), a modular face made from nuts. She also made Hardcopy (2012, for the Hardcopy magazine).

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andre Crespo

Andre Crespo or Andre Sousa (b. 1988, Porto, Portugal) studies towards an MA in communication design in Lisbon, and is involved in BlankGap Inc in Lisbon, a design studio. Behance link. He did Didot Refresh (2010, a Didot revival). [Google] [More]  ⦿

André Martins

Lisbon-based freelance graphic designer. Creator of Modular M8 (2009), a techno sans. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

André Sousa

Graphic designer in Santo Tirso (Porto), Portugal. In 2011, he created the hairline sans face Wayne Thin, the counterless fat slab face Rotula, and the fat round Wayne Black. He also made Virtude (2011, a Garamond revival). In 2012, he added Urbe (3d face).

Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andreia Marques

Graphic designer in Lisbon. Creator of the curly script Le Mariage (2011), a wedding invitation font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Coutinho

Anna Coutinho from Porto, Portugal and Mariana Almeida (from Angra do Heroismo, Portugal) designed a great codex-style logo for Formatos Design in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

António Fonseca

Porto-based designer of the delicate type family Amarantino (2008), which starts with a slightly elliptical Extra Light weight. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antonio Joao Monteiro

Graphic designer Antonio Joao Monteiro (b. 1984, Oporto, Portugal) lives on The Azores. He studied at ESAD (Escola Superior de Artes e Design). His typefaces, all made with FontStruct, include Ayda (2012, modular: was called JM Type), Galatica (2012, futuristic).

FontStruct link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antonio Segurado

FontStructor who made Baldy Sans (2011), Digistep (2011) and Shavy Caps (2011). Antonio is based in Lisbon. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antprojekt

Porto, Portugal-based typographic bureau, which published the Musa and Plate Font in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ariana Pereira

Ariana Pereira (Viseu, Portugal) made the experimental faces PAC ABC (2011) and Castelo Branco (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Artes Finais
[Rui Silva]

Portuguese type blog run by Rui Silva. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Artur Faria

Graphic designer and illustrator in Porto, Portugal. He created the octagonal typeface Numb (2010) and the experimental type Folded Square (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Atelier Carvalho Bernau
[Kai Bernau]

Foundry and studio run by Susana Carvalho and Kai Bernau (see also his Letterlabor site), located in Den Haag, The Netherlands, and established in 2006. Has a blog. Typefaces:

• In 2010, they published the free titling grotesk Jean-Luc (Godard), inspired by the movie titling in (1967). Bernau writies: We did not find out who originally made the lettering for these two movies. Some speculate it could have been Godard himselfâ Godard's interest in graphic design and typography is clear, with many of his other films employing such strong typography-only titles and intertitles. They are almost a self-sufficient entity, another character in the movie, another comment. This style of lettering is so interesting to us because it is such a clear renunciation of the pretty, classical title screens that were common in that time's more conservative films. It has a more vernacular and brutishly low-brow character; this lettering comes from the street: We can not prove this at all, but we think it may be derived from the stencil letters of the Plaque Découpée Universelle, a lettering device invented in the 1870s by a certain Joseph A. David, and first seen in France at the 1878 Exposition Universelle, where it found broad appeal and rapid adoption. We think this style of lettering was absorbed into the public domain vernacular of French lettering, and that the 2 ou 3 choses titles are derived from these quotidien lettering style, as it would seem to fit Godard's obsession with vernacular typography. We learned about the PDU through Eric Kindel's article in Typography Papers 7. In 2009, then-Werkplaats Typografie student Dries Wiewauters surprised us with a revival of the Plaque Découpée Universelle. Below, the JeanLuc alphabet (white) and the PDU alphabet (blue), to show similarities and differences.
• Lyon Text and Lyon Display (2005-2010). These are two text families done at Commercial Type. They say: Lyon is a suite of contemporary reading typefaces for modern publications, based on historical models of the 16th century punch cutter Robert Granjon. Lyon reflects our convictions about modern digital typeface design: A decisively digital outline treatment that reveals our modern repertoire of tools, and the typeface itself as a modern design tool, paired with a certain Times-like unobtrusiveness in the Text sizes, contrasts nicely with Lyon's 16th century heritage.
• Neutraface Slab (2007-2009, art directed by Christian Schwartz and Ken Barber). The slab of the famous Neutraface family at House Industries.
• Neutral (2005-2009). The Neutral typeface was Kai's graduation project from the KABK undergrad course. It is what one could call a basic sans.
• Custom typeface Munich Re (2008-2009) for the Munich Re Reinsurance group. MunichRe Sans takes roots in the grotesque types of the 1950s (among others, Dick Dooijes' Mercator for the Lettergieterij Amsterdam).
• Custom face Harvard Museum Neutral (2008).
• Custom face Proprio (2007-2009) for the Fabrico Proprio project. This is a willfully bare-bones grotesk family without any snootiness.

ATypI 2006

ATypI 2006 was held in Lisbon, Portugal, from 27 September-1 October 2006 on the theme Typographical Journeys. Mario Feliciano was the main organizer. Luc's report. Picture report by Dan Reynolds. One by Jean-Baptiste Levée. Pictures at Flickr. Pictures by Dan Rhatigan. Van Lancker's pictures. A French report with pics by Jean-Baptiste Levée. His pictures. General Flickr site. Pics by Rob Keller. Roger Black's pic of Spiekermann. Oleg Koshe's pics of Verena Gerlach's talk. Tagir Safaev's pics of the newspaper design track. Oleg Koshe's pics of Massimo Vignelli and François Chastanet and Spiekermann's main talk. Comments and links by Dan Reynolds. Lisbon Letters by Jerrold Maddox (Penn State University). Oleg Koshe's report on Kindel&Smeijers. Brief report by Ana Sabino. Pictures by Birx. Henrique Nardi's shots. Ukrainian report (+pics) by Victor Kharyk. Pics by Protype. Pics by Vera Estafieva. Pictures by Iria Cunha (and many transparencies of talks). Yves Peters comments. letters.sdu (VinOlga, Annette) shows a collection of Lisbon street lettering images. See also the fontme site for Lisbon stree lettering. The student volunteers have their own photographs on Picasa: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Augusto Tavares Dias

Augusto Tavares Dias (Sintra, Portugal) created the thin monoline sans typeface ATD (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Awkward Hekiw

Blurred Portuguese designer (b. 1983) of the grunge face Meagre (2010). His studio. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bárbara Alves

Graduate from Portugal who obtained a Masters degree from KABK, Den Haag. She designed the Dialogue type family for screen reading. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bank
[Sebastian Bissinger]

BANK is a French/German design agency based in Berlin. It markets its fonts through T-26, starting in 2009. In 2009, Sebastian Bissinger and Matthieu David made the display faces Sintra and Yummy. Sintra is a 3d face that simulates letters made from folded material---Sebastian Bissinger was inspired by the sign of a shoe shop in Sintra, Portugal. Yummy was inspired by cookie cutters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bráulio Amado

Portuguese type designer who lives in Almada. He created the octagonal face No Manners (2010). His foundry at MyFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bruno Albuquerque

Graphic designer from Barcelos, Portugal. Together with Miguel de Sousa and Marcelo Santos, he made BetaDin (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bruno Franco

Graphic designer and photographer in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. Based on DIN 1451, he created Geometrische in 2010. Flickr page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bruno Roda

Designer from Lisbon. He created the modular experimental face Pista (2010, which is based on sections of model car race tracks. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bruno Santinho

Illustrator who was born in Lisbon and lived in the Northeastern part of the USA for seven years before returning to Lisbon for a few more years and finally settling in Geneva, Switzerland. Behance link. Cargocollective link. He created the typeface Wrong (2010). The lettering in his poster Glassjaw (2010) is also worthy of being turned into a font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cátia

Portuguese designer of Alertse (2008, a Valentine's Day font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cadernos de Tipografia

Portuguese on-line typography magazine distributed in PDF format. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Ferreira

Another young Portuguese talent, b. 1985. Based in Aveiro, he studied graphic design in 2009 at the Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, IPCA. Creator of FF Café (2007-2008), a font created based on rigorous compass and ruler instructions. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Rocha

Graphic designer and illustrator in Porto, Portugal. He created the display face Queen (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Rosa

Portuguese graphic designer and Professor of Design who made several sets of pictograms in 2010. He has won the Portuguese National Design Award for 2009 and 2010. He also has a Portuguese blog with some discussions about type, called O Design e a Ergonomia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Trancoso

Portuguese designer in Caldas da Rainha. He created Sparta (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carolina Bettencourt

Portuguese designer who is based in Macau. Creator of the free script face Bettencourt (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carolina Simões

Portuguese digital photographer and artist in Coimbra. She created the pointy face Retrotype (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Catarina Antunes

Lisbon-based creator of the oil slick display face Ville Nouvelle de Boughezoul (2011), probably as a commission for the Algerian city of Boughezoul. She is a graduate from IADE in Lisbon. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Catarina Barreira

Portuguese design student at the University of Aveiro in Portugal. In 2009, as part of a typography class project, Catarina and four co-students (Miriam Flores, Ana Carreira, José Bronze and Marco Costa) designed Zé Regular (FontStruct). While it looks like a thin angular type, she says that inspiration came from handmade type found on a statue of José Estevão Coelho de Magelhães (1809-1862), a remarkable revolutionary political figure in the city of Aveiro. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Catarina Leal

Aveiro, Portugal-based designer of the display sans face Bender (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Catarina Monteiro

Graphic designer in Lisbon. Together with Joana Caramona, she created the spiraled hypnotic font Lollipop (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

César Modesto

Alcanena, Portugal-based creator of the curvy Mimosa (2011), Urubu (2012, angular), Diamante Robusto (2011), and the display family Rapazola (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Celia Losa

FontStructor who made the stencil face Solatype (2011) while studying with Jorge Marques at the Instituto Politecnico do Cávado e do Ave in Portugal. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cláudio Campos

MA student in design at IADE in Oeiras, Portugal. He created Match Font (2011), an alphabet composed of match sticks. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Claudia Ferreira

Designer in Villa Franca de Xira, Portugal, who is studying at ESAD.CR (Caldas da Rainha, Portugal). She created the elegant high-contrast condensed serif typeface Sophis (2012), which has elements of a didone. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Claudio Ferreira

Graphic designer in Lourinha, Portugal. Behance link.

Creator of Louriana (2010), a geometric slab serif. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cris Barbosa

A resident of Lisbon, Cris Barbosa is a graphic and brand designer who has worked on a Hebrew font, Ivrit (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cristiano Vieira

Portuguese designer of the geometric and humanist sans face Danck (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Machado

Daniel Machado (Obidos, Portugal) got a degree in graphic design at the Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha in 2010. He created the packaging (sans) font La Boite (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Santos

Portuguese motion graphics designer in Leiria, who designed the Postit face (2011, a marker pen face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Conceição

Design student at the School of Fine-Arts of the University of Porto, Portugal. Designer and illustrator. Creator of the calligraphic typeface Illustrissima (2012) and of the grungy Civitas (2012).

Devian Tart link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Laranjeira

Designer (b. 1978) at [T-26] of the techno/dot matrix font family Zink (2002). That font also appeared at Typotek. He graduated in 2001 from Ecole Estienne in Paris, where for his thesis, he created a type family called Villeneuve, which revived a type made in 1732 by engraver and type designer Jean de Villeneuve (Vilanova) for the Royal Academy of History of Portugal. He wrote another thesis there entitled Le Champfleury de Geofroy Tory. Manuel de typographie ou divagation esthétique autour de la lettre?.

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

David Mendes

Graphic designer from Lisbon. Creator of Dav Sans (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Rafachinho

Graphic and type designer in Lisbon. He created an experimental display face in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Vale

Designer based in Ferreira do Zezere. Portugal. In 2011, David created the paperclip face New Line. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Debora Ramos

Lisbon-based creator of the sans face Nitidus (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diana Salavisa

Editorial and graphic designer in Lisbon. During a workshop with Rita Dias at Fbaul, she created a font called Tetris (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diogo Oliveira

Portuguese designer who used FontStruct to make the modular (slabby or octogonal) faces Sexta-Feira (+Sans) and Mini-Bodoni in 2008-2009. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diogo Pisoeiro

Tomar, Portugal-based designer of the angular face Aga (2011), Alpha (2011, sci-fi), Espasmo (2011, futuristic and triangular, in 22 weights: Ten Dollar Fonts), Espasmo Hand (2011, a curvy version), Ladoni (2011, an angular version of Bodoni), the futuristic monoline face Omega (2011), and of the very experimental families Xing Xang Xung (2011) and Que (2011). In 2011, he started a commercial foundry.

Typefaces from 2012 include Barceloneta (an alchemic typeface at Ten Dollar Fonts). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Diogo Vareta

Photographer and graphic designer from Porto, Portugal. Alternate URL.

He used only circles and lines in the creation of Honor Type (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

dstype
[Dino dos Santos]

Established in 1994, dstype used to offer free fonts but has gone commercial now. It is run by Dino dos Santos (b. 1971, Oporto) from Oporto, Portugal. He graduated in Graphic Design at ESAD, Matosinhos. He received a Masters degree in Multimedia Arts at FBAUP, Porto. MyFonts place. In 2006 he won the Creative Review Type Design Competition in the Revival/Extension Family. At ATypI 2006 in Lisbon, he spoke about Portuguese lettering since 1700. Interview in 2007. Pic. Klingspor link. Dino created these typefaces:

• Access (1997).
• Acta, Acta Display and Acta Poster (2011, +Poster swashes). A didone fashion mag family. First designed for Chilean newspaper La Tercera in 2010, DSType's Acta family is a clean information design type system. It includes Acta Symbols, an extensive dingbat family.
• Acto (2012). Acto is a type system designed as the sans serif counterpart of the previous released Acta. Both type families were designed in 2010 for the redesign of the Chilean newspaper La Tercera.
• Andrade Pro (a modern) and Andrade Pro Script: based on the calligraphy of Andrade de Figueiredo, ca. 1766.
• Anubis (2003): a unicase face.
• Apud and Apud Display (2010): a high-contrast serif family.
• Aquila (2004).
• Boldina (2004). A fat informal poster family with 18 weights and styles.
• Braga (2011, Dino dos Santos and Pedro Leal). This is a layered font design family. Dino writes: Braga is an exuberant baroque typeface, named after a portuguese city, also known as the baroque capital of Portugal. Our latest typographic extravaganza comes with a multitude of fonts designed to work like layers, allowing to insert color, lines, gradients, patterns, baroque, floral swashes, and many other graphic elements. Starting with Braga Base, you can add any of the twenty-three available styles, to create colourful typographic designs.
• Capsa (2008): a family that was inspired by, but is not a revival of the Claude Lamesle types Gros Romain Ordinaire and Saint Augustin Gros Oeil.
• Ception (2001): a futuristic sans family.
• Decline (1996).
• Dione (2003): a sans; redone in 2009 as Dobra at TypeTrust. See also Dobra Slab (2009).
• Esta (2004-2005): extensive (transitional) text and newsprint family.
• Estilo (2005): a gorgeous and simple art deco-ish geometric headline face. This was accompanied by Estilo Script (2006), Estilo Text (2007, a 6-style rounded sans family), and later, Estilo Pro (2010, +Hairline).
• Ezzo: a sans family.
• Factor (1997).
• Finura (2009): this face has hints of University Roman.
• Fragma (2003): squarish techno family.
• Girga (+Italic, +Engraved, +Banner, +Stencil) is a strong black Egyptian family designed in 2012 together with Pedro Leal at DS Type.
• Glosa (2008): Glosa is a meaty multi-style didone family. Glosa Text and Glosa Headline all followed a bit later in 2008, and Glosa Display in 2009.
• Hades (2012). A yummy and free blackletter typeface.
• Hypergrid (2002): octagonal.
• Kartago (2005): based on Roman inscriptions from Cartago.
• Large (1999) and Large Pro (2006).
• Leitura, Leitura Headline, Leitura News, Leitura Sans, Leitura Symbols, Leitura Display (2007): this 31 styles were all made in 2007.
• Maga (2012). A text family.
• Methodo (2005): calligraphic penman faces.
• Missiva (2004).
• Monox and Monox Serif (1998-2000): a monospaced family.
• Musee (2006): a transitional family with ornaments and borders.
• Otite (1995).
• Outside (1996): grunge.
• Plexes (2003). See also Plexes Pro (2006).
• Pluma (2005): a series of three exquisite calligraphic flowing scripts called PlumaPrimeyra, PlumaSegunda and PlumaTerceyra). Inspired by the typographic work of Manoel de Andrade de Figueiredo that was published in 1722: "Nova Escola para Aprender a Ler, Escrever e Contar, offerecida a Augusta Magestade do Senhor Dom Jao V, Rey de Portugal".
• Poesis (1999).
• Prelo (2008): A sans family for magazines, it has styles that include Hairline, Hairline Italic, Extra Light, Extra Light Italic, Light, Light Italic, Book, Book Italic, Medium, Medium Italic, Semi Bold, Semi Bold Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Extra Bold, Extra Bold Italic, Black, Black Italic, Slab and Prelo Condensed.
• Priva Pro (2006): a sans family that includes Greek and Cyrillic).
• Quadricula (1998).
• Quaestor and Quaestor Sans (2004). Roman inscriptional faces.
• Resea (2004) and Resea Consensed: Bank Gothic style faces.
• Synuosa (1999): an experimental face showing only the top half of the characters.
• Terminal (1996).
• Titan and Titan Text (2003).
• User (2012), User Upright (2012), and User Stencil (2012). Monospace type families.
• Velino (2010): an extensive family including Velino Text, Velino, Velino Condensed, Velino Compressed, Velino Poster, Velino Sans, Velino Sans Condensed, Velino Display (+Compressed Display, +Condensed Display). This didone superfamily is sure to win a ton of awards.
• Ventura (2006): based on the calligraphy of Portuguese calligrapher Joaquim José Ventura da Silva, ca. 1802, who wrote Regras methodicas para se aprender a escrever os caracteres das letras Ingleza, Portugueza, Aldina, Romana, Gotica-Italica e Gotica-Germanica in 1820. It had a "Portuguese Script". Do not confuse Ventura with Dieter Steffmann's font by the same name made many years earlier. Ventura won an award at TDC2 2008).
• Volupia (2005): a connected advertising face.

View Dino dos Santos's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

dynTypo
[Vítor Quelhas]

Vítor Quelhas was born in Porto, Portugal, in 1979. He received an MA in Multimedia Arts at Fine Arts School of the University of Porto (FBAUP), Portugal, with a thesis on Dynamic Typography. He studied Communication Design/Graphic Arts at FBAUP, where he graduated in 2002. In 2001/02 he studied abroad as an ERASMUS student in Communication Design at Willem de Kooning Academie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He is an invited Assistant Professor of Computation and Fine Arts, Communication Design, at the Department of Visual Arts, Bragança Polytechnic Institute, since 2002. As a designer, he has been responsible for different projects, including DynTypo, his research website concerning dynamic typography. From the latter site: dynTypo is a collection of work and research by various designers, programmers and artists interested in the possibilities of dynamic and interactive typography in the multimedia arts scene. There are many links, many of which go to John Maeda's lab at MIT. Speaker at ATypI 2006 in Lisbon on Dynamic typography. Alternate URL. Another URL. And another one. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Edgar Afonso

Edgar Afonso (b. Viana do Castelo, Portugal, 1976), is a graphic designer and illustrator who embarked in 2010 on some fontr projects. These include the modular face Nave (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eduardo Ulrich

Portuguese designer in Lisbon, b. 1980. He created the beveled caps face Traffica (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elsa Rodrigues

Portuguese illustrator and designer who created the didone face Qwirky Regular (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emanuel Barreira

Portuguese graphic and type designer from Setubal. He made the techno face Break (2008) and the 3d techno face Octopus (2008). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eurico Sá Fernandes

Portuguese student of graphic design at London College of Communication. His typefaces include Rounded Regular (2011), Mariana (2011, wavy), London Fields (2011), Pontocruz Smallcaps (2011), Colher V3 (2011) and Colher Rounded (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Evgheni Polisciuc

Portuguese designer of Station (2011, modular and geometric). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fabio Kid Galindro

Lisbon-based creator of the graffiti-inspired typeface Concrete Jungle (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Feliciano Type Foundry
[Mário Feliciano]

Mário Feliciano (b. 1969, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal) is the principal of Lisbon-based Feliciano Type Foundry, founded in 2001. For a while, he was associated with Enschedé. He began work as a graphic designer for Surf Portugal magazine in 1993. In 1994 he founded his own design studio in Lisbon, Secretonix. He has been heavily involved in type design since. In 2005, he joined the type coop Village. John Berry reviews Mario's oeuvre. His gorgeous creations include the following:

• Escrita ([T-26], a great calligraphic font), Gazz, MexSans (1997, [T-26]), AureaUltra (1997, [T-26]), Bronz (1997, [T-26]), Cepo, Tpac family (1996, [T-26], under the name Mariachi Fontexperience), Strumpf (1994, comic book font family at Adobe), Caligrafia Debula (1997, PsyOps).
• Geronimo (2010, Enschedé; not to be confused with an earlier 2005 font at Canada Type called Geronimo) was started in 1997. He says: Geronimo is a historical revival, a digital interpretation of the types cut by Geronimo Gil in Spain in the eighteenth century. In fact it is not only the first digital version, but as far as I can tell it is also the first typeface family ever designed using Gil's types as a model. Working in Madrid, Geronimo Gil produced an enormous collection of very interesting and idiosyncratic types that can be found in Muestras de los Nuevos Punzones y Matrices para la Letra de Imprenta executados por Orden de S.M. y de su Caudal destinado a la Dotacion de su Real Biblioteca, a specimen from 1787. It shows titling and text faces both in italic and roman styles. His typefaces are not only very Spanish but they are also very sophisticated when compared to the ones of contemporaries such as Eudald Pradell and Antonio Espinosa. Geronimo's typefaces have a sense of modernism but they are not modern in a Bodoni or Didot kind of way. Yet they are actually very old style---particularly the lowercase letters--but with reduced contrast and a generous x-height. Even in the bigger cuts, ascenders and descenders are not long but appear to be even shorter than in text sizes. This creates a kind of rolling effect while reading.
• He is working on Espinosa, Merlo, and Eudaldo (a face in the style of and apparently predating the successful Pradell by Andreu Balius Planelles).
• MyFonts sells BsLandscope, BsMonofaked (octagonal), BsKombat (1998), BsLooper (stencil), BsArchae, BsRetchnov (constructivist), BsMandrax (octagonal).
• Stella (2001, a humanist sans family with 26 weights). FTF Stella 2 is a 2005 upgrade of this family.
• The 14-weight Rongel serif family (2001, updated in 2005 as FTF Rongel V2) is his best work. Feliciano states: "an interpretation of the types showed in eighteenth century's Spanish catalogue: "Muestras de los Punzones y Matrices de Letra que se funde en el Obrador de la Imprenta Real, Madrid, Ano de 1799", and titled with the name Rongel, whom I suppose, cut them. Another example of these types can be found in "Las Eroticas, y Traduccion de Boecio" by Villegas and printed by António de Sancha in Madrid, 1774."
• In 2003, he won an award for the extensive FTF Morgan family at the TDC2 2003 competition (subfamilies have suffixes Avec, Sans, Sans Condensed, Big, Poster, Poster Avec and Tower). Morgan Sans was originally developed in 2001 with 44 weights. Each version of Morgan has multiple weights as well---for example, Morgan Big (2001) is a 12-weight titling family. Avec denotes Slab Serif.
• FTF Grotzec Headline Condensed (1998, created for Surf Portugal magazine).
• FTF Merlo (2004): an interpretation of the 18th century Spanish types cut by Ismal Merlo.
• FTF Flama (2002, a neutral sans). Flama is used, along with Greta Text and Sunday Times Modern, by the Sunday Times.
• FTF Garda Titling (1998): an exceptional caps only family with both serifed and sans inscriptional letters.
• Sueca (2009): a new typefacce for the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, which writes: Sueca is a family of serif, slab, sans serif, text typeface and typeface for listing. The idea behind Sueca is to be able to talk with the same clear voice but be able to change the tone of voice in different section. During the work with developing Sueca, SvD had help from the design consultants Palmer Watson from Edinburgh, Scotland as the second opinion.

Klingspor link. FontShop link.

View Mario Feliciano's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Fernao de Pina

Fernao de Pina was the chancelor responsable for the creation of Leitura Nova, which was a compilation of books (forais) that should establish the privileges of the villages and all their administrative duties, determined by the monarch D. Manuel I of Portugal. Written from 1496 to 1520, Leitura Nova has a regular and uniform gothic that is more cursive and rounded then the German gothics. [Thanks to Dino dos Santos for help with this information and for this and this picture.] [Google] [More]  ⦿

Filipa Cruz

Portuguese creator of Tipo Aveiro, (2010), done at the University of Aveiro. Filipa lives in Porto. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Filipa de Araujó

Filipa (Porto, Portugal) used nail files as an idea to build a very interesting brushy face called Lijadora (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Filipa Serrote

Designer in Lisbon. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Filipe Ferreira

Designer and digital artist in Porto, Portugal. He made a nice typographic poster entitled Free Tibet (2010), and designed a number of experimental typefaces in 2010. In 2011, he made Souca (multilined), Ayuthaya (blackletter), Gourmet (art deco), Graphic Monkeys (bilined), a curly face and an ornamental caps face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Filipe Lizardo

Graphic designer in Lisbon, Portugal. In his oeuvre, I especially appreciate the typography in his Sardinha logo, which was made in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

First Floor

Portuguese designer of Serene Sans (2002). [Google] [More]  ⦿

François Lallemant

French type founder who together with his brother Adolfo creater the print shop Lallemant in Lisbon. There, Libanio da Silva was introduced to typography and printing. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Francisco Seiz Freitas

Kiko Seiz (b. 1993) is a Portuguese graphic design in Stockholm. Another URL. He created the handprinted stencil alphabet Surfer Blood (2011), and the grotesk caps face Atom (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Frederico Cabaço

Designer in Sintra, Portugal, b. 1991, Lisbon. He does some typographic work, but it is unclear whether he has made any fonts thus far. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Frederico Ferreira

Based in Oporto, Portugal, Frederico Ferreira is a graphic design student at IPCA-EST. He created an avant-garde slab serif typewriter face called Stab (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fundiçao Typographica Portuense

Portuguese foundry located in Porto, active in the 19th century. Specimen published in "Specimen da Fundiçao Typographica Portuense, 1878". [Google] [More]  ⦿

Giraldo Fernandes de Prado

Or Giraldo del Prado (b. ca. 1535, d. Almada, 1592). Paulo Heitlinger writes about him in Cadernos vol. 16, 2010. De Prado was a painter, and acted as the calligrapher of the Teodosio II, the duke of Bragança. His home was in Guimaraes, but from 1580 on he lived in Almada. Author of the writing manual Caderno manuscrito de Caligrafia (1560, Lisbon). He seems to have been the first calligraphy specialist in Portugal. Heitlinger used Prado's examples to make his Lomabardian face Uncialis in 2009. Scans: Geometrically formed letters, Chancery hand (1560-1561), Another chancery hand (same year), And another one, Gotica rotunda (1560-1561). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gonçalo Branco

Cascais, Portugal-based designer who graduated from IADE. He created HexaFont (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Grafema

Book and calligraphic arts mag with some type design articles published by CEAAD, Centro de Estudos Albicastrenses Aplicados ao Design in Castelo Branco, Portugal. In Spanish and Portuguese. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Guia de tipos

Miguel Sousa's PDF files with type catalogs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Guincho, 1421
[António Martins]

Free original TrueType fonts: Ugarit, Cherokee Arial, ISO 3166-2, Sulawesi (Buginese), and Vexillogical Symbols. By Portugal's António Martins. [Google] [More]  ⦿

havengar - fontes antigas

Portuguese site that has archived very old scripts. The web page has been neglected for some time. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hélio Ramos

Graphic designer from Lisbon, Portugal. Behance link. Creator of the art deco alphabet Granja (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Henrique Calano

Porto-based designer who made the Midimal typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Henrique Cayatte

Designer and illustrator, born in Lisbon in 1957. He was art director of various houses, and won many prozes for illustrations. In 1991, he founded Atelier Henrique Cayatte. He created the alphabet Olisipone, which was fonted by Mario Feliciano. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hugo A. Santos

Portuguese graphic designer from Lisbon. He created the squarish monoline techno face CMIX in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hugo Cavalheiro d'Alte

Born in Porto, Portugal, in 1975. From 1994-1999 he studied graphic design at the Escola Superior de Artes e Design. In 2000 he became a postgraduate student at the KABK where he wrote a Masters thesis entitled "Type&Media". He joined Underware in the same year. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke on On the edge of legibility, which in fact is a talk about blackletter. Affiliated since 2002 with Underware. He lives in Finland. Also doing business as Incubator at Village Type. Link at Underware. Alternate URL: This is playtime. His typefaces:

• For Thirstype, he made Kaas (2005), a blackletter face for the 21st century, with Latin, Cyrillic, and Hebrew alphabets.
• Still in 2009, he created a transitional type, Rolland (+Rolland Text, Rolland Small, Rolland Text Italic), about which he writes: Rolland is a digital interpretation of some of the printing types used at the "Typografia Rollandiana" in Lisbon at the end of the XVIII century. The printing and publishing house was established by Francisco Rolland after he moved to Lisbon (from France) in the second half of the XVIII century becoming one of the most successful publishers of his time.
• Kalevala (2009): a custom sans type family for Finnish jewelry brand Kalevala Koru. The starting point for this project was a book printed and published by Francisco Rolland in 1797: "Escolha das Melhores Novellas e Contos Moraes; Escritos em Francez por MM, d'Arnaud, Marmontel, Madama de Gomez, e outros".
• In 2009-2010, he made a DIN-like corporate font for Centro Portugues de Design, CPD Sans. This was accompanied by the CPDSerif family, which evolved from Rolland.
• In 2009, he created the squarish unicase face Flexibility: Custom typeface commissioned by the portuguese design studio R2 for the identity of an exhibition that took place in Torino (Italy) in 2008 (World Design Capital 2008).

Hugo Dias

Designer in Lisbon. He made experimental faces such as Gefaltet (2010). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hugo Gomes

Portuguese designer of the elliptical face Juniper (2011), and of the counterless fat geometric typeface Biops (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hugo Magalhaes

Portuguese graphic designer who has developed some logo type. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ideoma

Portuguese outfit located in Porto. Designers of the blackened display face Ideoma Pseudo (2004), the techno faces Ideoma Technit and Ideoma Maguiiii (2009), the multiline Ideoma Liner (2009), and IdeomaSpray (2009, stencil). Dafont link. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ignoto

Ignoto is based in Porto, Portugal. They offer some creative posters and logos, sich as Eighty Percent (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Inacio Lauer

Printer and type founder in Vienna who was commissioned to design typefaces by the Imprensa Nacional portuguesa around 1850. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ines Araujo

Ines Araujo (Lisbon, Portugal) created the modular typeface Let's Jazz in 2012 in collaboration with Joana Couto. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ines Boavida

Visual design student from Portugal. She created the script face Boavida (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ines Fonseca

Graphic designer, illustrator and typographer from Lisbon. I particularly like her illustrations entitled Corpos Falantes (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ines Silva

Designer in Leiria, Portugal, who created Coppelia (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Isaac Rocha

Graduate of ESAD CR who works in Lisbon. Creator of the free techno typeface Exo (2012), which was developed as a Kickstarter project, and received support from tens of designers. [Google] [More]  ⦿

James Albuquerque

Illustrator and web designer in Parede, Portugal, who made Afrika (2010)---the ornamental caps alphabet, not the continent. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

J.C. Astro

Portuguese designer of the outline handwriting font Bigacho. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jean de Villeneuve

French type founder who worked in Portugal from 1732 on. He was commissioned to create typefaces for the Academia Real de História. His work was of the greatest quality. That type family was recreated in 2001 by David Laranjeira for his 2001 diploma thesis at Ecole Estienne in Paris---it is called Villeneuve. [Google] [More]  ⦿

J.-F. Née de la Rochelle

Author of "Recherches historiques et critiques sur l'établissement de l'art typographique" (Merlin, Paris, 1830). This book is an account, city by city, of the introduction of the first presses in Spain and Portugal. For example, Valencia was the first to get a press in 1474. Madrid, in 1499, was one of the last big cities to do so. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joana Caramona

Graphic designer in Lisbon. Together with Catarina Monteiro, she created the spiraled hypnotic font Lollipop (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joana Maria Correia da Silva

Graduate of the University of Reading in 2011. Before that, Joana worked as an architect and graphic designer in Portugal. She currently lives in the UK. Behance link.

Creator of the script face Violet (2011). Artigo (2011) is an angular type family for Latin, Hindi and Greek that was created during her studies at Reading. Artigo won Second Prize for Greek typefaces at Granshan 2011.

In 2012, she published the didone text face Cantata One at Google Web Fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joana Pais

Joana Teles Rodrigues Pais is originally from Portugal, but lives in Milan. In 2009, she obtained a masters degree from the Scuola Politecnica di Design SPD in Milan. She made an experimental typeface called Small Urban Disasters (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joana Pereira

Graphic designer in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. In 2010, Joana Pereira created the clean Quiosque Sans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joana Rita Lopes Simoes

Viseu, Portugal-based designer who created Castelo Branco 240 Anos, a modular curved display face (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joana Sà

Editorial designer in Caldas da Reinha, Portugal. Creator of the Peignotian face Contraste (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joao Agostinho

Caldas da Rainha, Portugal-based designer of the serif face Sbn (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joao Castro

Graphic designer in Porto, Portugal. He created the piano key face Flick Neue (2010). Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joao Gonçalves

Portuguese product designer from Setubal. In 2008, he graduated from ESAD in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. Behance link. Vernacular lettering led him to design Function (2010). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joao Oliveira

Onrepeat is the type foundry established by Joao Oliveira (b. 1986) in 2011. Oliveira is (was?) a communication design student at Escola Superior de Artes e Design (ESAD) in Matosinhos, Portugal. 1986. He also freelances as a designer in Porto. MyFonts link. He made Gothular (2011) anf the 12-style artistic display sans family Bohema (2011). Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Joao Pedro Franco

Portuguese designer (b. 1980) of the gorgeous writing face Dry Ink (2004), of the script face arpadhw (2004), of the sans faces PB (2008) and Often (2007), and of the squarish display face MinaR (2003). He is working on the stencil face Maple (2007). Old link (ead). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joao Rodrigues

Designer in Caldas da Reinha, Portugal. Behance link. A graduate of ESAD, he uses meshes to create art, including fonts like abFuturo (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joaoa Teixeira

Designer and illustrator in Feira, Portugal, who made an organic sans typeface family in 2012. [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]  ⦿

João Costa

Portuguese creator of Untitled (2011), a modular face. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

João Filipe

Illustrator and graphic designer in Lisbon, who made the texture face Wrinkly (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

João Magelhães

Masters in Design from ESAD, Portugal in 2009. Graphic designer in Porto, Portugal, where he runs João Magelhães Design. Behance link. He created the organic type family Frontal in 2010. More typographic work by him. [Google] [More]  ⦿

João Miranda

Albufeira, Portugal-based graphic designer who made the experimental face Poliphilo (2011). He also created an interesting drawing of Erik Spiekermann. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joel Vilas Boas

Graphic designer and illustrator in Portugal, b. 1985, who lives in Barcelos. He has a degree in Graphic Design and Advertising from ESEIG-Oporto (2003-2007) and a post-graduate degree in Typography from ESAD-Matosinhos (2009). Currently he works in Braga, Portugal, in a graphic design studio. He created the custom italic display face Bijus da Gii (2010), Xmas 08 (2008, a pixel face), and the monoline sans face Efeitos da Altitude (2010), which can be viewed at Behance. Hotel (2010) is a refreshing roman family: weights include Bold, Light, Medium, Regular and UltraLight. Carpintaria (2010) is a roman custom type. Café Vilas (2011) is a great swashy calligraphic custom type. In 2010, Boas cofounded Media type Foundry with Sonia Da Rocha and Claude Mediavilla in Paris. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jorge André Mendes

Coimbra, Portugal-based designer of the modular display face Moody (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jorge dos Reis Tavares

Jorge (b. 1971) served as a letterpress typography apprentice at a composing and printing workshop in Cais do Sodré in Portugal. Designer of Via Estreita (for the National Railway Museum), Simplissima Beira (for the Covilha newspaper) and Tintinolho (for the Guarda town hall). From 1997-2003, he ran Jorge dos Reis Studio. From 1999-2003, he was Lecturer at the Faculdade de Belas-Artes Universidade de Lisboa. Since 2003, he is a research student at the Royal College of Art, UK. Bio. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jose Castro

Castro obtained a Master's degree in Comunication Design and Multimedia at the Escola Superior de Artes e Design (ESAD) in 2011. He lives in Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal. Under the guidance of Dino dos Santos, his study project was entitled The typographic process in Pedro Diaz Morante. Related to that project, he created a sweet, delicate and absolutely stunning penmanship typeface called Morante (2011), named after Spanish penman Pedro Diaz Morante, whose calligraphy inspired the typeface. His illustrations and graphic design work are equally impressive and perfect. [Google] [More]  ⦿

José Miguel Carvalho Cardoso

Portuguese Fontstructor who made the blackletter face Escrita Gótica (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

J.P. Dias

J.P. Dias (Travanca City, Portugal) created Phoenix (2009, handwriting). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Judite Ratola

Judite Ratola (Aveiro, Portugal) created a textured version of Times Roman during her Masters studies in 2010. It is called Alma. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karpa
[David Carvalho]

Karpa is the site of Portuguese designer David Carvalho (b. 1980), who has contributed a lot to the Portuguese design community. He created the (free) Divad, an ultra-fat filled-in type family in two styles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leandro Pita

Designer in Funchal, Portugal, who made the art deco ultra-contrasted fashion mag face Voa (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Leonor Graça Moura

Lisbon-based graphic designer and illustrator. Creator of a caps face on the basis of fish and sea life called Sea Type (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lisa Penedo

Graphic designer in Caldas da Reinha, Portugal. She created a refined and slightly naughty serif face called Penedo (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Livetype
[Pedro Reis Amado]

Started and maintained by Portugal-born Pedro Amado, who teaches in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University Porto, the LiveType Project focuses on the development of complete Fonts using Fontforge. This project aims that everyone involved can and will learn more about typography and type developing in a collaborative method. It will provide the fonts and the font files regularly to users, developers and anyone with an interest in type. They are working on their first font. On Typophile, the question came up regarding the use of the (free) FontForge software rather than the commercial FontLab editor. Amado's reply and additional points:

• 1. No third party. One of the main directives of this project is to ALWAYS keep it on an Open [Source] Basis so we don't depend on third party, commercial solutions.
• 2. Open Source. I really believe on the future of Open Source Software. Bear with me for a moment - I work as a Design Tecnhician in a Fine-Arts Faculty in Portugal. As you might know, our public education system doesn't have that much money. The ones who do are usefull courses/faculties like engineering So this situation leaves us with obsolete growing, underdeveloped, non-market responsive solutions. All this because people who are running the system are spending money in vaious stupid ways. If you are familiar with Manuel CastellsopinionsYou might agree that one way to promote a better future is through the use of Open Source solutions. In a very practical way, save some money to invest on more important things - enter Linux & Open Source Software, hence the use of Fontforge. Take the case of our neighbours, the spanish region of Estremadura. The public education system developed their own personalized, scaled to needs Linux Distro - Linex - that they implemented on the whole school system. It worked and the savings were huge! Brasil and some regions in Africa and India are also taking on similar initiatives I know these are difficult to implement solutions, and calculating the costs arent this simple. But this takes to me next point.
• 3. Training. Imlementing this cost saving solutions means taking on a higher maitenance cost and further system administration - hey! I work on an University arent Universities supposed to promote knowlegde? How about using these systems, develop them, teach students howto, and then comming full circle when students start to use them in their professional lives and saving money to companies etc Nevertheless students should be also trained on the tools that the market needs - so teaching commercial tools and practices is also necessary. So the perfect solution would be to train students how to do it independently of the tools. So as a member of a Faculty I feel its my obligation to start using this systems, and start promoting them (along with commercial and established solutions). The LiveType Project is exactly this - I want to show people that is possible to use the free, open source solutions to learn how to do it with professional quality. And talking about learning
• 4. Collaboration. The fact that they learn how to do it on a Linux platform, or on a Mac platform or on a Win platform doesn't affect what they learn. This is really it. I don't consider myself a type designer Im just an amateur typographer and type designer whanabe, so I also want to learn how to type design better, who knows if I grow to be good at it? I also want to learn no matter the platform. I also want to learn and knowlege should be acquired in a Free, Open Source Collaborative way! Things work out better if we collaborate with each other.

Luís Martins

Lisbon-based communication design student. Creator of Howdy Folks (2007), a futuristic sans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luis Gomes

Type designer in Porto, Portugal, who runs Purpura Design (flash-based page). He created Purpura Sans (2007, an organic sans). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luisa Baeta

Graduate of the University of Reading in 2011A Luisa is from Portugal and Brazil. Her graduation typeface was the multifaceted family Arlecchino (2011), which contains a signage script, a slab serif, and an ordinary script. Both Latin and Greek are covered. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mafalda J. Barata

Designer in Coimbra, Portugal. In 2011, she created Sew Up Sans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Manoel Andrade de Figueiredo

Portuguese penman of the 17th century. Author of Writing Book (1721, in Portuguese), in which we can find exceptional flourish work. This horseman was drawn in one stroke in 1722. See also these Versalien (1722). Dino dos Santos's Andrade Pro (a modern) and Andrade Pro Script typefaces are based on the calligraphy of Andrade. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Manuel Barata

Lisbon-born calligrapher. Author of Arte de Escrever (1572, Lisbon), a writing manual. Posthumously, in 1590, Antonio Alvares published this book, Exemplares de diversas sortes de letras tirados da Polygraphia de Manoel Barata Escritor Portuguez acrecentadas pelo mesmo Author para comum proveito de todos. Derigido ao Excelentissimo D. Theotonio Duque de Bragança e de Barcellos Condestavel dos Reynos de Portugal (Lisbon). Scans, all from 1572: Chancery hand, rotunda, calligraphy. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marcelo Santos

Graphic designer from Porto, Portugal. Together with Miguel de Sousa and Bruno Albuquerque, he made BetaDin (2010). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marco Noronha

There have been many type faces since 2000, so Noronha's work in 2011 is a bit of a late addition to the crowded field. Nevertheless, he shows a nice sense of humour in his designs, so I am linking to it. Examples: i, ii, iii, iv. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Margarida Maltinha

Portuguese web and graphic designer in Faro. Behance link. Creator of the fat counterless face Friday Afternoon (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maria Catarina Magalhães

Coimbra, Portugal-based creator of the curly handprinted face Caracoleta (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maria Ferreira

Typographer and graphic designer from Porto, Portugal, who is working on a sans face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mariam Branco

Portuguese creator of the art deco face Estação (2009, FontStruct), as part of a typography project of the design class at Aveiro's University. The thype was used for some of Aveiro's street names. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mario Meira

Portuguese FontStructor of Thin and Shiny (2010)Portuguese FontStructor of Thin and Shiny (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marisa Passos

Braga, Portugal-based graphic designer who created the free geometric modular typeface Ligne (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Media one
[André Beato]

André Beato (Media one) is a Portuguese graphic designer and illustrator, born and based in Lisbon. He took a BA Graphic Design and a MA Design Visual Culture -Visual Production at IADE (Instituto de Artes Visuais e Marketing) in Lisbon. Behance link. Designer of Artilharia Sans (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Media Type Foundry
[Sonia da Rocha]

Media Type Foundry was created in 2010 by type designers Sonia da Rocha, Claude Mediavilla and Joel Vilas Boas (aka J85). It is an independent type foundry based in Paris. Thanks to Mediavilla and his ex-student da Rocha, the emphasis is on type that is deeply rooted in calligraphy.

Sonia da Rocha is a graphic and typeface designer from Porto, where she gained her first degree in graphic design. She studied for four years at the Vila do Conde School of design. In 2007, she studied calligraphy under Claude Mediavilla in Paris. Since 2009, she works at the Porchez Typefoundry in Paris. Earlier, her name was Sonia Caramelo, and under that name she designed the Galadriel script face in 2008. With Aurélie Gasche, she designed the dot matrix face Insight in 2009. She also has some calligraphy on her web site.

Typefaces:

• Aldi Roman (Sonia da Rocha, 2010): a garalde family.
• Gallus Titling (Sonias da Rocha, 2010): a classical roman era titling face.

Micael Marques

Student at Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave in Aveira, Portugal. He created the modular face Drop (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Barbosa

Portuguese designer who during his employment at Wolff Olins (UK) started work on Metroplis (1995) for Metroplisboa, the Lisbon subway. This face was subsequently drawn by Freda Sack and David Quay at The Foundry, London. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michaël Carreira

Designer in Leiria, Portugal. Student at ESAD.CR. Behance link. Creator of an experimental typeface in 2011, perhaps called Experience. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel de Sousa

Graphic designer from Porto, Portugal. Together with Marcelo Santos and Bruno Albuquerque, he made BetaDin (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel Furtado

Illustrator from Coimbra, Portugal. In 2010, he designed the techno sans face NeoSuperVision. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel Jesus

Designer from Porto, Portugal. Creator of the sturdy condensed sans caps face Portuguesa (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel Sousa

Miguel Sousa is a Portuguese graphic designer with a big interest in Typography and Typeface Design. After completing his five-year degree in Technology and Graphic Arts from the Instituto Politécnico de Tomar in 2002, he worked for the children's books publisher O Bichinho de Conto for one year, as a graphic designer, typographic designer, book designer, web designer and web developer. Before going to Reading he also worked in MBV Design as a graphic designer, web designer and web programmer. He graduated from the Master of Arts in Typeface Design programme at the University of Reading, where he developed text face named Calouste with extensive support for the Latin and Armenian scripts. (2005) won an award at TDC2 2006. In April 2006, he joined Adobe's type development department. He had a hand in these Gerard Unger fonts in 2006, custom produced for the University of Reading: RdgSwift-Bold, RdgSwift-BoldItalic, RdgSwift-Italic, RdgSwift-Regular, RdgVesta-Bold, RdgVesta-BoldItalic, RdgVesta-Italic, RdgVesta. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mom
[Pedro Mascarenhas]

Mom is the foundry of Pedro Mascarenhas, a type designer from Lisbon (b. 1967, Lisbon). Creator of Art Deco Neue (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

MusaWorkLab

Raquel Viana, Paulo Lima and Ricardo Alexandre form the Lisbon-based collective of graphic designers called MusaWorkLan. creators of the sci-fi typeface Musa 600 (2012, HypeForType). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Natenine Type
[Natanael Gama]

Natenine Type is Natanael Gama's site in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. Born in 1988, Natanael's first font is Chumbo (2010). In 2011, he designed Intimacy and Exo (free at Google Web Fonts).

Fontsquirrel link. Fontspace link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Nelson Costa

Lisbon-based graphic designer (b. 1982). Behance link. He created a human body alphabet called Body Type (2010). Not sure if this has been fonted. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Norberto Moita

Located in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, Norberto Moita created the neo-romantic [his own words] serif face Hyordanna (2010), and Kartlos (2011, a techno sans family). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nuno Dias

Portuguese media artist (b. 1982) who lives in Braga and Covilhã. He graduated in 2008 in Multimedia Design from the University of Beira Interior, Covilhã. Designer of the paper-fold typeface Origram (2008) and the (free) gaspipe face Makhina (2012).

Behance link. Devian Tart page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nuno Serrao

Funchal, Portugal-based creator of some a nice typographic poster in 2010 that uses the Eiffel tower for a movie festival. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

O Design e a Ergonomia

Portuguese design blog with some discussions about type. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Olinda Martins
[Melinda Olins]

Unclear whetherv her name is Melinda Olins or Olinda Martins. Portuguese designer of the free font Bazar (2009). Abstract Fonts link.

Images: i, ii, iii, iv. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Open DIN

A project started by Open source supporters in Belgium (Pierre Huyghebaert, Harrisson, Philip May, Nicolas Maleve and Femke Snelting) and executed by Paulo Silva in Portugal in the form of the free typeface OpenDinSchriftenEngshrift (2009), which is based on the master drawing of DIN for the Prussian Railways.

They state: In the coming year, we will be working on a new digital rendering of the classic DIN font with the aim to release it in the public domain. We chose DIN (often referred to as "the German Autobahn typeface") as a starting point for a few reasons. First of all, because it is one of the rare typefaces that was released into the public domain from the moment it was designed in 1932. While the original drawings remain freely available, various type foundries have copyrighted digital renderings (such as FontShop's FF DIN). Secondly because its particular history brings up many questions about standards, their political implications and relations to use. In 1936 the German Standard Committee decided DIN should be employed in technology, traffic, administration, and business, with the idea to facilitate the development of German engineering and industry. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Oscar Lopes

Porto, Portugal-based designer of Couteau Suisse (2012), an alphabet based on the Swiss army knife. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Patricia Boto

Graphic designer and photographer (b. 1978) in Lisbon. Behance link

Patricia used circles, trinagles and squares only in the construction of My Geometric Font (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Patricia de Sousa Carvalho

Setubal-based Portuguese designer (b. 1973) who made Cethubala (1997), a funky Linotype face. She is involved in web and graphic design and illustration. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Patricia Ferreira

Designer in Lisbon who created an ornamental caps typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Patricia Picas

Graduate of the Graphic Design program in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal, who was born in Setubal. She created the Picas typeface (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paulo Heitlinger

Portuguese author of Tipografia: origens, formas e uso das letras (2006, Paulo Heitlinger, Lisbon) and Alfabetos, Caligrafia e Tipografia (2010, Lisbon). Born in Lisbon, he studied nuclear physics in Germany. He lectured on communication design at the Universidade do Algarve. His pages (in Portuguese) are quite complete, with a great glossary, a beautiful section on the history of type, a mag called Cadernos de Tipografia, links to type design in the world in general, and in Brazil, Spain and Portugal in particular, and more general information on type. Font-making how to. Useful timeline of 16th century writing manuals. An absolute must. He has also created or revived a number of typefaces, which can be bought on-line.

An incomplete list of his typefaces:

• Sinalética: A sober serif face for excellent legibility.
• CantoneirosRegular (2008), Cantoneiros-Thin (2008): art deco / avant-garde.
• Transito (2008): the famous 1930s stencil face of Jan Tschichold at Lettergieterij Amsterdam, with reinvented forms for f, g and y. [Note: the pic on the right-hand-side is Transito, as grabbed from Heitlinger's page---the grammatical error is not mine.]
• Sturmblond-Medium (2008): Revival of simple lettering of Herbert Bayer.
• Bayer Condensed: Revival of simple lettering of Herbert Bayer.
• Imperatorum (2008)
• Ratdoldt (2008): a blackletter face made from scans, and attributed to Erhard Ratdolt.
• Valentim (2008): a blackletter face made from scans of the book Vita Christi. Named after Valentim Fernandes, a printer active in Lisbon, ca. 1480-1519.
• Incunabulo Normalizado (2008): a blackletter face made from scans of the book Vita Christi.
• Uhertype-Medium (2007): Revival of another Bauhaus era typeface, by Joost Schmidt.
• Arkitekto: A Bauhaus style piano key font based on an image found in a book of Kurt Weidemann.
• His Spanish collection includes Bastarda de Francisco Lucas, a versão espanhola da Cancelleresca italiana do século XVI. Um ponto alto da Caligrafia del Siglo de Oro.
• Redondilla de Francisco Lucas, a penmanship font based on Arte de Escribir 91577).
• Gótica Rotunda Gans.
• Juan Bravo, based on azulejos (tiles).
• Segovia, a titling font.
• Centauro, a decorative font.
• Kurrsiva, inspired by scripts from the 1960s.
• Deco de Avila, an avant-garde face.Bertrand (2008): an art deco face patterened after the shop sign of Livraria Bertrand in Chiado, Lisbon.
• Rotunda:
• Visigotica: based on the calligraphic writings of the 10th and 11th centuries. This font has many alternates. Based on scans of a text of the 10th century called Actas de Concilio de Caledonia de 451. Styles: Imperatorum, Isidoro.
• Typefaces based on the calligraphic work of Francisco Lucas, 1570: Bastarda de Lucas Italic (2009), Bastarda de Lucas (2009), Redondilla de Lucas (2009).
• Uncialis (2009): a Lombardian type based on a 16th century model of Giralde de Prado.
• Escolar Portugal (Fino, Forte) and Escolar Brasil are school fonts of the "upright connected script" style that were made in 2008. For more on didactic fonts, read the booklet Caderno de Tipografia e Design Nr. 14 (March 2009).

Paulo Madeira

Paulo Madeira (Tomar, Portugal) created the modular floriated face Kaya (2011). During the height of the Occupy Wall Street movement, he created a font for demonstrations and strikes called Monoquay (2011), a heavy and angry geometric sans. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paulo Silva

Portuguese type designer in Porto, b. 1972, who created NewBodonesque (2004-2005) as part of Pedro Amado's Typeforge open source font project. Creator of Gentesque (2009), an Open Font Library family based on a scan of the Gentium family. Aka Nitrofurano. Also in 2009, he and others started work on OpenDinSchriftenEngshrift, an open source typeface that is as close as possible to the original DIN font done for the Prussian Railways. It was made with open source tools such as Inkscape and FontForge. One download site. And another one. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pedro Águas

Student at the University of Algarve, Portugal. Creator of Escorregar do Moreno (2011), a typeface based on toilet paper rolls. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pedro Cruz

Pedro Cruz (PCZ Design) is an art director in Porto, Portugal. He made the avant garde techno face click-ec (2011) for a client. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pedro Leal

Pedro Leal graduated in graphic design and advertising from the ESEIG-Escola Superior de Estudos Industriais e de Engenharia in Vila do Conde, Portugal, and lives in Porto. In 2010 he obtained a degree in type design at ESAD (Escola Superior de Artes e Design, Matosinhos) and started working at DSType. MyFonts link. Behance link.

He used FontStruct in 2008 to create the pixel face Minimal 8pt (514 glyphs!). In 2010, he created the text family Mafra at DSType. This was followed a bit later by Mafra Display (2010; +Medium, +Black). Apud and Apud Display (2010, DSType) are high-contrast faces. Penna (2011) is a calligraphic type system. Braga (2011, Dino dos Santos and Pedro Leal, DS Type) is a layered font design family. Dino writes: Braga is an exuberant baroque typeface, named after a portuguese city, also known as the baroque capital of Portugal. Our latest typographic extravaganza comes with a multitude of fonts designed to work like layers, allowing to insert color, lines, gradients, patterns, baroque, floral swashes, and many other graphic elements. Starting with Braga Base, you can add any of the twenty-three available styles, to create colourful typographic designs.

In 2012, he designed User, User Stencil and User Upright>/a>, a monospaced type family with 30 styles, from Hairline to Bold. This too will many awards. Girga (+Italic, +Engraved, +Banner, +Stencil) is a strong black Egyptian family designed together with Dino dos Santos at DS Type.

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

Pedro Morgado

Portuguese architect and graphic designer who created a simple monoline sans face in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pedro Proença

Portuguese communication design student in London who is working on this sans (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pedro Silva

Graphic designer in Lisbon, who created the experimental typeface Codigo (2011) and the sans headline face Chave (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pedro Teixeira

Portuguese type designer. Creator of the monoline gemetric organic sans face Constantine (2012). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Pedro Vilas-Boas

Portuguese art director and designer who lives in Pavia (Lisbon). His type posters are slick and loud. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Portuguese Traffic Typefaces
[Joao Neves]

Joao Neves (Ourem, Portugal) lists and shows the Portuguese traffic typefaces from 1954, 1959, 1994 and 1998. In 1954 and 1959, they used the JAE font where JAE stands for Junta Autónoma des Estradas. Later, starting in 1994, they adapted and adopted the UK's Transport typeface. At Behance, he showed his monoline circular-arc based face Ball Kaps (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Portuguese type designers

A list of Portuguese type designers, with links and discussions (in Portuguese). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Positype
[Neil Summerour]

Positype was founded in 2002 by Athens, GA-based designer and type designer Neil Summerour (b. 1972, Azores, Portugal). Neil began developing typefaces in 1996 with the 1996 Olympic Brick Paver Project proprietary typeface. He is the co-principal and senior designer of Athens-based interactive, design, and advertising agency Genetic:ICG. In the summer of 2003, he began teaching Advanced Electronic Design in the Graphic Design Department at The University of Georgia. In 2001, Neil published his first two type designs with [T-26] Digital Type Foundry in Chicago, IL. Since then, he has released tens of font families including hiragana and katakana fonts. Positype fonts are sold by Myfonts.com and [T-26].

Klingspor link. Link at Veer. Facebook link. Blog. Union Fonts link.

The list of his fonts:

• Aaux, Aaux Office (2002), Aaux Pro (2004), Aaux Next (2009, 72 typefaces), Aaux Alphanumera, Aaux Emoticons.
• The Air Superfamily (2011), which consists of 81 sans faces. Followed by Air Soft (2011).
• Altar (8-weight Gothic family).
• Akagi (2008): 20 style sans family. Extended and refreshed in 2011 into Akagi Pro.
• AMP (at Union fonts).
• Anarcharsis (2002): a serif family inspired by incomplete rubbing made from a stone wall located in the Bahamas.
• Angel Script (2009, TypeTrust).
• Baka (2005, a fantastic scratchy handwriting face), Baka Too (2006; followed in 2010 by Baka Expert).
• The Bodoniesque family (Umbrella Type).
• Claustrum (2003).
• Cynapse (2003). Cynapse Pro (2004, 12 weights) is a sans family.
• Donatora (2004).
• Ego (2003, octagonal family).
• Epic (2007-2009, a 12-style contemporary garalde).
• Ether, Ether Connected.
• Eva (2003).
• Filmotype Horizon (2011).
• Friendly (2012). In part based on Morris Fuller Benton's upright script face Announcement.
• Fugu (2009, rough-outlined script family, winner at TDC2 2010).
• Ginza (2008, a squarish techno family), and Ginza Narrow (2011).
• Headcold (2004).
• Iru1, Iru2.
• Juicy (T-26, 2004, brushdrawn family).
• Kari and Kari Pro (2005): a connected upright script. Kari Display (2009).
• Kryptk Flash (2003).
• Kurosawa Bastard, Kurosawa Hand, Kurosawa Sans, Kurosawa Serif, Kurosawa Hiragana, Kurosawa Katakana.
• Luce (2004).
• Lush Script (2011). A connected script inspired by the 1940s.
• The Type Trust: Magneta (2009, The Type Trust). Includes a Condensed subfamily.
• Muscle (2009, TypeTrust---a futuristic family).
• Nori (2010): a calligraphic brush face obtained by applying the Pilot Japan Kanji Fude brush pen on paper. It has over 1100 glyphs, 250 ligatures, 487 alternate characters, 125+ swash and titling alternates, lining and old style numerals. Awarded at TDC2 2011.
• Organic (2009, sans family).
• Penumbra.
• Plastek (2004-2009).
• The R.E.M. Athens project involves three fonts published in 2009, REM Orange, REM Accelerate and REM Tourfont. They are based on ideas by Chris Bilheimer for the band R.E.M. (Michael Stipe and Chris Bilheimer). Both attended the fine arts program at the University of Georgia. Michael Stipe, singer and lyricist, formed R.E.M. in 1980. Bilheimer began working with the band in 1994.
• Romp (2009, condensed handprinted).
• Rhythm (2011). An italic inline and solid display family based on ATF's Ratio (ca. 1930).
• Sneakers (2003-2004): athletic lettering family. Also, Sneakers Script.
• Tactical (2011, octagonal mechanical face; +Stencil).
• Truss Ultra Light (2006): hairline architectural font.
• Vekta Serif (2009), Vekta Neo and Vekta Sans (2009, a sans family at TypeTrust).
• Wasabi (2010): an organic elliptical family, based on Iru.
• Yumi (2003, techno font, Union Fonts).

His life in hiw own words: Neil Summerour is a type designer, lettering artist, calligrapher and designer based in Georgia, USA with one foot in Takamatsu, Japan. After graduating from The University of Georgia Lamar Dodd School of Art with a BFA in Graphic Design, he soon found himself opening his own studio to deal with the flow of freelance work. [...] Neil opened his personal type foundry, Positype, in 2000 to feed his ever-growing desire for type design. He later co-founded TypeTrust (2002) with Silas Dilworth as his addiction to type and lettering grew. [...] He was an adjunct art professor at The University of Georgia in graphic design and taught graphic design at the Governor's School for the Arts. [...] As a typeface designer, he has published over 60 typeface families and produced numerous custom typefaces for clients worldwide. [...] He has won the Type Directors Club Certificate of Excellence in Type Design in 2010 and 2011 for Fugu and Nori, respectively.

Showcase of Neil Summerour's fonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Priscila Dias

Portuguese design student. FontStructor who made Altiva (2010, a condensed squarish face) while at the Instituto Politecnico do Cávado e do Ave. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pyramid Type
[Beatriz Cóias]

Pyramid Studio is a small alternative design & art direction collective formed by Beatriz Cóias and Joáo Chaves, founded in January 2012. Located in Lisbon, Portugal, it created Pyramid Type in 2012.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

R. B. Figueira

Portuguese designer. He created the cleanly handprinted faces Kahand (2011) and Rohand (2011) using iFontMaker software. Graphicriver link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rafael Serra

Fael is Rafael Serra (b. Santarém, Portugal, 1983). Since 1989, he lives in Barcelos. Rafael graduated in Graphic Design and Advertising from the Oporto Polytechnic Institute, and works as a graphic designer in a design studio in Braga. He created Caravela (2011, organic), Kravo (2010), an angular titling face which he claims was inspired by the Portuguese Revolution. In 2012, he made the squarish face Godo.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Raquel Freitas

Lisbon-based creator of Contra-Relógio (2012), a font based on parts of a clock. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Raquel Gouveia

Illustrator in Porto, Portugal. She made the sans face Ella Light (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Raquel Hipólito

Raquel Hipólito (Lisbon) created an experimental display type called Write Design in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Raquel Oliveira

Designer in Porto, Portugal, of the fat experimental custom typeface Museu Lagar Segall (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ricardo Ramos

Lettering artist in Odemira, Portugal. He did some windmill lettering commissioned by the Municipality of Odemira for the international day of the mills in 2011. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ricardo Rodrigues

Barcelos, Portugal-based designer who created the sans face MyFont (2011). Not to be confused with Ricardo Rodrigues dos Santos (or Ricardo Santos) who ran Vanarchiv. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ricardo Santos (was: VanArchiv Typography Design)
[Ricardo Rodrigues dos Santos]

Ricardo Rodrigues dos Santos (or briefly, Ricardo Santos, b. 1976 in Lisbon) is a Portuguese designer of type, who ran VanArchiv (est. 2000) from Loures, Portugal. He changed the name to Ricardo Santos and sells his work through MyFonts. Klingspor link. FontShop link.

His masterpiece is Atlantica (2005), a 28-weight transitional family. His faces Insectos Project (1997, geometric sans) Base Geometric Sans Serif (1998, geometric sans) Focus (1999, geometric sans) and Zeit Geist (2000, decorative) are discussed by a type forum. He made the sans families Boom (1997, decorative), Van (1998-2001, geometric sans) Urbis (2001, geometric sans) Baseniv (2001), geometric sans) RS1 (1998, decorative), Mitron (2001, decorative) Van Condensed (1998-2004, geometric sans) Van Dingbats (2004, travel dingbats), Focus and Focus Dingbats (2006, sans), and Lisboa (2000-2005, humanist sans, with dingbats based on the symbology of Lisbon city, published with Fountain). Lab Sans Pro (LuisAlonso+RicardoSantos--LabSlabPro-2011b.png">2011, by Luis Alonso and Ricardo Santos) is a geometric sans-serif typeface with a technological and minimalist look and is suitable for use in large sizes. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ricardo Silva

Lisbon-based designer, who created the nice typographic poster London Tower Bridge (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rita Cabecinhas

Lisbon, Portugal-based freelance designer, who made the curly serif face Rio in 2009. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rita Dias

Lisbon-based graphic designer, who created the modular face Tetris (2007) as a student at FBAUL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rita Macedo Carvalho

Porto-based creator of the handmade caps alphabet Unbalanced (2011). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rita Santos

Designer in Leiria, Portugal, who created the organic face Diella (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roland Sousa

Graphic designer and digital artist in Porto, Portugal. Creator of Bauhaus New (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

R-Type (or: Rui Abreu)
[Rui Abreu]

R-Type was founded by Rui Abreu in 2008. Rui graduated from FBAUP (Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto) in 2003. He has been working as an interactive media designer in different design agencies, and he has been designing typefaces. Based in Porto, he created Tirana (2006, sans family at T26), Catacumba (2007, a gorgeous bold didone titling face, T26; in 2009 at Fountain/PsyOps), Cifra (2006, a lovely ten weight sans family, T26), Nomada (2007, a monoline slab serif), Salto Alto (2006, avant garde sans family, with octagonal influences), Foral (2008, monoline slab serif; published by Fountain in 2010), and Forma (2006, stencil family, T26). In 2008, he published Orbe (Fountain), an exotic all-caps blackletter inspired by Portuguese calligraphy [it deservedly won an award at TDC2 2009], Gesta (2008, sans family), Foral Pro (2011, an elliptical slab serif), Catacumba (2011, a high-contrast ball terminal wedge serif family), Aria Pro (2011, a delicate high-contrast serif family), Forma Solid (T26).

MyFonts page. T-26 page. Old home page. Klingspor link.

View Rui Abreu's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ruben David Marques

Portuguese student from Leiria. Creator of this playful unicase face in 2007. Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of leiria, leiria_bad_sans_informal, Leiria Italic Swashy (pixelish scripts). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ruben Dias

Portuguese designer of the promising font Oban (2002), which resulted in the production of a formidable sans family, Oban (2006), in which all straight lines have been replaced by curvatures one could find on TV screens from the 1960s. An elegant display family! It got raving reviews and was compared in style with Mayo (Peter Bruhn), Gregarious (Mike Kohnke), Crank8 Plus/Minus (Henk Elenga), Ectoplasm (T-26) and Armchair Modern (PsyOps). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ruben Silva

Student at ESAD in Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. He created Ruben's Geo (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rui Lira

Portuguese graphic designer who made the beautiful logotype Moleskinerie (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rui Rodrigues

Illustrator from Portugal. Behance link. Creator of the monoline display sans Rusky (2011). In December 2011, he gave the world a present in the form of the free poster font Beaver. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sara Meireles

Lisboan graphic designer who created a grungy organic face called Coffee (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sara Salsinha

Graphic designer in Lisbon, Portugal. She designed the curly typeface Comma (2011) and the blocky ultra-fat face Work Hard (2012).

I like her motto, Listen, learn, work hard, give and be kind. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sara Silva

Designer in Vila Nova de Famalicao, Portugal. She created a few interesting typographic posters called Cartazes Tipográficos (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sarah Hillebrand

Designer and illustrator in Coimbra, Portugal. Alternate URL. She created a photographic alphabet, Austero (2010), based on sidewalk stones. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Scannerlicker (was: Loligo Vulgaris)
[Fábio Duarte Martins]

Graphic and media designer and art director in Espinho, Portugal, b. 1984. He is the son of an Arts and Crafts teacher and grandson of a typographer. He has designed some typefaces, such as Illiad Sans (2008, a 4-style family), Exablock (2008, modular ultra-fat face), Moo (2010, another fat geometric face), and Space Mace (2008, pixel face). Moo (2009) is a free geometric outline font. His octagonal Geomelia was renamed Gerusa (2009, OCR-like face).

Typefaces from 2010: Menta (an organic monoline sans), Gerusa (minimalist sans), SuperBlack (fat, counterless), Tucátulá 2010 (handprinted, with Ricardo Gomes and Carla Estrada).

Other faces include Catorze (geometric sans; substyles include Catorze 27 Style 1 (2011)), Horta (slab serif), Illiad, Menta (2010), Ulular, and Pixelmixel.

MyFonts link. Dafont link. Loligo Vulgaris at MyFonts. Behance link. Another Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Senhor Soares

Graduate of the graphic design school in Caldas da Reinha, Portugal, who made the display sans face Cujo (2011). He also does illustrations. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Serenela Santos

Graphic designer in Leiria, Portugal, who created the flared humanist sans face Boheme (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sofia Peres

Portuguese graphic designer who created the expermental typeface Tube Font (2012), based on a map of the subway of London. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Solange Gomes

Solange Gomes lives in Aveiro, Portugal. Creator of the very esthetic art deco face Overview (2011), which comes with an Inline style. It was based on art deco lettering on a post office building. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Susana Carvalho

Portuguese designer (b. 1979), who obtained her Master's degree at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (2004) and still lives in Den Haag. She created the experimental sans face Vertigo (2004). See here for her work there. With her husband Kai Bernau, she set up Atelier Carvalho Bernau in Den Haag, where one cam look at their commercial type families Neutraface Slab, Lyon Text, Lyon Display, and Neutral. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Susana Costa

Designer in Lisbon who made Sneakers (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Susana Simplício

Type designer in Loures, Portugal, b. 1981. Home page. Her fonts include Piscis (2009, scanbats) and Human (2009, dingbat face). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Tania Raposo

Graphic designer from Portugal who obatined a Bachelors in Graphic Design from ESAD.CR in Caldas da Rainha, and a Masters in type design from KABK, Den Haag, 2010. At KABK, she created the Guia family in2010 for pedestrian wayfinding. In 2009, she did a revival (still at KABK) of Frank Hinman Pierpont's 1925 face, Horley Old Style. Also check her type portraits: Ang San Suu Kyi, Jose Ramon Horta, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Thrashin
[Beatriz Cóias]

Beatriz Cóias (Thrashin) is the Lisbon-based creator of an alchemic typeface for the band Lulemon (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tiago Gomes

Illustrator and graphic designer in Leiria, Portugal. He created the sans/slab Versatis family in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tiago Kingwell

Design student from Figueira da Foz, Portugal. In 2011, he designed the thin octagonal stencil face Qual. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tipos de Portugal
[Ricardo Matos]

Tipos de Portugal was established in 2004 by Ricardo Matos, a Portuguese graphic designer. He created a disturbed techno font, Headline (2004), Snail (2004, serifed) (2003) and the informal display sans face Augumentin (2004). Ricardo Matos and Diego Potes run the graphic design studio Alva in Lisbon. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Type factory
[Pedro Lobo]

Type Factory is Pedro Lobo, a Guimaraes, Portugal-based illustrator and designer.

Lobo created the experimental geometric face Monkey (2011), the geometric art deco family Jono (2011), the blackboard bold face YDXS (2011), and the logotype Sanjo (2011). Molesk (2011, a free slabby display face) is free.

In 2011, he published the extensive fashion mag family Akila, which comes in two subfamilies, Akila Bouma, and Akila Didone, both adorned with refined outlines and high contrast. Images of Akila: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi.

Typefaces from 2012 include Codhigo, Borba (a beautiful inline headline face), Wannabe, Desk (3d shadow face), Smart, Kleiner, Tabbaco and Fabrica.

Personal page. Behance link for Pedro Lobo. Behance link for Type factory. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Type For You
[Pedro Serrao]

Portuguese type blog by Pedro Serrao, Joao Planche and Pedro Mesquita. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Typeforge
[Pedro Reis Amado]

Deactivated on November 26, 2009. Pedro Amado (Portugal) ran Typeforge, a collaborative open source type design project named after Fontforge, the free editor that is the editor of choice here. This project grew out of Livetype. Amado is working on Typeforge Gothic (2006), a full U&lc Grotesque Sans 1 Axis Multiple Master based on 1898 Berthold's Azkidenz Grotesk and 1905 ATF's Franklin Gothic typefaces. Paulo Silva is working on a face called NewBodonesque. An experimental font, PS2 (by "JLM", 2006) is also being developed. Great ex-page of links on typography. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Typographias
[Hugo Charrao]

Type blog by Hugo Charrao from Olhao, Portugal. In English and Portuguese. [Google] [More]  ⦿

UFF Portugal
[Nuno Alves]

Nuno Alves (b. 1978, Lisbon) is the FontStructor who made Terramoto (2010), an earthquake font.

In 2012, he went commercial as UFF Portugal, located in Tomar. His commercial typefaces include Branca Poster (2012: a high-contrast poster family), and Shearman STD (2012: a rounded octagonal typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Vanda Ferreira

Portuguese designer (b. 1989) of Plastica (2009, pixel face done with FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vanda Veiga

Graphic designer from Lisbon, who made the pretty art deco logotype Coffee Grain (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vania Teixeira

Graphic and web designer in Armarmar, Portugal. She created Optical Serif (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Victor Arnaut Luiz

Coimbra, Portugal-based designer of a multiline pixel face, Fonte Bitmapped (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vitor Braz

Portuguese designer of the experimental geometric face Agaro (2011), the neon tube face Bulb (2011), Punku (2011), and the high-contrast fashion mag caps face Esquise (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

yrmk (was: Youremin)
[Joel Santos]

Portuguese foundry located in Lobão, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal. Designers of Simples (2008, hairline architectural sans), Rounded Teen (2008, a very round and fat version of VAG Rounded), Rosley (2008, a decorative modern face) and Hausi (2008, experimental). It is run by Joel Santos (b. 1988, Porto, Portugal). MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ze Das Couves

Leiria, Portugal-based creator of Sal Sans (2011, humanist sans) and Dubio (2012). The image of Dubio shows the name Micael Nunes though.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿