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Type design in El Salvador

Luc Devroye
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
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Adriana Lemus

Architectural designer in San Salvador, El Salvador, b. 1987. Creator of the handprinted Black Roses (2009, Fontcapture). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alejandra Zecena

San Salvador, El Salvador-based designer. Creator of the logotype Marlin (2011) for a yachting company. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Patricia Baron

Ana Patricia Baron (San Salvador) made the techno family Baron (Standard, Wide, Condensed; 2009, Fontcapture font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carla Olivares

Graphic designer in San Salvador. Creator of the modern psychedelic face Essence (2011). One of her school projects involved the development of the monoline typeface Angular (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Araujo

Graphic design student from El Salvador currently living in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He created the children's book alphabet World of Goo (2011), which is based on goo, dirt, slimy monsters and worms. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eduardo Chang

Talented graphic designer in San José, Costa Rica, who is originally from El Salvador. Creator of these typefaces:

  • Ahora (2012). This typeface is based on an art deco design used in a San Salvador publication in 1943. Free download. Images of Ahora: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi.
  • Cronos (2012). An elegant beautiful rounded poster typeface. Images of Cronos: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eduardo Rivas

Multimedia artist from El Salvador (b. 1992), who created Katalyst (2009, FontStruct) and Structure (2009, FontStruct). FFontStruct link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Edwing Rivera

Designer in San Salvador of the spilled ink cartoon face Cartoon 80 (2011) and of Macbet (2011, primitive hand). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Francisco Matute

El Salvador-based designer, b. 1991. He made the attractive informal poster faces Black Model (2005) and Modern Curve (2005). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hector Emerson Menjívar

Designer in Soyopango, El Salvador, who made the fat brush face Cangrejas (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jorge Cordon

Jorge Cordon (El Salvador, b. 1991) created Bub (2011, counterless) and Styckpo (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Judith Sales

Designer from El Salvador. Her creations include Sequence Light (2011, a thin stencil), Structure Wave (2011) and Cubic Bold (2011, squarish poster face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kevin Salinas

Graphic designer in El Salvador. Creator of Arcutype SV (2011), which was nfluenced by the architecture of San Salvador. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marco Amaya

Designer in San Salvador, El Salvador. Creator of the eometric typeface Cubo (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mario Arias

Aka Mario Ernesto and Mario Ariaz. El Salvador-based designer (b. 1988) of the pixelish face Cube (2011) and the handprinted face Stylo (2011). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Muranaka

San Salvador-based designer (b. 1985) of the thin slab face Espacio (2011), the monoline extended sans face Añejo (2011), the playful Antelope (2011), the razor blade-themed Font Interrupted (2011), the sci-fi face Cerebro (2011), the headline sans Jenkins (2011), the stencil face Mura Knockout (2011), which can be downloaded from Dafont.

He also made Diminuto (2011, monoline slabby face), Wednesday (2011, gridded), Diamante (2011, elliptical architectural sans face), 50 Blizzards (2011, stencil face), Kiona (2011, headline caps face), the geometric logotype New Drop Era (2011), the angular face A Brand New Day Midnight (2011), Catman (2011), Lowery (2011), and the tattoo font Slayer Dragon (2011). Naomis Citadel (2011) is a font comissioned by author Rick Austinson for his upcoming Consecution Books series. Ocho Siete (2011) and La Quince de Mayra (2011) are hairline sans faces. Ciudad Nueva Caps (2011) is a geometric avant garde caps face. Home page. Mariko Chan (2011) is a soft rounded and friendly monoline display sans. Alto Voltaje (2011) is also a monoline face but its sharp corners make it much more threatening.

Typefaces from 2012: Gorila (techno sans). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roberto Aguiluz

San Salvador-based graphic designer (b. 1985) who created the 3d sketch font Elli Noise (2008) and the refreshing jungle font Adry of Hanabi (2009). Abstract Fonts link. Yet another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿