Note that I split the Spanish contributions politically (in)correctly in three parts, the present page, a Catalan page and a Basque page.

Abelardo Gonzalez

Dyslexic creator of Open Dyslexic (2011), a free font specially designed for dyslexia, developed on the basis of Bitstream Vera Sans. Dafont link. At Dafont, we read that Abelardo lives in the northeastern United States. But his home page is in Spain.

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Abietar

Spanish foundry. In 2011, they published the Victorian family Abietar (+Negra). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Adolfo Gofer

Spanish creator of the handprinted Agafont (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adria Verdaguer

Spanish designer. Creator of the fat finger face Modular Sans (2011), which was based on the popular sans-serif Comic Sans. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrián Fernández

Spanish graphic designer who made DIN Stencil (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Agartzia

Spanish creator of the graffiti font Vandalo (2009). Possibly called Arturo Garcia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Agustina

Spanish designer of Agustina (2005, scratched handwriting). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aida García

Madrid-baded designer of the handprinted faces as Melane Handwriting (2011), Aida Scrap Rounded (2011) and Aida Scrap Small Size (2011). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aida Novoa

Great graphic designer from Valencia, Spain. At Behance, she showed a trendy blingy smoky New York typographic poster (2009). In 2010, she made an equally good poster for Berlin. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aitor Larumbe Zabala

Spanish type designer from Navarra who lives in Los Realejos, Tenerife. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alber

Spanish graphic designer in Alicante, b. 1986. His free fonts include Alber (2009, grungy stencil), Globus (2009, almost counterless atrsy face), Industrial (2009, virile face) and Wind and Bubbles (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Albert Corbeto

Type historian at Reial Academia de Bones Lletres in Barcelona. Born in Barcelona in 1971, Corbeto is responsible for all the publishing activities of the Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona and the Asociación de Bibliófilos de Barcelona. His field of investigation is the history of printing types and, in particular, the work of Spanish punchcutters throughout the second half of the eighteenth century. At ATypI 2006 in Lisbon, he spoke about the efforts around 1750-1770 to set up the Royal Library type foundry by Juan de Santander and Gerónimo A. Gil. Speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, where he talked about the punches from the Spanish Royal Printing House. Soon he will publish a specimen and text book on all this. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alberto Corazon

Painter, sculptor and graphic designer, b. Madrid, 1942. He was commissioned in 2000 by the city of Bilbao to design a font with a Basque look. The result was Alfabeto Bilbao. Alternate URL with some of his paintings. Alfabeto Bilbao is free at Yo de Bilbao. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alberto Diaz

Graphic designer in Alicante, Spain, who make Octagon (2010). Aka Prosaiper or Alber. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alberto Diaz Tormo

Graphic and industrial designer, post-producer and writer born in Alicante, Spain. He created a number of free faces in 2011 that are available via Devian Tart: Octagon, Bubbles, EcoLive, Industrial, Filler. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alberto Prieto Gaston

Student of Art Direction at the Miami Ad School Madrid. He created the counterless Rounded Font (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alejandro Cabrera

Designer in La Laguna, Canary Islands, Spain. He created Ciclo (2011), a monoline arc-and-straight-edge typeface. Seoul (2011) is a geometric avant-garde family. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alejandro Conde López

Spanish designer from La Coruna, b. 1976. He created Matricula Espanola (2007, an all caps sans face) and N-Gage (2007, a futuristic experiment). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alejandro Gonzalez Sanchez

Spanish graphic designer who lives in Murcia. Creator of Gne Script (2011, an angry angular handrinted face). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Petrovici

Spanish designer of Fine Line (2008) and Grungy Style (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alfonso Fernández Córdoba

Spanish type founder and printer, who worked in Valencia around 1477-1478, where he published the Valancian Bible. He left for Murcia, where in 1484, he printed the Breviarium Cathaginense. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alphabetum
[Juan-José Marcos García]

Juan-José Marcos García (b. Salamanca, Spain, 1963) is a professor of classics at the University of Plasencia in Spain. He has developed one of the most complete Unicode fonts named ALPHABETUM Unicode for linguistics and classical languages (classical&medieval Latin, ancient Greek, Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian, Faliscan, Messapic, Picene, Iberic, Celtiberic, Gothic, Runic, Modern Greek, Cyrillic, Devanagari-based languages, Old&Middle English, Hebrew, Sanskrit, IPA, Ogham, Ugaritic, Old Persian, Old Church Slavonic, Brahmi, Glagolitic, Ogham, ancient Greek Avestan, Kharoshti, Old Norse, Old Icelandic, Old Danish and Old Nordic in general, Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Phoenician, Cypriot, Linear B with plans for Glagolitic). This font has over 5000 glyphs, and contains most characters that concern classicists (rare symbols, signs for metrics, epigraphical symbols, "Saxon" typeface for Old English, etcetera). A demo font can be downloaded [see also Lucius Hartmann's place]. His Greek font Grammata (2002) is now called Ellenike. He also created a package of fonts for Latin paleography (medieval handwriting on parchments): Capitalis Elegans, Capitalis Rustica, Uncialis, Insularis Minuscula, Carolingia Minuscula, Gothica Textura Quadrata and Humanistica Antiqua. PDf entitled Fonts For Latin Palaeography (2008-2011), in which Marcos gives an enjoyable historic overview.

Alphabetum is not Marcos's only excursion into type design. In 2011, he created two simulation fonts called Sefarad and Al Andalus which imitate Hebrew and Arabic calligraphy, respectively. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alter Ebro
[Jorge Moreno]

Jorge Moreno (Alter Ebro illustration and design, Zaragoza, Spain) made Alter Ebro Pixel Font (2009, FontStruct). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alter Littera
[José Alberto Mauricio]

Spanish foundry, est. ca. 2009, and on the web since 2012. It is located in Madrid. Alter Littera's fonts and web site are designed and managed by José Alberto Mauricio, who holds a doctorate degree in Economics and Business Administration, and is Associate Professor of Econometrics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Alter Littera produces and markets opentype fonts reviving some of the most beautiful bookhands from medieval Western manuscripts, as well as some of the finest European and North-American typefaces from the mid-fifteenth through the early-twentieth centuries. The "Bookhand", "Oldtype" and "Initials" font collections cover gothic and/or blackletter letter forms.

The typefaces:

• Gutenberg (B42-type) A (Johann Gutenberg, Mainz, ca. 1455). Includes the full set of special characters, alternates and ligatures from The 42-line Bible. Under development.
• Gutenberg (B42-type) B (Johann Gutenberg, Mainz, ca. 1455). Includes the full set of special characters, alternates and ligatures from The 42-line Bible. Published as Gutenberg B in 2012, this is a clean, smooth rendition of the B42-type used by Johann Gutenberg in his famous 42-line Bible. The font includes a comprehensive set of special characters, alternates and ligatures, plus Opentype features, that can be used for typesetting (almost) exactly as in Gutenberg's Bible and later incunabula. He says: The main historical sources used during the font design process were high-resolution scans from several printings of Gutenberg's Bible. Other sources were as follows: Kapr, A. (1996), Johann Gutenberg - The Man and his Invention, Aldershot: Scolar Press (ch. 7); De Hamel, C. (2001), The Book - A History of The Bible, London: Phaidon Press (ch. 8); Füssel, S. (2005), Gutenberg and the impact of printing, Burlington: Ashgate (ch. 1); and Man, J. (2009), The Gutenberg Revolution, London: Bantam (ch. 7).
• Gutenberg (B42-type) C (Johann Gutenberg, Mainz, ca. 1455). Includes the full set of special characters, alternates and ligatures from The 42-line Bible. Published in 2012 as Gutenberg C, this is a slightly roughened version of the Oldtype "Gutenberg B" Font, simulating irregularities and ink spreads associated with old metal types, papers and parchments.
• Psalterium (Psalter-type) (Peter Schoeffer, Mainz, 1457). Includes the full set of special characters, alternates and ligatures from The Mainz Psalter (Psalterium Moguntinum). Under development.
• Oude Hollandse (Henric Pieterszoon "Lettersnijder", Antwerp, 1492). Under development.
• French Textura (Joos Lambrecht, Ghent, 1541). Under development.
• Flamand A (Hendrik van den Keere, Antwerp, 1571). Under development.
• Flamand B (Hendrik van den Keere, Antwerp, 1571). Under development.
• Nederduits (Johann M. Fleischmann, Haarlem, 1733). Under development.
• Psalter Gotisch (Benjamin Krebs Nachfolger, Frankfurt am Main, 1890). Under development.
• Manuskript Gotisch (Bauersche Giesserei, Frankfurt am Main, 1899). Under development.
• Munthe Schrift (Gerhard Munthe, Offenbach am Main, 1904), Under development.
• Deutsche Schrift (Rudolf Koch, Offenbach am Main, 1910). Includes both normal and large, ornamental capitals (two sets), plus several finial characters and ornaments from Koch's original designs. He writes:A comprehensive and faithful rendition of Rudolf Koch's first release, usually referred to as "Fette Deutsche Schrift" or "Koch-Schrift". In addition to the regular character set, the font includes a large number of alternates and ligatures, plus two sets of ornamental initials (Initialen mit Zierstrichen und Punkten zur Koch-Schrift, and Initialen zur halbfetten deutschen Schrift). The main sources used during the font design process were a sample page from Hendlmeier, W. (1994), Kunstwerke der Schrift, Hannover: Bund für Deutsche Schrift und Sprache (p. 164), and several specimen sheets from the Gebrüder Klingspor Type Foundry for Koch's Deutsche Schrift type family.
• Maximilian (Rudolf Koch, Offenbach am Main, 1914). Includes normal, small (Klein), and roman (Antiqua) capitals, plus ornamental capitals and alternates (Zierbuchstaben). Under development.
• Wilhelm Klingspor Schrift (Rudolf Koch, Offenbach am Main, 1925). Includes both normal (wide) and narrow capitals, plus the full set of alternates, ligatures and finial characters from Koch's original designs. Under development.
• Caslon Gotisch (D. Stempel A.G., Frankfurt am Main, 1926). Produced in 2012 as Caslon Gotisch, it is a faithful adaptation of the "Caslon-Gotisch" type acquired (among several other types) by D. Stempel A.G. in 1919 from the Leipzig printer Wilhelm E. Drugulin, and further developed by Stempel in later years. Details: In addition to the usual standard characters for typesetting in modern Western languages, the font includes a comprehensive set of special characters, alternates and ligatures, plus Opentype features, that can be used for typesetting as in antique writings and printings. The main sources used during the font design process were as follows: A sample page from Typographische Mitteilungen - XXIII Jahrgang - Heft 2 (1926), and a sample page from Hendlmeier, W. (1994), Kunstwerke der Schrift, Hannover: Bund für Deutsche Schrift und Sprache (p. 37).
• Gótico Cervantes (Fundición Tipográfica Richard Gans, Madrid, 1928). Under development.
• Wallau (Rudolf Koch - Offenbach am Main, 1930). Includes German, Uncial, and Ornamental capitals. Under development.
• Alter Gothic (Alter Littera, Madrid, 2012). This is Alter Littera's first original design. They write: Two specific sources must be acknowledeged: (1) the "Black" type from William Caslon's A Specimen of Printing Types (1785), and (2) the "Caslon Gotisch" type by D. Stempel A.G. (1926).
• Gothic A. After late Carolingian and early Gothic manuscripts (12th century). Under development.
• Gothic B. After Erhard Ratdolt's Lombardic Capitals (1491). Under development.
• Gothic C. After Henric Pieterszoon's Uncials (1508). Under development.
• ATF Cincinnati, ATF Caxton, ATF Missal. From American Type Founders Company's American Specimen Book of Type Styles (1912). Under development.
• Bergling A. From J.M. Bergling's Art Alphabets and Lettering (1918). Under development.
• Bergling B. From J.M. Bergling's Art Alphabets and Lettering (1918). Under development.
• Morris. From William Morris's The Kelmscott Chaucer (1896). Under development.
• Goudy Cloister. After F.W. Goudy's Cloister Initials (1919). Under development.
• Roman Square Capital. From 1st century B.C. onwards. Under development.
• Roman Rustic. 1st to 6th centuries. Under development.
• Uncial. 3rd to 6th centuries. Under development.
• Artificial Uncial. 6th to 10th centuries. Under development.
• Roman Half-Uncial. 3rd to 9th centuries. Under development.
• Insular Majuscule. 6th to 9th centuries. Under development.
• Insular Minuscule. From 6th century onwards. Under development.
• Luxeuil Minuscule. 7th and 8th centuries. Under development.
• Beneventan Minuscule. 8th to 13th centuries. Under development.
• Carolingian Minuscule. 8th to mid-12th centuries. Under development.
• Early Gothic. 11th and 12th centuries. Under development.
• Gothic Textura Quadrata. 13th to 15th centuries. Under development.
• Gothic Textura Prescisus. 13th to 15th centuries. Under development.
• Gothic Rotunda. 12th to 16th centuries. Under development.
• Gothic Littera Bastarda. From 13th century onwards. Under development.
• Fraktur. From 15th century onwards. Under development.
• Humanistic Book Script. From 15th century onwards. Under development.
• Humanistic Cursive. From 15th century onwards. Under development.

Alvaro Diaz

Furniture and industrial designer in Madrid, whose rationality shines through in his architectural ADH typeface (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amalia Garcia Gans

Daughter of Richard Gans, the founder of Fundicion Tipografica Richard Gans, which was located in Madrid. She took over the company in 1936, together with her brothers Manuel and Ricardo, who were assassinated in the Spanish Civil war. She ran the business and was typographic director in the difficult years after the war, and built the foundry back up from scratch. The Fundicion Tipografica Richard Gans finally folded in 1975. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Espuig Perello

Designer in Valencia, Spain, who heads Neko Design. Behance link.

In 2012, she created the thin geometric display sans typeface Wassily. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Maria Davila

Graphic designer in Madrid. She created the curly Ananas (2011) and the squarish Pixel Diamond (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Analisa Moltó Vigon

Based in Villena, Spain, Analisa Moltó Vigon designed a signage and pictogram typeface family for the aquarium in Valencia, Oceanogràfic. It is called Océano. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrei Ograda

Graphic designer from Bucharest (and now Burriana, Spain) who made these faces in 2011: STT, Rock, Square, Desgraciado, and VCT. Via Dos Cabrones, he partners with Vian Peanu. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angel Pérez Gajardo

Spanish graphic designer who made Suipacha (2011), a gridded texture face modularly constructed from triangles. It comes with beautiful logotype work for the Suipacha Gallery in Buenos Aires. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angel Sánchez

Ángel Sánchez is a Spanish designer. In 2011, he created Museum (a roman caps face), Curriculum (a monoline typewriter face) and Stadium (a geometric circle-based display face for architectural signs). Stadium and Museum are free. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angrois Design
[César Gómez Blanco]

César Gómez Blanco (Angrois Design) is a Spanish graphic designer in La Coruña, b. 1982. Creator of the techno face Bule (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antonio Bilbao

Spanish type designer who created Escorial (ca. 1960, Richard Gans Foundry), a display face with Koch Antiqua influences. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antonio de Espinosa

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

Antonio González de Santiago

Spanish cartoonist de Santiago (who is based in Cartagena) used to run Dir Dam Foundry, where he sold his comic book fonts Comic Pro (1998), Comic Ignatz, and Comic Camelot. Comic Pro is also at Jack Yan (1999) and at Type Quarry. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Antonio J. Morata

Antonio J. Morata (Almeria, Spain) is a FontStructor (aka elmoyenique) who used FontStruct to make several modular faces starting in 2010. The typeface names start with z. We list them alphabetically:

• zadora-q-eYeFS (pixelized), zagreb-eYeFS, zahoree eYeFS (2012, dot matrix), Zakapunt eYeFS (2010), Zakyra eYe-FS (2010, a western font modeled after Kyra 1 my Michel Troy), zalamera eYeFS (2011), zalooneYeFS (Western face), zame-eYeFS, zanzibar-eYeFS, zancle-eYeFS, zancle-rev-eYeFS, zanity eYe FS (2012), zapristi-eYeFS (outlined and oblique), zarcs-eYeFS, zarina-eYeFS (2011, blackletter), zayre-eYeFS, zaza eYeFS (2011).
• zblackmagic-eYeFS (2011, Based on the Tomeri Nu-No font by Nuria González and Noël Nanton), zbrickfont eYeFS.
• zcell-eYeFS (2010, fat counterless, and outlined), zcloudy eYeFS (2012), zcout eYeFS (2010, a mini-stencilled art deco face), zcrackers eYe/FS (fa, counterless and starred).
• zdurer (blackletter).
• zeelandia-eYeFS (horizontally striped), zeenvoudige eYeFS (2011), zegovia eYeFS (2012), zelada eYeFS (2011), zelfvolution eYeFS (stencil), zenda-eYeFS, zenix-eYeFS (2011), zenoid eYe FS (2012), zenon eYeFS (2011, horizontal stripes), zenovia-eYeFS (2011), zeres eYeFS (2011), zerone eYeFS (2011, a modular piano key face), zetentas-eYeFS (disco light face; +Light), zeventy-eYeFS (2011), zextile-eYeFS.
• zfraktur eYe FS (2011, blackletter).
• zhadows eYe/FS (shadow face), zhalloween eYe/FS (pixel face), zhapp3y-eYeFS (alphading), zhappy eYeFS (2011, fat art deco), zharona-eYeFS (2010).
• ziabelle-eYeFS (shadow face), ziberia eYeFS (2011), zibernia blk eYe/FS (2011), zibernia blk x thal eYe/FS (2011), zilverstone eYeFS (2011, blackletter), zimbawee-eYeFS, zinergy-eYeFS (3d face), zinergy blk eYe/FS, zinfont eYeFS, zinnamon eYeFS (2011), zirconite eYeFS (2011, slab face), zircus eYeFS (2010), zirius eYeFS (2011).
• zkandia-eYeFS (stencil).
• zlabyrinths eYeFS (2011), zlash eYe FS (2011, a keyhole face), zloty eYeFS (2011, art deco face).
• zmorse xDad eYe FS (2011, a texture / African face based on morse code).
• znederland eYe FS (2012).
• zpanish caravan eYe/FS (2011, a bullet hole face), zpido eYeFS (2012), zpixel eYeFS (2011).
• zquadrata eYeFS (2010), zquared-eYeFS.
• zonora eYeFS (2011, a Far West face), zoolphabet eYeFS (2010, animal dingbats), zoutland eYeFS (2011, octagonal), zozial-eYeFS, zozial-sqrd-eYeFS.
• zround eYeFS (2010).
• ztarsky-eYeFS (+Round: art deco ultra black), ztay eYeFS (a condensed almost art nouveau face), ztedelijk-Crouwel eYe/FS (2011, based on Wim Crouwel's stedelijk Museum poster), zteefunny eYe FS (2011, ultra fat keyhole face; + zteefunny dm eYeFS), ztencils eYeFS (2011, army stencil face), ztires-eYeFS (2011, texture face), ztrands eYeFS (2011), ztrange eYeFS (2010), ztrange blk eYeFS (2011), ztream eYeFS (2011), zturdy-eYeFS (ultra-fat), ztylo eYeFS (2011, art deco).
• zunset eYeFS (2012).
• zweater eYeFS (2011, knitted look), zwimming eYeFS (2011), zwire blk eYeFS (an LED face), zwiss-eYeFS.
• zybona-eYeFS (athletic lettering), zydonia eYeFS (2012), zykedelia-eYeFS (2012), zylone-eYeFS (2011).

Anybal T. Castillo

Spanish type designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anyetipo

Spanish place in Madrid with commercial fonts for teaching children: Escolar (+Flecha, +Pro, +Cuadricula), Preescolar, Preescolar pro, Infantil, Preainfantil, Junior (+Venezuela), Trazos (tracing fonts), Precalimex, Calimex (used in Mexico), Calimex Pluma, Andina (used in Chile), Caliprico (used in Puerto Rico), Basica, Caliper (used in Peru), Calipro, Calirredo (used in the Domican Republic). Also: Ibarra Antiqua, Pautas, Elzevir, Mates (math synmbol fonts), Gregoriano (blackletter). Anyetipo also has a type making service. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arbilla

Granada, Spain-based creator of Handabit (2010, handprinted), which can be bought here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arnaldo Guillen de Brocar

Spanish type designer who lived in the 16th century. GFS Complutensian Greek is a digitization of some of his types by George Matthiopoulos. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Art Plataneo
[Aday Falcón]

Aday Falcón (Art Plataneo) is the Spanish designer who created the free alchemic typeface Boyuna (2012) at FontStruct. He also made the wavy Alisios (2012).

Dafont link. Art Plataneo link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Assaad Georges Awad

Futuristic fashion accessory and costume designer in Madrid. Behance link. Creator of Asho (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Atipo

Design studio in Gijon, Spain, which produced the donationware face Cassannet in 2012: this beautiful sans face is modeled after art deco lettering by Cassandre. Images: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aviv Studio
[Luis Miguel Torres]

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

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

Ay Joselito

Josep Renau's movie poster Herz Hitler led this Spanish designer to evelop a poster typeface in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bernardo Paz Codesido

Graphic designer in Spain who runs Siloseno Estudio DG. In 2012, he created the fun sea-themed display typeface A Novena for which he was inspired by images from his Galician home town of Santa Eugenia de Ribeira. Siloseno is a school script font created for the Siloseno graphic design studio. Finally, Colonialistas (2011) is inspired by flags.

Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Biblioteca Nacional de Espana

List of the typography and type specimen books at the National Library of Spain in Madrid. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Blastto
[Carlos Llorente]

Spanish graphic design group Blastto is actually Carlos Llorente. He created a nice art deco type booklet in 2010, covering Broadway (1929), Bifur (1919), Parisian (1928) and others. Designer of the free experimental face Teardrop (2010) and the gridded face Try Type (2011).

Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Blogosfera

Font news in English and Spanish. Lots of updates! [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brokerland

Spanish firm offering two free company sans fonts: Brokerland Bold and Light (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Buenos Dias
[Javier R. Calvo]

Buenos Dias is located in Sevilla, Spain. One of its two founders, Javier R. Calvo, used concenric circles as jewel beads to make up ornamental letters in his Monica Lettering. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bull's Eye Soft
[Carlos Colomina]

Bull's Eye Soft is the Valencia-based foundry of software engineer Carlos Colomina (b.1977, Valencia). Colomina created Carl Sans (2012, a hand-printed which he calls a good alternative to Comic Sans) and Wayfont Sans (2012). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Carine de Wandeleer

Carine de Wandeleer was born in Argentina to a French-Belgian immigrant family. She studied fine arts and graphic design at University of Buenos Aires, but lives and works in Spain.

Kycka (2011) is a handprinted slab serif family designed for children's books. Karty (2011, Eurotypo) is a blackboard bold pair of faces inspired by Baskerville. Marilyn (2011, Eurotypo) is an informal bouncy heavy sans face. Natalie (2011) is a conensed slab serif face.

In 2012, she published the script typeface Lirio (Eurotypo) and the fat finger family Souffle.

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

Carlos de Toro Hernando

Logrono, Spain-based photographer and graphic designer. In 2010, he created the ultra black display face Technicolor Ultra Black. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos de Toro Hernando

CarlosBull is the alias of Carlos de Toro Hernando (b. 1990), a graphic design student at ESDIR in La Rioja, Spain. He livesin Logrono. Behance link. Designer of the fat deco face Technicolor Ultrablack (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Egan

Spanish graphic designer. He created the ball terminal face Farlow (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Horacio Valera

Spanish creator of the organic monoline face Wec (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Primo

Carlos Primo, a graphic designer from Madrid, created the super-techno face Sector 85 (2011), and the subdued blackletter family Der Neue Gutenberg (2012). Carlos was educated in Venezuela. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Rodrigo

Carlos Rodrigo (Mucho) won a D&AD 2011 award in the typeface design competition for his Art Out (2010), a blackboard bold typeface that was created for Fundación Arte y Mecenazgo in Spain. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Ruano

Designer in Madrid who was born there. Home page. He created the upright lined script face Angelita (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Winkow

Carlos Winkow is a version of his original name, Carl Winckow. He designed the brush script typeface Reporter (1938, the Wagner foundry, a brush face with many alternates for the glyphs), Gong (1945, Johannes Wagner, a chalk script face; Jaspert mentions the date 1951), Alcazar (FT Nacional, 1944, an inline 3d titling font), Electra (FT Nacional, an almost avant-garde sans family, which includes the ultra thin Estrecha Fina weight), Iberica (FT Nacional, 1942, an open shaed inclined 3d lineale), Nacional (1941, Nacional: a calligraphic roman in old medieval Spanish style with Clasico Nacional 1 and Clasico Nacional Negro weights; see Madrid RR by Red Rooster for a digital version), Cursiva Rusinal (FT Nacional: this is identical to Reporter except in the alternates). Roller (1997, Pat Hickson, ITF) is based on Iberica. Romeo (Font Bureau) takes some cues from Electra and says that it is a spectacular art deco sanserif with an unusually fine condensed series. A standard non-chalk version of Gong was done by J. Wagner in 1967, and was published as Jowa Script, which in turn provided inspiration for Iova Nova (2007, Profonts). Lucia Walter revived Winkow's 1931 text face Elzeviriano Ibarra in 2011. Winkow's Numantina (1940) was revived by Nick Curtis as Numancia NF (2011). Linotype page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Celtibérica

Foundry in Madrid. Their first commercial typefaces are Dura (2011), Manuscrita (2011, a script face inspired by 16th century Spanish scripts), Celtiberica (2011, chisel font) and Parque (2006, stone age face). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Celtiber

Celtiber (1996) is a hand-drawn Celtic-Iberian font in truetype format. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Celtiberian script

"The Celtiberian script developed from the Iberian scripts. Only a small number of Celtiberian inscriptions dating from between the 6th and 1st centuries BC have been found. With the Roman take over of the Iberian peninsula, the Celtiberian script was gradually replaced by the Roman/Latin alphabet and eventually disappeared. The Celtiberian script was used mainly by druids for religious purposes. It s partly syllabic and partly alphabetic." See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chacho Productions

Madrid-based business. Creator(s) of the grid face CubesType (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chio Romero

Illustrator and graphic designer based in Sevilla. Creator of the nice typographic poster called Francisco Nixon (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chó

Designer in Valencia, Spain. Behance link. He created Modrounded (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christian El Asmar

Creator of Liposuction (2010, a kitchen tile face). Christian is an art director in Madrid. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Church Slavonic Resources

Many links and downloads of Church Slavonic fonts. Included are

• CyrillicOld (VNLabs, 1992).
• Evangeljie (1995).
• The Irmologion family (Vladislav V. Dorosh, Calmius Software, 1996).
• Izhitsa (ParaGraph, 1992).
• Kirillica Wincyr.
• Kirilttf (by Tanya Laleva and Miguel Angel Durán Pascual, Filología Eslava, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 1994).
• Kliment-8.aug.1997 (Kiril Ribarov, 1997).
• Lavra (1995), Novgorod (1995).
• Old Church Slavonic Cyr (with and without Latin characters, either by Monotype or modified based on a Monotype font).

Cintia González

Spanish graphic designer. Behance link. In 2011, she made a beautiful striped caps face entitled Type And Songs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Claudio Rodil

Argentinian designer now living in Madrid, whose designs can apparently be bought at Nakedface (but none are shown there). At PsyOps, he published Franzen. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Comoon Laboratorios

Madrid-based group that published the counterless dadaist typeface Ardua (2012), the titling face Cuadrate (2012) and the display face Rea Time (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cooperative de Fundición Tipográfica

Spanish type site. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Crestaco
[Javier Cos]

Crestaco is a design and software development studio founded by Javier Rodriguez Cos (aka Madonna Mark II, b. 1972 Tarragona, Spain) and located in El Morell, Spain. Javier Cos is a graphic, type, and video game designer. His first typeface is Anvylon (2012), which is a monospaced typeface for use in programming and tabular material. Its rounded monoline design is reminiscent of the type used in early video terminals and line printers. Seleniak (2012) is based on the logo of the eponymous MSX video game. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Cuarto Congreso internacional de Tipografía

A conference subtitled La letra dibujada was eld from June 18-20, 2010, in the Escuela de Arte y Superior de Diseño de Valencia, Valencia, Spain. Speakers included Gerrit Noordzij, Ken Barber, Ale Paul, Ricardo Rousselot, Javier Mariscal, James Mosley, Claude Mediavilla, Keith Adams, Marian Bantjes, Pepe Gimeno, Jose Ramon Penela, Pilar Cano and Sergio Jimenez. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cuatro Tipos

Design site and blog, in Spanish. It is much more concerned with mag design than typogrophy. Run by four guys from Valencia: Javier Perez Belmonte, Diego Obiol, Tomas Gorria, and Herminio Javier Fernandez. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cubik

A Spanish type blog. [Google] [More]  ⦿

D. Ignacio Boix

Spanish foundry from the 19th century. See their specimen book Caracteres, emblemas y adornos de que está surtida la imprenta de D. Ignacio Boix (Madrid, 1833). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dani Montesinos

Freelance graphic designer from Spain who lives in Amsterdam. He created the interesting display face Athan (2010, Thinkdust), and the futuristic deco face Blozend (2010, Thinkdust). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dani Romero

Dani Romero (Madrid) created the beautiful geometric alchemic typeface Nibiru (2012), and the experimental typeface Asfalto (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Chapela

Spanish designer of Tallstreight (sic) (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel del Saz Salazar

Spanish type designer from Valencia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Herrera

Artistic director in Madrid. Creator of the experimental skeletal bone font Palabras Muertas (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Rodríguez Valero

Daniel Rodríguez Valero received his PhD in Arts in 2006 from University of Barcelona, where he also got a Postgraduate in Digital Typography. He teaches Typographic Design and Digital Typography in the Arts Faculty (University of Barcelona) since 1999, and Graphic Design in Advertising studies (University of Alicante) since 2002. He teaches Digital Typography at the máster ibérico em design, Oporto (Portugal). He has created a new system for type design called Constructor in collaboration with Marc Antoni Malagarriga I Picas, a programmer. Constructor is a glyph editor based on calligraphic curves, which he presented at TypeTech, ATypI in Brighton in 2007.

He writes: Constructor is a new tool for type design, open source and cross-platform, based on a calligraphic heritage that provides new possibilities. It can be combined with production tools like Fontographer or FontLab, because its finality is to construct outlines extrapolating some instructions or parameters given by the user. It works with only one master and produces different letterforms that can be copied/pasted to a font editor. It will help to design quickly a complete family, so the benefits of this new system for type designers are tremendous. He claims to be inspired in part by Gerrit Noordzij's theory of type design as explained in The stroke of the pen. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Escurriola

Freelance motion designer and art director who grew up in Valencia, Spain, and was born in 1976. He now lives and works in Zurich. Creator of the free geometric font Cubop (2009). Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Lozano Lucas

Spanish creator of the handprinted David Lozano Lucas (2009, Fontcapture). Home page. Another link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Sean

Madrid-based designer of Arnold (2011, display sans). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dinael Design
[Argenis Dinael Urdaneta Oropeza]

Madrid-based graphic, web and type design studio. Creators of the free dot matrix face Game Power (2007). It is run by Argenis Dinael (b. 1978, Valencia, Edo. Carabobo. Venezuela).

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

Domingo Gamonoso

Art director in Tarifa, Spain. Behance link. Creator of the experimental face Drops (2010), which can be bought at HypeForType. [Google] [More]  ⦿

El Tipo

Spanish typographic experiment mag run by José Gil-Nogués Villén (b. 1971, Valencia) out of Oviedo, Asturias. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elena Patiño

Spanish designer, who made Birthday (2012). It was derived from Fontin by stretching the counters, rounding the terminals, softening the serifs and grungifying a few outlines. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elieser Ben Abraa Alantansi

Jewish trader who set up a press in 1485 in Hijar (Spain). His helper was Salomao Maimon Zalmati (also Jewish, from Sevilla), the old teacher of Alfonso Fernandez de Cordoba. His equipment at the time was the most sophisticated on the Iberian peninsula. They were able to print in Castellano, Portuguese and Hebrew. Some researchers maintain that Elieser Alantansi and the Lisbon-based printer Elieser Toledano are one and the same. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elwin Gorman Lopez Acarreta

Elwin Gorman, born in 1985 in Murcia (Spain) is a graphic designer. He has done some typographic work. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emilio José Encinas Mir

Spanish software developer. He created the handwriting font Asfhy_Font_1 (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erik Villarreal

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

Ernesto Ramirez

Madrid-baseed designer. Home page. Creator of La Cabeza (2009), which simulates letters cut out of paper with scissors. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Estefania Mata

Spanish designer (b. 1985) from Malaga who now lives in Barcelona. Dafont link. Creator of the free fat poster face La Unica (2011).

Fontsquirrel link.

Aka Estefania Hormigo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Estudi Xarop
[Bernat Gramage/Toni Benlliure]

A Xàtiva, Valencia-based graphic design studio founded in 1993 by Toni Benlliure and Bernat Gramage. They designed Alquimia (1995, grunge) at Garcia Fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eurotypo
[Olcar Alcaide]

Institute in Benalmadena, Spain (was: Santa Severa), where one can take 4-week courses at 1450 Euros a shot on the Etruscan alphabet, Trajan, Cuadrata and Rustic Roman Capital letters, and related subjects. They also organize lettering tours in Italy and guided tours in various musea. The teachers are Alberto Di Santo (Professor of the visual communication, Tor Vergata University, Rome; Professor of Graphic Design, Istituto Europeo di design, Rome; Professor of editorial design, La Sapienza University, Rome; Professor of Typography, C.F.P. Sinalunga, Siena) and Olcar Alcaide (b. 1952, Argentina, Professor of Graphic and Typography Design, University of Buenos Aires; Professor of Typography, University of Lanús, and Professor of Graphic Design, Marbella Design School, Spain). Type link jump page.

Eurotypo is also the foundry of Olcar Alcaide.

Catalog of Olcar Alcaide's typefaces.

In 2010, he published the text family Antium and the warm signage faces Mijas Ultra and Lila Pro Heavy.

Typefaces from 2011 include Lila pro, Atenea (a humanist sans family), Agerola Script (a fat flowing signage face), Teja (signage face), Zalea (yet another signage face), and Nabu Pro (a connected signage script). Equalis (2011M, with Juan Lavalle) is a monoline slab face with a huge x-height and wide open counters. It was followed by Equalis Stencil (2011). Ravel (2011) is a fat signage script face. Atenea Egyptian (2011) is a solid slab serif family. Berta (2011) is a signage brush face with connected and unconnected versions. Optic Art (2011) is an ornamental face with building blocks that can be used for overlays. Creator of Eurotypo Bodoni Bold (2011).

Typefaces from 2012: Moliere (2012, an elegant didone family with outspoken ball terminals), Melon Script (a fat curvy signage script family), Riky (comic book family), Chipa (a signage and package design script).

Picture.

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

Fantastic Hysteria

Spanish illustrator. Behance link. Creator of a retro cartoon illustrated alphabet (2011; not a font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fernando Haro

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain-based designer (b. 1971) of the monoline sans face Depez (2011), Fabada (2011), and the free monoline geometric sans face La Chata (2011). La chatte, in French? Maybe not.

In 2011, he made the monoline organic sans face Lerótica (free at OFL).

In 2012, he created Nabatea (stone chisel typeface), V de Vacia (a grungy outline face), Sabática (organic), the straight-edged data style typeface Gabardina, the grotesk face A Bebedera, the shadow face B de Bonita, and the deconstructed Qebrada.

OFL link. Behance link. Dafont link. Devian tart link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fernando Sánchez-Ulloa Pérez

Madrid-based designer of the experimental caps face Rat Type (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ferran López

Spanish designer of Markus Ink (2009), a handprinted font. Dafont link. Another URL. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fifth Congreso internacional de tipografía

The Fifth Congreso internacional de tipografía will take place in Valencia from June 29-July 1, 2012. Organized by Association of Designers of the Region of Valencia (ADCV), its main speakers are Dave Crossland (of Open Font Library, and Google Web Fonts), Ale Paul, Paula Carbonell, Gustavo Ferreira, Gerard Unger, Dylan Kendle, Hilary Kenna, and Petr van Blokland (cofounder of Webtype). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Floris Voorveld

Dutch freelance graphic designer (b. Almelo, 1985) living in Granada, Spain. Creator of the free rounded sans typeface FV Almelo (2012), which was designed using ruler and compass.

Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fontes galegas
[Alberto Varela Ferreiro]

A free Galician truetype font, GALLAECIANormal (1997, by Alberto Varela Ferreiro), and a free Castellano font, Nova-Outubro (1998). See also here. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Foundries in Valencia

Spanish language description of the history of typefounding in Valencia, Spain. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Francis Requena

Spanish designer of Enede Regular (2002), a bitmap font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Francisco Anguís

Spanish designer who created the free experimental face Legotype in 2008 for Neo2, a Spanish magazine. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Francisco Lucas

Spanish lettering master in the 16th century who wrote Arte de Escrevir (1571 [Paulo Heitlinger says that this is 1580, while others mention 1577]), in which he introduced the so-called Spanish Bastarda. Digitizations of his Griffo-style lettering in 1577 include Decimosexto NF (2006, Nick Curtis), Francisco Lucas Llana Regular (2003, medieval hand by Pia Frauss: she writes Written at Madrid in 1570, by a man called Francisco Lucas. He classified it as a Bastarda; but actually, it is a humanistic cursive -- the type of writing that is mostly known under the name of Chancery) and Francisco Lucas Brioso Regular (2003, medieval hand). Scans: Grifa italica and Batarda, Redondilla (1570), Letra. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fundición tipográfica de José Leyra

Spanish foundry. A specimen book with 322 pages was published. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fundición Tipográfica José Iranzo
[José Iranzo]

Fundición Tipográfica José Iranzo is a Spanish foundry which published type faces in the 1940s such as the heavy script font Pulido, the commercial modern face Publicidad (1930) and Supertipo Veloz (1942, see Neufville). Located in Barcelona and Madrid. José Iranzo published Catálogos : Tipos (Madrid, 1968). Catalog in PDF format (thanks to J.R. Penela). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fundición Tipográfica Nacional

Spanish foundry active in the 20th century, with offices in Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia. It made typefaces such as Numantina, Numancia, Hispalis (digitally revived by Red Rooster as Schiller Antiqua), Clasico Nacional, Electra, Imperio, Radar (brush script), Romana, Ingles 15, and Rusinol (C. Winkow). Catalogo de la Fundicion Tipografica Nacional. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fundicion Eusebio Aguado

Late 19th century foundry in Madrid, which worked mostly with types imported from France and Germany. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fundicion Hijos de J.A. Garcia

Late 19th century foundry in Madrid, which worked mostly with types imported from France and Germany. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fundicion Tipografica de don J. Artaloitia
[J. Artaloitia]

J. Artaloitia ran a foundry in Sevilla, Spain, called Fundicion Tipografica de don J. Artaloitia. Scans of some of his types: headline types, Inglesa, Ronda, Normandas, Gotico Blanco, Ronda. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fundicion Tipografica Richard Gans
[Richard Gans]

The Richard Gans Foundry is a defunct Spanish foundry which existed from 1888-1975. Richard Gans was the son of a medic from Karlsbad, Austria. He emigrated to Spain in 1874, and died in 1925. Until 1936 the foundry was led by Mauricio Wiesenthal, but in 1936, his children, Ricardo, Manuel and Amalia Gans Gimeno, now adults, took over. Ricardo and Manuel were assassinated during the Civil War. The foundry was used to make ammunition, and after the war, Amalia Gans and then Reinaldo Leger Tittel started anew in run-down buildings. The foundry operated roughly from 1881-1975. Throughout its existence, types were designed by a number of people from within and outside the foundry. Designers included José Ausejo Matute (d. 1998), Antonio Bilbao (who created Escorial in 1960), the son Ricardo Gans, and Carl Winkow. In the post-war era, Reinaldo Leger and Amalia Garcia Gans made typographic decisions on which types to produce, and acted as typographic directors. Richard Gans' grandson, José Antonio Gans García, is still alive today. Six specimen books were published with titles like Fundicion Richard Gans Muestrario Edicion V. The first and second editions, rare books indeed, were published between 1883 and 1903. Editions 3 through 6 appeared in the period 1903-1922. The 1922 edition is here in its entirety (thanks to J.R. Penela). See also here. In 1965, a small catalog was published under the name Tipos Gans. The National Library in Madrid has Muestrario de Richard Gans (Madrid, Richard Gans, 1903, 410 pages) and Catalogo provisional (Madrid, 1950). On the web, the most complete discussion of Richard Gans is in the PDF file Fundicion Tipografica Richard Gans Historia y Actividad 1888-1975 (2004) by Dimas García Moreno and José Ramón Penela. Catalog of font names. Fonts: Until 1925, there were basically no original types. Almost everything in the specimen books of that era is due to German foundries, principally those of Wilhelm Woellmer in Berlin and Edmund Koch in Magdeburg. Some of those typefaces in common with Koch include Grotesca Chupada Redonda, Ronda Universal. Early types in this category also include Escritura Selecta, Escritura Favorita, Escritura Luis XV, Gótico Globo (blackletter), Gótico Uncial (blackletter), Nueva Titular Adornada, Tipos de Adorno, Latina Moderna, Grotesca Ancha, Grotesca and Grotesca Chupada. Many, if not most of these, saw the light at the end of the 19th century and survived until 1965. It is fashionable now to revive all the faces. Nick Curtis created a few (see below), and Paul W (Intellecta Design, Brazil) did many more. The original Gans types can be categorized as follows:

• Aldine.
• Anchas Americanas.
• Antigua El Greco (+Adornada, Cursiva, Negro, Negro Cursiva, Seminegro, Seminegro Cursiva, Titular), aka El Greco Antique. Weights include Antigua El Greco (1924), El Greco Adornado Titular (with Mexican-style sawteeth). Greco was the inspiration for Melina BT (Nick Curtis, 2003). Curtis' Melina Fancy is based on Greco Adornado. For a free version of Adornado, see GrekoDeco (1992, Dave Fabik). Revived as Kifisia Antigua NF in 2005 by Nick Curtis.
• Antigua. See the digital family Gans Antigua (2006, Paulo W). The Antigua series includes weights like Esbelta, Estrecha, Heraldo, Heraldo Cursiva, I, I Cursiva, I Titular, Mercantil, Negra, Prolongada, Universal, Universal Cursiva, Universal Negra, Universal Negra Cursiva, Universal Negra Estrecha, Universal Seminegra, Veneciana, Veneciana Cursiva, Veneciana Cursiva Fantasia.
• Antigua Manuscrito: a semiscript face designed by Hermann Delitsch at the Royal Academy of Graphic Arts in Leipzig. Delitsch was Tschichold's teacher. Digitized as a family by Paulo W as Gans Antigua Manuscrito (2006).
• Antigua Progreso (1923) (+Cursiva, Negra): an interesting serif face. A digital version called Bellini was made by A. Pat Hickson, 1992. Linotype sells Greco (DsgnHaus, 1996) which according to some typophiles really is Progreso.
• Arabe.
• Atlántida.
• Azures.
• Bodoni and Bodoni Redonda.
• Carmen, Carmen Adornada, Velázquez, Españolas Adornadas, Antigua Adornada, Utopian, Tipos de Adorno, Americanas (Tuscan style), Americanas-Titular, Elzevirianas Adornadas: Late 19-th century style display faces. Paulo W (Intellecta Design) created the beautiful digital family Gans Tipo Adorno (2006). He also made the family Gans Titular Adornada (2006).
• Cartel.
• Cursiva Comercial.
• Dalia (or Ibarra Vaciada): a two-line display face. Similar to Delphian Open Titling (Middleton, Ludlow, 1928).
• Egipcia in weights called Estrecha, Negra and Nueva. Egipcia Progreso (1923, short ascenders): slab serif styles.
• Elzeviriano: Anchas, Adornado, B, B Cursiva, Chupado, Ibarra, Ibarra Cursiva, Ibarra Titular, Negro.
• Escorial: a display face with Koch Antiqua influences, designed ca. 1960 by Antonio Bilbao. Additional weights include Cursiva, Seminegra and Titular.
• Escritura Juventud (1950, Joan Trochut Blanchard): a great script with lots of identity and swing. Other Escritura styles: Decorativa, Gloria reformada, Isabel, Luis XV, Selecta.
• Espanolas.
• Etienne Ancha.
• Filetes de Bronce, Filetes de Metal.
• Fulgor (1930): a connected script face.
• Gacela.
• Gaviota.
• Gloria (already listed above under Escritura), Gloria Reformada (1930): a connected script family. Gloria was revived by Nick Curtis in 2005 as Pismo Clambake NF.
• Gótico Cervantes (1928): blackletter with regular and ornamental caps.
• Gótico Globo: art nouveau style with blackletter influences.
• Gótico Uncial (blackletter).
• Graciosa (+Gris).
• Griego.
• Grotesca Ancha (+Fina, Negra, Nueva, Vaciada).
• Grotesca Antigua.
• Grotesca Chupada and Grotesca Chupada Redonda: a rounded sans.
• Grotesca Colón.
• Grotesca Compacta.
• Grotesca Cursiva (+Seminegra).
• Grotesca Estrecha Hercules.
• Grotesca Mercantil, Grotesca Mercurio, Grotesca Negra Cursiva.
• Grotesca Ideal (Negra, Fina, Entrelina), Grotesca Favorita, Grotesca Reformada.
• Grotesca Radio: a geometric no-contrast sans. Styles: Editorial, Estrecha Fina, Estrecha Negra, Fina, Fina Cursiva, Negra, Negra Cursiva, Seminegra, Seminegra Cursiva.
• Helenica (+Ancha, Ancha Negra, Ancha Seminegra, Cursiva, Seminegra).
• Ibarra (1931) and Ibarra Cursiva: a tall ascender garalde family. Ibarra Negra, Ibarra Negra estrecha, Ibarra Vaciada, Ibarra Redonda. See also under Elzeviriano above. Iniciales Ibarra.
• Imán: a shadow headline all-caps face.
• Inglesa Excelsior.
• Italiana (Cursiva, Titular), 1951, a black caps face. Italienne (Chupada, Moderna).
• Luxor (+Cursiva, Negro, Negro Estrecho).
• Manos (manicules, fists).
• Maquina de Escrebir.
• Maruxa.
• Normanda (Ancha Negra, estrecha Negra).
• Nueva Antigua No. 1 and No. 2. Nuevas Titulares Adornadas.
• Orlas de Linea.
• Preciosa: Showboat-style Western look.
• Primavera: a condensed sans. Paulo W digitized a condensed family called Gans Lath Modern (2006).
• Radio Bicolor: a headline sans family.
• Radio Gris. Scans of the Radio catalog of 1930.
• Radio Lumina: a display sans. Digitized as Gans Radio Lumina (2006) by Paulo W at Intellecta Design.
• Regina (+Estrecha), Helios, Vulcano (1920s): art nouveau style. Ludlow's Vulcan Bold is based on Vulcano.
• Renacimiento Ancha.
• Romana I (+Cursiva, Egipcia, Estrecha, Negra).
• Royalty.
• Senefelder: engraved look all caps.
• Talla Dulce (+Cursiva).
• Tipo Sombreado, Tipos Adornados, Tipos de Texto.
• Titania (1933): an elegant two-line poster face. See the revival Faerie Queen NF (2006, Nick Curtis).
• Veneziana Negra.

Gerónimo Orduña

Spanish printer in Badajoz who published Muestras de los caractéres de la imprenta de D. Gerónimo Orduña in 1851. This book is rather ordinary, but offers some nice bookplates. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gorka Garcia Hernandez

Madrid-based Spanish designer (b. 1976) of the destructionist face Soot Break (2005), the hip font Font City (2005) and the grunge typeface extranvetica (2005). Alternate URL. He also made the liquid face Pota (2008). Additional URL. [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]  ⦿

Graficalia

Nice gallery of Spanish type from the last century. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Guillermo Rodríguez

Designer of GH22, a squarish pixel font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Harukaze (or: Zazzle)

Designer based in Torrelavega, Spain, b. 1974 or 1975. His fonts include Harukaze74 symbols (2005), Harukaze74 Handwritten (2005, also called "drit") and these pixel fonts (2006): BlackCrabDrunkenPoint, BlackCrabPoint, Blackcrab, Blackcrabdrunken, Blackcrabdrunkenline, Blackcrabouttheline. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. And one more URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Héctor del Amo

Designer in Gijon, Spain. He created the display sans face Scalpel (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Héctor Noval

Spanish graphic designer who made the display sans face Maxibon OT (2011). Home page. Beautiful logo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hector Pichel Abalde

Spanish graphic designer who created the elliptic sans face Elephant Light (2011). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Helena Pérez Garcia

Graphic designer, illustrator and photographer in Valencia, Spain, who created a thin monoline face called Miranda Sans (2011), a slabby didone face called Cecilia (2011) and an experimental minimalist face called Rota (2011, with Pablo Funcia). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Huy Fonts
[Juan José Lopez]

Huy Fonts is a foundry in Madrid run by Juan José Lopez. Lopez made the informal sketchified family Bodoniez (2011), Chiripa (2011, handprinted), Hands Up (2011, various hands, including "thumbs up", "a OK", "the finger", and fists), Paquita Pro (2011, informal lettering), Ultramarina (2011, a quaint face based on wood type headline examples), and Pichi (2011).

Earlier, Lopez was a T-shirt designer, who also used the name Juanjo Lopez. Old page of Juanjez Nikis.

At Dafont, one could download the headline handwriting font Paquita (2006), a predecessor of Paquita Pro.

Klingspor link.

View Juanjo Lopez's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ibarra
[Francisco José Serón Arbeloa]

A free type 1 and truetype font family called Ibarra, made by Juan Ignacio Pulido Trullén, Sandra Silvia Baldassarri Santa Lucía, and Francisco José Serón Arbeloa (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain) based on characters printed ca. 1770 by Joaquín Ibarra y Marín, the famous Spanish printer who lived from 1725-1785. Here they explain how the revival was done. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Icía Rodriguez

Spanish designer of the handprinted typeface Clensey (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ignacio Pérez

Spanish author of the writing manual Arte de escrevir con cierta industria (1559). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ignacio Rómulo Fernández

Spanish type designer who lives in Madrid. Fonts (not downloadable) include Elipse, Simple (2001, Garcia Fonts), Törio (a flowing formal script), Renau, and Convocatoria. Ignacio is mainly interested in 18th century Spanish typography, the golden age of printing in Spain. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Inaki Saiz

Located in Madrid, and born in 1974, Inaki Saiz created the ransom note font Revista (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

io grafix tipografia
[Iñaki Marquínez]

Spanish site with about 15 downloadable fonts, including the old typewriter font dyslexia, cafeta, and others. Designed by Iñaki Marquínez. Short bio and interview by Juan Carlos Pacheco. Marquínez's commercial fonts can also be ordered from here: psychological damage fonts such as Collageno, Aplomo, Dislexiae and Gripe set the general tone of his work. The free fonts are gone, it seems. Names of fonts: Anaiak, Aplomo, Bifidus, Cafeta, Collageno, Dislexiae, ElMono, Gabo6, Gara, Gripe, Juegos, Prima, Rectas, Sintecho. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ipanema Gráfica
[Rubén Prol]

Brazilian photoblog site, where original fonts such as Rita (2010, slabby), Comic Arousa (2007), Nantronte (2005), Velvet Illusions (2005, retro futuristic), Vila Morena (2006), Johnyokonysm (2005), As pedras da Belle Otero (2006, an artsy pixel font), Milocha (2010, sans), Rita (2010, slab serif), and Marela (2005) may be found.

Rubén Prol (Compostela and A Coruna, Spain) created the sans face Carme (2011), which is free at Google Font Directory. Ancient Galician stone inscriptions led Prol to design Uralita (2012).

Dafont link. Behance link. Old URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ipsum Planet
[Pedro Pan]

Design group associated with Neo2 magazine in Spain, for which they created some (free) experimental typefaces. The designer seems to be Pedro Pan. These include the paperclip face Aria (2002), the bold rounded face Bassel (2002), Barco.D.A. (2006), Web (2002, pixel face), Teletype (2003, stitching font), Video (2002, blocky face), Puntogotic (2002, fuzzy blackletter), Gallega (octagonal), Zarautz (2006, fashionable simple sans, free here), Track (octagonal), Ciclo (2007, bike chain-themed glyphs), Rotring (arc-themed), Paperfont (2006, alphabet made out of paper), Canaletto (2006, rounded monoline font), New Euro (2002, vertically etched all-caps face), Pixar Five (2002, pixel face), Quiniela (2002, stitching font), Steroid (2008, Star Trek font), Spectrum (2002, rectangularly-pixeled face), Regaliz (2005, a multiline face), Icon (2002, a multiline face), Alpha and Airline (2002, octagonal monoline faces), Elo (2004, a good-looking art deco face), Tipod (2006, dot matrix face), Button (2002, dot matrix face), Lobula (2007, art deco), Bit (2002, pixel face), TCK-2000 (2000, futuristic), Rubik (2002, art deco), Error PostScript (2002), Strokes (2003, a multiline face), Maciza (2003), DNNR (2004), Sector-96 (2007, modular), Novich (2007, glyphs based on musical notes), Funk (2003, simple sans), De Stijl (2002), Hi-Fi (2002, pixelish), Salami. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ismal Merlo

Spanish typecutter in the 18th century. Mário Feliciano's FTF Merlo (1997-2004, work still continuing in 2010) is an interpretation of his letters. [Google] [More]  ⦿

J. Anton Alcor

Spanish creator of Trian Alfarera (2010), a free Open Font Library face based on street tiling in Sevilla. [Google] [More]  ⦿

J.A. Garcia Hijos

Madrid-based foundry. Their work can be found in Muestrario de caractéres de imprenta de la fundicion de los Hijos de J.A. Garcia (Madrid, Imprenta, fundicion y fábrica de tintas, calle de Campomanes, número 6 [ca.1880?]). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jaime Bernaldez

Born in Sevilla, Spain, in 1989, Jaime Bernaldez designed Futuro Sans Serif in 2012, a year after his graduation from the Escuela de Arte de Jerez.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Javier Garcia Comeche

Graphic designer in Valencia, Spain.

Creator of Seaholes (2012), a typeface based on the work of illustrator and artist Josep Renau. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jean Larcher

French type designer (b. 1947) whose fonts include Abécédaire à Renayures (1991, for Collector magazine), Beauté (1966, for Magazine Votre Beauté), Castillejo-Bauhaus (1980, Rapitype Madrid), Catich (1998), Digitale (1974, Hollenstein Phototypo), Gautier (1992, Agence J.-P. Gautier&Associés), Guapo (1973-75, Hollenstein Phototypo), Hollywood Script (1989), Honolulu (1974, Hollenstein Phototypo), Incise Volume (1981, for Cergy Magazine), Jamaica Experience (1978, for Rock Hebdo Magazine), Lancöme (1981, Rapitype, for Lancöme), Larcher (1974, Hollenstein Phototypo), Latina (1987, Mécanorma), Liberté Égalité Fraternité (1985, for the Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale), Logement (1980, Rapitype, for Cergy Magazine), Menhir (1973-75, Hollenstein Phototypo), New Crayon (1980, Rapitype, for Cergy Magazine), Optical (1974, Hollenstein Phototypo), Plouf (1970-74, Hollenstein Phototypo), Rasgueo (1979, for U&lc Magazine), Revival (1979, for 20 ans Magazine), Soleil (1973-75, Hollenstein Phototypo), Super Crayon (1976, Titrage CCT), Tornade (1974, Hollenstein Phototypo), Veloz (1987, Mécanorma), Vibrator (1976, Titrage CCT). 3D Alphabet (by Character) is inspired by an alphabet coloring book designed by Jean Larcher, 1978. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jess Garcia

Spanish designer of Precarios Stencil (2012). Devian tart link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jesús Gorriti

Spanish designer (b. 1976) of the handprinted Gorri Sans (2009). Dafont link. [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]  ⦿

Joaquín Ibarra y Marín

Famous Spanish printer (b. Zaragoza, 1725, d. Madrid, 1785). He worked mostly in Madrid as a printer. He never cut type, but commissioned people such as Gil, Pradell, Rongel and Espinosa to cut it for him. Sandra Baldassarri, Ignacio Pulido and Francisco Serón at the University of Zaragoza are attempting to revive his typefaces: see here and here. These authors have him born in 1709 though, so I will have to check out that discrepancy. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jorge Artola

Designer of the free rounded counterless face Oh Mai Mai (2010), which was inspired by the Mai Mai Monster. Behance link. Dafont link. Jorge lives in Madrid. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jorge Coci

Spanish writing master in the XVIth century. His lettering served as an example for the Columbus text family developed in 1992 by Patricia and David saunders at Monotype. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jorge León

Born in 1987 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, this graphic designer now lives in Barcelona. Behance link. He created Foster (2010, a didone italic) and the display faces Joker Serif and Joker Slab Serif (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jorge Lorenzo

Designer in Llanera, Spain, who created Super Veloz (2012), a modular animal-themed typeface named in honor of the master of modularity, Jean Trochut, who created his Super Veloz in 1942. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jose Alberto Gonzalez Vega

Alberto Gonzalez (b. 1977, Algeciras) runs Plus Design in Barcelona. He created FAT BROSS (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

José Ausejo Matute

Spanish type designer at the Richard Gans Foundry who died in 1998. [Google] [More]  ⦿

José Cruzado

Spanish author of Muestraio de los caracteres de la imprenta / José Cruzado (Madrid, 1990, 147 pages). [Google] [More]  ⦿

José Maria Cerezo

Spanish type designer who runs the digital type foundry Cajabaja. He designed Bravo (1990-1997, an octagonal family published in 1996 at Neufville), Fractura ND (1997, Neufville: a semi-stencil), Neutra, Neometric and Menú (1990-1997). See also here. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

José Maria Chema Ribagorda

Madrid-based type designer and type professor, who teaches design at the Escuela de Arte diez de Madrid, and is an associate professor in the Facultad de BBAA of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Cofounder and organizer of the first two Congreso Nacional de Tipografía en Espana. Types designed by him: the beautiful text font Yciar, Hispana (1995-1996, Garcia Fonts), Ibarra Real (1999-2007, based on a Richard Gans type; joint with Mario Sanchez; free download here and at Microsoft; they write: IbarraReal is a public-domain font of Ibero-American character, created in 2005 as a revival of the types cast by Jeronimo Gil for the Royal Spanish Academy's edition of Don Quixote, printed in Madrid by Joaquin Ibarra in 1780.), Tipografía Arquetipo (2004). At ATypI 2006 in Lisbon, he spoke about Gerónimo Gil, The Royal Print of Spain and Joaquin Ibarra. He is currently working on the types that Gerónimo Gil used for the Quijote, published by the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language and printed by the famous printer, Joaquin Ibarra, in 1780. [Google] [More]  ⦿

José Miguel Méndez

Jose Miguel Méndez is a Spanish graphic designer and illustrator living and working in London. He created some poster typefaces in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joseph de Casanova

Also, José de Casanova. Noted Spanish calligrapher from the mid 17th century, who had the title examinador de los Maestros de Arte de la Caligrafía en la villa de Madrid. He was a highly regarded penman. Author of Arte de escribir toda forma de letras, impressa (1650). Samples of his work. Curlicues from 1650. Signature ornament. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juan A. Lavalle

Juan Antonio Lavalle (b. 1959, Buenos Aires) studied Architecture at the University of Buenos Aires. Later, he moved to Madrid were he worked on large design projects. He resides in Madrid, Spain and offers his fonts through the Eurotypo foundry. Ethnicity (2011) is inspired and based on many indigenous South American geometric shapes such as Mapuche and Diaguitas. Equalis (2011, with Olcar Alcaide) is a monoline slab face with a huge x-height and wide open counters. Quadratique (2011) and Trigonus (2011) are typefaces for making patterns. MP>In 2012, he made the Skinwall dingbats face.

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

Juan Bautista de Morales

Spanish penman, who lived around 1600. He published Pronvnciaciones generales de lenguas, ortografía, escuela de Leer, Escriuir y Contar, y Sinificación de letras en la mano (1623, Montilla). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juan Carlos Grafico
[Juan Carlos Pacheco]

Spanish design/typography site. Juan Carlos Pacheco made the experimental font Polilla (a cross between Flexure and Goudy) in 1997/1998. Spanish type scene. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juan de Iciar

Also written as Juan de Yciar or Juan de Ycíar or Ioannes de Yciar. Spanish calligrapher, mathematician and writing master, 1515-1590. Author of Arte Subtillissima (1553, Zaragossa) and Arte Breve (1559, Zaragossa). According to Heitlinger, he was born in 1523, not 1515, in the Basque city of Durango (Vizcaya). He studied calligraphy with Tagliente and Palatino, and invented the so-called Spanish Bastarda, and drew many beautiful chancery alphabets. Image of Spanish gothic capitals (1550). He published Recopilación subtillísima intitulada Orthographia Practica in 1547-1548 (Zaragoza), the first writing manual in Spain. That work was republished in 2003 by Jakider. From that book, his beautiful Latina initial caps. Scan of his Spanish renaissance alphabet, other alphabets, Ave Maria (1548, from Arte Subtilissima), chancery hand, and Cancellaresca gruesca (1548). Biblioteca complutense de Madrid has images on-line. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juan Frias

Brazilian illustrator and designer of computer games. On Behance, he says that he lives in Spain. Designer of the fat counterless family Mantequilla (+Congelada) in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juan José Martín Andrés

Spanish FontStructor who made the modular face dingbats Exquizoofrenic and Joves in 2010. He also made the silhouette dingbat face Cosas (2010). Design blog. Aka Dartearte. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juan R. Hernando

Typographer in Valladolid, Spain in the late 19th century. He published the specimen book Muestrario de caracteres tipográficos del establecimiento de Juan R. Hernando (Valladolid, 1896, Imp. de Juan R. Hernando). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karen Bueno

Art director in Madrid. I am not sure that her geometric alphabet Hard Candy (2010) was actually made into a font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Karin Pérez

Spanish designer of the connected monoline sans face Sequire (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Keko Perera

Spanish web and graphic designer in Tenerife, b. 1980. Dafont link. He used Fontcapture to make the ransom note fonts tengoatushijos. (2009) and tengoatushijosnegativo (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kid Letters
[Juan-José Marcos]

Kid Letters is a set of eleven instructional style truetype fonts designed in 2005-2006 by Juan José Marcos, a professor of classical languages in Plasencia, Spain. 60 Euros for the set: KidLetters-Bold, KidLetters, KidLettersArrows, KidLettersDotted, KidLettersDottedGuided1, KidLettersDottedGuided2, KidLettersDottedSquared, KidLettersGuided1, KidLettersGuided2, KidLettersMajuscules, KidLettersSquared (2006). This font family is specifically designed for teaching kids how to write, using aids such as dotted glyphs, lined letters, directional arrows and a combination of these. Letters do link to each other in a natural fashion. These manuscript fonts contain all the common signs, as well as accented characters - acute accent, grave accent, circumflex, tilde, diaeresis or umlaut mark, ring, cedilla, ae and oe ligatures, o slash and German double s - for Western European languages (Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Dutch, Danish, Norvegian, Swedish and Icelandic, among others) and current symbols. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kinema Moon Graphics
[Yuichi Nakagawa]

Kinema Moon Graphics has Yuichi Nakagawa's fonts. Some free fonts: Betulehem, Fude (2008, handwriting), Fushi, Fuu, GolgothaObliqueE, GolgothaObliqueJ, Golgotha, HOSHI, Hane, InKanji, In, Ishi, Ito, KADOkaku, KADOmaru, Kakato, KATACHI, Kodama, Koto, Looper, Mizu, Moleculemodel, Namida, OTOchouha, OTOtanpa, Sakura, Shiziku, Sinobi, Sora, Sputnik (1998), Take, TenRegularE, Tsuno (gothic), Tsuta, V2, Yoru. Commercial fonts: Toge (2007-2008, gothic), Yari (2008, a pointy blackletter), Some of its commercial fonts are sold through Font Pavilion. Check here for the very nice medieval Spanish-look font Ibara (Roman and Japanese versions). In Font Pavilion 12 (2000), SORA-RegularE and SORA-RegularJ. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kingdom Pixels

Spanish designers of the fat signage face Sommerschule (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kingdom Pixels (or: Reding)
[J.A. Puche]

Kingdom Pixels (or: Reding) is a design group in Spain. Reding on Behance. Kingdom Pixels on Behance. It is run by Spanish graphic designer, illustrator and art director J.A. Puche.

They developed the custom stencil face eGruyère (2011). Other typefaces include Sommerschule Type (2012, a signage face), and Foamy Type (2012, morbidly obese and rounded: free for the price of a Twitter). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kreis

Kreis is a young communication designer from Tenerife, and is into fonts, fashion and film. He lives in Braunschweig, Germany, and is present on Behance. In 2010, he made an experimental alphabet---perhaps not a font---, called Kafka. [Google] [More]  ⦿

La Camorra

Madrid-based designer of Caliquena (2005). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lagalga
[Heriberto Noguera]

Heriberto Noguera is the Spanish designer of LG Janfri (2010, bilined), LG Taladra (2010, a geometric face with bullet holes), Monodespaced (2010, handprinted), JICA (2009, poster font), Tocco (2009, heavy sans), Barjola (2009, blackletter), Garjola (2009, pixelish blackletter), Nada Ultralight (2009), Mika Medium (2009), Grapafont (2007), Mika (2005, techno), Pelos (2006), FuckSans Joder (2006, pornographic symbols), Graphia (2005, script), Floja Script (2005, nice and scratchy) and Nada (2005, a futuristic face). Home page of Heriberto. Dafont link. Behance link. He lives in Mostoles, Spain. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lara Lozano

Spanish (Catalan?) designer of some experimental typefaces, such as Rose (2010), a face in which the dots are rose petals. She also made a face called Buit (2010) but I can't find a sample anywhere. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lavernia&Asociados
[Nacho Lavernia]

Lavernia&Asociados is a design outfit in Valencia, Spain. Designers of some experimental type. An example: Lorem y Letras by Nacho Lavernia and Sebastian Alós (1996). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Le Moustache!

Le Moustache is based in Palma de Mallorca. They created the ultra-black experimental face Payopony (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Letrag

Font news in English, Spanish and Galego. Lots of updates! Goodies on type classification, font search, a type glossary, font identification, type articles, and related information. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lettering in Santiago

Pictures of lettering in Santiago de Compostela, taken by yours truly with a cheap digital camera in 2003. [7MB] [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lletraferits

Barcelona-based Spanish type design blog. It is run by these people: zorglub, rare, PHOTO&GRAPHIC, Carlos Cabanas, Ángel, Arnau, Álvaro, Ángel, Josep Patau Bellart, lletraferit, clau4ni, Raúl Campuzano, Dídac Ballester, Andreu Balius, Eduardo Manso, txo, Txusmarcano, Víctor Palau. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lojain Hisham

Spanish designer (b. 1990) of Foshia (2009), an Arabic alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lolailonline
[Celia Martinez Bravo]

This Spanish site has an interesting free "Kiddy Pixel" font (2001) by Celia Martinez Bravo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lorena Carrera

Spanish creator of HolaHola (2012). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lorena Fernandez Gomes

Graphic designer in Vigo (Galicia) who made the avant-garde geometric face Lorilight (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lucia Gonzalez Calvo

Graphic and editorial designer in Madrid. She constructed a bicephalous experimental typeface in 2010. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luis Armesilla

Madrid-based creator of the free font Morning Glory (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luis Misa

Spanish designer of the digital font family Ibarra (Regular, OldStyle) based on the writings of famous Spanish printer Joaquin Ibarra y Marin (1725-1789). These fonts were free, but the link died. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luis Vicente Hernandez

Spanish designer in Madrid who created the free pixelish face Houndstooth in 2007 for Neo2, a Spanish magazine. Behance link. His creations include Anchor Deco (2009), Caponata (2009, elegant display face), Maxima (2009), Aguadulce (2009), Super League Font (2010), Minima, Absurda, Houndstooth, Unga Unga (primitive counterless comic book face), Perruna, DDCT Abstrusa (2009), Black Diamonz (2009), Bouncing Wisdom (2010, a face in the style of Rennie Mackintosh), Boaz (2010, a display headline face), Farewell (2011), Averis (2011, an art deco display face).

In 2012, he created the tall piano key typeface Buho.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luisa Camarena Estruch

Graphic designer in Valencia, Spain, who made Tipografia Caligrafica (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luishock Martinez

Spanish graphic and type designer who made the experimental face Vinagre (2008) and of the alchemic face Dolor Lacus (2011). He is based in Madrid.

Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Luxy

Designer from Marbella, Spain, who created Twilight (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maarziin

Maarziin (Marina) is from Donostia, near San Sebastian. She made the child handwriting font Maarziin (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

maduo

Madrid-based creator of the layered art deco face Maduo Etra (2010). Maduo is a design studio in Madrid. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Manual Lage

Galician designer in La Coruna, b. 1970, who specialized initially in sexy silhouette fonts: Sexy Spanish Erasmus Girls (2007), Chicas y Mujeres (2007), Sexy Spanish Woman (2007), Gimnasia (2009). He also made the distressed faces TNewPro (2009) and Carboncillo Palo (2007), Galera Coruña (2008, Victorian), and the geometric display face WFF Lage Grafica (2007). Lage Goyesca (2008) is an elegant upright script.

In 2009, he published Sistemas Font BT, which seems to be a copy of or very close to the well-known stencil face Futura Black BT. Fuck This Copy (2011) is a counterless grunge face. In 2012, he published LGF Terra Demo.

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Manuel De La Fuente Baños

Designer in Valladolid, Spain, who created the experimental typeface Darkie (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Manuel Egal

Spanish designer of the erotic outline font Sexy Spanish Woman (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Manuel Ponce

Born in 1986 and located in Ribera del Fresno (Spain), Manuel Ponce designed Ibiza in 2009. Urban Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Manuel Ramos

Valencia, Spain-based creator of these typefaces in 2012: Artistica (art deco), Iniciatica (bilined), Isabel (bilined caps-only face), Regard (hairline), Glubgraff (graffiti), Graffont (graffiti font), Extraterrestrial, Expresiva, Rotorica (spiky), Passion (a hairline avant-garde face), Infinita (hairline avant-garde sans), Cosmonautica (fashion mag typeface with just capitals; also called Eternal), New World (thin octagonal), Modes (condensed and straight-edged), Modesta (thin octagonal) and Garbage.

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

Manuel Tomas Campagnoli Giménez

Spanish designer (b. 1975) of the free font Ultima Campagnoli (1997), inspired, so he says, by old sci-fi movies. He runs a design firm in Oviedo, Spain. Click on "works", then "editorial", then "fonts". [Google] [More]  ⦿

Manya Disseny
[José María Gosálbez Ruete]

Spanish site with type and graphic design news from Spain. Edited by José María Gosálbez Ruete. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mapi Bg

Graphic designer in Madrid who made the multilined geometric typeface Straight Type (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marc Olesti

Madrid-based graphic designer and art director. Creator of the bling face Marqui (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marcelo Riera

Marcelo Riera (Orihuela, Spain) created the paper fold typeface Galgos (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marcos Rafael Blanco-Belmonte

Author of "El maestro Ibarra: Homenaje que la casa Gans al celebrar sus bodas de oro, dedica al gran impresor Joaquin Ibarra" (Madrid: Richard Gans, 1931). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Maria Eugenia Prato

Spanish art director based in Madrid. She created an exquisite copperplate-style calligraphic script face called Dhana Script (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mariano Rivera Corbalán

Mariano Rivera Corbalán (Rivera Diseño) is a designer in Valencia, Spain. He created the multiline face Line (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marsi Desino

Spanish designer Maria at Marsi Desino created Fifont (2010) and Caracol (2010, a wedge-serifed handprinted face). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marta Serrano Sanchez

Editorial and graphic designer in Spain who created an informal upright script face in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mase Design

Mase Design (Valencia, Spain) used the poster lettering for bull fights by Josep Renau in the creation of El Toro (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matías Canales González.

Designer in Alicante, Spain, of the tree-themed face Gill Tree (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Matthew Beattie

Matthew Beattie (Q3 Designs, Spain) created the handwriting face Matt Serif (2006) and the hand-drawn fat display face Beluga Script (2007). Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mauricio Amster

Polish-Spanish designer, 1907-1980, who fled Spain in 1939 to Chile on board of the Winnipeg, and who revolutionized editorial design in Chile. He worked on the mag Zig-Zag. Examples of his sublime lettering: calligraphy, Cancellaresca, Gotica Bastarda, Romana Antigua, Romantica Humanistica, Rotunda. Photo. Joaquin Contreras wrote a thesis at the Faculty of Architecture of the University in Chile in 2007 entitled Diseño de fuentes tipográficas, basadas en los libros integramente caligrafiados por Mauricio Amster en Chile. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Max Castellarnau

Spanish designer of the experiental circular geometric face Sunrise (2010). Home page. Aka galundor and Maximo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Melanie Malzahn

Professor at IDG Wien (Indogermanistik Wien) of the Instituts für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Wien. She designed Aal, Aal-Bold, Aal-BoldKursiv, Aal-Kursiv, AalTimes, AalTimesNewRoman-Kursiv, Aatoch, AatochFett, Aatoch-BoldKursiv, AatochKursiv, Aaron, Aaron-Bold, Aaron-BoldKursiv, AaronKursiv, AaronPunkt, AaronPunkt-Kursiv, Agriech (based on a typeface of Peter J. Gentry&Andrew M. Fountain, 1993), Agriech-Kursiv, Amairgin, Amairgin-Bold, Amairgin-BoldKursiv, Amairgin-Kursiv, AmairginTimes, AmairginTimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT, Aspgriech, Aspgriech-Kursiv, and Keltiberisch (2001, a runes font). No downloads. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel Ángel Lozano Bonora

Argentinian/Spanish type designer who lives in Zaragoza. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel Angel Durán Pascual

Designer of the old church Slavonic font Kirilttf (with Tanya Laleva, Filología Eslava, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 1994). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel Hernández

This Miguel Hernández lives in Madrid. Not to be confused with his Chilean namesake at Latinotype. The Madrileno created the outlined hand-drawn poster typeface Marina (2011). In 2012, he made the interesting techno / gridded typeface family Metatron.

Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel M. Velacoracho

Madrid-based creator of the sans face Cero (2001, Garcia Fonts) and the game-inspired pixelish face Game (2002). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Miguel Pedraza

Author, ca. 1945, of Rotulacion Decorativa no. 1 (Ediciones ARS, Barcelona) and Rotulacion Decorativa no. 5 (Ediciones ARS, Barcelona). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mikel Romero

Born in Pamplona in 1987 who obtained a Masters in typography and type design from EINA in Barcelona. He designed Macca (2011, a typewriter style Egyptian family), Straw (2011, a display face), and Rokel (2011, a sans face for texts). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Minzhe Chen

Minzhe Chen, aka Yuan, is a designer and illustrator from Vigo (Galicia, Spain). He has lived in Hong Kong, Barcelona, and currently he is studying Graphic and Interactive Communications at Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida.

Creator of the thin monoline sans face Hilo (2012), which was designed by merging Apex Sans and Museo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Monica Villar

Spanish designer who lives in Donostia-San Sebastian. Behance link.

Her typefaces include Lost in Time (2012, display face). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Munster Estudio

Munster Estudio in Zaragoza, Spain, is responsible for these typefaces: Riot (2010, brush), Oh Yeah (2010, handprinted caps). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nacho Lambertini

Designer in Mallorca and Madrid. For a course project, he designed Caminito Regular (2011). Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nadia Paez Bertolotto

Ibiza-based Spanish graphic designer who made the square experimental face Arena (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nano Torres

Nano Torres lives in Granada, Spain, where works as a designer. Behance link. Creator of the bold display face Grotta (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Naone 79

Illustrator in Madrid, who created the kitchen tile face Surf70 (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Natalia Mirapleix

Spanish designer who created the free experimental face Orquidea in 2004 for Neo2, a Spanish magazine. [Google] [More]  ⦿

NeNe_WeNo

Spanish designer (b. 1983) who made NeNe_WeNo Width HandWrite (2009), NeNe_WeNoReliev (2009, 3d face) and NeNe_WeNoShadowHandWrite (2009, a 3d grunge face). Blog. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Neo2

Free experimental typefaces usually associated with the Neo2 blog and magazine. In Spanish. Neo2 (the magazine) started in 1994. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nextia

Nextia Design is located in Valencia, Spain. Creators of the silhouette dingbat faces ND Urban (2009) and ND Urban II (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Noelia Flores

Madrid-based graphic designer, who created Boumber (2011), a typeface of concentric circles designed for percussion instruments. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Noem9 Studio
[José A. Garrido]

Noem9 Studio is an online studio created by Jose A. Garrido, a graphic designer who was born in Spain and who lives in Zaragoza. Behance link. He created Avanth (2012), a modular experimental typeface that is very useful for logos and titles.

Creattica link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Octavio Pardo Virto

Spanish graduate from the type design program at the University of Reading in 2010. He designed Cabriole for his thesis work. This is a very Latin face, with round contours and a lot of pizzazz---as if it came straight out of old Iberian textbooks. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Omar Sosa

Spanish designer of the typewriter family A80241736. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paco Bascunan

Spanish designer of the display face Girasoules (1998). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paula Natal

Digital photographer and graphic designer from Gijon, Spain, who made the 2 pi R face (2011, handprinted). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pedro Arilla

Don Serifa is a beautiful and informative Spanish type blog run by Pedro Arilla, who is based in Zaragoza, Spain, and who was born in 1984 in Ejea de los Caballeros, and studied graphic design at Escuela Superior de Diseño de Aragón.

Pedro also designed some typefaces. These include the free didone typeface Valentina (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pedro de Flórez

Spanish Jesuit father and penman, who lived around 1600. He published Método del Arte de Escribir (1614, Madrid, Luys Sánchez), a book in which he teaches how to write and draw Bastarda. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pedro Delgado

Designer in Sevilla, Spain. Dafont link. Creator of the art deco display face Capriccio (2011) around the theme of a restaurant. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pedro de Madariaga

Author in Valencia of Libro Subtilissimo intitulado Honra de escribanos (1565), a writing manual. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pedro Díaz Morante

Spanish penman, calligrapher and engraver, 1565-1636. He lived in Toledo from 1591 on and moved to Madrid in 1612. He published Arte nueva de escribir in which he explains his system for teaching cursive writing, published in five volumes between 1615 and 1631. He was respected as a great penman, who, incidentally, was ambidexterous. Scans: a calligraphic drawing of Felipe IV in 1624, a Spanish Bastarda (1624), a chancery hand (1630). Picture. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pedro Manero

Art director in Madrid. Behance link. Designer of Adam Gold (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pedro Muñoz Pastor

Spanish creator (b. 1993) of the octagonal/pixel fonts Limh and Limh II (2009, FontStruct), GameOver (2009), Greek (2009, octagonal Greek simulation face, FontStruct) and 1896 (2009, constructivist). Aka Fodkito, he lives in Córdoba. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pelayo Romero

Designer in Spain who runs Pyo Studio. He created Mantequerí (2011), and Circon (2011, hairline sans based on circles). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pepe Gimeno

Spanish designer (b. Valencia, 1951) of the handwriting font Warhol, with slight calligraphic influences (possibly based on the handwriting of Andy Warhol's mother, Julia Warhol). It won an award at the TDC2 2001 competition (Type Directors Club). He also designed the curly FF Pepe family (2002). Since 1987 he has worked on a free-lance basis specialising in graphic communication, corporate identity, signposting and publication design. He has taught graphic design at the C. E. U. San Pablo University, Valencia. Author of "Cali Typography?" (2002, La Imprenta-Comunicación Gráfica). Bio at FontFont. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pezflash

Design studio in Madrid. At Graphic River, one can buy Baricco, Tabucchi, Pavese, and Tamaro, all pixel fonts designed in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pilar Celda

Valencia, Spain-based creator of the quaint face Yore (2011), and of Amalasuntha (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pisto Casero
[Gilberto Moya Perona]

Fine Arts student at UCLM (University of Castilla-La Mancha) in Spain, who works as a graphic designer in Cuenca. Gilberto Moya Perona is the designer of the 3d outline family Paper Cube (2011), the ink spill face Sopa de Letras (2011), the fat counterless face Minimal (2011), the outline face I Am Online With U (2011), the 3d handprinted outline face Indietronica (2011), the stencil pixel face Stencil 8Bit (2011), Wet Arial (2011, a beautifully executed type treatment face), and the 3d pixel face Chip Tunes (2011).

Gilberto works at DO2 Magazine. Home page. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Prosaiper

Graphic designer in Alicante, Spain, b. 1986. In 2009-2010, he created EcoLive (sans), Filler (experimental, geometric), Industrial (squarish), and Wind and Bubbles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Putis Mayer

Spanish designer who created the poo-themed typeface Defecafont (2005) as well as Fat Ass (2007) and the wooden plank style face Helter Skater (2009). Dafont link. Fontsy link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Quka.net
[Angel Justo]

Alternate URL of Angel Justo's pages. Angel designed Xozza (2001) and Quka (2001, pixel font). Free beta versions. Angel Justo (b. 1973, Galicia, Spain) is a professional graphic designer from Galicia, Spain. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rafael Cordeiro

Madrid-based graphic designer and art director, who created the organic typeface Paulistania (2009) and the neo modern serif Sliq (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rahman Abbasli

Azerbaijani designer of FC Barcelona (2009), Premier League (2007), and Real Madrid 2009 (2009). Fontsy link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Raúl Iglesias

Designer of the origami-style typeface Tangram (2010). Behance link. Raúl lives in Madrid. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Raúl Rodríguez

Spanish type designer who lives in France. He won an award at Tipo-Q in 2006 for RRhidalgo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Raul Rosarivo

Author of Divina Proporcion Tipografica. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Redblog

Spanish type blog. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Resistenza
[Giuseppe Salerno]

Giuseppe Salerno (aka Resistenza.es) is an Italian graphic designer, specializing in web design. He currently lives and works in Valencia, Spain.

In 2010, he made the circular multiline face Afrobeat (+Light), the fat counterless face Vito Sans (2010), Wonderwall (2010, like a skeletal construction), the high-contrast art deco face Zaza (2010), and the pure Italian vintage art deco face Luxx (futurism).

His type blog is called It's Not My Type. Behance link. Klingspor link. Creattica link.

Other work: an art deco poster.

Direct links to his fonts: Zaza, Afrobeat, Vito Sans, Luxx, Wonder Wall, Afrobeat Light.

Creations from 2011: Ratatan, Bodoni At Home (a handpainted Bodoni), Arcanotype (2011, delicate caps, individually drawn using Chinese ink on Japanese calligraphy paper), Babushka (2011), Dolce Caffe (2011, handprinted), Adelaida (handprinted poster face), Monella (octagonal).

Production in 2012: BLAQ (an ornamental blackletter caps face inspired by Henry W. Troy), The Bay (handprinted all caps poster face), Bratislove (an artsy hand-drawn typeface), Modernissimo. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ricardo Gans

Son of Richard Gans, the founder of Fundicion Tipografica Richard Gans, which was located in Madrid. He took over the company in 1936, at the start of the Spanish Civil War, helped design a few types, but was a few months later assassinated in that war, together with his brother Manuel. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Riccardo De Franceschi

Italian graduate from the type design program at the University of Reading in 2010, who lives and works in Piedmont and Lombardy in Northern Italy, and publishes typefaces at Sorkin Type. His typefaces:

• His graduation project included the design of Ginnasio: The Ginnasio family is designed to set bilingual vocabularies, namely polytonic Greek English and Latin English. These dictionaries are used in secondary schools to translate texts from classical Greece and Rome into the student's own language. A Thai font is added, intended to set bilingual vocabularies as well. Ginnasio won First Prize at Granshan 2010 for Greek types.
• Gravitas One (2011, Sorkin Type, and Google Font Directory). He writes: Gravitas One is modeled on the "UK fat face" which is a kind of very heavy advertising type created during the industrial revolution in England. The letter forms are characterized by an attention getting and strong contrast between the very heavy vertical shapes and the thin horizontal ones. The contrast of the design means that it will be most useful when set from medium to large sizes.
• Still at Sorkin Type, he created the wedge-serif black face Goblin One (2011): Goblin One was inspired by a hand painted sign above a pub in the town of Reading (UK). Goblin One is a somewhat wide medium contrast design with a large x-height.
• Asset One (2011, Sorkin Type) was inspired by the engraved letters found on United States dollar bills.
• Contrail One (2011, Sorkin Type; free at Google Font Directory), it is based on handmade sans letters seen on UK posters.
• Wellfleet (2012, Google Web Fonts and Sorkin Type) is a versatile low-contrast slab serif text typeface with a a bouncy and upbeat feeling. It was inspired by German poster lettering.
• Emblema One (2012, Google Web Fonts). An oblique fat trendy stencil face for posters.
• Sonsie One (2012, Google Web Fonts). Sonsie One is a large x-height signage face.

Robert Tirado

Talented illustrator in Madrid who drew some ornamental caps in 2011. Check also his Ladytron poster (2011) and his fashion illustrations. Robert was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1977. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Roberto Saenz Maguregui

Bilbao-based designer of Inmaculatta (1997, grunge) at Garcia fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rodolfo Fernández Alvarez

Rodolfo Fernández Alvarez (who is from Montevideo, Asunción and Málaga) developed EzquerraCursiva (2010), a brush and signage face, based on the work of anarchist painter and letterer Francisco Ezquerra, who was active in Uruguay from ca. 1950 until ca. 1970, after fleeing Spain before World war II. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rona Marin Miller

Half Scottish, half Spanish, Rona Marin Miller studied graphic design at Universidad de Salamanca and at Aberdeen College. She created a light movement alphabet called Rona's Font (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ronaldo da Cruz

Calligrapher and graphic designer in Madrid. Creator of the rganic sans face Kim Typografic (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rongel

Spanish designer who designed some types that can be found in the 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 in Las Eroticas, y Traduccion de Boecio" by Villegas and printed by António de Sancha in Madrid, 1774. Mário Feliciano published the 14-weight Rongel serif family (2001, updated in 2005 as FTF Rongel V2), and I consider this Feliciano's best work. Feliciano states: [FTF Rongel is] 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. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rose Cabriolet

Graphic designer in Madrid who made the dot matrix face Rock and Point (2009, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ruben Martinez Gonzalez

Designer in Madrid. He was commissioned to make La Dolores Tattoo Font (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rufino Blanco y Sánchez

Spanish author of Arte de la escritura y de la caligrafía: teoría y práctica (1920, Madrid, Perlado, Páez y Compañía), a textbook into the art of calligraphy and writing. This book is available on-line. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Segundo Congreso de Tipografia

Type conference held at the Escuela Superior de Diseño in Valencia, Spain, from 23-25 June 2006. Speakers included Neville Brody, Eric Spiekermann, Pauline Paucker, Reza Abedini, Pierre di Sciullo, Saki Mafundiwa, Mario Feliciano, Andreu Balius, Josep Maria Pujol and Jose Martínez de Sousa. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sergio Gomez

Spanish designer in Sevilla. Creator of SRGMarker (2009), Srg189 (2009, paper cut face), Linea (2008, geometric experiment), Interline (2009), Point (2009, dot matrix) and SQZR (2008, dripping blood font).

His place is called srgworks. Dafont link. Old URL. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sherry04

Spanish designer of Shey (2010), a fat finger hand font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Spanish characters

Letter	PostscriptName	Microsoft	MacintoshRoman
¿	questiondown	191	192
¡	exclamationdown	161	193
Ñ	Ntilde	209	132
ñ	ntilde	241	150
Á	Aacute	193	231
É	Eacute	201	131
Í	Iacute	205	234
"	Oacute	211	238
Ú	Uacute	218	242
Ü	Udieresis	220	134
á	aacute	225	135
é	eacute	233	142
í	iacute	237	146
ó	oacute	243	151
ú	uacute	250	156
ü	udieresis	252	159
ª	ordfeminine	170	187
º	ordmasculine	186	188

[Google] [More]  ⦿

Stereoplastika
[Alberto Rodríguez]

Spanish graphic design, poster design and illustration outfit of Alberto Rodríguez in Toledo. Some free artsy fonts on this site include Xstrema (2011, octagonal and experimental), GROTESKA (2009), Gordala (2009), Metal (2009), Tozuna (2009), Amable (2009, like the previous two, counterless fat octagonal faces) and Sierra (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Subcoolture
[Sergio Jiménez]

Toledo-based design firm run by Sergio Jiménez. Creators of the 3d face Pastas Black (2005) and the handwritten bold face Hostias (2005). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Supperstudio
[Pablo Abad]

Studio with offices in Madrid and Bilbao. Creators of the free poker card face DealerType (2009). The creator of that face is Pablo Abad from Madrid. Behance link. Pablo Abad's other typefaces: No Future (2009, sci-fi), Knife (2008, modular), Pinza (2008, clothespin-themed), Romantique (2008, ultra-fat modular art deco face), Modul01 (2008), and Mambo (2008, super-ultra-fat art deco), Slaba (2009, fat slab serif), Voyeur (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tanya Laleva

Designer of the old church Slavonic font Kirilttf (with Miguel Angel Durán Pascual, Filología Eslava, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 1994). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Telmo Cendán Criado

Graphic designer in Lugo, Spain. He created the multiline piano key face Typofunk (2011) and the experimental circular arc-themed face Chained (2011). Creator of the experimental typeface OVNY (2011), which has not a single crved section, and looks extraterrestrial to me. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tercer Congreso de Tipografía

A conference subtitled "Glocal. Tipografía en la Era de la Globalización" was held from June 20-22, 2008, in the Escuela de Arte y Superior de Diseño de Valencia, Valencia, Spain. Flickr group. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Textaxis
[Iñigo Jerez Quintana]

Spanish/Catalan foundry run by Barcelona-based Iñigo Jerez Quintana since 1995. His beautiful typefaces include Scozia (2011, didone), Amy, CX Type, School (fat octagonal face), Hidalgo, Poster (didone), ASM, 112 Type, Point (2011, rounded typewriter family), Papers (2011, a fat fashion mag didone display family), Slim (2011), Batin (2005, neat garalde family), Palo (2000), Dinamo (1999), Oneline (1998), On Serif (2001), On Sans (2001; with On-Serif, a winner at Bukvaraz 2001), Blok (2004, poster face), Track (2004, octagonal), Plus (2004, octagonal), Bonus (2004, ink trap face), Interfunktionen (2004, old typewriter), SuiteSerif (2003), Xquare (2003), Interpol (2002), Maeda (2002), Luomo (2002), Borneo (2002), Suite (2001), Self (1999, sans family), Valeria (1997, liquid serif), Inercia (1995, a rounded organic sans done at Garcia Fonts), Latina Sans (1998, a winner at Bukvaraz 2001), Latina Serif (1998), Textaxis (2000, sans). Suite won an award at the TDC2 2003 competition. His Quixote text family (2005) won an award at TDC2 2006 and at Tipo-Q. [Google] [More]  ⦿

tipóGrafos
[José Maria Ribagorda]

Spanish language type site organized by José Maria Ribagorda. Fantastic web pages. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tipode
[Angel Alvarez]

Graphic designer from Valencia, Spain. He has a site with Spanish and Catalan language type material, including an interview with Fred Smeijers and the history of typefounding in Valencia. He is working on the stone and garden inspired Lhorta (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tipografia 1900-1936

PDF by Unos Tipos Duros that contains a history of Spanish typography between 1900 and 1936. In Spanish. By José Ramón Penela and Dimas García Moreno. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tipografia Alba

Spanish foundry that published its catalog Catálogo de tipos : 1974 in Madrid in 1974. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tipos de letra

Spanish archive with school fonts: Boo, Edelfontmed-Regular, Escolar1, Escolar2Negra, Escolar4Puntos, Escolar5Calada, Massallera, MeMima, MeMima, Mestra-4(DoblePautaPuntejada), Mestra1(MemimaPautada), Mestra2(Memima-Puntejada), Mestra3(Pauta-doble). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tiposmoviles

Spanish pages on type: the history, the type families, design with type, the works. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tomás Vellvé y Mengual

Catalan type designer (aka Tomás Vellvé), who, at FT Neufville in 1971 created Vellvé, a simple rounded sans serif family, which was published at the Creative Alliance. Born in 1927 in Barcelona, he started his graphic arts work for Rieusset, SA, in Barcelona, but moved to Madrid in 1948 to continue his studies, and returned in 1950 to Barcelona to run his own studio. He created posters and was an illustrator and graphic artist. His only typeface was Vellvé. He died in 1998. Vellvé was extended to a 3-style ffamily by Nick Curtis in 2009, as Velveteen Round NF. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Torquato Torío de la Riva y Herrero

Spanish writing master who published Arte de Escribir in 1802 in Madrid (chez Joaquin Ibarra). His name is also written Torcuato, and he lived from 1759-1820. A Spanish script from his 1802 book. Ornamental caps from that same book. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Trevías

Arial-Astur, Courier-Astur, Times-Astur. All fonts copyright Vaqueira, 1998. These are standard fonts with the symbols moved around for Spanish keyboards. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Typerware&Garcia Fonts

Joint web page of the Spanish foundries Typerware (by Juan Carlos Pacheco) and Garcia Fonts (by Andreu Balius). In 1993, Andreu Balius and Joan Carles P. Casasín founded Typerware in Barcelona. Garcia is an experimental type project from the early nineties. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ulrico

FontStructor from Madrid who made these typefaces in 2012: Planeto Rocko, Hermetica Modern Gothic, Old Future (art deco), Deimos, All Bricks Reserved, the 3d face Cubicula, New Dystopia, Another Brick in the Scroll, All Bricks Reserved, Moondular, Recursos Humanoides. [Google] [More]  ⦿

unostiposduros.com

Very didactic and insightful Spanish language web site devoted to typography and its history. Pages by freelance graphic designer José Ramón Penela from Madrid. Check Penela's comparison of truetype and postscript. [Google] [More]  ⦿

V. Guillamon

Valencia-based designer of Shit Lettering (2011) (sic), Anek (2011, outline face), and Eimer (2011, handprinted poster face). Home page with nice typography. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vaya Tipo

Spanish type magazine. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Velckro

Madrid-based Spanish graphic and type designer who made the experimental faces Pochismo (2012), Tanga-Tanga (2012), Maria Antonia (a free alchemic font made for Neo2 Mag #107), Viruta (2008, woozy letters), Papela (2009, an origami font), and Vinagre (2008).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Veronica Carrillo Marquez

Spanish designer at MIT (b. 1981) of the pixel font family Dysfunction Circuit (2004). The fonts are here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Víctor Carbajo

The Spanish composer and pianist Víctor Carbajo (b. Madrid, 1970) shows his type creations, which include VykDingbats, Fatty, Carbax (fluid handwriting), and Maritrini. All fonts made in 1995-1996. He also has a number of bitmap fonts in Mac-bitmap and BDF formats: Rought, Nostalgia, BitDingbats, AstraMono. All fonts are free. His drawings are spectacular, and should be digitized into one or more fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Vicente Fernandez Valliciergo

Spanish author of various books on calligraphy and penmanship. These include:

• Nuevo metodo de caracteres goticos y de adorno (1905, Madrid).
• Nuevo metodo grafico del escritura inglesa (1896, Madrid).
• Nuevo metodo de ensenanza de la letra inglesa. Caligrafo de la Real Casa premiado con diferentes medallas de oro y plata.
• Caligrafia francesa : primer metodo de ensenanza de la letra redondilla: para uso de los colegios y academias, y de todo aquel que desee aprender por si solo (Madrid, ca. 1887).

Vicente Garcia Morillo

Art director from Madrid. Creator of the experimental patterns typeface Mowon (2009) and of the frilly Baudelaire (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Victor M. Mezquida del Campo

Spanish type designer from Valencia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Visual.gi
[Raquel Pelta]

Raquel Pelta's Spanish web site (Visual Magazine). Has lots of type information, but many links do not work for me. Raquel Pelta is a graphic design historian and holds a PhD in Arts. She is professor of history of design at Elisava School of Design (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), and editor of Visual magazine (2001-2004). She is curator of exhibitions related to the first and second Spanish Typographical Conferences, held in Valencia in 2004 and 2006. At ATypi 2006 in Lisbon she spoke about the post-war resurgence of Spanish type design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Voltio

Design studio in Valencia, Spain. Creators of Zombic Sans (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

X. Carot

Spanish poster artist, whose lettering on this poster entitled "Ricardo Llacer y Hijos" from 1948 inspired Nick Curtis to make Little Rickey NF. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Xarly Rodriguez

Graphic designer and dreamer in Madrid. Behance link. Creator of the art deco typeface Barquillo (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Xavier Cervelló

Tomata Taller Grafic is the Spanish outfit of calligrapher and graphic designer Xavier Cervelló in Valencia. He created Thingbats (2010) and a monospaced typewriter sans to go with it, Thingbats Monospaced (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Xavier Juanola

Spanish designer of the grunge face Gurunge (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Xpazeman

Madrid-based designer (b. 1981) of Widefont, Hiragana (2000) [incomplete] and Graffiti Hiragana (2003). Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

XPDR v 3.0 (or: Xpaider)

Spanish pixel font site, also called Xpaider. Some techno (non-pixel) fonts as well. Free fonts here: PXLB-Bold, PXLSB-UltraBold, PXLXCT, Retro-Robot-Xpaider, XPDR-DLUX, XPDR-DLUX-Black, XPDR-DLUX-Thin, Xpaider_Gothic (blackletter pixel), xpaider-doble-close, xpaider-doble-open, xpaider-navy-Bold, xpaider-navy-Normal, xpaider-pixel-explosion-01, xpaider-pixel-explosion-02, xpaider-text, xpaider-text-Bold, xpdr01, xpdr02, xpdr03, xpdr04, xpdr05, xpdr06. All fonts made between 2001 and 2003. [Google] [More]  ⦿

xperiment.js

Designer of the free icon font Pulsar JS (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yeray Menendez

This Spanish graphic designer created the experimental SquaredTimes font (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yonseca

Spanish youngster (b. 1992) who used Fontcapture in 2009 to create Yonseca's (handwriting). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Youssef Sarhan

Based in Dublin, Ireland, Sarhan is a student at The National College of Art&Design, Ireland. He created just one typeface, a sans face made up of line segments and arcs of circles, called Beginnings (2008). He has projects involving geometric types and dot matrix types. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yuna Himura

Spanish designer who is working on a project that involves working animals into capital letters. An example: Mosquito Diotima Roman (2006), with a gorgeous mosquito on a capital M. [Google] [More]  ⦿

ZE fonts
[Robert Fuster]

Virtual type 1 fonts presented by Robert Fuster (1997-2000, Departament de Matemàtica Aplicada, Universitat Politècnica de València, 46071 València, Spain). "The `zd' fonts by Constantin Kahn (kahn@math.uni-hannover.de) are virtual T1 encoded Computer Modern fonts based on (OT1) Computer Modern, Times, and Helvetica fonts, intended for simulate `dc' fonts. (Waine Sullivan's `dm' fonts are another approach to the substitution of `dc' fonts by virtual ones.) Because `dc' fonts are now obsolete, I've adapted the Kahn's package to `ec' fonts. The resulting virtual fonts are named according to the ec fonts names, changing `ec' by `ze' (zerm1000.vf simulates ecrm1000, and so on)." [Google] [More]  ⦿

Zebra Font Factory
[Juan Carlos Gallego]

Juan Carlos Gallego (Madrid) has designed about 20 font families, selling from 23USD to 210USD. See also here: Zebra Advert Compacta, Martian, Carla, Noventaicuatro, Alameda, Torera, Exhibitio Titler. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿