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TipoType [Fernando Díaz]

Tipotype is a foundry, est. 2009 in Montevideo, Uruguay, by Fernando Díaz, b. Montevideo, 1988 (together with Martin Sommaruga and Vicente Lamonaca). Since 2007, he teaches typography at ORT University. He is a founding member of Sociedad Tipografica de Montevideo (Montevideo's Typographic Society). TipoType is an international project, collective and autonomous for distribution of typefaces by typographers.

Fonts include Quiroga Serif (2009, Fernando Díaz), Muzarela (2011, a 50-style squarish family), Chau Philomène (2010), Chau Trouville (2010), Chau Marbella (2010) and Chau La Madeleine (2010) [all Chau fonts were done by Vicente Lamónaca] and Economica (2007, Vicente Lamónaca; see Economica Cyrillic Pro in 2016, done with Sergiy Tkachenko).

Fernando Díaz created Quadratta Serif (2007, a slab serif done at Intellecta Design). This typeface won in the best text category at Tipos Latinos 2008. It was renamed Quiroga Serif in 2014 and published at TipoType.

Sedan (2012, Sebastian Salazar, TipoType) is a delicate early baroque typeface family with tall ascenders, and the elegance of a garalde.

Other typefaces by Díaz include Logomotion (2012), Fénix (2009-2010, a free soft wedge-serifed typeface not to be confused with Fenix by Frantisek Storm; free at Google Web Fonts), Helena (2011), Libertad (2008-2010, sans) and Libertad Office (2015). Libertad won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016.

Melina is a 16-style house font that borrows from letters from scripts.

In 2014, TipoType published the handwriting font La Paz.

In 2015, Fernando Diaz published the 18-style semi-techno sans typeface family Trasandina. This text typeface won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016.

Codesigner, with Ignacio Corbo at TipoType, of the part-humanist part-geometric mega-sans typeface family Brother 1816, designed in 2016, to celebrate 200 years since the first appearance of a sans typeface. It has normal and printed (weathered) subfamilies. Winner at Tipos Latinos 2018 of a type design award. We also find Brother XL and Brother XS in 2019.

The TipoType team published the 24-variant sans typeface family Fieldwork in 2018. It contains Hum (for humanist) and Geo (for geometric) subfamilies. Extraordinarily versatile and appropriate for information design applications, this family is called geohumanist by its creators.

Typefaces from 2020: Mundial (a 14-style geometric sans), Rotunda (advertized as a modern rational grotesque, and a blend of humanist, grotesque and geometric).

Typefaces from 2021: Fisterra (a flared all caps display serif), Rustica (an 18-style humanist sans. with two variable fonts).

Klingspor link. Creative Market link. Fernando's own page. MyFonts link. Behance link. MyFonts interview.

EXTERNAL LINKS
TipoType
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Behance page
Creative Market page
Klingspor Museum page
MyFonts search
Monotype search
Fontspring search
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INTERNAL LINKS
Uruguayan type design ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Sites with only a few free fonts ⦿ Cyrillic type design ⦿