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Fragtype [Rodrigo Fuenzalida]

Graphic and type designer from Caracas, Venezuela, b. 1981, who moved first to Buenos Aires and then to Santiago in Chile. While mainly a type designer, he also practices calligraphy. He was involved in and set up multiple type foundries, including Fragtype. Fuenzalida designed these typefaces:

• The art deco faces Erre.
• The experimental typefaces Tructura, Tangram, Sicodelica (multiline), SuperC (2009, tall condensed) and Pixid (2010, pixel face).
• Concrete Stencil (2010). Stencil meets calligraphic script.
• Fux (2010). A rounded monoline sans.
• 7Tees.
• Aushaus: letters like music notes. This is also called Aubhaus.
• Gerd (2009). An artsy stylish piano key font that used to be free.
• LINE_A and K5 (multiline).
• Cubo (aka Khubo, 2009, Die Gestalten). This 3d geometric family was a grand prize winner in the experimental typeface category at Tipos Latinos 2010.
• Factur (2011) is an angular typeface.
• Isosibilia. A 3d face. This typeface won an award winner in the experimental typeface category at Tipos Latinos 2010.
• The connected upright script face Nedo.
• The grunge typeface Belt.
• The stencil Bodoni typefaces Giambo Stencil (2009, Die Gestalten) and Giambattista.
• Titan (2011). A fat rounded poster face, downloadable from Google Web Fonts.
• Fux (2010). A basic monoline sans family.
• Poetsen One (2012) is a rounded signage sans typeface co-designed with Pablo Impallari.
• Racing Sans (2012). A techno typeface that conjures up speed. Codesigned with Pablo Impallari, it is free at Google Web Fonts.
• With Nicola Massi, he created the textura typeface Pirata+One (2012, Google Web Fonts).
• Hermeneus One (2013, with Pablo Impallari) is a slab serif.
• Tweegi (2013) is an elegant super-condensed serif typeface family.
• Kardia (2014) is a rounded slightly elliptical warm-hearted sans family.
• Libre Baskerville (2012, Google Web Fonts, Open Font Library, Github, and CTAN) was developed together with Pablo Impallari. It is based on 1941 ATF specimens, but it has a taller x height, wider counters and minor contrast that allows it to work on small sizes in any screen.
• Libre Caslon (2012-2014). A free typeface family co-designed with Pablo Impallari.
• Raleway (2010-2013). This popular free sans typeface family was started by Matt McInerney in 2010 and completed by Pablo Impallari and Rodrigo Fuenzalida in 2013. In 2017, it was extended to Rawline.
• Libre Bodoni (2014) was developed by Pablo Impallari and Rodrigo Fuenzalida based on Morris Fuller Benton's Bodoni types---they optimized the glyphs for use on the web. Github link. Google Fonts link.
• Latina (2015) is a humanist sans typeface family developed with the Latinotype team. It won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016. Its headline styles have exaggerated humanist features, while its text styles are more subdued.
• In 2016, Latinotype published the 32-style Corporative Sans Round Condensed, which was developed by Elizabeth Hernandez and Rodrigo Fuenzalida, under the supervision of Luciano Vergara and Daniel Hernandez.
• Libre Franklin (Pablo Impallari and Rodrigo Fuenzalida) is a revival of Morris Fuller Benton's 1912 classic, Franklin Gothic. Created in 2015, it was only published in 2016 at Google Fonts. Github link.
• Taberna (2016). A vintage copperplate style family based on design trends in bar signage, liquor packaging and street wear. Codesigned by Jorge Cisterna at Latinotype.
• Letteria Script (2017, Latinotype). A signage script family.
• Winner at Tipos Latinos 2018 of a type design award for Mixta (Joya Type Foundry).
• In 2018, Daniel Hernandez and Rodrigo Fuenzalida enlarged the fat all caps slab serif Latinotype typeface Rita that was originally started in 2010.
• Market (2018, Latinotype) is inspired by hand-painted grocery store signs.
• In 2019, Latinotype published the great super-slab typeface Breton which was designed by Daniel Hernandez and Rodrigo Fuenzalida.
• In 2018, he published Multiple at Latinotype. Partly geometric and partly humanist, it has Sans and Slab subfamilies.

  In 2019, Alfonso Garcia and Rodrigo Fuenzalida released Utily Sans at Latinotype. Utily Sans is a slightly humanist take on Futura.

  In 2019, Fuenzalida released Atenas through Los Andes. It emerged as a mixture of science fiction and calligraphy, with notable influences of Eurostile and Microgramma. There is a fully stocked stencil subfamily, Atenas Stencil.

• Mixta (2020, Latinotype). A total of 54 typefaces with these subfamilies: Mixta Sharp, Mixta Pro, Mixta Didone. Includes weights from Hair to Heavy.
• Spock (2020). A 48-style demi-sans and demi-slab family by Luciano Vergara, Cesar Araya and Rodrigo Fuenzalida.
• In 2020, he co-designed Ragtag (a ragtag of capitals) with Alexander Wright for In-House International.
• Mixta Essential (or: Mixta Ess) (2020, Latino Type). A 12-style hybrid of a didone-inspired rectangle-shaped serif and a sharp wedge serif.
• In 2020, Rodrigo Fuenzalida, Alexander Wright and Michelle Benaim Steiner co-designed the exaggerated reverse stress (or: Italian) typeface Pata Slab at In-House International. All uppercase characters were built to fit precisely inside a square, so they are all the same width and height.
• Mumford (2021). An 18-style display sans.
• Outfit (2021, Google Fonts). Github link. This geometric font family was originally designed for the brand company Outfitio and On Brand Investments Pty Ltd. It includes a variable font.
• In 2022, Rodrigo Fuenzalida and Alexander Wright published the decorative angular typeface family Broker at In-House International.

Klingspor link. Abstract Fonts link. Behance link. Kernest link. YWFT link. Creative Market link. MyFonts link. Dafont link. Another Behance link. Google Fonts link.

EXTERNAL LINKS
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INTERNAL LINKS
Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Venezuelan type design ⦿ Experimental type ⦿ Stencil fonts ⦿ Sites with only a few free fonts ⦿ 3D fonts ⦿ Art deco typefaces ⦿ Pixel/bitmap fonts ⦿ Calligraphic typefaces ⦿ Modern style [Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Thorowgood, Computer Modern, etc.] ⦿ Sites with only a few free fonts ⦿ Type design in Argentina ⦿ Tangram typefaces ⦿ Textura ⦿ Caslon ⦿ Baskerville ⦿ Modern style [Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Thorowgood, Computer Modern, etc.] ⦿ Morris Fuller Benton ⦿ Very thin (hairline sans) typefaces ⦿ Ornamental caps typefaces ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ The Chilean type scene ⦿ Variable fonts ⦿