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Tipos del Oeste [Alfonso García]

Tipos del Oeste is a foundry in San Juan de la Frontera, Argentina, run by Alfonso García. Their initial fonts: Tectura (blackletter), Iris (a serif face), Fonzo Sans (2010), Arida (2010: a text typeface whose sharpness refers to the cacti in the arid Argentinian region of Cuyo). Mate Amargo is by Sebastián Regalado López. Dom has gothic cathedral themes and curves, and was designed by "Panda".

At Tipos Latinos 2012, Alfonso García and Deiverson Ribeiro won an award for their text typeface Bueh Medium.

In 2013, he published his book typeface Faustino, which is based on his graduation project.

In 2015, Alfonso García created the text typeface family Faustina (Omnibus Type), which won an award at Tipos Latinos 2016. Google Fonts link for Faustina.

In 2016, Alfonso García and Latinotype published the rounded 14-style typeface Branding.

In 2016, Bruno Jara Ahumada, Alfonso Garcia, Luciano Vergara, Daniel Hernandez and the Latinotype Team designed the roman square capital headline typeface family Assemblage.

In 2017, Alfonso Garcia and the Latinotype team designed Rawson (a bit of Johnston, a bit of Gill and a lot of Latinotype).

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, Luciano Vergara and Alfonso Garcia co-designed Moderna Sans at Latinotype. It is an interpretation of American gothics like Alternate Gothic.

Together with Cesar Araya, Alfonso Garcia designed the spurless sans family Branding SF (2019, Latinotype).

Near the end of 2019, Latinotype released Alfonso's Olivetta, which is named after but not entirely modeled by Antique Olive.

Typefaces from 2020: Apparel (a 20-font display serif family inspired by the MacFarland series in the 1912 ATF catalog, which in turn was based on Heinz Koenig's Roemische Antiqua (1888, Genzsch&Heyse); by Daniel Hernandez and Alfonso Garcia), Aestetico (Luciano Vergara, Daniel Hernandez and Alfonso Garcia: a 54-style sans family having Formal and Informal subsets of fonts so that the family covers several sans genres), Spirits (based on Hermann Ihlenburg's Schoeffer Old Style from 1897).

Typefaces from 2021: Inter (an 18-style sans family obtained by removing the slabs from Rockwell).

Behance link. Another Behance link.

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