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Tipografies [Jordi Embodas]

Jordi Embodas is a Barcelona-based graphic designer, b. 1977. After studying at ELISAVA (1995-1999) and at GH Essen, Germany, he started working at Estudi Juste Calduch in Barcelona (from 2001 onwards). He designs type since 2005 and set up Tipografies in Barcelona for that purpose in 2010. Jordi teaches typography at the design schools from Barcelona Elisava and Idep. His typefaces:

• Orenga (2005-2008).
• Pona (2009, text face). Pona can be considered as a a calligraphic sans family, with flared glyphs. Pona Display followed in 2011.
• Bulo (2012, a legible sans family, from Hair Blond to Ultra Black). Noe Blanco has helped with the development of Bulo Rounded, and Max Saladrigas with Bulo Extreme.
• Trola (2013, a text serif family). Trola Text was co-designed with Noe Blanco. In 2017, the Trola family was updated, improved, and expanded to Cyrillic. The Cyrillic version was designed by Letterjuice (Pilar Cano & Ferran Millan) under the supervision of Ilya Ruderman and Yury Ostromentsky.
• Nomada (2014). A 4-style sans family specially designed for the web and screens. Followed in 2018 by Nomada Incise, a solemn typeface family with flared stems, and one of the best lapidary typefaces of the past five years. Still in 2018, Maria Ramos and Jordi Embodas co-designed Nomada Didone, and Jordi Embodas added Nomada Slab (2019), Nomada Sans and Nomada Serif (2019).
• For Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, he designed UOC Sans and UOC Serif in 2016.
• Cuatrecasas (2017). A flared custom sans and serif typeface family done for Mucho.
• Folha Grafico (2018) and Folha Texto (2018).
• Kymco (2019). A wide all caps sans family done for the motorcycle company Kymco.
• Tinta Broken Coated, Tinta Broken Uncoated, Tinta Coated (2021). A 12-style flared sans. Followed by Tinta Uncoated (2021).

Behance link. Village link. Another link. Klingspor link.

Interview by Unostiposduros. Juste Calduch link.

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Type design in Catalunya ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Very thin (hairline sans) typefaces ⦿ Calligraphic typefaces ⦿ Corporate typefaces ⦿ Lapidary typefaces ⦿ Modern style [Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Thorowgood, Computer Modern, etc.] ⦿