Javier Viramontes

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Javier Viramontes Javier Viramontes (Brooklyn, NY) was born and raised in El Paso, Texas. He holds a B.F.A. in Design from the University of Texas at Austin. He has worked for various multi-cultural advertising agencies including LatinWorks (Austin, TX), XL Alliance, and BBDO Contrapunto in Madrid. He also studied at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and is presently Lecturer at the University of New Haven. His typefaces include Aldine (2011, Lost Type), a wood-look headline typeface based on original proofs of a 19th Century American Wood Type alphabet, Aldine Expanded, and embellished by Javier Viramontes at the University of Texas, Austin. In 2016, he published the display sans typeface Kawak that is characterized by an asymmetric mouth of its C, at Latinotype, which wrote: Kawak is a sans inspired by Mayan glyphs from the Tzolk'in ritual cycle. Kawak marries modernist typographic tradition with Pre-Hispanic formalism, creating a perfect blend between cleanliness, readability, objectivity, and the Mayan super-ellipse. Kawak was designed by Javier Viramontes during the Type@Cooper, Extended Program under the careful guidance of Jesse Reagan and an amazing repertoire of visiting critics. The project was finalized by Alfonso Garcia and the Latinotype team.	EXTERNAL LINKS Javier Viramontes [Designer info] MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type scene in Texas ⦿ Wood Type ⦿ Western fonts ⦿ Type scene in New York ⦿ Type design in Mexico ⦿ Mayan typefaces ⦿