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ABOUT

Julian Moncada Tobar

Colombian type designer based in Bogota. Graduate of the University of Reading in 2011. He also studied at ANRT in Nancy, France. In 2018 and 2019, for the past year he worked on the restoration of wood type at the Imprenta Patriotica, a government-funded printing museum in Colombia.

He writes about his lively graduation typeface Lemona (2011), which covers Latin and Greek: Lemona, an army of absurdities and monstrosities, is a subjective interpretation and exploration of the proportions and conventions of classic typography. Giving each character a secret potion containing ingredients of the freaky and deformed, the classic, and the contemporary, the serious, and the sweet. Lemona is a kind monster coming to stage stories in a rather strange, but always friendly and lively manner.

I cannot put my finger on it, but this is a bright and shiny baby, sure to be a soulful award winner in the next couple of years.

Julian Moncada, Jonathan Abbott and Jonathan Barnbrook jointly designed Doctrine Sans and Doctrine Stencil in 2013 at Virus.

Together with Jonathan Barnbrook and Ryuhei Nakadai, he designed Resolution and Resolution Blackletter (2015): A family of display typefaces that were developed as part of a creative response to the political situation in Northern Ireland.

Codesigner with Jonathan Barnbrook of Sora (2019; free at Google Fonts and Github), Bourgeois Rounded (2019) and Bourgeois Slab (2019).

Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp.

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