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Sol Matas
Argentinian type designer born in Buenos Aires who graduated from Universidad de Buenos Aires, and worked initially at Saatchi & Saatchi agency in Buenos Aires. Since 2001 she runs her own studio Sonnenshine specializing in branding and custom type design, working for companies from Latin America, Europe and the United States. She co-founded the type foundry Huerta Tipografica with fellow Argentinian designers in 2009. iIn 2013, she moved to Berlin, where she focused on developing fonts for Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, Oriya and Devanagari. Since 2019 she runs Hungry Type Society. Award winner at Tipos Latinos 2010 for her caps only text typeface Parque Chas (done with Juan Pablo del Peral), created for maps and information design. At Huerta Tipográfica [an Argentinian type foundry and coop that unites Juan Pablo Del Peral, Carolina Giovagnoli, Sol Matas and Andrés Torresi], she published Bitter HT (2011, a contemporary slab serif) and Parque Chas HT. Bitter is free at Google Web Fonts. Specially designed for on screen use, it won an award at Tipos Latinos 2012. Bitter HT was Sol's graduation typeface at FADU-UBA and covers Latin and Cyrillic. Bitter was extended to the Devanagari typeface Kadwa in 2015, which can be obtained for free at Google Web Fonts. In 2016, Abhaya Libre was published by Google Fonts, which writes: Abhaya Libre is the Unicode compliant and complete libre version of Pushpananda Ekanayakes's FM Abhaya font, the most popular Sinhala typeface on Earth, with a new and original Latin [didone style] designed by Sol Matas. |
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file name: Juan Pablo Del Peral Sol Matas Parque Chas 2010
file name: Sol Matas Kadwa Bold 2015
file name: Sol Matas Kadwa Bold 2015b
file name: Pushpananda Ekanayaka Sol Matas Abhaya Libre 2016
file name: Pushpananda Ekanayaka Sol Matas Abhaya Libre 2016b
file name: Sol Matas Abhaya Libre Extra Bold 2016
file name: Pushpananda Ekanayaka Sol Matas Abhaya Libre 2016c
file name: Pushpananda Ekanayaka Sol Matas Abhaya Libre 2016d
file name: Sol Matas Bitter Devanagari 2011
file name: Sol Matas Bitter 2011b
file name: Sol Matas Bitter 2011c
file name: Sol Matas Bitter 2011d
file name: Sol Matas Bitter 2011e
file name: Sol Matas Bitter Cyrillic 2011
file name: Sol Matas Bitter H T 2010
file name: Sol Matas Bitter H T 2010b
file name: Sol Matas Bitter 2011
file name: Sol Matas Bitter H T 2010c
file name: Sol Matas Pic
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