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Hernández Type (was: Estudio de diseño Calderón) [Daniel Hernandez]

Estudio de diseño Calderón in Chile had the work of two Chilean designers:

• Daniel Hernández has some free fonts at Dafont and Font Squirrel. Klingspor link. His award-winning fonts include Stgotic textura (2006), Stgotic Fracktur (pixel blackletter), and the (free) unicase piano key font Pincoya Black (2008), which was based on Spanish Civil War poster, and won an award at Tipos Latinos 2010. He calls his ultra fat Roxy (2009) tipografia desde el culo del mundo.

  Behance link. His Flickr page. His lettering.

  Hernandez Bold (2010, Sudtipos) has slabs, serifs, and plenty of round curves. It won an award at Tipos Latinos 2012.

  Rita (2010, Sudtipos) is an ultra-slab all caps typeface inspired by the fat wood types. In 2018, Daniel Hernandez and Rodrigo Fuenzalida enlarged Rita.

  Designer of the free text font Belgrano (2011).

  Merced (2011) is a thin monoline sans. Sanchez (2011, Latinotype and YWFT) is a slab serif family with a free weight. In 2013, he published the beautiful sequel, Sanchez Slab, which is patterned after Rockwell. Sanchez Niu (2017) is another slab serif in this family.

• Javier Quintana created the smooth and delectable text family Berenjena in 2007. He also made the roundish display typeface Botota (2007), which is reminiscent of market signage in Santiago.
• Monroe (2010, Sudtipos, and revised in 2018, Latinotype) is a swashy slab family. See it in action in this I Love New York poster.
• Patagon (2011, Latinotype) is a rounded wood-inspired poster typeface done with Daniel Hernandez and Luciano Vergara.
• Guadalupe (+Gota, 2011, Latinotype). A hairline didone family with sufficient contrast and frilliness to satisfy the fashion mags.
• Andes (2011, Latinotype). This is a playful slightly swashy sans family. Followed by Andes Italic (2012) and Andes Condensed (2012). See also Andes Rounded (2014) and Andes Neue (2019), which has 56 styles.
• Bosque (2012) is a wood style family co-designed with Paula Nazal at Latinotype.
• Magallanes (2012, Daniel Hernandez) is a contemporary neohumanist sans serif typeface family covering Ultra Light to Black. This typeface was followed by the 8-style Magallanes Essential (2012) and by Magallanes Condensed (2013).
• Trend (2013). A layered type system done together with Paula Nazal Selaive. Followed by Trend Hand Made also in 2013 and Trend Rough in 2014.
• With Eli Hernandez, Daniel Hernandez published the unicase typeface family Grota in 2013.
• Roble (2013): A slab serif font family which Daniel places halfway between Andes and Sanchez. It is characterized by its clampy backbitten lower case c. The slab serif Roble Alt (2013) has eight weights of two fonts each.
• Together with Miguel Hernandez at Latinotype in 2014, Daniel Hernandez designed the 1930s tall-ascendered sans family Arquitecta, which is promoted as an alternative for Futura, Kabel and Avant Garde. It was followed later that year by Arquitecta Office and Arquitecta Standar. They also co-designed Texta, a geometric sans for all. His Newslab (2014) family is a combination of Andes, Sanchez and Roble; the Regular and Italic styles are free.
• In 2016, Cesar Araya and Daniel Hernandez co-designed the very Latin / curvy / warm slab serif typeface family Hernandez Niu.
• The foundry became Hernández Type at some point. The fonts there, repeated from the former foundry, include Patagon, Merced, Hernandez Bold, Monroe, Pincoya Black Pro, Rita Bold and Fat, and Pincoya Black Free.
• In 2016, Daniel Hernandez, now studying at the KABK in Den Haag, The Netherlands (2014-2018), created Lxy, an interesting dynamic (animated) display typeface made entirely with the Python programming language in Drawbot. At Latinotype, he published Basic Sans, Basic Sans Cnd and Basic Sans Narrow.
• 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, Paula Nazal and Daniel Hernandez co-designed Trenda, a geometric sans family based on the uppercase of Trend. The rounded edge version of Trenda is Boston [16 styles; corrections and review by Alfonso Garcia and Rodrigo Fuenzalida].
• Peckham (2018). An 8-style slab serif named after the birthplace of Vincent Figgins. Digital editing and corrections by Alfonso Garcia.
• The Reinvention of Rita (2018). A slab serif.
• In 2019, Latinotype published the great super-slab typeface Breton which was designed by Daniel Hernandez and Rodrigo Fuenzalida. Daniel Hernandez added the geometric sans family Biennale in late 2019.
• In 2020, he released Magazine Grotesque at Latinotype. It is characterized by an overhanging umbrella lower case a, and an overbiting lower case e.
• Facundo (2020, Paula Nazal Selaive and Daniel Hernandez, at Latinotype) is a 14-style geometric sans family.
• In 2020, Luciano Vergara, Daniel Hernandez and Alfonso Garcia co-designed the 54-style sans family Aestetico. They introduce Formal and Informal subsets of fonts so that the family covers several sans genres.
• Apparel (2020, Latinotype) is 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). It was designed by Daniel Hernandez and Alfonso Garcia.
• Hernandez Bros (2021). By siblings Daniel and Eli Hernandez. This is a 7-style sharp-edged serif family loosely based on Bulfinch by William Martin Johnson (1903, ATF).

Behance link. Home page.

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INTERNAL LINKS
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