29 Letters
[Pascal Naji Zoghbi]

Madrid (and before that, Lebanon)-based Arabic type designer who runs the Arab type news and blog site called Arabic Typography. KHTT link. An ex-student of the KABK in 2006, he currently is a part time instructor of design and typography at Notre Dame University, Louaize, Lebanon, as well as a part time instructor of typography at the American University of Beirut (AUB), both since 2007. His Arabic type foundry is called 29letters.

At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he ran a workshop on the Arabic Kufi script. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin on the topic of political resistance and expression through graffiti in Lebanon and Palestine. His contributions to type design:

• Massira. He has embarked on a project with Martin Majoor to design some Arabic fonts that fit Majoor's designs. He writes: Massira is my graduation typeface at Type&Media postgraduate course at The Royal Academy of Arts [KABK] in The Hague. Huda AbiFares contacted me while I was finalizing Massira and presented the opportunity to collaborate with the Dutch type designer Martin Majoor to design an Arabic typeface, which is part of the Typographic Matchmaking 01 project organized by Khatt Foundation. At first I was a bit worried due to the fact that it would be my first professional type design work and that the due date was too close. However, after taking a closer look at Martins type FFSeria and analyzing its characteristics, I noticed that the treatment of the stroke and the structure of the letters shared similarities with Massira. In both fonts the use of sharp broken curves and crispy feel is present. Consequently, I grew confident in project and decided to use Massira as a starting point for the new Arabic companion of FFSeria. Echo, which is Sada in Arabic, is the repetition of a sound caused by the reflection of sound waves from a surface. Accordingly, Sada is the echo of FFSeria. The modifications on Massira consisted of making Sada perform like FFSeria. It had to have the same point size, line space, color, contrast and feel as FFSeria. Concerning the details of Sada and the inclined angle of the vertical strokes, it was derived from the FFSeria Italic. So Sada has the same feel as the Roman but is inspired from the Italic. More on the Sada project. In 2009, Sada was renamed FF Seria and published by FontFont.
• Another project of Zoghbi involves a type family being developed for newspaper headlines.
• In 2007, he created a 3-style Phoenician type family called Fniqiya.
• Alef Pixel Caps Type for Alef Magazine (2008). Done with Huda AbiFares. This is a Latin ornamental type family.
• Al Rouiya Arabic Type for the Al Rouiah Newspaper in Kuwait, 2008.
• Bukra display type for Ibn Battuta Mall in Dubai, 2008. This Futura-like typeface saw a variable part added in 2020. Adrien Midzic and Swiss Typefaces aided with the Latin.
• A corporate font under the heading, Arabic for Univers (2008). Zoghbi: An Arabic corporate typeface for a global shipping and transport company. The Arabic is intended to work with the Latin type Univers. Unfortunately, I can't mention the name of the company nor the design firm I did this Arabic type work for. I was the Arabic type consultant/specialist and associate type designer alongside Leah Hoffmitz. The font will used in all Arabic publications, ads and packaging for the company.
• Baseet (2009) is a hybrid Neo-Naskh / Modern Kufi geometric typeface. It is a mixture of straight vertical, horizontal and diagonal pen stokes incorporated in-between curved corners and edges. In 2020, Pascal Zoghbi (29LT) and Ben Wittner released the monospaced Arabic / Latin typefaces 29 LT Baseet Variable and 28 LT Zawi Variable.
• At FontStruct, he made Arapix (2009).
• UAE Embassy Corporate Type (2010). This is a commissioned Latin typeface based on the same concept as of an Arabic font. Each of the 26 Latin letters has Caps, Initial, Medial and Final shape enabling the letters to connect as in the Arabic script. The drawing of the letters was all done using the Arabic calligraphic bamboo stick and based on the Naskh Calligraphic Style. Opentype help from Erik van Blokland.
• The Mathaf Corporate Arabic-Latin Font (2011). Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art opened its doors to contemporary Arab art lovers in December 2010 in Doha, Qatar.
• Nada Debs (2010): a contemporary geometric Kufi type commissionewd by Nada Debs.
• For Ascender, he did Droid Arabic Naskh (see OFL), Droid Persian Naskh, and Droid Arabic Kufi (2010, OFL).
• 29LT Azer, done with Ian Party and Wael Morcos: Azer in Arabic means friendly, ready to assist and lend a hand. This multilingual typeface combines simple lines with careful detailing to create a serious but approachable look. The Arabic is a Naskh / Kufi hybrid and retains a balance between calligraphic angular cuts and unadorned construction. The Latin is a humanist sans-serif with crisp cuts based on the broad nip pen calligraphic structure and contemporary outlines. The fonts include Arabic, Farsi, Urdu and Latin variants. Azer won an award at TDC 2014.
• Pascal Zoghbi revived the 1950s font system by Nasri Khattar called Unified Arabic as UA Neo B and UA Neo B.
• LT Makina. An old typewriter font.
• LT Kaff.
• LT Zarid (+Sans, +Stencil, +Slab, +Serif). Pascal Zoghbi designed all Arabic components. 29LT Zarid Display won an award at 23TDC in 2020. The whole family has variable styles since 2020. Jan Fromm designed the Latin for Slab, Sans and Stencil. Regarding the Latin parts: Zarid Serif Display and Text Upright were designed by Ramiro Espinoza; Serif Upright was designed by Ramiro Espinoza and Khajag Apelian; Serif Slanted and Text Slanted were designed by Jan Fromm. The Cyrillic and Greek extensions were designed by Krista Radoeva and released in July 2020. Finally, 20 LT Zarid Sans features a variable style with a single (weight) axis.
• LT Zeyn. A great high-contrast fashion mag style typeface.
• Other custom types include Expo 2020 Dubai, Swatch, Noor, MIA, Noto Naskh, Shawati, Hamsa, Fdx, Emirates Headlines, AlWatan Headlines.

440EMU

Spanish designer of the dot matrix typeface Teleindicadores (2013, OFL). [Google] [More]  ⦿

45 Coated
[Shadday]

45 coated is a studio of Shadday d.S.C, a Spanish freelance graphic designer based in Las Palmas on the Canary Islands. Creator of Lybkana (2012), a typeface that is based on a petroglyph found in the Canary Islands. The paintings and engravings belonged to a pre-Hispanic period (known as Guanche). The signs are in a defunct language called Libyan-Berber, which was spoken from the Canary Islands to Egypt. [Google] [More]  ⦿

60 Kilos (or: Sesenta Kilos)

Spanish designer of the hipsterish display typeface Belle de Mai (2020), a variable display typeface inspired in the cultural shock between high cost zones and the lowest suburbs near big metropolitans cities like Paris, and in the French culture, especially in the hood of La Belle de Mai, where it takes the name from.

Typefaces from 2021: Galipo or Galipos (a Latin / Cyrillic display typeface inspired by Andalusian society and culture). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Abdullah Cakmakoglu

Valencia, Spain-based designer of a hipster typeface in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Abel Tabales

Cordoba, Spain-based designer of the handwriting typeface Curro Rumbao (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Abelardo Gonzalez

New Hampshire or Spain-based dyslexic creator of Open Dyslexic (2011), a free font specially designed for dyslexia, developed on the basis of Bitstream Vera Sans.

Leo Kelion writes for the BBC: The OpenDyslexic font is designed to give "gravity" to letters to prevent the characters rotating in readers' minds.

Other type designs by Gonzalez include Eulexia and Alpha Symbolic (a "dyslexic notation" typeface that uses symmetric symbols to reduce confusion in the alphabet).

Dafont link. Open Font Library link. Github link. Open Dyslexic link. Free download of Open Dyslexic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Abietar

Spanish foundry. In 2011, they published the Victorian family Abietar (+Negra). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Abraham PlaPi

Designer (b. Spain, 1994) of the sans typefaces Lugos (2017), Mousse (2017), Vintage Avalanche (2016), Sufficit (2016) and Calculative (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Abraham Rodriguez

Cadiz, Spain-based designer of the book typeface Axelino (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Abraham Vivas

Art director in Madrid, Spain, who created the free TIF format display typeface Cardboard (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adan Lobato

Madrid-based designer of the spiky typeface Pank (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aday Falcón
[Art Platanao]

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Ade Ruiher

Jaen, Spain-based designer of the angular text typeface Tuccitana (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adolfo Gofer

Spanish creator of the hand-printed Agafont (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adria Verdaguer

Spanish designer. Creator of the fat finger typeface Modular Sans (2011), which was based on the popular sans-serif Comic Sans. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrián Fernández

Spanish graphic designer who made DIN Stencil (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrian Candela

Valencia, Spain-based creator of the Bauhaus-inspired monoline geometric rounded sans typeface Bowhouse (2013, free), the retro futuristic typeface AC Brodie (2013, free), the free art deco typeface AC Mountain (2013), the 3d typeface AC Framed (2013), the film strip typeface AC Filmstrip (2013, free), Comic Runes (2013, rune simulation), Scribbled (2013), and the hexagonal typeface Bee Type (2013, +Filled, +outline).

Newsense (2013) is an art deco typeface that extends Milton Glaser's Film Sense (1968).

Romaji Mincho (2013) is a free Asian simulation font based on the style of the Mincho typeface. Rhyder (2013) is a great (free) geometric 1930s style sans typeface. Martell (2013) is a free general purpose slab serif family.

AC Big Serif (2013) is a free rounded wedge serif typeface. AC Thermes (2013) is a sans display typeface.

Typefaces from 2014: AC Wanita (hand-drawn).

Typefaces from 2019: AC Guanche (a font based on the ancient scripts used by the Guanches, the aboriginal inhabitants of the Canary Islands). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrian Martin Gomez
[Stam Kid]

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Adrian Yanes Marquez

Cuban designer, b. 1985, who lives in Jerez, Spain. Creator of the 3-style sans typeface family Colonial Havana (2016) and the text and poster typeface family Walina (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adriana Mazurek

Spanish designer of the paper cutout typeface Malenka (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adriana Perez Conesa

Adriana Perez Conesa is a Spanish graphic and typeface designer, currently based in Barcelona. She studied art and graphic design at the University of the Basque Country. Graduate of the MATD program at the University of Reading, class of 2020. Her typefaces:

• Subs and Stuff (2020). These are her graduation typefaces at Reading. Subs n Stuff. Subs uses squarish letterforms with low contrast, large x-height, generous apertures, pixel-traps and clear shapes, all to help reduce the chances of misrecognition and increase legibility. Subs contains two different styles: Micro, intended for low-resolution screen and small sizes, and Text, for high-resolution screens and bigger sizes. Text is also variable in the weight axis. Stuff is a variable subfamily that covers weight and optical size axes. Both typeface families are accompanied by an italic style and support Latin and Arabic scripts.
• A revival of Augereau Gros Romain (2020).
• Rockera (2018-2019). Rockera was designed during a four month Typography Design post-graduate course at EINA (University School of Design and Art of Barcelona).
• Essone (2018). A didone.
• Aurum Sans (2018). Her graduation project at the University of the Basque Country. Aurum Sans is a geometric typeface in which she combined rationality with humanism.

Adriano Martins

Marbella, Spain-based design student. During his studies at Marbella Design Academy in 2012, he created the triangular-shaped high-contrast font Drisign. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Agartzia

Spanish creator of the graffiti font Vandalo (2009). Possibly called Arturo Garcia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Agustina

Spanish designer of Agustina (2005, scratched handwriting). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aida Diaz

Aida Diaz (Torrelavega, Spain) designed the EHU (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, or Universidad del Pais Vasco) typeface that is used in a bilingual manner: EHU Serif is employed for Basque and EHU Sans for Sans, in an interesting experiment. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aida García

Madrid-based designer of the hand-printed typefaces as Aida Garmo (2013), AS Melanie Handwriting (2011), Aida Scrap Rounded (2011) and Aida Scrap Small Size (2011).

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aida Novoa

Great graphic designer from Valencia, Spain. At Behance, she showed a trendy blingy smoky New York typographic poster (2009). In 2010, she made an equally fine poster for Berlin. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aidée Rosado

Spanish designer of the display typeface Refraccion (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aina Requena

Based in Valencia, Spain, Aina Requena created the striped poster typeface Zebra (2012) together with Vicent Badia, Dasha Kratenko and Miguel R. Diaz. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ainara Balen

Pamplona, Spain-based designer of the bilined typeface Ladoble (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ainoa Alors Turull

Designer in Sevilla, Spain, who created a couple of modular typefaces in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aitor Larumbe Zabala

Spanish type designer from Navarra who lives in Los Realejos, Tenerife. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alba Calderón

Madrid-based designer of the display typeface Quirou (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alba del Rio

Madrid, Spain-based designer of the modular techno typeface KR20-7 (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alber

Spanish graphic designer in Alicante, b. 1986. His free fonts include Alber (2009, grungy stencil), Globus (2009, almost counterless atrsy face), Industrial (2009, virile face) and Wind and Bubbles (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Albert Corbeto

Type historian at Reial Academia de Bones Lletres in Barcelona, who has a PhD in art history from Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB). Born in Barcelona in 1971, Corbeto is responsible for all the publishing activities of the Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona and the Asociación de Bibliófilos de Barcelona. His field of investigation is the history of printing types and, in particular, the work of Spanish punchcutters throughout the second half of the eighteenth century. At ATypI 2006 in Lisbon, he spoke about the efforts around 1750-1770 to set up the Royal Library type foundry by Juan de Santander and Gerónimo A. Gil. Speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, where he talked about the punches from the Spanish Royal Printing House. Soon he will publish a specimen and text book on all this.

Interview by Unostiposduros.

His books: Muses de la impremta. La dona i les arts del llibre (segles XVI-XIX) (ed., with M. Garone) (Associació de Bibliòfils de Barcelona, 2009); Especímenes tipográficos españoles. Catalogación y estudio de las muestras de letras impresas hasta el año 1833 (Calambur, Madrid, 2010); Daniel B. Updike, impresor e historiador de la tipografía (Campgrafic, Valencia, 2011); Tipos de imprenta en España (Campgrafic, Valencia, 2011), Las letras de la Ilustración. Edición, imprenta y fundición de tipos en la Real Biblioteca (Catálogo de la exposición en la Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, 2012) e Història de la tipografia. L'evolució de la lletra des de Gutenberg fins a les foneries digitals (coauthor with M. Garone, Pagès Editors, Lérida, 2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Albert Lionheart

Creator of a facsimile font called Real Madrid 1213 (2012), after the lettering Real Madrid is using in the 2012-2013 season. Download site. Check also the small improvement by Character. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Albert Marti

Granada, Spain-based designer of the free techno typeface Arcade Fractured (2018), during his studies at Escuela Arte Granada. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alberto Alvarez

Madrid-based designer of Fusion (2014, a 3d font), Black (2014, an alchemic typeface) and Magma (2014, an experimental geometric typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alberto Carnero

Graphic and type designer, and calligrapher, in Madrid. In 2012, he published Publia Text, a wedge serif newspaper text and headlines typeface during his postgraduate type design studies at the European Institute of Design in Madrid. Publia Text was published by Comando Cran.

Liebe Lorraine (2012) is an alchemic typeface. Espina (2012) is a spurred caps-only typeface. Mum Italic (2012) is in the planning stages.

New web page since 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alberto Cerezo Narvaez

Architect, designer and photographer in San Fernando, Spain. In 2013, he designed the pair of avant garde typefaces ACN 2 and ACN 1.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alberto Corazon

Painter, sculptor and graphic designer, b. Madrid, 1942. He was commissioned in 2000 by the city of Bilbao to design a font with a Basque look. The result was Alfabeto Bilbao. Alternate URL with some of his paintings. Alfabeto Bilbao is free at Yo de Bilbao. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alberto del Real

Graphic designer in Ciudad Real, who created the decorative typeface Muelle and the rhombic typeface Robodo in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alberto Deltio
[Deseo Grafico]

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Alberto Diaz

Graphic designer in Alicante, Spain, who make Octagon (2010). Aka Prosaiper or Alber. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alberto Diaz Tormo

Graphic and industrial designer, post-producer and writer born in Alicante, Spain. He created a number of free typefaces in 2011 that are available via Devian Tart and Open Font Library: Berly, Octagon, Bubbles, EcoLive, Industrial, Filler.

Devian tart link. Behance link. Open Font Library link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alberto Lorenzo

Lugo, Spain-based creator of the counerless cut-out typeface Straight Font (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alberto Lucas Perez

Madrid, Spain-based designer of the rounded handcrafted typeface Natural (2017), the sans typeface Acatisia (2018), and the free icon set Summer Bold. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alberto Martinez
[Salsipuedes]

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Alberto Pedro Di Santo

Creator of these typefaces at the Spanish type foundry Eurotypo:

• The rounded hexagonal typeface Klipa (2013).
• The chancery script typeface Alfina (2014). Its bold version is Alfina Notte (2016).
• The art nouveau typeface Oblonga.
• The chancery cursive script Donna Lena (2014).
• Vicentina (2014). The ductus of the gothic cursive calligraphic Vicentina has been derived from the documents redacted by Master Domenico Dominici from Vicenza, while most of the inspiration comes from books preserved in the archives of Orvieto Cathedral (Archivi dell'Opera del Duomo di Orvieto).
• Nova Caere (2015), an urban calligraphic typeface.
• Ottocento (2015, Eurotypo) is a crisp elegant chancery cursive, derived from XIXth century Italian calligraphic sources.
• Pieve (2015). A great calligraphic typeface.
• Andovai (2016, Eurotypo). A modern cursive typeface family.

Alberto Prieto Gaston

Student of Art Direction at the Miami Ad School Madrid. He created the counterless Rounded Font (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alberto Rodríguez Diaz
[Stereoplastika]

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Alberto Romanos
[Branding with Type]

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Alberto Varela Ferreiro
[Fontes galegas]

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Alejandra Kamenskikh

Madrid, Spain-based designer of the handcrafted and script typefaces Cremme (2018), Zuma (2018) and Hobla Script (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alejandra Riera Mora

Graduate of the Miami Ad School in Madrid who lives in Murcia, near where many spaghetti westerns were filmed. No surprise then that she created the Western look typeface Bandido and the counterless display typeface Cactus in 2012.

Architecture font is a wide techno face.

For something completely different, she turned to alchemism with the nutty Nick Minaj font (2012).

Behance link. Another Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alejandro Barco Muñoz

Graphic director in Zaragoza, Spain, who created an animated geometric Bauhaus typeface in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alejandro Cabrera

Designer in La Laguna, Canary Islands, Spain. He created Ciclo (2011), a monoline arc-and-straight-edge typeface. Seoul (2011) is a geometric avant-garde family. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alejandro Cifuentes Martinez

Madrid-based designer of the display typeface Karma (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alejandro Conde López

Spanish designer from La Coruna, b. 1976. He created Matricula Espanola (2007, an all caps sans face) and N-Gage (2007, a futuristic experiment). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alejandro Font Zambrana

Graphic designer in Alicante, Spain, who created the unicase typeface Vertica in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alejandro Gonzalez Sanchez

Spanish graphic designer who lives in Murcia. Creator of Gne Script (2011, an angry angular handrinted face). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ales Santos

Madrid, Spain-based designer of Neogothic (2014, a modular 21st century creamy blackletter) and AQRS Script (2019, with Juanjo Lopez). In 2022, he released the sharp-edged display serif Almoneda at Sudtipos. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Aran

Spanish designer of the bold all caps sans typeface Aran (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Baisan

Alex Baisan (Valencia, Spain) designed Soul Trumpet (2013), a display typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex de Cortada

Spanish designer of the serifed text typeface Archefont (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex de la Fuente
[Fetenstudio]

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Alex de la Fuente

Bilbao-based graduate of the EASD-ADGE School of Arts and Design in Vitoria-Gasteiz. He moved to Madrid to join Fetenstudio. Designer of the tweetware / bribeware sans typeface De La Fuente (2014). Microsite. In 2015, Fetenstudio published the sans typeface Optotypo (design by Alex de la Fuente and art direction by Sara Bautista). Optotypo was inspired by eye chart typography.

Behance link. Behance link for Feten Studio. Behance link for Sara Bautista. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex N. Muriana

Granada, Spain-based designer of the typeface Caelum (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Petrovici

Spanish designer of Fine Line (2008) and Grungy Style (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexis Diaz Gardunño

Designer in Santa Coloma de Gramanet. Creator of Santa Coloma (2013), a geometric sans typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alfonso Antonio Jimenez Leon

Cordoba, Spain-based designer of the text typeface Juanola (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alfonso Armenteros Parras

During his studies, Madrid, Spain-based Alfonso Armenteros Parras designed the free pixel font family Notorobo (2017) for Memex's UI. He also created the experimental geometric typeface Stijla (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alfonso Chulvi
[Thinko]

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Alfonso Fernández Córdoba

Spanish type founder and printer, who worked in Valencia around 1477-1478, where he published the Valancian Bible. He left for Murcia, where in 1484, he printed the Breviarium Cathaginense. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alfredo Alvarez

Cadiz, Spain-based designer of the decorative blackletter typeface Nirvana (2015) and the angular text typeface Wild Roman (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alfredo Herraez

Madrid-based designer of the futuristic typeface Cyborg (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alicia Espinar

Madrid-based designer of the deco typeface City (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alicia Garcia Arana

Zaragoza, Spain-based designer of the titling typeface Deep Blues (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alicia Raya

Dailos Perez Gonzalez (Valencia, Spain), Alicia Raya (Valencia, Spain), Haizea Najera and Cristina Bonora co-designed the artsy thin caps typeface Fair in 2013.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Almudena Perez

Graphic designer and illustrator in Valencia, who created the sketch typeface Tipotype (2012) for use on couches, cushions, and bedspreads.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alphabetum
[Juan-José Marcos García]

Juan-José Marcos García (b. Salamanca, Spain, 1963) is a professor of classics at the University of Plasencia in Spain. He has developed one of the most complete Unicode fonts named ALPHABETUM Unicode for linguistics and classical languages (classical&medieval Latin, ancient Greek, Etruscan, Oscan, Umbrian, Faliscan, Messapic, Picene, Iberic, Celtiberic, Gothic, Runic, Modern Greek, Cyrillic, Devanagari-based languages, Old&Middle English, Hebrew, Sanskrit, IPA, Ogham, Ugaritic, Old Persian, Old Church Slavonic, Brahmi, Glagolitic, Ogham, ancient Greek Avestan, Kharoshti, Old Norse, Old Icelandic, Old Danish and Old Nordic in general, Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Phoenician, Cypriot, Linear B with plans for Glagolitic). This font has over 5000 glyphs, and contains most characters that concern classicists (rare symbols, signs for metrics, epigraphical symbols, "Saxon" typeface for Old English, etcetera). A demo font can be downloaded [see also Lucius Hartmann's place]. His Greek font Grammata (2002) is now called Ellenike.

He also created a package of fonts for Latin paleography (medieval handwriting on parchments): Capitalis Elegans, Capitalis Rustica, Capitalis Monumentalis, Antiqua Cursiva Romana, Nova Cursiva Romana (2014), Uncialis, Semiuncialis, Beneventana Minuscula, Visigothica Minuscula, Luxoviensis Minuscula, Insularis Minuscula, Insularis Majuscula, Carolingia Minuscula, Gothica Textura Quadrata, Gothica Textura Prescissa, Gothica Rotunda, Gothica Bastarda, Gothica Cursiva, Bastarda Anglicana (2014) and Humanistica Antiqua. PDF entitled Fonts For Latin Palaeography (2008-2014), in which Marcos gives an enjoyable historic overview.

Alphabetum is not Marcos's only excursion into type design. In 2011, he created two simulation fonts called Sefarad and Al Andalus which imitate Hebrew and Arabic calligraphy, respectively.

Cyrillic OCS (2012) is a pair of Latin fonts that emulate Old Church Slavonic (old Cyrillic).

In 2013, he created Cuneus, a cuneiform simulation typeface.

Paleographic fonts for Greek (2014) has ten fonts designed by Marcos: Angular Uncial, Biblical Uncial, Coptic Uncial, Papyrus Uncial, Round Uncial, Slavonic Uncial, Sloping Uncial, Minuscule IX, Minuscule XI and Minuscule XV. These fonts are representative of the main styles of Greek handwriting used during the Classical World and Middle Ages on papyrus and parchments. There is also a short manual of Greek Paleography (71 pages) which explains the development of Greek handwriting from the fourth century B.C. to the invention of printing with movable type in the middle of the fifteenth A.D. He wrote a text book entitled History of Greek Typography: From the Invention of Printing to the Digital Age (in Spanish; second edition, 2018). See also here and here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alter Ebro
[Jorge Moreno]

Jorge Moreno (Alter Ebro illustration and design, Zaragoza, Spain) made Alter Ebro Pixel Font (2009, FontStruct). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alter Littera
[José Alberto Mauricio]

Spanish foundry, est. ca. 2009, and on the web since 2012. It is located in Madrid. Alter Littera's fonts and web site are designed and managed by José Alberto Mauricio, who holds a doctorate degree in Economics and Business Administration, and is Associate Professor of Econometrics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

Alter Littera produces and markets opentype fonts reviving some of the most beautiful bookhands from medieval Western manuscripts, as well as some of the finest European and North-American typefaces from the mid-fifteenth through the early-twentieth centuries. The "Bookhand", "Oldtype" and "Initials" font collections cover gothic and/or blackletter letter forms.

The typefaces:

• Gutenberg (B42-type) A (Johann Gutenberg, Mainz, ca. 1455). Includes the full set of special characters, alternates and ligatures from The 42-line Bible. Under development.
• Gutenberg (B42-type) B (Johann Gutenberg, Mainz, ca. 1455). Includes the full set of special characters, alternates and ligatures from The 42-line Bible. Published as Gutenberg B in 2012, this is a clean, smooth rendition of the B42-type used by Johann Gutenberg in his famous 42-line Bible. The font includes a comprehensive set of special characters, alternates and ligatures, plus Opentype features, that can be used for typesetting (almost) exactly as in Gutenberg's Bible and later incunabula. He says: The main historical sources used during the font design process were high-resolution scans from several printings of Gutenberg's Bible. Other sources were as follows: Kapr, A. (1996), Johann Gutenberg - The Man and his Invention, Aldershot: Scolar Press (ch. 7); De Hamel, C. (2001), The Book - A History of The Bible, London: Phaidon Press (ch. 8); Füssel, S. (2005), Gutenberg and the impact of printing, Burlington: Ashgate (ch. 1); and Man, J. (2009), The Gutenberg Revolution, London: Bantam (ch. 7).
• Gutenberg (B42-type) C (Johann Gutenberg, Mainz, ca. 1455). Includes the full set of special characters, alternates and ligatures from The 42-line Bible. Published in 2012 as Gutenberg C, this is a slightly roughened version of the Oldtype "Gutenberg B" Font, simulating irregularities and ink spreads associated with old metal types, papers and parchments.
• Psalterium (Psalter-type) (Peter Schoeffer, Mainz, 1457). Includes the full set of special characters, alternates and ligatures from The Mainz Psalter (Psalterium Moguntinum). He writes: A clean, smooth adaptation of the magnificent gothic types used by Johann Fust and Peter Schöffer in their famous Mainz Psalter (Psalterium Moguntinum) of 1457, also used in their Canon of the Mass (Canon Missae) of 1458, and in their Benedictine Psalter (Psalterium Benedictinum) of 1459. [Although these works were published after Gutenberg's break with Fust, it is generally agreed that Gutenberg was working along with Fust and Schöffer on the Mainz Psalter while the 42-line Bible was still being printed.] In addition to the usual standard characters for typesetting modern texts, the font includes a comprehensive set of special characters, uncial initials (adapted from both the Mainz Psalter and early sixteenth-century Dutch types by Henric Pieterszoon), alternates and ligatures, plus Opentype features, that can be used for typesetting (almost) exactly as in the Mainz Psalter and later incunabula.
• Oude Hollandse (Henric Pieterszoon "Lettersnijder", Antwerp, 1492). Under development.
• French Textura (Joos Lambrecht, Ghent, 1541). Under development.
• Flamand A (Hendrik van den Keere, Antwerp, 1571). Under development.
• Flamand B (Hendrik van den Keere, Antwerp, 1571). Under development.
• Nederduits (Johann M. Fleischmann, Haarlem, 1733). Under development.
• Psalter Gotisch (Benjamin Krebs Nachfolger, Frankfurt am Main, 1890). Under development.
• Manuskript Gotisch (Bauersche Giesserei, Frankfurt am Main, 1899). Under development.
• Munthe Schrift (Gerhard Munthe, Offenbach am Main, 1904), Under development.
• Deutsche Schrift (Rudolf Koch, Offenbach am Main, 1910). Includes both normal and large, ornamental capitals (two sets), plus several finial characters and ornaments from Koch's original designs. He writes:A comprehensive and faithful rendition of Rudolf Koch's first release, usually referred to as "Fette Deutsche Schrift" or "Koch-Schrift". In addition to the regular character set, the font includes a large number of alternates and ligatures, plus two sets of ornamental initials (Initialen mit Zierstrichen und Punkten zur Koch-Schrift, and Initialen zur halbfetten deutschen Schrift). The main sources used during the font design process were a sample page from Hendlmeier, W. (1994), Kunstwerke der Schrift, Hannover: Bund für Deutsche Schrift und Sprache (p. 164), and several specimen sheets from the Gebrüder Klingspor Type Foundry for Koch's Deutsche Schrift type family.
• Maximilian (Rudolf Koch, Offenbach am Main, 1914). Includes normal, small (Klein), and roman (Antiqua) capitals, plus ornamental capitals and alternates (Zierbuchstaben). Under development.
• Wilhelm Klingspor Schrift (Rudolf Koch, Offenbach am Main, 1925). Includes both normal (wide) and narrow capitals, plus the full set of alternates, ligatures and finial characters from Koch's original designs.
• Caslon Gotisch (D. Stempel A.G., Frankfurt am Main, 1926). Produced in 2012 as Caslon Gotisch, it is a faithful adaptation of the "Caslon-Gotisch" type acquired (among several other types) by D. Stempel A.G. in 1919 from the Leipzig printer Wilhelm E. Drugulin, and further developed by Stempel in later years. Details: In addition to the usual standard characters for typesetting in modern Western languages, the font includes a comprehensive set of special characters, alternates and ligatures, plus Opentype features, that can be used for typesetting as in antique writings and printings. The main sources used during the font design process were as follows: A sample page from Typographische Mitteilungen - XXIII Jahrgang - Heft 2 (1926), and a sample page from Hendlmeier, W. (1994), Kunstwerke der Schrift, Hannover: Bund für Deutsche Schrift und Sprache (p. 37).
• Gótico Cervantes (Fundición Tipográfica Richard Gans, Madrid, 1928). Under development.
• Wallau (a rotunda by Rudolf Koch, Offenbach am Main, 1930). Includes German, Uncial, and Ornamental capitals. Under development.
• Alter Gothic (Alter Littera, Madrid, 2012), or Alter Gothisch. This is Alter Littera's first original design. They write: Two specific sources must be acknowledeged: (1) the "Black" type from William Caslon's A Specimen of Printing Types (1785), and (2) the "Caslon Gotisch" type by D. Stempel A.G. (1926).
• Gothic A. After late Carolingian and early Gothic manuscripts (12th century). Under development.
• Gothic B. After Erhard Ratdolt's Lombardic Capitals (1491). Under development.
• Gothic C. After Henric Pieterszoon's Uncials (1508). A comprehensive set of initials (usually referred to as Uncials, Lombardic Initials, or Lombards) of the Germanic variety, designed after Henric Pieterszoon's Gothise Monnikke Letteren as appearing in Enschedé, J. (1768), Proef van Letteren, Haarlem (p. 120); also mentioned as Great Primer Uncials and 2-line Brevier Uncials in Vervliet, H.D.L. (1968), Sixteenth-Century Printing Types of the Low Countries, Amsterdam: Hertzberger (pp. 54-55, and 212-213).
• ATF Cincinnati, ATF Caxton, ATF Missal. From American Type Founders Company's American Specimen Book of Type Styles (1912). Under development.
• Initials Bergling (2012, Alter Littera) is a comprehensive set of initials (usually referred to as Uncials, Lombardic Initials, or Lombards) of the French variety, adapted from Bergling's book Art Alphabets and Lettering (Second Edition) (1918, Chicago: Blakely-Oswald Printing Company).
• Bergling B. From J.M. Bergling's Art Alphabets and Lettering (1918). Under development.
• Morris. From William Morris's The Kelmscott Chaucer (1896). Under development.
• Initials ATF Cloister (2012). After F.W. Goudy's Cloister Initials (1917).
• Roman Square Capital. From 1st century B.C. onwards. Under development.
• Roman Rustic. 1st to 6th centuries. Under development.
• Uncial. 3rd to 6th centuries. Under development.
• Artificial Uncial. 6th to 10th centuries. Under development.
• Roman Half-Uncial. 3rd to 9th centuries. Under development.
• Insular Majuscule. 6th to 9th centuries. Under development.
• Insular Minuscule. From 6th century onwards. Under development.
• Luxeuil Minuscule. 7th and 8th centuries. Under development.
• Beneventan Minuscule. 8th to 13th centuries. Under development.
• Carolingian Minuscule. 8th to mid-12th centuries. Under development.
• Early Gothic. 11th and 12th centuries. Under development.
• Gothic Textura Quadrata. 13th to 15th centuries. Under development.
• Gothic Textura Prescisus. 13th to 15th centuries. Under development.
• Gothic Rotunda. 12th to 16th centuries. Under development.
• Gothic Littera Bastarda. From 13th century onwards. Under development.
• Fraktur. From 15th century onwards. Under development.
• Humanistic Book Script. From 15th century onwards. Under development.
• Humanistic Cursive. From 15th century onwards. Under development.
• ATF Missal Caxton (2012): A comprehensive set of initials, frames and borders, adapted from American Type Founders (ATF) Company's American Specimen Book of Type Styles, Jersey City, 1912 (pp. 944-5). The font contains over one hundred glyphs, including clean renditions of both Missal Initials and Caxton Initials, plus adaptations of Department Store Initials and French Cast Squares. Caxton Initials were first designed by F. Goudy in 1905. Missal Initials is originally due to Will Bradley in 1904.
• Alter Headletter (2012). An original from Alter Littera in the style of Century Bold Condensed.
• The Oldtype Gutenberg A Font (2012, free) is a free abridged edition of the full-featured Gutenberg B and Gutenberg C fonts.

Alva Aur

Alva Aur (Valencia, Spain) designed the Witch Lab typeface (2012, alchemic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alvaro De Ramón Murillo

During his studies in Madrid, Alvaro De Ramón Murillo designed the sans typeface family Lotus (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alvaro Diaz

Furniture and industrial designer in Madrid, whose rationality shines through in his architectural ADH typeface (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alvaro F. Echavarri

Madrid-based designer of the alchemic / hipster typeface TCCM (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alvaro Fernandez

Madrid-based designer. He created the runic simulation typeface Runica (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alvaro Melgosa

Montreal, Quebec (was: Madrid, Spain)-based designer of a prismatic set of initials in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alvaro Muñoz Perez

Madrid, Spain-based designer of the hipster typeface AMM (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alvaro Rodriguez

Madrid-based creator of the Planet Mambo Club art deco logotype (2013), and of the multiline art deco typeface Jambo Brothers (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alvaro Rubio

During his studies, Logroñ, Spain-based Alvaro Rubio designed the codex-inspired compass-and-ruler typeface Maths (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alvaro Yuste

Madrid-based graphic designer. FontStructor who made the counterless square typeface Ilusteo (2011). Other typefaces include Hipster Viral Blackletter (2014, tweetware) and Cibelina (2014, a font based on the typography of the ceramic name street plaques in Madrid made by the recently deceased ceramist Alfredo Ruiz de Luna. The original sources of this font go back to the seventeenth century). Behance link. FontStruct link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alyssha Swanson

Creator of the informal hand-printed No Bullies Allowed (2012, iFontMaker) while working as Second Grade teacher at the American School of Madrid. Alyssha is originally from Portland, OR.

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Amalia Garcia Gans

Daughter of Richard Gans, the founder of Fundicion Tipografica Richard Gans, which was located in Madrid. She took over the company in 1936, together with her brothers Manuel and Ricardo, who were assassinated in the Spanish Civil war. She ran the business and was typographic director in the difficult years after the war, and built the foundry back up from scratch. The Fundicion Tipografica Richard Gans finally folded in 1975. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amir Rahimi Luzquinos

Madrid, Spain-based designer of the modular display typeface Woz (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Almela

Graphic designer in Valencia, Spain, who created Sibila in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Beltran

During her studies in Madrid, Ana Beltran designed a Mondrian-inspired typeface in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Dorado
[Tipos en red]

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Ana Espuig Perello

Designer in Valencia, Spain, who heads Neko Design. Behance link.

In 2012, she created the thin geometric display sans typeface Wassily. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Estrada

Ana Estrada Martos is a UX/UI developer in Madrid, Spain. In 2018, she designed the free experimental modular typeface family Dana. This typeface, conceived in an 11x12 grid, consists of lines and circle arcs, and is named after the X-Files star Dana Scully. The font is also coded directly in HTML. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Guirao Garcia

Alicante, Spain-based designer of a piano key typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Maria Contreras

Spanish designer of the handcrafted typeface Deep (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Maria Davila

Graphic designer in Madrid. She created the curly Ananas (2011) and the squarish Pixel Diamond (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Marin

Ana Marin (t-grafica) is the Ciudad Real, Spain-based designer of Hand Slab (2013), Gala Script (2013), Black Brush (2013, a brush blackletter), Grafica Sans (2013), a sans typeface that is partly grotesk.

Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Palacios

Logroño, Spain-based designer of Tim Siskup (2016), a tiki type font based on the work of Tim Biskup. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Palomino

During her studies, Jaen, Spain-based Ana Palomino designed the condensed display typeface Julia (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Perez-Sala

Salamanca, Spain-based designer of a wavy shaky Latin typeface in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Requena

Graphic designer in Zaragoza, Spain, who created the ornamental didone typeface Nadine (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Santiago Soubrier

Madrid-based designer of Cosmic Coyote (2014, free) and Hipon (2014, a free hisper typeface). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana V. Francès

Ana V. Francès (or A-GRPHCS in Valencia, Spain) created a bichromatic typeface in 2012.

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Analisa Moltó Vigon

Based in Villena, Spain, Analisa Moltó Vigon designed a proposal signage and pictogram typeface family for the aquarium in Valencia, Oceanogràfic. This was a graduation project. It is called Océano. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Abril

Photographer and graphic designer in Sevilla, Spain, who created the italic didone stencil typeface Doñ in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Albiac

During her studoes at ESDA (Design School of Aragon), zaragoza, Spain-based Andrea Albiac designed the uppercase didone typeface Artemisa (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Almo P

Amposta, Spain-based designer of the experimental modular typeface Sempitern (2018) and the reverse stress typeface Bood (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Lorenzo Gutierrez

Valladolid, Spain-based designer of the circle-based typeface Delicia (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Rodriguez

During her studies at Escuela de Diseño Vitoria-Gasteiz, Andrea Rodriguez (Burgos, Spain) created the monoline sans typeface Bonhomia (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Uria

Spanish designer of the deco typeface Contrast (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andrei Ograda

Graphic designer from Bucharest (and now Burriana, Spain) who made these typefaces in 2011: STT, Rock, Square, Desgraciado, Cylon, Kalypso, Dgtl, Passio, Sting, and VCT. Via Dos Cabrones, he partners with Vian Peanu.

He hooked up with Pose Radu in 2017 and set up The Jumping Foxes. Through The Jumping Foxes, they commercialized Radu's Matisse design as JF Matisse (2017). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Andres Arturo Avila

Colombian graphic and type designer, b. Cali, 1976. He has an undergraduate degree from Instituto Departamental de Bellas Artes in Cali (1996-2001), and Masters degrees in corporate identity (from ELISAVA in Barcelona, 2006-2007) and in type design (from IED in Madrid, 2012).

In 2012, he created the sans typeface Nerea (Comando Cran). This typeface was a school project at IED in Madrid. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andres Benjumea

Spanish designer of the hand-printed typefaces Charanga (2013) and Inocua (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andres Brun

Spanish penman who produced two writing books between 1583 and 1612. A facsimile of these was printed by Mardersteig (Officina Bodoni) for The Pegasus Press in Paris in 1928, in a 32-page book edited by Henry Thomas and Stanley Morison: Andres Brun, Calligrapher of saragossa, Sme account of his Life and Work, with a Facsimile in Collotype of the Surviving Text and Plates of his two Writing Books, 1583-1612. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andres Mellado

Valencia, Spain-based designer of the handcrafted typeface Lux (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andres Rive

Cordoba, Spain-based creator (b. 1991) of the ornamental caps typeface Popcorn (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angel Alvarez
[Tipode]

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Angel Caballero

Spanish type designer who created many typefaces at José Iranzobetween 1948 and 1965. These include: Gotico (1951, blackletter), Nueva Escritura Inglesa (1948), Junco (1962-1965: fino, seminegro, negro---condensed contrasted sans family), Pincel (1956, informal signage script), and Supremo (1956: fino, fino cursiva, seminegro, seminegro cursiva, negro, negro cursiva). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angel Diaz Fernandez

Madrid-based designer of the 3d outline typeface Acetato (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angel Falcon

Graphic designer in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria who created Rising Typeface in 2013, for which he took inspiration from samurai warriors. Artyca (2013) is Gill Sans, adapted to various symbologies. In 2015, he designed the minimalist hipster typeface Nara, which is inspired by the architecture of Japan's second historical period known as Nara. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angel Garcia Rubio
[Ideas and Apps]

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Angel Justo
[Quka.net]

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Angel Pérez Gajardo

Spanish graphic designer who made Suipacha (2011), a gridded texture typeface modularly constructed from triangles. It comes with beautiful logotype work for the Suipacha Gallery in Buenos Aires. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angel Perez

Angel Perez (Cordoba, Spain) created a tattoo-inspired ornamental caps typeface called Sybarithe (2013).

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Angel Sánchez

Ángel Sánchez is a Spanish designer. In 2011, he created Museum (a roman caps face), Curriculum (a monoline typewriter face) and Stadium (a geometric circle-based display typeface for architectural signs). Stadium and Museum are free. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angel Suazon Acar
[Angloletra]

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Angela Gutierrez Garcia

During her studies in Sevilla, Spain, Angela Gutierrez Garcia designed the steampunk typeface Steampang (2016), the art nouveau typeface Natural Type (2017), and the stitching font Old Granny Cross (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angloletra
[Angel Suazon Acar]

Madrid-based designer of Always Typeface (2015) and Camera Icons (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angrois Design
[César Gómez Blanco]

César Gómez Blanco (Angrois Design) is a Spanish graphic designer in La Coruña, b. 1982. Creator of the techno typeface Bule (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ansatha

Spanish creator of the free font REZ Spain (2013). Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antonio Bilbao

Spanish type designer who created Escorial (ca. 1960, Richard Gans Foundry), a display typeface with Koch Antiqua influences. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antonio de Espinosa

Spanish typefounder based in Sevilla, who emigrated to Mexico and is thought to be the first Spanish typographer in North America. He created a large number of Gothic, roman and cursive typefaces. He printed mainly religious oeuvres, from about 1560 until about 1571. Cristóbal Henestrosa, who wrote Espinosa. Rescate de una tipografía novohispana (México, Designio, 2005), writes: He worked with Juan Pablos (first printer on the American continent) since 1551 and he began his independent job in 1559, with Maturino Gilberti's Grammatica Maturini and finalized with the second edition of Graduale Dominicale in 1576, the year he died. It is not completely clear that he cut [types], although there is a contract (1550) in which he promises to cut type for Juan Pablos, but he is the second printer in all of America and the first one who preferred roman and cursive type over the gothic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antonio Espinosa

Spanish typefounder, engraver and printer from the 18th century, b. 1732, Murcia, d. 1812, Segovia. Unlike Pradell, the craftsman, Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros and Jeronimo Antonio Gil followed academic studies. They specialized in drawing and engraving under Tomas Francisco Prieto, engraver of the Real Casa de la Moneda, from whom they learned the techniques of engraving currencies. Their first task was to complete the matrices of Bernardo Ortiz. Gil and Espinosa began their careers simultaneously but Espinosa veers towards punchcutting. Gil began working for Juan de Santander at the Biblioteca Real until 1778, and was later transferred to the Real Casa de la Moneda de Mexico to become its first engraver, which made Santander lose his best punchcutter.

Espinosa, the printer, had his own foundries---one in Madrid, another in Sevilla and one in Segovia. In Segovia, in 1777, he founded a drawing school. In his writing and font specimen books he explained his desire to imitate the Spanish calligraphic forms and to engrave directly each punch (without using counterpunches). It is Espinosa's italic that was used in the book La conjuracion de Catalina y la guerra de Jugurta (1772, Ibarra, Madrid). He taught at la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, worked at la Casa de la Moneda de Sevilla (since 1772) and la Casa de la Moneda de Segovia (since 1774), and is famous for creating the Ibarra typeface.

Sandra Carrera created an entire typeface system based on the types of Antonio Espinosa de Monteros. Called Pícara (2014) it is a bookish typeface with a knife-cut feel and a sturdy serif.

In 1993, Juan Ignacio Pulido Trullén, Sandra Silvia Baldassarri Santa Lucía, and Francisco José Serón Arbeloa (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain) co-designed the free typeface family Ibarra, which is based on the type used in La conjuracion de Catalina y la guerra de Jugurta (1772, Ibarra, Madrid). Author of Muestras de los Caracteres que sejiinden por direccion de D. Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros y Abadia (1771, Academico de la Real de San Fernando, Madrid). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antonio González de Santiago

Spanish cartoonist de Santiago (who is based in Cartagena) used to run Dir Dam Foundry, where he sold his comic book fonts Comic Pro (1998), Comic Ignatz, and Comic Camelot. Comic Pro is also at Jack Yan (1999) and at Type Quarry. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Antonio Hernández Marín
[El Circulo de Oro de Uresh-Nefer]

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Antonio Herrera Infantes

Spanish designer of the school fonts Escolar1, Escolar2Negra, Escolar4Puntos, and Escolar5Calada in 1992. Download here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antonio J. Morata

Antonio J. Morata (Almeria, Spain, b. 1968) is a FontStructor (aka elmoyenique) who used FontStruct to make several modular typefaces starting in 2010. The typeface names start with z. We list them alphabetically:

• Je suiz Charlie (2015).
• zabadoo eYe FS (2013, bilined), zadartopia eYeFS (2014), zadora-q-eYeFS (pixelized), Zaffron EyeFS (2013), zaftig eYe FS (2013), zage eYe FS (2013), zagreb-eYeFS (2009), zagzig eYe FS (2012), zagzig Linear eYe FS (2013), zahoree eYeFS (2012, dot matrix), Zakapunt eYeFS (2010), Zapatiesta EyeFS (2013, a cut paper font), Zakyra eYe-FS (2010, a western font modeled after Kyra 1 my Michel Troy), zalamera eYeFS (2011), zalooneYeFS (Western face), zamantha eYeFS (2012), zame-eYeFS, Zamzibar eYeFS (2012, octagonal), zandal eYe FS (2013, +2b), zandalo eYe FS (2014), zanexos eYe FS (2015, kitchen tile face), zanzibar-eYeFS, zancle-eYeFS, zancle-rev-eYeFS, zanadalo eYe FS (2014, Tuscan), Zangona eYe FS (2013), zanity eYe FS (2012), zanta eYe FS (2013), zapphire eYeFS (2012, kitchen tile face), zapristi-eYeFS (outlined and oblique), zarcs-eYeFS, zarina-eYeFS (2011, blackletter), zaturdaynote eYe FS (2014: dot matrix font), zaved eYeFS (2012), zaxet eYeFS (2014, Western), zayre-eYeFS, zaza eYeFS (2011).
• zblackmagic-eYeFS (2011, Based on the Tomeri Nu-No font by Nuria González and Noël Nanton), zbrickfont eYeFS.
• Zcare Myself EyeFS (2013), zcell-eYeFS (2010, fat counterless, and outlined), zcell rnd eYeFS (2012), zchwarze eYe FS (2014), zchwarze deco eYeFS (2014), zcloudy eYeFS (2012), zcout eYeFS (2010, a mini-stencilled art deco face), zcrackers eYe/FS (fa, counterless and starred), zcratched eYe FS (2014).
• zdurer (blackletter).
• zeagull eYe FS (2014), zebralbox eYeFS (2013), zebralkey EyeFS (2013), zeelandia-eYeFS (horizontally striped), zeenvoudige eYeFS (2011), zefaleas eYeFS (2013), zegovia eYeFS (2012), zelada eYeFS (2011), Zelectra eYeFS (2013), zelemin eYe FS (2013), zelfvolution eYeFS (stencil), zenda-eYeFS, zeneka eYe FS (2013), zenequalia eYe FS (2014), zenix-eYeFS (2011), zenoid eYe FS (2012), zenon eYeFS (2011, horizontal stripes), zenovia-eYeFS (2011), zentenial eYeFS (2015), Zenzilla EyeFS> (2013), zeres eYeFS (2011), zerone eYeFS (2011, a modular piano key face), Zertera eYeFS (2015, textured), zetentas-eYeFS (disco light face; +Light), zeventy-eYeFS (2011), zextile-eYeFS.
• zfraktur eYe FS (2011, blackletter).
• Zhadowlite eYeFS (2014), zhadows eYe/FS (shadow face), zhalloween eYe/FS (pixel face), zhapp3y-eYeFS (alphading), zhappy eYeFS (2011, fat art deco), zhappy5th eYeFS (2013), Zharkonada eYeFS (2014), zharona-eYeFS (2010).
• ziabelle-eYeFS (shadow face), ziberia eYeFS (2011: extended to a full-fledged commercial typeface, KD Ziberia, by Zhalgas Kassymkulov, in 2021), zibernia blk eYe/FS (2011), zibernia blk x thal eYe/FS (2011), zicrets eYeFS (2013), Zilken eYe FS (2013), zilverstone eYeFS (2011, blackletter), zimbawee-eYeFS, zimbelino eYeFS (2013), zimonart eYe FS (2014), zinabrium eYeFS (2013), zincline eYeFS (2014), zinders eYeFS (2012), zinergy-eYeFS (3d face), zinergy blk eYe/FS, zinfont eYeFS, zinnamon eYeFS (2011), zinus eYeFS (2013), zirconite eYeFS (2011, slab face), zircus eYeFS (2010), zirius eYeFS (2011).
• Zkalpel eYe FS, Zkalpelbar eYe FS (2014, blackletter), zkandia-eYeFS (stencil), zkinlight eYeFS (2013).
• zlabyrinths eYeFS (2011, improved by fanstruct1 in zlabyrinths eYeFS v2, 2012), zlash eYe FS (2011, a keyhole face), zloty eYeFS (2011, art deco face).
• zmorse xDad eYe FS (2011, a texture / African typeface based on morse code).
• znederland eYe FS (2012), znipped eYe FS (2012, heavy angular face).
• zpanish caravan eYe/FS (2011, a bullet hole face), zpeedo eYe FS (2013, race car font), zpido eYeFS (2012), zpixel eYeFS (2011), zporty eYeFS (2012, textured face).
• zquadrata eYeFS (2010), zquared-eYeFS.
• Zocratic EyeFS (2013, kitchen tile face), Zocraticrux eYeFS (2014), Zoftly 70 EyeFS (2013, LED font), Zombra eYeFS (2013, influenced by Orthmar Motter's Motter Ombra, 1973), zometimes eYeFS (2014), zonatta eYeFS (2013), zonora eYeFS (2011, a Far West face), zooctogonal eYeFS (2013), zoolphabet eYeFS (2010, animal dingbats), zorongo eYeFS (2014: inspired by the MuirMcneil poster lettering for Braun systems), Zoulsister Plus eYe FS (2016), zoutheast eYe FS (2012, Western), zouthwest eYe FS (2012, Western), zoutland eYeFS (2011, octagonal), zouvenir 2U eYeFS (2013), zovietztyle eYeFS (2013, constructivist), zozial-eYeFS, zozial-sqrd-eYeFS.
• Realta2 (2013), zreeways eYe FS (2014: multilined face), zround eYeFS (2010).
• Ztardust eYe FS (2014), ztarsky-eYeFS (+Round: art deco ultra black), ztainless eYe FS (2014), ztamina eYe FS (2014: shaded), ztator eYeFS (2012), ztay eYeFS (a condensed almost art nouveau face), Zteamboat EyeFS (2013), ztedelijk-Crouwel eYe/FS (2011, based on Wim Crouwel's stedelijk Museum poster), zteefunny eYe FS (2011, ultra fat keyhole face; + zteefunny dm eYeFS), ztencils eYeFS (2011, army stencil face), ztires-eYeFS (2011, texture face), ztoasts eYeFS (2013), ztonewall eYeFS (2013), ztorm eYeFS (2013, blackletter), ztrands eYeFS (2011), ztrange eYeFS (2010), ztrange blk eYeFS (2011), Ztrangelovedoc (2016), Ztratos eYe FS (2014), ztream eYeFS (2011), ztrong eYeFS (2013, sci-fi), ztrontiumdog eYe FS (2013, fat stencil), ztructures eYe FS (2012, crosshaired), zturdy-eYeFS (ultra-fat), ztylo eYeFS (2011, art deco).
• zumbaya eYeFS (2014), zummertime eYe FS (2012), zunivetica eYe FS (2013), zunset eYeFS (2012), Zuspiria eYe FS (2015), zuzanna eYeFS (2013, Western, Italian).
• zweater eYeFS (2011, knitted look), zweet eYeFS (2013), zwimming eYeFS (2011), zwire blk eYeFS (an LED face), zwiss-eYeFS.
• zybaris eYeFS (2012), zybona-eYeFS (athletic lettering), zychotropic eYeFS (2013, an Italian Western face), zydonia eYeFS (2012), zykedelia-eYeFS (2012), zylone-eYeFS (2011), zylvania eYeFS (2013, retro automotive script), zynopsis eYe FS (2013), zyrano eYeFS (2013), zyrens eYeFS (2013), Zyrup Eye FS (2013).

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Antonio Medina

Jaen, Spain-based designer of the Cyrillic emulation and Stalinesque typeface Kremlin (2018) and the newspaper typeface Daily (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antonio Molin Martin
[LabMol Art&Design]

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Antonio Roman Diaz

Madrid-based designer of Casa Bermejo (2016), a Tuscan revival typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anxo J. Justo

Oviedo, Spain-based designer of Xozza (2015) and of an untitled squarish typeface in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anxo Vizcaino

Lugo, Spain-based designer of the propaganda poster typeface Hüte Dich (2017), which is based of German war time letterpress with some avant garde elements mixed in. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anybal T. Castillo

Spanish type designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anyetipo

Spanish place in Madrid with commercial fonts for teaching children: Escolar (+Flecha, +Pro, +Cuadricula), Preescolar, Preescolar pro, Infantil, Preainfantil, Junior (+Venezuela), Trazos (tracing fonts), Precalimex, Calimex (used in Mexico), Calimex Pluma, Andina (used in Chile), Caliprico (used in Puerto Rico), Basica, Caliper (used in Peru), Calipro, Calirredo (used in the Domican Republic). Also: Ibarra Antiqua, Pautas, Elzevir, Mates (math symbol fonts), Gregoriano (blackletter). Anyetipo also has a type making service. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Applied Meta Projects (was: Tunera Type Foundry, Ariel Graphisme)
[Ariel Martin Perez]

Born in the Canary Islands, Ariel Martín Pérez is a freelance art director and illustrator based in Paris. He set up Ariel Graphisme. In 2020, he founded Tunera Type Foundry with Anton Moglia. In 2021, he started Applied Meta Projects. Parisian designer of Nord Sud Boulenger (2015), a squarish all caps typeface based on the tiled letters used in the subway in Paris on the Nord-Sud line (now lines 12 and 13). It is named after the Boulenger tile factory, also known as the Choisy-Le-Roi tile factory.

In 2018, he designed the display typeface CMT and the free typeface Ouroboros (at Velvetyne), a font for alchemists, witches, heretics and outsiders that has art nouveau elements. In 2021, he improved some curves and added some symbols suggested by artist Hélène Mourrier.

Typefaces at Tunera:

• Brassia (Ariel Martin Perez). A wavy typeface designed in 2019.
• Canarina (Ariel Martin Perez). Canarina (2020) is an angular font inspired by the Canary Islands, that celebrates its history and culture. Perez writes: Canarina is a fingerprint, a phonolitic stone, the leaf of a succulent plant, the silhouette of a volcanic rock against the sky, a feeling that is hard to translate.
• In 2020, with Sébastien Hayez, he released the free typeface Cantique at Velvetyne. Cantique was inspired by some hand-carved titles used in post-romantic French bookplates, both for their ornamental qualities and for their kind of medieval mood.
• Générale Station (Ariel Martin Perez). In 2017, he designed the free typeface families Générale Mono (octagonal, bi-width), NordSudA, NordSudB and NordSudC. Générale Mono was extended in 2019 to Générale Station.
• Kobata (Ariel Martin Perez). An experimental pixelish typeface from 2020.
• Manosque (Ariel Martin Perez). Manosque (2019) is a bulky rounded typeface inspired by lettering found in the train station of Manosque, a city in the south of France.
• Paysage (Anton Moglia). Paysage is a redesigned and extended version of Garcia Regular, a typeface started in 2016. This humanist sans released in 2020 was inspired by Roger Excoffon's Antique Olive.

Behance link. Open Font Library link. Old link to Ariel Graphisme. Ariel Martin Pérez at Velvetyne. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aqueno Design

Aqueno Design (Burgos, Spain) created the hipster / alchemic typeface Euforia in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aqueño Design

During his studies in Burgos, Spain, Aqueño Design created the hipster typeface Hipo Euforia (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arbilla

Granada, Spain-based creator of Handabit (2010, hand-printed), which can be bought here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Argenis Dinael Urdaneta Oropeza
[Dinael Design]

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Argos Sastre Santoveña

Graduate of Escuela Superior De Diseño De La Rioja in Logrono, Spain, class of 2016. Madrid-based creator of the vector format font Theo (2014). This 3d experimental font was influenced by De Stijl. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ariana Vidal

Ariana Vidal (Vigo, Spain) created the thin sans display typeface Eleuve (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ariel Martin Perez
[Applied Meta Projects (was: Tunera Type Foundry, Ariel Graphisme)]

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Arnaldo Guillen de Brocar

Spanish type designer who lived in the 16th century. GFS Complutensian Greek is a digitization of some of his types by George Matthiopoulos. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arnildo Junior Gehring

Graphic designer in Balneario de Camboriu, Brazil. He reduced the serifs in Courier New and created Courrier Digital (2012). Spacender (2012) is another experimental typeface.

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Art Platanao
[Aday Falcón]

Aday Falcón (Art Plataneo, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) is the Spanish designer who created the free alchemic typeface Boyuna (2012) at FontStruct. He also made the wavy Alisios (2012) and the art deco typeface Frank Wayne (2012).

Dafont link. Art Plataneo link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Asier Fernandez Huesca

Illustrator and graphic designer in Sevilla, Spain, who created the lapidary roman caps typeface Cartuja in 2015. Inspiration came from a tomb in the Monasterio de la Cartuja de Sevilla. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Assaad Georges Awad

Futuristic fashion accessory and costume designer in Madrid. Behance link. Creator of Asho (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Atelier Laia
[Santos Bregaña]

Spanish type foundry, est. 2013. One of its founders, Santos Bregaña, writes: Of Croatian origin, Santos Bregaña is born by chance in the city of Pamplona in 1965 on the very day that Le Corbusier drowns in Cap Martin. After studying architecture in San Sebastian and Barcelona he launches the Laia Atelier in 1996 where he focuses on interior design, and on graphic and industrial design projects associated with the culinary culture and business. In 2008 he receives, along with co-creator Anne Ibañez Guridi, the Art Director's Club of New York Sphere Award for their body of work for the restaurant Mugaritz. He leads Tabula, a publishing house dedicated to the spread of culture and gastronomy, and is a speaker on public forums and seminars related to high cuisine. His porcelain designs and his O! Luna, Tabula, and Linneo collections have received international praise and are in many of the best restaurants and hotels in the world.

In 2013 Atelier Iaia published the calligraphic Iturzaeta-inspired typeface Lamia, a joint effort of Santos Bregaña, Julen Cano Linazasor and Maore Sagarzazu: The Lamia font is inspired by the work of the most famous calligrapher of the Basque Country, Jose Francisco de Iturzaeta Eizaguirre (Getaria, 1788-Madrid, 1853). His writing method was compulsory in Spanish schools since 1835. His "unpolished Spanish font" tried to be more effective than the more commercial English version by avoiding embellishments and excessive rear tearing. More akin with the liberal values imported by the French, his offerings sought uniformity, speed and efficiency to ensure that those in the less-favored echelons of society had an effective communication tool. From his "General collection of characters of European Letters" published in Madrid in 1833, we have chosen the "lower case pancilla reformed" represented in one of the prints. We have tried to reinterpret it by keeping its essence but also ensuring that it is viable for potential contemporary uses which, thanks to its good readability and effectiveness in longer texts, basically means as a decorative or display font. The upper case was generated using the lower case as a reference.

Waskonia (2013, Santos Bregaña) is inspired by Basq gravestones from the 8th century.

Earlier work of Santos Bregaña includes the Kai (Basque) typeface family (199701999, with Mikel Enparantza) at Garagefonts.

FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Athal Bertht

Madrid, Spain-based designer of the sans display typefaces Culonite (2018: rounded and circular; lowercase only), Natural (2018: handcrafted), and Acatisia (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Atipo

Design studio in Gijon, Spain, set up by Asturian designers Raul Garcia del Pomar and Ismael Gonzalez. One of them studied graphic design in Salamanca. Atipo produced the donationware typeface Cassannet in 2012. This beautiful sans typeface is modeled after art deco lettering by Cassandre. It was adjusted and expanded to six styles in 2016 as Cassannet Plus.

In 2012, they published the free twitterware round sans family Bariol, which has its own dedicated web page. This was followed by the wonderful set of icons called Bariol Icons. In 2015, they published the tweetware / donationware rounded typeface family Bariol Serif.

Typefaces from 2013: Salomé (a fat didone, +Stencil, +Italic, +Deco). Dedicated web page.

The text typeface Calendas (2011, Paula Gutierrez). Additional weights were custom-made for the magazine Town & Country.

They created a bespoke wayfinding font / icon set for London Luton Airport in 2014.

Typefaces from 2015: Geomanist---I guess the name comed from geometric and humanist. In general, I can't imagine a worse marriage but this one actually works.

Typefaces from 2016: Seville (a custom font for Fitbit Blaze, based on Bariol), Semcon (for the Swedish engineering firm Forsman & Bodenfors).

Typefaces from 2017: Archia (a technical / architectural sans family), Noway (Noway was originally designed as a corporate and signage typeface for London Luton Airport. It has 159 icons and five weights, and is an ideal wayfinding font family), Noway Round.

Typefaces from 2018: Solano & Catalan (a corporate typeface), Aceña (a corporate typeface), Silka (a geometric descendant of Futura), Musetta (a fashion mag thin sans), Basier (a Helvetica-style neutral sans family with horizontal and vertical terminals, with a choice of round or square tittles).

Typefaces from 2019: Parking (an all caps art deco by Marc Valli), Basier Mono, Bould, Chaney (caps only, for display).

Typefaces from 2020: Sawton (a 15-style monolinear condensed geometric sans family consisting of Circular, Industrial and Bauhaus subfamilies), Silka Mono, Wotfard (a malleable geometric sans: time for soulful functionality), Argesta (a fashion mag typeface).

Typefaces from 2021: Novela ( a rational serif for use in texts), Izoard and Izoard Soft (a monolinear sans inspired by the text on the monument atop the mythical Col d'Izoard in France which is frequently featured in the Tour de France), Strawford (a 14-style monolinear neo-geometric sans), Scilla Display ( an elegant high-contrast serif typeface inspired by the shapes of the flowers with sharp edges and organic curves).

Typefaces from 2022: N27 (an over-the-top hipster sans classified as avant-garde by Atipo), Stampa (an all caps sans serif typeface inspired by La Stampa's nameplate used by the weekly's sports supplement in Turin in 1902).

Behance link. Bariol site. Interview in 2012 by Unostiposduros. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aurora Sanz

Senuior designer in Madrid, who created the runic typeface Heaven Can Wait (2013) and the brick-based typeface WFT Typo (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aviv Studio
[Luis Miguel Torres]

Aviv Studio in Monterrey and Mexico City consists of Diego L. Rodriguez (from Madrid, Spain) and Luis Miguel Torres. Typefaces:

• The funky futuristic alchemic caps face Alquimia (2011). Its ornamental caps are based on mathematical objects. Joint work of Torres and Rodriguez.
• Destroy (2013). A sharp-edged techno face.
• Jagger (2010-2011). A sans family created by Torres.
• The futuristic alchemic typeface Kinesis (2011).
• Qabalah (2012). A fashion mag face.

Ay Joselito

Josep Renau's movie poster Herz Hitler led this Spanish designer to evelop a poster typeface in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Azahara Teso

Cordoba, Spain-based designer of Mezquita (2015) and Station K Icons. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Barbara Cachan

Illustrator and designer in Valencia, Spain, who studied at the University of Salamanca, class of 2014. She designed some icons (2016) and published the remarkable knife cut typeface Mudanzas (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bea Canut
[Plan B]

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Bea Gonzalez

During her studies at the School of Arts of Granada, Spain, Bea Gonzalez designed the constellation typeface Auriga (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beatriz Izquierdo

Based in Burgos, Spain, Beatriz Izquierdo designed Euforia (2013, an alchemic typeface) and Balum (2014, a curly all caps typeface). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beatriz Madso

Spanish designer of a great Memphis Group style typeface in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beatriz Pascual

Madrid-based designer of the music notation font Capitan (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beatriz Villarino Muñoz

Graphic designer in Ciudad Real, Spain, who created several display typefaces in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bego Carrillo

Based in Murcia, Spain, Bego Carrillo designed the free grid-based typeface Redrum (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Belen Azagra

Graphic designer in Zaragoza, Spain. In 2017, she created these typefaces: Volantis (a connect-the-dots font), Divex (hairline sans), Orion (slab serif). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Belen Provedo del Pozo

Student in Madrid who created the pixelish typeface Tetrixia (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Belen Ramos Medina

Almeria, Spain-based designer of the fashion mag typeface Miscela (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Belen Soto

Madrid-based designer of the display typeface Canas (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Belen Temprado

Belen Temprado (Madrid, Spain) created the blackboard bold typeface Harlem in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bene Ripoll

Alicante, Spain-based designer of the all caps titling typeface Changla (2019), which was inspired by Bauer Bodoni. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benito Ruiz

Graduate of Escuela de Arte Diez in Madrid, who is based in Madrid. Benito created the hip free typeface Totem (2014, FontStruct) and the free modular typeface Rise (2014, FontStruct). In 2015, he made the free typeface Poniente. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bernardita Espinoza

Madrid, Spain-based designer of the Latin fashion mag typeface Estilosa (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bernardo Castán Martínez

Type designer in Spain. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bernardo Paz Codesido

Graphic designer in Spain who runs Siloseno Estudio DG. In 2012, he created the fun sea-themed display typeface A Novena for which he was inspired by images from his Galician home town of Santa Eugenia de Ribeira. Siloseno is a school script font created for the Siloseno graphic design studio. Finally, Colonialistas (2011) is inspired by flags.

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Bernat Gramage/Toni Benlliure
[Estudi Xarop]

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Biblioteca Nacional de Espana

List of the typography and type specimen books at the National Library of Spain in Madrid. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Biblioteca Real de Madrid
[Juan de Santander]

Libray attached to the Palacio Real de Madrid, Spain. In 1761, thanks to the initiative of Juan de Santander, a foundry is annexed to the Biblioteca Real in Madrid, which he headed at the time. Santander's goal was to create a collection of fonts necessary for the proper functioning of the press in the Biblioteca Real, imitating the model of the Imprimerie Royale in Paris. He decided to manage the whole process in Spain, from the creation of the punches to the final print of the font because of the high cost of importation. Santander requests Geronimo Gil to perform this task and asks the calligrapher and paleographer Palomares to supervise his work. This foundry ended up owning the fonts engraved by Gil as per the request, some types collected by Santander, some ordered from Pradell, and some obtained from the school of engraving of the Universidad de Salamanca. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Blanca Meseguer

Zaragoza, Spain-based designer of the jazzy deco typeface Swingfont (2015)./ [Google] [More]  ⦿

Blancoletters
[Juan Luis Blanco]

Juan Luis Blanco is a graphic designer, type designer and calligrapher based in Zumaia in the heart of the Basque country. Since 1993, he works as a freelancer graphic designer. In 2013, he obtained an MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading. Currently he combines calligraphy classes and graphic design with typographic projects that focus on Basque lettering as well as multi script typefaces involving the Latin, Arabic and Tifinagh alphabets.

For his graduation work in the Masters of Type Design program of the University of Reading, Juan Luis Blanco (Spain) created the Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Tifinagh, Arabic typeface family Amaikha (2014). Amaikha is characterized by Latin warmth and roundness.

A list of his typefaces:

• Akaya Telivigala/Kanadaka. Blanco writes: Akaya is a single weight experimental display typeface in Kannada, Telugu and Latin scripts designed in collaboration with Vaishnavi Murthy (Bangalore, India). Akaya Telivigala and Akaya Kanadaka are made as two separate font files which share a common Latin. Github link. i Google Fonts link for Kanadaka. Google fonts link for Telivigala.
• Amaikha (2014). His graduation typeface from the University of Reading.
• Harri (2016, Type-o-Tones). A display font based on the peculiar letter forms used in signs and fascias all over the Basque Country. The letterforms can be traced back to romanesque inscriptions. Harri (stone, in Basque) is an all-caps typeface, and must be ranked as one of the greatest digital typefaces that capture the Basque soul. In 2020, it was republished at Blancoletters. Later in 2020, Harri Text was added. See also Harri text at Type Network.
• Ingeo (2021). A 9-style geometric sans that oozes confidence and style, and has a senate seat thanks to its pharaonic lower case g.
• Karela (2017). A humanist slab serif.
• Qandus (2017), a multiscript typeface co-designed with Kristyan Sarkis and Laura Meseguer. It won a TDC Certificate of Typographic Excellence in 2017. Qandus covers Arabic, Latin and Tifinagh.
• Tuqbal Pro (2015-2019, by Andreu Balius and Juan Luis Blanco). Tubqal Pro is a tri-script type family based on its previous Tubqal typeface commissioned by the Khatt Foundation as part of the Typographic Matchmaking in the Maghrib 3.0, the 3rd edition of the multi-script typographic research project of the Khatt Foundation. It includes Latin, Arabic (+Farsi) and Tifinagh (for the Tifinagh based languages: Tamazight (Central Atlas), Kabyle, Tamazight (Standard Moroccan), Tachawit, Tachelhit, Tagdal, Tamahaq, Tahaggart, Tamasheq, Tarifit, Tamajaq, Tawallammat, Tamajeq, Tayart, Tumzabt, Zenaga).

Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw on A Typographic Maghribi Trialogue. In this talk, he explains, together with Laura Meseguer and Krystian Sarkis, the Typographic Matchmaking in the Maghrib project of the Khatt Foundation, which tries to facilitate a cultural trialogue as well as shed a typographic spotlight on the largely ignored region of the Maghreb in terms of writing and design traditions. The specific goal of the collaboration is the research and development of tri-script font families (for Latin, Arabic and Tifinagh) that can communicate harmoniously. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Blastto
[Carlos Llorente]

Spanish graphic design group Blastto (Madrid) is actually Carlos Llorente, b. Guadalajara, Spain, currently based in London. He created a nice art deco type booklet in 2010, covering Broadway (1929), Bifur (1919), Parisian (1928) and others. Designer of the free experimental typeface Teardrop (2010) and the gridded typeface Try Type (2011).

In 2012, he made Pigopago (a free double stroke font).

The tweetware experimental typeface Del Gherp Al Tipo followed in 2013 after a TypoMad workshop in Madrid.

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Blogosfera

Font news in English and Spanish. Not updated since 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bnomio
[Jose Luis Perez Ramos]

Bnomio is Jose Luis Perez Ramos, b. 1977, Madrid, Spain. He designed the rounded blackletter tattoo typeface Tattoo Flaman (2016). Behance link. Ultratypes link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bolaone

Granada, Spain-based designer of the display typefaces Yuan (2018) and Bolchevique (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Borja Andrés

Graduate of Escuela Superior de Diseño de la Rioja. Graphic designer in Logroño, Spain. Creator of the hand-drawn typeface Amanuense (2013) and of the pixelized typeface Pixelada (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Borja Castropol

Gijon, Spain-based designer of the free monoline sans typeface OI Sans (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Borja Fernandez

Granada, Spain-based designer of the free blackboard bold typeface September (2015: download), the textured all caps typeface Iris Font (2014) and the prismatic New Line Font (2014).

In 2016, she designed the display typeface Bluet. Home page. Another home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Borja Holke
[Holke 79]

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Borja Holke
[Holke 79]

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Borja Robles Maldonado

Malaga, Spain-based designer of the Japanese cheery tree-inspired typeface Kikuzakura (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Borja Rojas

Madrid, Spain-based designer of the monoline display sans typeface Axbor (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brackets
[Jose Antonio Jimenez]

During his studies at the San Telmo Art School in Malaga, Malaga, Spain-based Jose Antonio Jimenez Macias created the magazine and newspaper typeface families Noemi (2015) and Noemi Slab (2018), as well as Noemi Typewriter and Noemi Rounded. Fontown link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Brand Design
[Enrique Teruel]

Enrique Teruel was Orihuela, Spain-based designer of Line (2013, a prismatic typeface), and Helvetica Serif (2014). He joined or set up Brand Design in Madrid, where he now lives. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Branding with Type
[Alberto Romanos]

Alberto Romanos is a Zaragoza, Spain-based type designer who is co-located in London. First he founded the type foundry Alberto Romanos. In 2015, that morphed into Branding with Type.

Alberto designed a font for an imaginary language. For his MA degree, he worked on variations of Frutiger (2009). His first commercial typeface is Bw Quinta Pro (2015, a sans family).

In 2015, he created the variable width condensed grotesque and poster typeface Bw Stretch, and the bespoke retro-futuristic elliptical sans typeface Flat Sans for the Spanish digital agency Flat101. During Typeclinic 11th International Type Design Workshop, he created the typeface Stretch Caps (2015).

In 2016, he designed Bw Darius (a sharp-edged high-contrast 4-style typeface family), Bw Surco (humanist sans for Latin and Cyrillic), Bw Modelica (a minimal, robust, reliable and pragmatic geometric sans in 64 styles), Bw Modelica Ultra Condensed, Bw Modelica Condensed, Bw Modelica Expanded, and Bw Mitga (a sans with strong personality and a 16 degree angle that dominates the design).

Typefaces from 2017: Bw Nista (Grotesk, International and Geometric), the Cyrillic / Greek expansion of Modelica, called Modelica LGC, Bw Helder (an 18-style sans typeface developed with Thom Niessink), Bw Gradual (an eccentric ink-trapped hipster sans), Bw Glenn Sans and its Egyptian companion, Bw Glenn Slab.

Typefaces from 2018: Bw Seido Round (a rounded almost-but-not-quite monoline sans in 12 styles that takes elements from DIN 1451; fiollowed in 2019 by Bw Seido Raw), Bw Vivant (a Peignotian typeface co-designed wih Moritz Kleinsorge).

Typefaces from 2019: Bw Beto (a text family in two optical sizes, the larger one being called Bw Beto Grande), Bw Aleta (geometric sans).

Typefaces from 2021: Bw Pose (Bw Pose No 3 and Bw Pose No 5, two times twelve fonts: didone typefaces with additional features such as uninterrupted slabs in the No3 family, and occasional wedges in the uppercase).

Behance link. Creative Market link. Home page of Alberto Romanos.

Typefaces from 2022: Bw Fusiona (a workhorse sans family). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Brian Xiao

Brian Xiao (Brian Xiao Design, Hacienda Heights, CA) designed the text typefaces Keyserling (2014) and Galatea Bold Italic (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brokerland

Spanish firm offering two free company sans fonts: Brokerland Bold and Light (2004). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bruno Costa
[Costa Type]

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Bruno Saez Lopez

Graphic designer in Madrid. Creator of the free heavy didone display typeface Regattia (2017, +Regattia Stencil). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Buenos Dias
[Javier R. Calvo]

Buenos Dias is located in Sevilla, Spain. One of its two founders, Javier R. Calvo, used concentric circles as jewel beads to make up ornamental letters in his Monica Lettering. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bull's Eye Soft
[Carlos Colomina]

Bull's Eye Soft is the Valencia-based foundry of software engineer Carlos Colomina (b. 1977, Valencia). Colomina created Carl Sans (2012, a hand-printed which he calls a good alternative to Comic Sans) and Wayfont Sans (2012). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bü

Graphic design studio in Huelva and Sevilla, Spain. Creators of the Musket typeface (2012, a condensed slab serif in four styles; free demo), and the donationware condensed family Facunda (2012).

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by New Roman
[José Román Gálvez]

Design studio of José Román Gálvez who is also involved in the type foundry Comando Cran in Madrid. Designer of the sans serif typeface Escreen (2012-2013), a typeface with a large x-height (for screen), and open forms. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cabeza Dura
[Carlos Nombela]

Granada, Spain-based designer of the modular 70s vibe display typeface Disco Display (2020). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Camilo C. Belmonte

Mataro, Spain-based creator of the modular typeface Ox (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Campanu
[Javier Fernandez del Rivero]

Spanish designer of the casual display typeface Secem (2019). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Carina Lazaro

Madrid-based designer of the decorative inline typeface Jukebox (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carine de Wandeleer

Carine de Wandeleer was born in Argentina to a French-Belgian immigrant family. She studied fine arts and graphic design at University of Buenos Aires, but lives and works in Spain.

Kycka (2011) is a hand-printed slab serif family designed for children's books. Karty (2011, Eurotypo) is a blackboard bold pair of typefaces inspired by Baskerville. Marilyn (2011, Eurotypo) is an informal bouncy heavy sans face. Natalie (2011) is a condensed slab serif face.

In 2012, she published the connected script family Gilda, the informal cursive typefaces Zanya, Miss Seshat (Eurotypo) and Belha, the script typeface Lirio (Eurotypo), the hand-printed Pimpin, and the fat finger family Souffle.

Typefaces from 2013: Aleka (a vampire script in the style of Bombshell Pro), Mots (a light feminine script), Vernaccia, Eydis (connected script), Bonna (a successful calligraphic family), Rocha (funky cartoon style), Mussa (a curly children's book font), Onna (multiline script), Blondy (curly signage script), Gemma (connected script), Gemmadonati (another connected script), Lavinia (signage script), Ameglia (seductive upright flourished vernacular script).

Typefaces from 2014: Juliette, Urbis (curly script), Tansy (a charming connected script), Flamenca (connected script), Mde Sade (flowing wedding script), Nubila, Gardeny (script), Eroli (connected calligraphic script), Andria (script), Kumma (script), Tout, Tout Web Icons, Tout Restaurant Icons.

Typefaces from 2015: Parisi (calligraphic script), Scintillae Script, Santa Rita (signage script), Kira (brushy font), Amorino, Aprilis (signage script), Redbird (brush script), Muscari (connected script), Ambar (connected script with a roman caps set called Ambar Serif).

Typefaces from 2016: Lyllo, Redmoon Basic, Sond (brush script), Nuit (an informal typeface based on hand-printing), Wildly (brush type), Bloem (Script and Sans), Brun (brush typeface), Joias, Scriptum (brush script).

Typefaces from 2017: Halley, Brighten (brush script), Decize (an ornamental didone), Tapa (a sharp-serifed text family), Serenus, Pasteque, Galia, Mikha, Mikha Sans, Junius.

Typefaces from 2018: Anemos (a powerful retro signage script), Bernyck (retro script), Mathylda Script (a calligraphic signature font), Cinefile, Stanffords (a brush script paired with Stanffords Sans), Clauques Script and Sans (a signature script), Jacine (Sans+Script), Pial, Mont Rose (based on examples published in Script Lettering (1957, M. Meijer)), Barcares, MyBella (a casual calligraphic script), Skyr Pro (handcrafted), Gageac (a decorative didone), Atmosfera (a glamour sans based on didone contrast), Waylom (script).

Typefaces from 2019: Novata, Violant (a medieval script), Manises (inspired by a text written on a 16th century tile), Mostaza (a signage script), Trauville (calligraphic), Magie, Magie Slim, Beauville Script (a retro script), Bovary (a calligraphic script).

Typefaces from 2020: Turer (all caps, in the Tekton or Koch Antiqua genre), Indalo (a casual script), Rhodes (a calligraphic typeface), Calinda, Aulas (a decorative serif), Raspail (copperplate calligraphy), Calagio (a casual script), Clichy (a casual sans), Colomby (copperplate round English handwriting), Rembord (an inclined script), Montigny (emulating an 18th century roundhand script).

Typefaces from 2021: Verbum (a casual bold script), Grao (a casual script), Tarnese (a calligraphic script), Real Blues (script), Brabon (a heavy signage script), Escaut (a wide inky script).

Typefaces from 2022: Cockcrow (a connected sans), Castagna (a calligraphic script). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Carla Boss

Madrid, Spain-based designer of the blackboard bold typeface Thypography (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carla Lucena

Freelance illustrator in Madrid. Creator of the blackboard bold extravaganza called Grog (2013).

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Carles Andreu Alacreu

Valencia, Spain-based designer of the paper-fold typeface Concordia (2013), named to support the fight against AIDS. His studio is called Yonoh Estudio Creativo. In 2014, he designed the circle-based typeface Sophie.

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Carles Garrigues Ubeda

Spanish designer of Codex Gigas (2011), a free grungy semi-vampire font that can be found at Dafont. He also created Evil Bible (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carles Rodrigo

Carles Rodrigo (Mucho) won a D&AD 2011 award in the typeface design competition for his Art Out. He set up Carles Rodrigo Studio in London, and specializes in branding and corporate type design. His creations there are visually striking:

• Splash Rounded. Corporate type design for Barcelona-based LED screen display company. Planned as a rounded version of Avant Garde.
• Peppurat Outline (2011). Headline typeface especially designed for the book "Pepe Andreu---Thinking Furniture". The typeface was planned as an outline version of Akkurat.
• Primera Bold. A stencil didone designed for the Primero Primera Hotel.
• Lexus Inline. Corporate identity type design for Lexus Design Awards, which took place in Tokyo.
• Art Out (2010). A blackboard bold typeface that was created for Fundación Arte y Mecenazgo in Spain.
• Monaco Book (2015). An art deco sans based on Geo Ham's racing posters from the 1930s.
• Zarzuela Poster (2009). Typeface developed for hypothetical rebirth of Zarzuela. an important genre of Spanish folklore. The structure of the typeface is based on the genre's 17th century origin, and is a hybrid between the transitional roman and the didone.
• Bhldn Display (2015). An extreme contrast custom fashion mag and wedding typeface in five styles based on Hoefler Display. It was created for an American clothing company.
• Sarda Display. This display typeface was especially developed for the book "Andres Sarda Moda Amor Arte". It is based on ITC Grouch (1970, Ronne Bonder and Tom Carnase).

Carlos Campos
[Cuchi qué tipo]

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Carlos Colomina
[Bull's Eye Soft]

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Carlos de Rojas

Madrid-based creator of the modular typeface Hedstar (2012).

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Carlos de Toro

Born in Logroño, Spain, Carlos studied graphic design at ESDIR (Escuela Superior de Diseño de La Rioja), and type design in the Advanced Typography Master class of the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (EINA). He was first based in Barcelona, but currently works out of London.

In 2013, he designed the humanist mediterranean sans typeface Born (tweetware).

In 2014, he created Neon (2014), a set of capital numerals, for the September issue of Yorokobu Magazine. Neon is inspired by American road movies from the 80's and 90's. In 2015, he created Yorokobu numbers for the magazine. Still in 2015, he designed Recia (Indian Type Foundry): an angular ten-style wedge serif typeface family. Free at Fontshare.

Typefaces from 2016: 3D Experimental.

In 2018, he graduated from the TypeMedia program at KABK in Den Haag. His graduation typeface, Azor, was designed for editorial use. He explains: Azor is a typeface for display and text that requires comfortable legibility, personality and a human touch. Azor's italics are quite angular for added contrast with the romanstyles. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Carlos de Toro Hernando

CarlosBull is the alias of Carlos de Toro Hernando (b. 1990), a graphic design student at ESDIR in La Rioja, Spain. He lived in Logrono. In 2013, during his Masters studies in Barcelona, he created a beautiful text typeface called Born.

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Carlos Egan

Spanish graphic designer. He created the ball terminal typeface Farlow (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos González Echevarría

FontStructor from Madrid, known as Ulrico, who made these typefaces in 2012: Planeto Rocko, Hermetica Modern Gothic, Old Future (art deco), Deimos, All Bricks Reserved, the 3d typeface Cubicula, New Dystopia, Another Brick in the Scroll, All Bricks Reserved, Moondular, Recursos Humanoides. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Horacio Valera

Spanish creator of the organic monoline typeface Wec (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Irazabal

Barcelona-based graphic designer, b. Zaragoza, 1986. After studies in Zaragoza and Barcelona, Carlos Irazabal created the Misterio text typeface (2014, transitional). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Liberal

Graduate of Universidad de Salamanca. As a design student in Ponteviedra, Spain, Salamanca-based Carlos Liberal designed the display typeface Mordrake (2016) and the constructivist typeface Siberya (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Llorente
[Blastto]

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Carlos Luis Burguete

Valencia, Spain-based designer of Vallada (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Maeso Gonzalez

Carlos Maeso Gonzalez has a degree in mathematics from UAM (Autonomous University of Madrid). He has worked in different capacities at Telefonica, the main telecommunications company in Spain, for 35 years. iHe currently works at the INE (Spanish National Institute of Statistics). In 2022, he designed the 6-style casual sans typeface family Lamaesa. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Moreno

Graphic designer and illustrator in Badajoz, Spain, who created a bilined display typeface in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Nombela
[Cabeza Dura]

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Carlos Primo

Carlos Primo, a graphic designer from Madrid, created the super-techno typeface Sector 85 (2011), and the subdued blackletter family Der Neue Gutenberg (2012). Carlos was educated in Venezuela.

In 2014, he designed Archetype and Eye Candy (a bubblegum typeface based on Helvetica Neue 95). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Ruano

Designer in Madrid who was born there. Home page. He created the upright lined script typeface Angelita (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Serrano

Graphic designer at Insignia MK in Murcia, Spain. In 2015, Cesar Ordoño and Carlos Serrano co-designed the blackletter / metal band typeface Fucking Noise. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Togo

During his studies, Albacete, Spain-based Carlos Tofo designed the free font Togo (2018) and the display typeface Cihe (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carlos Winkow

Carlos Winkow is a version of his original name, Carl Winckow. Winkow (1882-1952) was born in Sömmerda, Germany but worked in Spain from 1909 until 1934 for Richard Gans, in Germany from 1936 until 1939 for Norddeutschen Schriftgiesserei in Berlin, and in Spain again from 1940 onwards at Fundicion Tipografica Nacional in Madrid. His typefaces include

• Alfrodita (1946). An engraved typeface published by FT Nacional.
• Alcazar (FT Nacional, 1944). An inline 3d titling font.
• Astur (1948, FT Nacional). A wooden plank typeface.
• Belinda (FT Nacional).
• Cursiva Rusinal (FT Nacional). This is identical to Reporter except in the alternates.
• Electra (FT Nacional, early 1940s). An almost avant-garde sans family, which includes the ultra thin Estrecha Fina weight. Romeo (Font Bureau) takes some cues from Electra and says that it is a spectacular art deco sanserif with an unusually fine condensed series. See also Casablanca (1997, Steve Jackaman for ITF, now Red Rooster Collection; a revival of Electra Clara) and Carlos (Jason Castle, CastleType). Klingspor dates Electra Fina in 1942.
• Elzeviriano Ibarra (1931, for Fundicion Tipografica Richard Gans). Lucia Walter revived Winkow's 1931 text typeface Elzeviriano Ibarra in 2011. See also Gans Ibarra (2006, Intellecta Design).
• Gong (1945, Johannes Wagner; Norddeutschen Schriftgiesserei). A chalk script face. Jaspert mentions the date 1951. A standard non-chalk version of Gong was done by J. Wagner in 1967, and was published as Jowa Script (Jowa Schreibschrift), which in turn provided inspiration for Iova Nova (2007, Ralph M. Unger)
• Grotesca Radio (Richard Gans Foundry), at least according to some sources. For a revival and reinterpretation, see Radar (2019) by Marta Sanchez Marco for Type-o-Tones.
• Hispalis (+Cursiva, +Negro, +Titling, +Negro Titling) (1940, FT Nacional).
• Iberica (FT Nacional, 1942). An open shaded inclined 3d lineale. See Roller (1997, Pat Hickson, ITF and Red Rooster Collection).
• Nacional (+Cursiva, +Negra) (1941, Nacional). A calligraphic roman in old medieval Spanish style with Clasico Nacional 1 and Clasico Nacional Negro weights. See Madrid (Steve Jackaman, Red Rooster Collection) for a digital revival.
• Numantina (1940, FT Nacional). Revived by Nick Curtis as Numancia NF (2011, Nicks Fonts).
• Radar (1940, FT Nacional). a brush script.
• The brush script typeface Reporter (1938, the Wagner foundry; Norddeutschen Schriftgiesserei). Digital revivals: Reporter No. 2 (Adobe), Reporter 2 (Linotype).
• Rusinol (1941, FT Nacional).

Linotype page. Klingspor link. FontShop link. View some digital versions of Winkow's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Carlota Novo Gonzalvo

During her studies in Vigo, Spain, Carlota Novo Gonzalvo (now based in London) created Twiggy (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carmen Bermell Mira

Industrial and graphic designer in Valencia, Spain, who created the marquee art deco typeface Abbey Road (2013) and the piano key typeface Runden (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carmen Garriga Rios
[Giftype]

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Carmen Lopez Delgado

Malaga, Spain-based designer. In 2017, she made a folded movie film typeface . [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carolina Echeverri

Designer in Madrid, who created the lively free geometric poster typeface Geo Font (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Carolina Valtuille

Madrid-based designer (b. 1989) of the handcrafted typefaces Delgadito (2016), Think (2016), Boqueron (2016), Carolina Valtuille (2016), Krema (2016), Lunes (2016), Akra (2016), Karbon (2016), LoBe (2016), Kap (2016) and Kharu (2016). Dafont link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Casandra Sabag Hillen

Madrid-based designer of the socially responsible decorative caps typeface Globalizacion (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Catharsis Asen

Torredonjimeno, Spain-based designer of the hipster typegace Mephisto (2017). Beghance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Caye Romero

Foundry in Madrid. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

César Gómez Blanco
[Angrois Design]

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Cecilia Refojos

Designer in Pontevedra, Spain, who created the wide organic sans Swift (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Celia Marchal Garcia

During her studies in Jaen, Spain, in 2017, Celia Marchal Garcia (Granada, Spain) designed Kis, a revival of the typeface of Miklos Totfalusi Kis. She also created Central Perk, a fun revival of the beatnik cafe lettering for the TV show Friends (1994-2004), which was created and produced by Marta Kauffmann and David Crane. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Celia Martinez Bravo
[Lolailonline]

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Celtibérica

Foundry in Madrid. Their first commercial typefaces are Dura (2011), Manuscrita (2011, a script typeface inspired by 16th century Spanish scripts), Celtiberica (2011, chisel font) and Parque (2006, stone age face).

In 2012, they made Manuscrita XVI. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Celtiber

Celtiber (1996) is a hand-drawn Celtic-Iberian font in truetype format. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Celtiberian script

"The Celtiberian script developed from the Iberian scripts. Only a small number of Celtiberian inscriptions dating from between the 6th and 1st centuries BC have been found. With the Roman take over of the Iberian peninsula, the Celtiberian script was gradually replaced by the Roman/Latin alphabet and eventually disappeared. The Celtiberian script was used mainly by druids for religious purposes. It s partly syllabic and partly alphabetic." See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cesar Manjon Mata

Graphic designer in Arande de Duero, Spain. Creator of the brush font Hüeso (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cesar Ordoño

Graphic designer at F33 in Murcia, Spain. In 2015, Cesar Ordoño and Carlos Serrano co-designed the blackletter / metal band typeface Fucking Noise. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chacho Productions

Madrid-based business. Creator(s) of the grid typeface CubesType (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chantal Duran

During her studies, Chantal Duran (Calella, Spain) designed a good-looking tall slab serif typeface (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

checkrae

Madrid-based designer of the gridded square typeface Enlajeta (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chio Romero

Illustrator and graphic designer based in Sevilla. Creator of the nice typographic poster called Francisco Nixon (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chó

Designer in Valencia, Spain. Behance link. He created Modrounded (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christian Baumgartner

Madrid, Spain-based codesigner, with Luis Armesilla, of the free display typeface Plstk (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christian del Moral

Madrid-based designer of the free font Plstk (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Christian El Asmar

Creator of Liposuction (2010, a kitchen tile face). Christian is an art director in Madrid. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chulotype

Type coop in Madrid. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Church Slavonic Resources

Many links and downloads of Church Slavonic fonts. Included are

• CyrillicOld (VNLabs, 1992).
• Evangeljie (1995).
• The Irmologion family (Vladislav V. Dorosh, Calmius Software, 1996).
• Izhitsa (ParaGraph, 1992).
• Kirillica Wincyr.
• Kirilttf (by Tanya Laleva and Miguel Angel Durán Pascual, Filología Eslava, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 1994).
• Kliment-8.aug.1997 (Kiril Ribarov, 1997).
• Lavra (1995), Novgorod (1995).
• Old Church Slavonic Cyr (with and without Latin characters, either by Monotype or modified based on a Monotype font).

Cintia González

Spanish graphic designer. Behance link. In 2011, she made a beautiful striped caps typeface entitled Type And Songs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cisco Gomez
[Crece Agency]

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Clara Battestini

During her studies, Clara Battestini (Cabrils, Spain) designed the roundish text typeface Battestini (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Clara Fernandez

Madrid, Spain-based designer of the display typeface Sweet (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Clara Gutierrez Abellan

Granada, Spain-based designer of the cutesy typefaces Alice, Smiles, Alhambra and Ohlala in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Clara Jessen

Graphic designer in Madrid. In 2017, she created the sans typeface Maga. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Claudia Mendez Cordero

Graphic designer in Huelva, Spain, who created the fashionable typeface New Didonas Sans Serif (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Claudia Torán

Illustrator in Valencia, Spain. In 2015, Elisabeth Cerdá, Claudia Torán, Paula Sangenaro and Lidia Peris co-designed the all caps typeface Flintstone at the Universidad Politécnica De Valencia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Claudio Rodil

Argentinian designer now living in Madrid, whose designs can apparently be bought at Nakedface (but none are shown there). At PsyOps, he published Franzen.

Klingspor link. FontShop link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Clx Fonts

Malaga, Spainbased designer of handcrafted typefaces. These include August (2019), Maxtip (2019), Red Lipstick (2019), Irene (2019), Unique (2019: graffiti style), Stressed Out (2019), Manuscrito (2019), and Fire (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Colexio Carreira

Spanish creator of the free lined dotted school font Cole Carreira (2013). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Comando Cran
[José Román Gálvez]

Type foundry in Spain, est. 2012, with which several type designers are associated. Linked by the Instituto Europeo di Design (IED), in Madrid, the type designers include:

• José Román Gálvez: Designer of Escreen (2012-2013, a clean screen sans).
• Alberto Carnero: The wedge serif text typeface Publia (2013) created for newspaper text and headlines.
• Bea Canut: Lucas Sans (2013, a humanist sans).
• Fernando Fuentes Mendez (Fando Fonts): an unnamed typeface (2013).
• Andres Arturo Avila: Nerea (2012).
• Estefania Bravo: Eleonora (2012).
• Maore Sagarzazu: Vögel (2012, a fantastic hexagonal typeface).
• Maria Camila Valencia Robledo: Jalea Real (or Royal Jelly) (2012).
• Jessica Barbero: Flaminga (2012, an offbeat beauty in the style of the Pink Panther movie credits).
• Crispin Avis.

Comoon Laboratorios
[David Serrano]

Madrid and/or Badajoz-based designer David Serrano (Comoon Laboratorios) published the counterless dadaist typeface Ardua (2012), Footter (2012, free), Mariana (2012, alchemic), the titling typeface Cuadrate (2012) and the display typefaces Robusta (2012) and Rea Time (2012).

In 2013, he drew the Fubika alphabet.

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Conegraphic Designs

Madrid, Spain-based designer of Conegraphic Egyptian (2017). . [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cooperative de Fundición Tipográfica

Spanish type site. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Costa Type
[Bruno Costa]

CostaType is a personal typography project by Bruno Costa, a Brazilian designer and art director, based in Madrid, Spain. In 2020, he published the graffiti typeface Vandalismo 26. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Crece Agency
[Cisco Gomez]

Cisco Gomez and Crece Agency proposed a gender neutral / inclusive typeface by introducing new glyphs. Cisco altered Buivenga's Museo to make his point. The project was inspired by an earlier Swiss project at HEAD by Tristan Bartolini, who introduced a similar idea for the French language. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Crestaco
[Javier Cos]

Crestaco is a design and software development studio founded by Javier Rodriguez Cos (aka Madonna Mark II, b. 1972, Tarragona, Spain) and located in El Morell, Spain. Javier Cos is a graphic, type, and video game designer. His first typeface is Anvylon (2012), which is monospaced for use in programming and tabular material. Its rounded monoline design is reminiscent of the type used in early video terminals and line printers. Seleniak (2012) is based on the logo of the eponymous MSX video game. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Cristian Dominguez

Valencia, Spain-based creator of Miau Type (2013), a Peignotian sans caps typeface. The codesigners are Laura Marin (also from Valencia) and Xavi Barrachina.

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Cristina Alvarez Suñé

Art director in Madrid who created the hipster typeface Bend in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cristina Bonora

Valenci, Spain-based designer of the thin art deco caps typeface Fair Font (2013). This work was done in collaboration with Dailos Perez Gonzalez (Valencia, Spain), Alicia Raya (Valencia, Spain), and Haizea Najera. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cristina Cia

Cadiz, Spain-based art director, who designed the fashionable typeface Promise in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cristina Dorda

At URJC in Madrid, Cristina Dorda designed the decorative caps alphabet El Relojero (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cristina Erre

Madrid, Spain-based designer of an ornamental caps typeface in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cuarto Congreso internacional de Tipografía

A conference subtitled La letra dibujada was eld from June 18-20, 2010, in the Escuela de Arte y Superior de Diseño de Valencia, Valencia, Spain. Speakers included Gerrit Noordzij, Ken Barber, Ale Paul, Ricardo Rousselot, Javier Mariscal, James Mosley, Claude Mediavilla, Keith Adams, Marian Bantjes, Pepe Gimeno, Jose Ramon Penela, Pilar Cano and Sergio Jimenez. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cuatro Tipos

Design site and blog, in Spanish. It is much more concerned with mag design than typogrophy. Run by four guys from Valencia: Javier Perez Belmonte, Diego Obiol, Tomas Gorria, and Herminio Javier Fernandez. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cubik

A Spanish type blog. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cuchi qué tipo
[Carlos Campos]

Graphic and type designer based in Jaén, Andalusia. Carlos investigates street signs and traditional lettersigns in his city for a university project called Rótulos chuléricos de Jaén. His web site, Cuchi qué tipo, is both a blog on type design (in Spanish) and a showcase for his own typefaces. His type designs:

• Berganza (2021). A text typeface that tries to revive the humanist and renaissance types in use during Spain's siglo de oro (Golden Age) from roughly 1492 until 1681.
• Guau (2020). A 20-style angular wedge serif text typeface and a variable font with three axes (italic, weight and width).
• Chavea (2020). A school script typeface.
• Perra and Despeñaperra (2019). Borrowing from the fat face genre.
• Gajorra (2019). Glyphs shaped like the gajorros dessert from Cabra.
• Escuela (2021). A 30-style grotesk.

CuCu

During his studies in Madrid, CuCu designed the cycle-based display typeface Ciclo (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cynthia VDT

Spanish designer of a lapidary typeface in 2017 that is based on the type used on the gravestone of Perafan de Ribera in the Monasterio de la Cartuja de Sevilla. [Google] [More]  ⦿

D. Ignacio Boix

Spanish foundry from the 19th century. See their specimen book Caracteres, emblemas y adornos de que está surtida la imprenta de D. Ignacio Boix (Madrid, 1833). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dailos Perez Gonzalez

Dailos Perez Gonzalez (Valencia, Spain), Alicia Raya (Valencia, Spain), Haizea Najera and Cristina Bonora co-designed the artsy (art deco) thin caps typeface Fair in 2013.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Damian Flores

Spanish graphic designer who works in London. Creator of the bubblegum typeface Moruna (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Damiano Vitali
[Wamm typeface Design]

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Dani Montesinos

Freelance graphic designer from Spain who lives in Amsterdam. He created the interesting geometric display sans typeface Athan (2010, Thinkdust), and the futuristic deco (Dutch neo-plasticist) typeface Blozend (2010, Thinkdust).

Cargo Collective link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dani Romero

Dani Romero (Madrid) created the beautiful geometric alchemic typeface Nibiru (2012), and the experimental typeface Asfalto (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dani Senso

Spanish type designer. In 2017, he published the text typeface Hawking (Latinotype).

In 2020, he published Versina (10 styles) and Versina Ornaments at Latinotype. Versina was inspired by Spanish transitional typefaces from the 18th century. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Chapela

Spanish designer of Tallstreight (sic) (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel del Saz Salazar

Spanish type designer from Valencia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Dorado
[Difusor]

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Daniel Hernando
[Münster Studio (or: Munster Estudio)]

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Daniel Herrera

Artistic director in Madrid. Creator of the experimental skeletal bone font Palabras Muertas (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Herrera

During his studies, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain-based daniel Herrera designed a beveled all caps typeface (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Iglesias Arreal

As a student at EASD Soria in Palencia, Spain, Daniel Iglesias Arreal (aka Dani Bydani) designed the free didone typeface Soria (2016) and the free geometric sans family Vision (2017) that was inspired by El Lissitsky. Vision was published by Pixel Surplus and Fontfabric.

Typefaces from 2018: Pardal (a slab serif).

Typefaces from 2021: Triakis (octagonal). Fontown link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Lopez Mirete

Madrid, Spain-based designer of the junkyard typeface Tipokomon (2016), which was influenced by Takashi Murakami, Pokemon, and 1980s movies such as Godzilla and Jurassic Park. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Martos

Spanish creator (b. 1996) of the octagonal typeface Dear Insanity (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Montero Galan

Madrid-based illustrator. Designer of a decorative caps alphabet in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Raposo

Spanish designer (b. 1984) of the cloud-themed font Bigardo Fanzine (2016). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Rodríguez Valero

Daniel Rodríguez Valero received his PhD in Arts in 2006 from University of Barcelona, where he also got a Postgraduate in Digital Typography. He teaches Typographic Design and Digital Typography in the Arts Faculty (University of Barcelona) since 1999, and Graphic Design in Advertising studies (University of Alicante) since 2002. He teaches Digital Typography at the máster ibérico em design, Oporto (Portugal). He has created a new system for type design called Constructor in collaboration with Marc Antoni Malagarriga I Picas, a programmer. Constructor is a glyph editor based on calligraphic curves, which he presented at TypeTech, ATypI in Brighton in 2007.

He writes: Constructor is a new tool for type design, open source and cross-platform, based on a calligraphic heritage that provides new possibilities. It can be combined with production tools like Fontographer or FontLab, because its finality is to construct outlines extrapolating some instructions or parameters given by the user. It works with only one master and produces different letterforms that can be copied/pasted to a font editor. It will help to design quickly a complete family, so the benefits of this new system for type designers are tremendous. He claims to be inspired in part by Gerrit Noordzij's theory of type design as explained in The stroke of the pen. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daniel Steffan

Graphic designer, illustrator and motion designer in Madrid. He created the fun hipster typeface Tenta in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Alcañiz Tejado

Madrid-based designer (b. 1982) of the free art deco typeface Lame (2014) and the experimental typeface Two Moons (2015).

Aka DV82. Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Carabias

Senior designer in Madrid, who created the experimental Simple Lines Font in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Dryhouse

Madrid, Spain-based designer of Dry House (2014, a modular typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Escurriola

Freelance motion designer and art director who grew up in Valencia, Spain, and was born in 1976. He now lives and works in Zurich. Creator of the free geometric font Cubop (2009). Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Figueiras
[Toon Planet Vector Assets]

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David Jurado

Graphic designer in Cordoba, Spain, who created the modular serifed typeface DJPM in 2018 for a school project. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Lozano Lucas

Spanish creator of the hand-printed David Lozano Lucas (2009, Fontcapture). Home page. Another link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Luis
[ESAT Foundry]

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David Palacin Arce

Graphic designer in Palencia, Spain, who created the typeface AntiType in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Pastor

During his graphic design studies, David Pastor (Murcia, Spain) created the striped shaded typeface Retro Red (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Poveda

During his studies at IED in Madrid, Spain, David Poveda created the experimental handcrafted typeface Madrid (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Rico

Barcebalejo, Spain-based designer of the modular typeface Noma (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Sanchez

Zamora, Spain-based creator of the Victorian display typeface New Antique (2013).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Sean

Madrid-based designer of Arnold (2011, display sans). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Serrano
[Comoon Laboratorios]

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David Ucles

David Ucles (Alcoy, Spain) created the squarish typeface Datube (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

David Vivo

Valencia, Spain-based creator of the art nouveau cover for Jeffrey Euginides's The Virgin Suicides. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dayana Muñoz

Spanish designer of the modular typeface Arcanis (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

De La Piedra A La Nave (or: Medialab Prado, or: Manufactura Independiente)

Open source font project. Their first fonts include Serreria Sobre and Serreria Extravagante (2012).

Open Font Library link. Developed in 2012 during a workshop, we read from Ana Carvalho & Ricardo Lafuente (Manufactura Independente) in a piece entitled From Stone to Spaceship, Collaborative type design: The future home of Medialab-Prado, Serrería Belga (Belgian Saw Mill) has its facades decorated with beautiful typography. Taking on the challenge set by Medialab-Prado to liberate these letters from their stone prison and release them to the world, we hosted a three day workshop in Madrid. The premise was to collaboratively design a font, using a fully libre workflow and with no pre-requisites for participation---everyone was invited to join in. We were thrilled to receive this invitation from Medialab-Prado to come to Madrid and work together in a font revival inspired by a building with a rich historical background. The reception to the call was impressive and two days later we closed it having enlisted a total of thirty participants from different backgrounds and coming from different cities in Spain.

At Open Font Library, one can find the free fonts Douar Outline (2011), Sisperdotsize (2014, pixel font), Deuperset (2014, pixel font) and Setperset (2014, pixel font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dene Studios
[James Partington]

Known as James Dene or James Partington. Malaga, Spain-based designer of the handcrafted typefaces Rune (2018), Calx (2018), Calligraphy Rough (2018), Back to School (2018). In 2019, he published Barleycorn, Atomic, Lost in Space, Centuria (a clean modern sans), Nadir, Geneva, Control, Cosmic, Myrkheim (a Norse or hipster font), Perehilion (a paperclip font), Aphilion (stencil), Equinox (a connect-the-dots typeface), Revolve (hipster style), Ascension, Orion (circle-based), Nova (sci-fi), Voyager (stencil), Black Velvet, Quamir (a hipster sans), Norse Elder Futhark, Interlace (a multiline typeface), Exoplanet, Orson (a serif typeface), Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, Sterling, Queen, Horace, Amos (a fashion mag sans), Allegra (serif), Archibald (slab serif), Cuneiform, the medieval typeface Reznor, the blackletter typefaces Griffin, Edgar and Deimos, Matrix, Egyptian Hieroglyph, Elder Futhark and Detective (a fingerprint texture font).

Typefaces from 2020: Horizon, Barleycorn, Ancient Language Package, Perihelion (a paperclip typeface), Maze, Lost in Space, Quick, Assassin, Constantine, Drastica, Grace, Orson, Alistair, Antoinette, Bernard, Edgar, Lila, Anastasia, Angelica, Annabelle, Black Velvet, Centuria, Jinx (handcrafted). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Deseo Grafico
[Alberto Deltio]

Deseo Grafico is Alberto Deltio's creative studio in Palencia, Spain, est. 2013. It offers a free rounded sans typeface, Deltia Semirounded (2013).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diana Hidalgo

Salamanca, Spain-based creator of the compass and ruler typeface Fi Font (2013). It is called Fi, for the Greek phi, which stands for the golden ratio. Personal web site. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diana Rengel Martin

Spanish designer of Propria (2016, art deco) and Aquarium Terrarium (2016, a revived and reconstructed all caps art deco typeface based on building sigange). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diana Sanchez

Madrid-based designer of the bilined decorative typeface Ring (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diego Antelo

Madrid-based designer of a colorful geometric solid typeface (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diego Berakha

Diego Berakha is a Buenos Aires-based graphic designer. Born in Zaragoza, Spain, he lives in Buenos Aires since 1966 and works on editorial pieces, movie posters, type design and illustration. He also works as an advertising film director and is co-founder and designer of the art & culture magazine Labor. His Diego Berakha Studio in Buenos Aires. His lettering style is flashy and colorful and nicely interwoven with the graphic elements.

In 2016, he designed the monoline connected script typeface Melodi. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Diego Delgado

Diego Delgado is a graphic designer in Aranda de Dueo, Spain. In 2014, he created an experimental typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diego Gandara

Vigo, Spain-based designer of the prismatic typeface Campus Simple (2018). This typeface is a decorative version of the University of Vigo's typeface Campus. His graduation typeface there was Gandara Roman (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diego Lara

During his design studies in Madrid, Diego Lara designed the rounded and softly bracketed slab serif typeface Slapa (2013). Free download at Open Font Library. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diego Mir

Valencia, Spain-based designer of the bilined poster typeface Horta (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diego Parra Arribas

Graphic designer in Ciudad Real, Spain, who created several display typefaces in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Diego Quijano

Born in 1987 in Santander, Spain, Diego Quijano Sanchez created Metatipografia Modular in 2012 for his graduation project. This is a modular type system in which keys on the keyboard are used to compose letters and icons. This fascinating project, and other ones called Metatipografia Monerd and Metatipografia Coordinate (pixel typeface) are conceptually related to Robert Meek's FontStruct.

Diego works as a graphic designer in Rome. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Difusor
[Daniel Dorado]

Lugo, Spain-based designer (b. 1997) of the pentagonal typeface Pyrite (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dinael Design
[Argenis Dinael Urdaneta Oropeza]

Madrid-based graphic, web and type design studio. Creators of the free dot matrix typeface Game Power (2007). It is run by Argenis Dinael (b. 1978, Valencia, Edo. Carabobo. Venezuela).

Dafont link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Doc Murphy

Madrid-based designer of the lachrymal typeface Prototype 024 (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Domingo Gamonoso

Art director in Tarifa, Spain, b. 1980, who studied at the University of Barcelona. Behance link. Creator of the experimental typeface Drops (2010), which can be bought at HypeForType. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

DownHill Publishing
[Ramón Abajo]

Free and commercial school fonts by Ramón Abajo, all made in 1999 or 2000: Ramon is a high school Spanish teacher in California. His fonts are floating around in cyberspace. His fonts were also for sale at Fonts 4 Teachers (or: Tiende Escolar). They are now available via New York City-based DownHill Publishing, which was founded in 1998 in Los Angeles, California. A list: AbcAlegria, AbcAmSignLang, AbcAmSignLangLetter, AbcBulletin, AbcClocks, AbcCursive, AbcCursiveArrow, AbcCursiveArrowDotted, AbcCursiveDotted, AbcCursiveDottedLined, AbcCursiveLined, AbcDNManus (AbcDNManusArrow, AbcDNManusArrowDotted, AbcDNManusDotted, AbcDNManusDottedLined, AbcDNManusLined, AbcDNManuscript), AbcDomino, AbcFaces, AbcHeadlines, AbcKids, AbcMath, AbcPhonicsOne, AbcPhonicsTwo, AbcPrint, AbcPrintArrow, AbcPrintArrowDotted, AbcPrintDotted, AbcPrintDottedLined, AbcPrintLined, AbcTeacher.

The DownHill Publishing fonts are grouped into Print Writing, D'Nealian, Box Writing, Cursive Writing, Phonics, Sign Language, Seasonal, Decorative. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dre Artworks

Madrid-based designer of the free spurred squarish typeface Rude Rude (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dulce Emeve

Art director in Madrid. In 2018, together with Nadya Angelova (Madrid), she designed the inline typeface Heartbeat (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dyslexic Font
[Rocio Egio]

The Dyslexic Font designed in 2022 by Lausanne, Switzerland-based artist Rocio Egio (b. Alicante, Spain) and Gurugram, India-based creative designer Pranav Bhardwaj uses colours, inversions and tilted positions. It is meant to emulate Egio's own experience with the alphabet. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eduardo Garcia Benito

Painter and illustrator of the art deco era, b. Valladolid, Spain, 1881, d. Valladolid, 1981. He became famous for his fashionable covers and illustrations for Vogue and Vanity Fair, and maintained offices in Paris and New York. During 1917-1920, he designed some typefaces for special use by Vogue. These were dug up by Dominique Zalewski (Buenos Aires) in 2013, and provided inspiration for Dominique's Cover Type. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eduardo Monteagudo

Venezuelan industrial designer since 2005, who worked at the Universidad de Los Andes from 2005-2016. Cofounder of Cacao C.A. in 2006, one of the first design studios in Merida, Venezuela. In 2016, he left for Spain where he obtained a Masters in Design and Illustration at UPV in Valencia.

Designer of the Light alphabet (2017) and Furniture Alphabet (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Efealcuadrado

Illustrator in Madrid, b. 1986, who hgraduated from UCM. In 2016, she designed the spy detective caps alphabet Policiaca. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

El Circulo de Oro de Uresh-Nefer
[Antonio Hernández Marín]

Defunct hieroglyphics page by Antonio Hernández Marín. It had some downloadable fonts, including Trophos (Greek font by Carlos F. Gilardoni, 1994), Antonious (Greek, by Wisam Michael), Coptic, and TransliterationItalic (Egyptian transliteration font from Utrecht University). Old URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

El Tipo

Spanish typographic experiment mag run by José Gil-Nogués Villén (b. 1971, Valencia) out of Oviedo, Asturias. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elena Cameselle
[KMSLL]

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Elena Castellon Saez

Malaga, Spain-based designer of the textured all caps typeface Hamabe (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elena Esteban

Spanish co-designer, with Angel Garcia Rubio of the dingbat typeface Ideas and Apps Faces (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elena Patiño

Spanish designer, who made Birthday (2012). It was derived from Fontin by stretching the counters, rounding the terminals, softening the serifs and grungifying a few outlines. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elena Peralta

Elena Peralta Dimas is a graphic and type designer from Madrid, Spain, where she obtained her BA in Graphic Design. Before studying the Master in Type and Media in the KABK, she lived in Barcelona, where she got an MA in Typography and interned at Estudio Mariscal. She also worked as an in-house type and graphic designer at Seriesnemo Studio, developing projects related to branding, type and packaging. With a group of friends she brought TypeThursday, the monthly type event, to the city of Barcelona. Gaduate of the TypeMedia program at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in Den Haag, The Netherlands, class of 2020. Her KABK graduation typeface was Edonia, which is especially suited for editorial use. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elena Ramirez

Spanish graphic and web designer. In 2016, with Octavio Pardo, she designed Cubit, a custom monospaced typeface for a Chicago-based interior design Studio. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elena Serrano Cuenca

Malaga, Spain-based designer of the rounded sans typeface Techno (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elena Veguillas

Elena Veguillas is a Spanish designer and journalist based in London. She completed her MA (Res) in Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading and is presently pursuing a Ph.D. at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design in London, exploring the relationship between architectural lettering and early corporate identity.

In May 2013 Elena became part of the TypeTogether team, taking care of the foundry's communication and design projects from their offices in London. Ex-editor of Iconographic Magazine. She also is co-founder of the publishing house Tipo E (Tipo Editorial), which is dedicated to publishing original Spanish texts about (principally Spanish) typography. She also publishes a newsletter about type, lettering and graphic heritage, Circular de tipografía (in Spanish). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elena VT

During her studies in Madrid, Elena VT designed the art deco typeface Flapper (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elias Torres

Madrid-based designer of the avant-garde sans caps typeface En Serio (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eliel
[Esther Martinez]

Ceuta, Spain-based designer (b. 1997) of the octagonal typeface Oriema (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elieser Ben Abraa Alantansi

Jewish trader who set up a press in 1485 in Hijar (Spain). His helper was Salomao Maimon Zalmati (also Jewish, from Sevilla), the old teacher of Alfonso Fernandez de Cordoba. His equipment at the time was the most sophisticated on the Iberian peninsula. They were able to print in Castellano, Portuguese and Hebrew. Some researchers maintain that Elieser Alantansi and the Lisbon-based printer Elieser Toledano are one and the same. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elisa Gallardo Espigares

Granada, Spain-based designer of the modular sans typeface Sporty (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Elisabeth Cerdá

Designer in Valencia, Spain. In 2015, Elisabeth Cerdá, Claudia Torán, Paula Sangenaro and Lidia Peris co-designed the all caps typeface Flintstone at the Universidad Politécnica De Valencia. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eloy Valverde

Spanish type foundry. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Emaiema
[Ruben Moge]

Design and photography studio Emaiema in Valencia, Spain, is run by Ruben Moge (b. 1990, Puerto de Sagunto), who created the octagonal typeface Moge (2016, FontStruct). Moge was co-designed with Saray Palau at EASD Castellon. FontStruct link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emiliano Monserrate Sanchez

Emi Monserrate (Madrid, Spain) created the pixelish blackletter typeface Hamlet Regular (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emilio José Encinas Mir

Spanish software developer. He created the handwriting font Asfhy_Font_1 (2008). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Enric Nunez

Senior designer in Madrid whose studio is called Yido. He created the alchemic circle-based typefaces Laatz Nuu (2013) and Ciclo in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Enrique Domingo

Graphic designer in Valencia, Spain. In 2014, he embarked on a large project that involved an old Underwood typewriter. He took it apart, and used the pieces to inspire him in the design of a series of (non-typewriter) typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Enrique Raimundez

Graduate in graphic design from EASD Antonio Faílde of Ourense. Born in Ourense, he still lives there. He created the free lapidary sans typeface Galaica Neue (2012), about which he writes: This typographical project proposes to merge Galician classic character and modern typographic structure, while maintaining readability and balance the result is a new typeface expressively cautious but with enough charisma to define a personality and it identifies that the idiosyncrasies of Galicia. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Enrique Ruiz Davila

Valencia-based illustrator and graphic designer, who created the thin monoline unicase typeface Mano de Santo (2012). In 2014, he made several sets of pictograms: Vecomancy, Website, Horta. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Enrique Samperio

Santander, Spain-based designer (b. 1986) of the hipster sans typeface Cero (2015). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Enrique Teruel
[Brand Design]

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Eric Be
[Eric Berto]

Alicante, Spain-based designer of the condensed Victorian typeface Regencia (2018) and the free sans typeface Kymera (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eric Berto
[Eric Be]

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Eric Bonillo

Graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Madrid, Spain-based designer of the fat didone display typeface 1994 (2017). Its design is based, according to Bonillo, on Pistilli Roman (John Pistilli) and Paris Pro (Moshik Nadav). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erik Vicente de Vera

Spanish designer of the hipster typeface Helvetica Struggle (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erik Villarreal

Erik Villarreal (Monterrey, Mexico) designed the logotype for the city of Salamanca in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ernesto Montoya

Graphic designer in Granada, Spain, who created the sans typeface CIA Grenadina in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ernesto Ramirez

Madrid-based designer. Home page. Creator of La Cabeza (2009), which simulates letters cut out of paper with scissors. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Erre Gálvez

Graphic designer in Alicante, Spain, b. 1988, Elda. Graduate of Escuela de Arte y Superior de Diseño de Alicante. His typefaces include Almacen Display (2016), Varry (2012, a multiline art deco typeface), Frank (2011-2012, a textured typeface), the hairline art deco typeface Alambre (2012), Typohobia (2012, alchemic typeface), Alicante (2013, a blackboard bold typeface inspired by Alicante City and designed by Erre Gálvez and Almodovar---but not the Almodovar, but Fernando, the one running Demokratica---for the ALC III exhibition).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

ESAT Foundry
[David Luis]

Valencia, Spain-based designer of the free sans typeface Diana Sans (2015), which is characterized by a teapot style s. Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Esperanza Calleja

Lanzarote, Spain-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Cesar Manrique (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Esteban Belvis Silk

Spanish graphic designer who created the spurred typeface Belvis (2016). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Estefania Bravo

Estefania Bravo Ortega is the Madrid-based designer of Eleonora (2012, Comando Cran), a sans serif that is influenced by handwriting.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Estefania Mata

Spanish designer (b. 1985) from Malaga who now lives in Barcelona. Dafont link. Creator of the free fat poster typeface La Unica (2011).

Fontsquirrel link.

Aka Estefania Hormigo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Esther Martinez
[Eliel]

[More]  ⦿

Estudi Xarop
[Bernat Gramage/Toni Benlliure]

A Xàtiva, Valencia-based graphic design studio founded in 1993 by Toni Benlliure and Bernat Gramage. They designed Alquimia (1995, grunge) at Garcia Fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eugenia Mas del Rey

Madrid-based designer of the sans display typeface Estela (2016), Troquelada (2016), and BY (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eurotypo
[Olcar Alcaide]

Institute in Benalmadena, Spain (was: Santa Severa), where one can take 4-week courses at 1450 Euros a shot on the Etruscan alphabet, Trajan, Cuadrata and Rustic Roman Capital letters, and related subjects. They also organize lettering tours in Italy and guided tours in various musea. The teachers are Alberto Di Santo (Professor of the visual communication, Tor Vergata University, Rome; Professor of Graphic Design, Istituto Europeo di design, Rome; Professor of editorial design, La Sapienza University, Rome; Professor of Typography, C.F.P. Sinalunga, Siena) and Olcar Alcaide (b. 1952, Argentina, Professor of Graphic and Typography Design, University of Buenos Aires; Professor of Typography, University of Lanús, and Professor of Graphic Design, Marbella Design School, Spain). Type link jump page.

Eurotypo is also the foundry of Olcar Alcaide.

Catalog of Olcar Alcaide's typefaces.

In 2010, he published the text family Antium and the warm signage typefaces Mijas Ultra and Lila Pro Heavy.

Typefaces from 2011 include Lila pro, Atenea (a humanist sans family), Agerola Script (a fat flowing signage face), Teja (signage face), Zalea (yet another signage face), and Nabu Pro (a connected signage script). Equalis (2011M, with Juan Lavalle) is a monoline slab typeface with a huge x-height and wide open counters. It was followed by Equalis Stencil (2011). Ravel (2011) is a fat signage script face. Atenea Egyptian (2011) is a solid slab serif family. Berta (2011) is a signage brush typeface with connected and unconnected versions. Optic Art (2011) is an ornamental typeface with building blocks that can be used for overlays. Creator of Eurotypo Bodoni Bold (2011).

Typefaces from 2012: Cubus (dingbats), Saxo Deco (art deco), Moliere (2012, an elegant didone family with outspoken ball terminals), Melon Script (a fat curvy signage script family), Riky (comic book family), Chipa (a signage and package design script), Heket (an expressive curly script), Lenga (a slab serif typeface family), Mikal (brush script). Duktus is a 1940s style script in the style of Donatello (1935, Wagner & Schmidt), Troubadour (1927, Wagner & Schmidt), Liberty Script (1927, Willard T. Sniffin), Trafton Script (1933, Howard Allen Trafton), and Coronet (1937, R.H. Middleton).

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Typefaces from 2013: Dignus (influenced by Bank Gothic and Eurostile), Bague (old Dutch style with little contrast, in the style of Jan Van Krimpen), Lugo (a heavy signage or advertising script), Brittes (copperplate script), Talis (contrast-rich sans family), Fiesole (display family with an awkward back-curled lower case d), C Duflos (after a bâtarde coulée by Claude Duflos, a French engraver who was acitve around 1690).

Typefaces from 2014: Talks (creamy signage script), Fiume (calligraphic script), Predy, Daevon (copperplate script), Beily (letterpress style), Ritts (a heavy script-like display family), Ritts Cursive (in the style of the brush signage scripts descending from Robert E. Smith's Brush Script for ATF in 1942).

Typefaces from 2015: Valentia (a semi-copperplate calligraphic script followed by Valentia Condensed in 2016), Stabia, Digatte Quill (connected script), Digatte (connected monoline cursive script).

Typefaces from 2016: Duero (signage script), Turia (calligraphic script), RRollie (a lapidary typeface based on the roman inscriptions), Valentia Nit (a copperplate typeface enriched with swashes and extensions).

Typefaces from 2017: Citix (a great calligraphic / penmanship script), Citix Two Condensed, Alfabetica (humanist sans), Merick.

Typefaces from 2018: Fortezza (a stiifened didone), Portoluce, Hotdogger (a cursive brush font family), Hotdogger Extras (dingbats), Favarotta, Vikive (a grotesque family), Aretino (a renaissance text typeface), Mirabella, Lectio.

Typefaces from 2019: Palio (a condensed tall didone), Fractus (blackletter), Blackduck (blackletter), Sgraffio (copperplate script).

Typefaces from 2020: Eolia A (a 12-style low contrast grotesque typeface), Breda (a 12-style geometric sans), Breda Two (six additional condensed styles), Marcus Traianus (in the Trajan style, with lowercase included as well), Eurotypo Sans, Eurotypo SII, Eurotypo BKL (a Baskerville-inspired family), Cannoli (a retro brush lettered signage script).

Typefaces from 2021: Zornale (a 7-style text family inpsired by the Zornale, an original manuscript that contains a daily record of the books acquired by the Venetian bookseller Francesco de Madiis, between 1481 and 1488), Alacant (a 14-style slab serif with elliptical shoulders), Tre Giorni (a carefully designed script in solid and outline styles), Due Giorni (a rhythmic calligraphic script), Sagasti (a text typeface with straight serifs), Calcis (a 10-style sans), Rufolo (an 8-style lapidary typeface influenced by Robert Hunter Middleton's Stellar (1929), William A. Dwiggins' Albertus (1932) and Hermann Zapf's Optima (1952)).

Typefaces from 2022: Zornale Title.

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Eva Garr

Logroño, Spain-based designer of a colorful (untitled) alphabet in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eva Maria Jardi

Graphic designer in Madrid. She created Dali's Alphabet (2012), based on Salvador Dali's favorite elements in his paintings.

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Eva Yarza Hilario

London-based designer of the minimalist monoline sans typeface Plastic Crowds (2013, with Marta Yarza): Inspired by old cinema marquees and by the 60s advertisements of NASA, we created this unique upper case typeface for the art collective Plastic Crowds. In 2014, she added Orchid (2014), a ball terminal typeface influenced by didone fat typefaces. She was also involved in the design of a custom typeface for the Banh Mi 11 store in London, together with Sam Phong Nguyen and Sergio Tatoli. She also co-designed Japanica (2014, a free experimental Asian simulation typeface, with Marta Yarza).

Home page at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Extratype (was: Textaxis)
[Iñigo Jerez Quintana]

Textaxis was Spanish/Catalan foundry run by Barcelona-based Iñigo Jerez Quintana since 1995. In 2015 it was renamed Extratype. Iñigo Jerez's beautiful typefaces include Eina (2013, first designed as a corporate typeface fpr the EINA school in Barcelona), ASM (2013, Type O Tones: ASM stands for the Santa Monica Arts cultural center in Barcelona, where the monospaced typeface ASM has been in use as the custom typeface from 2008 onwards), Poster (2013, plus Display and Monster styles: a fat excessive didone family published by Type O Tones), Scozia (2011, didone), Amy, CX Type, School (fat octagonal face), Hidalgo, 112 Type, Point (2011, rounded typewriter family), Papers (2011, a fat fashion mag didone display family), Slim (2011), Batin (2005, neat garalde family), Palo (2000), Dinamo (1999), Oneline (1998), On Serif (2001), On Sans (2001; with On-Serif, a winner at Bukvaraz 2001), Blok (2004, poster face), Blak (heavy version of Blok), Track (2004, octagonal), Plus (2004, octagonal), Bonus (2004, ink trap face), Interfunktionen (2004, old typewriter), SuiteSerif (2003), Xquare (2003), Interpol (2002), Maeda (2002), Luomo (2002), Borneo (2002), Suite (2001), Self (1999, sans family), Valeria (1997, liquid serif), Inercia (1995, a rounded organic sans done at Garcia Fonts), Latina Sans (1998, a winner at Bukvaraz 2001), Latina Serif (1998), Textaxis (2000, sans).

Typefaces either made or extended in 2015 when the company was renamed Extratype: ASM (an industrial monospaced sans: ASM stands for the Santa Monica Arts cultural center located in Barcelona where ASM was the corporate typeface from 2008-2013), Blak (a chubby typeface originally designed for the now defunct magazine Suite), Poster (a fat face family, i.e., with ultra-black didone excesses and high contrasts).

In 2020, he released the 56-style text family Chamberi (co-designed with Francisco Torres) and wrote: Chamberí is designed to be Vogue Spain's bespoke typeface. An ambitious typographic branding project made for one of the most iconic magazine headers of the world, it defines the Spanish edition's personality through a blending of the functionality of 19th century modern romans (also known as Scotch typefaces) and the gestural expressiveness of typographic Baroque. Chamberi is a peculiar combination of the rational and the delicate, the sturdy and the feminine. It is offered in Text, Headline, Display and (fashion mag) Super Display sub-families.

Suite won an award at the TDC2 2003 competition. His Quixote text family (2005) won an award at TDC2 2006 and at Tipo-Q.

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Ezra Mal
[Francisco Robles Maldonado]

Cordoba, Spain-based designer of the didone typeface Aedris Book (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Facu Rodriguez Ramos

Blanes, Spain-based designer of the modular typeface Nevermind (2018) and the minimalist hairline sans typeface Palomera (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fando Fonts
[Fernando Fuentes Mendez]

Spanish graphic and type designer, and comic book artist. Fernando studied Audiovisual Communication in Valencia, Spain, and Typography at the IED and Unos Tipos Duros in Madrid. Since then, many cartoonists and comic writers have relied upon for personalized typefaces. Designer of a custom logotype called Inter Accesorios (2012), and a comic book font, Fumetto (2019). With Eysner award nominated Albert Monteys, he designed the comic book font Fonteys. He used to offer a free font, Billybong (2013). Creator of an unnamed typeface at Comando Cran.

In 2020, he released Marcinelle, a comic book typeface family based on classic French-Belgian comics. In 2021, he released the comic book family Fonteys Pro.

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Fantastic Hysteria

Spanish illustrator. Behance link. Creator of a retro cartoon illustrated alphabet (2011; not a font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fausto Furioso

Valencia, Spain-based designer of the hand-printed Western typeface Street Cowboys (2011) and the free brush typeface Fvriosa (2016). Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

FC Barcelona, Real Madrid

FC Barcelona (2009), Premier League (2007), and Real Madrid 2009 (2009) are athletic lettering typefaces made by a designer who wishes to remain anonymous. Even though I know the designer, I am classifying these typefaces now as orphaned. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Felipe Moreno

Freelance designer in Madrid. Creator of the funky poster or cartoon typeface Idolatra (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Felipy Procopio

Madrid-based designer of a display typeface called Madrid (2014), which was inspired by the wiremesh architecture of Palacio de Cristal. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Felix Avia

During his studies at URJC, Felix Avia (Madrid, Spain) designed the free modular typeface Kuban (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fermin Sagues

Mutiloa, Spain-based designer of Breaking Van Font (2016). This anthroposophic typeface is influenced by the van in Breaking Bad. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fernando Fraga

A Coruña, Spain-based designer of a decorative caps typeface in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fernando Fuentes Mendez
[Fando Fonts]

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Fernando Haro

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Ampuero and Laredo, Spain-based designer (b. 1971) who set up deFharo. Creator of the monoline sans typeface Depez (2011), Fabada (2011), and the free monoline geometric sans typeface La Chata (2011). La chatte, in French? Maybe not.

In 2011, he made the monoline organic sans typeface Lerótica (free at OFL).

In 2012, he created Nabatea (stone chisel typeface), V de Vacia (a grungy outline face), Sabática (organic), the straight-edged data style typeface Gabardina, the grotesk typeface A Bebedera, the shadow typeface B de Bonita, D Puntillas, and the deconstructed Qebrada.

In 2013, he designed Yacarena Ultra, H.H. Agallas, Nacimiento (a dymo label font), J Airplane Swash (a psychedelic typeface named after Jefferson Airplane), CA Garrutas (grunge), CA Gatintas (grunge), I Am Telefono (the largest phone dingbat and scanbat typeface on earth), Wach Op-Art (kaleidoscopic icons), K.O. Activista, I Am Hueca, X Template (stencil), H.H.Samuel (rounded sans), U2 Metalona (a beautiful white-on-black display face), M F Plexus Italic, J.M. Nexus Grotesque (an "thin inline" fat grotesque), Wachinanga, Tabaquera, Pabellona (grunge), El Pececito (video game font), the poster typeface Hobby of Night (OFL), H2O Shadow (outline version of Fabada), Zabatana Poster (a didone-inspired poster font), Oaxaquena Tall, Yacimiento (wood style wedge serif), and Rabanera.

Typefaces from 2014: Babalusa Cut, A Cuchillada, Sabandija (a plump round display typeface), F2 Tecnocratica, F1 Secuencia Quad (pixel face), La Pejina FFP (bilined), Tabaiba Wild, Gabachita (ultra-condensed rounded sans).

Typefaces from 2015: Tabarra Pro (Swiss style sans family for Latin, Cyrillic and Greek), A Sogra Ruth (ultra-condensed art deco), Gaban (an outline version of Tabardo), Tabardo (a heavy blocky font), Wacamoler Caps (a Tuscan typeface inspired opening credits of the Western movie Winchester '73 directed by Anthony Mann in 1950), Ubicada (condensed geometric sans), Rabiosa (neurotic font), Zacatecas (condensed shaded sans), F3 Secuencia Round, La Babaca (a powerful black condensed sans in the style of Impact), Obcecada Sans + Serif (condensed with almost disappearing descenders), Eacologica Round Slab (a nice commercial font with an incomplete set of numerals), Palim Script (curly), Vacaciones (signage face), de La Cruz.

Typefaces from 2016: Yugoslavia (calligraphic), Love Box (stencil), Cienfuegos (connected retro script named after the Cuban her Camilo Cienfuegos), Gaitera Ball (round fat script), The Black Box (a retro banner font), Durum Kebab (shadow sans), Jolgoria In Town (script), Yerbaluisa (signage script), Escobeta One (brush script), Posteratus Rex, Bastardilla (a cursive font), Rotulona Hand, The Juke Box (retro juke box lettering), Angelique Rose (connected monoline script), Promenades, Bucanera (a swashbuckle font), Lucemita, Panama Road (a casual calligraphic font), Deslucida, Disoluta, Sucesion Slab, Tabarra Pro Round, Qebab Pro Shadow, Monserga (white on black), Indulta SemiSerif.

Typefaces from 2017: Partizano Serif (a retro poster font; free demo), Jack Stanislav (a great condensed movie poster font), Fontanero (rounded fat sans), Yonky (fat slab serif), Zigzageo, Libertatus (manual serif fonts based on a Czech poster from 1935), Libertatus Duas (slab serif), Flamante Sans, Flamante Serif, Flamante (Round, SemiSlab, Stencil, Seca, Cairo, Roma), Seisdedos Dead (rough stencil fonts), Neo Latina (stencil), Carta Magna (blackletter), La Sonnambula (signature script), Bola Ocho (an eightball font), Clandestina (textured, layered), Acratica (signage script), Penitencia Inline, Autarquica (outlined vernacular style), Caminata One (shaded signage typeface), Sin Razon (wedge serif), Glotona Black and White (a layered tattoo style font duo), Glotona Dots (the textured versions of Glotona), 6th Aniversario, Tribal Box (squarish sans, with tattoo ornaments and a great environment for borders), Candy Pop (bubblegum font), Sargento Gorila (army stencil font), Libertinas + co (a curly calligraphic script; the free version has no numerals).

Typefaces from 2018: Gudariak (a free color SVG font: Vicente Ballester Marco (Valencia 1887-1980) was a graphic designer and Valencian poster artist affiliated with the CNT (Confederacion Nacional del Trabajo) who created political propaganda posters of clear modernist and post-cubist influence during the Spanish Civil War. The Gudariak typeface is inspired mainly by one of the posters he made for the Government of Euskadi and also in others where the author continues to explore this particular typographic style. ), Farisea Fraktur, Octuple Max (techno), Ordeal Eroded, Panfleta Stencil, Secuela (free), Fragua Pro (condensed sans family), Getho (a geometric semi-sans), Cowboya Tuscan (a curly Tuscan circus font), Txuleta Deco (a striped art deco typeface), Coltan Gea (slab serif), Getho Semi Sans, Cowboys (a Tuscan typeface), Drystick Geo Grotesk, Diezma, Grifa Slab, Coltan Gea (slab serif family), Paloseco (geometric and grotesk), Stoica (a color SVG font), Letrera Caps (a rounded square style layered and color font that pays homage to the sans serif inline genre), Enagol Math (a condensed rounded slab serif based on carefully applied mathematical ratios), Heptal, Velocista, Octagen Condensed, Octagen Black, Sextan Serif, Sextan Cyrillic, Quickat (signage script), Octagen (condensed sand with short descenders), Wolframia Script (flowing handwriting), Pentay Slab, Pentay Sans, Pentay Book, Cuatra, Judera (Flat and Ring: monospaced, unicase and totally sqaurish), Quotus (slab serif), Tripleta Grotesk (a 16-style geometric sans family).

Typefaces from 2019: Pervitina Dex (sci-fi), Megalito Slab, Obesum Caps, Jane Roe (sans), Icons Opentype, Felona (stencil: a variable font), Neo Fobia, Bocartes Fritos (food icons), Red Thinker (a squarish monoline sans), Pena Caldaria (blackletter).

Typefaces from 2020: Anoxic (a squarish monoline sans).

Typefaces from 2021: Humato (a sturdy font for weightlifters), Probeta (a squarish techno sans family in 42 styles), Speeday (a speed emulation sans).

Creative Market link. OFL link. Behance link. Dafont link. Devian tart link. Abstract Fonts link. Fontspace link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Fernando Martinez

Art director and designer in Madrid who runs Unos Tipos Muy Serios. In 2016, he made the free counterless typeface Gronland Blind Sans. Earlier display typefaces include Rocka (2014), Terremoto (2014), Muzzy (2014) and Madrid (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fernando Martinez Godoy

Designer in Madrid, who created the ultra-condensed display and logo typeface Zephyr in 2012. He also produced a special set of spurred blackletter numbers called Yorokobu (2012).

In 2013, he created the modular techno typeface Lopsided. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fernando Rivas
[Suture Art]

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Fernando Sánchez-Ulloa Pérez

Madrid-based designer of the experimental caps typeface Rat Type (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ferran López

Spanish designer of Markus Ink (2009), a hand-printed font. Dafont link. Another URL. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fetenstudio
[Alex de la Fuente]

Spanish studio in Madrid, est. 2014. In 2015, it published the sans typeface Optotypo (design by Alex de la Fuente and art direction by Sara Bautista). Optotypo was inspired by eye chart typography.

Graphicriver link. Behance link. Behance link for Sara Bautista. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fidel Lopez
[Lettering Shop]

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Fifth Congreso internacional de tipografía

The Fifth Congreso internacional de tipografía took place in Valencia from June 29-July 1, 2012. Organized by Association of Designers of the Region of Valencia (ADCV), its main speakers were Dave Crossland (of Open Font Library, and Google Web Fonts), Ale Paul, Paula Carbonell, Gustavo Ferreira, Gerard Unger, Dylan Kendle, Hilary Kenna, and Petr van Blokland (cofounder of Webtype). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Florencia Ryberg

During her studies in Madrid, Florencia Ryberg designed the wax-based typeface Escriben Cirius (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Florencio Sanchez Lopez

Spanish designer of Hexarounded (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Floris Voorveld

Dutch freelance graphic designer (b. Almelo, 1985) living in Granada, Spain, and/or Nijverdal, The Netherlands. Creator of the free rounded sans typeface FV Almelo (2012), which was designed using ruler and compass. FV Granada (2012) is a contemporary monoline sans typeface. FV Deventer (2012) is a wavy antique almost Victorian font. Floris also created Hipster Icons.

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Fontbilisi (was: Germán León)
[Germán León]

Fontbilisi was established by German Leon (b. Madrid, Spain) in 2013. For a while, he was located in Tbilisi, Georgia. Since 2014, he is in Lima, Peru. In 2017, his MyFonts page places his origins in Ukraine. He explains: He was born in Madrid, but crisis and love brought him to Tbilisi, Georgia, from where he is currently designing.

His first typeface is the quaint Latin slab serif Miraflores (2012). In 2013, he published GL Tetuan (a slab serif that covers Latin, Cyrillic, Georgian and Greek) and GL Benicassim (a sans for Latin and Cyrillic). The foundry Germán León was renamed Fontbilisi that same year.

In 2017, Leon published GL Parla (a decorative, even playful, typeface derived from didones). Linkedin link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Fontes galegas
[Alberto Varela Ferreiro]

A free Galician truetype font, GALLAECIANormal (1997, by Alberto Varela Ferreiro), and a free Castellano font, Nova-Outubro (1998).

See also here. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fontown

Spanish font vendor founded by Lole Roman and Francisco Aranda. [Google] [More]  ⦿

FontReactor
[Guillem Catala]

Spanish archive with well over 1000 truetype fonts, categorized in all possible ways. The site is run by Guillem Catala.

List of designers. Newest fonts. List of foundries. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Foundries in Valencia

Spanish language description of the history of typefounding in Valencia, Spain. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fran Lara

Photographer and graphic designer based in Jaén, Spain. Designer at Cuchi qué tipo, a foundry based in Jaén, Spain, of the Andalusian renaissance typeface Vandelvira (2020) and the transitional text typeface Lara (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fran Mendez

Fran Mendez (London, UK) has a BA Honours degree in Fine Arts from the University of Salamanca, Spain, a PGCE from Polytechnic University of Valencia (2008) and a Masters in Graphic Design (Communication and Editorial Design) from Escuela Superior de Diseño Elisava in Barcelona (2010). She created the experimental typefaces Morse Code (2014) and LDF Type (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Francis Requena

Spanish designer of Enede Regular (2002), a bitmap font. Mainly active as illustrator and editorial designer, in 2018, he strated working on several commercial typefaces. These include Aila (Tipotype). He explains: Aila is a surprising slab serif built on the structure of a realistic Roman, but with unique organic features that make this typeface an exercise in tension between structure and rhythm. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Francisco Anguís

Spanish designer who created the free experimental typeface Legotype in 2008 for Neo2, a Spanish magazine. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Francisco Blanco

Jerez de la Frontera, Spain-based designer of the art deco typeface Largarian (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Francisco J. Millan Blanco

Andaluz, Spain-based illustrator who made the typefaces Gothic Stencil (2012, blackletter) and Getto Style (2012).

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Francisco Jose Garcia Alanis

Sevilla, Spain-based designer of the geometric solid typeface Lichtenstein (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Francisco José Serón Arbeloa
[Ibarra]

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Francisco Lucas

Full name: Francisco Lucas Vezino De Sevilla. Spanish lettering master in the 16th century who wrote Arte de Escrevir (Madrid, 1571 [Paulo Heitlinger says that this is 1580, while others mention 1577]), in which he introduced the so-called Spanish Bastarda. He also published Arte de Escrivir (1608, Iuan de la Cuesta, Madrid). Local download.

Digitizations of his Griffo-style lettering in 1577 include:

• Decimosexto NF (2006, Nick Curtis).
• Francisco Lucas Llana Regular (2003). A chancery hand by Pia Frauss. She writes Written in Madrid in 1570, by a man called Francisco Lucas. He classified it as a Bastarda; but actually, it is a humanist cursive -- the type of writing that is mostly known under the name of Chancery.
• Francisco Lucas Brioso Regular (2003, Pia Frauss). A chancery hand.

Scans: Grifa italica and Batarda, Redondilla (1570), Letra. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Francisco Poyatos

Art director in Madrid. Creator of the thin large-counter sans typefaces Bolinga (2016) and Aurea (2014) Home page. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Francisco Robles Maldonado
[Ezra Mal]

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Francisco Xavier de Santiago Palomares

Spanish penman who published Arte nueva de escribir, inventada por el insigne maestro Pedro Diaz Morante e illustrada con Muestras nuevas, y varios discursos conducentes al verdadero Magisterio de Primas Letras, por D. Francisco Xavier de Santiago Palomares etc in Madrid (Antonio de Sancha) in 1776. His Arte de Esrcibir was published by Benito Cano in Madrid in 1789. Local download. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Frank Granados

During his studies at EESS, Frank Granados (Algeciras, Spain) designed the curvy typeface Arbolada (2018), which was inspired by Christian Schwartz's Amplitude. He also designed the Flintstone / tiki / font Rock Wave (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Freefonts Space

Madrid-based outfit that offers free fonts, each with full Latin character sets, and 18 weights:

• FFS Athos (2019): a neutral condensed sans.
• FFS Babia (2019): a simplified sans.
• FFS Etna (2019): a sans with pre-Futura features.
• FFS Hekla (2019): a sans typeface.
• FFS Katal 01 (2019): a geometric sans.
• FFS Katal 02 (2019): a humanist sans.
• FFS Laki (2019): a sturdy slab serif.
• FFS Ossa (2019): a warm monospaced sans.
• FFS Parnis (2019): a text typeface.
• FFS Pelion (2019): a general purpose sans.

Fundición tipográfica de José Leyra

Spanish foundry. A specimen book with 322 pages was published. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fundición Tipográfica José Iranzo
[José Iranzo]

Fundición Tipográfica José Iranzo is a Spanish foundry which published type typefaces in the 1940s such as the heavy script font Pulido, the commercial modern typeface Publicidad (1930) and Supertipo Veloz (1942, see Neufville). Located in Barcelona and Madrid. José Iranzo published Catálogos : Tipos (Madrid, 1968). Catalog in PDF format (thanks to J.R. Penela). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fundición Tipográfica Nacional

Spanish foundry active in the 20th century, with offices in Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia. It made typefaces such as Numantina, Numancia, Hispalis (digitally revived by Red Rooster as Schiller Antiqua), Grotesca Nacional, Nueva Grotesca, Vigorosa, Clasico Nacional, Electra, Imperio, Radar (brush script), Romana, Ingles 15, and Rusinol (C. Winkow).

Catalogo de la Fundicion Tipografica Nacional. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Fundicion Eusebio Aguado

Late 19th century foundry in Madrid, which worked mostly with types imported from France and Germany. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fundicion Hijos de J.A. Garcia

Late 19th century foundry in Madrid, which worked mostly with types imported from France and Germany. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fundicion Tipografica de don J. Artaloitia
[J. Artaloitia]

J. Artaloitia ran a foundry in Sevilla, Spain, called Fundicion Tipografica de don J. Artaloitia. Scans of some of his types: headline types, Inglesa, Ronda, Normandas, Gotico Blanco, Ronda. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fundicion Tipografica Richard Gans
[Richard Gans]

The Richard Gans Foundry is a defunct Spanish foundry which existed from 1888-1975. Richard Gans was the son of a medic from Karlsbad, Austria. He emigrated to Spain in 1874, and died in 1925. Until 1936 the foundry was led by Mauricio Wiesenthal, but in 1936, his children, Ricardo, Manuel and Amalia Gans Gimeno, now adults, took over. Ricardo and Manuel were assassinated during the Civil War. The foundry was used to make ammunition, and after the war, Amalia Gans and then Reinaldo Leger Tittel started anew in run-down buildings. The foundry operated roughly from 1881-1975. Throughout its existence, types were designed by a number of people from within and outside the foundry. Designers included José Ausejo Matute (d. 1998), Antonio Bilbao (who created Escorial in 1960), the son Ricardo Gans, and Carl Winkow. In the post-war era, Reinaldo Leger and Amalia Garcia Gans made typographic decisions on which types to produce, and acted as typographic directors. Richard Gans' grandson, José Antonio Gans García, is still alive today. Manuel Lage informed me in 2017 that he has inherited the Richard Gans collection.

Six specimen books were published with titles like Fundicion Richard Gans Muestrario Edicion V. The first and second editions, rare books indeed, were published between 1883 and 1903. Editions 3 through 6 appeared in the period 1903-1922. The 1922 edition is here in its entirety (thanks to J.R. Penela). See also here. In 1965, a small catalog was published under the name Tipos Gans. The National Library in Madrid has Muestrario de Richard Gans (Madrid, Richard Gans, 1903, 410 pages) and Catalogo provisional (Madrid, 1950).

On the web, the most complete discussion of Richard Gans is in the PDF file Fundicion Tipografica Richard Gans Historia y Actividad 1888-1975 (2004) by Dimas García Moreno and José Ramón Penela.

Catalog of font names.

Fonts: Until 1925, there were basically no original types. Almost everything in the specimen books of that era is due to German foundries, principally those of Wilhelm Woellmer in Berlin and Edmund Koch in Magdeburg. Some of those typefaces in common with Koch include Grotesca Chupada Redonda, Ronda Universal. Early types in this category also include Escritura Selecta, Escritura Favorita, Escritura Luis XV (it is being digitally revived by Manuel Lage), Gótico Globo (blackletter), Gótico Uncial (blackletter), Nueva Titular Adornada, Tipos de Adorno, Latina Moderna, Grotesca Ancha, Grotesca and Grotesca Chupada. Many, if not most of these, saw the light at the end of the 19th century and survived until 1965.

It is fashionable now to revive all the typefaces. Nick Curtis created a few (see below), and Paulo W (Intellecta Design, Brazil) did many more. Intellecta Designs revivals include Gans Tipo Adorno, Gans Lath Modern, Gans Titular Adornada, Gans Ibarra, Gans Antigua, Gans Antigua Manuscrito, Gans Fulgor, Gans Radio Lumina, Gans Carmem Adornada, Gans Animals, Gans Italiana, and Gans Titania.

The original Gans types can be categorized as follows:

• Aldine.
• Anchas Americanas.
• Antigua El Greco (+Adornada, Cursiva, Negro, Negro Cursiva, Seminegro, Seminegro Cursiva, Titular), aka El Greco Antique. Weights include Antigua El Greco (1924), El Greco Adornado Titular (with Mexican-style sawteeth). Greco was the inspiration for Melina BT (Nick Curtis, 2003). Curtis' Melina Fancy is based on Greco Adornado. For a free version of Adornado, see GrekoDeco (1992, Dave Fabik). Revived as Kifisia Antigua NF in 2005 by Nick Curtis.
• Antigua. See the digital family Gans Antigua (2006, Paulo W). The Antigua series includes weights like Esbelta, Estrecha, Heraldo, Heraldo Cursiva, I, I Cursiva, I Titular, Mercantil, Negra, Prolongada, Universal, Universal Cursiva, Universal Negra, Universal Negra Cursiva, Universal Negra Estrecha, Universal Seminegra, Veneciana, Veneciana Cursiva, Veneciana Cursiva Fantasia.
• Antigua Manuscrito: a semiscript typeface designed by Hermann Delitsch at the Royal Academy of Graphic Arts in Leipzig. Delitsch was Tschichold's teacher. Digitized as a family by Paulo W as Gans Antigua Manuscrito (2006).
• Antigua Progreso (1923) (+Cursiva, Negra): an interesting serif face. A digital version called Bellini was made by A. Pat Hickson, 1992. Linotype sells Greco (DsgnHaus, 1996) which really is Progreso.
• Arabe.
• Atlántida.
• Azures.
• Bodoni and Bodoni Redonda.
• Carmen, Carmen Adornada, Velázquez, Españolas Adornadas, Antigua Adornada, Utopian, Tipos de Adorno, Americanas (Tuscan style), Americanas-Titular, Elzevirianas Adornadas: Late 19-th century style display typefaces. Paulo W (Intellecta Design) created the beautiful digital family Gans Tipo Adorno (2006). He also made the family Gans Titular Adornada (2006).
• Cartel.
• Cursiva Comercial.
• Dalia (or Ibarra Vaciada): a two-line display face. Similar to Delphian Open Titling (Middleton, Ludlow, 1928).
• Decorativa. Digitally revived by Manuel Lage as Decorativa RGf in 2017 and Volvoreta RG LG in 2021.
• Egipcia in weights called Estrecha, Negra and Nueva, ca. 1923; Egipcia Progreso (1923). The serifs are Venetian, heavy and oblique in the lower case. The ascenders and descenders are short and the strokes have almost no contrast, giving the typeface a stocky appearance. The e has a diagonal Venetian stroke, while the tail of the g is open.
• Elzeviriano: Anchas, Adornado, B, B Cursiva, Chupado, Ibarra, Ibarra Cursiva, Ibarra Titular, Negro.
• Escorial: a display typeface with Koch Antiqua influences, designed ca. 1960 by Antonio Bilbao. Additional weights include Cursiva, Seminegra and Titular. It is being digitally revived by Manuel Lage.
• Escritura Juventud (1950, Joan Trochut Blanchard): a great script with lots of identity and swing. Other Escritura styles: Decorativa (Manuel Lage is working on a digital revival), Gloria reformada, Isabel, Luis XV, Selecta.
• Espanolas.
• Etienne Ancha.
• Filetes de Bronce, Filetes de Metal.
• Fulgor (1930): a connected script face.
• Gacela.
• Galeria Coruna. Revived by Manuel Lage in 2008 as Galeria Coruna LG. In 2017 Lage was working on a further refinement of this typeface.
• Gaviota.
• Gloria (already listed above under Escritura), Gloria Reformada (1930): a connected script family. Gloria was revived by Nick Curtis in 2005 as Pismo Clambake NF.
• Gótico Cervantes (1928): blackletter with regular and ornamental caps.
• Gótico Globo: art nouveau style with blackletter influences. Revived by Intellecta Design in 2007.
• Gótico Uncial (blackletter).
• Graciosa (+Gris).
• Griego.
• Grotesca Ancha (+Fina, Negra, Nueva, Vaciada).
• Grotesca Antigua.
• Grotesca Chupada and Grotesca Chupada Redonda: a rounded sans.
• Grotesca Colón.
• Grotesca Compacta.
• Grotesca Cursiva (+Seminegra).
• Grotesca Estrecha Hercules.
• Grotesca Mercantil, Grotesca Mercurio, Grotesca Negra Cursiva.
• Grotesca Ideal (Negra, Fina, Entrelina), Grotesca Favorita, Grotesca Reformada.
• Grotesca Radio: a geometric no-contrast sans. Styles: Editorial, Estrecha Fina, Estrecha Negra, Fina, Fina Cursiva, Negra, Negra Cursiva, Seminegra, Seminegra Cursiva. For a revival and reinterpretation, see Radar (2019) by Marta Sanchez Marco for Type-o-Tones.
• Helenica (+Ancha, Ancha Negra, Ancha Seminegra, Cursiva, Seminegra).
• Ibarra (1931) and Ibarra Cursiva: a tall ascender garalde family. Ibarra Negra, Ibarra Negra estrecha, Ibarra Vaciada, Ibarra Redonda. See also under Elzeviriano above. Iniciales Ibarra.
• Imán: a shadow headline all-caps face. This was digitally revived in an authoritative way by Manuel Lage in 2016 as Iman RG.
• Inglesa Excelsior.
• Italiana (Cursiva, Titular), 1951, a black caps face. Italienne (Chupada, Moderna).
• Luxor (+Cursiva, Negro, Negro Estrecho).
• Manos (manicules, fists).
• Maquina de Escrebir.
• Maruxa. Manuel Lage is working on a digital version of this script type.
• Normanda (Ancha Negra, estrecha Negra).
• Nueva Antigua No. 1 and No. 2. Nuevas Titulares Adornadas.
• Orlas de Linea.
• Preciosa: Showboat-style Western look.
• Primavera: a condensed sans. Paulo W digitized a condensed family called Gans Lath Modern (2006). See also the extension Primavera (2016, Manuel Lage).
• Radio Bicolor: a headline sans family.
• Radio Gris. Scans of the Radio catalog of 1930.
• Radio Lumina: a display sans. Digitized as Gans Radio Lumina (2006) by Paulo W at Intellecta Design.
• Regina (+Estrecha), Helios, Vulcano (1920s): art nouveau style. Ludlow's Vulcan Bold is based on Vulcano.
• Renacimiento Ancha.
• Romana I (+Cursiva, Egipcia, Estrecha, Negra).
• Royalty.
• Senefelder: engraved look all caps.
• Talla Dulce (+Cursiva).
• Tipo Sombreado, Tipos Adornados, Tipos de Texto.
• Titania (1933): an elegant two-line poster face. See the revival (2006, Nick Curtis).
• Veneziana Negra.

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Gabri Garcia

Bailen, Spain-based designer of the condensed display typeface Gabriela (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gabriel Aparicio

Aka Flakkk Biel. During his studies, Peñaranda de Bracamonte, Spain-based designer of the tweetware handcrafted typeface Dellafont (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gabriel Morala

During his studies at Escuela de Arte y Superior de Diseño in Pamplona, Spain, Gabriel Morala created the free German expressionist typeface Volks Type (2015). Volks Type was created on a grid. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gabriela Toledo Capechi

Graphic designer in Madrid, who created the text typeface Nuss in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Garnata Type

A project about the urban type found on buildings and signs in Granada, Spain. The project involves JuanJo Rivas del Rio, Nano Torres, and Rafa Galeano. In 2014, they created the tweetware typeface family Garnata Display. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Germán León
[Fontbilisi (was: Germán León)]

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Gerónimo Orduña

Spanish printer in Badajoz who published Muestras de los caractéres de la imprenta de D. Gerónimo Orduña in 1851. This book is rather ordinary, but offers some nice bookplates. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Giftype
[Carmen Garriga Rios]

Spanish designer of Gyftype Bones (2019: a skeletal font).

In 2020, she released Arabesco Basic, Makenn Palos, Cap, Scribble Knot, Comic Basic (a comic book font), Tilma, Makenn00, Makenn01, Makenn23 and Makenn264 (an old typewriter font).

Typefaces from 2021: Comicbasic (intended for comic books for children). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Gilberto Moya Perona
[Pisto Casero]

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Gisele Murias

Madrid, Spain-based designer of the rounded modular sans typefaces Opium (2016) and Renata (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Giuseppe Salerno
[Resistenza]

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Gliglifo

Summer course organized by Damia Rotger and Pedro Arilla in Sos del Rey Catolico near Zaragoza, Spain. the 2015 edition took place from 21-26 July. Facebook page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gorka Garcia Hernandez

Madrid-based Spanish designer (b. 1976) of the destructionist typeface Soot Break (2005), the hip font Font City (2005) and the grunge typeface extranvetica (2005). Alternate URL. He also made the liquid typeface Pota (2008). Additional URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿