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School of Computer Science
McGill University
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The Brazilian type scene
Last update: Wed Oct 4 10:22:37 EDT 2006
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Luc Devroye (copyright) |
Tia Olga (2000) is a free handwriting font by A. Karr (Freemesmo) from Sao Paulo, Brasil. | |
Wonderful free fonts collected by Sandra Avoletta. The archive includes the KA-dingbat series by Vytautas Abraitis, some nice WSI fonts such as Carnivale, FairyScrollDisplay (like CurlzMT), Fernando, Frilly, and Cut_n_Paste (forget the overused Ransom, use this one instead!), and a host of other fonts. This is a fun swinging page. | |
Brazilian handwriting font archive. | |
Adreson74
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Adreson V.V. Sa (Adreson74, or: Capa da Cyberjapa) is the Brazilian designer of the free experimental fonts Garrancho (2001, handwriting), Juliana (2002), Julifesta (2002) and Drek (2002). Alternate URL. |
Brazilian type designer who works at Tipos do aCaso. His fonts include Rec Block. | |
Brazilian graphic designer and type designer who works at OnMedia - ALMAP/BBDO, Brazil, a corporate branding and ad agency. | |
Typographer from Brazil who received an honorable mention at the Tipografia Brasilis in the dingbat category, 2001, for her font "Chop". | |
Salvador-based Brazilian designer of the handwriting face Dez Real (2004). She runs a graphic design and corporate identity studio, Papaya Design. | |
Brazilian type site. Links. Museum. | |
Amatraca Design Grafico
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Amatraca Design Grafico (Marcelo Sodre) is located in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Alternate URL, where one can download these free faces: FSM Sans (2005), Zoi Mao (2005, handwriting). |
Anderson Guedes |
Brazilian designer of the experimental face Venom (2002) while he was a student in Sao Paulo at Senac de Comunicações e Artes. |
Anderson Kleber |
Brazilian codesigner with Fábio Henrique, Leonardo Rosa Borges and Carlos Santos of the calligraphic typeface Amor e Odio (2005, Tipos do aCASO). |
Andre Coutinho da Cunha |
Graphic designer from Brasilia who is working on this sans (2006) and this serif face (2006). |
Brazilian designer from Recife who makes type at Tipos do aCaso. | |
António Carreira |
Brazilian designer of Oral-sex, PaintBrush-Draws, Peace-Symbol, Psicadelic, Sex-Machine, Shaking-Bones, Sacha, Demon-Bones, Vaca, Virus, Eraser (2006). Alternate URL. |
Brazilian student at UFPE who makes type at Tipos do aCaso. | |
Antonio Briano |
Brazilian designer of the experimental face Perspective (2002) while he was a student in Sao Paulo at Senac de Comunicações e Artes. |
Blind Fontes (Fé Cega)
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Blind Fontes is a Brazilian foundry located in Rio and run by Marcelo Rosauro. Bad URL. |
blue eighty four (was Portfolio Virtual; or azul84)
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The Sao Paulo-based type designer Jose (Zeh) Fernando (Rorshack) runs blue eighty four (was Portfolio Virtual; or azul84). His freeware fonts include NokiaCellphone-Small (2001), Pixelzim-3x5 (2000), Pixelzim-3x5-Bold, Hardmob (2001), Gaming Channel F Standard. Fonts that were either projected but never finished or deleted include Waris, Lanner, Vicio, Babyscreamer, Catadings, Catalatas, Roundtable, neoTokyo, Hardedge, Ansi Art Elite Down, Ansi Art Elite Up, Skatter, Sutaker. Direct downloads. |
Brazilian designer from Sao Paulo who created the typefaces Manguebat 3 and 4 (both with "Buggy") at Tipos do aCASO (2005). Educated at UFPE. | |
Brazilian archive run by Carlos Marcio Spinola. Over 1000 fonts. Very slow pages with lots of ads and cookies. However, for fast service, go here for direct access. | |
Brazilian archive of about 100 fonts. | |
Sao Paulo-based Brazilian codesigner with Tony de Marco of Samba (2003, Linotype), which won an award at the Linotype International Type Design Contest 2003. It is based on the lettering art of J. Carlos, a Brazilian illustrator during the early 20th century. | |
Carambola Fontes
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Brazilian foundry is a Brazilian foundry located in Rio and run by Angelo Bottino and Guilherme Capilé. |
Carlos Santos |
Brazilian codesigner with Anderson Kleber, Fábio Henrique and Leonardo Rosa Borges of the calligraphic typeface Amor e Odio (2005, Tipos do aCASO). |
Carpenter Type
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A Brazilian foundry with an original web page. Run by Paulo Roberto Purim from Curitiba, Parana. His faces are Antarctica (1998), Minimum Wage (dingbats), Commedia, Hill House, Gaffe, Gaffe Bold, Gaffe Family, Gaffe Slender, Nostromo, SK Black (1998), SK Bold, SK Family, SK Regular, and Woodwinds. Short bio. Most fonts around 25 USD. Some demos available. Fonts available at Phil's Fonts. Blumenbach Beta, MinimumWageincomplete. |
Typographer from Sao Paulo who won second prize at the Tipografia Brasilis in display typography 2001 with his font Buril. Also second prize in the dingbat category with "Street". He also made Brutus, Typofiction and the shareware font Speedfreek (Fontalicious, 1999). Some of his fonts can be seen here (click on Typo). | |
Brazilian designer of Sampaio's Balloons. | |
Free Christmas font archive by Sandra Avoletta. | |
Sao Paulo-based designer (b. 1957) of ITC Gema (1998) and ITC Underscript (1997). Runs Tupigrafia, a magazine dedicated to typography and calligraphy in Brazil. He designed Cashew (2000), Persplextiva, and Sampa (informal script) and Stampface. Director of Now Design (Sao Paulo). He published the books "Projet Tipográfico" (Ed. Rosari), "Trajan e Franklin Gothic" (Ed. Rosari), and "Tipografia Comparada" (Ed. Rosari). | |
Corisco Design Grafico
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Brazilian design company located in Recife, which lists type and design events in Brazil. It also advertizes some free fonts such as Zabumba (dingbats by Fátima Finizola), Zabumba City (also by Finizola; selected for Bienal Letras Latinas 2006), Pontes, Silicone, 1rial, Capoeira Light and Capoeira Black (by Damião Santana), but I do not know how to download them. The company is run by Damião Santana and Fátima Finizola. They make type as part of visual identity projects. Free font downloads: Pontes, capoeira (light and black), Silicone, 1rial. Zabumba (by Fátima Finizola) was selected as one of the winners of Tipografia Brasilis3. |
Brazilian designer from Bahia who published Vincent at Tipos do aCaso. He is the principal of Corisco Design in Recife. Home page. | |
Researcher at midia@rte - Multimedia Lab at the School of Fine Arts / UFMG (Brazil). Designer of the handwriting face Dwerneck (2005) and of Psicopatologia de la Vida Cotidiana (2005). Alternate URL. Alternate URL. Alternate URL. | |
Daniel Lopes |
Brazilian codesigner with Maurício Nunes, Luciana Medeiros, Daniel Pinheiro, Nara Rocha and Virgulino Melo of the typeface Sodoma (2005, Tipos do aCASO). |
Daniel Pinheiro |
Brazilian codesigner with Daniel Lopes, Maurício Nunes, Luciana Medeiros, Nara Rocha and Virgulino Melo of the typeface Sodoma (2005, Tipos do aCASO). |
Brazilian designer and freelancer, who also makes type at Tipos do aCaso. Educated at UFPE. | |
Brazilian illustrator who designed the fun typeface Alphonse (2002) while he was a student in Sao Paulo at Senac de Comunicações e Artes. | |
Design Creatipos
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Jonas Mello Kühner (of Design Creatipos) is the Brazilian designer of free grunge-style fonts such as Arialda, Entulho, Epletica, Fatal, Grafiteurbana, MutantE, Nanka, Pegajosa, AgressivaMedium. |
Brazilian type designer who is studying at UFPE in Recife and who runs the foundry Tipos do aCASO. Fonts: Cabra-da-peste (Western dingbats), Wayana. | |
DMTR.ORG
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Sao Paulo-based Brazilian designer who created a few faces in his Fluid Typeface Project in 2005. In 2005, Dimitre Lima also set up DMTR.ORG and started selling his fonts at MyFonts. These include O AFerrugem (unicase, techno), O Arame (octagonal, techno), Opus (2005, a computer-look modular sans), Gatu (2005, futuristic semicircle face), Clave de Fá (2006, experimental) and O Decomputer (techno sans). |
Conference in Sao Paulo, held from 15-19 March 2005. Speakers include Claudio Rocha, Tony de Marco, Priscila Farias, Fabio Lopez, Rodolfo Capeto, Henrique Nardi, Claudio Ferlauto, Hugo Cristo, Marcos Mello, Vincenzo Scarpellini, Massimo Gentile, Chico Homem de Melo, Bruno Porto, Billy Bacon, Akira Kobayashi, Pancho Galvez, Luis Siquot, Bruno Steinert, GHabriel Martinez Meave, Baixo Ribeiro, Wagner, Jorge de Buen and Herbert Baglione. | |
Brazilian designer of Mandinga at Burritos do Brasil (1998). | |
Uruguayan type designer (born in 1952 in Montevideo), one of the pioneers of Brazilian type, dabbling mainly in corporate type in Brazil, such as for Vasp (1985), Cia. Hering, Bardahl and Continental 2001. | |
Eduardo Berliner |
Brazilian ex-student at the University of Reading who designed Pollen (2003). |
Brazilian type designer, who made fonts such as Nossa Senhora do Bom Sucesso. He studied at and is currently professor at the Universidade de Minas Gerais in the School of Graphic Design. Based in Sao Paulo. | |
Eduardo Cavalcanti |
Brazilian student at UFPE from Recife who created the typeface Tipofilme at Tipos do aCASO (2005). |
Designer, typedesigner and professor in Salvador, Brazil. He made Benedicta (2006), a blackletter-inspired sans. See also here. | |
Typographer from Curitiba (Brazil) who won third prize at the Tipografia Brasilis in display typography 2001 with his calligraphic font Pero Vez. | |
Brazilian graphic design studio located in Curitiba. MyFonts sells its faces. These include Postuma (2005, a calligraphic face by Beto Janz). | |
Archive of a type exhibition in Sao Paulo, held in June 2002, showcasing the work of the students at Senac de Comunicações e Artes in Sao Paulo. | |
Brazilian designer from Sao Paulo who made the 9x6 pixel fonts Pico Sans and Pico Serif (2003). | |
Fábio Henrique |
Brazilian codesigner with Anderson Kleber, Leonardo Rosa Borges and Carlos Santos of the calligraphic typeface Amor e Odio (2005, Tipos do aCASO). |
Recife-based Brazilian designer of Zabumba at Corisco Design Grafico (Recife, Brazil), a company she codirects with Damião Santana. She created the dingbat face Zabumba City (2006). | |
Fabio Lopez |
Rio-based designer of the text face Colonia (1999-2004), and of the experimental face Ryad. Graphic designer. Co-founder of the group Fontes Carambola. |
Fabrika de typos
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Fabrika de typos is a Brazilian fondry run by Marcio Hirosse (b. 1969) in Sao Paulo. He made Boogaloo, Casual, Error (2006), Sherley XXX (2006), Thailandesa (2006, Thai simulation face), Expedito, Impresso, Club (2006, stencil), Ferrugem (2006, grunge), Qualque Coisa (2006), Saco de Pao (2006, grunge), Clean (2006, experimental), Poesie Noire (2006, a great multiline calligraphic face), Fuck You Las Vegas (2005), Serial Killer (2004, bloodied Arial), Tragedia (2004), Font Macabra (2004), Font Abuso, Font Cartaz (2004, stencil face), and Font Mexicana. He created Ballom (psychedlic), Anarchy, Macabra, Cartaz, Crash, Tragedia, Abuso, Estragou de novo (1999), Sucata Special, Brother Bear, Floppy Disk, Punk Dingbats (2004-2205, destructionist typefaces), Swis AntiNormal (2005), all freely downloadable. Alternate URL. |
With a Bachelor's degree in design from PUC in Rio, Felipe is involved in brand design for various companies. His Archimedes Memória typeface (2002) was created for the DBA's brand identity design. It is on the popular Bank Gothic typeface. | |
Rio-based Brazilian designer (b. 1977) of the ultra-geometric experimental typefaces Memoria (2000), done for Power Systems Research, and Archimedes (2002), done for DBA Engenharia de Sistemas. | |
Brazilian type designer who studied at the Basel School of Design with Wolfgang Weingart and André Gürtler, and created the beautiful Bananas font (2001, letters shaped with bananas), Brasilia (1995, a sans face), the highwage signage face Graal (1998), Transbrasil (1999/2000) and Alphanumer (2000, some letters are replaced by mirrored or rotated numbers). She is working on the sans family FM Ruben (2001), which was started in the sixties by her father, Ruben Martins, who died in 1968. She does corporate type in general. Brief CV. | |
Fernanda Vieira Prupest |
Brazilian designer of the lettering face Xilotype (2002) while she was a student in Sao Paulo at Senac de Comunicações e Artes. See also here for a sample. |
Brazilian designer of the Plakat font Thereza (2005). Rocha is affiliated with the PUC in Rio. | |
Foco Design
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Brazilian foundry of graphic and type designer Fabio Luiz Haag, located in Sapiranga, Rio Grande do Sul. Creators of FH After (2006, display face), FH Foco (2003) (a large x-height sans), this futuristic typeface (2003) and of Minas Headline, a custom family made for the government of Minas Gerais. Working on this display font (2005). In 2006, Foco became a Dalton Maag Ltd font family. |
Big Brazilian font archive run by Marcelo de Castro. Warning: many pop-ups and cookies. | |
Brazilian link site. | |
The Brazilian font scene explained in Portuguese. By graphic designer Paulo Moretto, and originally published in PROJETODESIGN vol. 244 in June 2000. A description of Tipografia Brasilis held in 2000. | |
Sandra Avoletta's page highlighting Brazilian designers. Some downloadable fonts, such as MinimumWageincomplete (dingbats, 1998) and the absolutely wonderful running ink font Blumenbach by Paulo Roberto Purim (Carpenter Type) (beta version--capitals only), Mandin-Bold and the Mandinga family by Dui (of the "Burritos do Brasil" studio), Medalhao (by Sandra-Nat, 2000), and Marola (graphically deformed letters, avilable for free at Dafont) by the Subvertype Studio. | |
François Chastanet |
François Chastanet is an architect and a graphic designer in Bordeaux, France. He specializes in signage systems for transportation networks. Graduate of the École d'Architecture et de Paysage de Bordeaux, he pursued research in 2001 at the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique in Nancy, and completed a DEA in architectural & urban history at the École d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville in 2002. He currently teaches graphic design and typography at the École Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Toulouse. At ATypI 2006 in Lisbon, he speaks on Pixação letterforms, the shantytown graffiti letterforms found in the 1990s in Sao Paulo. |
Graphic designer in Poreto Alegre, Brazil, who studied at the Universidade Federal de Santa Caterina. He is working on Quirky Sans (2005). | |
George Vinícios |
Brazilian codesigner with José Fabio, Melissa Trigueiro, Ricardo and Paula Robalinha of the experimental typeface Geometrica (2005, Tipos do aCASO). |
Brazilian designer of Savatage, a font for the music group. | |
Guilherme Capile (from Brazil) designed two freeware fonts, BrodyTitleA and X5foooont, both donated to Superfunk.com. | |
Brazilian designer (b. 1978) of the grunge handwriting font Gentileza (2002), taken straight from Rio's streets, and of the sans-serif face Eva (2002). He works as a free-lance designer in Rio. In 2004, he joined Ultra Pixel Fonts, where he made the pixel faces Elementar 09b, Elementar Basica 13.11, 13.21 and 13.31. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he speaks on Elementar. Gustavo Ferreira has a Bachelor degree in Graphic and Product Design at ESDI, in Brazil (2003), and a Master degree in Communication Planning and Design at the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany (March 2004-July 2005). | |
Gustavo Gusmao |
Brazilian student at UFPE, b. 1984, who created the typeface Tipofilme at Tipos do aCASO (2005). With Buggy, he made the dingbat faces Manguebat 2 and 4 (2005). |
Brazilian creator of Boqueta (2006) and Elegante (2006). Alternate URL. | |
Brazilian graphic and web designer who now lives in Toronto. Used to be based in Campinas, Brazil, where he was a professor of graphic design at the Catholic University of Campinas. | |
Brazilian graphic designer (b. 1972) who lives in Sao Paulo where he runs Rex Design with Marco Aurélio Kato and Valter Botoso. Gustavo also teaches typography at Faculdades Senac de Comunicação e Arts and is a member of the board of directors of ADG Brasil (Brazils Graphic Designers Association). Creator of Autorama (1999, experimental), Bizu (1999, T-26, grunge), Cabourg (2004, T-26) and the great experimental face Gilcimar (T26). In 1997, he founded the graphic and digital design company Rex Design with Aurélio Kato and Valter Botoso in Sao Paulo. Brief CV at Tipografia Brasilis. There are free fonts on Gustavo's web site (click on Culture, then on Fonts): Nimuendaju, Neufrank (dingbats), Zzz and Sid Family. To download these, you have to fill out a form for each one of them. MyFonts page. T-26 page. | |
Medium-sized Brazilian archive with some Bitstream and SSi fonts thrown in. | |
Brazilian illustrator and type designer who works at Tipos do aCaso. His fonts include Grea, a children's printing face. | |
Brazilian designer in Sao Paulo, who in 2003 cofounded Tipocracia: Estado Tipografico with Márcio Shimabukuro. He has Bachelor degree. in Graphic Design, Anhembi Morumbi, Graphic Technology at SENAI and a Master degree in Visual Arts, UNESP. Speaker at ATypI 2006 in Lisbon. | |
From Sao Paulo, Roberto Lyra's explanation on the origins of arabic numerals: "Each Arabic number we use today is itself an ideogram created by Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (c.778 - c.850). Al-Khwarizmi was born in central Asia in what is know as Uzbekistan, and moved to Baghdad were he worked as a mathematician during the first golden age of Islamic science, at the "House of Wisdom". Using the abacus notations he developed the manuscript decimal system. By the end of the 12th century (Middle Ages) the academic word was divided between the algorists, followers of al-Khwarizmi, and the abacists, who used the abacus as a means of dealing with the unwieldy Roman notation. The oldest dated European manuscript containing Arabic numbers is the Codex Vigilanus written in Spain in 976. In 1202 Leonardo of Pisa (also know as Leonard Fibonacci) published his Liber Abaci, a book of arithmetic and algebraic information. The earliest French manuscript using the new number system was written in 1275. During the 14th century Arabic numerals became widely used by merchants in Italy." | |
Holofontes
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Holofontes is a Bazilian foundry, established in 2004 by Hugo Cristo from Jd da Penha, Vitoria. Typefaces: HF Bayer, HF Ceramic, HF Conillon Black, HF Contras, HF Daft, HF Design Az San, HF Dutra, HF Fastne, HF Health, HF Health Blac, HF Janaina Roman, HF Logic, HF Maxwell, HF Minotau, HF Neo Bodoni, HF Newslin, HF Painted, HF Phocus San, HF Quadredondo, HF Round Gothi, HF Slab, HF Tecnométric, HF Tim Maia, HF Visualice. Before Holofontes, Hugo Cristo ran Design AZ. He also makes custom type, such as this face specially designed for reading from TV screens. |
Sao-Paulo-based illustrator who designed Arigatou-Kamisama (2000), Mottley-HorneyHiragana (2000), Morte e Vida Severina (1997). | |
300-font archive located in Brasil. | |
Intellecta Design
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Design company in Brazil run by Paulo W from Recife. They give away interesting free fonts: Renaissance Coiffure (2006), TTF Tattoef (2006), ExperiTypo5 (2006), Lower Metal (2006), Geometric Serif PW (2006), Geometric (2006), Geometric Petras PW (2006), War II Warplanes (2005), Carbono (2005), Times New Vespasian (2005), BoldBold (2005), Vengeance (2005), Doppleganger (2005), Chancelaresca (2005), Cursivo Saxonio (2005), Gotische Minuskel 1269 (2005: a Kanzlei Schrift after Dekan Hermann zu Soest, 1269) and Guto Lacaz (2005, dingbats). Alternate URL. Commercial fonts sold at MyFonts: Deutsche Poster (2006), FatFontGrotesk (2006), GansIbarra (2006), Gras Vibert (2006, a 4-style didone family), Orchis (2006, an art deco family by Iza W), Rough Fleurons (2006), TTF TATTOEF III (2006), Dovtrina Christam 1622 (authentic old manuscript face), Caslon2000, Experitypo 4, Stairway to Heaven, Copperplate PW, Dings PW, Roger Dean, Portugues Arcaico, Gliphs PW, Luxeuil, Watchtower Bible 1965, Remington PW (old typewriter face), Olivetti Linea (old typewriter face), Gabinete Portugues (11 fonts), Elara, Xilografuras (dingbats), Beta, Alta, Paleolitica Nacional, Shakespeare Studs, Copperplate collection (5 fonts), Easy Calig, Wine, Ampersamp, James Poem, Fin Fraktur, Gotische Bouffard, Heimat RGS, Leal Conselheiro, Kurrent Kupertisch, Haeckel Enygma, Caslon B, Iza B, Of, Pirates (dingbats), Geodec (2006, baroque caps), Geodec Minuskel (2006), Geodec Spyral (2006), GeodecBruceOrnamented6 (2006, after a sample from the Bruce Type Foundry). Alternate URL. |
Brazilian photoblog site, where original fonts such as Nantronte (2005), Velvet Illusions (2005), Vila Morena (2006), Johnyokonysm (2005), As pedras da Belle Otero (2006, an artsy pixel font) and Marela (2005) may be found. Alternate URL. | |
Brazilian designer who created Orchis (2006, Intellecta Design), an art deco famliy in sthe style of Broadway. | |
James Eduardo Dudi |
Curitiba-based Brazilian designer of the liquid face Setor (2004), Wcom, the pixel face Cube (2004), the Cyrillic display face Poka (2004), and the futuristic DNA (2004). |
Brazilian type designer who works at Tipos do aCaso. Her fonts include the children's handwriting font Toinho, designed with Renata Faccenda. | |
Joceanny Lima |
Brazilian ex-student of UFPE, b. 1981, who created the typeface Tipofilme at Tipos do aCASO (2005). From Paraibo, she works now as a designer. |
José Fabio |
Brazilian codesigner with Melissa Trigueiro, Ricardo, George Vinícios and Paula Robalinha of the experimental typeface Geometrica (2005, Tipos do aCASO). |
Brazilian designer of the geographical symbol font Sigmoda. | |
Just in Type (was: Tipomovel)
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Just in Type (ex-Tipomovel) is a Brazilian foundry run by Tony de Marco in Sao Paulo. Tony de Marco was an illustrator for Folha de S. Paulo, 1987-1994. He co-edits Tupigrafia with Claudio Rocha Franco. As a type designer, he created over 50 faces for the newspaper Noticias Populares, for America Online, and the magazines Moderna, Saraiva, FTD and Atica. Free fonts at the Tipomovel site (Mac only!): Ariana, Beabá, Bloco, CyberComix, Cyber Rounded, Cyber-Zinha, Digital Typewriter, Egly (my favorite--a Bodoni with curly serifs), Futura Vítima, Futura Vítima Bold, Futura Vítima Extra Bold, Games, Genoveva, Helvetica Backlight, Illinoise, Macmania Bold, Neurastenic, Notícias Populares, Oficina Bold, Pin ups, Pixel, Pravda, Sequestro, Simbolo, Splash, Stalin, Sumô, Super Braille (created for the Dorina Nowill Foundation), Times Change, Tipografia, Toxic Bodoni, Web Power, Zine. Samba LT (2003, Linotype, designed with Caio de Marco; this art deco face was inspired by the lettering art of J. Carlos, a Brazilian illustrator during the early 20th century) won an award at the Linotype International Type Design Contest 2003. It is based on the lettering art of J. Carlos, a Brazilian illustrator during the early 20th century. Tony de Marco was at one point illustrator for the Folha de Sao Paulo. In 2005, Tony and Caio de Marco set up Just in Type and started selling their fonts via MyFonts. Offerings there include Drop It (2005, dot matrix) and Illinoise (2005, techno). |
Kboco |
Brazilian codesigner with Buggy, Bosco and Plínio Uchoa Moreira of the dingbat typeface Manguebat 4 (2005, Tipos do aCASO). |
Brazilian type designer who studied at UFPE in Recife. Aka "Buggy". He made Cordel, the bitmap font Disquete, Oxe, Palm, Stone (a rune face), Ferro de Boi and Regua at Tipos do aCaso. He created the Manguebat dingat series there, together with some others. | |
Leandro Nogueira |
Brazilian typographer based in Sao Paulo, who designed Nabirinto, an experimental typeface. |
Leonardo Rosa Borges |
Brazilian codesigner with Anderson Kleber, Fábio Henrique and Carlos Santos of the calligraphic typeface Amor e Odio (2005, Tipos do aCASO). |
Brazilian designer from Sao Paulo who created the typefaces Cacografia, Caligrafia and OPS at Tipos do aCASO (2005). | |
Discussion list on type and calligraphy. In Portuguese. List manager: Roberto Marques and Sapien Design. | |
Loïs Lancaster (aka Ronceveaux) is the Brazilian designer of the nice revolutionary graffiti face Puteiro Anarquista (2003) and of Doideira New Wave (2003). | |
Recife-based designer in Brazil, who made the dingbat font 3x4 at Tipos do aCaso. | |
Luciana Medeiros |
Brazilian codesigner with Daniel Lopes, Maurício Nunes, Daniel Pinheiro, Nara Rocha and Virgulino Melo of the typeface Sodoma (2005, Tipos do aCASO). |
Sao Paulo-based Brazilian graphic designer (since 1981) and type designer who designed Aknathon (1994) and Cardehal (1998). He also made Ghentileza Original, a sign post font used by the prophet Gentileza, the sans serif Kashemira and Atrophia, a minimalist font. He designed Thanis, a text family for the magazine ADG. | |
Brazilian designer who runs Assys Technologies. He created the pointillist typeface Assys (2004). | |
Brazilian designer (b. 1983) who lives in Santa Rita do Sapucaí, Minas Gerais. Home page. Creator of the curly handwriting font Dirty Lady (2005). | |
Brazilian designer of (dot matrix) typefaces that mimic the lettering on some HP devices: HP-82143A-CharSet-4, HP-82240-ECMA94-CharSet, HP-82240-ROMAN8-CharSet, HP-Classic-LED-Set, HP-DotMatrix-1-Menu, HP-DotMatrix-1, HP-DotMatrix-2, HP-DotMatrix-3, HP-Platinum-LCD, HP-Voyager-Character-Set, HP10BII-CharSet-1, HP10BII-KeySet-2, HP30S, HP30S_7, HP33S-CharSet-3, HP41-Character-Set-Xtended, HP41-Character-Set, HP42SCharSet-3, HP71BCharSet-1, HP9S-CharSet, KeySet-4, HP42SCharSet 3 (char42s.ttf), HP 82240 ROMAN8 CharSet (char82240_R.ttf), HP 82240 ECMA94 CharSet (char82240_E.ttf), HP 82143A CharSet 4 (char82143_E.ttf). Alternate URL. Most fonts are dated 2004. | |
Brazilian designer (b. 1985) of Thereza (2006, a beautiful handprinted display face) while she was at PUC in Rio. Alternate URL. | |
Brazilian designer from Recife who makes type at Tipos do aCaso. | |
Designer of Metalbitt Manetrix (2003), a white on black face. Marcelo (b. 1982) lives in Curitiba, Brasil. | |
Brazilian graphic designer and type designer who works at Tipos do aCaso. His fonts include Celo Bold. | |
Typographer from Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) who won third prize at the Tipografia Brasilis in the dingbat category, 2001, with his "Agli Feices" (read: ugly faces). | |
Marconi G. Lima |
Designer from Macapá in Brazil, who made the Pétala Sans typeface (2003). See also here (2004). |
Brazilian type designer who works at Tipos do aCaso. His fonts include Estruturas, Cafeina, Poracaso, and Quadra (pixel font). Residing in Recife, he was educated at UFPE. | |
Marcos Mello |
Graphic designer. Professor of typography and design at the Anhembi-Morumbi University. Founder of the Oficina Tipográfica Sao Paulo. |
Typographer from Sao Paulo (Brazil) who showed his De Veras Cartoon font at the Tipografia Brasilis 2. | |
Brazilian type designer, who graduated from UFPE in Recife in 2000. She works in a foundry in Pernambuco, Tipos do aCASO. | |
Marina Pontual |
Brazilian student at UFPE from Recife who created the typeface Tipofilme at Tipos do aCASO (2005). |
Brazilian nature photographer. Designer of Crazy Circles (2005, handprinted). Home page. | |
Maurício Nunes |
Brazilian codesigner with Daniel Lopes, Luciana Medeiros, Daniel Pinheiro, Nara Rocha and Virgulino Melo of the typeface Sodoma (2005, Tipos do aCASO). |
Melissa Trigueiro |
Brazilian codesigner with José Fabio, Ricardo, George Vinícios and Paula Robalinha of the experimental typeface Geometrica (2005, Tipos do aCASO). |
Brazilian type designer from Recife who works at Tipos do aCaso. His fonts include the great experimental font Arqueo, Bolha, Xilot and Snake. | |
Milena Thé |
Brazilian student at UFPE from Recife who created the typeface Tipofilme at Tipos do aCASO (2005). |
Misprinted Type
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Misprinted Type offers free old typewriter and related fonts designed by Eduardo Recife (graphic design student from Belo Horizonte, Brazil): Mosh (2004), Trashold (2004), Great Circus (2004, a five-weight calligraphic decorative family), Pastelaria, Downcome (2002), DIESEL, DirtyEgo, Mialgia, OverBored, PrintError, RecifeDings, ThirdWorldBuzz, Besign, HorsePuke, Lhabia, MemoryLapses, misprintedtype, NoMoreTypewriters, PrintFuck151, Selfish (2001), Misproject, Porcelain, Rochester (old typewriter), NailScratch, Astonished, Broken15, DisgustingBehavior, Pastelaria, Guilty. Earlier versions of this site can be found at TypOasis. Designed NeasdenPIP with Steve Smith (2001). Many of his fonts are also here and here. Carimbo (2003) and the beautiful Nars are commercial fonts. At Visuelle Orgasmus, we find Superphunky, Superload and Superaircraft, all made in 2001. |
Gifs with Disney charcters and letters. All by Thais Fonseca from Brazil. | |
Nara Rocha |
Brazilian codesigner with Daniel Lopes, Maurício Nunes, Luciana Medeiros, Daniel Pinheiro and Virgulino Melo of the typeface Sodoma (2005, Tipos do aCASO). |
Brazilian archive with 2000+ fonts. Dingbat subarchive. Barcode subarchive. | |
Nicole Sigaud (Humanoid Exotik Designs) is the designer of ANACOM (1997-2002), a font consisting of quarter circles, quarter negative circles and halved squares. This is used in the ANACOM project in which tilings and patterns are described in a simple mathematical manner. The idea is fill position (x,y) of a 2d grid with character/glyph f(x,y) where f is any function. Another proposal is to define a certain order of a path on the grid, and fill the path based on the repetition of a given finite sequence of glyphs. | |
Brazilian site with ten fonts, including the BerlinSansFB family, OldEnglishTextMT and LucidaHandwriting-Italic. | |
Nu-des
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Nu-des is a Brazilian foundry located in Rio that is involved in visual identity. They are experimenting with type. Its main designer, Billy Bacon created the scribbly font Pasmado (1996) and Marola (1996). In 1997, ghe created the foundry Subvertaipe. Professor at PUC-Rio and at Kabum! Escola de Artes e Tecnologia. |
Nuke Type
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Nuke Type is a Brazilian foundry located in Rio and run by Leo Eyer. |
Octavio Cariello (b. Recife, Brasil, 1963). He created some free and commercial fonts: Rizzo, Della Strada, Calil, AvPaulista, Dumonde, Dozo, Momentum, Yupanko, Pagador, Strega, Graphypem, Alaxyas, Sagarana, Hattia, Almanaque, Ikestrips, Kidturbo, Podunk. Many of his fonts have Cyrillic letters in addition to Latin letters. | |
Omine Type
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Eduardo Omine is the Sao Paulo-based Brazilian designer (b. Sao Paulo, 1981, student of Vicente Gil and Priscila Farias) of Literal Sans, Literal Bitmap, Lira Bitmap (2003), Lira Sans (2002, 4 weights), Prompt (pixel font), Gotische (2004, blackletter), and the display font Maest (2003; see also here). He graduated from the School of Architecture and Urbanism, Sao Paulo University (FAUUSP) in 2002. Linotype page. Beret (2003, a sans family with some flares, published at Linotype) won an award at the Linotype International Type Design Contest 2003. An architect/designer, he founded Omine Type in 2004. The following faces can now be bought at MyFonts: Bunker (stencil), Gotica Lumina (blackletter), Maest (a straight-lined script face). In progress: Epistle, Lalo. |
Brazilian designer of caps fonts, dingbats, Celtic lettering fonts and some handprinted alphabets, all done in 2002-2003: CapitularFloral, CapitularMoldurada, Formasgeometricas2, Formasgermetricas1, Personalidades1, PincelCaps, Pincel2Plain, Simbolos1, Sports1, CapitularMoldurada2, FolhasCaps, Ramo2Caps, RamoCaps, RebuscadaCaps, RetaCaps. | |
Paula Robalinha |
Brazilian codesigner with José Fabio, Melissa Trigueiro, Ricardo and George Vinícios of the experimental typeface Geometrica (2005, Tipos do aCASO). |
Brazilian designer of Tengwar v.3, v.4 and v.5 (1994). Alternate URL. See also here. | |
Brazilian designer of Moloko (2005), Parla (2005), Broken (2005), Chinela Brush (2005) and Freakomix (2005). Alternate URL. | |
Brazilian scientist who created the free font Fornida (2006). | |
Brazilian truetype font archive. Contains about ten Indian language fonts. | |
Plínio Uchoa Moreira |
Brazilian codesigner with Buggy of the dingbat typeface Manguebat 1 (2005, Tipos do aCASO). He codesigned Manguebat 4 (2005) with Kboco, Bosco and Buggy. |
Brazilian [T-26] designer of Cryptocomix10, LowTech, Quadrada, and Nova Regular (a text family started in 2002). She also designed Disneybats, Ruraldings and Juca. Author of "Tipografia Digital" (2AB, 1998). MyFonts page. She has a doctorate in communication from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo and is affiliated with the foundry Tipos do acaso. Graphic designer as well as design and typography professor at PUC Sao Paulo. Editor of the book "Fontes digitais brasileiras: de 1989 a 2001" (Sao Paulo: ADGBrasil/Rosari). Author of "Tipografia digital: o impacto das novas tecnologias" (2AB Editora). | |
Promodesign
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Brazilian graphic design company of Crystian Cruz in Sao Paulo. His award winning graffiti font Brasilero (2001: first prize at the Tipografia Brasilis in display typography 2001) can be freely downloaded. Crystian Cruz and Beto Shibata used to run the Tipos Maléficos foundry. >Alternate URL. |
Brazilian archive with 160 fonts. | |
Rafael Ferreira Design
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Great handwriting font Falhado by Rafael Peixoto Ferreira from Campinas (Brazil). Alternate download site. |
Graphic designer from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Creator of Neder Pixeleite (2005), a pixel face. Creator of Neder Pixeleite (2005), a free pixel face. Pixeleite was published with T-26 in 2005. | |
Brazilian type designer who works at Tipos do aCaso. Her fonts include the children's handwriting font Toinho, designed with Joana Amador. | |
Brazilian designer at AOA Design. Creator of the (free) handwriting font Denise Sans. Alternate URL. | |
Typographer from Sao Paulo (Brazil) who won first prize at the Tipografia Brasilis in the dingbat category, 2001, with his "Skate". | |
Ricardo |
Brazilian codesigner with José Fabio, Melissa Trigueiro, George Vinícios and Paula Robalinha of the experimental typeface Geometrica (2005, Tipos do aCASO). |
Brazilian designer (b. Curitiba, 1981) who joined estudioCrop in 2005. He created the five-weight (slightly grungy) calligraphic family Postuma (2005). | |
Brazilian designer of the nice outline font Bernardino (1999). Works at Megaart Design. Alterante URL. Yet another URL. | |
Brazilian graphic designer who also does consulting in the field of networking and Internet, and is a part-time teacher at the ESDI, Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial, in Rio de Janeiro (which is also the school where he studied). His foundry will come on-line soon. He was commissioned to design Houaiss (2002) for the Portugese dictionary by that name. He also designed V2000, Tyson (2003), and Karole (2003). | |
Designer with Lula Rocha at Sugiro Design in Brazil of Skova (1999). | |
Rodrigo Pires |
Brazilian type designer from Recife who works at Tipos do aCaso. His fonts include Chango, Estuque (grunge), Quadrinaits and Rano Light (very experimental). |
Rio-based graphic designer, who created this sans family (2004). | |
Brasilia-based designer of the experimental face Goteira (2006). | |
Designer of the Tengwar font Tencele Latinwa (2004, Mans Björkman's Tengwar Parmaite), Elfetica (2004, based on Max Miedinger's Helvetica), and Tengwar Hereno (2004, a completion of Paulo A. otto's 1994 font Tengwar 04). He also made the rune font Gondolinic (2003). | |
Brazilian illustrator, artist and type designer, who made the beautiful Leonardo desde Vinci display font (2000). | |
Rubinei Abreu |
Sao Paulo-based designer of the liquid display face Abreus RD (2004). |
Brazilian graphic designer and occasional type designer. | |
Brazilian designer of the alphading font Medalhao (2000) under the label Sandra-Nat. | |
Sela Preta
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Sela Preta is a Brazilian foundry located in Rio and run by Daniel Morena. |
Brazilian graphic designer who made the font family Mack for Universidade Mackenzie. Other fonts: Tipogranfome (graffiti lettering) and Tipogranfina. | |
Soteropolitypes
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Brazilain outfit run by Ian Sampaio from Sao Paulo. |
Subvertaipe
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Brazilian foundry located in Rio set up in 1997 by Billy Bacon. |
Sugiro Design (was Rocha Design)
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Brazilian foundry of Lula Rocha which evolved from Rocha Design in 2003. Lula Rocha designed the freeware typefaces Enigmaquatro (1999, disturbed pixel font), Hellvetikacinquenta (1999, gothic) and Skova (1999, with Rodrigo Bleque, LED influences). |
Tatiana Antunes Tavares |
Brazilian designer of the black titling face Cybernetica Type (2002) while she was a student in Sao Paulo at Senac de Comunicações e Artes. |
Brazilian woman from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, who is working on this modular experimental face (2006). | |
The Brazilian font scene explained in Portuguese. By graphic designer Paulo Moretto, and originally published in PROJETODESIGN vol. 255 in May 2001. | |
Original fonts from Brazil: 04b03rev (a revision of Yuji Oshimoto's 04b03 pixel font), Amod, ACMEExplosiveREV (a revision of a Blambot font), BayaoHandNormal, Bithand1, DroughNormal, FightDurdenNormal, Serta1, matrix, Mississipiblues. | |
Sao Paulo-based designer at T26 of Genu, Motus and GenStencil (2000). | |
Tipoforme
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Matheus Barbosa (Tipoforme) is a graphic designer in Campina Grande, Brazil. He is working on the sans face Nata Sans (2004). His fonts Nata Sans and Parahybe also appeared at Tipos do aCaso. |
Awards at the Tipografia Brasilis competition in 2001 in display typography: first prize Brasilero (by Crystian Cruz), second prize Buril (by Cassiano Saldanha), third prize Pero Vaz (by Ericson Straub). In the dingbat category we have: first prize Renato Pacicco Lofti with Skate, second prize Cassiano Saldanha with Street, third prize Marcelo Martinez with Agli Feices. | |
Exhibition of type in Sao Paulo, March 27-April 16, 2001. And the main Brazilian type conference. Report. | |
Conference and exposition in Brazil held in November 2002. Distinguished speakers include Bruno Maag, David Berlow, and Rubén Fontana. | |
Classification of typefaces. Great lists! | |
Tipograma Fontes
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Tipograma Fontes is the Sao-Paulo based foundry of Marcio Shimabukuro, who cofounded Tipocracia: Estado Tipografico with Henrique Nardi. Shimabukuro designed Blurdoni, Boggy, Cego, Heresia, Omelete, Pins, Pixal, Sound and Zoin. |
Tipopotamo Fontes
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Tipopotamo Fontes is a Brazilian foundry (also called Elesbao e Haroldinho) offering 27 free fonts. Designers: Claudio Reston, José Bessa, Fabio Eis. Fonts: AlmanaqueItalic, AlmanaqueNormal, AlmanaqueOutlineItalic, AlmanaqueOutline, AMassaFalida1, AMassaFalida2, AngularMedium, BacanaMesmoMedium, BacanaMedium, BlendadaNormal, BrailleSerif, BrasilisBold, Buchada (handwriting), Cadela (handwriting), CassulaDingbats (little men), CassulaTypeface (handwriting), Cistema (pixel font), EmboliaLunar (curly letters), LatrinaBlack, MobralMedium, NervosaNormal (handwriting), OdaraSemiBold (geometric experimental), SambambersBold, Supersonica, Surraundi (squarish letters), TechnocrataItalic, TechnocrataNormal. All fonts made in 1999-2001. Located in Rio. |
Brazilian foundry located in Pernambuco. Some designers:
Email to mail@tiposdoacaso.com.br | |
Brazilian type and calligraphy magazine edited by Claudia Rocha Franco and Tony de Marco. Great list of links to Brazilian typographers. Based in Sao Paulo. There is an English addendum. Order here. | |
Brazilian author of "A revoluçao dos tipos". | |
Virgulino Melo |
Brazilian codesigner with Daniel Lopes, Maurício Nunes, Luciana Medeiros, Daniel Pinheiro and Nara Rocha of the typeface Sodoma (2005, Tipos do aCASO). |
Brazilian graphic artist who studies at the KABK in Rotterdam, 2004-2005. His typefaces include Den Dekker (2006), and the roundish liquid creations such as Virgem, Rejane, Liquida and Dizain. No downloads. | |
Brazilian eighth grader, who made Yuri Manimals (free font) at Tipos do aCaso. | |