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Casiopea is a typeface with a pure and geometric design, it has straight and well defined lines. It can be used as a corporate typeface but also in signage systems, it is a little narrow and has a wide aperture to improve legibility. Casiopea has 494 glyphs and six weights: thin, light, regular, semibold, bold and ultra; the ultra weight is free. Casiopea supports the following encondings:

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¶ Our work will be featured in Tipos Latinos 2010; Diego Sanz's Quincha is the first and the only (so far) peruvian typeface selected in this Latinamerican Biennial, such a great success for him and for all of us; Manolo Guerrero's Optica received a certificate of excellence, it also was awarded by the TDC and nominated to the Designpreis 2010; Miniblock could not be ignored with its prehispanic

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¶ This is Quincha, a strong typeface, inspired in the Incan civilization, where every piece fits perfectly with the next. Taking a square as a basis, and counting with 10 stylistic alternates and more than 700 contextual alternates, Quincha offers a wide scope of posibilities for those designers looking for solid texts and with a lasting character. Quincha, first commercial typeface by

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¶ Lucecita Maniac has been released, this is a non kerned version of Lucecita with adjustments in both sidebearings to match the little dots. It is available at MyFonts as a pack which includes the background and the foreground, it has also support for central european languages. ¶ Lucecita Maniac está a la venta en MyFonts, a diferencia de Lucecita Regular, la versión Maniac no tiene kernings

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¶ Miniblock is our new type release designed by Manolo Guerrero. This labyrinthic font has an experimental approach, as usual in typefaces of this maniac designer ;) The counters are interesting, specially in the leading because they form complex patterns. You can purchase Miniblock at MyFonts. ¶ Miniblock es la nueva tipografía diseñada por Manolo Guerrero. Esta tipografía de estilo de

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¶ This is Lucecita, our most recent release based in led screens. It is a funny techno typeface for titles, it can also be used in low resolution screens. You can purchase it at MyFonts with a 50% off during september ;) ¶ Les presento a Lucecita, una tipografía basada en pantalas de leds. Es divertida y tecnológica, pensada para su utilización en títulos, así como en pantallas con baja

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¶ Optica has finally been released. Designed by my friend Manolo Guerrero to pay homage to the op art by colombian artist Omar Rayo. Described as an insane typeface design and awarded by the TDC, this typeface is ideal for titles and recommended for sizes above 100 pt. You can purchase it at My Fonts with a special offer during september. ¶ Optica finalmente ha sido publicada. Diseñada por mi

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¶ This is the lettering I did yesterday for the foundry, the idea had been around me for weeks or months, so, it was easy to draw the letters following my rough sketches. I also would like to tell you that the beta version of the website is running since yesterday, there is still a lot of work to do. As you can see, the word beta is set in the same typeface that the lettering in the previous

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A lettering which is becoming a typeface. I did it for a competition at Type for you

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We are back again, I'm fed up of wordpress, I just don't like it and decided to keep this blog. This is or will be the header of Sexytype, as you can see it has a latin spirit, soft but strong.

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Cocijotype is proud to introduce Barrilito, a titling typeface based in linoleum & wood engraving with a lot of ligatures and contextual alternates, ideal for impressive titles, or even textures where the the form is more important than readability, something that Gerard Blanchard calls typovision, you can purchase it at MyFonts.

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Some months ago I wanted lo learn python programming, & I saw Drawbot, an application to learn python scripting, I had never made a graphic with scripts, it is very interesting. This is the script I did to start, it is just incredible to make this kind of things. size(400, 400) fill(0, 1, 0, .7) #red, green, blue and alpha channel rect(0, 0, 400, 400) fill(1, 1, 0, .5) #font color font("

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A better place to talk about typography.

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It's supposed that this blog is about typography, maybe this post is a little out of the topic.When I knew that the python language existed I began to look for some information about it & found Drawbot an application, developed by Just van Rossum, to begin to learn how to program in python. Looking up for more information I found some excercises from the students fo Type&Media in The Hague and

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5 pts has arrived, I bought it for the editorial design, look at those margins, they have good space, haven't they?The cover is very interesting.Type basics are good too:Designing type is like driving a car. If you drive a car, you always take the curve in a natural way. If you draw a curve of a character on paper, this is exactly the same. The curve starts smoothly, never out of a sudden. While

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For a Mexican like me, it has been quite difficult to get involved in the type world, specially because I come from one of the most marginalized counties from my country. That's why for me is a kind of achievement to have this book in my hands, finally I'm reading this interesting work by Gerrit Noordzij. Set in Ruse from TEFF.I like the beggining very much:A letter is two shapes, one light, one

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I did this lettering for a poster about women rights in Jalapa de Díaz, Oaxaca. I took as a reference Burgues Script but I wanted something unique. So I decided to play with curves and obtained this.

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This is Linotype Gingko, I saw it two weeks ago in the Linotype newsletter & I liked it so much. It has some kind of purity, a generous aperture and a dutch taste, very nice letterforms by Alex Rütten, I feel some self-assure in this typeface, I really liked it, it reminds me Dolly, by Underware.

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Some days ago I decided to design a brand for my workgroup, they are mostly interested in architecture and enginering (I am the exception because I'm a graphic designer), the group's name is Diseño Urbano & Arquitectónico, I had been thinking about this brand for two months, so when I started to sketch the letters it was quite natural to approach to the result. I tried to make reference to

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For those type lovers & designers who are obsessed with letterforms,the TDC of New York has published the Call for entries for the TDC2 2009, you have until december 19th to send your work. It would be a proud to see more latinoamerican works there, I have seen the work of many good typedesigners from Chili, Argentina, Colombia and Mexico. One of the judges will be Gabriel Martínez Meave,

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This is Corbel, it comes to you for free with Windows Vista. The designer Jeremy Tankard did great work with this typeface, notice the large apeture which makes funtion the typeface perfectly at small sizes, the short ascenders permit a larger x height.Elzevirian numbers are a special feature. Another interesting things are the italic pararagraph and section glyphs, a real pleasure to view them.

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I decided to change the language of my blog because I have a poor response from readers, no more spanish in posts, from now and so it will be written in english. So welcome to the sexytype!

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Thanks to my friend Ale Paul, now Barricada is available for sale at myFonts as part of Sudtipos collection, it has OpenType features and a lot of flavor!

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Seleccionada en Tipos Latinos 2008, Barricada es una tipografía para títulos, llena de sabor, comencé a desarrollarla inspirado en los conflictos sociales que sucedieron en Oaxaca, la voz del pueblo fluía en la radio, la televisión y en las paredes; la gente se sentía cansada de tanto robo e injusticia; entonces pensé en una tipografía sólida para protestar, resistente a granaderos, levantones,

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Hace algunas semanas se llevó a cabo la Bienal Latinoamericana de Tipografía Tipos Latinos 2008 en Veracruz, el evento más importante de tipografía a nivel latinoamérica que reúne el trabajo de tipógrafos de la región. En su tercera edición Tipos Latinos fue algo que me dejó una grata experiencia. Este evento incluyó algunos talleres, un coloquio y conferencias, lo más interesante que pude ver

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Siempre he soñado con diseñar un disco para Café Tacvba, es un grupo que siempre me ha gustado, tanto por su música como por el diseño de sus discos, bastante experimental. No sé si llegue a ocurrir, pero mientras tanto he diseñado el frente y la vuelta para un disco de Orange Sunshine, grupo de rock holandés, nada de sonidos suaves, esto es rock de verdad, pura batería. Para ello el estudio

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El sexytype continúa, como podrán darse cuenta, pero ahora viene algo muy interesante además, se trata de Typomachin, la primera fundición tipográfica digital oaxaqueña, donde sacaremos trabajo hecho con sabor y pasión. Siempre quise realizar algo diferente en mi lugar de origen, he pensado que tengo todos los elementos necesarios para generar una propuesta auténtica y compartirla con el mundo,

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Cuánto tiempo sin escribir; este post es para que vean Euroface, una tipografía desarrollada entre 1994 y 1999 para señales de carreteras, parece hecha con un bote de mostaza para hotdogs, lo se, pero es más legible pasando en automóvil a 100 km por hora que Univers o la querida y odiada Helvetica, hay opiniones de diseñadores de primer nivel que la ven como algo totalmente inútil, como la

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Esta es la historia del proyecto del curso de diseño de tipografías que estoy tomando en el CEAD.De entrada, hace tiempo que he tenido la curiosidad, inquietud si quieren, de diseñar una tipografía para ser utilizada en Oaxaca, mi ciudad, pues he visto muchas publicaciones, libros, gacetas, que tristemente, están compuestos con arial; ante esta oscura realidad una chispa crítica surgió: ¿por qué

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Ante la gran cantidad de cosas que he estado aprendiendo en el curso de diseño de tipografías con Alejandro Lo Celso, las ganas de escribir sobre las ponencias me mueven redactar este texto. Ayer fue la sesión número seis, tres meses ya de haber empezado y cada día es más intenso, Leonardo Vazquez fue el maestro invitado; para aquellos que están interesados en la señalética, les caerá muy bien

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Esto sucedió en mayo de 2006, durante la Segunda Bienal Letras Latinas. En la imagen de arriba, Francisco Calles (derecha) presentando a Alejandro.La conferencia que cerró la Bienal Letras Latinas se titulaba Perfección, imperfección o todo lo contrario y fue impartida por Alejandro Lo Celso, parecía que estuviera hablando de la cosa más sencilla; es una persona muy preparada en el aspecto

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Pues bien, les sorprendera que después de algún rato con el anterior blog ya esté empezando con este. Es una necesidad de renovación, a lo mejor es producto de un crecimiento y lo veo como cuando una serpiente crece y tiene que cambiar de piel. En este blog trataré de hablar de tipografía, caligrafía y letras, sólo de eso. Siéntete con la libertad de opinar, eso es lo que enriquece la vida, la

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