font_designer: Dino dos Santos

Boldina

Boldina font

Boldina consists of 18 fonts with a lot of personality. This is a font to be mixed. That’s its purpose and that’s why it’s designed as one single weight in so many different styles....

Albo

Albo font

Albo is part of a new set of typefaces inspired in ancient documents from Portuguese 15th and 16th century books. Based on a document from Afonso d’Alboquerque (Goa, July, 1514), Albo was designed to...

Cultura

Cultura font

I started designing Cultura in 2003 for a book about the city of Porto, Portugal. It was supposed to be a typeface only to use in that book and only in Regular and Italic,...

Nerva

Nerva font

This is the kind of serif/sans serif typefaces that I always liked so much (like Optima by Mr. Herman Zapf that was always a great inspiration to me). Complete horizontal baseline with curve vertical...

Pluma

Pluma font

This typeface was inspired in the amazing typographic work of Manoel de Andrade de Figueiredo that was published in 1722, named “Nova Escola para Aprender a Ler, Escrever e Contar, offerecida ‡ Augusta Magestade...

Esta

Esta font

Capsa

Capsa font

Capsa is a typeface designed for use in books. Although inspired by Gros Romain Ordinaire and Saint Augustin Gros Oeil from the Type Specimens of Claude Lamesle, this typeface does not intend to be...

Prelo

Prelo font

Prelo was designed to be a neutral, highly readable typeface for identity, editorial and information design. With nine weights and nine true italics from Hairline to Black, Prelo is a workhorse typeface full of...

Prelo Condensed

Prelo Condensed font

Prelo was designed to be a neutral, highly readable typeface, for identity, editorial and information design. With nine weights and nine true italics, from Hairline to Black, Prelo is a workhorse typeface, full of...

Prelo Slab

Prelo Slab font

Prelo Slab is the serif companion to Prelo, a neutral, highly readable typeface, for identity, editorial and information design. With nine weights and nine italics, from Hairline to Black, Prelo Slab is a workhorse...