font_designer: Joan Barjau

Zubizarreta

Zubizarreta font

In contrast to the traditional process, Zubizarreta was created with the technique of emptying ink out to shape the letterforms. Oddly enough, the result is a type reminiscent of Basque.

Memimas

Memimas font

The Memimas family was commissioned in 1991 by the publisher Barcanova, for a digital version of their model for learning how to write. Memimas has two ductus versions for the capitals and a complete...

Analfabeto

Analfabeto font

The Brazilian illustrator, Flavio Morais, devised this amusing display alphabet to have his own font for his former website. We helped to digitalize it and encouraged him to complete it with a series of...

Sniff

Sniff font

Joan Barjau used the pseudonym “Sniff” while working as a cartoonist for the Spanish satirical magazine “El Papus”, and Sniff is also the typeface based on the style of lettering he used for the balloons....

Tschicholina

Tschicholina font

Tschicholina is inspired by a project by Jan Tschichold dating back to 1929. It is a unicase “universal” font which has always been considered to have very little future; this is why we have...

Iva

Iva font

Ivà by Joan Barjau / OpenType, 2 styles.   Ivà, a very personal script based on the handwriting of the cartoonist called Ramón Tosas “Ivà, digitised by Joan Barjau in two plain weights. These...

Talqual

Talqual font

Sometimes work done in a rush survives and gets better and better. This is the case of Talqual, a Joan Barjau handwriting font straight from the strokes made with a Wacom tablet while listening...