font_designer: José Mendoza y Almeida
Pascal ND
In 1943, Guillermo de Mendoza started drawings for an incised alphabet, a year before his death. His son José used them as an inspiration for his Pascal typeface, for which the origins date back...
Photina MT
As its name implies, Photina was created specifically for phototypesetting, the technology that preceded digital and laser typesetting. Photina was designed by Jose Mendoza y Almeida in 1971 and was the third face made...
Fidelio ND
Fidelio was named after Beethoven’s only opera. It is a chancery italic typeface with swashes that seems to lack a clear systematic organisation: some characters have even more swash versions and some don’t have...
Sully Jonquieres ND
Sully-Jonquières (1980) is Mendoza’s most original calligraphic type design. It started as a commission from Henri Jonquières, a French publisher; the prefix ‘Sully’ was taken from the Hôtel de Sully in Paris, in which...