font_designer: Ramiro Espinoza

Laski Sans

Laski Sans font

In 2014 Paula Mastrangelo presented her first type family, Laski Slab. Over the last year, Ramiro Espinoza worked to expand the system and the outcome was Laski Sans, a refined humanistic sans addressing many...

Bellucci

Bellucci font

Bellucci is the redesign of Ramiro Espinoza’s first typeface, Mabella. Being not happy with the original design, he decided to redraw it completely and add 3 new weights. Bellucci is a constructivist, modular, compressed...

Tomate

Tomate font

Tomate started in 2006 as a brush lettering exercise for a poster and was later used for the ReType identity. In 2008 its author decided to turn it into a super fat typeface suitable...

Lavigne

Lavigne font

Lavigne is a type family that is aimed at publications such as interior design and women’s magazines—anywhere a touch of distinction is desired. In the opinion of its designer, glossy magazines have been boring...

Kurversbrug

Kurversbrug font

Kurversbrug is a revival of the famous letters appearing on Amsterdam’s bridges. The letters were probably designed by Anton Kurvers (b. Den Haag, 23 July 1889; d. Amsterdam, 29 January 1940). Although many corrections...

Winco

Winco font

Winco family can be labelled a humanist sans-serif, but in spirit it is more closely related to that rather rare typeface category called ‘glyphic’ or ‘incise’. While conceiving Winco, Ramiro Espinoza studied the work...

Krul

Krul font

‘Krul’ is a typographic interpretation of the lettering style created by Dutch letter painter Jan Willem Joseph Visser at the end of the 1940s, which decorated the traditional brown bars of Amsterdam. In the...

Dulcinea

Dulcinea font

Dulcinea is the title of Ramiro Espinoza’s in-depth look at Spanish Baroque calligraphy’s most extreme tendencies, and especially at some of those produced by the writing masters Pedro Díaz Morante and Juan Claudio Aznar...

Medusa

Medusa font

Beautiful is Ramiro Espinoza’s homage to 19th Century Catalonian pointed pen calligraphy. The starting-off point in the creation of the typeface was an analysis of the historical models of formal English handwriting and the...

Laski Slab

Laski Slab font

“Laski Slab is a comprehensive suite of 20 fonts conceived for editorial purposes. The type family was designed by Paula Mastrangelo, an Art Director with extensive experience in editorial design specialized in corporate communication....