Ole is a dingbats mini-family consisting of 2 type styles: Ole Flamenco devoted to Flamenco dancing and Ole Torero devoted to bullfighting. Designed in synthetic and vigorous calligraphic traces, a remarkable feature is that...
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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...
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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...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
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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...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
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Hans Helmut Matheis was one of the leading designers of the Ludwig & Mayer typefoundry in Frankfurt, together with Karlgeorg Hoefer and Heinrich Jost and Jakob Erbar before him. His most wellknown type design...