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...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 27, 2022
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...
by · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 27, 2022
Impressum was created in 1963 by Konrad F. Bauer and Walter Baum for the Bauerschen Gießerei/Intertype and was intended as an alternative to the popular Excelsior of Linotype. Its proportions made it the choice...
by Staff · Published May 26, 2015
· Last modified December 27, 2022
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
· Last modified December 27, 2022
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...