a Falange Studio
[Elvis H. Martuchelli]

Martuchelli (b. 1978) designed the Ingrate condensed sans family in 2005. It can be downloaded here. He lives in Sao Paulo, Brazil. [Google]

A. Karr

Tia Olga (2000) is a free handwriting font by A. Karr (Freemesmo) from Sao Paulo, Brasil. [Google]

Abduzeedo
[Paulo Canabarro]

Abduzeedo is a Brazilian blog about design. Collection of some of the nicest free fonts found on Devian Tart. He also has Friday Fresh Free Fonts #23. The type pages are brought to you by Paulo Canabarro. [Google]

Abracadabra Fonts

Wonderful free fonts collected by Sandra Avoletta. The archive includes the KA-dingbat series by Vytautas Abraitis, some nice WSI fonts such as Carnivale, FairyScrollDisplay (like CurlzMT), Fernando, Frilly, and Cut_n_Paste (forget the overused Ransom, use this one instead!), and a host of other fonts. This is a fun swinging page. [Google]

Adalberto Fontes

Brazilian handwriting font archive. [Google]

Adhemas Batista

Brazilian art director, graphic designer and illustrator based in Los Angeles. Born in 1980 in Sao Paulo. He designed various display typefaces for his projects: Mariana is an experimental face for the Havaianas web site. Cristiane (2005) is a Bank Gothic-inspired sans. Mathews (2005) and Ana Rayssa (2005) are experimental types. Antonio (2005) is a fat rounded sans. Josefa (2005) is a grunge face created for Brahma Bier. Adilson (2005) is a super-fat display face. Rose (2005) and Douglas (2005, also a super-fat display face) were created for Sensorama ID. [Google]

Alex Carvalho

Brazilian type designer who works at Tipos do aCaso. His fonts include Rec Block. [Google]

Alex Heilmair

Sao Paulo-based designer of the organic serif face Thereza (2006). [Google]

Alexandre Suannes

Brazilian graphic designer and type designer who works at OnMedia - ALMAP/BBDO, Brazil, a corporate branding and ad agency. [Google]

Alice Maria Fares Ferreira

Typographer from Brazil who received an honorable mention at the Tipografia Brasilis in the dingbat category, 2001, for her font "Chop". [Google]

Alice Vargas

Salvador-based Brazilian designer of the handwriting face Dez Real (2004). She runs a graphic design and corporate identity studio, Papaya Design. [Google]

All Type

Brazilian type site. Links. Museum. [Google]

Amatraca Design Grafico
[Marcelo Sodre]

Amatraca Design Grafico (Marcelo Sodre) is located in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Alternate URL, where one can download these free faces: Tia Marcia (2009, upright script; almost a ronde), FSM Sans (2005), Zoi Mao (2005, handwriting). [Google]

Ana Cláudia Calliari

Brazilian designer from Curitiba, b. 1988. Creator of the free upright script face Callani (2008). Dafont link. [Google]

Ana Paula Caldas

Brazilian designer in Campos. Her work includes many nice typographic posters. Flickr stream. [Google]

Ana Paula Filipi Putka

Brazilian designer (b. 1984) who created Vidas Secas (2008) and Vidas Secas Dingbats (2008), both desert or western style fonts. [Google]

Anderson Guedes

Brazilian designer of the experimental face Venom (2002) while he was a student in Sao Paulo at Senac de Comunicações e Artes. [Google]

Anderson Kleber

Brazilian codesigner with Fábio Henrique, Leonardo Rosa Borges and Carlos Santos of the calligraphic typeface Amor e Odio (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google]

Anderson Pereira

Santa Catarina, Brazil-based designer (b. 1981) of the black bowl font Biliz Blur (or Blitz) in 2007. Alternate URL. [Google]

Andre Coutinho da Cunha

Graphic designer from Brasilia who is working on this sans (2006) and this serif face (2006). [Google]

André Moraes

Brazilian designer from Recife who makes type at Tipos do aCaso. [Google]

Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain
[Angela Detanico]

Brazilian designers of an architectural dingbat font inspired by Oscar Niemeyer buildings, called Utopia (2006). [Google]

António Carreira

Brazilian designer of Oral-sex, PaintBrush-Draws, Peace-Symbol, Psicadelic, Sex-Machine, Shaking-Bones, Sacha, Demon-Bones, Vaca, Virus, Eraser (2006). Alternate URL. [Google]

Antonio

Brazilian student at UFPE who makes type at Tipos do aCaso. [Google]

Antonio Briano

Brazilian designer of the experimental face Perspective (2002) while he was a student in Sao Paulo at Senac de Comunicações e Artes. [Google]

Ayres Landal

Bazilian graphic designer who lives in Curitiba. Creator of the geometric sans face Gotah (2009). [Google]

Bersa Mendes and Joao Angelim Design

Pernambuco-based company which created the dingbat face Lego System (2007). Alternate URL. [Google]

Beto Loureiro

Graphic designer and visual artist in Rio. Creator of the monoline display face Jung Lu (2009). [Google]

Billy Argel

Brazilian graphic designer and artist who created the following fonts: Reboard (2009), Nachos and TV (2009), Oxidisaster (2009), Helloween (2009), Lemon Day Semibold (2009, a sketch font), Toscazero (2009), Plastic Pill (2008, fat art deco face), Bedspread Assassin (2008), A Bite (2008, grunge), Dirty and Classic (2008, grunge calligraphy), Gasmask (2008, grunge stencil), PANHEAD (2008, grungy Western billboard font), My Turtle (2008), Cubiculo Galery (2008, created for the Cubiculo Gallery in Sao Paulo), Olho de Boi (2007, a great scratchy handwriting font inspired by the first Brazilian postage stamp which was released on August 1, 1843), Skull TS2 (2007, skull dingbats), REBOARD (2007), Hurtmold (2007, rounded octagonal face), PDRPT (2007, grunge), the Soma family (2007, modern stencil), Caatinga (2006, artsy display face), Santos Dumont (2007, handwriting: free at DaFont), Ginga (2008, grunge calligraphic--think award-winning grunge!!!), Wallrider (2008), Black-Oak, TOY_SOLDIERS-Bold (2008, grunge), Abite (2008, grunge), ACIDLABEL (2008), Bulldozer (2008), Cheapstealer (2008), DONOTEXIST (2008), Greenpiloww (2008), HANGUP (2008, 3-d bouncy letters), HYERBA (2008, Far West font), LAZYDAY (2008, handprinted outline caps face), LEDLIGHT (2008), Monbijoux (2008, ornamental), MANABU (2008, futuristic), PEIXEFRITO (2008), Positiv-A (2008), Killed DJ (2008, multiline grunge), Sniper (2008, grunge), Black Oak (2008, smudged face), Outlaw (2009, Western face), Gangland (2009, scratchy brushy face), B Side (2009, vertical stencil). Alternate URL. Another link. [Google]

Blind Fontes (Fé Cega)
[Marcelo Rosauro]

Blind Fontes is a Brazilian foundry located in Rio and run by Marcelo Rosauro. Bad URL. [Google]

blue eighty four (was Portfolio Virtual; or azul84)
[Jose "Zeh" Fernando (Rorshack)]

The Sao Paulo-based type designer Jose (Zeh) Fernando (Rorshack) (b. 1977, Sao Paulo) runs blue eighty four (was Portfolio Virtual; or azul84). Home page. His freeware fonts include the pixel faces Nokia Cellphone FC (2003), Perfect DOS VGA 437 (2002), NokiaCellphone-Small (2001), Pixelzim-3x5 (2000) and Pixelzim-3x5-Bold, as well as Hardmob (2001) and Gaming Channel F Standard. Fonts that were either projected but never finished or deleted include Waris, Lanner, Vicio, Babyscreamer, Catadings, Catalatas, Roundtable, neoTokyo, Hardedge, Ansi Art Elite Down, Ansi Art Elite Up, Skatter, Sutaker. Direct downloads. Another URL. Alternate URL. He wrote The death of the pixel font in 2004. [Google]

Bosco

Brazilian designer from Sao Paulo who created the typefaces Manguebat 3 and 4 (both with "Buggy") at Tipos do aCASO (2005). Educated at UFPE. [Google]

BR Type
[Gustavo Lassala]

Gustavo Lassala is a designer and professor in Sao Paulo, Brazil, who runs BR Type. He has a Master's in Education, Art and Culture History from Mackenzie University and a Bachelor's in Design from Sao Judas University. He created Broxa (2009, a roman brush face), Montada (2008, grunge), Borboleta (2008, butterfly dingbats), Boqueta (2006, a modular sans), Adrenalina SP (2004, based on graffiti tags in Sao Paulo, or pixacaos), Elegante (2006), Sampa (2008, Sao Paulo-themed dingbats) and Flozo (2007, flower dings). Alternate URL. He went commercial in 2007. MyFonts link. [Google]

Brito78

Sao Paulo-based designer of Orin (2009). Studio. [Google]

Bruno "Aedys" Camargo

Brazilian designer of the Avant Garde-inspired Ultravioleta (2008). [Google]

Bruno Facchini

Brazilian graphic designer in Sao Paulo. He created this amazing typographic poster of an eagle. [Google]

Bruno Soares dos Santos

Brazilian, b. 1987. He created the fat handprinted face Muringa (2008). [Google]

BS 2961

Type classification system by the British Standards Institution, dating from 1967:

• Humanist: Centaur, Jenson, Verona, Kennerley.
• Garalde: Stempel Garamond, Garamond, Caslon Old Face, Granjon, Sabon, Bembo.
• Transitional: New Baskerville, Baskerville, Caslon, Fournier, Perpetua.
• Didone: Bodoni, Bauer Bodoni, Torino, Walbaum.
• Mechanistic: Clarendon, Memphis, Rockwell, Lubalin.
• Lineal
  • Lineal Grotesque: Franklin Gothic Demi-Bold, Franklin Gothic, News Gothic, Alternate Gothic.
  • Lineal Neo-Grotesque: Helvetica Light, Akzidenz Grotesk, Folio, Helvetica, Univers.
  • Lineal Geometric: Avant Garde Medium, Avant Garde, Futura, Eurostile, Erbar.
  • Lineal Humanist: Gill Sans, Goudy Sans, Optima.
• Incised: Albertus, Latin, Friz Quadrata.
• Script: Brush Script, Mistral, Park Avenue, Zapf Chancery.
• Manual: Neuland, Broadway, OCR-A, Pritchard.
• Black Letter: Fette Fraktur, Old English, Goudy Text, Wilhelm Klingspor-Schrift.
• Non-Latin.

bytenet.com

Brazilian archive of about 100 fonts. [Google]

Caio de Marco

Sao Paulo-based Brazilian codesigner with Tony de Marco of Samba (2003, Linotype), which won an award at the Linotype International Type Design Contest 2003. It is based on the lettering art of J. Carlos, a Brazilian illustrator during the early 20th century. [Google]

Carambola Fontes
[Guilherme Capilé]

Brazilian foundry is a Brazilian foundry located in Rio and run by Angelo Bottino and Guilherme Capilé. [Google]

Carlos Santos

Brazilian codesigner with Anderson Kleber, Fábio Henrique and Leonardo Rosa Borges of the calligraphic typeface Amor e Odio (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google]

Carpenter Type
[Paulo Roberto Purim]

A Brazilian foundry with an original web page. Run by Paulo Roberto Purim from Curitiba, Parana. His faces are Antarctica (1998), Minimum Wage (dingbats), Commedia, Hill House, Gaffe, Gaffe Bold, Gaffe Family, Gaffe Slender, Nostromo, SK Black (1998), SK Bold, SK Family, SK Regular, and Woodwinds. Short bio. Most fonts around 25 USD. Some demos available. Fonts available at Phil's Fonts. Blumenbach Beta, MinimumWageincomplete. [Google]

Cassiano Saldanha

Typographer from Sao Paulo who won second prize at the Tipografia Brasilis in display typography 2001 with his font Buril. Also second prize in the dingbat category with "Street". He also made Brutus, Typofiction and the shareware font Speedfreek (Fontalicious, 1999). Some of his fonts can be seen here (click on Typo). [Google]

Cassio Costa Sampaio Jr

Brazilian designer of Sampaio's Balloons. [Google]

Chiba Chiba
[Frederico Antunes]

Designer From Porto Alegre, Brazil. At T-26, he published the runic display face Pixo (2007). In 2009, he created the boxy rave and drugs-inspired Fiasco (YouWorkForThem) and the experimental Cabulosa (YouWorkForThem). Other fonts include VoidJam and Cachorra (based on urban Brazilian calligraphy). MyFonts link. YouWorkForThem link. [Google]

Chico Baldini

Chico Baldini is a Brazilian designer. At ByType, a foundry in Sapiranga, Brazil, he published the Easter-themed dingbat face The World is a Bunny (2007). That font, codesigned with Fabio Luiz Haag, is also at T-26. [Google]

Chris Mise

Brazilian designer of the pixel face Dream It (2007). Blog. Alternate URL. [Google]

Christmas Fonts

Free Christmas font archive by Sandra Avoletta. [Google]

Cláudio Rocha

Sao Paulo-based designer (b. 1957) of ITC Gema (1998) and ITC Underscript (1997). Runs Tupigrafia, a magazine dedicated to typography and calligraphy in Brazil. He designed Cashew (2000), Persplextiva, and Sampa (informal script) and Stampface. Director of Now Design (Sao Paulo). He published the books "Projet Tipográfico" (Ed. Rosari), "Trajan e Franklin Gothic" (Ed. Rosari), and "Tipografia Comparada" (Ed. Rosari). Claudio now lives in Genoa, Italy, from where he launched the type magazine Tipoitalia in 2009. FontShop link. [Google]

Corisco Design Grafico
[Fátima Finizola]

Brazilian design company located in Recife, which lists type and design events in Brazil. It also advertizes some free fonts such as Zabumba (dingbats by Fátima Finizola), Zabumba City (also by Finizola; selected for Bienal Letras Latinas 2006), Pontes, Silicone, 1rial, Capoeira Light and Capoeira Black (by Damiao Santana), but I do not know how to download them. The company is run by Damiao Santana (a photographer and visual artist) and Fátima Finizola. They make type as part of visual identity projects. Free font downloads: Pontes, Capoeira (light and black), Silicone, 1rial. Zabumba (by Fátima Finizola) was selected as one of the winners of Tipografia Brasilis3. [Google]

Cristian Bellei

Brazilian designer (b. 1988) of the geometric sans Crop Types (2008). Alternate URL. At FontStruct, he made Mary Jane (2008) and Utitled Yet (2009, dot matrix face). [Google]

Cristiano Vinciprova

Codesigner with Alexandre Venancio and Felippe Duque of the hairline art deco face Capa (2009, Oporto Design). [Google]

Dado Queiroz

Brazilian designer (b. 1980, Curitiba) of the gorgeous 19th century-style decorative caps faces Marisco (Deluxe and Filled) (2007, Estudio Crop). He also made Tritura (2009, estudioCrop), a textura face, and Riff (2009, estudioCrop), a slab serif face. Dado Queiroz graduated in Graphic Design in 2003. Behance link. [Google]

Damiao Santana

Brazilian designer from Bahia who published Vincent at Tipos do aCaso. He is the principal of Corisco Design in Recife. Home page. [Google]

Dani Dalledone

Curitiba, Brazil-based designer, b. 1985. Alternate URL. Creator of Dalledone (2008, her own handwriting) and GillSonos (2008, a take on Gill Sans). [Google]

Daniel Ferreira

Brazilian designer of the bitmap face Kuadriculado (2007). Alternate URL. [Google]

Daniel Justi

Graphic designer in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Daniel Justi graduated in Graphic Design and specialized in Art Direction by Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo. He currently works as a book cover designer and graphic projects for books and magazines. He designs type as well: Silent Light (2009, monoline sans), Mood Type (a modular type experiment), Jsans (2009, an open sans family), and Jslab (2009, a slab counterpart). Behance link. MyFonts link. [Google]

Daniel Lopes

Brazilian codesigner with Maurício Nunes, Luciana Medeiros, Daniel Pinheiro, Nara Rocha and Virgulino Melo of the typeface Sodoma (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google]

Daniel Maciel

Belo Horizonte, Brazil-based designer of Magrilinha (2009, handprinted, all caps), Atomico (2009, bold handprinted face) and of the hand-drawn 3d headline face Esquisito (2009). [Google]

Daniel Pinheiro

Brazilian codesigner with Daniel Lopes, Maurício Nunes, Luciana Medeiros, Nara Rocha and Virgulino Melo of the typeface Sodoma (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google]

Daniel Poeira

Daniel Poeira was Daniel Leal Werneck. Researcher at midia@rte - Multimedia Lab at the School of Fine Arts / UFMG (Brazil). Visual artist who lives in Belo Horizonte, b. 1979. Designer of the handwriting face Dwerneck (2005), of Papercuts (2007), of Sonic Comics (2009, comic book face), of Monteiro Lobato (2007, grunge), of Glagolitsa (2008, runic), of Brecht (2008, squarish), and of Psicopatologia de la Vida Cotidiana (2005). Alternate URL. Alternate URL. Alternate URL. FADU-UBA link. [Google]

Daniela Gonçalves

Brazilian designer and freelancer, who also makes type at Tipos do aCaso. Educated at UFPE. [Google]

Daria Fox

Creator of a couple of great Bodoni posters. I also like the geometric typography in the brand design of Karaoke Kafe. [Google]

Davi Calil

Brazilian illustrator who designed the fun typeface Alphonse (2002) while he was a student in Sao Paulo at Senac de Comunicações e Artes. [Google]

Death of the pixel font

Article explaining the demise of the pixel font in 2007 for Flash pages. [Google]

Design Creatipos
[Jonas Mello Kühner]

Jonas Mello Kühner (of Design Creatipos) is the Brazilian designer of free grunge-style fonts such as Arialda, Entulho, Epletica, Fatal, Grafiteurbana, MutantE, Nanka, Pegajosa, AgressivaMedium. [Google]

Di Marques

Brazilian multimedia and web designer in Sao Paulo who was born in 1984 in Recife, Brazil. Creator of a geometric display sans called Something (2009). Behance link. Dafont link. [Google]

DiaTipo Natal

Meeting on December 22, 2008, in Sao Paulo's Miami Ad School ESPM, organized by Henrique Nardi and Luciano Cardinali. Speakers: Gustavo Garcia, Fernando Mello, Gustavo Soares and Claudio Rocha. Picture report. [Google]

Diego C. Credidio

Brazilian type designer who is studying at UFPE in Recife and who runs the foundry Tipos do aCASO. Fonts: Cabra-da-peste (Western dingbats), Wayana. [Google]

DMTR.ORG
[Dimitre Lima]

Sao Paulo-based Brazilian designer (b. 1979) who created a few faces in his Fluid Typeface Project in 2005. In 2005, Dimitre Lima also set up DMTR.ORG and started selling his fonts at MyFonts. These include O AFerrugem (unicase, techno), Opus (2005, a computer-look modular sans), Gatu (2005, futuristic semicircle face), Clave de Fá (2006, experimental), O Geena (2007, straight-lined outlines), Arame (2006, an octagonal family including a stencil version), and O Decomputer (techno sans). [Google]

DNA Tipografico

Conference in Sao Paulo, held from 15-19 March 2005. Speakers include Claudio Rocha, Tony de Marco, Priscila Farias, Fabio Lopez, Rodolfo Capeto, Henrique Nardi, Claudio Ferlauto, Hugo Cristo, Marcos Mello, Vincenzo Scarpellini, Massimo Gentile, Chico Homem de Melo, Bruno Porto, Billy Bacon, Akira Kobayashi, Pancho Galvez, Luis Siquot, Bruno Steinert, GHabriel Martinez Meave, Baixo Ribeiro, Wagner, Jorge de Buen and Herbert Baglione. [Google]

DooType
[Eduilson Wessler Coan]

Curitiba-based Brazilian digital type foundry, est. in 2008 by Eduilson Wessler Coan (b. 1983, Curutiba). Myfonts link. Their fonts:

• Estado Serif (2006), codesigned with Ericson Straub (Straub Design) and Fabio Augusto for use in the Jornal O Estado do Paraná.
• DooSans (2006): custom design for the magazine abcDesign.
• Ninfa (2006-2008), an organic serif face. He calls it a modern semi-serif. Whatever.

Douglas Vitkauskas

Brazilian resident who in 2009 created VTKS Distress (grunge), VTKS Deja Vu, VTKS Giz, VTKS Sunny Day, VTKS Mercearia, VTKSRASURADA (grunge), VTKSSABONETE (grunge), Vtksespinhuda (grungy), and vtkssbadodechuva (grungy). In 2008, he created VTKSSKULLS, VTKS Focus (curly letters), vtksRascunhoErrado (handprinted), vtksanimal2 (brush/paint), VTKSFLOWERSINOURSOUL, VtksRelaxingBlaze (double script), Quadrada e Gordinha, VTKS Velhos Tempos (great scratchy script face), Squizita, Mural, VTKS Revolt, VTCBadVision-Regular, VTKS General Use, VTKS Good Luck For You, VTKS-BEAUTY, VTKS-CHIP-SET, VTKS-CHOICE, VTKS-CORE, VTKS-No-Name, VTKS-SKULLZ-ME, VTKS-SummerLAnd, Vtks-Blank, Vtks-FININHA, Vtks-Hardness, Vtks-Noba, vtks-Broadband, vtks-alcalina, vtks-caveirada, vtks-squares, vtks-syndicate, VtksCapsLoco (all caps), VtksEntulho (grunge), VtksSonho (elegant scratchy script), vtksalcalina, vtkscaveirada (grunge), vtkstrutagem (grunge), VTKS Encantar (grunge). In 2007, he designed VTKS Untitled (grunge), VTKS-News-Label, VTKS-ROCK-GARAGE-BAND, VTKS-SCRUBBED, vtks-REPORT-erRoR, VTKS Clean, VTKS Easy Way (informal outline lettering), VTKS Hardness (grunge), VTKS Mural (scratchy script), VTKS Alpes, VTKS No Name (ornamental caps), VTKS Beauty (ornamental caps), VTKS Refused (grunge), VTKS Gore, VTKS Estilosa, VTKS Bandana, VITKS Furious, VITK Colagem, VTKS36, VTKSDearLove (curly lettering), vtks38 (double-lined hand), vtksLemonDrop (comic book face). Alternate URL. Earlier creations (2005) include D_OLD_MODERN, D_OLD_MODERN2, Stretch, Busseta, D Old Miner, Assign (handwriting), Fail (grunge) and Minus (scratchy face). Fontspace link. Pay fonts include Beautiful Dreams, Black, Black Label, Bronze Age, Desgaste, Design Pencil, Embroidery, Funny Lines, Good Vibrations, Keep Your Mind Clean, Low Rider, Mixed Job, Natural Style, Number Zero, power Age, Sexy Lines, Shadow, Urban art, Victory, VTKS V2, Warrior, Wine Label, Xtra. FADU-UBA link. [Google]

Dui

Brazilian designer of Mandinga at Burritos do Brasil (1998). [Google]

Érico Lebedenco

Brazilian graphic designer and illustrator from Rio de Janeiro, b. 1983. Formed in Graphic Design at SENAI/RJ Technical School and student of Industrial Design at UNESA College. Currently working at Dinamo Design. Dafont link. His fonts include Philosopher (2008, an organic sans done with Jovanny Lemonad), Old-Gothic (2008, blackletter, done with FontStruct), The-Adrian-Frutiger-Experience (2008, FontStruct), blow (2008, FontStruct), Yellow Magician (2008, organic headline face, made with FontStruct) and Zillah (2008, using FontStruct). HandTest (2009) was made with Fontcapture. [Google]

Eduardo Bacigalupo

Uruguayan type designer (born in 1952 in Montevideo), one of the pioneers of Brazilian type, dabbling mainly in corporate type in Brazil, such as for Vasp (1985), Cia. Hering, Bardahl and Continental 2001. [Google]

Eduardo Berliner

Brazilian ex-student at the University of Reading who designed Pollen (2003). [Google]

Eduardo Braga

Brazilian type designer, who made fonts such as Nossa Senhora do Bom Sucesso. He studied at and is currently professor at the Universidade de Minas Gerais in the School of Graphic Design. Based in Sao Paulo. [Google]

Eduardo Cavalcanti

Brazilian student at UFPE from Recife who created the typeface Tipofilme at Tipos do aCASO (2005). [Google]

Eduardo Manso Sayao

Brazilian designer of the handprinted all caps face Ruchedo Basico (2007). [Google]

Eduilson Wessler Coán

Brazilian designer of Ninfa, a typeface that won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008 in the non-text face category. [Google]

Elias Bitencourt

Designer, type designer and professor in Salvador, Brazil. He made Benedicta (2006), a blackletter-inspired sans. See also here. He also made the geometric blackletter face Tex (2006). [Google]

Emiliano Amadei

Ponta Grossa, Parana, Brasil-based inddustrial designer. Creator of the stencil face New Stencil (2006) and the graffiti face StreetBlok (2006). [Google]

Erica Jung

Brazilian printmaker, graphic artist and illustrator, b. 1975. Her fonts at PintassilgoPrints include Mondiale (2009), Nanquim (2009, sketched letters), Merceria Antique (2009) and Arca (2009, + Dashed). All have an informal and attractive look, and were codesigned with Ricardo Marcin. [Google]

Erick Alexander Drefahl

Brazilian (b. 1987) based in Curitiba. Designer of Cash Font (2007). [Google]

Ericson Straub

Type designer from Curitiba (Brazil) who won third prize at the Tipografia Brasilis in display typography 2001 with his calligraphic font Pero Vez. He runs Straub Design. In 2005, he co-custom-designed EstadoSerif with Eduilson Wessler Coan and Fabio Augusto for the Jornal O Estado do Paraná. [Google]

Estranho Tipo (was: Adreson 74)
[Adreson Vilson Vita de Sá]

Adreson V.V. de Sa (b. Ilha Solteira, SP, Brazil, 1974, aka Adreson74, or: Capa da Cyberjapa) is the Brazilian designer of the free experimental fonts Quadradinho (2004), Aline II (2007, sans), Garrancho (2001, handwriting), Juliana (2002), Julifesta (2002), Bebete (2007, old typewriter), Rita (2007, fuzzy dots; caps only), and Drek (2002). Alternate URL. Dafont link. Blog. He lives in Porto Alegre. In 2007, he went commercial and started Estranho Tipo (also at MyFonts). His first type family there is the condensed tall sans family Aline II (2007). This was followed by Bebete (2007, old typewriter face). Blog (in Portuguese). Future MyFonts font: Possessa (2008). Alternate URL. [Google]

Estudio Crop
[Anderson Maschio]

Brazilian graphic design studio which recently branched out intoi type design. Located in Batel, Curitiba, it is founded and run by Anderson Maschio (b. 1980, Curitiba). Maschio designed Anark Stencil (2007). MyFonts link. [Google]

estudioCrop design

Brazilian graphic design studio located in Curitiba. MyFonts sells its faces. These include Postuma (2005, a calligraphic face by Beto Janz), Marisco (2007, Dado Queiroz) and Tritura (2009, a textura face by Dado Queiroz). [Google]

Exposiçao CONE Design - Sao Paulo

Archive of a type exhibition in Sao Paulo, held in June 2002, showcasing the work of the students at Senac de Comunicações e Artes in Sao Paulo. [Google]

Fábio Augusto

Brazilian graphic designer from Sao Paulo. He made the 9x6 pixel fonts Pico Sans and Pico Serif (2003). In 2005, he co-custom-designed EstadoSerif with Eduilson Wessler Coan and Ericson Straub for the Jornal O Estado do Paraná. Other typefaces: Titane (2006, a clean sans family), Temp (2005, a semi-organic display face), Favela (2005, an angry street signage type). Pixel faces by him include Ampla Screen (2005), Chemo Screen (2006), Extended Screen (2006), Matrize Screen (2006), Nikola Screen (2006, Soviet look), Station Screen (2006), Xquadra Screen (2006), Xquadra Tiny Screen (2006). Old URL. Behance link. [Google]

Fábio Fafers

Brazilian designer (b. 1977) of the handprinted font Fafers (2002). Alternate URL. [Google]

Fábio Henrique

Brazilian codesigner with Anderson Kleber, Leonardo Rosa Borges and Carlos Santos of the calligraphic typeface Amor e Odio (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google]

Fátima Finizola

Recife-based Brazilian designer (b. 1975, Recife) of Zabumba (2007, T-26, but created in 2006) at Corisco Design Grafico (Recife, Brazil), a company she codirects with Damiao Santana since she founded it in 2000. She created the dingbat face Zabumba City (2006) and 1RialCT (2006, handprinted). [Google]

Fabiane Lima

Brazilian designer of the comic book faces Comiquita Sans (2008), Three Hours (2008), and of the pixelish face Bugged Bit (2008). She also made the TV dingbat face Bonohadavision (2008) and the dingbat face The Beetles (2009). She runs Megalopolis, a Portuguese language blog. [Google]

Fabio Lopez

Rio-based designer of the text face Colonia (1999-2004), and of the experimental face Ryad. Graphic designer. Co-founder of the group Fontes Carambola. [Google]

Fabrika de typos
[Marcio Hirosse]

Fabrika de typos is a Brazilian fondry run by Marcio Hirosse (b. 1969) in Sao Paulo. He made Destroyer (2007, splatter grunge), Helena (2007), Boogaloo (2006), Casual (2006), Expedito (2006), Impresso (2006), Club (2006), Qualque Coisa (2006), Pig (2006), Boogaloo, Casual, Error (2006), Sherley XXX (2006), Thailandesa (2006, Thai simulation face), Expedito, Impresso, Club (2006, stencil), Ferrugem (2006, grunge), Qualque Coisa (2006), Saco de Pao (2006, grunge), Clean (2006, experimental), Poesie Noire (2006, a great multiline calligraphic face), Fuck You Las Vegas (2005), Serial Killer (2004, bloodied Arial), Tragedia (2004), Font Macabra (2004), Font Abuso, Font Cartaz (2004, stencil face), and Font Mexicana. He created Ballom (psychedelic), Anarchy, Macabra, Cartaz, Crash, Tragedia, Abuso, Estragou de novo (1999), Sucata Special, Brother Bear, Floppy Disk, Punk Dingbats (2004-2005, destructionist typefaces), Swiss AntiNormal (2005), Jooy (2007, grunge), Deusdeti (2007, double script), Deux ex Machina (2007, blackletter-inspired), Comunista (2007, constructivist), BONDAGE-DEMO-VERSION (2007), CASULO-DEMO (2007), D-E-S-T-R-O-Y-E-R-D-E-M-O-V-E-R-S-I-O-N (2007), GARTEN-VON-DORNEN-BLACK---DEMO-VERSION (2007), GARTEN-VON-DORNEN-DEMO-VERSION (2007), Load (2007, grunge), LYSSA-DEMO-VERSION (2007), MUMIA-DEMO-VERSION (2007), OFF-SET---DEMO-VERSION (2007, grunge), Pig (2007), PLEASURES-DEMO-VERSION (2007), Querencia-Army-DEMO-VERSION (2007), TETARIA (2007), FDT Sodomy (2008), FDT Carreto (2008), all freely downloadable. Commercial faces: Circus de Terror, Rapariga (curly), Indiana, Hard Core, Iemanjai, Disorder, Joy, Deusdeti, Deux ex Machina, Comunista, Destroyer, Off Set, Pleasures Poesie Noire, Helena, Base, Clean, Casulo, Serial killer. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. [Google]

Familia Design
[Rafael Dietzsch]

Rafael Dietzsch runs Familia Design in Brazil. Apparently, he designs type, but his pages do not work on my browser. Also, the web page resets the browser window size. [Google]

Fantastic Frilly Bits Typography Inspiration
[Daniela Zatti]

Examples of a 2006-2008 style of typography with frills and swashes, spearheaded by the designs of Si Scott. Others in this "movement" include Hydro74, Marian Bantjes, Ginger Monkey, SHCH, Lee25, Maria karkova, Doug Alves, Daniel Gordon, Craig Ward, Nick Keppol, ElBarbon, Joao Oliveira, Lily Piyathaisere, Dhanank Pambayun, 5ive, Bechira Sorin, Fabio Sasso. The list and the examples were compiled by Daniela Zatti, a graphic and product designer from Porto Alegre, Brazil. [Google]

Felipe Dário dos Santos

Graphic designer from Brazil, b. 1989. Designer of FDHelwoodica (2008), a grungified Helvetica (2008), and similarly grungy FD Stenciluxe (2008), FDBateek (2009), FD J Borges (2009, extremely funny dingbats based on the work by Brazilian artist J. Borges), FDIlhoscript (2009, handwriting) and FD Carimboh (2009). Alternate URL. [Google]

Felipe Memória

With a Bachelor's degree in design from PUC in Rio, Felipe is involved in brand design for various companies. His Archimedes Memória typeface (2002) was created for the DBA's brand identity design. It is on the popular Bank Gothic typeface. [Google]

Felipe Memoria

Rio-based Brazilian designer (b. 1977) of the ultra-geometric experimental typefaces Memoria (2000), done for Power Systems Research, and Archimedes (2002), done for DBA Engenharia de Sistemas. [Google]

Felipe Todesco

Brazilian designer from Sorocaba (b. 1987) who created the comic book face Imagine in 2006. No downloads though. Behance link. [Google]

Felipe Zveibil Fisman

Sao Paulo, Brazil-based designer, b. 1988. Creator of the angular alomst architectural face Vazari Sans Serif (2006). Flickr page. [Google]

Felippe Duque

Codesigner with Alexandre Venancio of the Thai simulation face Thaitype (2009, Oporto Design). With Alexandre Venancio and Cristiano Vinciprova, he made the hairline art deco face Capa (2009, Oporto Design). [Google]

Fermello
[Fernando de Mello Vargas]

Graphic designer and illustrator Fernando de Mello Vargas (or: Fermello) is located in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He is the designer (with Vicente Gil Filho) of the text face MelloSans (2006). He graduated in 2007 from the University of Reading. His typeface at Reading is the joint Latin/Tamil family Frida. Frida Text won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008 for extensive text family. It also won an award at Tokyo TDC 2008. [Google]

Fernanda Martins

Brazilian type designer who studied at the Basel School of Design with Wolfgang Weingart and André Gürtler, and created the beautiful Bananas font (2001, letters shaped with bananas), Brasilia (1995, a sans face), the highwage signage face Graal (1998), Transbrasil (1999/2000) and Alphanumer (2000, some letters are replaced by mirrored or rotated numbers). She is working on the sans family FM Ruben (2001), which was started in the sixties by her father, Ruben Martins, who died in 1968. She does corporate type in general. Brief CV. [Google]

Fernanda Salmona

Brazilian designer with Paulo W of Kurrent Kupferstich (2006), a medieval handwriting revival. Alternate URL. [Google]

Fernanda Vieira Prupest

Brazilian designer of the lettering face Xilotype (2002) while she was a student in Sao Paulo at Senac de Comunicações e Artes. See also here for a sample. [Google]

Fernando Gusmao

Brazilian designer at FontStruct in 2008 of asdasd. [Google]

Fernando PJ

Brazilian designer of Bonoco 2.0 (2003, comic book style) and Suburbana (2003, graffiti or market lettering). These fonts were inspired by street lettering in Salvador. [Google]

Fernando Rocha

Brazilian designer of the Plakat font Thereza Miranda (2005). Rocha is affiliated with the PUC in Rio. [Google]

ferrr016

Brazilian designer (b. 1992) at FontStruct in 2009 of Its Gonna Be OK (2009, pixelish), Jumbo (2009), Nueva (2009, pixel script), Fotos (blocky tiled pixel face), ABC..pixel, DOÇRA, cannoa, Candy (pixel), rosa, Evolucion, Prettygirl, Bellafonte, and Circles. Alternate URL. [Google]

Fictilia
[Anderson Maschio]

Curitiba, Brazil-based foundry of Anderson Maschio (b. 1980, Curitiba). Creator of the ultra-fat decorative face Chumbitos (2007, a winner in the experimental type category at Tipos Latinos 2008), available from MyFonts (this was followed by Chumbit02). He also made the experimental type family consisting of Anark Diet Stencil, Anark Fat Stencil, and Anark Natural Stencil (2007). Creator of Magricela (2009, octagonal). He is working on Austera (2007, a basic sans) and Phyta (2007, an experimental face with stretched out connected letters). Check also his gorgeous art work based on Chumbitos. Alternate URL. [Google]

Foco Design (or: ByType)
[Fabio Luiz Haag]

ByType is the type subdivision of Foco Design, the Brazilian design company of graphic and type designer Fabio Luiz Haag, located in Sapiranga, Rio Grande do Sul. Fabio Haag designed FH After (2006, futuristic display face to which After Text and After Headline were added in 2007), FH Foco (2003) (a large x-height sans), this futuristic typeface (2003), and Minas Headline, a custom family made for the government of Minas Gerais. He was working on this display font (2005). In 2006, Foco became a Dalton Maag Ltd font family, and Fabio Haag became the Brazilian wing of Dalton Maag. In 2007, he created the organic sans face IronThree. In 2009, Foco Italics was published. At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he spoke about Dalton Maag and about the elements necessary to make it in the type business today. [Google]

Font Design using Illustrator

The first step in font design can be Adobe Illustrator. One can take Illustrator's output to FontLab (video tutorial by GoMedia's Katie, basically saying that after "Pathfinder" in Illustrator, the character is copied (control-c) and then pasted into a position in FontLab (control-v)). Fabio Sasso (Porto Alegre, Brazil) gives another web and video tutorial. [Google]

FonteDeFontes

Big Brazilian font archive run by Marcelo de Castro. Warning: many pop-ups and cookies. [Google]

Fontes

Brazilian link site. [Google]

Fontes brasileiras

The Brazilian font scene explained in Portuguese. By graphic designer Paulo Moretto, and originally published in PROJETODESIGN vol. 244 in June 2000. A description of Tipografia Brasilis held in 2000. [Google]

Fonts by Brazilian designers

Sandra Avoletta's page highlighting Brazilian designers. Some downloadable fonts, such as MinimumWageincomplete (dingbats, 1998) and the absolutely wonderful running ink font Blumenbach by Paulo Roberto Purim (Carpenter Type) (beta version--capitals only), Mandin-Bold and the Mandinga family by Dui (of the "Burritos do Brasil" studio), Medalhao (by Sandra-Nat, 2000), and Marola (graphically deformed letters, avilable for free at Dafont) by the Subvertype Studio. [Google]

Forte Type
[Jarbas Gomes]

Foundry est. in 2007 in Vitória, ES, Brazil, by Jarbas Gomes (b. Vitória, 1981) from a work experience with Outras Fontes foundry, of Ricardo Esteves Gomes. A graphic designer, he graduated from Espérito Santo Federal University in 2005. In 2007, he designed the gorgeous ultra-contrasted black family Boldoni (T26). Boldoni Gray won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008. MyFonts link. MyFonts personal link. [Google]

François Chastanet

François Chastanet is an architect and a graphic designer in Toulouse, France. He specializes in signage systems for transportation networks. Graduate of the École d'Architecture et de Paysage de Bordeaux, he pursued research in 2001 at the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique in Nancy, and completed a DEA in architectural & urban history at the École d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville in 2002. He currently teaches graphic design and typography at the École Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Toulouse. At ATypI 2006 in Lisbon, he spoke on Pixaçao letterforms, the shantytown graffiti letterforms found in the 1990s in Sao Paulo. In 2009, he and Alejandro Lo Celso cooperated with two students, Laure Afchain and Géraud Soulhiol, on an identity type for the city of Toulouse called Garonne. At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he and Catherine Dixon spoke on Cholo writing: The term cholo derives from an Aztec word xolotl meaning dog that was later turned on its head and used as a symbol of pride by the Mexican-American community in the context of the ethnic power movements of the 1960s from wich emerged the idea of La Raza or Chicano nationalism. Cholo writing originally constitues the vernacular handstyle created by the Latino gangs in Los Angeles as far back as the 1940s: it is probably the oldest form of the graffiti of names in the 20th century, with its own aesthetic, evident long before the explosion in the early 1970s in New York. Cholo writing can be seen as a cousin of the baroque gothic calligraphies typical of Mexico, as a genuine expression of a border culture between Mexico and the United States. This survey explores the genesis of these specific letterforms that paradoxically gave a visual identity to the LA infinite suburbia. For the first time ever a historical series of photographs from the early 1970s in LA is presented together with a contemporary collection, which gives a unique insight in the history of Cholo writing from an aesthetic point of view. See Placas in Los Angeles, the first suburban blackletters?, Baseline, vol. 55, 2008. [Google]

Francisco Martins

Brazilian designer who lives in Belo Horizonte, after graduating in graphic design from Universidade FUMEC. His typeface Nova Sans (2008: an ultra-geometric family) won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008 in the non-text face category. He sells his work via MyFonts. Behance link. [Google]

Fred Lobo

Brazilian creator of Peoplefreak (2009, dingbat font with faces) and Amareleta (2009, handprinted). [Google]

Gabriel Hartung Lovato

Graphic designer in Poreto Alegre, Brazil, who studied at the Universidade Federal de Santa Caterina. He is working on Quirky Sans (2005). [Google]

Gabriel Seabra Freitas

Brazilian designer (b. 1989) who lives in Sao Paulo. His first font is Bartolomeu Sans (2008). [Google]

Gaiatata

Brazilian designer in 2009 over at FontStruct of fonts such as Cube Style (kitchen tile face). [Google]

Galdino Otten

Cartoonist from Recife, Brazil, b. 1966. Creator of the experimental Almost Sanskrit (2009), Stretched Signature Flex (2009), the grunge face Cordel Capitão Galdino (2008) and the nice dingbat face Ochent Silibrina (2008). Dafont link. [Google]

Genilson Lima

Brazilian designer of Jenelson (2006) and the stroked font Styllo (2007). [Google]

George Vinícios

Brazilian codesigner with José Fabio, Melissa Trigueiro, Ricardo and Paula Robalinha of the experimental typeface Geometrica (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google]

Gil at McGill: Reconciling counter-culture with copyright

Gilberto Gil, Brazilian musician and minister of culture, spoke at McGill University in February 2008 on new models needed to deal with copyright. Citing from the article: Brazil has shown some of the boldest counter-cultural initiatives when it comes to copyright. A few years ago, the Brazilian government warned American pharmaceutical companies that if they refused to lower their prices on life-saving AIDS drugs for the country's poor, they would simply break the patents and offer their own generic versions. When Microsoft offered to install Windows computers in Brazil's public schools, the country declined in favour of cheap open-source alternatives. A government official then compared Microsoft to a "drug dealer" - the first hit is free, then you get hooked. [Google]

Gilberto Bressan

Brazilian designer of Savatage, a font for the music group. Alternate URL. [Google]

Giulia Lops

Art director and graphic designer from Sao Paulo, Brazil. She created this excellent type poster in 2009. [Google]

Guilherme Capile

Guilherme Capile (from Brazil) designed two freeware fonts, BrodyTitleA and X5foooont, both donated to Superfunk.com. [Google]

Guilherme Haupenthal

Brazilian creator of this great Baroque typography poster. He lives in Porto Alegre. [Google]

Guilherme Pontes

Brazilian graphic designer who made the monoline sans face Rounder (2009) and the soft display sans face Arcade (2009). [Google]

Gustavo Ferreira

Brazilian designer (b. 1978) of the grunge handwriting font Gentileza (2002), taken straight from Rio's streets, and of the sans-serif face Eva (2002). He works as a free-lance designer in Rio. In 2004, he joined Ultra Pixel Fonts, where he made the pixel faces Elementar 09b, Elementar Basica 13.11, 13.21 and 13.31. At ATypI 2005 in Helsinki, he spoke on Elementar. Gustavo Ferreira has a Bachelor degree in Graphic and Product Design at ESDI, in Brazil (2003), and a Master degree in Communication Planning and Design at the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany (March 2004-July 2005). [Google]

Gustavo Garcia

Brazilian designer of Flat Pipe, a typeface that won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008 in the experimental type category. [Google]

Gustavo Gusmao

Brazilian student at UFPE, b. 1984, who created the typeface Tipofilme at Tipos do aCASO (2005). With Buggy, he made the dingbat faces Manguebat 2 and 4 (2005) and Armoribat 1 (which won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008). [Google]

Gustavo Machado

Brazilian graphic and web designer who now lives in Toronto. Used to be based in Campinas, Brazil, where he was a professor of graphic design at the Catholic University of Campinas. In 2008, he created Greenland2008, Greenland2025, Greenland2050, Greenland2100, Greenland-2100-Extra-Light, fonts done in the context of his web site Type For Change. [Google]

Gustavo Piqueira

Brazilian graphic designer (b. 1972) who lives in Sao Paulo where he runs Rex Design with Marco Aurélio Kato and Valter Botoso. Gustavo also teaches typography at Faculdades Senac de Comunicaçao e Arts and is a member of the board of directors of ADG Brasil (Brazils Graphic Designers Association). Creator of Autorama (1999, experimental), Bizu (1999, T-26, grunge), Cabourg (2004, T-26) and the great experimental face Gilcimar (T26). In 1997, he founded the graphic and digital design company Rex Design with Aurélio Kato and Valter Botoso in Sao Paulo. Brief CV at Tipografia Brasilis. There are free fonts on Gustavo's web site (click on Culture, then on Fonts): Nimuendaju, Neufrank (dingbats), Zzz and Sid Family. To download these, you have to fill out a form for each one of them. MyFonts page. T-26 page. At T26, he published the futuristic family Motordrome (2006, rectangular look). [Google]

Gustavo Soares

Graduate of the KABK in Den Haag in 2008 (Masters in Type and Media), and from the University of Reading in 2007 (Masters in Information Design). Originally from Sao Paulo, he created the text family Pocket as a student at KABK. Alternate URL. [Google]

Helder Diniz

Brazilian illustrator and type designer who works at Tipos do aCaso. His fonts include Grea, a children's printing face. [Google]

Henrique Faria

Brazilian designer (with Viváine Rebouças of Belo Horizonte) of Cafe e cha (2009, handwriting font). [Google]

Hindu Arabic Numeric Medieval Ideograms

From Sao Paulo, Roberto Lyra's explanation on the origins of Arabic numerals: "Each Arabic number we use today is itself an ideogram created by Abu Ja'far Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (c.778 - c.850). Al-Khwarizmi was born in central Asia in what is know as Uzbekistan, and moved to Baghdad were he worked as a mathematician during the first golden age of Islamic science, at the "House of Wisdom". Using the abacus notations he developed the manuscript decimal system. By the end of the 12th century (Middle Ages) the academic word was divided between the algorists, followers of al-Khwarizmi, and the abacists, who used the abacus as a means of dealing with the unwieldy Roman notation. The oldest dated European manuscript containing Arabic numbers is the Codex Vigilanus written in Spain in 976. In 1202 Leonardo of Pisa (also know as Leonard Fibonacci) published his Liber Abaci, a book of arithmetic and algebraic information. The earliest French manuscript using the new number system was written in 1275. During the 14th century Arabic numerals became widely used by merchants in Italy." [Google]

Holitter Studios
[Biffe Holitter]

Biffe Holitter (Holitter Studios) is the Brazilian designer (b. 1983) of these free fonts at Open Font Library, all dated 2008-2009: Biffe's-Calligraphy, GDS_Infinity, Holitter-Block, Holitter-Forge, Holitter-Gothic, Holitter-Lines, Holitter-Spike, Holitter_Tittanium, Pointened, SoulCalibuR, Soul of Holitter. He also made Xengears (2009, futuristic face). Alternate URL. Another URL. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google]

Holofontes
[Hugo Cristo]

Holofontes is a Bazilian foundry, established in 2004 by Hugo Cristo from Jd da Penha, Vitoria. Typefaces: HF Bayer, HF Ceramic, HF Conillon Black, HF Contras, HF Daft, HF Design Az San, HF Dutra, HF Fastne, HF Health, HF Health Blac, HF Janaina Roman, HF Logic, HF Maxwell, HF Minotau, HF Neo Bodoni, HF Newslin, HF Painted, HF Phocus San, HF Quadredondo, HF Round Gothi, HF Slab, HF Tecnométric, HF Tim Maia, HF Visualice. Before Holofontes, Hugo Cristo ran Design AZ. He also makes custom type, such as this face specially designed for reading from TV screens. [Google]

Igor C. Barros

Sao-Paulo-based illustrator who designed Arigatou-Kamisama (2000), Mottley-HorneyHiragana (2000), Morte e Vida Severina (1997). [Google]

Igor Ludwig

Branding and digital artist from Salvador, Brazil, who has produced a great type poster in 2009 entitled The Power of Typo. [Google]

Ilha Tipográfica

Brazilian makers of the free fonts Caligrafia (handwriting) and OPS (futuristic). [Google]

Index Brasil

300-font archive located in Brasil. [Google]

Intellecta Design
[Paulo W]

Design company in Brazil run by Paulo W from Recife. Paulo W is a gaúcho (Brazilian southerner), with interests in multiple areas, including poetry (he has published the digital opus Magical Book), graphic design and, most recently, type design. He gives away interesting free fonts: Corto Maltese (2006, dingbats), Renaissance Coiffure (2006), Renaissance Ornaments (2007), TTF Tattoef (2006, tattoo-inspired dingbats), ExperiTypo5 (2006), Lower Metal (2006), Geometric Serif PW (2006), Geometric (2006), Geometric Petras PW (2006), War II Warplanes (2005), Carbono (2005), Times New Vespasian (2005), BoldBold (2005), Vengeance (2005), Doppleganger (2005), Chancelaresca (2005), Cursivo Saxonio (2005), Gotische Minuskel 1269 (2005: a Kanzlei Schrift after Dekan Hermann zu Soest, 1269) and Guto Lacaz (2005, dingbats). Alternate URL. Commercial fonts sold at MyFonts: Deutsche Poster (2006), FatFontGrotesk (2006), Gans Tipo Adorno, Gans Lath Modern, Gans Titular Adornada (2006), Gans Ibarra (2006), Gans Antigua (2006), Gans Antigua Manuscrito (2006), Gans Radio Lumina (2006), Gans Fulgor (2006), Gras Vibert (2006, a 4-style didone family), Orchis (2006, an art deco family by Iza W), Rough Fleurons (2006), Dovtrina Christam 1622 (authentic old manuscript face), Caslon2000, Fantis (2006), Frompac (2006, with Iza W), Geodec Fog (2006), Intellecta Modern (2006), Intellecta Modern 2 (2006), Intellecta Romana Humanistica (2006), Advantage (2006, together with Iza W), Biza (2006, together with Iza W), Elegancy (2006, together with Iza W), Estiliza (2006, a sans family together with Iza W), Experitypo 4, Stairway to Heaven, Copperplate PW, Dings PW, Roger Dean, Portugues Arcaico (2005, three medieval handwriting styles), Gliphs PW, Luxeuil, Watchtower Bible 1965, Remington PW (old typewriter face), Olivetti Linea (old typewriter face), Gabinete Portugues (11 fonts), Elara, Xilografuras (dingbats), Beta, Alta, Paleolitica Nacional, Shakespeare Studs, Copperplate collection (5 fonts), Easy Calig, Wine, Ampersamp, James Poem, Fin Fraktur, Gotische Bouffard, Heimat RGS, Leal Conselheiro, Kurrent Kupfertisch (2006, a medieval hand done with Fernanda Salmona), Haeckel Enygma, Caslon B, Iza B, Of, Lementa (2006, ornate family), Paulus Franck 1602 (2006, ornate caps), Pirates (dingbats), Wire Clip (2009), Divina Proportione (2009, dingbats), Tharagaverung (2007), Correo (2009, a nice manly bold face), Kidnaped at Old Times (sic) (2009, ornamental caps), georgia capitals (2009), Nouveau Never Dies (2009, ornaments), Titivilus (2007, Roman lettering), Pirates De Luxe (2007, dingbats), Geodec (2006, baroque caps), Geodec Minuskel (2006), Geodec Spyral (2006), GeodecBruceOrnamented6 (2006, after a sample from the Bruce Type Foundry), Copperplate Decorative (2006), Feosa (2006), Francesco Decorative (2006, Iza W), Gans Carmem Adornada (2006), Gans Italiana (2006, Western style), Geodec Petras Enhanced (2006), georgia Capitals (2009), Gothic Handtooled Bastarda (2006), Grave Ornamental (2006), Ibarra Flourished (2006), Intellecta Decorative 017 (2006), Intellecta Decorative 018 (2006), Intellecta Slab Bold (2006), Kansas Decorative (2006), Numa Initials (2006), Pingente (2006), Sixties Living (2006), DeutschePosterSteinschrift (2007; by Iza W), HostetlerFetteUltfrakturOrnamental (2007, blackletter caps), American Advertise No. 17 (2007, 19th century caps), American Advertise No. 9 (2008), Soft Fleurons (2007), Schneider Buch Deutsch (2007, blackletter), Gothic 16 CG (2007, blackletter), Gothic 16 CG Decorative (2007, blackletter caps), Gans Italiana (2007, extensive Italian-style slab serif family), Gans Titania (2007), Gans Titania Adornada (2007), Gans Titular (2007), Gans Antigua (2007), Gans Fulgor (2007), Half Flower (2007), Fat Font Grotesk (2007), Gras Vibert (2007), American Advertise 018 and 019 (2008), American Advertise Square Series (2007), GP Casual Script (2007), Colonia Portuguesa (2007), Contouration (2007), Deco Experiment 3 (2007), Decorative Tuscanian (2007), Erased Typewriter 2 (2007: 4 styles by Paulo W), AltDeutsch (2007, four severe blackletter fonts by Iza W), Figgins Brute (2007: 8 heavy Egyptian styles by Iza W based on Figgins' 1817 specimen book), Cadels (2007, ornate caps by Iza W), Catania (2007, exquisite medieval caps in 3 styles by Iza W), Engel (2007, by Iza W in 15 styles that have a 1870s look), Erased Figgins Brute (2007), Floresco (2007), Flower Jars (2007, by Iza W---a very nice idea), Frames 1 (2007, by Iza W), Frutisis (2007), Gans Gotico Globo (2007: 9 styles by Iza W), Gans Royality (2007: 3 styles by Iza W), Gotische Frame (2007: four framed blackletter styles by Iza W), Gotische (2007: ten ornate blackletter styles by Iza W), Intellecta Monograms (2007: 19 monogram fonts by Paulo W), Majestade (2007, by Iza W---two Tuscan style faces), Manuscript XIV Century (2007, by Iza W--four Lombardic caps), Merona (2007, by Iza W--ten Lombardic caps fonts), Palermo (2007, by Iza W---Tuscan style family), Peloponeso (2007, by Iza W), Porcupine (2007, by Iza W), Selena (2007, by Iza W---ornate Victorian caps), Southern Flight (2007, by Iza W---condensed), TTF TTTOEF 4 (2007, by Iza W---dingbats). Working on GeodecBruceFlourished, HostetlerNormande. Fonts in 2008: Economica (sans, T26), Intellecta Monograms (2007), Like Gutemberg Caps, Nurnberg Schwabacher, Antiqua Double 12, BadBaltimore, BlackOrnaments, Calligraphia Latina (2008-2009, in weights called Soft2, Dense, 3, Mixed, Square Edition), Flower Essences, Fry's Alphabet, Gans Headpieces, Gans Neoclassic Fleurons, Gothic Garbage, Gothic Shadow, Gothic Trashed, Gothic Flourish (2009), Gotica Moderna (octagonal, blackletter), Gradl Initialen, Greko Roman Oldstyle (2009), Grissom (bug dingbats, by Iza W)Intellecta Borders (by Iza W), Intellecta Mixed Script (calligraphic), Intellecta Style (2007, borders), Latinish (by Iza W), Lettering Deco (by Iza W), Leyenda (great Victorian era ornamental caps), Litho Romana Inland, Micro Fleurons (2009), Naturella (leaf dingbats by Iza W), Oorlog (2007), Ortodoxa do oriente (2009), Quadratta Serif (a slab serif by Fernando Diaz), Sans Square (2009), Shadow Typewriter (2007), Speedball (by Iza W, Victorian style), Spedball western Letters (2009, after Ross F. George's lettering), Spencerian Constancia (calligrahic), TTF TATTOEF 7 (by Iza W), Underwood Typewriter (by Iza W), Victorian Ultra Parphernalia (2007), Soft Fleurons (2007), Schneider Buch Deutsch (2007, blackletter), Hostetler Fette Ultfraktur Ornamental (2007, blackletter caps), Gothic 16 CG (2007, blackletter), Gothic 16 CG Decorative (2007, blackletter caps), Gans Italiana (2007, extensive Italian-style slab serif family), Schneidler Grobe Gotisch (2008, Iza W, T-26), Allerlei Zierat (2008, ornament fonts based on a 1902 catalog of Schelter & Giesecke), Allerlei Zierat Capials (2007), Angels (2007), Dead Wood Rustic (2007), Inocence (2007, dingbats of girls), Mixed Capital Style (2007, caps), Mondrongo (2007), Calligraphia Latina Soft2 (2008, calligraphic caps), Lenda (2008, capitals), Silvestre Weygel (2007, named after Martin Weygel'a erotic alphabet from 1560, which in turn was based on Peter Flötner's 1534 alphabet), Taranatiritza (5 wood type styles, after William Hamilton Page), Kidnaped at Old Times (2009, ransom note face), Egmontian (2007, ornamental caps family), Koberger N24 Schwabacher (2007), Costado (2009, Western), Elara (2009), Intellecta Roman Tall (2009), Intellecta Script commercial (2009, calligraphic), RIP Typewriter (2009), Spencerian By Product (2009, calligraphic), Teatro (2009, Tuscan), Vogus (2009, Victorian caps), Victorian Ornamental Capitals (2009) and Frompac 1889 Arabesque (2007) [both are classical arabesques published in Ludwig Petzendorfer's Schriften-Atlas. Eine Sammlung der wichtigsten Schreib- und Druckschriften aus alter und neuer Zeit nebst Initialen, Monogrammen, Mappen, Landeskarten und heraldischen Motiven fur die praktischen Zwecke des Kunstgewerbes, 1889], Antique Extended (2009, slab serif wood type), Black Fleurons (2009), Kidnaped at Old Times (2009, caps), Mortised Capitals (2009), Force Brute & Ignorance (2009), Sunamy Caps (2009), Starret (2009), Student's Alphabet (2007, blackletter), Vogus (2009), American Advertise (2009). Alternate URL. [Google]

Ipanema Gráfica

Brazilian photoblog site, where original fonts such as Comic Arousa (2007), Nantronte (2005), Velvet Illusions (2005), Vila Morena (2006), Johnyokonysm (2005), As pedras da Belle Otero (2006, an artsy pixel font) and Marela (2005) may be found. Alternate URL. [Google]

Isaco Type
[Isac Rodrigues]

Type foundry in Vacaria, Brazil, est. 2009. Its founder is Isac Rodrigues (b. Vacaria, 1986), a graphic designer born who graduated from the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul State. Creator of the legible sans BaselSans ITD (2009). [Google]

Iza W

Brazilian designer who created Kocham (2008, an art deco geometric face with dots centered in all letters), Orchis (2006, Intellecta Design), an art deco famliy in the style of Broadway. Other fonts, done with Paulo W at Intellecta Design in 2006: Advantage, Biza, Elegancy, Estiliza, Frompac. She designed DeutschePosterSteinschrift, Alta (5 styles), Apolo Decorative (Victorian era caps), Ariana, Black, Cresciesco (roman times lettering), Drianh (late 19th century styles), Easy Callig, Evangeliaire Uncial, Geodec N9 (high contrast sans family), Glaciana (decorative caps), Grid, Half Flower 2, Laureatus (Lombardic), Malvinna, Paola Decorative (caps), Schneider Kontrast (a 15-style art deco and ornamental family based on the work of F.H. Ernst Schneidler), and Questy (semi-slab serif) in 2007. Productions in 2008: Basilissa (flowery caps), Calligraphia Latina Soft, Chyrllene (curly Victorian family), Clea (caps), Fridha (undrerstated and 3d calligraphy), Hostetler Kapitalen 2, Litho Romana Inland (a caps family), Ogden (calligraphic), Olivetti Typewriter (5 styles), Syl (frilly Victorian caps), Tissot (fine caps), Triball (headline blackletter family), TTF TATTOEF 8 (tattoo dings). MyFonts says The mysteriously-named Iza W shares most of the development activities at Intellecta Design with Paulo W. She specializes in revivals of historic advertising types, specifically metal and wood display types of the Americas, from the early 19th to mid 20th century. and lists these fonts at the end of 2008 as having been designed by her: Advantage, Agua, Alta, AltDeutsch, Anatomy, Antiqua Shaded, Apolo Decorative, Ariana, Basilissa, Biza, Black, Boliche, Bruce Borders, Bruce Flourished, Bruce Hairline, Bruce Miscelania, Bruce Ornament, Cadels, Calligraphia Latina Soft, Catania, Centennial Script Fancy, Chancelaresca Spanola, Chyrllene, Clea, Cleo, Cresciesco, Deco Experiment 2, Deco Experiment 3, Deco Experiment 4, Deco Experiment 5, Deco Experiment 6, Deco Experiment 7, Deutsche Poster Steinschrift, Donald, Drianh, Easy Callig, Egipcia, Elegancy, Engel, Estiliza, Evangeliaire Uncial, Faroeste, Feosa, Figgins Brute, Fin Fraktur, Flower Essences, Flower Jars, Fofucha, Frames 1, Francesco Decorative, Fridha, Frompac, Fry's Alphabet, Furniet Roman, Gans Animals, Gans Carmem Adornada, Gans Cornucopia, Gans Gotico Globo, Gans Italiana, Gans Royality, Gans Sport Club, Gans Titania, Gans Titular Adornada, Gans Transportation, Gans Vessels Fishes, Geodec Minuskel, Geodec N9, Geodec Petras Enhanced, Glaciana, Gothic Handtooled Bastarda, Gotische, Gotische Frame, Gottar (blackletter), Gradl Initialen, Grid, Grissom, Grolier (caps), Half Flower, Hannover, Hostetler Kapitalen, Intellecta Bodoned, Intellecta Borders, Intellecta Grotesca Compacta, Intellecta Slab Bold, Intellecta Square, Intellecta Typewriter, Intellecta Typewriter 2, Julisa Script, Kocham, Latinish, Laureatus, Lettering Deco, Litho Romana Inland, Littler Serifada, Magro, Majestade, Malvinna, Manuscript XIV Century, Merona, Missal, Naturella, Numbers, Ogden, Olivetti Typewriter, Orchis, Palermo, Paola Decorative, Peloponeso, Porcupine, Questy, Remington Elite Typewriter, Samuello, Schneider Kontrast, Schneidler Zierbuchstablen, Selena, Sinfonia, Southern Flight, Speedball, Standard Typewriter, Suciellid, Sunamy (oriental simulation, after lettering by Ross F. George), Surrey, Syl, Tissot, Tondella, Triball, TTF TATTOEF 4, TTF TATTOEF 6, TTF TATTOEF 7, TTF TATTOEF 8, Tuska, Underwood Typewriter, Uthan, Versatile Initials, Victorian Exotical Capitals, Warp, Woodball, Yanna, Zooth. From 2009: Calligraphia Latina Soft3, Cantate, Remington Weather (old typewriter), Xyla (caps), Polen, Arrius (calligraphic), Catilina, Pentagraph (upright connected script), Renania (calligraphic), Samantha (caps), Silius Engraved (caps), Stencil Intellecta, Tatooyn (2009), Urszula (caps), Victorio (caps). [Google]

James Eduardo Dudi

Curitiba-based Brazilian designer of the liquid face Setor (2004), Wcom, the pixel face Cube (2004), the Cyrillic display face Poka (2004), and the futuristic DNA (2004). [Google]

Jefferson Cortinove

Marilia-based Brazilian designer of the free scratchy font Ink9 (2009), the condensed face Type Leftheria (2009) and the techno faces Xpto (2009) and VSR (2009). Behance link. [Google]

Joana Amador

Brazilian type designer who works at Tipos do aCaso. Her fonts include the children's handwriting font Toinho, designed with Renata Faccenda. [Google]

João Faraco

Brazilian designer in Rio de Janeiro (b. 1985) of Faraco Hand (2009). Home page. [Google]

João Paulo Angelim

Sao Paulo-based Brazilian designer in 2007 of the hookish handprinted face Original Olinda Style, and of Lego System (dingbats). FADU-UBA link. Dafont link. [Google]

Joceanny Lima

Brazilian ex-student of UFPE, b. 1981, who created the typeface Tipofilme at Tipos do aCASO (2005). From Paraibo, she works now as a designer. [Google]

José Fabio

Brazilian codesigner with Melissa Trigueiro, Ricardo, George Vinícios and Paula Robalinha of the experimental typeface Geometrica (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google]

JOSO
[Zózimo Teixeira Pinto Neto]

Zózimo Neto (JOSO) (b. 1984) is a Brazilian design student at UFPE in Recife since 2003. He created the free dingbat font Macumbats (2007). Alternate URL. [Google]

Jugurta Lisboa Filho

Brazilian designer of the geographical symbol font Sigmoda. [Google]

Juliana Carvalho

Designer from Rio de Janeiro (b. 1987) who designed Refrigerator Notes (2008, handwriting) and Allura Script (handwriting). Alternate URL. [Google]

Just in Type (was: Tipomovel)
[Tony de Marco]

Just in Type (ex-Tipomovel) is a Brazilian foundry run by Tony de Marco in Sao Paulo. Tony de Marco was an illustrator for Folha de S. Paulo, 1987-1994. He co-edits Tupigrafia with Claudio Rocha Franco. As a type designer, he created over 50 faces for the newspaper Noticias Populares, for America Online, and the magazines Moderna, Saraiva, FTD and Atica. Free fonts at the Tipomovel site included Ariana, Beabá, Bloco, CyberComix, Cyber Rounded, Cyber-Zinha, Digital Typewriter, Egly (my favorite--a Bodoni with curly serifs), Futura Vítima, Futura Vítima Bold, Futura Vítima Extra Bold, Games, Genoveva, Helvetica Backlight, Illinoise, Macmania Bold, Neurastenic, Notícias Populares, Oficina Bold, Pin ups, Pixel, Pravda, Sequestro, Simbolo, Splash, Stalin, Sumô, Super Braille (created for the Dorina Nowill Foundation), Times Change, Tipografia, Toxic Bodoni, Web Power, Zine. Samba LT (2003, Linotype, designed with Caio de Marco; this art deco face was inspired by the lettering art of J. Carlos, a Brazilian illustrator during the early 20th century) won an award at the Linotype International Type Design Contest 2003. Tony de Marco was at one point illustrator for the Folha de Sao Paulo. In 2005, Tony and Caio de Marco set up Just in Type and started selling their fonts via MyFonts. Offerings there include HallowHell Dingbats (2006, Halloween dingbats), Drop It (2005, dot matrix), Illinoise (2005, techno-grunge, by Tony and Caio de Marco), Pixel Zoo (2008, dingbats), Inferno Dingbats (2008), Brazil Pixo Retro (2007, rune simulation). [Google]

Kboco

Brazilian codesigner with Buggy, Bosco and Plínio Uchoa Moreira of the dingbat typeface Manguebat 4 (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google]

Kollontai Cossich Diniz

Kollontai researches typography and native languages of Brazil. She obtained her bachelors degree in graphic design from the University of Brasilia in 2007, and during that time she was a trainee at the Fundação Nacional do Índio, the governmental protection agency for indigenous people interests and culture, where she worked on editorial projects in various native languages. She won the young scientist award from the Brazilian Society of Information Design. She currently works at the Institute for Brazilian Studies in the University of São Paulo. Speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City on the topic of type and native languages in postcolonial America. She lives in Sao Paulo. [Google]

Lambe-lambe

Lambe-lambe (translated: 'lick-lick') is a vernacular printing tradition once popular for promoting theatre and spectacles in Brazil. Lick lick alludes to how the posters are affixed to walls. Poster hangers use large brushes to paint glue on the front of the poster. The glue penetrates the thin paper and sticks the poster to the walls. Long in decline, the city of Sáo Paulo still boasts a working lambe-lambe printshop, Grafica Fidalga, where one can find a rich history of hand-generated letterforms carved as wooden blocks used to print vibrant poster series. The lambe-lambe tradition is reviewed at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City by Catherine Dixon and Henrique Nardi. Christy Wickoff's Lambe-Lambe pages with pictures. [Google]

Lampejos / Foncati / Psicotipos

Brazilian typographic and art direction studio in Americana. Behance link, where it runs under the name Foncati. Creators of some experimental geometric alphabets in 2009. At this sub-site called Psicotipos, one can download free fonts such as Pasion and Fagulha (2009). [Google]

Laura Rita Rabello

Brazilian designer of Technos. [Google]

Lavos Design
[Luiz Lavos]

Luiz Lavos (Lavos Design) (b. 1980) lives in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Designer of the handprinted typeface Lavos Handy (2009). Dafont link. [Google]

Leandro Araújo da Costa

Brazilian type designer who studied at UFPE in Recife. Aka "Buggy". He made Cordel (1997), the bitmap font Disquete, Oxe, Palm, Stone (a rune face), Ferro de Boi and Regua at Tipos do aCaso. He created the Manguebat dingat series there, together with some others. Armoribat 1 (codesigned with Gustavo Gusmao) and Armoribat 2 (codesigned with Matheus Barbosa) won awards at Tipos Latinos 2008. [Google]

Leandro Moura

Designer and illustrator from Sao Paulo. He created these experimental typefaces in 2009. [Google]

Leandro Nogueira

Brazilian typographer based in Sao Paulo, who designed Nabirinto, an experimental typeface. [Google]

Leonardo Rosa Borges

Brazilian codesigner with Anderson Kleber, Fábio Henrique and Carlos Santos of the calligraphic typeface Amor e Odio (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google]

Leopoldo Leal

Brazilian designer from Sao Paulo who created the typefaces Cacografia, Caligrafia and OPS at Tipos do aCASO (2005). [Google]

Letra Um
[Zed Martins]

Foundry, est. in 2008 in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. It is run as a cooperative by type designers Tiago Porto (b. Belo Horizonte, 1984), Vicente Repolês Pessôa (b. Ipatinga, 1986) and Zed Martins (b. Belo Horizonte, 1977). Martins cofounded Sete Oitavos. They published a 10-style 2d and 3d pixel font family called Processual (2008). [Google]

Lista Tipografia e Caligrafia

Discussion list on type and calligraphy. In Portuguese. List manager: Roberto Marques and Sapien Design. [Google]

Lizard Sharkragon
[Filipe Aryel]

Brazilian designer (b. 1988) of Shark Random Funnyness 2 (2009), Shark Claw Damage (2009), Shark Trouble (2009), Shark Claw Damage (2009, handprinted), Super Mario Bros Alphabet (2009), Shark Got Your Hand (2009), Shark Soft Bites (2009), SharkCrash (2009, comic book style), FOP Title Style (2009, comic book face), Onomato Shark (2009, comic book style), FOP Title Style (2009, comic book face), Shark Super Hand (2009), FairlyOddFont (2008, comic book style), Shark Supah FX (2008, comic book style), Shark Heavy ABC (2008), Shark Hands (2008, comic book outline face), SharkRandomFunnyness (2008, comic book style) and the pixel faces SMWHudNameFont (2008) and SMWTextFont (2008), used in the Super Mario games. He also made Shark Scratching (2008). FairlyOddFont (2008) is based on a font shown in the cartoon Fairly Oddparents, by Butch Hartman. Dafont link. [Google]

Loïs Lancaster

Loïs Lancaster (aka Ronceveaux) is the Brazilian designer of the nice revolutionary graffiti face Puteiro Anarquista (2003) and of Doideira New Wave (2003). [Google]

Lucas Momosaki

Graphic designer in Sao Paulo, Brazil. [Google]

Luciana de Mari

Recife-based designer in Brazil, who made the dingbat font 3x4 at Tipos do aCaso. [Google]

Luciana Medeiros

Brazilian codesigner with Daniel Lopes, Maurício Nunes, Daniel Pinheiro, Nara Rocha and Virgulino Melo of the typeface Sodoma (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google]

Luciana Morin

Born in 1994, this designer from Rio is present on Devian Tart, and has her own web site called Starguides. She created the handprinted outline font Starguides (2009, handprinted look), and Whatever (2009, basic handprinted look). Alternate URL. [Google]

Luciano Cardinali

Sao Paulo-based Brazilian graphic designer (since 1981) and type designer who designed Aknathon (1994) and Cardehal (1998). He also made Ghentileza Original, a sign post font used by the prophet Gentileza, the sans serif Kashemira, Reich, paulistanhia, and Atrophia, a minimalist font. He designed Thanis, a text family for the magazine ADG. FADU-UBA link. [Google]

Luciano Skorianez

Brazilian designer who runs Assys Technologies. He created the pointillist typeface Assys (2004). [Google]

Luis Augusto de Oliveira Nunes

Brazilian designer (b. 1983) who lives in Santa Rita do Sapucaí, Minas Gerais. Home page. Creator of the curly handwriting font Dirty Lady (2005). [Google]

Luiz C. Vieira

Brazilian designer of (dot matrix) typefaces that mimic the lettering on some HP devices: HP-82143A-CharSet-4, HP-82240-ECMA94-CharSet, HP-82240-ROMAN8-CharSet, HP-Classic-LED-Set, HP-DotMatrix-1-Menu, HP-DotMatrix-1, HP-DotMatrix-2, HP-DotMatrix-3, HP-Platinum-LCD, HP-Voyager-Character-Set, HP10BII-CharSet-1, HP10BII-KeySet-2, HP30S, HP30S_7, HP33S-CharSet-3, HP41-Character-Set-Xtended, HP41-Character-Set, HP42SCharSet-3, HP71BCharSet-1, HP9S-CharSet, KeySet-4, HP42SCharSet 3 (char42s.ttf), HP 82240 ROMAN8 CharSet (char82240_R.ttf), HP 82240 ECMA94 CharSet (char82240_E.ttf), HP 82143A CharSet 4 (char82143_E.ttf). Alternate URL. Most fonts are dated 2004. [Google]

Luiz Campos

Designer born in 1968 and located in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. His design studio, Alias. Creator of RM Midserif (2008), an organic font. Alternate URL. [Google]

Luiza Prado

Brazilian designer (b. 1985) of Thereza (2006, a beautiful handprinted display face) while she was at PUC in Rio. Alternate URL. [Google]

Márcia Maia

Brazilian designer from Recife who makes type at Tipos do aCaso. [Google]

Magbis Ovando

Brazilian from Campo Grande, b. 1977. [Google]

Marcelo Bittencourt

Designer of Metalbitt Manetrix (2003), a white on black face. Marcelo (b. 1982) lives in Curitiba, Brasil. [Google]

Marcelo Garcia

Brazilian graphic designer and type designer who works at Tipos do aCaso. His fonts include Celo Bold. [Google]

Marcelo Magalhães

Brazilian designer in 2008 of the slightly grungy Folk (+Outline, Shadow, Sketches, Solid) and of the minimalist sans face Giro Light (2009). Another URL. [Google]

Marcelo Martinez

Typographer from Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) who won third prize at the Tipografia Brasilis in the dingbat category, 2001, with his "Agli Feices" (read: ugly faces). [Google]

Marcio R. M. Martinson & Roberto Machado Jr.

Designers of the handprinted Caipirinha (2008). [Google]

Marcos Balsini Garcindo

Born in 1977, this Brazilian graphic and web designer in Florianopolis created an experimental geometric typeface, Duotonic (2009). Behance link. [Google]

Marcos Buccini

Brazilian type designer who works at Tipos do aCaso. His fonts include Estruturas, Cafeina, Poracaso, and Quadra (pixel font). Residing in Recife, he was educated at UFPE. Alternate URL, where one can find Passarela (2007, female silhouettes) and Cafeina Dig. [Google]

Marcos Mello

Graphic designer. Professor of typography and design at the Anhembi-Morumbi University. Founder of the Oficina Tipográfica Sao Paulo. [Google]

Marcos Veras

Typographer from Sao Paulo (Brazil) who showed his De Veras Cartoon font at the Tipografia Brasilis 2. [Google]

Marginalia
[Paulo W]

Very beautiful, original and informative Brazilian blog (in Portuguese) run by Paulo W. This is at the top of the heap, even if your Portuguese is rusty. [Google]

Maria Teresa Lopes

Brazilian type designer, who graduated from UFPE in Recife in 2000. She works in a foundry in Pernambuco, Tipos do aCASO. [Google]

Marina Martins Chaccur

Designer and college tutor from Sao Paulo, Brazil. She spoke at ATypI in Lisbon on vernacular Brazilian type and the current state of Brazilian type design. [Google]

Marina Pontual

Brazilian student at UFPE from Recife who created the typeface Tipofilme at Tipos do aCASO (2005). [Google]

Matias Romero

Brazilian nature photographer. Designer of Jet Black Night (2009), King Pineapple (2009), Glove (2009, avant garde sans), Arcoverde (2009), Wax (2009), Crazy Circles (2005, handprinted) and Xylogravura (2009, inspired by crude woodcut typography printing practiced in northeastern Brazil). Home page. [Google]

Maurício Nunes

Brazilian codesigner with Daniel Lopes, Luciana Medeiros, Daniel Pinheiro, Nara Rocha and Virgulino Melo of the typeface Sodoma (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google]

Mauricio Domingues

Brazilian designer of MND Pinballer (2008, two styles). Born in 1984, he lives in Sao Paulo. Flickr site. [Google]

Melissa Trigueiro

Brazilian codesigner with José Fabio, Ricardo, George Vinícios and Paula Robalinha of the experimental typeface Geometrica (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google]

Miguel Sanches

Brazilian type designer from Recife who works at Tipos do aCaso. His fonts include the great experimental font Arqueo, Bolha, Xilot and Snake. [Google]

Milena Thé

Brazilian student at UFPE from Recife who created the typeface Tipofilme at Tipos do aCASO (2005). [Google]

Minea Nunes

Brazilian creator (b. 1984) of KOF Dingbats (2008, scanbats) and The King of Fighters Family (2008). [Google]

Mirian Mitsue Yanai

Born in 1987, Mitsue lives in Florianópolis, Brazil. Creator with Saulo Deboni and Silvia Cristina Medeiros of the curly display face Franklin Cascaes (2007). [Google]

Misprinted Type
[Eduardo Recife]

Misprinted Type offers free and commercial old typewriter and grunge fonts designed by iEduardo Recife, anillustrator and graphic designer from Belo Horizonte, Brazil, b. 1980. Although his main work is in illustration, he became well-known in the early 2000's for his original grunge type designs. Typefaces:

• Max Rhodes (based on the handwriting of Max Rhodes), Nasty, Shortcut, Carimbo (2003), Nars, Mosh (2004), Trashold (2004), Great Circus (2004, a five-weight calligraphic decorative family), Pastelaria, Downcome (2002), DIESEL, DirtyEgo, Mialgia, OverBored, PrintError, RecifeDings, ThirdWorldBuzz, Besign, HorsePuke, Lhabia, MemoryLapses, misprintedtype, NoMoreTypewriters, PrintFuck151, Selfish (2001), Misproject, Porcelain, Rochester (old typewriter), NailScratch, Astonished, Broken15, DisgustingBehavior, Guilty. <>LI>NeasdenPIP was designed with Steve Smith (2001).
• At Visuelle Orgasmus, we find Superphunky, Superload and Superaircraft, all made in 2001.
• Here, we find DirtyEgo, Downcome, Porcelain, Selfish, Shortcut.
• Myfonts sells Monster Days (2007, grunge calligraphy), Kyoto (grunge), AntiRomantic (2006), Toscography (2007, slightly Kafkaesque), LeKing (2007), HandMade (2007, grunge all caps), Nars, Mosh, Carimbo, Great Circus, Trashold.

My Disney Alphabet

Gifs with Disney charcters and letters. All by Thais Fonseca from Brazil. [Google]

Nacionale
[Doug Alves]

Brazilian graphic artist and illustrator based in Los Angeles, CA. Home page. He made a few all-caps frilly floral caps faces, such as one designed for Havaianas Ipe, and Mari (2008). [Google]

Nara Rocha

Brazilian codesigner with Daniel Lopes, Maurício Nunes, Luciana Medeiros, Daniel Pinheiro and Virgulino Melo of the typeface Sodoma (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google]

Natalya Rodrigues

Brazilian designer in 2007 of the beautiful Venetian masks dingbat font Mascaras de Veneza. Alternate URL. [Google]

Nathalie M

Brazilian creator (b. 1990) of Alliewriting (2009, handwriting). [Google]

Nauan Gustavo

Nauan Gustavo (or Darkkinder) is a Brazilian youngster (b. 1991), who created a few nice free typefaces, such as Engine (2007, an all-caps display face), WitchCraft (2007, gothic), Scribble (2007), Robotization (2006, futuristic), Alienable Halloween (2006, scary), TheMachine (2006), Alien Earth (2006, scary futuristic) and Future Font (2006, also eerie in style). [Google]

Neder Font Foundry
[Rafael Neder]

Neder Font Foundry, or Neder Type, is Rafael Neder's outfit in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Neder is a graphic designer. He created Discord (2006, an octagonal monoline type family with some grunge styles thrown in), Eklipse (2009, a fat octagonal face), Neder Pixeleite (2005), a free pixel face. Pixeleite was published with T-26 in 2005. Nova Sans (2009, with Francisco Martins) is a modern geometric sans-serif font which captures the spirit of Bossa Nova. [Google]

Netfontes.com

Brazilian archive with 2000+ fonts. Dingbat subarchive. Barcode subarchive. [Google]

Nicole Sigaud

Nicole Sigaud (Humanoid Exotik Designs) is the designer of ANACOM (1997-2002), a font consisting of quarter circles, quarter negative circles and halved squares. This is used in the ANACOM project in which tilings and patterns are described in a simple mathematical manner. The idea is fill position (x, y) of a 2d grid with character/glyph f(x, y) where f is any function. Another proposal is to define a certain order of a path on the grid, and fill the path based on the repetition of a given finite sequence of glyphs. [Google]

No Hype For Me
[Renato Forster]

As a reaction against HypeForType and other hyped up outfits, No Hype For Me (Renato Forster) in Sao Paulo, Brazil, is bent on giving away fonts for free. Type designs from 2008: Wolf, Fulk (upright connected script). In 2009, Forster made the all caps sans face NoType, and made an organic didone, Voor. His lettering. [Google]

nsdicas

Brazilian site with ten fonts, including the BerlinSansFB family, OldEnglishTextMT and LucidaHandwriting-Italic. [Google]

Nú-Dës

Brazilian designers of the blood-drip grunge face Caracura (2006). Home page. See also here. [Google]

Nu-des
[Billy Bacon]

Nu-des is a Brazilian foundry located in Rio that is involved in visual identity. They are experimenting with type. Its main designer, Billy Bacon created the scribbly font Pasmado (1996) and Marola (1996). In 1997, ghe created the foundry Subvertaipe. Professor at PUC-Rio and at Kabum! Escola de Artes e Tecnologia. [Google]

Nuke Type
[Leo Eyer]

Nuke Type is a Brazilian foundry located in Rio and run by Leo Eyer. [Google]

Octavio Cariello

Octavio Cariello (b. Recife, Brasil, 1963). He created some free and commercial fonts: Rizzo, Della Strada, Calil, AvPaulista, Dumonde, Dozo, Momentum, Yupanko, Pagador, Strega, Graphypem, Alaxyas, Sagarana, Hattia, Almanaque, Ikestrips, Kidturbo, Podunk. Many of his fonts have Cyrillic letters in addition to Latin letters. [Google]

Oficina Tipográfica
[Marcos Mello]

Marcos Mello and Cláudio Rocha run the Oficina Tipográfica site in Sao Paulo. Together, they are offering a number of typography courses. [Google]

Omine Type
[Eduardo Omine]

Eduardo Omine is the Sao Paulo-based Brazilian designer (b. Sao Paulo, 1981, student of Vicente Gil and Priscila Farias) of Literal Sans, Literal Bitmap, Lira Bitmap (2003), Lira Sans (2002, 4 weights), Prompt (pixel font), Gotische (2004, blackletter), and the display font Maest (2003; see also here). He graduated from the School of Architecture and Urbanism, Sao Paulo University (FAUUSP) in 2002. Linotype page. Beret (2003, a sans family with some flares, published at Linotype) won an award at the Linotype International Type Design Contest 2003. An architect/designer, he founded Omine Type in 2004. The following faces can now be bought at MyFonts: Bunker (stencil), Gotica Lumina (blackletter), Maest (a straight-lined script face). In progress: Epistle, Lalo. [Google]

Oporto Design
[Alexandre Venancio]

Sao Paulo-based design studio. MyFonts link. Its designer is Alexander Venancio, who graduated in Industrial Design from the Faculdade de Belas Artes de Sao Paulo. Creator of Maze (2009, multiline face), Landmark (2009), Thaitype (2009, Thai simulation face made with Felippe Duque), Ale's Script (2009, comic book script), Capa (2009, hairline art deco face done with Felippe Duque and Cristiano Vinciprova), and Oporto (2009). Indice (2009) is another hairline uber-geometric face. Behance link. [Google]

Ouripedes Gallene

Brazilian designer of caps fonts, dingbats, Celtic lettering fonts and some handprinted alphabets, all done in 2002-2003: CapitularFloral, CapitularMoldurada, Formasgeometricas2, Formasgermetricas1, Personalidades1, PincelCaps, Pincel2Plain, Simbolos1, Sports1, CapitularMoldurada2, FolhasCaps, Ramo2Caps, RamoCaps, RebuscadaCaps, RetaCaps. Another URL. [Google]

Outras Fontes
[Ricardo Esteves Gomes]

A Brazilian digital type foundry. It was founded in 2006 by Ricardo Esteves Gomes (b. 1980, Vitória, Brazil), a graphic designer and teacher, and Jarbas Barros Gomes. Their fonts include the flowing script Maryam (2007, Ricardo Esteves Gomes; this face won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008; also available from T-26), the Celtic script Jana Thork (2007-2008; see here for this face which won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008), Gaia (2008, ornamental dingbats), Hachura (2008, impressionist garalde), the impressionist (penciled in) Hachura (2008) and the medieval script Scrivano (2007, also at T-26). In 2009, he published the ultra-black slightly techno sans family Force, which includes a great Force Dingbats typeface. MyFonts link. [Google]

Pablo Lobo

Art director, graphic designer, and illustrator in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. He designed the art deco face NOIR1930 in 2009. With Lavinia Carvalho, he made the squarish counterless face Brocolis (2009). [Google]

Paula Robalinha

Brazilian codesigner with José Fabio, Melissa Trigueiro, Ricardo and George Vinícios of the experimental typeface Geometrica (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google]

Paulo Alberto Otto

Brazilian designer of Tengwar v.3, v.4 and v.5 (1994). Alternate URL. See also here. [Google]

Paulo Cunha Jr.

Brazilian designer of Moloko (2005), Parla (2005), Broken (2005), Chinela Brush (2005) and Freakomix (2005). Alternate URL. [Google]

Pedrina Tavares dos Reis

Brazilian designer from Perbambuco, b. 1989. She is the creator of the doll dingbat font BonecaS de Pano (2008) and the bread cookie lettering font Boneca de Pano (2008). [Google]

Pedro Henrique Rocha

Brazilian creator (b. 1982) of PH Rocha Scrypt and PHR Scrypt II (2009, handwriting). He lives in Anápolis. [Google]

Pedro Márcio Arantes Di Pietro

Golonia, Brazil-based graphic designer. He created some nice logotypes. [Google]

Pedro Mascarenhas

Designer in 2009 at FontStruct of x6PixelSerif. [Google]

Pedro Oliveira

Brazilian graphic designer who created the free font Fornida (2006-2008). Home page. Check also his Nu Jass lettering. [Google]

Pencilskirt

Brazilian designer (b. 1991). She created Pratginestos (2009, handwriting). [Google]

pessoais

Brazilian truetype font archive. Contains about ten Indian language fonts. [Google]

Plínio Uchoa Moreira

Brazilian codesigner with Buggy of the dingbat typeface Manguebat 1 (2005, Tipos do aCASO). He codesigned Manguebat 4 (2005) with Kboco, Bosco and Buggy. [Google]

Plinio Okamoto

Art director from Sao Paulo. Designer of the display sans face Clara (2008). [Google]

Priscila Lena Farias

Brazilian [T-26] designer of Cryptocomix10, LowTech, Quadrada, Seu Juca (2009, 3-d, handprinted) and Nova Regular (a text family started in 2002). She also designed Disneybats, Ruraldings and Juca. Author of "Tipografia Digital" (2AB, 1998). MyFonts page. She has a doctorate in communication from the Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Sao Paulo and is affiliated with the foundry Tipos do acaso. Graphic designer as well as typography professor at PUC Sao Paulo. She is head of the design program at SENAC sao Paulo, and professor at FAU, USP (University of Sao Paulo's School of Architecture and Urbanism). President of the Brazilian Information Design Society (SBDI). Editor of the book Fontes digitais brasileiras: de 1989 a 2001 (Sao Paulo: ADGBrasil/Rosari). Author of Tipografia digital: o impacto das novas tecnologias (2AB Editora). At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, she spoke on Brazilian vernacular type design and digital technologies. [Google]

Promodesign
[Crystian Cruz]

Promodesign is a Brazilian graphic design company of Crystian Cruz in Sao Paulo. His award winning graffiti font Brasilero (2001: first prize at the Tipografia Brasilis in display typography 2001) can be freely downloaded. In 2009, he was still improving and extending Brasilero to include optional characters with typical mistakes or alternate forms used for graffiti. Crystian Cruz and Beto Shibata used to run the Tipos Maléficos foundry. Alternate URL. Since 1999 he has been working as art director for a major Brazilian magazines and as type consultant for publishing companies and design studios. He specializes in commissioned type design. At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he spoke on the Brasilero project. He obtained an MA in typeface design from The University of Reading (2009), based on his type family Quartzo, which comes in Display, Text, Pocket and Cyrillic sets, and whose outlines are slightly "broken" to enhance readability at small sizes. Also, his use of Opentype features to make barchart and ratings characters is quite clever. [Google]

Rachel's Truetype Fonts

Brazilian archive with 160 fonts. [Google]

Rafael Ferreira Design
[Rafael Peixoto Ferreira]

Great handwriting font Falhado by Rafael Peixoto Ferreira from Campinas (Brazil). Alternate download site. [Google]

Raphael Jordany

Brazilian designer, b. 1983. He created the grunge face Verdana Hand (2006). Alternate URL. [Google]

Raphael Monteiro

Brazilian designer in Sao Paulo (b. 1983) who created Imaginário Digital (2005, lettering based on one of the paintings of Portuguese painter José Maria Fernandes Marques). No downloads. Behance link. Alternate URL. [Google]

Raphael Sousa

Graphic and type designer and graffiti artist from Sao Paulo, who runs Minimix Design Studio. He made the art deco face Sekuela (2008). [Google]

Rebecca Agra

Brazilian graphic designer who lives in Aracaju. Studio. She created Egito (2009), an out-of-focus optical illusion font. [Google]

Renata Faccenda

Brazilian type designer who works at Tipos do aCaso. Her fonts include the children's handwriting font Toinho, designed with Joana Amador. [Google]

Renato Michalischen

Brazilian designer at AOA Design. Creator of the (free) handwriting font Denise Sans. Alternate URL. [Google]

Renato Pacicco Lofti

Typographer from Sao Paulo (Brazil) who won first prize at the Tipografia Brasilis in the dingbat category, 2001, with his "Skate". [Google]

Reye87

Brazilian designer of New Wave 2009 (2009, FontStruct), a counterless headline face. [Google]

Ricardo

Brazilian codesigner with José Fabio, Melissa Trigueiro, George Vinícios and Paula Robalinha of the experimental typeface Geometrica (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google]

Roberto Raúl "Beto" Janz

Brazilian designer (b. Curitiba, 1981) who joined estudioCrop in 2005. He created the five-weight (slightly grungy) calligraphic family Postuma (2005). [Google]

Robson Tamas

Brazilian designer of the nice outline font Bernardino (1999). Works at Megaart Design. Alterante URL. Yet another URL. [Google]

Rodolfo Capeto

Brazilian graphic designer who also does consulting in the field of networking and Internet, and is a part-time teacher at the ESDI, Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial, in Rio de Janeiro (which is also the school where he studied). His foundry will come on-line soon. He was commissioned to design Houaiss (2002) for the Portugese dictionary by that name. He also designed V2000, Tyson (2003), and Karole (2003). [Google]

Rodrigo Bessa

Brazilian creator in 2008 of an Avant Garde style font RavenGarde for TIM Festival 2008. He works at Tátil Design. [Google]

Rodrigo Bleque

Designer with Lula Rocha at Sugiro Design in Brazil of Skova (1999). [Google]

Rodrigo Costa

Born in 1972, this industrial designer in Rio de Janeiro created the flowing display face Myque (1998). Dafont link. [Google]

Rodrigo Gomes de Oliveira

Graphic designer in Sao Paulo, b. 1989. He used FontStruct to make Modulare (2009). [Google]

Rodrigo Pires

Brazilian type designer from Recife (b. 1976) who works at Tipos do aCaso. His fonts include Chango (grungy brush hand), Estuque (scratchy hand), Quadrinaits and Rano Light (very experimental). He runs Studio Setemeia. [Google]

Rodrigo Rocha Saiani

Rio-based graphic designer, who created this sans family (2004). [Google]

Rogério Oliveira

Brazilian photographer, consultant and web designer (b. 1983) who lives in Sao Paulo. Creator of the free octagonal font Typograff (2009). Dafont link. [Google]

Rogerio Lionzo

Brasilia, Brazil-based graphic and poster designer. He works a lot of type into his projects. Designer of the flowery experimental font Goteira (2006), which I think would be just right to headline a novel on Roman orgies. [Google]

Romulo Castilho de Freitas

Student at Senac in sao Paulo. Designer from Sao Paulo (b. 1988) of Caramella (2006), a typeface made with the help of Leandro Quaresma (italic), Paula Saito (bold) and Danilo Agra (bold-italic). Behance link. Dafont link. [Google]

Romulo Genova

Sao Paulo-based designer of the multiline headline face Madonna (2007). [Google]

Ronald Kyrmse

Designer of the Tengwar font Tencele Latinwa (2004, Mans Björkman's Tengwar Parmaite), Elfetica (2004, based on Max Miedinger's Helvetica), and Tengwar Hereno (2004, a completion of Paulo A. Otto's 1994 font Tengwar 04). He also made the rune font Gondolinic (2003). Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of connexa, metrica. [Google]

Rose Fairy Clahific Cloe

Brazilian designer from Santa Catarina, b. 1994. At FontStruct, she made the pixelish face Scrept in 2009. [Google]

Rubens Matuck

Brazilian illustrator, artist and type designer, who made the beautiful Leonardo desde Vinci display font (2000). [Google]

Rubinei Abreu

Sao Paulo-based designer of the liquid display face Abreus RD (2004). [Google]

Ruth Klotzel

Brazilian graphic designer and occasional type designer. [Google]

Sandra Avoletta

Brazilian designer of the alphading font Medalhao (2000) under the label Sandra-Nat. [Google]

Saulo Deboni

Brazilian creator, with Silvia Cristina Medeiros and Mirian Mitsue Yanai of the curly display face Franklin Cascaes (2007). [Google]

Sérgio Bergocce

Sao Paulo-based designer of the ultra-fat hookish Blockface (2007), the serif face Tortoise Roman (2006), the paperclip font Elefan (2006), and the sublime human face dingbat font Los Caras. Behance link. [Google]

Sela Preta
[Daniel Morena]

Sela Preta is a Brazilian foundry located in Rio and run by Daniel Morena. [Google]

Sergio Berkenbrock

Graphic design student in Brazil. Designer at FontStruct of these fonts in 2009: Safehouse Sessions (piano key face), Black Rounded Stencil, Sessions Cover. Negra, Rose, Nu Jazz (counterless). Aka El Huesudo II. [Google]

SHN

Brazilian art site specializing in street art posters and sticker dingbats. Dafont link. Makers of the free dingbat font Shn PC (2003). [Google]

Silvia Cristina Medeiros

Brazilian creator, with Saulo Deboni and Mirian Mitsue Yanai of the curly display faceFranklin Cascaes (2007). [Google]

Simone Mattar

Brazilian graphic designer who made the font family Mack for Universidade Mackenzie. Other fonts: Tipogranfome (graffiti lettering) and Tipogranfina. [Google]

Soteropolitypes
[Ian Sampaio]

Brazilain outfit run by Ian Sampaio from Sao Paulo. [Google]

Subvertaipe
[Billy Bacon]

Brazilian foundry located in Rio set up in 1997 by Billy Bacon. [Google]

Sugiro Design (was Rocha Design)
[Lula Rocha]

Brazilian foundry of Lula Rocha which evolved from Rocha Design in 2003. Lula Rocha designed the freeware typefaces Enigmaquatro (1999, disturbed pixel font), Hellvetikacinquenta (1999, gothic) and Skova (1999, with Rodrigo Bleque, LED influences). [Google]

Taran Conyers

Designer of the grunge fonts TK smartypants, TK mouse, TKturtlesoup, TKstamped font, TKhoneydo and TKdoodle (2006, calligraphic script). Some are here. It is a mystery to me how Ligia Rego Cruz (b. 1986), a Brazilian designer from Pernambuco, can claim TK Doodle as hers on Dafont. [Google]

Tatiana Antunes Tavares

Brazilian designer of the black titling face Cybernetica Type (2002) while she was a student in Sao Paulo at Senac de Comunicações e Artes. [Google]

Tatiane Queiroz Soares

Brazilian designer from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, who is working on this modular experimental face (2006). [Google]

Técnica o artesania?

The Brazilian font scene explained in Portuguese. By graphic designer Paulo Moretto, and originally published in PROJETODESIGN vol. 255 in May 2001. [Google]

Téo Brito

Graphic designer in Fortaleza, Brazil, b. 1985. Dafont link. He created the heavy square face Elvi Esna (2009). [Google]

terranova estaleiro tipografico

Original fonts from Brazil: 04b03rev (a revision of Yuji Oshimoto's 04b03 pixel font), Amod, ACMEExplosiveREV (a revision of a Blambot font), BayaoHandNormal, Bithand1, DroughNormal, FightDurdenNormal, Serta1, matrix, Mississipiblues. [Google]

Thais Lima

Sao Paulo-based designer at T26 of Genu, Motus and GenStencil (2000). [Google]

The death of the pixel font
[Jose "Zeh" Fernando (Rorshack)]

Piece by Jose Fernando (Rorshack) on why pixel fonts will not be needed any longer in Flash MX 2004, which will rely entirely on on-the-fly antialiasing. The hinting in the font will be ignored. [Google]

Thiago Calza

Sao Paulo-based graphc designer (b. 1986). He created Balonez Fantasia (2009). Flickr site. [Google]

Thiago Matsunaga

Graphic designer from Curitiba, Brazil, b. 1987. Dafont link. Creator of the organic typeface Bertolt Brecht (2009). [Google]

Tiago Porto

Brazilian codesigner with Vicente Repolês Pessôa and Zed Martins of the 10-style 2d and 3d pixel font family called Processual (2008, Letra Um). Born in 1984 in Belo Horizonte. [Google]

Tipocracia
[Henrique Nardi]

Tipocracia is the foundry of Henrique Nardi. Nardi is Brazilian designer from Sao Paulo, who in 2003 cofounded Tipocracia: Estado Tipografico with Márcio Shimabukuro. He has a Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, Anhembi Morumbi, Graphic Technology from SENAI and a Master's degree in Visual Arts from UNESP. Speaker at ATypI 2006 in Lisbon, and at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, where he spoke on Lambe-lambe letters: Grafica Fidalga, São Paulo. Coorganizer with Luciano Cardinali in December 2008 of DiaTipo Natal in Sao Paulo in which the speakers were Gustavo Garcia, Fernando Mello, Gustavo Soares and Claudio Rocha. [Google]

Tipoforme
[Matheus Barbosa]

Matheus Barbosa (Tipoforme) is a graphic designer Fortaleza, Brazil, who studied design at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco. Currently he works at Zoludesign. He is working on the sans face Nata Sans (2004). His fonts Nata Sans and Parahybe also appeared at Tipos do aCaso. His Armoribat 2, codesigned with Buggy, won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008. He also does calligraphic work. . [Google]

Tipografia Artesanal Urbana
[Vinicius Guimaraes]

Brazilian free font foundry run by Vinicius Guimaraes, a designer who graduated from UFRJ in Rio. His fonts, all made in 2007: TAUcabea (handprinted headline face), TAUcontexto, TAUfilezin, TAUx-tudo (dingbats). [Google]

Tipografia Brasilis

Awards at the Tipografia Brasilis competition in 2001 in display typography: first prize Brasilero (by Crystian Cruz), second prize Buril (by Cassiano Saldanha), third prize Pero Vaz (by Ericson Straub). In the dingbat category we have: first prize Renato Pacicco Lofti with Skate, second prize Cassiano Saldanha with Street, third prize Marcelo Martinez with Agli Feices. [Google]

Tipografia Brasilis 2

Exhibition of type in Sao Paulo, March 27-April 16, 2001. And the main Brazilian type conference. Report. [Google]

Tipografia Brasilis 3

Conference and exposition in Brazil held in November 2002. Distinguished speakers include Bruno Maag, David Berlow, and Rubén Fontana. [Google]

tipografia.com.br

Classification of typefaces. Great lists! [Google]

Tipograma Fontes
[Márcio Shimabukuro]

Tipograma Fontes is the Sao-Paulo based foundry of Marcio Shimabukuro, who cofounded Tipocracia: Estado Tipografico with Henrique Nardi. Shimabukuro designed Blurdoni, Boggy, Cego, Heresia, Omelete, Pins, Pixal, Sound and Zoin. He is no longer making typefaces. [Google]

Tipopotamo Fontes
[Claudio Reston]

Tipopotamo Fontes is a Brazilian foundry (also called Elesbao e Haroldinho) offering 27 free fonts. Designers: Claudio Reston, José Bessa, Fabio Eis. Fonts: AlmanaqueItalic, AlmanaqueNormal, AlmanaqueOutlineItalic, AlmanaqueOutline, AMassaFalida1, AMassaFalida2, AngularMedium, BacanaMesmoMedium, BacanaMedium, BlendadaNormal, BrailleSerif, BrasilisBold, Buchada (handwriting), Cadela (handwriting), CassulaDingbats (little men), CassulaTypeface (handwriting), Cistema (pixel font), EmboliaLunar (curly letters), LatrinaBlack, MobralMedium, NervosaNormal (handwriting), OdaraSemiBold (geometric experimental), SambambersBold, Supersonica, Surraundi (squarish letters), TechnocrataItalic, TechnocrataNormal. All fonts made in 1999-2001. Located in Rio. Behance link. [Google]

Tipos do aCaso

Brazilian foundry located in Pernambuco. Some designers:

• Diego Credidio: Cabra-da-peste, Wayana.
• Miguel Sanches: a great experimental font Arqueo, Bolha, Snake, Xilot.
• Rodrigo Pires: Chango, Estuque (grunge), Rano Light (very experimental), Quadrinaits.
• Buggy (Leandro Araújo da Costa): Cordel, the bitmap font Disquete, Oxe, Regua, Ferro de Boi, Palm and Stone.
• Alex Carvalho: Rec Block.
• Marcos Buccini: the destructive font Estruturas, Cafeina, Poracaso, Quadra (pixel font).
• Renata Faccenda and Joana Amador: Toinho (children's handwriting).
• Helder Diniz: Grea.
• Marcelo Garcia: Celo Bold.
• Yuri: Yuri Manimals.
• Luciana de Mari: 3x4.
• Damiao: Vincent.
• Priscila Farias.
• André Moraes.
• Antonio.
• Marcia Maia.

Tipos Populares do Brasil
[Pedro Moura]

Brazilian fonts that are inspired by daily life in Brazil in general and in Salvador in particular. Pedro Moura manages the site. Original link. Free downloads:

• By Pedro Moura: Teteia (2004, connected script), Responsa (2004, market price font), Caprichoza (2004, handprinted display face), Marvada (2004), Treta (2004, handprinted outline face), Faceira (2005, another connected script). Treta excepted, inspiration for these fonts came from the streets of Rio de Janeiro.
• By Fernando Rocha, Rio de Janeiro: Thereza Miranda.
• By Buggy, Recife: Cordel.
• By Gustavo Lassala, Sao Paulo: Adrenalina (no longer free).
• By Fernando PJ, Salvador: Bonoco 2.0, Suburbana.
• By Fatima Finizola, Recife: 1Rial.

Tupigrafia

Brazilian type and calligraphy magazine edited by Claudia Rocha Franco and Tony de Marco. Great list of links to Brazilian typographers. Based in Sao Paulo. There is an English addendum. Order here. [Google]

Type classification systems
[Joao Pedro Jacques]

Joao Pedro Jacques' Brazilian page listing type classification systems: Maximilien Vox (1954), ATypI (1961), DIN 16518 (1964), BS 2961 (1967), Monotype (1970), Bitstream (1986), Linotype (1988), Adobe (1991), Microsoft (1991), URW++ (1996), PANOSE Latin (1997). [Google]

TypeFolio Digital Foundry
[Marconi G. Lima]

TypeFolio is Marconi Lima's digital foundry, est. 2007. It is located in Macapá in Brazil's Amapá province (Amazonia). Marconi Lima (b. Brazil, 1973) is a graphic designer and art director. His faces:

• Adriane Text (2006-2007) is a legible transitional text family that won an award for extensive text family at Tipos Latinos 2008. Discussion of Adriane Serif at Typophile. See also here (2004). In 2009, it was followed by the decroative titling openface font Adriane Lux (TypeTrust).
• Pétala Sans (2003), still unfinished.
• Adriane Lux (2008) is a nice open face font.

Vicente Gil

Brazilian author of "A revoluçao dos tipos". [Google]

Vicente Pessôa

Brazilian designer of Processual (with Tiago Porto and Zed Martins), a typeface that won an award at Tipos Latinos 2008 in the pixel category. [Google]

Vicente Repolês Pessôa

Brazilian codesigner with Tiago Porto and Zed Martins of the 10-style 2d and 3d pixel font family called Processual (2008, Letra Um). Born in 1986 in Ipatinga. [Google]

Vinicius Acquesta

Bazilian graphic designer (b. 1988) who lives in Sao Paulo. Creator of the ultra black face SubSquare (2009). Aka "subdoom". Dafont link. [Google]

Virgulino Melo

Brazilian codesigner with Daniel Lopes, Maurício Nunes, Luciana Medeiros, Daniel Pinheiro and Nara Rocha of the typeface Sodoma (2005, Tipos do aCASO). [Google]

Viváine Rebouças

Brazilian designer (with Henrique Faria) of Cafe e cha (2009, handwriting font). She lives in Belo Horizonte. Blog. [Google]

Wellinton Lenzi

Sao Paulo-based Lenzi (b. 1988) designed the pixel stencil face Shuin Sans (2009). [Google]

Yomar Augusto

Yomar Augusto holds a BA in graphic design (University of Rio de Janeiro, 2000) and MA in type design (Type & Media at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, 2005). As a Brazilian graphic artist, he has been involved in two Rojo ArtStorm projects. Yomar lives in Rotterdam and is currently working at 180Amsterdam in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His typefaces include Den Dekker (2006), and the roundish liquid creations such as Virgem, Rejane, Liquida (2002) and Dizain. No downloads. More recent faces: Duin (2007, octagonal), REMF (2006, stencil), DC (2007, ultra-fat), Fake Human (2005, script), Jana (2006, unicase), War (2007, octagonal), Fuck Shit Up (2007, stencil), Charlie Dee (2002, hairline stencil), Marina Lima (2002), Lasagna (2008, Re-Type: a fat geometric poster family, produced with the help of Miguel Hernandez). At ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg, he ran an experimental calligraphy workshop called Kalligraphos. [Google]

Yuri

Brazilian eighth grader, who made Yuri Manimals (free font) at Tipos do aCaso. [Google]

ZipFontes

Brazilian archive with over 44,000 fonts. [Google]