Alejandro Fauré

Chilean illustrator and designer from the art nouveau era, 1865-1912. Check Alejandro Fauré Obre Gráfica (Mariana Muñoz and Fernanda Villalobos, 2009). [Google]

Andi (Andrés) Alarcón

Chilean designer (b. 1990) of the destructionist face Vibrate Letters (2006). Home page. Another URL. [Google]

Bárbara Mery

Chilean typography professor at Universidad Diego Portales, Chile. [Google]

Benjamin Jimenez

Santiago, Chile-based designer (b. 1986) of Plumon (2007). Alternate URL. [Google]

Brainreactor/GyoDea
[Andreas Lindholm]

Techno and futuristic fonts by Andreas Lindholm (from Bromma, Sweden; now in Stockholm and Santiago, Chile) such as Aerospace, BumbleBee, Calculator, Crystopia, Decoder, Elastica, Futuremark, Infaith, Intergalactic, Neodream, Neutronica, Octane, Pornomania, Prenoptica, Prologik, Reactivator, Ultimate Survivor, Viagra, Virus, Survival, Propaganda, Booster. Mac and PC. Fonts sold by Mindcandy. Alternate URL. His future faces are shown here. [Google]

Carolina Akel

Designer at tipografia.cl in Santiago de Chile, who designed TCatomica. [Google]

Chile Graphics

Chilean designers of the Mexican or desert-themed typeface Jicama (2002). [Google]

CRG y TechnoCom

Chilean designers of the sans face Zap. [Google]

Cristián González Sáiz

Santiago, Chili-based designer (b. Santiago, 1977) of the display faces Tosca (2005, Egyptian), RotulaCG and of Paquidermo (2003). He created Origen (2002-2003), about which he writes: "Origen is a sexy soft typeface that not only cares about legibility in small sizes but also the particularity each character has at 24pts. or more. It was created from a logo designed for a potter whose work is based on simple and friendly forms developed from the origin." Origen can be bought at Union Fonts. He studied Graphic Design at the  Finis Terrae University, graduating in 2001. In 2002 he continued his studies at the Typography Diploma in Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, where he started Origen. He now works as an art director in Ce Diseña, one of the most important firms of global branding in Chile, and as an independent designer for several artistic projects. [Google]

Cristian Gonzalez

Santiago, Chili-based designer who has been working on El Chino (2004, a stencil type). [Google]

David Barrera

Santiago, Chile-based designer (b. 1982) of the plumbing dingbat face GasfiterbarreraNormal (2004). Home page. [Google]

Departamento de Estudios Tipográficos

Located at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, this school offers a Diploma en tipografía. Its professors include type designers and typographers such as Rodrigo Ramírez, Luis Antonio Rojas, Francisco Gálvez, and José Soto. Other link. [Google]

Diego Quintana

Creator (b. 1988) of a geometric type family in 2009. He is based in Santiago, Chile, and runs a graphic design and phot illustration business there. Techno font made in 2009 according to strict geometric rules. [Google]

Estudio de diseño Calderón
[Daniel Hernández Sanchez]

This studio/foundry in Chile has the work of two Chilean designers:

• Daniel Hernández has some free fonts at Dafont. His award-winning fonts include Stgotic textura (2006), Stgotic Fracktur (pixel blackletter), and the (free) unicase piano key font Pincoya Black (2008), which was based on Spanish Civil War poster. He calls his ultra fat Roxy (2009) tipografia desde el culo del mundo. Behance link. His Flickr page. His lettering.
• Javier Quintana created the smooth and delectable text family Berenjena in 2007. He also made the roundish display face Botota (2007), which is reminiscent of market signage in Santiago.

Fabian Vera

Chilean designer of the great splashy scratchy paint-simulation face Gantz (2009). [Google]

Felipe Cáceres

Felipe Cáceres C. was born in 1982 in Santiago de Chile. He is a graphic designer from the Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana and has a diploma in typography from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He is one of the cofounders of the Unión de los Tipógrafos in Santiago. He currently works as a designer in the graphic, type and information studio Filete in Santiago. Designer of Altazor (2008), a winner in the Tipos Latinos 2008 competition for best text family. At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he spoke on the history of type design in Chile. [Google]

Felipe Millon

Designer (b. 1984, Chile) in 2007 of the handprinted party font Que Fontita. [Google]

Flora Argemi

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

Francisco Gálvez Pizarro

Designer at tipografia.cl in Santiago de Chile, who designed TCLelementalserif, TCLelementalsans, TCLuniprint, TCLllanquihue (gorgeous), TCLdeluxe. He is also a graphic designer from IPEVE, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile. He teaches typography at Universidad Católica de Chile and Diego Portales University. He was a design consultant for Santiago de Chile public transport's information system (2003-2006) and author of the book Educación tipográfica, una introducción a la tipografía (published in Chile in 2004 and Argentina in 2005). Other faces of his include Galvez Sans, Kinetika Grotesk, and Metrotipo. For the modern family Australis (see also here), he won the gold medal at the Morisawa 2002 competition. Amster and Queltehue Regular won awards in the extensive text and text family categories at Tipos Latinos 2008. Australis is now available from Latinotype. He also made font families for newspapers such as La Discusión (Chillán, 2008), and La Tercera in collaboration with Rodrigo Ramííez (Santiago, 2007-2008). Speaker at ATypI 2009 in Mexico City. [Google]

Gonzalo Osorio

Chilean designer of Ronea Regular (2008), a winner in the Tipos Latinos 2008 competition for best text family. [Google]

Hugo Cáceres

Graphic design professor at UBB (Chile). He conceived a modular type called Makana (2008). [Google]

Ignacio Muñoz Flores

Santiago, Chile-based graphic designer, b. 1989. Home page. He created the free face Puntua Display (2009). [Google]

Jonathan Bravo

Chilean graphic designer, b. 1986. Creator of the delicate display font Fragile Beta 02 (2007). Student in Santiago at Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana. Blog. [Google]

Jonathan Vivanco

Chilean designer, b. 1984. Home page. He made The Go Font (2009, art deco) and Bleeding Heart (2009, handpainted). [Google]

Jorge Cisterna Avendaño

Chilean type design student who created the heavy slab serif Bock (2008), the fat Muralista (Latinotype) and the signage font Quinchao Script (2008). [Google]

Jose Fernandez

Santiago, Chile-based designer (b. 1991) of the handwriting fonts Jose Fernandez (2008) and Tomas Massu (2008). [Google]

José Alberto "Big Beraka" Lobos

Chilean designer (b. 1985) in 2008 of the graffiti fonts BerakaFont, GhettoStreetz, IWrite, Krash!!, Ozone, SadocWild, SkoolKrash, Soulsimplez, Sprayerz, Stylin'BRK, TMS-One. In 2009, he added eX02 (nice grungy letters), Mojah Sans (signage), Beraka 2, Beraka 3, Crawn Fat, AbeceDroh (graffiti), Droh, Tag Attack, Urban Riot, Akareb, Kosquilla (comic book face), Sadoc Wild, Soul Simplez, and Scratched Junk. He lives in Temuco. Home page. Dafont link. [Google]

José Soto Buzzetti

Designer at and cofounder of tipografia.cl in Santiago de Chile, who designed TCLantillanca, TCLexpendio, TCLhueaitas (dingbats and borders by Kote Soto and Tono Rojas), TCLpapas, TCLmapocho. Also called Kote Soto. Art director of Teknoland Chile. [Google]

Juan Pablo de Gregorio

Designer of Chucara Serif (2003), Los Niches (2007, playful hairline sans, about which Anna Malsberger writes: The lowercase f puffs out its chest with exaggerated aplomb, and t splits into a script stem reminiscent of a table grab a cocktail and pull up a chair to watch the show), Comalle (2008, Umbrella type; an organic roman with a comic book mind), Romeral (2004, slab serif), a custom typeface for the University of Chile (2007) and Curico (2004). Juan lives in Santiago, Chile. Home page of Sabia Usted. Blog with entries on themes such as legibility. [Google]

Juan Pablo Meza Recabarren

Graphic designer in Santiago, Chile. He created the experimental face Selknam (2009). [Google]

KoNuS
[Felipe Navarro]

Chilean Felipe Navarro (KoNuS) is the designer of Harry Potter (2002), the rune font Tolkien (2001), graffiti style fonts Yahoo (2002) and MatrixCode (2003) and of the old typewriter font Counter-Strike (2003). [Google]

Latinotype
[Miguel Angel Hernández Montoya]

Latinotype was founded in 2007 by Felipe Soto and Miguel Hernández, and is based in Chile. Miguel Angel Hernández Montoya is the Santiago, Chili-based graphic designer, type designer and illustrator who has a BFA in graphic design from the UBB School of Design. In 2007, he set up Latinotype. Before that, he was involved in many font projects and specialized in pixel fonts. Latinotype now also includes the work of Luciano Vergara and Joaquín Contreras. Hernández's fonts:

• LlanquihuePIXEL, based on the great font TCL Llanquihue by Francisco Galvez.
• The truly perfect pixel font family Fundamental (2003).
• The pixel font Sligthest.
• The sans family Chile (2004), Chile Sans (2005). Chile Sans won at the Tipos Latinos 2008 competition.
• The highway signage face Optica (2004).
• The fifties diner-style screen font Detroit 45 (2002).
• The bitmap display font Kuppa (2003).
• The church stone engraving simulation face Finaita (2002).
• The Western pixel font Arizona (2003, perfect!).
• The bitmap handwriting font Wolfgang Bold.
• The screen font Screenager (2002).
• The funky bitmap font Groobit.
• Minority (2002, a very small screen font).
• Fundamental (2002, a very original screen font, with ligatures for "rr" and "LL", for example), which was subsequently published at tipografia.cl.
• The ultimate pixel font Miguel's Three Dots (2002).
• The pixel display font Circa (2002).
• The pixel fonts Capitalista, Garadot (2003, a fantastic pixel version of an elegant Garamond) and Harmonica.
• The script pixel fonts Anticrisp (2003) and Essential Bold.
• The gray pixel face Sushi (2004, hiragana, katakana, Latin).
• The serif font Quetzal (2003).
• The bitmap family Sugar (2003).
• The bitmap family Apple (2004, based on Apple's Chicago).
• At Atomic Media, he released Carbona and Carbona Bold in 2002, as well as 12 bitmap fonts in 2003: Maya, Fundamental, Azteca, Tekilla, Aymara, Minority, Quadratis, Carnoa Plain & Bold, Machina Typewriter, Dotic (blackletter), Mezcal, Circa.
• In 2004, he joined Ultra Pixel Fonts, where he made the pixel faces Orbital, Sugar, Odyssey, Solar, Voltage, Jetson.
• At Latinotype, he made Picara Sans (2007, an organic sans), Cadena (2007, a rounded sans which won at Tipos Latinos 2008), Love (2007, ultra fat rounded) and Mote (2007, rounded sans display face).
• Stgotic Textura and Pintana are pixel font award winners at Tipos Latinos 2008.

Letritas
[Juan Pablo De Gregorio Concha]

Juan Pablo De Gregorio Concha is the Chilean designer (b. 1978) of the hip Bodoni face Isbel la Romana (2002). Alternate URL. Creator of Chúcara (2003), a typeface developed as part of his thesis for the School of Design of the Catholic University of Chile. His blog, Letritas, has many interesting technical type discussions. His other blog is Garabatitos. I especially like his article on the logical decomposition of letter forms. [Google]

Luciano Vergara

Chilean graphic designer from Concepcion (b. 1979) who created the sans face Conce (2004), Pepona (2006, T-26, a pixel face), Trauco (2006, T-26, a wonderful display face), Otto (2006, T-26, anotyer pixel face), Roketu (2007, T-26, rounded octagonal face) and Hisla Negra (2004), the serif face Patua (2003), the pixel face Xerif (2004), the pixel face Sinaptix (2004), the pixel face UNXERIF (2004), the pixel face Don Paul (2004, named after Paul Renner), the liquid display face Revolución (2006), the pixel family Renex (2004) and the pixel face O'Higgins (2003). At Latinotype, he created the dingbat face Chilean Bugs (2006) (free at Dafont), as well as Biotech, Fidel Black (a strong sans), Patua (serif), and Regia (hairline condensed sans). At FontStruct, he experimented with Flaca (2008). At his Flickr site, check out more commercial typefaces: Fidel (strong sans), Regia and Trasans (two light, even hairline, sans faces), Biotech. [Google]

Luis Rojas Herrera
[Tono Rojas]

Luis Rojas Herrera is a designer at and cofounder of tipografia.cl in Santiago de Chile, who designed TCLcachito, TCLemiliana, TCLestacion, TCLhueaitas (dingbats and borders by Kote Soto and Tono Rojas), TCLmechada, TCLripio, TCLsolobuses. Also called Tono Rojas. [Google]

Magdalena Torres

Chilean designer (b. 1989) who created the beautiful Avant-Garde style geometric sans face Caprichosa WIP (2007) as well as Magdalena_Handwritting (2006). [Google]

Magentta

Type and graphic design blog in Chile (in Spanish). [Google]

Marian Gravone Gravier

Doctoral student in art history at UNAM, Mexico. She has worked for public, private and non-governmental institutions in the field of typography and publishing design since 1994. Her research topics are about design criticism, history of typography and design & gender. At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, she spoke on Colonial Typography for Native Languages of Latin America (XVI-XIX Century). [Google]

Marie Joe

Chilean photo manipulator. She designed Breakdown (2009, a Kafkaesque grunge face). [Google]

Mauricio Amster

Polish-Spanish designer, 1907-1980, who fled Spain in 1939 to Chile on board of the Winnipeg, and who revolutionized editorial design in Chile. He worked on the mag Zig-Zag. Examples of his sublime lettering: calligraphy, Cancellaresca, Gotica Bastarda, Romana Antigua, Romantica Humanistica, Rotunda. Photo. [Google]

Moisés Arancibia

Designer at tipografia.cl of Menu. [Google]

Niña Rasmusera

Chilean designer from Valdivia (b. 1992) who created the grungy blackletter face Rasmus (2009). [Google]

Osvaldo Quintanilla

Chilean-born designer at the Australian foundry Prototype Font Design of Destroy, CommBats, and "Plains, Trains and Autos". Prototype Font Design went out of business some time before 2004. [Google]

Pablo Espinosa

Chilean designer (b. 1984) of the handprinted Fontbardeo (2009). [Google]

palnk (or: Valeria)

Chilean designer, b. 1985. She made palnk3 (009, Fontcapture). [Google]

Pascu Beckett

Creator of Pascu 1 (2008). Born in 1992, she is from Santiago, Chile. [Google]

Paula Barahona

Chilean designer of Señorita Book(2008), a winner in the Tipos Latinos 2008 competition for best text family. [Google]

Pimentel
[Felipe Pimentel]

Chilean type blog run by Felipe Pimentel. [Google]

Proyecto Elemental: nueva tipografia

Chilean type project. [Google]

Rodrigo Araya Salas

Aka Rodrigo German. Design student from Santiago, Chile, b. 1987. Creator of the hand-drawn free fonts El Cubano (2009, dingbats of faces), Mental Freak (2009, outline), Brigada Ramona Parra (2009, dingbats), Happie (2009, dingbats), Santiago Icono (2009), Icono Skate Dingbat (2009), 78 Skate (2009), The Sorden (2009), Estilo Urbano (2009, stencil), Tetris (2009), Techno (2009), Kona (2009, childish hand), Parody Logoskate (2009, dingbats), Fat Love (2009), La Rata Bizarra (2008), Tabla (2008), A Mano Alza2009), Maribel (2009, handwriting), Stencil (2009), Rayando (2008, chalky writing), Klam, Loco TV, Monos Frekis (2008, funny dingbats), Happie (2009, more funny dingbats), Funny Icons (2009), Kiltro (2008, dog dingbats), Pokemona (dingbats), Maniatico (scratchy outlined hand), Bizarro 1 (outline hand), Chile (dingbats), Freaky (2008, dingbats), Esquiso (outlined handwriting), Crazy Ras (outlined and handprinted), Skatelove (2008, dingbats), Los de Abajo (2008, dingbats), Logoskate (2008). He also made the flowing ultra fat face David, the grungy Destruccion, and the ransom note face Skateboarding in 2008. Mike Valley (2008) and Rodney Mullen King (2009) are skateboard dingbats. El Chavo del 8 (2008) and Grande Maradona (2008) are scanbats. Saintfont (2009) is handprinted. New Tetris (2009) is tetris-based. Dafont link. Behance link. [Google]

Rodrigo Ramírez

Designer at tipografia.cl in Santiago de Chile, who designed Carmen (serif family, see also here), TCLescuelerascript (1997, semi-calligraphic), TCLIndoSansItalic, TCLIndoSansLight, TCLtetra (2000). Was professor of Design and Typography at DUOC de Viña del Mar, Chile. Currently lecturer in the School of Design at the Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago. Other faces he created include CuzCuz (2004, an experimental Pre-Colombian face), Gemini, Obra (2002), Digna Sans (2002, see also here), New Maru (10px font, 2002; see also here) and TCL NumaX (1998). At Union Fonts, he designed the Digna family (2003) in Thin, Regular, Heavy and Bold weights. [Google]

Sergio Catalan

Santiago, Chile-based designer, b. 1983. He created the face-inspired decorative family Callejera (2009). [Google]

Sergio Contreras Chandia

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

Sindicato de la Imagen (or: Cooperativa de Fundicion Tipografica)
[Joaquín (jko) Contreras]

Santiago, Chili-based type cooperative where some free fonts have been produced: CNI (2004, a scary pixel face named after the Central Nacional de Información, the notorious Chilean intelligence bureau), CFT maestro rosamel, Masapunk (grunge, available from Latinotype), Jara (pixel face, Latinotype), Themo. The main designer is Joaquín (jko) Contreras, a Chilean based in Santiago. He won awards at Tipos Latinos 2008 for Romances (an exquisite calligraphic family) and Epístola. Other typefaces: LTT Jara, LTT Ferretería. [Google]

tipografia.cl

Foundry based in Santiago de Chile, and headed by Tono Rojas and Kote Soto. Typographers include also Rodrigo Ramírez, Carolina Akel and Francisco Gálvez. Blog. [Google]

True Type Fonts

Font archive run by Kaiser Zhar Khan (b. 1980) out of Chile. Kaiser also made a free African look face, downloadable from Dafont: sOuTh Afirkas 2100 (2009). [Google]

Typies
[Francisca Reyes]

Chilean type blog (in English) run by Juan Pablo de Gregorio and Francisca Reyes in Santiago. [Google]

Unión de los tipógrafos
[Felipe Cáceres]

South American type news and blog, in Spanish. Felipe Cáceres is involved in this. [Google]

Victorino Laínez

Peruvian typefounder from the 19th century, b. Lima, 1799. He established Sociedad Tipográfica de Santiago in Santiago, Chile, in 1853. [Google]