Periódico Text and Display (Eduardo Manso, 2011)
'Periódico' (Newspaper in spanish), was originally commissioned by the spanish daily newspaper 'ABC'. Inspired by old spanish typographic engravings, mostly from the second half of the XVIII century, we picked out the most relevant details of 'spanish typography' as the source of that inspiration, and instead of making a revival or an interpretation of these models, we started from scratch to create a truly original font family. The goal was to achieve a very distinctive family, functional and versatile at the same time and with the reminiscences of 'old spanish typography'. Although we have borrowed many details from the 'old spanish typography', like the nail, present in the letters 'U', 'G' or 'J', which we worked and evolved in order to be applied on other letters, we have also left behind several others. One example is the tilde of the 'ñ' engraved by Gerónimo Gil, a very distinctive element of 'spanish typography' that was intentionally omitted for being to 'atypical' to be used in a contemporary font... +INFO
'Periódico' (Newspaper in spanish), was originally commissioned by the spanish daily newspaper 'ABC'. Inspired by old spanish typographic engravings, mostly from the second half of the XVIII century, we picked out the most relevant details of 'spanish typography' as the source of that inspiration, and instead of making a revival or an interpretation of these models, we started from scratch to create a truly original font family. The goal was to achieve a very distinctive family, functional and versatile at the same time and with the reminiscences of 'old spanish typography'. Although we have borrowed many details from the 'old spanish typography', like the nail, present in the letters 'U', 'G' or 'J', which we worked and evolved in order to be applied on other letters, we have also left behind several others. One example is the tilde of the 'ñ' engraved by Gerónimo Gil, a very distinctive element of 'spanish typography' that was intentionally omitted for being to 'atypical' to be used in a contemporary font... +INFO
