font_designer: Dino dos Santos

Aquila

Aquila font

Aquila is a highly legible serif typeface, designed with cursive letterforms in the italic version and without top serifs on the lower case characters giving it a more casual look.

Nerva

Nerva font

This is the kind of serif/sans serif typefaces that I always liked so much (like Optima by Mr. Herman Zapf that was always a great inspiration to me). Complete horizontal baseline with curve vertical...

Albo

Albo font

Albo is part of a new set of typefaces inspired in ancient documents from Portuguese 15th and 16th century books. Based on a document from Afonso d’Alboquerque (Goa, July, 1514), Albo was designed to...

Boldina

Boldina font

Boldina consists of 18 fonts with a lot of personality. This is a font to be mixed. That’s its purpose and that’s why it’s designed as one single weight in so many different styles....

Cultura

Cultura font

I started designing Cultura in 2003 for a book about the city of Porto, Portugal. It was supposed to be a typeface only to use in that book and only in Regular and Italic,...

Pluma

Pluma font

This typeface was inspired in the amazing typographic work of Manoel de Andrade de Figueiredo that was published in 1722, named “Nova Escola para Aprender a Ler, Escrever e Contar, offerecida ‡ Augusta Magestade...

Cultura

Cultura font

I started designing Cultura in 2003 for a book about the city of Porto, Portugal. It was supposed to be a typeface only to use in that book and only in Regular and Italic,...

Methodo

Methodo font

This three typefaces are a reproduction of the old portuguese calligraphic methods for students named Methodo Calligraphico para o Commercio e Lyceus by Pinto de Mesquita.

Pluma

Pluma font

This typeface was inspired in the amazing typographic work of Manoel de Andrade de Figueiredo that was published in 1722, named “Nova Escola para Aprender a Ler, Escrever e Contar, offerecida ‡ Augusta Magestade...