Missiva
The first inspiration for Missiva was a sixteen century letter from S. Francisco Xavier (St. Francis Xavier) but then I adapted my own handwriting in order to have the basic character set.
font_designer: Dino dos Santos
Nerva
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 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 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....
Pluma
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
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,...
Cultura
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
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.