font_designer: José Mendoza y Almeida
Pascal ND
In 1943, Guillermo de Mendoza started drawings for an incised alphabet, a year before his death. His son José used them as an inspiration for his Pascal typeface, for which the origins date back...
Sully Jonquieres ND
Sully-Jonquières (1980) is Mendoza’s most original calligraphic type design. It started as a commission from Henri Jonquières, a French publisher; the prefix ‘Sully’ was taken from the Hôtel de Sully in Paris, in which...
Fidelio ND
Fidelio was named after Beethoven’s only opera. It is a chancery italic typeface with swashes that seems to lack a clear systematic organisation: some characters have even more swash versions and some don’t have...