font_foundry: DSType

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...

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,...

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...

Volupia

Volupia font

I started designing Volupia in 2004 and the main goal was to create a very casual font with some characteristics than we can find in some old commercial advertisements. After designing the basic character...

Andrade

Andrade font

Andrade is a new typeface designed by Dino dos Santos in 2005. This typeface was inspired in the typographic work of Manoel de Andrade de Figueiredo (b.1670-d.1735), Nova Escola para Aprender a Ler, Escrever...