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Lagarto

Lagarto

by Sudtipos
Individual Styles from $39.00 USD
Complete family of 3 fonts: $79.00 USD
Lagarto Font Family was designed by Gabriel Martínez Meave and published by Sudtipos. Lagarto contains 3 styles and family package options.

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    Lagarto Complete Family

    3 fonts

    Best Value!

    Per Style:

    $26.33 USD

    Pack of 3 styles:

    $79.00 USD

    About Lagarto Font Family


    Some years ago, a good friend and typophile, Gonzalo García Barcha, approached me with the idea of designing a typeface for his editorial project Blacamán Ediciones. He had just came across an hitherto unknown manuscript by Luis Lagarto, a colonial illuminator and scribe, working in Mexico City and Puebla in the late 1500s. The manuscript calligraphy was incredible and stunningly original. It featured three different hands by the scribe, intermingled in the text: a kind of baroque «Roman» roundhand; a very ornate, lively «Italic»; and some sort of irregular, playful, even funny «small caps». All imbued with an eccentric, convoluted zest and vivacious rhythm. Lagarto is the final result of translating these extraordinary hands into a digital type family. Since the manuscript had no numerals, math signs and many other characters now in use, part of the fun of the job was to infer them from the stylistic peculiarities of Luis Lagarto's calligraphy. Lagarto received an Award of Excellence at the Type Directors Club of New York annual competition.

    Designers: Gabriel Martínez Meave

    Publisher: Sudtipos

    Foundry: Sudtipos

    Design Owner: Sudtipos

    MyFonts debut: May 22, 2019

    Lagarto

    About Sudtipos

    Sudtipos is a new collective Argentinian type foundry. New blood, new attitude. A joint venture of four professional designers with lots of expertise in different areas like branding, packaging design, corporate identity, television and new media. “The foundry, or collective as we prefer to designate it, started because of that — packaging, editorial or brand designers making fonts for real designers” Alejandro Paul, one of the company’s founders, said in his Creative Characters inte...

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