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Periodico

Periodico

by Emtype Foundry
Individual Styles from $69.00 USD
Complete family of 30 fonts: $699.00 USD
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Periodico Font Family was designed by Eduardo Manso and published by Emtype Foundry. Periodico contains 30 styles and family package options.

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Periodico Complete Family

 30 fonts

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Per Style:

$23.30 USD

Pack of 30 styles:

$699.00 USD

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Periodico Display Pack

 20 fonts

Per Style:

$24.45 USD

Pack of 20 styles:

$489.00 USD

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Periodico Text Pack

 10 fonts

Per Style:

$44.90 USD

Pack of 10 styles:

$449.00 USD

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About Periodico Font Family

Periódico (newspaper in Spanish), was originally commissioned by the Spanish daily newspaper ABC. Inspired by old Spanish typographic engravings, mostly from the second half of the 18th Century, we picked out the most relevant details of Spanish typography as the source of that inspiration, and instead of making a revival or an interpretation of these models, we started from scratch to create a truly original font family. The goal was to achieve a very distinctive family, functional and versatile at the same time, and reminiscent of old Spanish typography. Although we have borrowed many details from the old Spanish typography, like the nail, which is present in the letters U, G, or J, which we worked and evolved in order to be applied on other letters, we have also left behind several others. One example is the tilde of the ñ engraved by Gerónimo Gil, a very distinctive element of Spanish typography that was intentionally omitted for being too atypical to be used in a contemporary font.  The letters a and g are probably the most distinctive of the Periódico family. The shape of the bowl in the letter a, with the top arch in diagonal position, is very characteristic of old Spanish types. In Periódico, we emphasized this detail by applying it to many other letters (such as g, j, and t) up to a point that it became the leitmotiv of this family. The formal finish of serifs and terminals is something that gives great personality to any typeface, so we came up with plenty of alternatives in order to find the exact shape we wanted: sober, elegant, and contemporary. Even though the serifs are geometric, the upper terminals have a curve with a dynamic very similar to the arch in the a or the notch in the j. The terminals in the capitals follow the same style, but, in this case, the inspiration comes from Pradell’s Missal, which on the other hand has been influenced by the types engraved by Johann Michael Fleischman in the Netherlands. Eighteenth-Century types were mostly used for printing books. Therefore, they had very generous proportions (large ascendents and descendants) and high contrast, but today, these characteristics do not work well in newspapers because of the worldwide demand for more space-saving fonts. The adaptation of the type’s proportions to be used for a newspaper was one of the most interesting parts of the project, specially the time taken to find the perfect balance between the x height\ and legibility. Periódico is presented in 30 different styles, for a total of 30 fonts—10 for text (from Light to Bold) and 20 for display sizes (from Thin to Ultra Black); this family results in an extensive system capable of solving all the needs of a large publication.

Designers: Eduardo Manso

Publisher: Emtype Foundry

Foundry: Emtype Foundry

Design Owner: Emtype Foundry

MyFonts debut: Feb 10, 2011

Periodico

About Emtype Foundry

Eduardo Manso is an Argentinean type designer who has been living in Barcelona since 2000. Before establishing his own foundry, he published numerous fonts through T-26, ITC Fonts, Bitstream, and Linotype. He has designed custom typefaces for clients worldwide, such as General Motors, ESPN, Puma, The Sunday Times of London, the Munich Airport, or the Gaudí house 'La Pedrera' in Barcelona. Among other awards, he has received the 'Certificate of Excellence in Type Design' from the Type Directors Club of New York three times. He currently teaches typography classes at several schools in Barcelona and actively designs new typefaces. He has been a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) since 2010.

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