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Taco

by FontMesa
Individual Styles from $25.00 USD
Complete family of 20 fonts: $59.00 USD
Taco Font Family was designed by Michael Hagemann and published by FontMesa. Taco contains 20 styles and family package options.

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About Taco Font Family


Taco is a new Mexican style font family based on our Tavern and Algerian Mesa type designs.


When I finished the extra heavier weights for Tavern I decided to play around with a decorated version, the extra bold letters allowed for much more room to work with an inlay pattern.


After experimenting with several designs I decided on a Mexican pattern because the original base font is very popular in Mexican restaurant logos and menus plus it's frequently used on Tequila bottle labels.


I originally planned three weights for the Taco font family, however, after completing the bold weight I've decided to release it now so you may put it to use while the regular and extra bold are being produced, sorry I can't estimate a release date for the two other weights.


To use the fill font layers you'll need an application that allows you to work in layers such as Adobe Creative Suite products.

The Taco Fill Uno font may be used as a stand alone font, however, we recommend searching for our Tavern font family where you'll find three different bold weights of this same design.


Opentype features aware applications are also needed for accessing the many alternate glyphs in Taco, all the alternates that you love in our Tavern fonts are also available in Taco.


While the fill font layers are in registration with one another some applications may throw them out of alignment by changing the spacing.

Custom inter letter spacing in Adobe Creative Suite may also throw the fill fonts out of alignment.

We recommend doing your custom spacing first then duplicate the type layer and change to the next fill font and color.


The inspiration for the Taco name of this font family was from a homemade Taco dinner I made for a guest at my house, after dinner I searched to see if there was a commercial font named Taco.

There was no such font named Taco and the rest is history.


The old Stephenson Blake Algerian font has come a long way since 1908, and we're not done with it yet.


We hope you enjoy our Taco font family, we're looking forward to see it in use.

Designers: Michael Hagemann

Publisher: FontMesa

Foundry: FontMesa

Design Owner: FontMesa

MyFonts debut: Sep 19, 2020

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About FontMesa

Founded in 2000 by photographer and type designer Michael Hagemann, FontMesa has specialized in creating type styles of the old west and fonts for sign lettering. Some fonts are classic Italian (Tuscan) and French revivals with new lowercase letters added while others were created from a small sample of letters found on old documents never intended to be a complete font. FontMesa continues to research and find old, long lost type from the 1800s, then revive them into the digital world where they will never be forgotten. With a FontMesa font you can be assured of a quality product; all fonts are drawn and kerned by hand and never created by automatic scanning methods.

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