Portugal

Population: 10,066,253 (July 2001 est.)

Languages: Portuguese

Background: Following its heyday as a world power during the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal lost much of its wealth and status with the destruction of Lisbon in a 1755 earthquake, occupation during the Napoleonic Wars, and the independence in 1822 of Brazil...

Currency: Euro (EUR, EUR (€0.91 = US$1))

Data from CIA World Factbook. Click on CIA link for more. Click on map or flag for larger images.

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Portuguese Font Foundries

 · Bráulio Amado
 · Caldense
 · César Modesto
 · Craceltype
 · Dee Creations
 · Diogo Pisoeiro
 · DSType
 · Elastic
 · Espada.Fonts
 · Fábio Mansos
 · FAEL
 · Feliciano
 · JAM Type Design
 · José Castro
 · JVB
 · Leonor Capricho
 · LeSerra
 · Michael Anderson
 · Miratype
 · Mom
 · Multiformis
 · Natenine Type
 · Ndiscover
 · Nest Sparrows
 · Nova Type Foundry
 · Nuno Dias
 · Onrepeat
 · Pedro Miguel Santos
 · Pedro Teixeira
 · RoachCoelho Foundry
 · Rúben R Dias
 · Rui Abreu
 · Rui Nogueira
 · S P I C I O
 · Samuel Vicente Types
 · Satori TF
 · Scannerlicker
 · SevenType
 · Susana Simplício
 · Tiago Cândido
 · Tipos Das Letras
 · Tree House Design Arts
 · Tropical Type Foundry
 · TypeCult Foundry
 · UFF
 · Vanarchiv
 · Walking Fearless
 · yrmk

Portuguese Typographic People

 · Rui Abreu
 · Nuno Alves
 · Bráulio Amado
 · Luis Bandovas
 · Rui Barba
 · Rita Bernardo
 · Tiago Bonifacio
 · Tiago Cândido
 · Leonor Capricho
 · Patricia Carvalho
 · João Coelho
 · João Cracel
 · Hugo d'Alte
 · Ricardo Dantas
 · Nuno Dias
 · Rœben Dias
 · André do Carmo Gonçalves
 · Dino dos Santos
 · Benoit Dupuis
 · Marco Espada
 · Mário Feliciano
 · Beatriz Filipe
 · Natanael Gama
 · Luis Gomes
 · Pedro Leal
 · Oscar Lopes
 · Pedro Madeira
 · Fábio Mansos
 · Abel Martins
 · Fábio Duarte Martins
 · Nuno Miranda
 · João Miranda
 · Aprígio Morgado
 · Xalo Nascimento
 · Vitória Neves
 · Rui Nogueira
 · João Oliveira
 · Dusica Paripovic
 · Diogo Pisoeiro
 · Pascal Pixel
 · Joana Roca
 · Bruno Rodrigues
 · Inês Santos
 · Joel Santos
 · Pedro Miguel Santos
 · Ricardo Santos
 · João Serra
 · Rafael Serra
 · Susana Simplício
 · Mariana Sousa
 · João Symington
 · Pedro Teixeira
 · Diogo Trindade
 · Joaquim José Ventura da Silva
 · Samuel Vicente
 · Joel Vilas Boas

Related Links

 · Luc Devroye: The font scene in Portugal
 · CIA World Factbook: Portugal
 · Ethnologue: Languages of Portugal
 · BBC Country profile: Portugal