sumotype_foundry
@sumotype
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Type foundry and design studio. We are focused in high quality projects related to type design.
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Joined February 2021
🏆 Thrilled to finally receive the physical award for the Honorable Mention I won with my unpublished project Lobulo at the prestigious Morisawa Type Design Competition 2024 ( @motc_morisawa ). Receiving a diploma and a trophy makes this recognition all the more meaningful.
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🥇 GREAT NEWS! I’m super excited to share this amazing news with you. Davivienda, the custom type family I designed for @Davivienda Bank, has been awarded with a Certificate of Typographic Excellence from the Type Directors Club ⚡️@typedirectors
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Pleased to finally share the fourth version of my type family, Fuga, now available at @futurefonts! ⚡️ This update introduces the italic version of Fuga in four weights—Thin Italic, ExtraLight Italic, Light Italic, and Italic—bringing the total to 12 styles so far.
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My unpublished typeface, Lobulo, has received an honorable mention in the Latin category at the prestigious Morisawa Typeface Design Competition. Thank you to @mrswcompetition for this recognition and to all the judges of the Latin category.
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CA Winner: @sumotype. “Davivienda.” A custom 20-style typeface combining humanist and neo-grotesque features for Davivienda Bank's modern branding needs. https://t.co/1TRsEgh4JN
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Meet Gabriella: the bold, wide, and emotional typeface from Fer Cozzi. Make your message unmissable with its strong, inclusive charm. Let Gabriella's spirit dance through your designs today. License it here: https://t.co/sQaly35G0x
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David Kindersley, Variations on the theme of twenty-six letters, 1969.
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In 2009, Gergely Barki, a Hungarian art historian, made a remarkable discovery while watching the movie "Stuart Little" (1999). He noticed a painting titled "Sleeping Lady with Black Vase" by Róbert Berény, which had been missing for 90 years and had been used as a prop in the
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Interesting quote about type revivals: “but at a really low price, what you’re often buying is a copy. Not a homage or a revival. Not a remix or a reinterpretation. And if you pretend that you came up with it, we call that a rip-off.” — Robin Mientjes https://t.co/lJQtCYrIbR
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Monotype slashes royalties to foundries from 50% down to 25% with its font subscription service, raises prices for customers by up to 10 times, & in the meantime its value is potentially up from $825M to $4 billion.
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⚡️Pleased to share with you the second version of my type family Brigada, available at @futurefonts ⚡️ This update includes a new style of Brigada. A Thin weight with the same features and character set as the regular style. https://t.co/ILi0gmy1mn
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✨UPDATE✨ Brigada v0.2, by @sumotype. This version adds a Thin weight to the twisty curvy monolinear script. Up next more weights, and maybe eventually a variable font! https://t.co/Fqr8nPEVtj
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Everything you knew about the Romain du Roi was false. Real source finally revealed:
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A type specimen from S & C Stephenson (1796). From the library of William Blades. https://t.co/ZWRNPwKei4
#typespecimens #typedesign #typography #printhistory #printing #letterpress #heritage #library #archives #collections
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Apropos of nothing in particular: bird logos. As seen in Signet Signal Symbol: Handbook of international signs by Walter Diethelm, in collaboration with Dr. Marion Diethelm, ABC Edition Zurich, 1984 (4th ed).
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Pages from an 1828 Gando Frères type specimen, digitised and freely available here 👇 https://t.co/F6fAFT8Pqo
#collections #typespecimens #typedesign #typography #printhistory #letterpress #heritage #library #archives #printing
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➽ Epica Pro in use ⚡️⚡️ My super family was used for the book collection “Posteris Lumen”, printed by the University of Cauca Publishing House, to commemorate the 200 years of the university. The collection was presented in Colombia, at the Popayán Ciudad Libro 2022 Fair.
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Congrats to all the @typedirectors TDC69 winners! 🏆 Including some of the Future Fonts family. ❤️ Brigada by @sumotype Zaatar by @Boharat_type Rainer by Rüdiger RISD Serif and RISD Sans by @rynbgdn
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⚡️ I’m proud and honored to share these amazing news with you. My typeface Brigada has been awarded with a Certificate of Typographic Excellence from the Type Directors Club @typedirectors
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