ManuEla is a modern sans-serif typeface, designed by Aurélia Ferreira, Maria Carlos, and Melissa Gaviria in 2024. ManuEla is more than a typeface—it’s a love letter. Named in tribute to Manuela, the wife of the late Portuguese typographer Manuel Pereira da Silva, the typeface honors her unseen but vital role in preserving Silva’s typographic legacy.… Continue reading ManuEla
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Butique
Student: Roberta MirandaClassification: Hybrid Display Serif – Modern/Rational with Transitional & Flare-Slab InfluencesVariation Axis: Serif Shapes (and optical Size) Butique is a hybrid serif display typeface created by a student in the 2024–25 Typeface Design course at FBAUP. Developed from the Foundational Hand and drawing from Gerrit Noordzij’s stroke theory, the project introduces students to… Continue reading Butique
Pena
Student: Luís LopesClassification: Geometric Serif (Modern/Didone with Art Nouveau influences)Variation Axis: Weight (Regular–Bold) Pena is a geometric serif display typeface designed by a student in the 2024–25 Typeface Design course at FBAUP. The project explores revivalism through juxtaposition, blending 1920s Portuguese typographic aesthetics with the clarity and precision of contemporary digital design. Rooted in the… Continue reading Pena
Cunty
Student: João TomásClassification: Modern Serif (Didone, Vox-Atypi)Variation Axis: Weight (Regular–Bold) Cunty is a modern serif display typeface that draws inspiration from Bodoni and PP Editorial New, embracing the high contrast and vertical stress typical of Didone models. Designed by a student in the 2024–25 Typeface Design course at FBAUP, the typeface introduces a more fluid… Continue reading Cunty
JVC Bodoni
JVC Bodoni is a “Didone” typeface revival, designed by in 2023 by Jorge Moreira, Vanessa Sousa and Sara Tavares. The purpose of this work was to design a font for text inspired by a typography of books prior to 1980, with the intention of updating it to the contemporary [local] culture and, thus, producing a… Continue reading JVC Bodoni
ADAKZIA
Adakzia is a Sans Serif “Frakenfont” Grotesque typeface revival, designed by Alessio Morelli, João Aveiro, and Rui Costa in 2022. The entire project developed around the idea of creating something controversial, almost chaotic, and in line with a Dadaist idea (…) to create a single file that contained two sides of the same coin from… Continue reading ADAKZIA