Gancho Petare follows the naivety marks typical in the paintbrush letters drawn in the popular market’s planks of Petare in Caracas, Venezuela. antiqued, blood, broken, brushdrawn, cursive, damaged, decorative, destroy, destruct, experimental, grunge, hand, handwriting, ink, noisy, punk, rough, script, southamerica, violence, virus Björk makes non conventional music. Andinistas makes non conventional design.
Myfonts Rising Stars, June 2007:Think pirates, treasure hunts, explorers’ maps, shady contracts, captains’ logs cut short by some intruder or natural disaster. That’s the kind of atmosphere evoked by the ten members of the rich and impressive Panamericana family. The font names are a course in basic Spanish: Blanca, Gris, Negra, Uno, Dos, Tres… Panamerican breathes calligraphy, but also plays around with every kind of grungy distortion that you can think of. Designer Carlos Fabián Camargo Guerrero is from Mérida, Venezuela, and now runs the Andinistas studio in Bogotà, Colombia. Two cities on the Andes mountain range – that’s why the studio is called “Andes people”.
Myfonts Rising Stars, July 2007:Panamericana is a family of rough-and-tumble fonts of calligraphic origin designed by Andinistas from Bogotá, Colombia. Its ten styles offer energetic handwriting in various grades of decay and deconstruction, plus a set of dingbats and flourishes. Having been featured in last month’s Rising Stars, this intriguing set continues to catch the attention of designers in search of an evocative script with darkly romantic overtones.
Panamericana is a family of calligraphic origin consisting of 10 styles: Blanca, Gris, Negra, Uno, Dos, Tres, Cuatro, Cinco, Seis and Dingbats (Dingbats includes 26 illustrations characters).
The blending of each and every one of these styles allows the designer to work with countless grunge characteristics that inject happiness and originality to any word.
All of the 10 fonts include the complete character set with lower and upper case letters, numbers, accents, diacritics, punctuation and monetary symbols. The fonts included in this family are available in the Open Type format and they are Mac and PC compatible.
Digitalarts Say (16 Page/ Digital Arts October 2008):Scratchy perfection: Fans of Gonzo illustrator Ralph Steadman will find plenty to like in Heleodora, the newest font from Andinistas. Available in three different typefaces, each more slanted than the last, the font has an intense, hand-drawn quality that makes it perfect for adding a little anarchy to your designs. Andinistas is an independent type foundry and graphic design company, founded in Venezuela and now based in Colombia; it specializes in custom and retail fonts. Buy the font from $39.95 (about £20) from MyFonts. www.andinistas.net
Heleodora in “Myfonts: Rising Stars, October 2008″
Myfonts Say: Carlos Fabián Camargo Guerrero of the Andinistas foundry has definitely found a style of his own, and what’s more: through MyFonts he has also found an audience. He specializes in what could be described as “destructive penmanship,” producing one dirty script after another. The recent Heleodora is another variation on the theme to which earlier Andinistas releases such as Alcira and Ninja also danced. It is a family of three based on the same underlying drawing — Heleodora 2 and 3 are slanted and condensed versions of number 1.
Heleodora in MyFonts: In your Face, Fall 2008 · Issue #22. Myfonts Says: (…) Andinistas’ several new releases include the three styles of Heleodora, which could have been written with an open shutter and a flashlight (…)
Hiroformica in Myfonts: Rising Stars, July 2007: Hiroformica by Carlos Fabián Camargo Guerrero is described as a family of fonts “configured for integrated combat”. By combining the heavily damaged characters from different fonts, each with its own type of mutilation, you can lend a unique identity to your destructively inspired designs. The font family comes with an extensive range of dingbats referring to fire, war and bloodshed. Enjoy! See this font latest comments in Flickr
Manuel Corradine and Carlos Fabián Camargo G. share the pleasure for the old fashioned signature of Bogotá’s (Colombia) La Candelaria historical neighborhood. Inspired by this colonial period’s house signs they developed the Candelaria family with 6 variations that supplement each other to achieve great impact.
Candelaria is also available in Pro versions whose characteristic Open Type offers large additional benefits. Candelaria Pro includes two stylistic groups with which texts can be written alternating large and small case letters in a clever way that gives them a special feeling of movement. When the discretionary ligatures are used, the letters combine harmoniously to eliminate unwanted spaces.
Thanks to its wide range of accented characters, Candelaria Pro is also useful to write in foreign languages as Baltic, Turkish or Esperanto.
Ninja in “Myfonts: Rising Stars, August 2008″: With the Ninja series, Andinistasdesigner Carlos Fabián Camargo Guerrero does what he does best: take a script face and destroy it by adding lots of noise. The cleanest font in the series, Ninja 1, is an energetic, informal, tightly spaced brush script font. Its lowercase is especially whimsical, mixing uppercase forms like A, B, G, etc, with a lowercase e, f, n and more. The descending k and s are definitely cool. Ninja 1’s shapes are nonchalant and its spacing is deliberately sloppy. But if it is still too smooth for your taste and you want something dirtier and noiser, try Ninja 2. It’s positively messy. And don’t forget to check out Ninja Dingbats, an intriguing collection of martial arts silhouettes and mysterious Japanese texts. See this font latest comments in Flickr
Alcira in “Rising Stars, May 2008: Andinistas is a Colombian-Venezuelan venture: the foundry’s name refers to the Andes mountains. With Alcira, founder Carlos Fabián Camargo Guerrero brings us another wild, funky script font. Based on an earlier font called Rosadelia, it explores calligraphic shapes in advanced stages of irregularity and chaos. If legibility isn’t an issue at all, try Alcira 3: it’s as narrow as Alcira 2 but it’s a tad more self-destructive and comes with automatic stains and blotches. Try reading that!
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