Vanarchiv is an independent digital type foundry based in Lisbon, Portugal, directed by Ricardo Santos. Vanarchiv develops and markets original text and display type fonts for both Mac and PC platforms. Vanarchiv typefaces are distributed by: Myfonts, Fountain and FontShop.
The handwriting typeface Escritura was created for editorial purposes and the letter forms are influenced by chancery handwriting from the Italian Renaissanc...
Grafia Sans 1 Pro is a display geometric humanist sans-serif with close terminals, which was originally designed as an custom brand typeface for the YOYO stu...
A segunda edição do Open House Porto, a grande festa da arquitetura do Porto, Gaia e Matosinhos, realiza-se no fim de semana de 18 e 19 de junho de 2016. No total, são cinquenta e um os edifícios que estarão de portas abertas.
Graphic Design: Etienne Robial Typeface: Van Condensed
This font family is display sans-serif with different stylistic layers available as open type font. The main characters are geometric and neutral but when we...
Gazeta Display Stencil
Quebra font family: https://www.myfonts.com/collections/quebra-ex-condensed-font-vanarchiv
This serif typeface was designed to be simple and neutral on text sizes, there descender proportions are short and the x-height is large. The lowercase itali...
Escritura typeface was influenced by chancery handwriting from the Italian Renaissance Monotype: https://catalog.monotype.com/family/vanarchiv/escrituraMyfonts: https://www.myfonts.com/collections/escritura-font-vanarchiv Fontshop: https://www.fontshop.com/families/escritura
Lisboa Hebrew is humanist sans-serif typeface base on the same design as the original Lisboa (2005). The main structure is more close to the Sephardic propor...
Quebra is a extend display sans-serif font family with many widths and weights available. The main strokes contain small breaks simulating modulated variations, this details are more present on large body sizes. All font versions contain Latin and Cyrillic letterforms and many other characters.
The original version from this display sans-serif typeface was Van Condensed, published during 2004 (Latin, Greek and Cyrillic). Van Condensed Hebrew is the ...
Van Condensed is a rounded display sans-serif typeface family with a geometric style. The first drawings were done in 1998 but the family was not completed u...
This Dingbat font is designed to work well with the Van Condensed family. The dingbats in it have the same round treatment like the typeface.
This font family is display stencil sans-serif with different stylistic layers available as open type font. The main characters are geometric and neutral but...
Lisboa Swash is a display humanist sans-serif typeface and it was designed for big sizes purposes. The uppercase letterforms are much more decorative than th...
This font family is simplified Arabic which was inspired from the modern Naskh style, where the reverse contrast is low and the counter forms are open. The o...
Background As a child, Ricardo Santos often spent Sunday afternoons visiting his grandfathers in the Belém district of Lisbon. Walking along the local seaside parks he absorbed the history of his city and its part in the Age of Discovery when Portuguese explorers such as Infante Dom Henrique (Prince Henry the Navigator), Bartolomeu Dias and…
