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Álvaro Franca
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Type Director at Vasava Studio, partner at Naipe Foundry

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Álvaro Franca @naipefoundry.com · Jul 28
We made a font for the UEFA Women's Champions League.

Check it out on Behance: www.behance.net/gallery/2531...
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#OtD 30 Sep 1919 compositors and pressmen working at The Daily Sketch newspaper in London, UK refused to print the paper until an editorial criticising an ongoing railway strike was deleted stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1034...
September 30, 2026 at 6:40 AM
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France 3 x 0 Brazil at the 1998 World Cup final
blackazizanansi.blacksky.app Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · Aug 24
What's the first historic event that you remember?
August 26, 2026 at 9:51 AM
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Y'all loved this thread last year, so enjoy the full case study published only yesterday:

www.behance.net/gallery/2534...
July 30, 2026 at 7:13 AM
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We made a font for the UEFA Women's Champions League.

Check it out on Behance: www.behance.net/gallery/2531...
July 28, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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@venceslaugama.bsky.social
June 1, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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📣 News from JAF! “Size-specific Adjustments to Type Designs” is coming back. After two years out of print, we are preparing a reprint, planned for later in 2026. Stay tuned for updates!
June 1, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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One of the best feelings 😍
May 28, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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Tomorrow FC Barcelona and Olympique Lyonnes face off in the final of the UEFA Women’s Champions League.

It still feels surreal that I drew the wordmark of the final for Vasava Studio and UEFA, seeing my work in the official matchball is crazy.
May 22, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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Orgulhoso de ter feito a fonte oficial de Mirinda pra PepsiCo ✨

Parte de um belo rebranding feito in house por uma equipe recheada de Brasileiros!

Case study completo:

www.behance.net/gallery/2487...
May 13, 2026 at 2:09 PM
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Apresento nossa fonte "Aberta" feita pra marca Amazônia criada pela Futurebrand!

Case completo www.behance.net/gallery/2473...
April 27, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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A tree sparrow is speaking: "Artistic creation shouldn't be considered carelessly! Good art is made deliberately! With emotion! Physical exertion! If you aren't crying or bleeding by the end, you'd better look into another lifestyle...". We see a class of birds with piles of sticks and a big banner that reads "Intro to nest building" made out of twigs. The teacher continues: "Ok! Does everyone have their bundle of soft moss?"
April 13, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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Punctuation Personified (1824) introduces, with Mr. Stops as our guide, a cast of literal “characters”, including Counsellor Comma, Ensign Semicolon, and a surprisingly mournful Exclamation Point... https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/punctuation-personified
March 25, 2026 at 8:47 PM
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March 25, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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I made the display font that says "Bracket"

I also made the text font that marks the "QF" and "SF"

And I also made the Road to Oslo26 wordmark

🥹
March 24, 2026 at 8:08 AM
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Type lovers, this museum of old cigarette packets is amazing and vast. zigsam.at

Bad for your health, but pleasing on the eye.
June 5, 2024 at 12:05 PM
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Want to read a watermark but there’s too much text on it? Then use the magic eraser. It’s really simple: you upload a photo and the image appears without the ink. #siteoftheweek
Magic Eraser: Ink be gone.
Automatic removal of ink from transmitted light images with a neural network.
images.erdmann.io
March 23, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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A @takemeout.bsky.social: por isso o desenho é uma amuleto.

Meus ouvidos totalmente deteriorados pro capitalismo: por isso o desenho é um boleto

Ouçam o primeiro episódio de QUEBRALINHA, o podcast da Paula e do @luscassales.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/episode/33V2...
COMO CRIAR ENQUANTO O MUNDO ESTÁ ACABANDO?
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March 2, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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Introducing Urgell, a display typeface inspired by a striking vintage Deco-style street sign located at Comte d’Urgell 16 in Barcelona, Catalonia. www.brutaltypes.com/fonts/urgell
February 6, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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New: I went on a months-long treasure hunt for 1,200+ books spanning 450+ years to digitize Daniel Updike’s Printing Types from 1922, detailing the history of printing and typography. Made a nifty poster too.

Explore: www.c82.net/printing-types
How it was made: www.c82.net/blog/?id=100
Collage of type specimens with overlaid text saying, Printing Types: Their History, Forms & Use Screenshot of chapter on French types from 1500 to 1800 Screenshot of a list of illustrations with thumbnails Poster overlaid on top of a closeup of it
September 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Skater girls of Ethiopia
January 11, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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In the era of AI it’s more crucial than ever that social media sites add a serif to the lower case L
November 26, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Todd Klein, ladies and gentlemen.
Letterer Todd Klein - B&W portrait Spider-Man and Batman logos Thirteen DC and Marvel logos Eleven DC and Marvel logos
November 24, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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I love designing fonts!!!!!!
November 11, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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So pretty, too!
matthewholford.bsky.social Matthew Holford @matthewholford.bsky.social · Nov 6
Just found out about this amazing example of #manuscript #recycling . The whole manuscript is made up from the margins of an earlier liturgical manuscript, cut out and rearranged (hence the unusual format), the (mostly) blank margins then used to copy various magical texts in the mid 16th century.
A magical text written in the 16th century on the previously blank margin of an earlier liturgical manuscript. Part of the original liturgical text can be seen at the bottom of the leaf. The leaf would originally have been part of the outer margin of a large leaf but has been rotated 90 degrees clockwise.
November 7, 2025 at 1:39 PM