Guapa was born from a personal experiment: the transformation of a geometric sans serif à la Futura into a charming postmodern deco design. Laura Meseguer began work on Guapa as part of “Pimp the Type,” an exhibition organized by Catalana de Tipos in 2008. For this showcase, 52 designers demonstrated how the tuning of letters can add personality and originality to messages and alphabetical forms. For projects ranging from invitations to book covers, Guapa’s discretionary ligatures, alt characters, and four sets of capitals offer enhanced opportunities for typographical experimentation. The moniker is well-suited to the playfully elegant face—guapa means “pretty” in Spanish. Type-Ø-Tones 2012
For additional license options like app and enterprise, visit Guapa on Type Network.
Type-Ø-Tones is a typographic design company founded in 1990 by Joan Barjau, Enric Jardí, Laura Meseguer and José Manuel Urós. Although we mainly publish our own designs, we collaborate with many other typographers.
In our friend Jan Middendorp words: “They’re a loosely-knit collective of independent individuals, each with their own activities as graphic designers, writers and teachers. They have been making and publishing fonts since the early days of desktop type design and pioneered digital techniques that are now commonplace. Their fonts represent an approach that is, perhaps, typically Catalan: simultaneously adventurous and serious, witty and well-conceived.”
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Design Projects
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PDFs
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How to Use
You may encounter slight variations in the name of this font, depending on where you use it. Here’s what to look for.
Desktop
In application font menus, this font will display:
{{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_family_name}} {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_subfamily_name}}Web
To use this font on your website, use the following CSS:
font-family: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.family.css_font_stack.replace('"', '').replace('",', ', ')}};
font-style: italicnormal;
font-weight: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.font.web.weight}};
Glyph Support & Stylistic Filters
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