Quijote Sauvage, when an obsession becomes true.

Sauvage is the result of long hours of drawing. There’s a known teaching phrase concerning this: "There are a few good letters in every bottle of ink. Unfortunately, they're at the bottom."

When I started designing this font I was really obsessed with the expressiveness that could be achieved with calligraphy. I asked to myself whether it could be possible to make typography with those awesome soul’s traces. More…

It was in the beginning of 2008 when I designed a font named Quijote, its predecessor.

In the middle of 2009, I looked at it again and thought it could be a good idea to make an update of it. Once I got started I could not stop.

The obssesion of more and more glyphs caught me again. I promised to myself that this new font had to be much more legible than the old version, and at the same time, much more decorative and happy.

I have decided to call it a new font because the results I got are by far better than the first Quijote, so it would be like a sin to present this type as just an update.

Quijote Sauvage, is wild, wilder and wilder or soft, softer and softer. It really makes you feel “something” when you look at it. You can think of wildness, you can think of love. You may think of a combination of them, it would be fine.

Sauvage has a very particular way of dancing when you are writing with it. Its swashes go up and down softly or abruptly. Its terminals can be really sharp or really soft. My objective was to make a font in which the users could choose the wildness level.

I was wondering whether it was possible to mix styles of calligraphy, emphasizing their qualities in order to see wildness.

This was when I started my search and after a while, I found the right styles I needed to get into a totally new world: The swashy arabic styles.

Quijote Sauvage takes its inspiration from thuluth (XIII Century) and the diwani of Husam Rumi, where ascenders and descenders are made the higher enough to overtake conventional heights, with the particularity that the curves of the letters are ligated with others above and below the x box.

Quijote Sauvage was made with a lot of passion on every trace and I strongly believe this passion can be seen wherever you look at in this font.

I believe that the hours of life are only the hours of happiness, and I was happy to spend my days in order to achieve this.

Variables and Features:

Quijote Sauvage Pro is the most complete variable. It includes all the ligatures, alternates and swashes. It has the OpenType function in order to alternate glyphs easily when running applications which support this.

The font is also offered separately.

Quijote Sauvage Standard has the right glyphs to get an equilibrium between wildness and softness. It includes standard and discretionary ligatures.

Quijote Sauvage Stylistic has the sharpest glyphs. Its decorative traces are discreet in order not to have problems as regards legibility. Its upper case are less wild than the other variables.

Quijote Sauvage Text is the most discreet of its partners. This one was thought in order to improve legibility. Its ascenders and descenders are shorter, so the words are easier to read in small sizes.

Quijote Sauvage Contextual, Swash and Titling, are the ones with wonderful terminals. They decorate words, adding a wonderful look of wildness or passion.

Pssst... See Quijote Sauvage’s Guide at the gallery section to see this fantastic creation in use.