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Makiritare

Makiritare

by John Moore Type Foundry
Individual Styles from $29.95
Complete family of 3 fonts: $80.95
Makiritare Font Family was designed by John Moore and published by John Moore Type Foundry. Makiritare contains 3 styles and family package options.

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About Makiritare Font Family


Makiritare is a display font for headlines that originates from a research work on pure geometry of great simplicity from a Venezuelan ethnicity artisanal form from men called Makiritare or Yecuana. These rivers sailors and architects of the jungle live in the village of Santa Maria de Erebato on the border with Brazil. Despite having a prodigious symbolism in their art, they didn't have until recently a font that is tailored to your expression. It all started with a trip to the Amazon in 1976 with the notion of creating my thesis as a graphic design student. In 1992 I created the first letterform that was evolving to a more elaborate version being presented and selected at the International Typography Biennial Letras Latinas in 2006. Today JMTF presents Makiritare with a more complete and mature family of three weights, alternative characters, small caps, ordinals and ligatures. Makiritare fits any application that have an innovative and modernist purposes. Recommended for titles or short phrases, with striking large-scale use.

Designers: John Moore

Publisher: John Moore Type Foundry

Foundry: John Moore Type Foundry

Design Owner: John Moore Type Foundry

MyFonts debut: Nov 7, 2013

Makiritare

About John Moore Type Foundry

John Moore Type Foundry specializes in creating fonts, since 1974, to meet the needs of creativity, novelty, originality and quality. Our range of offerings covers reading fonts, display fonts and dingbats. Mr. Moore has been invited to the Biennial Ibero American of Design of Madrid and has won many awards at the Latin American Biennial of Typography "Tipos Latinos". His work has been reviewed in many publications on typography and editorial design also in videos, magazines, books, web sites, blogs and exhibitions around the world.

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