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Correntino Railway

by Fabio Ares
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Complete family of 3 fonts: $0.00 USD
The Correntino Railway Font Family was designed by Fabio Ares and published by Fabio Ares. Correntino Railway contains 3 styles and family package options.

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Correntino Railway is a product of argentine typographic archeology project called “Tipografía Histórica Ferroviaria” (Fabio Ares & Octavio Osores, since 2012). Is about the signboards of the stations of the line of the Argentine Correntino Economic Railway (1892-1969).

The letter of this signboards can be described as display type, with elementary geometric shapes, vertical line modulation and slight contrast.

Designers: Fabio Ares

Publisher: Fabio Ares

Foundry: Fabio Ares

Design Owner: Fabio Ares

MyFonts debut: Sep 15, 2022

Correntino Railway

About Fabio Ares

Designer based in City Bell (Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina). Professor of the Typography Chair of the Faculty of Arts of the National University of La Plata and lecturer. His fonts are based on his historical research on printing and typographic uses in Argentina and used by organizations linked to heritage. Co-founder of the Historical Railway Typography project, he designs fonts based on the signs used by Argentine railways since 1857.The main objective of the works included in this foundry is that they transcend borders and be used in other latitudes as a way to vindicate Argentine visual culture. What is collected through the commercialization of the typefaces destined to finance the investigations.

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