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Garrigos ornamental

by Fabio Ares
Individual Styles from $15.00 USD
The Garrigos ornamental Font Family was designed by Fabio Ares and published by Fabio Ares. Garrigos ornamental contains 1 styles.

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A typographic reinterpretation of the ornaments used by the Imprenta de Niños Expósitos (Foundling Children's Printing House), between 1780 and 1824. This establishment was the first in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
It was the product of extensive historical research conducted by the author, seeking to identify the typefaces that arrived in the city during the colonial era and the early years of independence. This set presents a wide variety of designs, ranging from organic Baroque to geometric Neoclassical forms. It includes models from important European type foundries such as the Imprenta Real de Madrid, Antonio Espinosa de los Monteros, Edmund Fry, and Bell & Stephenson's. It also includes the first Argentine typeface designs: the phases of the moon executed by the carpenter and engraver Pedro Carmona. These ornaments were used to compose the first newspapers, such as El Telégrafo Mercantil and La Gazeta de Buenos Ayres, and works that were important to the revolutionary process, such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau's The Social Contract.
Its typefaces can be used in editorial design combined with Roman typefaces, either individually or in groups, to form new figures, endpapers, or frames. It was named after the first printer who worked in the aforementioned workshop: the Spaniard Agustín Garrigós. It was originally published by the Underground foundry in 2016 and later, in 2022, expanded based on new discoveries in old prints from the establishment. The font was selected for the exhibition at the 9th edition of the Latin American Biennial of Latin Types.

Designers: Fabio Ares

Publisher: Fabio Ares

Foundry: Fabio Ares

Design Owner: Fabio Ares

MyFonts debut: Jun 13, 2025

Garrigos ornamental

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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