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Makika Sun

Makika Sun

by Andinistas
Individual Styles from $39.00
Complete family of 4 fonts: $89.00
Makika Sun Font Family was designed by Carlos Fabián Camargo Guerrero and published by Andinistas. Makika Sun contains 4 styles and family package options.

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About Makika Sun Font Family


Makika Sun enhances the handwritten expressive possibilities of an architect mom and a graphic designer dad in Bogotá, Colombia. In other words, it is a versatile handwritten font family designed for writing short messages in children's contexts. Makika Sun shines for its conceptualization and logic, combining ideas from the American calligrapher Austin Norman Palmer and the Italian calligrapher Ludovico degli Arrighi. Makika Sun, a creative font family specializing in titles and paragraphs for children's books, emerged in 2009 and has developed over the years. Its essence lies in the simplicity of handwriting. In 2023, Makika Sun was applied in the book "Secret Files Tardigrades 1" for children ages 5-6 on Amazon from MyMicroSchool. The main goal of Makika Sun is to emulate handwriting that is legible and accessible to everyone.

Makika Sun stands out for its readability and uncomplicated, artisanal style. It offers four typographic styles that simulate different calibers of markers: thick tip (Makika Sun Black), medium tip (Makika Sun Bold), normal tip (Makika Sun Regular) and Makika Sun Dingbats, a set of arrows and figures perfect to enrich your writing. . In short, Makika Sun's versatility and stylistic uniformity make it easy to create writing in various typographic settings. Its typographic heart communicates harmony in messages meticulously designed for spontaneous contexts that require high readability. Makika Sun offers a dynamic range of styles in 4 fonts notable for their outstanding performance in the field of children's book design and the creation of playful brand identities.

Designers: Carlos Fabián Camargo Guerrero

Publisher: Andinistas

Foundry: Andinistas

Design Owner: Andinistas

MyFonts debut: Jan 12, 2024

Makika Sun

About Andinistas

The word "Andinistas" roughly translates to "people devoted to the Andes." In Venezuela, it is the word used to describe the people who climb the slopes of Pico Bolívar, the country's highest mountain. Carlos Fabián Camargo Guerrero, the founder of Andinistas Fonts, found this name to be interesting because of its resonance and relationship with the unknown.Carlos is one of the first designers from Colombia or Venezuela to be able to make it as a full-time type designer. His experience of living in both countries has allowed him to tap into their colorful visual cultures and bring aspects of each of them into his designs. He is proud of both countries, as they have been an inexhaustible source of ideas to him.Carlos joined MyFonts in 2006. Since then, his designs have evolved from a streetwise, sassy grunge style to a series of energetic and personable scripts and display fonts. He says that in typeface design, we can never say we have learned enough. When we look at old classics, we realize that what we need to learn is inexhaustible. We never get anything definitively.Today, Carlos feels that the word "Andinistas" also has a valuable meaning for him personally. It has taken many years of experience before he slowly received some recognition for his foundry. This has required profound conviction and the will to surpass oneself. So the word combines concepts like spectacular beauty and adventure with the idea of overcoming challenges and getting to the top with work and creative effort.

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