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Tequendama

Tequendama™

by JVB Fonts
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Complete family of 4 fonts: $180.00
Tequendama Font Family was designed by John Vargas Beltrán and published by JVB Fonts. Tequendama contains 4 styles and family package options.

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About Tequendama Font Family


A display fontface for titles inspired on Latin America, Ethnic, Native, Tribal, Mysthical, Handmade, Aboriginal, Pre-Hispanic, Pre-Columbian, Textured. By mid-1997 I was developed the early type edition was called «Muisca Sans» as my work for the degree in Graphic Design (Universidad Nacional de Colombia), based on the concept of pre-Columbian figures characteristics within some of the very few visual elements recovered from the Muisca culture, ancient pre-Columbian tribe disappeared before the arrival of the Spaniards in what is now central Colombia. In fact, the name of the capital Bogotá (the capital of Colombia) goes back to Bacatá as primary or village downtown of what was once the imperial capital of tribe Muisca. Although this unfinished early typographic project has not yet been published, Tequendama is the evolution of the first one. Tequendama reminds the myth of Muisca culture and religion of this tribe. The god Bochica, a wise old man with a white beard heard the cries of his tribe suffered against flooding of their land losing harvests before the divine punishment resulted by the offended god Chibchacun. However Bochica appeared wearing a white robe sitting on a huge rainbow and he broken the mountain towards the southwest wise old man with a golden staff broke the mountain to drain the flooded savanna. This emblematic and iconic place would later be called as «Salto de Tequendama». Tequendama name also been adopted to a nearby province to Bogotá.

Designers: John Vargas Beltrán

Publisher: JVB Fonts

Foundry: JVB Fonts

Design Owner: JVB Fonts

MyFonts debut: May 16, 2014

Tequendama™ is a trademark of John Vargas Beltrán.

About JVB Fonts

John Vargas Beltrán (Bogotá – Colombia, b. october 12th 1974) graduated as graphic designer from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 1997 and has more than 10 years experience in calligraphy, typeface designing and lettering. Pioneer of digital Type Design in Colombia. Since 1997 he has designed different fonts for display or specialized titles. In 1997 he shown Muisca Sans as his degree work, a typeface based on pre-Columbian elements. In 2005 he participated at the Spanish contest Tipo-Q with Dulcinea Serif which became one of the 10 highlighted projects submitted. In 2009 he prepared and developed the Salsa font family and obtained the title of Font Design Specialist (UBA). Also he designed typefaces published by GoogleFonts.

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