Located in the flatlands of West Texas, Angie Baldelomar started her foundry in 2010 with a desire to create beautiful graphics, fonts and website templates, all with a feminine, girly aesthetic. “Making Fonts is something that I get particularly excited about because I’m always amazed by the creative ways I see folks use them,” she says.
Based in Bogotá, Macrotipo is an independent digital type design firm created by Santiago Silva in 2010. The philosophy is to develop new proposals to begin to form a Colombian identity of typography.
He spent years working as Art Director at various advertising agencies such as McCann Ericsson, Leo Burnett Venezuela, Ogilvy One and SSA Bates Colombia. He was also professor of calligraphy, lettering, design and management of fonts in Graphic Design at Universidad Piloto of Colombia, Bogotá.
Co-founded andinistas.net, adgcolombia.org, tipografia.com.co & tipografico.org and his fonts have been mentioned in tiposlatinos.com 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014; in addition they have been published printed and electronically in Latin America, Europe and United States.
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. That same year he collaborated on the project degree work of his colleague Andrés Marquínez, designing Macondo: this font was reissued and is now distributed through MyFonts in Pro version. In 1998 he started the concept of Conectiva which was edited and published 12 years later by MyFonts.com. In 2005 he participated at the Spanish contest Tipo-Q with Dulcinea Serif which became one of the 10 highlighted projects submitted. His font Cambalache (2008) was published by MyFonts in 2011. In 2009 he designed Convergence with his colleague, fellow student and Venezuelan counterpart Nicolás Silva Schwarzenberg. That same year he prepared and developed the Salsa font family and obtained the title of Font Design Specialist (UBA). Currently he designes new typefaces published by GoogleFonts. He is co-founder of the ADG Tipográfico.org Colombia (Graphic Designers Association of Colombia). He worked for over 8 years in the area of interactivity in advertising agencies like Euro RSCG and G2. He specialized in Management of Design UJTL (Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano - 2003) and finalized the Typographic Design postgraduate course from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina - 2010). In March of 2012 his project Macondo was selected at the Tipos Latinos 2012 Biennal. Currently, he lives in Argentina.
He is one of those type designers who taught himself the craft by making experimental geometric fonts, then traveled a steep learning curve by continually challenging himself. Within years he was designing highly original, beautifully drawn typefaces, and winning awards. Several of his most striking faces were published by Fountain in Sweden. He still releases work with them, but some years ago launched his own one-man label, operating from Lisbon, Portugal. Among his side projects is a series of splendid videos he designed and directed to accompany his typeface releases. Meet the multi-talented Rui Abreu.























