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    Sabrina Lopez

    ABOUT

    SOMETHING ABOUT ME

    I developed a latent interest in calligraphy from my early childhood and that seed bore fruit when I first encountered calligraphy at the University of Buenos Aires. The Graphic Design program includes two years of Typography, and during the first year, calligraphy — mostly the Foundational hand — is taught as a base, to learn about the structure of letterforms: their proportions, the ductus of strokes, the thick-thin contrast, letter spacing, and more. This is how my calligraphic work began, which I later used in type design. 

    I started out as a self-taught type designer, combining the methods taught at college with researching the historical origin — calligraphy — to learn how letterforms work. I studied calligraphy for years, but always thinking the final product would be a font. I think that this method was a solid base to achieve an accurate eye.

    I am very grateful to have met such wonderful teachers as Maria Eugenia Roballos and Betina Naab who have been both very kind, generous and patient with me. I studied styles like Cancelleresca, Roman Capitals, English Roundhand, and the ruling pen. Part of my search for calligraphic knowledge was a trip with my friend Maximiliano Sproviero to the Northern Hemisphere to take a one-week intensive workshop with Julian Waters, Georgia Deaver and Carl Rohrs in Boston.

    Being left-handed has been a limitation in developing certain calligraphic styles but it is a huge advantage for English calligraphy and that is why this is the style I focused on most. 

    Sabrina Lopez
    Creative Characters
    The faces behind the fonts

    Meet Sabrina at MyFonts' Interview.

    "She is part of a new generation of Argentinian lettering artists who move back and forth with ease between manual skills and digital wizardry."

     

    MY FOUNDRY

    Based on the Arts&Crafts' concept, not its aesthetic, but its idea of revaluation of crafts, I design handmade fonts in our hiper-technological era, from handmade sketches to the computer. Handwriting gestures make letters original and personal as they have the imprint of the author's hand. I believe that the perfect technology is our bodies, while the computer is just a tool. So, I train my eyes and hands, learning from the Medieval and Renaissance masters. Typesenses brings part of the long history of writing to our era.

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    PUBLICATIONS

    AWARDS

    Yearbook of Type 2 - Germany
    Slanted | 2015
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    MyFonts Most Popular Fonts 2015
    Blend

    Colophon December 2013,

    Volume 35 - Australia
    ASC | 2013

    Tipos Latinos 2014 | Titles.

    Excellence Certificate
    Wishes Script. 

    Typodarium - Germany
    Magma Brand Design |

    2012 - 2013 - 2014

    Hand to Type - Germany
    Gestalten | 2012

    Slanted 12 - Germany
    Slanted | 2010​

    TypoLyrics - Germany
    Slanted | 2010

    Fonts.com's Best Font 2013
    Wishes Script

    MyFonts Most Popular Fonts 2013
    Wishes Script

    Tipos Latinos 2012 | Titles

    Parfumerie Script

    MyFonts Top 10 Fonts of 2009
    Aphrodite Slim

    "I really love the idea that my work contains a part of myself, my own gestures, which could not be made by anyone else in the world because they are like my fingerprints."

     

    CONTACT

    WE ARE IN BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA!

    info@typesenses.com