FONTS
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.
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
Volume 35 - Australia
ASC | 2013
Tipos Latinos 2014 | Titles.
Excellence Certificate
Wishes Script.
Typodarium - Germany
Magma Brand Design |
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!
