Tunera Type Foundry
Open-source type foundry
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Tunera is an open-source type foundry distributing fresh and original fonts. Our fonts are available for free for all of your personal and commercial projects. Please check them out!
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Hello everyone! Here's Azabache, the latest typeface release from Tunera Type Foundry!
Azabache ("jet" in Spanish) is a kind of dark mineral that's frequently used to craft art objects. As a word, "azabache" is also used to refer to black things, like black hair.
The Azabache typeface is the result of a research project conducted by Ariel Martín Pérez to look for alternative ways of designing digital typefaces that wouldn't involve drawing the shapes by tracing complex vector paths. Instead, it was first sketched by hand with a trackpad on Processing to lay out the shapes of the whole alphabet. Then, the letter shapes were selected and reproduced using oval modules on Glyphs. This method felt more iterative than conventional type design on the computer, more intuitive too. The result is heavily textured, has traces of the handwritten form but also looks digital and streamlined. It's a kind of a cyborg typeface.
We hope that it'll find its place in your design projects!