Dino dos Santos Fonts

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Quaestor Sans

Quaestor Sans is the perfect companion to Quaestor. The smooth angles in the terminals make it closer to Quaestor and allows to keep the strong character of the typeface.

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Quaestor was designed to be a strong a decided text typeface because the Quaestor was a Roman magistrate, with responsibility for the treasury and in early times a quaestor also had judicial powers. ...

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Missiva

The first inspiration for Missiva was a sixteen century letter from S. Francisco Xavier (St. Francis Xavier) but then I adapted my own handwriting in order to have the basic character set.

Boldina

Boldina consists of 18 fonts with a lot of personality. This is a font to be mixed. That’s its purpose and that’s why it's designed as one single weight in so many different styles. My intent was to ...

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Albo

Albo is part of a new set of typefaces inspired in ancient documents from Portuguese 15th and 16th century books. Based on a document from Afonso d'Alboquerque (Goa, July, 1514), Albo was designed to ...

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Nerva

This is the kind of serif/sans serif typefaces that I always liked so much (like Optima by Mr. Herman Zapf that was always a great inspiration to me). Complete horizontal baseline with curve vertical ...

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Cultura

I started designing Cultura in 2003 for a book about the city of Porto, Portugal. It was supposed to be a typeface only to use in that book and only in Regular and Italic, but after a large amount of ...

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Pluma

This typeface was inspired in the amazing typographic work of Manoel de Andrade de Figueiredo that was published in 1722, named "Nova Escola para Aprender a Ler, Escrever e Contar, offerecida â€¡ ...

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Methodo

This three typefaces are a reproduction of the old portuguese calligraphic methods for students named Methodo Calligraphico para o Commercio e Lyceus by Pinto de Mesquita.

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Andrade

Andrade is a new typeface designed by Dino dos Santos in 2005. This typeface was inspired in the typographic work of Manoel de Andrade de Figueiredo (b.1670-d.1735), Nova Escola para Aprender a Ler, ...