Jorge Iván Moreno Majul

Jorge Iván Moreno Majul

Jorge Iván Moreno Majul is a font developer based in Veracruz, México. His type work has been selected by the Tipos Latinos international biennale. He has been the main font developer at PampaType for many years, and he has collaborated in the design and production of custom typefaces with a variety of independent foundries such as LetraCase, Branding with Type, Research Studios Barcelona, and several font designers from the Latin American scene. He was part of FontStage, a group of type designers who delivered custom projects for Google Fonts. He also gives lectures and workshops on digital type, font production, coding and the like. However what he enjoys most is putting letterforms’ nodes where they belong.

May 20, 2020

Octothorpe, or how to enjoy redesigning a glamorous, hypnotic, and elegantly useless display font from the seventies?

Jorge Iván shares with us the design process and production of his Octothorpe font, plus some other things. He reviews the rise and fall of dry transfer lettering, focusing on the Stripes face, …