December 2011
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Interview for ProcessMade
A new interview, this time with Naim Sheriff from ProcessMade. Talking about London, vinyl records, toys and comic books, and of course, also about type.
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August 2011
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Interview for typetoken.net
Click here to read a nice and heartfelt interview I gave to typetoken.net as part of the Fontsmith/Typetoken series of 4 interviews with the team.
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FS Pimlico
FS Pimlico is my new design at Fontsmith. The typeface consists of three weights with true italics plus a ‘glow’ version with shiny bits. It’s a very personal project which reflects a bit of my passion for the 70s/80s atmosphere and things like synthesizers, Letraset, disco & funk vinyl covers and so on. It’s a very flexible family, ready to solve difficult design...
April 2010
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FS Jack selected in Tipos Latinos 2010
After taking part in the Bienal Letras Latinas 2006 with MelloSans and in Tipos Latinos 2008 with Frida, we kept the tradition: FS Jack, a new sans typesystem designed by me and Jason Smith at Fontsmith, was selected in the family category in Tipos Latinos 2010. Apart from having MelloSans as the corporate font for the event’s identity, now FS Jack will also take part in all the upcoming...
September 2009
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MelloSans, a true Latin design
The humanist sans-serif family MelloSans was my conclusive project in University back in São Paulo in 2004. Since then, the family became quite popular mainly due to a selection in the Bienal Letras Latinas in 2006. I have been receiving loads of e-mails in the last years asking where is the font available, and the sad truth is, it isn’t released anywhere. But the good news is, I’ve...
August 2009
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Frida
Frida is the typeface I created while enrolled in the MA in Typeface Design of the University of Reading in 2006-2007. It is a joint Latin-Tamil typeface, initially designed with newspapers in mind, but suitable to other media such as magazines, small publications and so on.
The typeface earned three recognitions in 2008: one of the TDC prizes at Tokyo TDC 2008 (the typeface creation was...
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Welcome back to fermello.org!
After years of inactivity, I decided to join tumblr and point my domain fermello.org towards here, for the facilities the service offers facing my increasing lack of knowledge in webdesign, and also due to my laziness about doing something about my website. Therefore, much of the design and the functionality of this page comes from Redfield. Typefaces in use here are...