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Some awesome typo going on in here, found it over at The Ministry of Type. It’s apparently by Puerto Rican artist Lorenzo Homar, there’s a full bio on him at the bottom of the page. Really very nice hand lettered style, The Ministry briefly discusses the possibilities of creating a digital typeface based on the top font up there, let’s hope that happens at some point. The bottom one, although obviously hand lettered, looks familiar…But I can’t put my finger on it. Any ideas?

5 Comments

  1. Laura says:

    Gasoline Sans?

  2. Jp says:

    Beautiful. Homar is well known in PR, where print making really flourished for a time. Anyone interested should check out “El Cartel en Puerto Rico.” Sadly, it’s hard to get reprints of any of these nowadays.

  3. Scott says:

    laura-
    close but gasoline is more chiseled and angular. and a lot of the characters are way off (check out the lowercase “r” for example)

  4. bill gatse says:

    looks like Amplitude/Rotis

    … or comic sans…

    😛

  5. Manuel Rivera says:

    I’m from PR. Lorenzo Homar is amazing. All of his stuff is breathtaking, specially his type, linocuts & poster works. Nice find..

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