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Guanabara Sans

Guanabara Sans™

by Plau
Individual Styles from $20.00
Complete family of 16 fonts: $189.00
Guanabara Sans Font Family was designed by Rodrigo Saiani and published by Plau. Guanabara Sans contains 16 styles and family package options.

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About Guanabara Sans Font Family


Guanabara is the third release of Plau Type Foundry. It started from the need of a wayfinding typeface that had personality enough to be the brand typeface for a city. The city of Rio de Janeiro, with its never-ending curves and all year long summer weather provided the constraints and requirements of this typeface. From there, it evolved to be a workhorse, with 8 weights from Thin to Black and matching true italics. It just had to have the features that all us designers have grown to love, such as alternate letters (a, g and r for the romans), tabular and proportional figures in lining and oldstyle set-ups as well as small caps, fractions and all that jazz (I mean, samba). And it needed to be recognizable and distinct. For that, design features like tapered R legs, capitals with classic proportions and calligraphic finishes on the terminals proved crucial. And last, but not least, like Rio, it had to welcome many cultures. We came to think of it as the “Typeface from Ipanema”, with a classic, timeless look, swinging elegance and joyful attitude.

Designers: Rodrigo Saiani

Publisher: Plau

Foundry: Plau

Design Owner: Plau

MyFonts debut: Mar 20, 2013

Guanabara Sans™ is a trademark of Plau.

About Plau

We make type pop. Music sparks conversations, brings people together and moves ideas forward. So does type. Plau moves type forward through teaching and workshops, designing type, brand identities and fonts for people and the brands they love. Our work is used and seen by millions of people everyday, from Rede Globo (Brazil’s largest media company) to Staples and Valve, one of the world’s largest videogame platforms.

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