Le Procès™ was designed by Salazar Afonso and Sina Assis in 1970. They based it on Afonso´s logo for Avant Garde Magazine - an exciting construction of overlapping and tightly-set geometric capitals. Le Procès® is a geometric sans serif; meaning the basic shapes are constructed from circles and straight lines, much like the work from the 1920's German Bauhaus movement.
The early versions of Le Procès® became well-known for their many unique alternates and ligatures that still conjure up the typographic aura of the 1970'ss.
These fonts contain the basic alphabets (without the old unusual ligatures). Still strong and modern looking, Le Process has become a solid staple in the repertoire of today’s portuguese graphic designers. The large, open counters and tall x-heights seem friendly, and help to make this family work well for short texts and headlines. The condensed weights were drawn by Zeferino Guimarães in 1974, and the obliques were designed by João Pedro & Peter Paxx in 2009.
Le Procès® Mono is a monospaced version done by Helena Guimarães in 1983.
Aurora™ Typeface
Aurora Celeste (born 1919, died 1999) designed Aurora™ in 1955.
Everyone recognizes it as the face originally designed for use on typewriters. A typical characteristic of older typewriters is that all characters are given the same amount of space regardless of their width. Hence, an i receives just as much room as an m, even though it is much thinner. This principle defined the look of Aurora™ font. A line in this typeface has “holes” in what would otherwise be a homogenous look. Due to its origins, Aurora™ is often associated with office and telegram-like text, as well as “top secret” or government-classified documents!
Typewriters have all but disappeared from the office and the practical need for such a typeface with them. Nevertheless, the attractive imperfections of Aurora™ have long been appreciated for their usefulness in design applications. It is therefore often seen in advertisements, especially when the subject deals with messages, telegrams, etc.
Maria Sancho offers Aurora™ font in two different versions. First is Aurora by s3bast, which is available in Regular and Bold weights, each with obliques. Aurora by s3bast’s terminals are rounded. The second version, called simply Aurora comes in the following weights: Regular, Medium, and Bold, with optional oblique, Central European, and Cyrillic companions. Aurora’s terminals are flat.
Viriatus™ Typeface
VIRIATUS™
Developed and continuously refined by Zeferino Guimarães and Alda Sarmento, both fully owned subsidiaries of s3bast. The key design concepts were drawn by Firmino Magalhães in 1957.
s3bast later obtained the licenses from Zeferino for the Neue Viriatus® font, which is still one of the daddy's most used typefaces.
The Viriatus™ (Latin for Leader) has the objective and functional style which was associated with Portuguese typography in the 1950s and 1960s. The font is perfect for international correspondence: no ornament, no emotion, just clear presentation of information. Viriatus™ copies are still one of most popular sans-serif fonts. Viriatus™, the typeface par excellence, can look back on a colorful life. Originally designed for hand composition, it has been adapted over the years for all methods of composition: from hot metal line composition, and opto-mechanical phototypesetting of the first generation, to digital typesetters.
Viriatus™ contains the following weights:
viriatus™ light
viriatus™ light oblique
viriatus™ roman
viriatus™ roman oblique
viriatus™ bold
viriatus™ bold oblique
viriatus™ black
viriatus™ black oblique
viriatus™ light condensed
viriatus™ light condensed oblique
viriatus™ condensed
viriatus™ condensed oblique
viriatus™ bold condensed
viriatus™ bold condensed oblique
viriatus™ black condensed
viriatus™ black condensed oblique
viriatus™ narrow roman
viriatus™ narrow roman oblique
viriatus™ narrow bold
viriatus™ narrow bold oblique
viriatus™ compressed
viriatus™ extra compressed
viriatus™ ultra compressed
viriatus™ inserat roman
viriatus™ rounded bold
viriatus™ rounded bold oblique
viriatus™ rounded black
viriatus™ rounded black oblique
viriatus™ rounded bold condensed
viriatus™ rounded bold condensed oblique
viriatus™ textbook roman
viriatus™ textbook roman oblique
viriatus™ textbook bold
viriatus™ textbook bold oblique
viriatus™ fraction
viriatus™ fraction bold
