Founded in 2018 and based in both Chile and Argentina, the Compania Tipografica de Chile is operated by Gastón Uribe, Raúl Israel, and Alexis Navarro.
The idea behind Compania Tipografica de Chile arose from their shared affinities for type design. When the foundry was established, the designers behind it made a decision to combine their enjoyment of “calligraphy, digital design, lettering and everything that could be about letters,” they explained.
The international foundry is one built on friendship and love of typography. “Our main goal is to design fonts for fun,” they said. The three designers work together to blend their passions for their craft into font families used by graphic designers around the world.
Compania Tipografica de Chile strives to design digital typefaces with an emphasis on exploration, favoring innovation and creative expression in every project they approach. The type designers’ collective work has been placed in multiple exhibitions over the years and they enjoy sharing their knowledge of the discipline.
One of Compania Tipografica de Chile’s most recent releases through YouWorkForThem is LC Gianluca, designed by Raúl Israel. LC Gianluca is a flare serif inspired by the work of Aldo Novarese, particularly his work in the 1970s.
Updated for contemporary design, LC Gianluca carries a fresher, more modernized architecture that varies in personality based on its application. “It is a type family that can be elegant in its normal version, or very playful,” the foundry said.
Featuring graceful curves paired with striking flare serifs, LC Gianluca is a quietly sophisticated type family that becomes far more dramatic when used in all caps. It’s beautifully suited to design projects of all kinds, including headlines and editorials, advertising, magazine layouts, logos, product packaging, marketing materials, print and digital publishing, album artwork, posters, website designs and mobile applications.
Available in Thin, Light, Regular, Bold, and Extra Bold, with corresponding italics for each, LC Gianluca is a fantastic choice for branding and identity projects that require fluid design cohesion across multiple media types.
LC Gianluca is loaded with additional features through OpenType, including capitals to small caps, case sensitive forms, discretionary and standard ligatures, ordinals, subscript, superscript, scientific inferiors, oldstyle figures, small caps, and stylistic alternates with medieval style and references to Herb Lubalin’s work.
This type family extends multilingual support to Basic Latin, Western European, Euro, Catalan, Baltic, Turkish, Central European, Romanian, Pan African Latin, Dutch, Afrikaans, and Igbo Onwu for designs intended to reach an international audience.
Compania Tipografica de Chile currently offers eight products through YouWorkForThem and we’re really looking forward to seeing more of their work in the future. Visit their portfolio to take a look at the rest of their products and bookmark it so you won’t miss out on any new releases after they arrive!
