tipomap.lat

TipoMap Latam is a digital platform dedicated to academic research, heritage preservation, and scientific dissemination coordinated by the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (UASLP) through the Multimedia Experimentation Laboratory of the Facultad del Hábitat and the Latin American Typographic Research Network (RLIT), in collaboration with research nodes at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL), Universidad Diego Portales (UDP - Chile), Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (UPM - Brazil), and the Asociación Mexicana de Tipografía (AMT).

Access and consultation of this platform are free of charge, with strictly educational, scientific, and cultural dissemination purposes, with no commercial or lucrative intent.

The software codebase powering the platform is released under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPLv3). The catalog's structured metadata sets and documentation records are published under Open Science standards under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0) license.

Any use, re-use, redistribution, or analysis of the datasets published on TipoMap Latam requires moral acknowledgement and mandatory academic citation using the assigned persistent digital object identifier:

Acknowledgement of Ownership: TipoMap Latam does not claim commercial or proprietary ownership over the cataloged typeface families. Moral and economic copyright, trademarks, and typeface design rights belong exclusively and inalienably to their respective creators, type designers, and independent or commercial type foundries.

Right of Citation and Cultural Preservation: The reproduction of specimens, glyph samples, visual sheets, family names, and biographical records is conducted strictly under the doctrine of citation, scholarly study, scientific research, and cultural preservation established in national copyright laws and international treaties (Berne Convention, Art. 10; Mexican Federal Copyright Law, Art. 148).

The platform provides public and private JSON query endpoints (/api/v1/) for researchers and developers in the typographic community. Use of these automated services is subject to the following terms:

A. Responsible Consumption: Sending abusive or automated queries at rates that degrade system infrastructure or service availability is strictly prohibited.
B. Prohibition of Malicious Reverse Engineering: Any attempt to breach authentication controls, inject malicious code, or alter catalog records is prohibited.
C. Attribution Integrity: Any application, visualization, or service consuming data from TipoMap Latam must clearly and visibly indicate project credits and the persistent DOI.

TipoMap Latam contains outgoing links to websites of type foundries, commercial distributors, portfolios, and author profiles. These links are provided solely for informative and documentary reference purposes. TipoMap Latam does not intervene, charge commissions, or assume responsibility for commercial purchase or licensing transactions conducted on third-party platforms.

The platform is provided "as is". While our research team maintains rigorous and continuous data verification, the absence of minor historical discrepancies inherent to documentary evolution cannot be guaranteed.

These Terms and Conditions are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the United Mexican States and applicable international intellectual property and open science treaties. For the interpretation or resolution of any dispute not resolved by mutual agreement, the parties submit to the jurisdiction of the competent courts of the city of San Luis Potosí, S.L.P., Mexico.

Last updated: October 2026.