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Balduina is a typographic family created collectively by the Círculo de Tipógrafos, a group of designers interested in rescuing and reinterpreting Mexico's modern graphic heritage. The project is inspired by the hand-drawn alphabets of Boudewijn Ietswaart, a Dutch designer and typographer who worked in Mexico during the publishing design boom of the mid-20th century.

The Balduina collection digitizes and reinterprets seven of these alphabets, preserving their handcrafted character and structural elegance, while adapting them to contemporary standards of digital type design. Their construction reveals Ietswaart's characteristic calligraphic precision and organic rhythm, integrating balanced contrasts, soft modulations and a classic editorial atmosphere.