Central

ID / Record #450
Credits José Luis Coyotl
Licensing Privado
Foundry La Fe Ciega
Release 2018
Classification Títulos
Class Custom
Variants 1 Styles
Regional Node(s) México, México
Specimen Central
Note. Specimen of the typeface Central. Copyright by La Fe Ciega.

Central is a typeface derived from MxT Santanera, featuring a much cleaner and more aesthetic profile. It draws its formal and conceptual foundation from vernacular Mexican lettering—specifically, hand-painted sign lettering found primarily in popular cultural settings such as markets, the Centrales de Abasto, and vintage buses— but now with a slightly more dynamic and stylized feel, developed in a script style. Together, these elements give it an asymmetrical and contrasting appearance in its forms, with uppercase letters featuring a baseline that dips slightly to lend the text a somewhat more dynamic body. With a completely dynamic design that leaves little room for straight lines, its curves define it and create a wide range of playful counterforms and contrasts, with highly varied curved terminals and extensions without losing a certain experimental flair in its forms and overall typographic presence, making this typeface a display font with many possibilities for use and application.

RECOMMENDED CITATION

TipoMap Latam. (2026). Central. In Mapping of Typographic Production in Latin America (record #450). UASLP. https://doi.org/10.58493/tipomap — Entry consulted at https://tipomap.lat/view_typo?id=450