Santo Domingo

ID / Record #2633
Credits Agustín Guzmán
Licensing No disponible
Release 2022
Classification Texto, Títulos
Class Retail
Regional Node(s) México

A stone-carved sign located in Puerto de Veracruz historical district announcing an old hotel called Santo Domingo is the origin of this typeface. The font started as an attempt to develop a complete typographic system inspired by the sign, but the limitations shown by the letterforms made the project take a detour. This typeface ended up being its own thing taking the sign as a starting point. Due to its “vernacular” and “crafted” origins, the letterforms that make this font are traditional in it’s own way producing a versatile and original type family intended for display use but useful for medium size texts.

Academic Context

Type West Online

Letterform Archive (Estados Unidos) — 2022

RECOMMENDED CITATION

TipoMap Latam. (2026). Santo Domingo. In Mapping of Typographic Production in Mexico (record #2633). UASLP. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22709940 — Entry consulted at https://tipomap.lat/mx/view_typo?id=2633