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Kalidoscopio [Juan Pablo del Peral]

Juan Pablo del Peral (b. 1984), aka Cocosaurio, is an Argentinian graphic designer who lives in Mendoza. He graduated from the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, and from FADU-UBA (in 2009: the graduation typeface was Alegreya HT). He is also a member of Fontana Diseño.

Creator of the novel sans family Kalidoscopio (2006). Award winner at Tipos Latinos 2010 for Parque Chas (done with Sol Matas) and for Kalidoscopio. See also here and here.

He joined Huerta Tipográfica, where he published Kalidoscopio HT, Alegreya HT (serif family), and Parque Chas HT. Alegreya is free and available, with TeX support, at CTAN.

At Google Font Directory, he published the free fat finger typeface Gochi Hand (2011) and Alegreya Sans (2013) and Alegreya Sans SC (2013), both humanist sans versions of Alegreya. The open source version of Alegreya is Akiza Sans (2015, Huerta Tipografics).

At Tipos Latinos 2012, he won the grand prize for Alegreya ht Pro. Alegraya also won an award at Tipos Latinos 2014. Juan Pablo also won awards for the flared typeface Acme (display type category). Acme is free at OFL and Huerta Tipografica.

Further typefaces from 2014 include Rozel Cut Cut, a free OFL stencil version of Alegreya created by Johan Morgane, published by Huerta Tipografica.

Sahitya (2015, Google Web Fonts) is a Devanagari typeface family based on the Latin Alegreya fonts. Juan Pablo del Peral designed the Latin, and led the design of the Devanagari with Sol Matas.

His free text typeface family Piazzolla won an award at Tipos Latinos 2018. Google Fonts link. Github link.

Fontsquirrel link. Google Plus link.

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