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Juan Villanueva

Peruvian type designer who grew up in Clifton, NJ, studied at Type@Cooper in 2014 and has a BFA from Montclair State University. He is currently based in Brooklyn, NY, works for Monotype, and teaches typography at The City College of New York. His typefaces:

• Typefaces at Type@Cooper: Gregorio (2014), Horacio (2014), Motto (2013: a revival).
• Porter (2014).
• Flatbush Grotesk (2014).
• Sagrantino (2017). A breezy script typeface designed at by Karl Leuthold, Juan Villanueva and Carl Crossgrove. It comes in Highlight and Shadow substyles.
• Trilce (2018).
• Walbaum (2018). Co-designed at Monotype by Carl Crossgrove, Charles Nix, Juan Villanueva and Lynne Yun. This is a reimagined superfamily with 69 total fonts, in five optical sizes. Monotype writes: Walbaum was meticulously crafted by Monotype's Carl Crossgrove, Charles Nix, and Juan Villanueva to bring Justus Erich Walbaum's high contrast didone style masterpiece to the 21st century. Walbaum has over 600 glyphs with OpenType typographic features like small capitals, old style and lining figures, proportional and tabular figures, fractions and ligatures. Also included in the family are three decorative and ornament fonts.
• Futura Now (2020). A 107-style family by Steve Matteson, Terrance Weinzierl, Monotype Studio and Juan Villanueva, that includes variable fonts as well as subfamilies called Text, Display, Headline, Inline, Outline, Shadow and Script).

In 2020, he accused the TDC, of which he was a board member, of racism and resigned. A few days later, the TDC shut down, at least temporarily.

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INTERNAL LINKS
Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type design in Peru ⦿ Type scene in New York ⦿ Modern style [Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Thorowgood, Computer Modern, etc.] ⦿