Pedro Leal - Type Design Portfolio

Acta Symbols First designed for chilean newspaper La Tercera in 2010, DSType's Acta family is a clean and fresh type system, while still conservative enough for newspaper setting. Acta Symbols was developed as part of that very same system and it's composed by an amazing collection of symbols specially designed for newspapers and magazines. For ease of use the symbols were distributed across eight opentype featured fonts. 2011 Typography
Braga DSType proudly introduces BRAGA, an exuberant baroque typeface, named after a portuguese city, also known as the baroque capital of Portugal. Our latest typographic extravaganza comes with a multitude of fonts designed to work like layers, allowing to insert color, lines, gradients, patterns, baroque, floral swashes, and many other graphic elements. Starting with Braga Base, you can add any of the twenty-three available styles, to create colourful typographic designs. Ask our detailed PDF specimen, showing all the features and how to use this type system designed by Dino dos Santos and Pedro Leal. 2011 Typography, Design
Girga Triumphant, vigorous and strong. These were the keywords for the design of Girga, named after an Egyptian city in the Sohag Governorate. The power and strength of the Egyptian letterforms were balance with a few sans serif forms so the darkness of the text and the fatness of the overall glyphs could be kept. We never intended to design a revival of the nineteen century egyptian typefaces, but we included a series of features that can be found in many wood letters from that era. With five styles divided in Regular, Italic, Stencil, Engraved and Banner, Girga is full features that allow many design possibilities. 2012 Typography
Global The seek for neutrality in typography lead us at DSType Foundry to design Global, a no-nonsense type family that can be used under any circumstance, both in print, web and apps. Global is a hard-working sans typeface that eliminates the licensing boundaries between the screen and the paper, therefore it can be used and embedded both for the web and mobile applications, because it’s provided, not just in OpenType™, but also in EOT, WOFF and TTF formats, all in a single, unlimited, license. 2012 Typography
Mafra Mafra, the debut typeface by Pedro Leal, a type family suited both for editorial and corporate design, available in five weights, ranging from Light to Black with matching italics. Mafra is a contemporary typeface with plenty of style, asymmetrical and very dynamic serifs, and pleasant openness and balance. Mafra and Mafra Display are available for purchase at DSType Foundry. 2010 Typography
Mafra Display Mafra, the debut typeface by Pedro Leal, a type family suited both for editorial and corporate design, available in five weights, ranging from Light to Black with matching italics. Mafra is a contemporary typeface with plenty of style, asymmetrical and very dynamic serifs, and pleasant openness and balance. Mafra and Mafra Display are available for purchase at DSType Foundry. 2010 Typography
Penna Penna is a calligraphic type system designed by Pedro Leal. Amidst the four available styles you get four different ascender and descender styles, two different styles of starting and ending swashes, a pleura of ligatures and several other features. Chose between regular, swashes, unconnected and connected versions or mix them all up for a deeper calligraphic feeling. Penna is available at DSType Foundry. 2011 Typography
Solido Solido is a very versatile and usable type system with five widths: Solido, Solido Constricted, Solido Condensed, Solido Compressed and Solido Compact, in a total of 35 fonts with plenty of alternate characters. 2013 Typography
User User is a monospaced type family with 30 styles, from Hairline to Bold, divided in Regular, Upright and Stencil,with five weights (Hairline, ExtraLight, Light, Medium and Bold) all with Cameo versions. Complexity and versatility are the keywords for this type family. Despite being a monospaced font, which means there's no kerning, all the glyphs were designed in order to sit comfortably in the 600 points width, a hard task because some glyphs are too narrow ('i' and 'l'), while others are too wide ('m' and 'w'), but they must fit the same width. The desire for keeping a comfortable readability in User was one of the key elements, therefore we designed several ligatures that fit both single and double space width, allowing to maintain a certain idea of proportional design. 2012 Typography
III Typography Meeting Custom ampersand developed for the identity of "III Encontro de Tipografia", a typography event Porto, Portugal. 2013 Typography
DSType Report 2011 "DSType proudly presents the 2011 Report, which includes the new fonts by DSType, the tailored typefaces for well known magazines and corporations and the upcoming releases specially designed for newspapers and magazines." Designed for iBooks with Dino dos Santos. 2012 Typography, Graphic Design, Editorial Design
User iBook Specimen Designed together with Dino dos Santos the "User Ibooks type specimen" became the standard for all of DStype's interactive specimens. Get it for free in the iBooks Store! 2012 Typography, Editorial Design