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Guanabara Sans

Guanabara Sans is a sans serif font family. This typeface has sixteen styles and was published by Plau.

Guanabara is the third release of Plau Type Foundry (formerly known as Niramekko).
It started from the need of a wayfinding typeface that had personality enough to be the brand typeface for a city.
The city of Rio de Janeiro, with its never-ending curves and all year long summer weather provided the constraints and requirements of this typeface.
From there, it evolved to be a workhorse, with 8 weights from Thin to Black and matching true italics.
It just had to have the features that all us designers have grown to love, such as alternate letters (a, g and r for the romans), tabular and proportional figures in lining and oldstyle set-ups as well as small caps, fractions and all that jazz (I mean, samba).
And it needed to be recognizable and distinct.
For that, design features like tapered R legs, capitals with classic proportions and calligraphic finishes on the terminals proved crucial.

Guanabara is the third release of Plau Type Foundry (formerly known as Niramekko). It started from the need of a wayfinding typeface that had personality enough to be the brand typeface for a city.

The city of Rio de Janeiro, with its never-ending curves and all year long summer weather provided the constraints and requirements of this typeface.

From there, it evolved to be a workhorse, with 8 weights from Thin to Black and matching true italics. It just had to have the features that all us designers have grown to love, such as alternate letters (a, g and r for the romans), tabular and proportional figures in lining and oldstyle set-ups as well as small caps, fractions and all that jazz (I mean, samba).
And it needed to be recognizable and distinct. For that, design features like tapered R legs, capitals with classic proportions and calligraphic finishes on the terminals proved crucial.

And last, but not least, like Rio, it had to welcome many cultures.

We came to think of it as the “Typeface from Ipanema”, with a classic, timeless look, swinging elegance and joyful attitude.

Foundry Plau
Fonts 16
Price $20.00
Released 2013
Style Sans Serif

Guanabara Sans

16 Fonts

$189.00

Guanabara Upright

8 Fonts

$99.00

Guanabara Italic

8 Fonts

$99.00

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