MarchTwentyTwo | Humanistic Font

Red poster with black “MarchTwentyTwo” title and a small white quote underneath.
Printed black chain-link symbol on white paper, lying on a desk with another sheet beneath it.
Red lowercase letters “pg” on a light gray background.
Red font sample showing alphabet, accented characters, and numbers on a red background.
Red word “murciélago” on black background with small white Spanish synonyms below.
Red title “DIFICILÍSIMO” on black background, with three columns of white words below.
PHamburgerfonts in white and red text on a black background
Stylized black background with red and white “cas” text centered; small Arabic text beneath.
Red background displaying lowercase and uppercase alphabet with accented characters in white.
White text list of words in three columns on a black background.
Black background with three large white lowercase “n” letters and small red labels beneath each.
Red thank-you banner reading “Thank You! GRÀCIES! IGRÀCIES!” with small white text below

MarchTwentyTwo | Type Design

MarchTwentyTwo typeface design was born during the Summer Condensed Program at Cooper Union in New York City, 2012.



This condensed program was a great learning curve, professionally and personally. Being admitted at Cooper Union gave me the motivation to go back to my broad nib and expansion pens and start writing calligraphy as a daily exercise before our daily commissioned work. During the course, I had the opportunity of designing my second typeface design called MarTwentyTwo, a humanistic type developed from my own calligraphic hand.


SPECIAL THANKS

I want to give special thanks to Jean François Porchez who taught me a way of hand drawing type design that I have applied to my textile prints and lettering work. Now I approach textile design and lettering in a very similar way, combining both skills in my daily work.


Also, many thanks to Cara Di Edwardo, Sumner Stone, Stéphane Elbaz, Just Van Rossum and Hannes Famira for sharing their knowledge with me.

DESIGN SERVICES

Typeface design
Lettering

INDUSTRY

Custom font design
Education

Credits

Self-genated projects
Art director: Maria Montes
Type designer: Maria Montes
Lead Teacher: Jean François Porchez

TYPE@COOPER, NYC 2012

Maria Montes leaning over a desk and writing under a lamp, with letters posted on the wall behind them

marchtwentytwo FONT IN USE