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Guanabara Sans

Font Family by Plau

Includes 16 Font Styles from $189

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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.

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16 Fonts Included

Guanabara Sans Thin Italic  |  View All 600 Glyphs

Guanabara Sans Thin Italic

from $20

Guanabara Sans Black Italic  |  View All 600 Glyphs

Guanabara Sans Black Italic

from $20

Guanabara Sans Bold  |  View All 618 Glyphs

Guanabara Sans Bold

from $20

Guanabara Sans Bold Italic  |  View All 600 Glyphs

Guanabara Sans Bold Italic

from $20

Guanabara Sans Book  |  View All 618 Glyphs

Guanabara Sans Book

from $20

Guanabara Sans Book Italic  |  View All 600 Glyphs

Guanabara Sans Book Italic

from $20

Guanabara Sans Extra Bold  |  View All 618 Glyphs

Guanabara Sans Extra Bold

from $20

Guanabara Sans Extra Bold Italic  |  View All 600 Glyphs

Guanabara Sans Extra Bold Italic

from $20

Guanabara Sans Extra Light  |  View All 618 Glyphs

Guanabara Sans Extra Light

from $20

Guanabara Sans Extra Light Italic  |  View All 600 Glyphs

Guanabara Sans Extra Light Italic

from $20

Guanabara Sans Light  |  View All 618 Glyphs

Guanabara Sans Light

from $20

Guanabara Sans Light Italic  |  View All 600 Glyphs

Guanabara Sans Light Italic

from $20

Guanabara Sans Medium  |  View All 618 Glyphs

Guanabara Sans Medium

from $20

Guanabara Sans Medium Italic  |  View All 600 Glyphs

Guanabara Sans Medium Italic

from $20

Guanabara Sans Thin  |  View All 618 Glyphs

Guanabara Sans Thin

from $20

Guanabara Sans Black  |  View All 618 Glyphs

Guanabara Sans Black

from $20

Save 40% ($131) when you buy the full family!

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Guanabara Sans

Font Family by Plau

16 Font Styles from $189

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