ABOUT
Portrait by @rominasandrock
Sol Matas lives and breathes type design in her beloved adopted city of Berlin. From her sunny studio, she collaborates with an international type and design community.
Now she guides new type designers in Practica Program, an online type design school she co-founded with Nicole Dotin, offering courses in different scripts led by an international team.
Type design found and claimed her during her formative years at Universidad de Buenos Aires. She mingled and shared classes with architects, and those technical ideas infused her design methodology with the functional precision of an engineer. After spending time at Saatchi & Saatchi, she set out on her own, and formed a new studio.
Client projects have led her to research glyphs for Cyrillic, Greek, Oriya, and Devanagari, uncovering the history and meaning of the strokes.
She lectures and teaches type design around the world, and her type projects have been selected for the European Design Awards, the Bienal Tipos Latinos, Sello Buen Diseño, and the International Typography Congress in Valencia.
Building community and organizations is second nature to her. Collaborations and contributions include: typefaces for The Typecraft Initiative in India, board member of the Type Directors Club, women’s network Alphabettes, Typographica, Berlin’s Typostammtisch, and her own Hungry Type Society
NOTABLE MENTIONS
• Hacer tipografías
• The Daily Heller: Making Typographic Music With a Latin Beat
• TDC: Finding Your True South
• Just the all of us — how we developed Noto Sans Odia font family, the collaborative way
• Typomad 2015: Testimonios
• ¿Somos conscientes del valor de una tipografía?
• Talk at Typolabs
• Orchard Of Typefaces — Talking With Sol Matas, by Liron Lavi Turkenich
* Texts in this website are written with Bitter Font, designed by Sol Matas, published by: Google Fonts.
