Portrait by @rominasandrock
Sol Matas is a Graphic and Type designer graduated from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Guest Lecturer at the Type Master program at the same institution.
She started her career as a graphic designer at the Saatchi & Saatchi agency in Buenos Aires and since 2001 she runs her own studio Sonnenshine specializing in branding and custom type design, working for companies from Latin America, Europe and the United States.
She has developed font projects in Latin, Cyrillic and Devanagari and has collaborated on typefaces for a variety of foundries.
Her type projects were selected for the Bienal Tipos Latinos 2010, Tipos Latinos 2012 and the 5th International Typography Congress in Valencia.
She gave lectures and workshops at international conferences and educational institutions in Argentina, Bulgaria, Colombia, India, Spain and Germany.
Since 2015 she is member of alphabettes.org and since 2017 she is part of the organization's team of Typostammtisch Berlin.
She currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
• Orchard Of Typefaces — Talking With Sol Matas, by Liron Lavi Turkenich
• Typomad 2015: Testimonios
• ¿Somos concientes del valor de una tipografía?
* Texts in this website are written with Bitter Font, designed by Sol Matas, published by: Google Fonts.
Follow my collaborative development process:
https://github.com/solmatas