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Retiro

Started 2006, finished in 2009: Retiro, by Jean François Porchez, was specially designed to gives a unique voice of the Madriz magazine. Its a city magazine distributed in high class hotels, airports and others hip places in Madrid. Bilingual, Spanish–English, its main object is to offer to local and foreign readers ideas to go out, fashion, interior design and gossips. The layout take its roots from women magazines style with a touch of vernacular style. To achieve that, an hispanic Didot fill out perfectly its job by the association of the usual Vogue strength plus the south Spain cities ornaments and style. Many alternates and ligatures has been added to the family.

The typeface was in beta version until autumn 2009: the final version was fully revised and many variations have been added to the original design to achieve the highest level of excellent in term of editorial settings.

This exclusive typeface will may available to the public in 2015. Until, enjoy the wallpaper at least.

Retiro won several prizes in 2010-11.—Letter.2 prize 2011, among the 53 entries out of 561 submissions based on their design excellence, 11-2011.—Creative Review Type Annual Custom typeface Retiro for Madriz magazine: Best in Book 2011, 02-2011.—Designpreis 2011 Nominee Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany 2011: Custom typeface Retiro Nominee for 2011, 05-2010.—Club des directeurs artistiques: 41e Palmarés Prix 2009 03-2010.—Tdc2 2010 Certificate of Type design Excellence for the custom typeface Retiro, 3-2010.

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