Tejuela (Spanish for "Wood Shingle") is a neoclassical type influenced by the wood architecture of the ancient churches of Chiloé, an island chain in southern Chile; which are today a World Heritage Site. This typography has rough and damaged types however with soft strokes.
The neoclassical characteristic of Tejuela is due to the architecture of these temples, which belong to this style however adapted to wood with excellent quality and ingenuity by Chilote home builders utilizing a product readily available in the area. For that reason, this typeface reflects the tradition of the typefaces of that duration, however adjusted to the coarseness and heat of the southern wood of the brand-new world.
Tejuela works for substantial texts in literature, history, art and heritage; as likewise for brief and big expressions in headings according to the occasion.
Tejuela has eight variants in Roman a Italic variations, with small caps, Old Style and Lining numbers, ligatures, alternative glyphs, amongst other OpenType features; unique mention to the capital letters Swash of the italic versions, which serve to generate fragile structures. In addition, it has 2 stylistic sets to compose border ornaments motivated by the Chilote Architecture: pillars and corners, just using the numbers on the keyboard; it is essential that the line spacing has the exact same value as the font.
Its 800 to 940 glyphs appropriate for writing 219 different languages.
We appreciate the terrific aid of Franco Jonas, Alexis Navarro, Marcela Aguilera, Pedro González & & Diego Aravena in this process, amongst many people of the craft that they supported selflessly.
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