Dino dos Santos
Born in Porto, Portugal, 1971
DSType was founded in late 1994 by Dino dos Santos and since then designed typefaces for several corporations, magazines and cultural projects. Dino dos Santos graduated in Graphic Design by ESAD, Matosinhos in 1994. In 2002 was awarded with an MPHIL in Multimedia Arts at FBAUP, Porto, with a thesis on Digital Typography in Multimedia Environments. Teaches Typographic Studies at ESAD Escola Superior de Artes e Design, Matosinhos and Communication Design in the Master Graduation of Industrial Design, FEUP Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto. His typographic work is published in several magazines which include Computer Arts (UK), Creative Review (UK), Page (DE), Publish (PT), Page (PT), among others. Designed some notable typefaces like ANDRADE (winner of the Creative Review Type Design Awards, for the Best Revival/Extension Family, 2005), NERVA (Notable Releases of 2005 for Typographica), ESTA (Best Serif Font of 2005 for MyFonts and Favorite Fonts of 2006 for Typographica), ESTILO (Favorite Fonts of 2006 for Typographica), ESTILO SCRIPT (Best Script Font of 2006 for MyFonts) and LEITURA (Top 10 Fonts of 2007 for MyFonts). Work exhibited in several places around the world. Contributes regularly to conferences, seminars and publications.
DSTYPE specializes in creating custom typefaces including, completely new typefaces for every purposes, improving balance, legibility and fine tunning existent typefaces and/or logotypes. You can also order typefaces using our email address. Please contact us for more information.
Contact
Rua Oscar da Silva, 1234, 4Esq
4450-754 Leca da Palmeira
Matosinhos - Portugal
Phone: +351 916 166 740
Email: info@dstype.com
NEWS
Ventura was awarded with the Certificate of Excellence in Type Design by the Type Directors Club of New York.
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PRESS
Leitura Type System was awarded again. Typographica selected Leitura as one of the best fonts of 2007.
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CUSTOM TYPE
DSTYPE was asked to design a new version of Estilo for use in headlines and titles of a new magazine.
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WORK IN PROGRESS
CAPSA is a book typeface and will be available in Regular and Bold, with three italics: Italic, Chancery and Swashes.