Laima

Designed by Bogidar Mascareñas . Released 2019.

Stencils are often restrictive and industrial, not expressive and flourished. As a stencil made by calligraphy instead of a machine, Laima is a perfect brand ambassador for album art, upscale venues, special occasions, and packaging.

  • TDC Winner 2019, Type Directors Club’s Certificate of Typographic Excellence
  • Display Fonts finalist in the Latin-American Clap awards
  • Spanish Laus awards for design and advertising
  • Nominated at the European Design & Advertising Awards (ADCE)
  • Included as part of Typographica's "Favorite Typefaces of 2019"

Soul of music!

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Festival heaven for people who look sickeningly good in skinny black jeans.

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Atingida a oitava edição, o NOS Primavera Sound já acumulou uma boa série de capítulos memoráveis que continuam a superar-se. Há razões para acreditar nesta projecção: não houve um ano que não tenha sido um passo em frente para o festival do Porto.

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A edição de 2019 garantiu a presença de cerca de 75.000 participantes no Parque da Cidade durante os três dias de festival e fê-lo com o cartaz mais eclético e festivo desde a sua primeira edição.

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The Backstory

Laima

Laima is a calligraphy-inspired stencil made to look lively & unexpected.

Laima is the brush-formed stencil from Bogidar Mascareñas that will create an ovation for branding, album art, upscale venues, and packaging. If wide appeal, attention to detail, or international reach is necessary for your brand, consider Laima’s high-calibre design as your personal ambassador.

The general font user is accustomed to stencil typefaces that have a brute look to them — industrial, mechanical, restrictive, or even militarised. Stencils are commonly used because they serve a function, like spray-painting over template letters, giving the reader a warning that must be heeded for safety, or a command to follow immediately. Wooden crates and grunge art are the medium and black or red paint are the norm. Laima, instead, creates a stencil from the world of calligraphy to turn all this on its head.

Laima’s 12 stencil styles (six roman and six italic) use the junctures of calligraphic strokes as an opportunity to achieve an uncommon stencil effect, shifting to create unexpected shapes and the illusion of twisted, disconnected overlaps. Inspired by “Arte Nueva de Escribir”, an engravings book published by Francisco Palomares in 1776, Laima progressed well beyond its beginning as a Type and Media Master’s project at KABK, The Hague (NL). It sometimes required completely new character shapes to accommodate the space needed for clear diacritic marks, and was further enhanced with flourishes and alternates for liveliness and variety in individual or branded work.

Laima’s italic begins with swashes and uses OpenType features to automatically turn them off with more than two successive capital letters. Use one swashed character for a drop cap, two for ligatured fun, turn them on or off at your discretion, or change the ascender length and swash shape to suit your creative need. With two styles of numerals and stylistic sets for final forms, Laima’s 12 styles and hundreds of Latin-based languages can turn simple words into an occasion that would immediately benefit high-class brands and special uses. Set that article title, release that new product, code your best-looking UI yet, letterpress that business card, and print that gourmet label. Whatever is next, Laima is the unexpected stencil partner to introduce it to an expectant world.

CREDITS
Lead design and concept
Bogidar Mascareñas

Engineering
Joancarles Casasín

Quality assurance
Azza Alameddine

Kerning
Bogidar Mascareñas
Radek Sidun

Graphic design
Rabab Charafeddine
Elena Veguillas

Copywriting
Joshua Farmer

The Laima project started during
Bogidar Mascareñas’s studies at TypeMedia.

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