ABOUT

Sol Matas lives and breathes type design in her beloved adopted city of Berlin. From her sunny studio, she collaborates with an international type and design community.

Now she guides new type designers in Practica Program, a live online course formed with American type designer Nicole Dotin.

Type design found and claimed her during her formative years at Universidad de Buenos Aires. She mingled and shared classes with architects, and those technical ideas infused her design methodology with the functional precision of an engineer. After spending time at Saatchi & Saatchi, she set out on her own, and formed a new studio.

Client projects have led her to research glyphs for Cyrillic, Greek, Oriya, and Devanagari, uncovering the history and meaning of the strokes.

She lectures and teaches type design around the world, and her type projects have been selected for the European Design Awards, the Bienal Tipos Latinos, Sello Buen Diseño, and the International Typography Congress in Valencia.

Building community and organizations is second nature to her. Collaborations and contributions include: typefaces for The Typecraft Initiative in India, board member of the Type Directors Club, women’s network Alphabettes, Typographica, Berlin’s Typostammtisch, and her own Hungry Type Society

NOTABLE MENTIONS

• Hacer tipografías
• The Daily Heller: Making Typographic Music With a Latin Beat
• TDC: Finding Your True South
• Just the all of us — how we developed Noto Sans Odia font family, the collaborative way
• Typomad 2015: Testimonios
• ¿Somos conscientes del valor de una tipografía?
• Talk at Typolabs
• Orchard Of Typefaces — Talking With Sol Matas, by Liron Lavi Turkenich

* Texts in this website are written with Bitter Font, designed by Sol Matas, published by: Google Fonts.

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Celebrating homecomings and the last bits of summer 🎂✨ I baked an angel cake for a belated birthday celebration after Jesse’s month-long adventure in the USA (including the wild desert magic of Burning Man 🔥). So happy to have him back home! 🎉🎈❤️

Snapshots of a Berlin summer. Celebrating birthdays with friends in Berlin’s parks is a beloved tradition. Everyone brings their drink of choice for a relaxed toast, and the atmosphere is always laid-back. It’s not uncommon to stumble upon groups playing techno music, adding to the city’s vibrant summer vibe. #summer2024☀️ #berlinculture

Today, I received a beautiful gift from @euge_roballos that truly warms my heart. 💕 Euge’s work includes calligraphy, design, embroidery, and everything that can arise from the combination of these three things. I love calligraphy and I owe it to my great teachers @roballosnaab, who passed their passion on to me. Gracias ✨

Thrilled to receive this stunning screen-printed poster in my Berlin studio! 💌 Congratulations to @richardgans_type and @nicoamateis for the beautiful design, and to @julio_cubillos for the impeccable print job. This exquisite piece, inspired by the type collection, honors the legacy of Richard Gans, who moved from Germany to Spain in 1874 and later opened his own type foundry. Gracias. Danke. 💕

Honored to join the jury for the ASCENDERS competition by the Type Directors Club! ✨ ASCENDERS celebrates rising typographic talents under 35. Whether you're a hand-letterer, typographer, or designer with a passion for letterforms, this is your chance to shine. Join now and get noticed by the industry! Entries OPEN, Deadline: May 3rd. Learn more: @typedirectors https://ascenders.tdc.org/ #ASCENDERScompetition #TypographyRising #DesignTalent

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