Ancizar Sans

Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL) is a national public research university with the following campuses: Amazonia, Bogotá, Caribe, De La Paz, Manizales, Medellín, Palmira, Orinoquia and Tumaco. It was established in 1867 by an act of the Congress of Colombia and is one of the largest universities in the country. Key institutional dependencies, such as UNIMEDIOS (the university’s Communications & Media Unity), OMD (its Digital Media Office), LAB101 (its innovation laboratory), and the Faculty of Arts in Bogotá, have worked in close collaboration in order to make possible the UNAL Ancízar project.

César Puertas is a graphic designer from the National University of Colombia and holds a Master’s degree in Type and Media from the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague (KABK), Netherlands. He is an associate professor at Universidad Nacional de Colombia and cofounder of Typograma, his own design studio, where he specializes in branding, type and editorial design for various clients.

Viviana Monsalve is a graphic designer specializing in typography. She holds degrees from the National University of Colombia and the University of Buenos Aires. Her interest in typography lies in its role as a technology in itself, that can make written culture more accessible and functional for a broader audience. She currently works independently, producing and engineering fonts for clients worldwide.

Julián Moncada is a Colombian type designer based in Bogotá. He earned his Master’s degree in Typeface Design from the University of Reading and later studied at ANRT in Nancy, France. In collaboration with Jonathan Barnbrook and Ryuhei Nakadai, he designed Resolution and Resolution Blackletter, a family of display typefaces developed as a creative response to the political situation in Northern Ireland.