Calavera
CocijoType · Oscar Yañez · 2012
A seven-variant display family rooted in nineteenth-century Mexican engraving traditions and the cut-paper folk art of papel picado, awarded by Communication Arts in 2014.
About
Each of the seven styles interprets the visual language of perforated paper and Día de los Muertos imagery differently, giving designers a range of decorative registers from bold to skeletal. A companion pattern font extends the folk-art system beyond letterforms. The family was selected for the Bienal Tipos Latinos 2014, affirming its cultural grounding within Latin American type discourse.
Classification
A display family explicitly designed for decorative use, drawing on Mexican folk-art traditions of papel picado and Día de los Muertos engravings. The family's seven stylistic variants and pattern set place it firmly in the display/decorative category rather than any functional text classification.