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ITC Mendoza

This type was created by José Mendoza y Almeida in 1991. It is a serif typeface with old style characteristics. Its high x-height and its no contrast between thick and thin strokes, makes ITC Mendoza being a good, readable and legible font family, which enables the face to resist of low resolution output and less than ideal printing conditions. It is ideal for continuous text use, particularly in small point sizes. It can be used for books and other text settings, as well as display work requiring a typeface that is both lively and elegant. ITC Mendoza is available in six different weights, which make this font more versatile.

José Mendoza was born in 1926 in Sèvres, France. He is type designer, typographer, teacher. Trained as a photoengraver at the Cliché Union in Paris. Mendoza says of his work that he “always tries to mix rigor and sensitivity, and the feeling of a hand’s gesture to his designs.”Besides this typefamily, José Mendoza designed Pascal (1960), Photina® (1972), Fidelio (1980) and Sully Jonquières (1980).