Andada

Andada was born from the relationship between language and typography. It is an organic-slab serif text font, hybrid style and medium contrast. It is the product of 10 years’ research and development. It was designed to be used in a multilingual context and to survive to adverse print conditions. Award category Design II Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño BID_10 (2010).

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Type Foundry: HT Fonts
Author: Carolina Giovagnoli
Created: 2010
Revision 1: 2015. OpenType SmallCaps
Revision 2: 2019. Diacritics update
Revision 3: 2021. Version pro upload at Google Fonts
Revision 4: 2023. Wounaan

8 Fonts:
- 4 Weights: Regular, Medium, Bold and Extra bold
- Roman
- Italic
- Small caps

Language support: Latin Plus
License Types: SIL OPEN FONT LICENSE Version 1.1

Andada - Regular

Andada - Italic

Andada - Medium

Andada - Medium Italic

Andada - Bold

Andada - Bold Italic

Andada - Extra bold

Andada - Extra bold Italic

Awards and exhibitions

Exhibitions: Tipos Latinos 2010 - 2014 - América Latina
Award Diseño gráfico in the 2nd Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño_BID 2010, diseño para la diversidad y el desarrollo. More info: Experimenta and BID_10
2013. Exhibition: Octubre, mes del diseño Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno, Mendoza
2017. Exhibition: Novo mundo MUDE – Museu do Design e da Moda. Portugal
2019. Exhibition: Al pie de la letra, Experiencias tipográficas en Argentina Museo del libro y de la lengua, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Download the catalogue here

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Andada was born from the relationship between language and typography. It is an organic-slab serif, hybrid style and medium contrast type for text. Initially it was designed to be used in a specific bilingual context — Spanish and Guaraní (pre-Hispanic) languages — so language is its design criterion.

The Guaraní language uses the Latin system, it has a character named puso, which is an identifying sign for Guaraní, like the ñ in Spanish, the č in Czech or the ß in German. The correct sign to represent the puso is the saltillo (Saltillo uniA78B, saltillo uniA78C), but usually it’s replaced by an apostrophe because the saltillo does not appear in the Spanish, English or Portuguese keyboard layouts.

During these 10 years of work I have looked for different solutions to improve the composition of text in Guaraní, from the typographical and technical points of view.

I have developed a new keyboard layout, which allows the Guaraní language users to type naturally in their language.

More info: https://github.com/huertatipografica/teclado-Guarani

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Saltillo. u+a78b [ꞌ] / u+a78c [Ꞌ]

Classification: Letter.
Many alphabets use it to represent glottal occlusion or the glottal stop phoneme. It doesn't have a shortcut on the Spanish or English keyboard layouts, which is the reason for its resemblance to the apostrophe, which does have a key. That replacement creates confusion. Saltillo and apostrophe have different Unicode points and functional categories — one is a letter and the other is a punctuation mark — and this discrepancy causes conflicts in the digitization of texts.

Apostrophe, quoteright. u + 2019

Classification: Punctuation mark.
Many languages use the apostrophe to mark elision, separate morphemes or indicate inflections. This glyph also coincides with the single quotation mark, which in Spanish occupies the last hierarchy « “ ‘Hello’ ” ». Many linguists and authors use it to graphically represent the phonemes of glottal occlusion, suspension or the aspirated letters.

Prima, minute, feet. u + 2032

Classification: Mathematical sign.
This sign is used as the abbreviation of minute (60′ = 1º) or the measure of foot length (1 ′ = 12 ″). It can be straight or inclined but it should not be confused with the quotation mark.

Map of Guarani language regions — Where is Guaraní language used?

Latin America, Caribbean, Spain and different regions where Guaraní-speaking groups live.

**It is an official language in:**

Paraguay

Bolivia

Province of Corrientes, Argentina

Tacuru, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

Mercosur

It is regulated by the Guaraní Language Academy.
It has approximately 8,000,000 speakers.
Its family language is *Tupí*.
It uses the Latin system writing.

I've developed Andada specifically for the variety known as Paraguayan Guarani (Avañeꞌẽ) that belongs to the Tupi–Guarani family of the Tupian languages.

Guarani Alphabet's characters set — Guarani Alphabet

It's made up of 33 letters, ordered as follows:
A, Ã, Ch, E, Ẽ, G, G̃, H, I, Ĩ, J, K, L, M, Mb, N, Nd, Ng, Nt, Ñ, O, Õ, P, R, Rr, S, T, U, Ũ, V, Y, Ỹ, Ꞌ.

12 vowels: A, Ã, E, Ẽ, I, Ĩ, O, Õ, U, Ũ, Y, Ỹ.

15 consonants: G, G̃, H, J, K, L, M, N, Ñ, P, R, S, T, V, Ꞌ.

6 digraphs: Ch, Mb, Nd, Ng, Nt, Rr.

I've developed Andada specifically for the variety known as Paraguayan Guarani (Avañeꞌẽ) that belongs to the Tupi–Guarani family of the Tupian languages.

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Upper case

Lower case

Small caps

Figures and fractions

Punctuations, signs, symbols

Language support: LATIN PLUS

The language validation from Underware validates that Andada pro supports 219 languages from 212 countries:
Abenaki, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic (Latin), Asturian, Atayal, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bashkir (Latin), Basque, Belarusian (Latin), Bemba, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chichewa, Chickasaw, Cimbrian, Cofán, Cornish, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar (Latin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz (Latin), Galician, Ganda, Genoese, German, Gikuyu, Gooniyandi, Greenlandic (Kalaallisut), Guadeloupean Creole, Gwich’in, Haitian Creole, Hän, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcąk (Latin), Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Igbo, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese (Latin), Jèrriais, Kaingang, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan (Latin), Kaqchikel, Karakalpak (Latin), Karelian (Latin), Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Kurdish (Latin), Ladin, Latin, Latino sine Flexione, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Maasai, Makhuwa, Malay, Maltese, Manx, Māori, Marquesan, Megleno-Romanian, Meriam Mir, Mirandese, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinh-Patha, Nagamese Creole, Nahuatl, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Occidental, Occitan, Old Icelandic, Old Norse, Onĕipŏt, Oshiwambo, Ossetian (Latin), Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Q’eqchi’, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami (Inari Sami), Sami (Lule Sami), Sami (Northern Sami), Sami (Southern Sami), Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Seri, Seychellois Creole, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio (Latin), Somali, Sorbian (Lower Sorbian), Sorbian (Upper Sorbian), Sotho (Northern), Sotho (Southern), Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese (Latin), Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen (Latin), Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Uzbek (Latin), Venetian, Vepsian, Volapük, Võro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xavante, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zarma, Zazaki, Zulu & Zuni.