Challenge
The challenge designer Alberto Molina set himself — build a brand-new typeface every month for an entire year — wasn’t conceived as a portfolio move or a commercial release. The real difficulty was sustaining that discipline for twelve straight months without the project collapsing into either repetition or pure technical exercise, and without losing sight of voice in favor of consistency.
Result
Twelve typefaces emerged, each born from a different method: structural constraints (Sira’s width variation, Agulla’s stencil logic), pure intuitive drawing (Frannie, Nowhere, Halone), research into everyday and historical references (Unstop from Spanish road signage, Evertimes reinterpreting Times New Roman), deeply personal sources (Fina, vectorized from his grandmother’s handwritten recipes), and even physical, off-screen mark-making (Rush, built from paint-roller strokes on cardstock). Documented monthly through a newsletter of sketches and false starts, the year produced more than two thousand glyphs.
