ITC Merss™ Font Family

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Eduardo Manso is graphic and type designer. He is born in Argentina, in 1972. Studied graphic design in the School of Visual Arts "Martín A. Malharro" of Mar del Plata, Argentina. He has attended the graduated degree course “Design and visual communication” in the “Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata”. Eduardo Manso has designed and published several types through ITC (International Typeface Corporation), Bitstream Inc. and [T-26 ] Fonts, among others. He is now living in Barcelona, Spain, [...]

ITC Merss proves that sometimes accidents work out just fine. Late one evening Eduardo Manso, an Argentinean graphic and type designer, spilled coffee on his desk. When he began to wipe up the mess, he noticed that one of the splashes looked like a roman letter 'l' - complete with serifs. This triggered his imagination. “What if a complete alphabet was created with this same irregular flow to the character designs?” ITC Merss was the result of Manso's experiments with “fluid” letter shapes. The oddly handsome design looks aged and spontaneous at the same time. Its irregular texture is striking-the result of careful modeling of character shapes. While Manso wanted to maintain the free-form character of spilled liquid, he also knew the individual letters had to work together with an underlying harmony. When not experimenting with typefaces - or spilled coffee - Manso creates award-winning graphic and publication designs. A contributor to the design magazine el Huevo (the Egg), he also writes articles on type and typography and is part of the publication's design team.