Rayuela

Rayuela (Argentine Spanish for Hopscotch) is inspired by the homonymous novel by celebrated Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar, whose writings are considered key to 20th century avant-garde literature.

Rayuela is the result of a 2-year working process, at two postgraduate courses followed by Alejandro Lo Celso at the University of Reading, UK (1999-2000) and later at the ANRT Atelier National de Recherche Typographique, Nancy, France (2000-2001). At both schools Rayuela worked as the practical side of the research.

Rayuela has been a popular face, maybe because there are not so many informal-spirited types which enjoy good legibility in reading. It includes three weights for text: romans, italics, and smallcaps (also embedded in the romans) plus an extra heavy roman-italic set for display use named ‘Chocolate’, an elegant open face named ‘Luz’, and a Miscellaneous font that includes some fleurons.

Rayuela was selected at the Bukvaraz contest held by the ATypI in Moscow 2001, and later won a Certificate of Excellence at the TDC in 2006. Read more about the concept behind Rayuela here.