Letra Brasileira

Countries

Brazil

Languages

Portuguese

Model parameters

Uppercase

Simplified Print

Lowercase

Continuous Cursive

Connection

Fully-joined

Slant

Upright

Update

08.06.2023

The Letra Brasileira font family was developed in 2019 as part of his doctoral thesis by Sandro Fetter (born 1968), designer and professor at the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. The thesis was supervised by professors Airton Cattani (born 1955) and Edna Cunha Lima (born 1946), and is an extensive scholarly work about school fonts.

The project seeks to contribute to school handwriting teaching in the form of free resources that are relevant to present day approaches. While the current standard in Brazil uses two formally different stages – print script (using Helvetica or Arial as a reference) followed by a vertical full cursive, Letra Brasileira provides a flexible and progressive alternative: simplified letterforms for early teaching (6–7 years old); next, a pre-cursive style with exit strokes (7-8 years old); and finally a contemporary cursive style without entry strokes, as well as traditional Brazilian continuous cursive (8-10 years old).

References

  • Fetter, S.R., 2019. Letra Brasileira by Sandro Fetter [WWW Document]. URL http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-105450.html (accessed 1.26.23).