Naipe Foundry is the type design, lettering & font production practice of Álvaro Franca & Felipe Casaprima. Out of Rio de Janeiro, but based in Barcelona, Perth and everywhere in between, Naipe creates custom and retail typefaces for fun and for profit, ideally both. The company aims to tell latin american stories through letterforms, with a strong focus on Brazilian history and culture.

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Leandro Assis

Leandro Assis is a brazilian designer and lettering artist based in São Paulo. He's best known for super bold letterings, colorful palettes and playful illustrations, drawing the attention of global brands and agencies to digital projects and marketing campaigns for the most different scenes. Above all, he's interested in opportunities where he can use design as a tool to talk about things he cares about, such as black culture, gender topics and LGBTQ+ rights.

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Álvaro Franca

Álvaro Franca (Rio de Janeiro, 1991) has designed type since 2013. A graphic design graduate of ESDI (Rio de Janeiro), he worked at Hipertipo and Dalton Maag before completing Typeface Design masters degrees in Barcelona and Antwerp. Currently, he is Type Director at Vasava Studio, founder of Type Thursday Barcelona and the founder and of Naipe Foundry which he runs with Felipe Casaprima since 2018.

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Felipe Casaprima

Felipe Casaprima is a type designer based in Perth, Australia. After a brief internship at Coppers and Brasses and a few years working at Plau Design, he founded Naipe Foundry with Álvaro Franca in 2018.