¡Hola! I’m a designer with a passion for words, interested in how typography plays a storytelling role at the intersection of culture, technology and craft. I help brands and humans worldwide to encapsulate typographically their voices at Arillatype.Studio®.

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About

I’m Pedro Arilla (1984—), a designer with a passion for words, co-founder and Type Director of Arillatype.Studio® where we help brands worldwide to encapsulate typographically their voices.

I’ve graduated with Distinction in the world’s top Typeface Design Masters of Reading (UK), worked as a Creative Director at the legendary foundries Fontsmith (UK) and Monotype (USA), led projects for clients such as Google, Amazon, Virgin, Paralympics, MotoGP and FC Barcelona, and designed typefaces in Latin, Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Thai and Japanese scripts.

My job has been awarded and exhibited worldwide. I teach workshops and speak at conferences in universities and events around the globe. I’ve been jury in literary and branding awards. My texts and articles have been translated into distant languages.

I’m writing a book on type evaluation; I co-organise and teach an international one-week type design workshop (Glíglifo); and for 11 years I wrote one of the main blogs on typography in Spanish (Don Serifa).

I’m from Ejea de los Caballeros (Zaragoza, Spain). I’ve lived also in Zaragoza (Spain), Reading and London (United Kingdom). Now I am based in La Cala del Moral (Málaga, Spain) because I love blue colour.

I share my life with Cris — and Bunbury, our dog.

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Speaking

Teaching

Selected interviews

Selected texts

Coding

Prothon: A project and time tracker written in Python (v.1.00)
GitHub repository

Python scripts for the Glyphs font editor
GitHub repository

Pomothon: A session and time tracker written in Python (v.2.82)
GitHub repository

Workflow to set up and update scripts repositories for Glyphs app
GitHub repository

Awards

As jury

Exhibitions