Porteno Font: Fileteado

To truly achieve the "fileteado" look, a font or design must incorporate these eight defining features:

The magic of true Fileteado is in the human hand. The slight tremble of the painter holding a pincel chato (flat brush). The organic way the paint pools at the bottom of the "S." The fact that no two letters are exactly the same width. fileteado porteno font

The style emerged at the end of the 19th century in the "carrocerías" (body shops) of Buenos Aires. To truly achieve the "fileteado" look, a font

They didn’t have computers. They had brushes made of cat hair and cans of paint. To truly achieve the "fileteado" look