Bruno Mello

Bruno Mello (1987) is a typeface designer based in São Paulo, Brazil. After graduated in graphic design at UFSM in 2010, he worked with packaging and editorial design companies, and developed some typeface projects on his own. In 2012, he attended the Type@Cooper Condensed program in New York, USA. There, he had classes with Jean François Porchez. Also, in that year, Bruno joined Dalton Maag as a font developer, working on both internal and client projects.

His graduation project Caturrita was featured on Tupigrafia, a brazilian magazine about typography. His project also won a student award at BID, Ibero-American Biennial, Madrid in 2010. In 2015, his typeface Objektiv was published by Dalton Maag and was listed on the Best Fonts on FontShop’s website.

Particular signs

If not a designer, Bruno would be probably a musician, in his free time, he plays guitar, drums, bass and a bit of piano. He’s been practicing the trumpet in order to learn a new instrument.
Prefered glyph: £ (English pound).
Current favorite: Ambroise Firmin Black.