Lamuella is an independent type foundry, named after a planet in Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: the quiet, out-of-the-way place where Arthur Dent ends up as the village sandwich maker, and is happy doing it.
The foundry was born in November 2026, when Edgardo Maxia, its founder, decided to take proper care of his typefaces.
To be honest, it all goes back to 2008. Edgardo was fourteen and could not find the font he had in mind: something ethereal and fleeting, lightning made of crystal. So he drew it himself on a free web platform and uploaded it. Then he forgot about it. In 2021, out of curiosity, he searched for that old username and found his font still online.
Still, it took him a very long while to start drawing type again.
Lamuella is based anywhere you like, as it is an ethereal matter. If you want to meet its designers, contact them directly.
- Founder
- Edgardo Maxia
- Founded
- November 2026
- Based in
- Anywhere
- Typefaces
- Redondolo, Crystal Lightning, Efisio
Recommended reading
Books we keep going back to.
- Meggs’ History of Graphic DesignPhilip B. Meggs, Alston W. Purvis · 1983
- Just My TypeSimon Garfield · 2010
- The Elements of Typographic StyleRobert Bringhurst · 1992
- Thinking with TypeEllen Lupton · 2004
- Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type WorksErik Spiekermann, E. M. Ginger · 1993
- The Stroke: Theory of WritingGerrit Noordzij · 1985
- Designing TypeKaren Cheng · 2005
- Manuale tipograficoGiambattista Bodoni · 1818
- The New TypographyJan Tschichold · 1928