Summary
Fábio Martins is a partner and type designer with over a decade of experience helping studios and art directors achieve typographic excellence through custom typefaces, logotype corrections, and hands-on consultancy. Based in Porto, he combines commercial practice (Scannerlicker! and 0.itemzero) with academia as a professor of typography on a design master’s program, bringing theory and critique into practical design solutions. His background spans art direction, graphic design and animation, giving him a rare fluency in both visual storytelling and the technical craft of type. Known for teaching others how to solve type-related problems, he often bridges classroom rigor with studio pragmatism to refine clients’ typographic voice.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Art & Comunication, Bachelor’s Degree, Art & Comunication at Escola Superior Artística do Porto
STC, Type Design, STC, Type Design at Escola Superior de Artes e Design
Master’s Degree, Art Theory and Critique, Master’s Degree, Art Theory and Critique at Universidade do Porto
English, Portuguese, French, Spanish