Pedro Arilla
Type Director & Co-Founder at Arillatype.Studio®
Malaga, Andalusia, Spain
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Top SchoolPedro Arilla is a Type Director, co-founder, and multidisciplinary designer with over a decade of professional experience crafting contemporary, multilingual typefaces for clients like Google, Disney, Coca-Cola, LaLiga, Unilever, Paralympics and UEFA. Trained with Distinction in the MA Typeface Design program at the University of Reading, he has designed more than 100 families spanning Latin, Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Thai and Japanese scripts and led type projects at Fontsmith and Monotype. As founder of Arillatype.Studio® he blends creative direction, technical font production, and cross-script expertise to deliver expressive yet functional typographic systems. He authored a book on type evaluation and ran Don Serifa, a leading Spanish-language typography blog and podcast, showing his commitment to education and critical discourse. Pedro also co-organised and taught the international Glíglifo intensive workshop, a hands-on program hosted in a medieval town that reflects his interest in craft and community-driven learning. Based in Málaga, his background in computer engineering and data/interaction design gives him an uncommon fluency in tooling and production workflows for modern type development.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at Universidad de ZaragozaUniversity of California San DiegoSpecialization, Program and Analyze Data with Python, Specialization, Program and Analyze Data with Python at University of MichiganMaster of Arts - MA, Typeface Design, Distinction, Master of Arts - MA, Typeface Design, Distinction at University of ReadingBachelor of Arts - BA, Graphic Design, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Graphic Design at Escuela Superior de Diseño de Aragón
English, SpanishGithub contributions (5)
pedroarilla/gliglifo
Feb 2019 - May 2024
Contributions:59 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
pedroarilla/pedroarilla
Feb 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:298 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
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