Penitente Serif BT
Bastarda · Juan Pablo Fajardo
A display serif revived from the masthead of a 1907 Cartagena newspaper, extended into a variable font with axes for distortion and slant.
About
Rooted in archival research by Juan Pablo Fajardo of Piedra Tijera Papel, the typeface takes its structure from the heading of Penitente, a Colombian newspaper printed in Cartagena in 1907. The variable font includes four style variants spanning regular, slanted, distorted and slanted-distorted cuts, allowing animated or expressive typesetting across digital and print contexts. A companion sans-serif version, Penitente BT Sans, emerged from a reggaeton club project for Invade Design in Medellín.
Classification
Revived from the masthead of a 1907 Colombian newspaper, the typeface carries sharp, expressive serifs suited to display and headline use rather than extended text setting.