Astro

Astro Mx was a result of Elí Castellanos’ Type Design Workshop, carried out at the Multimedia Center of CENART in Mexico City in 2015. This project was developed by Gen Ramírez, Manuel López, Rodrigo Heredia and Rodrigo Núñez, being selected in the Seventh Biennial of Latin American Typography, Tipos Latinos 2016 in the text typeface category.

Astro Mx is a typeface designed for the Mexican Space Agency (AEM). It’s purpose lies in its application in the manuals of emergency procedures. In this sense, one of its main characteristics is to facilitate rapid reading in extraordinary conditions. It has a generous x-height, its ascenders and descenders are short to economize lines in the text boxes. Its serifs have a diagonal cut to the right which further emphasizes the concept of speed and at the same time emphasizes the baseline and helps the reader to speed up the reading process.