Machado is a type family developed in 2022 exclusively for Editora Todavia (São Paulo, Brazil), created to define the visual identity of the unprecedented Machado de Assis Collection. Designed to accompany the complete works of Brazil’s greatest writer, the family combines literary tradition, editorial precision, and outstanding performance in long-form reading.
Conceived primarily for editorial design, Machado excels in books, literary collections, essays, magazines, newspapers, cultural catalogs, and institutional publications. Its balanced structure ensures comfortable reading over extended texts, while its refined details provide enough character for covers, headlines, chapter openings, and complex typographic hierarchies.
The family features an extensive character set and advanced typographic features, including true italics, small caps, multiple numeral styles, ligatures, and carefully designed ornaments. These resources offer great flexibility for sophisticated editorial projects, allowing precise typographic control across different contexts and scales.
From a historical perspective, Machado adopts a deliberate and authorial approach: its italic is not a mechanical derivative of the roman, but an independently drawn system with its own construction logic, rhythm, and modulation. This choice engages with classical typographic traditions and reinforces the literary nature of the family, expanding its expressive range while preserving overall coherence.
In 2026, following the end of its temporary license, the Machado family officially joins the TypeFolio library and becomes available for editorial, institutional, and cultural projects that demand sophistication, consistency, and typographic rigor.