Poly

ID / Record #3586
Credits Nicolás Silva
Release 2010
Variants 2 Styles
Regional Node(s) Argentina
Specimen Poly
Note. Specimen of the typeface Poly. Copyright by Nicolás Silva.

Poly (2011, Google Font Directory) is a medium-contrast condensed serif font. He explains: Poly was my final project for the postgraduate certificate in typeface design (University of Buenos Aires). Poly was originally designed for agglutinative languages (which is why it is wide), specifically a South American indigenous language (Wayuunaiki). I paid close attention to the “diacritics zone” to harmonize and declutter the upper parts of the lowercase letters. The Wayuu language, or Wayuunaiki, is spoken by 305,000 indigenous Wayuu people in northeastern Colombia and northwestern Venezuela on the Guajira Peninsula.

RECOMMENDED CITATION

TipoMap Latam. (2026). Poly. In Mapping of Typographic Production in Latin America (record #3586). UASLP. https://doi.org/10.58493/tipomap — Entry consulted at https://tipomap.lat/view_typo?id=3586