In Chosmos: Time Travel in Heavyweight Type, Colombian designer Cristian Vargas reveals the decade-long journey behind his latest typeface. Beginning with graffiti explorations in the ’90s, the talk traces a path through carved stone signage in The Hague, painted elevator letters in a Mexico City art deco building, house numbers in San Francisco, and sketchbooks filled with forms sparked by a 2024 trip to Japan.
Blending personal memory with typographic research, Chosmos is both expressive and archival—a hybrid of vernacular references and original design thinking. Cristian will present photographs, sketches, and process work that show how Chosmos evolved into a family of bold, organic styles. Alongside this, he will showcase historical type specimens from the Letterform Archive and highlight the work of other designers who’ve explored the fluid edge of letterform design.
Released in April 2025, Chosmos features three styles—Backslant, Regular, and Slant—that invite rhythm, contrast, and motion into contemporary display typography. The result is a meditation on how type can hold time—how letterforms serve as artifacts that connect places, people, and eras.