Abstract
The Real Imprenta de Niños Expósitos is a landmark of Argentine typography, not only for being the first Buenos Aires printing house, maintaining its monopoly for more than three decades.Its official printings went along with the urban evolution of Buenos Aires, its booklets forfirst readers educated the youngest, its liturgical works instructed in the religious faith, its types celebrated the triumph of the reconquest during English invasions, and the first newspapers contributed to the dissemination of freedom ideas in front of the 1810 Mayo’s Revolution. This article establishes the relevance of taking that historic and typographical model, and narrates the considerations and the design process applied to the reconstruction of three type groups used by the aforementioned printing workshop during viceregal times.