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Costa Rican Oxcart Sarchí 1900 — Cover

About Costa Rican Oxcart Sarchí 1900

The painted oxcart of Sarchí transforms a utilitarian coffee-hauling vehicle into a radiant canvas of disciplined polychrome geometry. Since 1900, artisans have covered every spoke, hub, and panel with fire-red mandalas, cobalt rosettes, and lemon-yellow petals — all outlined in jet-black with hand-painted precision.

This design system channels that living tradition: bold saturated primaries on white-wood ground, 16-spoke wheel symmetry as compositional law, and the unmistakable hand-painted outline that gives every element its carreta identity.

Learn more about the Costa Rican Oxcart Sarchí 1900 style

Origin
Sarchí, Alajuela Province, Costa Rica
Era
1900s emergence; UNESCO Intangible Heritage 2005; national symbol 1988
Key figures
Eloy Alfaro Chaverri · Joaquín Chaverri Fonseca · Carmen Naranjo · Carlos Salazar Herrera
Movements
Sarchí carreta painting tradition · Costa Rican national-symbol designation 1988 · UNESCO Intangible Heritage 2005

Costa Rican Oxcart Sarchí 1900 design spec

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Surface
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Typography

FrauncesHeadings
LoraBody
InterMono
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