José de Mendoza y Almeida

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José de Mendoza y Almeida Influential French type designer, born in Sèvres in 1926, d. 2018. He worked with Maximilien Vox in the early 1950s. From 1954 to 1959 he was the assistant of Roger Excoffon at the Fonderie Olive, Marseille. From 1985 until 1990, he was a professor at the Imprimerie Nationale, Paris, where his students included Thierry Puyfoulhoux, Frank Jalleau, and Poul Søgren. Neufville republished many of his fonts. Books about his work: Thesis on Mendoza by Lucie Jullian for her graduation from Estienne in 2008. In 2010, Martin Majoor and Sébastien Morlighem published José de Mendoza y Almeida (Bibliothèque Typographique). List of his fonts: Brennus (1980, Socotep). Convention (1990, Imprimerie Nationale). Ergo (1971, Hollenstein Phototypo). Fidelio ND (1980, Mecanorma and Neufville Digital). Full (1954-1955, Graphorel). Mendoza (1975, CCT - Typogabor - Letraset), ITC Mendoza (1991, ITC): a legible text family. Links to digital versions: ITC Mendoza Roman (ITC), ITC Mendoza Roman (Adobe), ITC Mendoza Roman (Monotype). Narval (1956, Gérard Blanchard - Courrier Graphique). Ogan (1954-1955, Graphorel). Pascal ND (1959, Fonderie Amsterdam; see also Neufville Digital for a digital version). Ile de France (1960, Enric Crous-Vidal, Fonderie Typographique Française) is similar. Père Castor (1975, CCT - Typogabor). It is a cursive almost school script created for Flammarion. A free digital version was created by Thierry Puyfoulhoux. Photina (Monotype). This gracious book typeface is perhaps Mendoza's most famous face. Some drawings of Photina. Links to digital versions: Photina (Monotype), Photina MT (Adobe). Sèvres (1954-1955, Cenpa). Sully Jonquieres ND (Neufville Digital; originally Socotep&Mecanorma, 1980). Yerma (1970, Hollenstein Phototypo). FontShop link. Linotype link. FontShop link. Wikipedia link. Showcase of Mendoza's typefaces.	EXTERNAL LINKS José de Mendoza y Almeida [Designer info] Monotype link MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Photo and film type era ⦿ Type design in France ⦿ School fonts ⦿ Linocut Type ⦿