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Laure Afchain



Written by Luc Devroye
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
lucdevroye@gmail.com
http://luc.devroye.org
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Graduate from KABK, The Hague, 2009, Type and Media MA program. Her typefaces:

  • Malaussène (2009), a fun muscular display face, done as her graduation typeface at KABK. She says that her (large) family is designed for corporate identitities. It contains Malaussène Translation, Malaussène Expansion and Malaussène Sans as subfamilies, and is published by Die Gestalten in 2011. Examples: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H.
  • At KABK, she worked on a revival of the calligraphic face Meidoorn, originally designed in 1928 by Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos for The Heuvelpers.
  • She was also at the Fine Arts School in Toulouse. Together with Alejandro Lo Celso, François Chastanet and Géraud Soulhiol, she designed the official typeface for the city of Toulouse, Garonne (2009, 4 styles).
  • A handwriting font.
  • The display family Pixat.
  • Peno (2009), done in a class of Peter Verheul.
  • A stone chisel/biline/paper cut experimental family Vampyr.

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Luc Devroye ⦿ School of Computer Science ⦿ McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 ⦿ lucdevroye@gmail.com ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org/fonts.html