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Typorium [Jean-Renaud Cuaz]

Frenchman Jean-Renaud Cuaz (b. 1959) is the principal and type designer at Typorium in Highland Park near Chicago, but has moved back to Paris, where he is a freelance graphic and typeface designer. His fonts are available in many places, such as ITC, where he did ITC Cerigo (1993) and another great text face, ITC Ellipse (1996). At Typorium, he published Agenor (1997), Agenor Sans (1997), Belfegor (1998), Fleur-de-Lis (1995), and Lapidia (1997). Since 1998, he has published Augustal (Elzevirian typeface), Augustal Cursiva, Galena (1996, Bayer; this renaissance / old Italian humanist text family extended in 2020 to Galena Pro, Galena Pro Condensed and Galena Pro SC), Peplum, Stancia, and Stancia Lyrica, first at Creative Alliance / Agfa Monotype. All of these fonts are available through Monotype.

In 2017, he published Deberny (which was influenced by Italian or Veronese styles of the 18th century).

Typefaces from 2019: Pagnol (Cuaz's take on Peignot), French Typewriter.

Typefaces from 2020: ITC Ellipse Neo and ITC Ellipse Script (both extensions of his 1996 organic and fluid typeface ITC Ellipse), Brassens (a monoline script based on the handwriting of French poet and musician Georges Brassens (1921-1981); + Brassens Vignettes).

L'espace culturel showcases his fonts. Bio chez Porchez. Bio at Agfa. Linotype link. FontShop link.

EXTERNAL LINKS
Typorium
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Klingspor Museum page
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INTERNAL LINKS
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