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256tm
| 256tm is the foundry of Besançon-based designer Thomas Huot-Marchand (b. Dole, France, 1977), the creator of typefaces such as the 72-weight Garaje (from Garaje 55 to Garaje 100; Garaje 53 Unicase Black is free) and Minuscule (a ten style family for small print). He studied under Peter Keller at the ANRT in Nancy, and teaches at the École d'Art de Besançon. In Comedia he writes about legibility and the creation of Miniscule, which was optimized to be read at 2 to 6 points. His research for this at the ANRT was based on the theory of "compact typography" put forth by Emile Javal, a French ophtalmologist who explained his ideas in "Physiologie de la lecture et de l'écriture" (1905). For examples, see here and here. Miniscule won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
4-Paris
| Grégori Vincens is the French type designer who designed the text fonts Albia in 1997, and Firenzia in 1998. He lives in Viroflay, near Paris. Brief bio. He won a judge's award at the Sixth Morisawa type competition in 1999. In 2002, he received a nomination for "Lipton Ice Tea", a corporate identity font, at the Trophées d'Or du salon Intergraphic de Paris. In 2003, he set up 4-Paris, a graphic and typographic design company. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
5ive
| 5ive is the design studio of Fabrice Bats, a Parisian who has moved to Oslo. His lettering includes a couple of alphabets called Kinky (2010). Dafont link. Devian Tart link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
A. A. Turbayne | French designer of an initial caps face at the end of the 19th century. Turbayne was associated with the Carlson Studio, and penned Monograms and Ciphers (republished by Dover in 1968). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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A. Laplace et cie | Bordeaux-based foundry. Their work can be found in Épreuves des caractères de la fonderie A. Laplace&cie (Paris, Bordeaux, ca. 1860) and in Épreuves des caractères de la Fonderie bordelaise. A. Laplace&comp (Bordeaux, Imp. de mad. V. Laplace, née Beaume, rue du Parlement, 19. [ca. 1850]). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
A. Pinard | Typefounder in Paris. His work can be found in Quelques caractères de la fonderie Pinard, rue de la Harpe, 88. Paris (Paris, ca. 1840). No full type showings in that publication, which mostly has filets, borders and vignettes. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
A. Saintignon | Typefounder in Paris. His work can be found in Fonderie typographique A. Saintignon (Paris, 5, rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, 1889). This small booklet has no full character sets. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
An analysis of the handwriting in the Floyd Landis Tour de France doping case shoots down at least one of the arguments of Landis's lawyer. By yours truly. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A Tribute to Pierre Bézier (1910-1999)
| This tribute to Bezier states: At least two mathematicians solved the problem before Bezier: Airplane designer James Ferguson, and engineer Paul de Casteljau who worked for Citroen. The latter's work is mathematically equivalent to Bezier, in fact the formula listed above is De Casteljau's. Unfortunately, their discoveries were closely guarded industrial secrets and were not published until after Bezier. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
The association of Assyro-Chaldeans in France offers an archive of Assyrian fonts, including CarloAtor (1997, Timm Erickson, Summer Institute of Linguistics), GabrialAtor (1997, Timm Erickson, Summer Institute of Linguistics), Issa-&GilianaClassic (1997), Nisibus (1998, a font modified by Tony Khoshaba), SPEdessa (1998, based on Leiden Peshitta, Estrangela). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
ABC Typo (was: Bonté Divine)
| Olivier Nineuil created Bonté Divine around 1998, and renamed it ABC typo in 2001. He does custom work and has published fonts in the Agfa Creative Alliance such as Comedia. Recent faces: P'tit François, Bolobolo, Cassecroute, Garatoi, Maboul, Fiston, Jeuve-upa, Faidodo, Badaboum, Bigoudi, Japapeur, Giboulette, Garamome. Custom work: Club Med (1996), Hachette Multimédia (1998), Polaris (1995, Autoroutes). Bonté Divine fonts: Picasso (1997), Bonté Divine! 007 (1996), Bonté Divine! 015 (1996), Bonté Divine! 022 (1996), Bonté Divine! 031 (1996), Bonté Divine! 036 (1996), Bonté Divine! 044 (1996), Bonté Divine! 061 (1997), Bonté Divine! 066 (1997), Bonté Divine! 077 (1997), Bonté Divine! 092 (1997), Bonté Divine! 097 (1997), Bonté Divine! 105 (1998), Bonté Divine! 112 (1998), Bonté Divine! 117 (1998), Bonté Divine! 121 (1998). He teaches at the La Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
French graphic designer Abed Loutfi created the octagonal face Antec (2011), the honeycomb-inspired Mecanorganic (2011) and the piano key face Muse (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Their first commercial fonts are ATT49 Fanfare, ATT48 Thrax, ATT47 Candies, ATT46 Exlixir, ATT45 Transfix, ATT44 X-Cute, ATT43 Small Proteus, ATT42 Childhook, ATT41 Arcane, ATT40 Lysergic4a, ATT39 Liquor, ATT38 Once Upon A Damned, ATT37 Innocence, ATT36 Kidding, ATT35 Bestiaire (2011), ATT34 Lysergic 2a (2011), ATT33 Koan (2011), ATT32 Faun Call (2011), ATT31 Paraphilia (2011), ATT30 Lysergic 1b (2011), ATT29 Mad Hatter (2011), ATT28 Minimori (2011), ATT27 Tripton (2011), ATT26 Lysrergic3a (2011), ATT25 Multicoloured Rythm (2011), ATT24 Swallow (2011), ATT23 Artlien (2011), ATT22 Dopamine (2011), ATT21 ABTOY (2011), ATT20 Rankle (2011), ATT19 Ink Lust (2011), ATT18 Overabundance (2011), ATT17 Ink Circus (2011), ATT16 The Orgians (2011), ATT15 For Whom The Bell Tolls (2011), ATT10 Stereo (2011), ATT11 Heterodoxa (2011), ATT12 Psilocybine (2011), ATT13 Sync (2011), ATT14 Prehisto (2011), ATT8 Human Decay (2011), ATT9 Eroded Eclosion (2011), AT4 Parallax (2011), ATT7 Medieval Sweet Shop (2011), ATT6 Detected Future (2011), ATT5 Hard Sync (2011), ATT4 Chalice (2011), ATT3 Outer Christ (2011), ATT2 Macpanic (2011), ATT1 Nimal Nimoy (2011), AT54 Intermezzo (2011), AT26 Metamorph Candies (2011), AT29 Dystrogonyx (2011), AG2 Placenta (2011), AT17 Farandole (2011), AT27 Innocence (2011), AT3 Nuclear Project (2011), AT38 Nanogonyx (2011), AT49 Neuromicr (2011), AT16 Faun Call (2011), AG1 Neuroticons (2011), AT55 Neo Geo (2011), AT36 Mad Hatter (2011), AT51 Pharmaceutic (2011) and AT5 Childhook (2011). The FontStruct production in 2011: 00dot 5 TRANSFIX, 00dot 15 DYSTROPHIE POLYGONALE, 00dot 20 CURSED, 00dot 13 PARALLAX, 00dot 12 NUCLEAR TARGET, 00dot_7_nimal_nimoy, 00dot 17 SYNDROME F.K., 00dot 9 NEW TO, 00dot 6 DECLINE AND CODE, 00dot 3 ROBOX, 00dot 2 MINIDECO, 0dot 26 INKSECTS, 00dot 32 STEREO, 00dot 10 SMART PLAYGROUND, 00dot 33 FUTURE NOW, 00dot 23 BLING STREET, 00dot 4 TOXINE, 00dot 31 FAUN CALL, 00dot 19 ELIXIR, 00dot 30 DWARF LOGIC, 00dot 8 THRAX, 00dot 14 A NEW FORM OF BEAUTY, 00dot 22 HETERODOXA, 00dot 27 KIDDING, 00dot 21 INNOCENCE, 00dot 34 PICTORIAL ABUSE, 00ne Stretched Empty Cow (2011, a piano key stencil face), 00ne Empty Cow (2011), 00ne Medication (2011), 00ne Pills, 00ne Minipills, 00ne Stency, 00ne Neurelm, 000tag6 LYSERGIC, 000tag4 ROBOX, 000tag NUCLEAR WARFARE, 00ne dat / dot, 00ne Bat Kidding (+Stencil, +Stencil Quadrillé), 00ne Stencirc, 00ne Neurocirc Neue Deco, 00ne Neurocirc, 00ne Neurologo, 00ne Nutech, 00ne Nutech Black, 00ne Top Pix (+Clean), 00ne Not So Atroce Pixels (+Black), 00ne Videotech, 00ne Videotech Tamagochi, 0One Bad Video, 0One Exagg Superstrong, 00ne Blockollida, 00ne Minicut, 00ne Neuromoog, 00ne Exagg, 00ne XChurch, 00ne NeuroNeoq, 00ne Imprimante Matricielle, 00ne C64 NeurOOpart2, 00ne Heterodoxa, 00neZnorg, 00ne Znorg Heads, 00ne Zwrappearing (dotted and textured), 00neVideotech, A Present for Intaglio (2011, cloned from Intaglio's Wallachia), Inicial 1 (2010, an improvement of a face by Infotipografia), Neo Geo (2011), NE XS, NE 4x4 Technirement, NE Religious Migraine, NE Abtechre. NE Churching, NE Strange Light Pax Pact, NE Cellphone Cutie Punched Cards, NE Cellphone Cutie, NE Obl. NE Pax Pact, NE Pictorial Abuse, NE Charlie Chaplin Cybernetic Brains, NE Chaplin Cyborg, NE Unknown Remix, NE Neurofat, NE Neurocompressor, NE Neurocompressed Pictograms, NE Alien Orders, NE Filament Techneriment, NE Strange Light Pax Pact, NE The Eye, NE Moving Parallels, NE Alien Orders, NE Reordered Alien Orders, the NE New Newbix family, Parallax (2011). Typefaces made in 2012 at FontStruct: AFT1 Heterodoxa, AFT2 Forbidden Apple, AFT3 Kidding, AFT4 Spacelab Parallax, AFT5 Detected Future, AFT6 Lysergic 2b, AFT7 Lysergic 2a, AFT8 Transfix, AFT8 Smart Kids, AFT10 Candies, AFT12 Neo Geo, AFT13 Arcane, AFT15 Hard Sync, AFT17 Cortech Hallucination, AFT18 Lysergic1b, AFT20 Abtech, AFT21 Bling Chief Story, AFT22 Ink Lust, AFT23 Faun Call, AFT24 Toying, AFT27 Fluffy Clown, AFT30 Koan, AFT31 Innocence, AFT33 ETPheuneHeume, AFT34 Neuromicr, AFT35 Tripton, AFT36 Intermezzo, AFT37 Rankle, AFT38 Dark Rankle, AFT39 Rankle Distone, AFT40 Smart Kids, AFT41 Smart Playground, AFT42 Lysergic 4a, AFT43 Small Proteus, AFT44 Lysergic 3a, AFT45 New Forgee, AFT46 Space Connect, AFT47 Mondrian Drone, AFT48 Bark At The Code, AFT49 Stereo, AFT50 Artlien, AFT51 Liquor, AFT52 Neuromecha, AFT53 Lysergic 1a, AFT54 Dinoxyde, AFT55 Human Decay, AFT56 Eroded Eclosion, AFT57 Outer Christ, AFT58 Boing Code, AFT59 Nimal Nimoy, AFT60 X-Church, AFT61 Macpanic, AFT62 Lovely Breeze, AFT63 Mad Hatter, AFT64 The Orgians, AFT65 Chalice, AFT66 Ssaammothrax, AFT67 Panthrax, AFT68 Less Is More Neuromicr 2, AFT69 Paraphilia, AFT70 Psilocybine, AFT71 Childhook, AFT72 Once Upon A Damned, AFT73 For Whom The Bell Tolls, AFT74 Medieval sweetshop, AFT75 Nanoprehistoryx, AFT76 Pictorial Abuse, AFT77 Bestiaire, AFT78 Fanfare From Outer Space, AFT79 X-Cute, AFT80 Medication, AFT81 Wrong DNA, AFT82 Wrong DNA, AFT83 Minimal Disto, AFT84 Abacadabra, AFT85 Pharmaceutical, AFT86 Code Flu, AFT89 High-Diving Blindness, AFT90 Nopix, AFT91 Floppy Disk O, BUT1 Quarx, BUT2 Newbix, BUT3 Disto Matricielle, BUT4 Tomono, BUT5 Blurred Clown, BUT7 Religious Pill, BUT8 Nopix (octagonal), BUT9 Tipi Video, BUT10 Slanxic Acid, BUT11 Metamphetamental, BUT12 Znorgs, BUT13 Soyokaze, BUT15 Stick Tech, BUT16 Uninteresting Tech. 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Type designer based in Paris, who makes experimental commercial fonts at "For Home or Office Use" (Frankfurt). One of his families is called Lini (2000, semi-technical). Others: 2Try-Strich, 3Try-Straight, 4Try-kerned, 7Try-Medserif, 8Try-Micro, 12Try-Lego, 131Try-Klinspor, 161Try-Bitter, 172Try-Reg, 1722Try-Fliess Fett, 1721Try-Reg Inline, 174Try-Serif, 1742Try-Serif Fett, 18Try-Annette, Densite, Ouvert, Knubb, Knubb-20, Lini Eins, Lini Drei, Lini-Viers, Love-1, Love-10, NEW FEw, NEW GEw, NEW Klein, sBit34, WIR 2, WIR 3, WIR 4, WIR 6Vi, WIR 7Vi, WIR 7Vi Fat. Achim also runs Vier5 with Marco Fiedler, a graphic design studio. At Vier5, he published the experimental face SVT (2010) and the futuristic angular Shake (2010), which was originally designed for the Centre d'art Contemporain de Brétigny in France. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer, living in Paris. From 2007-2009, she studied type design at Ecole Estiene in Paris. In 2010, Budapest inspired her to create the open organic face Buda, which is characterized by large counters. Free download at Google Code. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Adeline Goyet | Ex-student at l'Ecole Estienne in Paris, who wrote a thesis on the SuperVeloz typeface of Joan Trochut Blanchard (the exact reference is: Supertipo Veloz, Fundición José Iranzo, 1942). She digitized the typeface to some degree. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
His real name is Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron, born in Charkow, Ukraine in 1901. He committed suicide in Paris in 1968, after the rejection of one of his innovative designs by a German publisher. After studies at the Ecoles des Beaux Arts in Paris, he adopted France as his country. He produced his first poster Au Bucheron at 22, and became a successful and influential poster artist best known for his epoch-defining travel posters and for his advertisements for products such as Dubonnet. The consummate art deco artist, he tried to create posters for people who did not try to see them. In 1936 he traveled to America to work on several projects. While there he designed several surrealistic covers for Alexey Brodovitch at Harper's Bazaar. In addition, he created for NW Ayers, the classic eye of the Ford billboard and several pieces for the Container Corporation of America. His career as a poster designer ended in 1939 when he changed disciplines and became a stage, set and theatrical designer. He created some typefaces: Bifur (1928-1929, see the digital form by Richard Kegler (P22, 2004)), Acier Noir (1930-1936), Peignot (1933-1937), Touraine (with Charles Peignot, based on a design of Guillermo Mendoza, 1947), Cassandre (1968, revived and finished by Thierry Puyfoulhoux in 2003), Graphica81 (1960), and the artsy Cassandre Initials (1927, made in digital form by Gerd Wiescher at Elsner&Flake). Most of his work was done at Fonderie Deberny&Peignot. The 1960s work was at Olivetti. His poster Nord Express (1927) (Acier Noir really) inspired Nick Curtis to draw Nord Express NF. Home page. Cassandre (1968) was largely unfinished, after having been turned down by Berthold and Olivetti (and was possibly the cause of his suicide). It was finished in a revival of sorts by Thierry Puyfoulhoux (2003). A.M. Cassandre, "L'architecture, l'art que je préfère à tous les autres." (2008) is a small PDF file/essay by Estienne student Antoine Stevenot. In 1988, Letraset published Baseline 10 The Cassandre issue, a fifty-page magazine volume edited by Mike Daines and art directed by Newell and Sorrell. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Famous type designer born in 1928 in Unterseen, Switzerland. He closely cooperates with Linotype-Hell AG, after having been artistic director at Deberny-Peignot in Paris since 1952. He established his own studio in 1962 with André Gürtler and Bruno Pfaftli. Art director for Editions Hermann, Paris 1957 to 1967. Frutiger now lives near Bern, Switzerland, and is primarily working with woodcuts. In 2009, Heidrun Osterer and Philipp Stamm coedited Adrian Frutiger Typefaces The Complete Works (Birkhäuser Verlag), a 460-page opus based on conversations with Frutiger himself and on extensive research in France, England, Germany, and Switzerland. Quote: Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay. He designed over 100 fonts. Here is a partial list:
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French designer (b. 1990), aka Neo Keitaro, of Graphic Trash (2006, scribbly hand). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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French outfit that designed the bullets/pixel dingbat font Signotek (free) in 2000. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Afterlounge.com
| Afterlounge.com is run by Ion Lazarescou (b. 1976), a Frenchman from Levallois-Perret who since 2000 is the artistic director for APM Publicité. He designed Helltime and Fuconexbo at Typograsfree. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Flickr page by Agence Eureka, which has scanned many lettering books from the art deco era and the immediate post-war era. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aiko Oshima | As a student at ENSAD in Paris, she co-designed Rosart (2002), a font based on lettering by the famous 18-th century Belgian typographer. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French digital type foundry, est. 2007. Commercial fonts include these made by Atelier Télescopique: Stone Heure (2007, multiline), Ader, Bepierre (pixel), Beye (pixel), Birinte (experimental), Boureuse (an elegant geometric sans), Byme, Capulco, Ciceron (dot matrix), Delory (clean sans), Dicion (dot matrix), Dixca (pixel), Fisher, Hic, Kune (sans family), Lailuya, Lienne, Mentable (dot matrix), Mento (clean sans), Merik, Miante, Micale, Mulette, Naconda, Nalfabait (dings), Natomi (techno), Nibalsmith (ultra-fat), Norak, Normal, Peindice, Rabik (paperclip face), Raoul, Rondie (kitchen tile), Scard, Sphiquesy, Steroid, Stuce, Tino, Treen, Varo, Velinge (dings), Veu, Vrette, Vure, Yoli (dings), Xatif, Zofage. News. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aisforapple
| Émilie Rigaud is a French designer who obtained an MA in typeface design from The University of Reading (2009), based on her typeface Coline, a family of seven typefaces intended for pocket books. Before Reading, at ENSAD, she made the simple monoline sans family La Miss Ulm (2006). In 2007, she started work under the guidance of Alejandro Lo Celso and Philippe Millot on a revival of the first type printed in France, at the Sorbonne, by Ulrich Gering. This work is based on a 1478 edition of Virgilius. Grotesque 6 (2009) is based on a typeface published in 1880 by Stephenson Blake. In 2012, we find her fonts again at Aisforapple, including Jaakko (signage), Coline Cursive, Coline Première, Coline Extrême, Grotesque 6, and BTP (polygonally-outlined typeface). Old URL: Mouton Sauvage. Klingspor link. Personal site. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French designer (b. 1972) of the Celtic look face Akvaleir (2007). Dafont link. Aka Ysengrin. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alain Chavard | Ex-student at Scriptorium de Toulouse who created this roman inscription face. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French creator of the scratchy handprinted face Alban (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Italian designer (b. Rome, 1966) who studied at KABK in Den Haag in 2004, and was at the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique in Nancy, France, in 2001 and Parsons School of Design in New York in 1999, after a design career Venice, Milan, and Switzerland. He is teaching type design at UQAM in Montreal. He created Mignonne (2004, aka Mirabelle Mignone), which was "especially designed for small text setting under modern printing conditions". He also did the condensed Offbeat (1998, T-26, with Marco Tancredi). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Lyon, France-based graphic designer and illustrator. He created the geometric fat counterless Tangoes and the monoline sans faceSlim in 2009. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian art director who created the squarish modular face La Recalle (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, he co-designed Poinçons (1999), a face based on a design of Fournier. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French youngster (b. 1994) who created the simple hand-drawn typeface Newjosh (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian creator of the very expiremental typeface Typographie Modulaire (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French Lyon-based Creative Alliance designer of Esquisse (1996-1997) and Equilibre Gauche (1997-1998). He also designed Labeur (1998). Bio. Equilibre Gauche won the Morisawa award. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
French type designer (1855-1933) who made Giraldon (Fonderie Deberny, 1900). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alfred Moustache (b. 1980) lives in France's Medoc. I did not know that Moustache was a family name in France, but I guess it must be. He created the straight-line high-contrast geometric face Auf Blik (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alice Savoie, Frenchtype
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As a student at ENSAD in Paris, he co-designed Bertrand (2003), a face based on work by the Fonderie Bertrand (end of 19th century). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alien Foundery
| Alien Foundery used to be called Bsillkrieg. Thibault Dietlin (b. 1987, Besançon) who runs it is located in Annecy (before that, in Besançon). He makes these fonts freely available via Dafont in 2008: Zfonts (grunge), Pee On Face (grunge), Hardcore Pen (graffiti), La Fraktouille (sketched blackletter face), Crustype crust (grunge), Crust Clean (grunge), My Goth Is Better, city burn night after night and we spraypaint the walls 1.0. Additions in 2009: Black Spoon (minimalist sans with exaggerated x-height), Hurray (clean sans), Tes (sans), Urbana (grungy stencil), Black Spoon, Boa, The City Burn (grunge), Riot AF (grungy stencil), Blind (Braille font). MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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Born in Ivancice, Moravia (Czechia), in 1860, died in Prague in 1939. Famous for his sleek posters of women at the height of the art nouveau movement. In 1885 he studied at the Munich Academy of Art and then moved to the Academie Julian in Paris. In Paris, he took commissions for illustrations, portraits and decorative projects, but became most famous for his poster designs for plays, especially under the patronage of Sarah Bernhardt in the 1890s. The success of his posters led to a commercial career in decorative design for commercial and advertising products. Mucha also created jewelry designs, and briefly taught art in New York. In 1910, Mucha returned to Prague to work on nationalistic art, including murals, postage stamps, stained glass and bank notes. Digital fonts that were inspired by Mucha:
View commercial fonts that descend from Mucha's work. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
amb+
| André Baldinger is the Swiss typographer and type designer (b. 1963) who made the Newut (1996, all letters of equal size, and thus a semi-unicase) and the B-Dot (pixel) families (1998). His outfit in Lausanne is called amb+. In 1994, he graduated from the Atélier National de Création Typographique (ANCT) in Paris. Since 1995, he teaches typography at the École supérieure d'arts visuels de Lausanne. He lives in Paris. Together with Philippe Millot, he heads the type design unit of the Creation and Innovation Research Centre (EnsadLab) at ENSAD Paris. He teaches typography and type design at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) and the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). He was involved in projects such as the logotype for the Cité Universitaire and a custom type for the Eiffel tower. He also digitized the Frutiger-Hunziker typeface CGP (used in the Centre Georges Pompidou, originally designed in 1974) in 1997. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin where he introduced the Gering project. I cite: Based on a close analysis of typefaces created by Ulrich Gering at the Atelier de la Sorbonne and the Soleil d'Or workshop in the 1470s, the first typefaces produced in France, postgraduate students Timm Borg, Anthony Dathy, Perrine Saint Martin and Ok Kyung Yoon have been working on a versatile, modern font family for the last 2 years under the the guidance and watchful eyes of André Baldinger and Philippe Millot. Focusing on two of Gering's designs --- a sturdy roman font that closely imitates the texture of blackletter and a roman with blackletter influences --- the EnsadLab team has developed a complete family, reviving the work of the father of the printed word in France and bringing together aesthetics rarely seen in such an ensemble. Working only a few hundred metres from the original site of Gering's workshop they have thoroughly reworked the letterforms found in the extant incunabula available in the Bibliothèque Nationale, complementing the original characters with italics, small caps, and supplementary weights, as well as all of the glyphs necessary in a 21st century font. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
AmboboDesign
| Ambroise Maupate (AmboboDesign) made the pixel face B.M. Pixel (2008) and the handwriting face Binetruy Script (2011). Ambroise was born in 1989 and lives in Besançon, France. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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French type designer (b. 1977) who created Cargoth (2001), a hybrid of Carolingian and Gothic. She is involved now in type design and corporate identity projects at Porchez Typofonderie. As a student at ENSAD, she co-designed the Garamond face Recréation (2000). Typofonderie link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer of the graffiti face Ameze (2005). Web page. Yet another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian designer of the circle-based modular typeface Scolastifont (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Anatole Type Foundry
| Elena Albertoni (Anatole Type Foundry) is an Italian type designer (b. 1979, Bergamo) who studied at ESAD Amiens and the Ecole Estienne in Paris, before taking a position as type designer at FontFabrik in Berlin. She cofounded Anatole Type Foundry with Pascal Duez. At the Rencontres de Lure 2005, she spoke about OpenType and Latin characters. Her script typeface Dolce (2005) won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition. She created Dyna (connected feminine script). Review of Dolce & Dyna. Other faces include Kigara, Scritta (connected calligraphic script), Dolce (2005, connected script), Helene (squarish face), Valora, Schneider, Gregoria (a Gregorian chant font that won an award at TDC2 2007), Deja Rip and Deja Web (2010, eight-style sans family of great utility, codesigned with Fred Bordfeld; cyrillic included). Acuta (2010) is an all-purpose type family. Scritta Nuova (2011) is a rhythmic upright connected script, which evokes retro calligraphic styles taught in Italian schools around the 1950s. Nouvelle Vague (2011) is a connected display script along the lines of Mistral. Spinnaker (2011) is a sans design based on French and UK lettering found on posters for travel by ship. Alternate URL. MyFonts link. Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
French designer of Club (1972), Go (1972) and Or (1970), all at Hollenstein Phototypo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Basque type designer and lettering artist in Biarritz, France. Runs La Negresse there. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French type designer, b. 1955, who drew the calligraphic Le Griffe in 1973 (Letraset). Fontshop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Bordeaux-based designer of KNKTR, a severe modular typeface (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Angelfires
| French free font outfit offering work by Mathieu Texier, who is based in Bordeaux. Their Javascript does not work on my browser though. Fonts include Angel Tribal, Funky Tribal and New Gothic. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, he co-designed Bertrand (2003), a face based on work by the Fonderie Bertrand (end of 19th century). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Yerevan, Armenia-born and Paris-based graphic designer. Creator of Shape Type (2012, an octagonal or paper fold typeface). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, he co-designed Bertrand (2003), a face based on work by the Fonderie Bertrand (end of 19th century). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian type designer (b. 1968) who designed the dingbat font Microbe, 1997. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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As a student at ENSAD in Paris, she co-designed Métis (1998). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian typographer and graphic designer. She created the experimental typeface called Brush (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Atelier national de recherche typographique (ANRT) in Nancy is headed by Peter Keller (b. 1944, Basle, Switzerland). It is part of the École nationale supérieure d'art, BP 3129, 1, avenue Boffrand, 54013 Nancy Cedex, France. Tél : 03 83 41 62 82. Fax : 03 83 41 51 93. Peter Keller asked me to insert this blurb: " In 1985, the French ministry of Culture launched the National Institute for Typographic Research (ANRT), for the promotion of typography and type design. The educational approach of the Institute invites students to project themselves towards the future, to keep an open eye on the demands of the creative and industrial world. Experimental research should therefore be closely linked to the constraints of economic reality, while integrating th= e constantly changing cultural and technical factors. The program offers students the possibility of completing research in the area of their choice. Close ties and frequent contacts with respected designers and specialists in the field underline the openness of the Institute and its close links with the professional world. To apply : Candidates (graduate students from visual art schools, designers, artists=8A) who wish to be considered for the 2001/2002 term should send their application to the Administrator before 30 April 2001. After the initial selection procedure, retained candidates are requested to present their portfolio during an interview with the selection committee at the end of May 2001. The successful candidates will be notified by post.The term commences in October 2001 and ends in June the following year. Each year, the Institute offers a one year grant to students or professionals who wish to pursue research in these areas." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French creator of Gagaille Premiere (2005) and Gagaille Seconde (2005). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French graphic designer, illustrator and type designer (b. 1982) who graduated from LISAA in 2006. His typefaces: Danoise (+Bold) (art nouveau influences, 2006), Station Debout (2006, sans), Krug (2006, irregular handwriting), Digitaline (2006), Forficula (2006, artsy). Bossard lives in Rennes, where LISAA is located. Dafont link where one can download Danoise. Another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Anthony Datty | Anthony Dathy is a graphic and type designer. He graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2008 with a degree in graphic design. Since then he followed the type design programm of André Baldinger and Philippe Millot and worked as freelance designer on a variety of design projects, including identity, editorial and interactive design. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. In 2009-2010, with fellow ENSAD students Timm Borg, Perrine Saint Martin and Ok Kyung Yoon, he developed a complete family of fonts that extend blackletter and roman faces by Ulrich Gering that go back to the 1470s. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Freelance designer in Paris who made the modular display face Seraphin (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
From the University of Poitiers, France, Anthony Phan's math symbol package (in metafont) is called mathabx (2002). It extends the Computer Modern mathematical symbol set. Other series by him, all in metafont: Mbb (2000, blackboard outline), Mcalligra (2001), Mxy (2002), Mgrey (2000). In 2011, type 1 outlines were made by Kohsaku Hotta. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French type designer and punchcutter, ca. 1490-1534, and teacher of Claude Garamond in Paris. He was one of the first French to engrave roman letters, when other French printers were mostly using blackletter. He began to work for Robert Estienne, one the first Parisian printers to use this type. Influential in creating a French typographical look, he was hanged for printing a poem without permission. George Abrams' rendering of Garamond, called Augereau [digitized by Charles Nix], is a wonderful text family! Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Foundry in Paris, operational from 1688-1706, when Antoine Chrétien fils (the son) died. Cover of his 1689 specimen book. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Autre planète with Thierry Charbonnel of the ink splash dingbat face Oups (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Famous Parisian printer and publisher (1450-1512 or 1519), who also on occasion illustrated and even wrote texts. The link shows a Venetian wide-feathered alphabet of initial caps made around 1500. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Reims, France, where he runs bertholet&villéger, a multidisciplinary design studio. Behance link. He created a special elliptical sans face for his logo in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
AP Fonts
| Paris-based type foundry set up in 2006 by Thierry Charbonnel, Nicolas Hoffmann and Michel Welfringer as a commercial outlet for Les Designers Anonymes (Hoffmann&Welfringer) and Autre planète's fonts (Charbonnel). Hoffmann and Welfringer designed Normale (2006) and Edibulle (2006). Charbonnel created Digital Planet (2006, futuristic) and Oups (2006, ink splashes; with Antoine Doury). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French creator of the rune font Rune (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Arkandis Digital Foundry
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Illustrator and graphic designer in Saint-Germain-en-Laye near Paris. He created a beautiful poster for his city in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
An Italian graphic designer in Paris, b. 1983. Creator of Arnold (2009, outline face). Another link.Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Paris-based designer and illustrator, b. 1975 in Paris. He created Lemon Twist (2009), a filled-bowl, black geometric face. Behance link. On his home page, one can find free fonts such as Grootfont1 (2009, pixel face). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Gaspard sells 26 illustrations, one for each letter, showing people in interesting positions. He sells similar sets called Fish, Danse, T-Bone (skeletons), M.I.B. (men in black), Bonne Année and Acid. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Consortium of French type designer in Strasbourg (see also here for font downloads). Web site disappeared. Designers include Dafont link. [Google]
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Atelier Graphique
| Vincent Menu (born in Rennes) is the French designer who runs Atelier Graphique in Rennes. Designer of the great screen/pixel fonts Carré, CarréLié and Petite. Associated with Typotek, where you can buy Tampons (2000), Cut (2000), Carré (2000), Space (2001). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Interesting font links. In French, by Yves Perrousseaux. Jef Tombeur describes this as follows: "The Atelier Perrousseaux is a small publishing house having on its catalogue the founder's books but also books, essays, studies by the late Gérard Blanchard, Adrian Frutiger, Ladislas Mandel, François Richaudeau (a linguist) and, soon, René Ponot." [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Atelier Telescopique (Fonderie Nordik)
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French on-line mag by Benoit Godde, who has designed about ten beautiful typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
ATypI meeting held in Lyon from 23-26 October 1998. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Porchez's 2001 report on the type situation in France in 2001. Report for 2000. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aubert Freres | Parisian foundry, which made typefaces such as Antique Old Style No.2 (1869), purchased by Stephenson Blake. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Student who graduated in 2008 from Ecole Estienne in Paris. She wrote a thesis on Albert Boton, and developed a gothic typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian designer who created the modular face Bento in 2010. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer (b. 1984). Creator of the free monowidth sans face Cjust (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aurélia Gaud | French type designer at the ADT (Atelier de decoupage typographique). Designer of Le Vincent (1998). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Graphic designer in Aix, France. Creator of Origami (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Autre planète
| Autre planète is run by Thierry Charbonnel in Paris. Designer of the futuristic face Digital Planet (2006) and of the ink splash dingbat face Oups (2006, with Antoine Doury). Fonts are sold through AP Fonts. Autre planète home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Art director and photographer in Paris. He experimented in 2009 with gridded typefaces. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tarbes, France-based designer who made Idea (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Bailleul et cie | Typefounders in Paris. Their work can be found in Spécimen des caractères de la fonderie Bailleul et cie, rue des Boucheries St.-G. 38. Premier cahier (Paris, Imprimé chez Paul Renouard, rue Garancière, n.5. [ca.1850?]). This is a very ordinary book with only text samples in the typical post-Didot style. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Bamboo Types
| Foundry that grew out of the now defunct and controversial Gasoligne in Brest, France, which was run by Yves Patinec (Roubaix) and his brother. The Bamboo Type fonts rescued from Gasoligne in 2008 are Neborg Sans (2008, organic and techno), Mignone (2011, fat organic face), Bambhout Connect Trial (2010), Bambhout (2009, experimental), Oxea (2008, organic), Magenta (2009, italic display type inspired by Inverserif from Infinitype, which in turn has roots in Speedway from FontBank, Concorde from Brendel Informatik, OptiIambic from Castcraft, and so forth), and Veeko, Veeko Wide (informal and organic). Bamboo Types says that the fonts were designed by freelance designer Florian Bambhout. I don't believe that for a second----that name was made up. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Bank
| BANK is a French/German design agency based in Berlin. It markets its fonts through T-26, starting in 2009. In 2009, Sebastian Bissinger and Matthieu David made the display faces Sintra and Yummy. Sintra is a 3d face that simulates letters made from folded material---Sebastian Bissinger was inspired by the sign of a shoe shop in Sintra, Portugal. Yummy was inspired by cookie cutters. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Banzai Tokyo
| Experimental foundry in Toulouse. Run by Sergey Epifanov (b. 1978, Kostroma, Russia), a graphic designer and an illustrator, it sells fonts like Banzai Moloko (2009) via MyFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Freelance motiondesigner and illustrator, currently living in Paris. She created the modular geometric faces Doves (2011) and Elephants (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font made exclusively for the Centre George Pompidou in Paris in 1995 by the Atelier de création graphique. The designing group consists of Pierre Bernard, Cyril Cohen, Uli Meisenheimer, Johannes Bergerhausen. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Barsky and Bézier
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Parisian graphic designer. He made the techno pixel face FFZX (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Commercial music fonts at this French site: Virtuoso, Charleston, Grupetto, Staccato, Vivace, Espressivo, Koechlin, Fingering, Ars Nova, Flamenco, Oratorio, Timpani. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
bbm
| bbm is a serifed blackboard bold math symbol (meta)font by Gilles F. Robert from Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Freelance web designers Francis Chouquet and Aurélien Foutoyet, both based in France, run a type blog, reporting on great finds. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Beeline
| Free Beeline fonts by "Miss Claude" (Claude Derieppe) and "The Font Goddess": Alpha3D, AlphaBalloon, AlphaBalloons2, AlphaBizzyBee, AlphaBones, AlphaBoy, AlphaCar, AlphaClouds, AlphaCrooner, AlphaCutOut, AlphaDishes, AlphaElephant, AlphaElfin, AlphaFitness, AlphaFlowers, AlphaFunky1, AlphaFunky2, AlphaGarden, AlphaInky, AlphaMan, AlphaMusicMan, AlphaNails, AlphaPaint, AlphaParty, AlphaPencils, AlphaRemember, AlphaRope, AlphaRunning, AlphaSausage, AlphaSausage, AlphaScribble, AlphaSkyParty, AlphaSmoke, AlphaSports (2002), AlphaSquiggle, AlphaSurvivor, AlphaThin, AlphaTopiary, AlphaTrees, AlphaUnleaded, AlphaUnplugged, AlphaWizard, AlphaWoman, AlphaWomanHair, AlphaWood, Baby, BabyBeeline, BizzyBunny, CarBeeline, DinosBeeline, HeliumHeaven, TicketCapitalsImpressed, TicketCapitalsRepressed, WormAlpha, WormBeeline. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
In 2011, he published the wavy typewriter face Treza at Die Gestalten, which is umbilically linked to ITC American Typewriter. It was developed in collaboration with Maroussia Jannelle for a technical book with many tables. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Paris-Plage, France. He made the handprinted face Kitano (2011, after the handlettering of Takeshi Kitano), the semi-blackletter face Millénaire (2011), and the angular face Grenade Serif (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French creator (b. 1981) of SMD Black (2010, a squarish face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French type designer who created these faces in 2011: Al-kimiya Font (typewriter style with fun variations), Le Méliès SOFT, Le Méliès (sans), Dinette Ultra (rounded and fat), Dinette (based on DIN), Archipel (thin slab face). Typojungle link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Benoît Bodhuin (aka Ben Ben) lived in Tournai, Belgium, but seems now to be in "chti" country, i.e., in Villeneuve d'Ascq, France. He studied mathematics and graphic design. Freelance graphic designer since 2004. In 2011, he set up Benben World at MyFonts. Dafont link. Yet another URL. Behance link. Designer of the pixel fonts Logotix (2004), Latham and 5x7 Negatie Moyenne. In 2010, he made the paperclip face La Pipo, which was published in 2011 by Die Gestalten. He created the commercial angular sans face S-L (2006) which was originally made for the University of Arts Saint-Luc in Tournai. Commercial faces include S-L Bold (2012, a hexagonal face based on his design at St. Luc in 2006), Zigzag (2012, Volcano Type; a font originally made for the Vivat theater). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Lyon, France-based founder of the BlueRats (les rats bleus) foundry, Frenchman Benoit Desprez (b. 1967) designed many fonts:
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Graphic designer in Paris, b. 1980. Teacher at the École d'Architecture de la Ville&des territoires in Marne-la-Vallée. Creator of the traffic-like sans face capitale (2009) for the signage of a concert hall. Werkman Letterpress (2009) is a font designed from letterpress woodblocks. It was nspired by the first issue of the magazine The Next Call (1923) by Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman. UnkleBenz (2009) is based on his own handwriting. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French creator of the pixel face Invade My Type (2009, FontStruct). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ex-director of Scriptorium de Toulouse, calligrapher, teacher and typographer. Michael Levy took these pictures of him in 2004: Arin drawing, sketching a Trajan face on a stone. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French type designer who designed the Piccolo family, 1998. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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French designer known as Zorg78. After a stint in Montpellier, he settled in Cannes. His type creations include Dripping Alphabet (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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French creator of the iFontmaker font Mossy (2011, handprinted). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As part of the Ecole Supérieure Estienne (18, boulevard Auguste-Blanqui, 75013 Paris, Tél : 01 55 43 47 47: subway Place d'Italie), this library has many books on typography. Free, 9-12 and 1-5, Monday to Friday, except Wednesdays and during the school holidays. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bibliothèque virtuelle de livres de typographie
| Jacques André (IRISA-INRIA, Rennes, France) has compiled a great bibliography of type. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
The national library of France. Has nice Samples of lettrines, including Alphabet de Paulini (1570), Alphabet des diableries, in Nouvelle collection de lettres de différents genres à l'usage de MM. les peintres et graveurs, A. Caulo (1856), Les Cris de Paris no1 (Paris, Maison Basset, vers 1845), Alphabet comique de Daumier (1836), Alphabet, Kate Greenaway (London, 1885), Alphabet diabolique (1837), Les polichinelles utiles ou l'origine des lettres (1826). Sandrine Maillet accepts donations and specimen of typographic work. They specialize in rare books and historical typographical pieces, but present day work is also being collected right now. Address: Réserve des livres rares, Quai François Mauriac, 75706 Paris Cedex 13. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Located at 1, rue du Figuier, 75004 Paris, this quaint old library is rumored to have unpublished Deberny&Peignot typefaces in its archives. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bluefonts.com (was: theblueratsfontsarchives, or les rats bleus)
| The Blue Rats Fonts Archives is a French font archive, maintained and nicely presented by Lyon-based cartoonist Benoit Desprez. Many free fonts, and a few commercial fonts sold by [T-26] such as BlueBrush, BlueCentury, BlueGlobal (2001) and BlueType. Some really nice irregular or graffiti fonts in the bluefonts collection: BlueAkkrobat, BlueApplet, BlueArsenal, BlueBond, BlueBurnt, BlueCake, BlueCalcium, BlueCarnage, BlueExpeditt, BlueLacke, BlueLittleHorn, BlueNorma, BluePax, BluePugg, BlueSkin (my favorite Treefrog-like font), BlueStorm, BlueStuff, BlueTone, BlueJussi, BlueTrash, BlueVelvet, BlueCake Full, BlueFaxSimili, BlueFlag, BlueNylon, BlueSandBlast, BlueSmolt, BlueSpent, BlueVibes. Commercial: BlueBrush, BlueCentury, BlueType, BlueKayack, BlueCookie, BlueKompakt, BlueVertue, BlueCopy, TestFrogRemix, BlueFish Sans (2005, Comic Sans competition?), BluePlanet, BluePadd, BlueScript, BlueMecca, BlueAlpha, BlueGribouille, Camille, BlueLustic, BlueLiner, BlueBeard, BlueLimace, BlueDingbats Heads. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Designer at Clear Studio in Bordeaux, France. In 2009, he made the straight line experimental face KNKTR. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, he co-designed Jannet (2001), a face based on Jannet's garalde revivals, ca. 1860. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer of Linotype Afroculture (dingbats) and Linotype Dinosaures (2004). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Braczyk (aka esbe, sandman and moa) is the French designer of Jules (2002). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer of Mossy (2011, handprinted): as skinny as Kate. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French foundry, located in Paris. Its work can be found in Épreuve des caractères de la fonderie de Briquet (Paris, Cloître Saint Benoît, 1757). Audin tells the story of the foundry. The senior Briquet bought a foundry in The Netherlands in 1720, but he died around 1725, leaving the business to his son. In 1728, his son became associated with Loyson, who had his own foundry since 1727, and the foundries were joined. Son Briquet died some time between 1728 and 1751, leaving behind a widow. Loyson wasted no time and married her. Loyson and the Briquet widow operated from 1751 until 1758. In 1757, they left the business to her son [note: Loyson's father-in-law was named Briquet, and his son-in-law was named Briquet...], who in 1758 left the foundry business. So, in 1758, Loyson and Veuve Briquet became Vincent Cappon (b. Carrières sous Conflans, d. 1783, Paris), who was Loyson's student. After Cappon's death in 1783, the business was run by Cappon's widow until 1785. Finally, from 1785 until 1837, the foundry was run by Pierre Louis Wafflard, apprentice of J. Gill&aeacute;. Cobver a specimen book by Briquet and Loyson from 1751. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Toulouse, France-based creator of the graffiti face Billybop Maj Tag (2011) and the tall handprinted face Billybop Miniskuli (2011). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Bulldozer (Labomatic)
| French designer Pascal Béjean has designed Son in 1996 for Bulldozer. Available at Typotek. Bulldozer (Labomatic) was created in 1995 in Paris by 4 designers interested in a wide variety of graphical expressions. Gaël Etienne designed Labomatic (1999). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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He is the designer of Berthold's Boton family (1986), FF Bastille Display package (2002, consists of FF Aircraft, FF Aircraft TF, FF District Bold, FF District Bold TF, FF Studio, FF Studio TF, FF Zan), FF Elegie (2002, art nouveau, a take on Auriol), ITC Elan (1985), ITC Eras (1961), Agora (1990, Berthold), Chadking (1958), Roc (1959), Brasilia (1960), Primavera (1963), Rialto (1964), Black Boton (1970), Zan (1970), Pharaon (1971), Pampam (1974), Hillman (1972, an Egyptian family at Mecanorma), Tzigane (1973, a condensed family at Mecanorma), Chinon (1973, Mecanorma), Hudson (1973), Boton and Navy Cut (1986, for Mecanorma), the Scherzo family (at the Agfa Creative Alliance), Carré Noir (1996, also at Agfa), Bellini, Praxitel, FF Tibere. Since 1998, he distributes his own fonts through BVS Albert Boton: Albotoni Book (made in 1974 originally), Kit, Memo, Pompeii (1993), Linex Sweet, FF Page (2003, in PageSans and PageSerif families), FF Cellini (2003, Albert's take on Bodoni), FF Tibere (2003, a classic roman family), FF District (2004, a squarish sans family) and Linex Sans (Agfa, 2003) are some his latest typefaces. Citroen's logo font at Delpire. Bio at FontFont. Pictures of an exposition in 2003. Linotype link. FontShop link. MyFonts link. Aude Degrassat wrote a thesis on Boton in 2008 at Estienne. |
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C. Deschamps | French engraver who lived in Paris (at Grande-Rue-Saint-Marcel, No. 4, Saint-Denis). In 1827, Jules Didot the Elder published this book: Didot. Recueil des vignettes et fleurons gravés sur cuivre et acier et polytypés par C. Deschamps, graveur, Grande-Rue-Saint-Marcel, No. 4 a Saint-Denis (Paris: Imprimerie de Jules Didot ainé). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
C. Verchery has been making school fonts, with and without lines for elementary school education in France. His fonts include the Plum (PlumBAE, PlumBAL, PlumBDE, PlumBDL, PlumNAE, PlumNAL, plumNDE, plumNDL), Seyes (SeyesBDE, SeyesBDL, SeyesNDE, SeyesNDL) and Crayon (CrayonE, CrayonL) series, some with lines as for first graders. Fonts disappeared? Alternate URL. Yet another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Calligraphia
| Christophe Badani's French site dedicated to calligraphy. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Caractères d'imprimerie, 1853
| Essay bu Paul Dupont on the history of typography, in French. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Carlos Silva runs Lusi Design in Paris. He made the techno typeface Flight Maybe (2012), the outlined handprinted children's book font Alpha Street (2010), and the grunge face Immoral Pact (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Paris-based creator of Tifinagh (2011), a modular Latin face based on letters from the Touareg alphabet. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, she co-designed Poinçons (1999), a face based on a design of Fournier. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Art student in Strasbourg, France. Creator of the modular geometric typeface Quart (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer who has some nice typographic experiment called Alphabetempo (1994), based on the chronological decomposition of letters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French creator of the hacker faces Minusculke Digits (2012) and Cursive Digits (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, he co-designed Poinçons (1999), a face based on a design of Fournier. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Independent graphic designer in Strasbourg, France. Behance link. She created an erotic typography poster in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Printer in Paris. C.F.L. Panckoucke (b. 1780, Paris, d. Meudon, 1844) ran a printing shop (imprimerie) in Paris, succeeding his father Charles there, who had moved to Paris from Lille. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ch. Beaudoire | Nineteenth century typefounder based in Paris. Examples of their work include Batardes and Lettres Angulaires. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Ch. Doublet | Typefounder and engraver in Paris. His work can be found in Extrait du Spécimen de caractères de la fonderie Ch. Doublet, graveur (Paris, Gravure et fonderie typographiques, 60, avenue d'Orléans [1890?]). They also published Spécimen de caractères d'imprimerie (Paris, Ch. Doublet, ca. 1900, 356 pages). Scan of an art nouveau face. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Charles Derriey | Typefounder in Paris. His work can be found in Gravure et fonderie de C. Derriey : spécimen-album (Paris : Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, 6&12, 1862). Famous for his beautiful ornaments. The foundry was sold to Turlot on October 1, 1880. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French poster artist (b. Nice, 1892, d. Les Arcs-sur-Argens, 1962) in the 1930s who was one of the main poster artists of his time, together with the three musqueteers, A.M. Cassandre, Jean Carlu and Paul Colin. He was an avantgardist, who contributed mainly in the art deco style. I am aware of the following digital faces based on his poster lettering.
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French typefounder, illegitimate son (with farmer woman) of Alexandre de Berny who ran the Laurent&Deberny typefoundry. Tuleu inherited the firm in 1881 upon the death of Alexandre, and ran it until 1914. He added many fine typefaces, including a series of ancient Latins, many scripts and neo-elzeviriennes, and a collection of foreign alphabets. In 1914, a childless Tuleu proposed the merger of his business with that of the family of his wife, Jeanne Peignot, the sister of Georges Peignot, who ran Peignot et Cie, a rival typefoundry. Jeanne refused to be associated with her brother and thus prevented any collaboration between the firms. Tuleu teamed up instead with an old school friend, Robert Girard. Ownership of the business passed to Girard in 1921 when Tuleu retired. The firm was renamed Girard et Cie. Talks were started with Peignot about a merger. Deberny&Peignot was incorporated on July 1, 1923. Charles Peignot now controlled Deberny's classic punches and matrices, the Peignot moderns, and two typefounding factories in Paris and Corneuve. Link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Aka Le Corbusier. Swiss architect, designer, urban planner, sculptor, writer, modern furniture designer, and painter. Born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, in 1887, he died in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France, in 1965. His lettering inspired the Letraset rubdown dry transfer face Charrette. He also inspired many digital fonts: Jeanneret NF (2011, a stencil face by Nick Curtis), Le Corbusier (a stencil face by Philippe Desarzens, Lineto), Modular Stencil (1994, stencil face by Gregory La Vardera), and Le Corbusier (2000, stencil face by Nico Schweizer). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
CheapProfonts
| Started in 2008, this web place by Norwegian entrepreneur Roger S. Nelsson (based in Honningsvåg, Norway) sells fonts by Ray Larabie, Brian Kent, Nick Curtis, Derek Vogelpohl and Kevin King that were originally freeware fonts. Nelsson reworked them (more glyphs, more multilingual) and asks about 10 dollars per font now. He says his fonts now cover these Latin languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Basque, Belarusian (Lacinka), Bosnian, Breton, Catalan, Chamorro, Chichewa, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino (Tagalog), Finnish, French, Frisian, Galican, German, Greenlandic, Guarani, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish (Gaelic), Italian, Kashubian, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgian, Malagasy, Maltese, Maori, Northern Sotho, Norwegian, Occitan, Polish, Portuguese, Rhaeto-Romance, Romanian, Saami (Inari), Saami (Lule), Saami (North), Saami (South), Scots (Gaelic), Serbian (latin), Slovak(ian), Slovene, Sorbian (Lower), Sorbian (Upper), Spanish, Swedish, Tswana, Turkish, Turkmen, Ulithian, Walloon, Welsh, Yapese. Designer at FontStruct in 2008 of cowboy_hippie and Syndrome X (DNA-look face inspired by Syndrome BRK by Brian Kent). Nelsson's fonts are Classic Trash BRK Pro, Dynamic BRK Pro, Galapogos BRK Pro, Genotype BRK Pro, King Cool KC Pro (kid's hand; done with Kimberly Geswein), Lamebrain BRK Pro, Matrise Pro and Matrise Text Pro (dot matrix), Phorfeit BRK Pro, Syndrome BRK Pro, Technique BRK Pro, Vigilance BRK Pro, Grapple BRK Pro. The "BRK" refers to Brian Kent, the original free font designer. In 2009, he added a number of fonts that were done by Nick Curtis some years before that (hence the "NF"): Boogie Nights NF Pro (art deco face), Copasetic NF Pro, Coventry Garden NF Pro, Pro, Fontleroy NF Pro, Hamburger Heaven NF Pro, Monterey Popsicle NF Pro, and Wooden Nickel NF Pro. Trypewriter Pro (2009) is based on Kevin King's Trypewriter. Helldorado Pro (2009) is a Tuscan wood type style face based on a font by Levente Halmos. Designer of Familiar Pro (2011, designed with the same metric as Helvetica but "better than Arial"), Bloco Pro (2010, fat counterless face), Trump Town Pro (2009, athletic lettering slab serif), Geometric Soft Pro (2009), Geometry Script Pro (2010, upright connected script), DIN Fun Pro (2011), Infantometric Pro (2012), Foobar Pro (2012) and Cheap Pro Fonts Serif (2009), freely available from Dafont. Fontspace link. Fontsquirrel link. Catalog of Nelsson's bestselling typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Parisian designer, b. 1975. Creator of the futuristic face Astroneo (2010). Home page of his company, Astroneo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Chevalvert
| French graphic and type design studio involved in type branding. Typefaces by them include the sans face GreenHorse. It is run by Patrick Paleta, who graduated in 2004 from Ecole Estienne. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French designer (b. 1928) who made the type 3 font Delorme in 1986 with Jacques André. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Christian Dupuy | Ex-student at Scriptorium de Toulouse who created this ultra light modern face. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Christian Laucou-Soulignac | French designer of Zarbres (2004), a typeface used in the book "Nouvelles des arbres", by Gérard Bialestowski. This is a private face, as he explained to Jef Tombeur: "Quelques mots sur le Zarbres. Je ne trouvais pas ce qui me plaisait ni en plomb, ni en fonte informatique. Alors je l'ai créé, mais avec un cahier des charges bien précis. Il devait s'approcher du résultat qu'on obtient en gravant dans du bois ou du lino pour s'harmoniser avec les illustrations. Pour cela, il devait être gras, d'un dessin un peu maladroit (taillé à la serpe), quelques lettres hors norme (avec une e bdc à la barre trop oblique, la u bdc un peu onciale, etc.), comme dessiné par un amateur qui ne connaît pas la typo et qui cherche à imiter, à obtenir une hauteur d' assez importante pour réaliser, sans interlignage, des compositions d'un gris très foncé. J'ai fait ainsi un romain, un italique et les deux polices expertes correspondantes (petites capitales et ligatures). Pour l'instant le Zarbres est reste une police exclusive qui ne sort pas de mon ordinateur." [Google] [More] ⦿ |
From MyFonts: Punchcutter for the Imprimerie Nationale, Paris, where he works with Nelly Gable. Author of La Lettre - La Gravure du Poinçon typographique / The Punchcutting (Wissous, 1998). He works at the Cabinet des poinçons. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Christian Poisson | Nantes-based designer of a free chess font for "fairy" chess called 1Echecs. His font 2Echecs (1996) is here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Christian Salanié-Bertrand | Fresh French graduate of the Ecole Estienne in Paris. Designer of a revival of an old text font, called Sammuel (2003). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Christine Sejean (Reims, France) made a psychedelically-lettered poster entitled Paul McCartney (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer in Saint Rémy de Provence. Dafont link. He created the high-contrast organic face Botanic (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer (b. 1972) of ZyxTof (2003), an artificial language font. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Christophe Beaumale designed the free upright script educational handwriting fonts, Cursif and Cursif&Lignes (without and with lines). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Plantin face was created in the 1570s. The modern day version at Bitstream is called Aldine 721. Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp. Britannica entry. Biography. The Golden Compasses The History of the House of Plantin-Moretus (Leon Voet, 1969, 1972) is freely downloadable. Books on Christoffel Plantijn (in Dutch). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
A brief explanation and discussion of Civilité, the script face made by Robert Granjon in 1556 as a typical "French cursive". It was imitated and extended by Aimé Tavernier (1559), Hendrik van den Keere (1575), Richard Breton (1597), Philippe Danfrie (1597), Jean de Tournes (1598), Fleury Bourriquant (early 17th century: his type was called Civilité honneste), Pierre-Simon Fournier (1766), Matthias Rosart (1777, the Gros Romain Civilité), and Morris Fuller Benton (1922). Many have since created their own versions. We cite a few of the contemporary type designers: Klaus Burkhardt, Manfred Klein, Stephen Moye (CiviRegular), Ingo Zimmermann (almost a copy of Moye's version), Richard Beatty, Hans J. Zinken (civi4, 1996), Hermann Zapf (1984: Zapf Civilité), George Thomas (CivilitéMJ), and Tim Ryan (CivilitéTR). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Prague-based graphic designer, typographer and type designer. She was working on Qualtagh in 2010. Born in Paris, she studied design in the UK and briefly worked in Belgium in 2008-2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French type designer. Lan Huang and Claire Ghyzel codesigned Brunswick Black (2011, Letterbox). Brunswick has upside down serifs and is rounded to avoid injuries, a bit in the Cooper Black style. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student at ECV in Paris. She created the modular counterless geometric face Tici (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Printer in Strasbourg, France, who set up shop in 1784, together with "Rolland". They were known as Rolland&Jacob. He was the student of Baskerville. Specimen. Deux Points de Gros Romain (1780-1790). Deux points de petit texte (ca. 1785). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian printer, whose 1742 book Épreuves générales des caractères qui se trouvent chez Lamesle is at the Rochester Institute of Technology. A facsimile was published by A.F. Johnston in 1965 at Menno Hertzberger&Co, Holland: The Type specimens of Claude Lamesle, a facsimile of the 1st edition printed at Paris in 1742. Among many other types, this book has a Civilité. The Capsa family (2008, Dino dos Santos) was inspired by, but is not a revival of the Claude Lamesle types Gros Romain Ordinaire and Saint Augustin Gros Oeil. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Claude Médiavilla |
His typefaces:
Examples of calligraphic alphabets drawn by him and shown in his Histoire de la calligraphie française (2006): Bastarda, Cancellaresca, Carolingian, Cursive gothic 1410, Luxeuil, Roman Capitals, Roman cursive 1st century, Roman cursive 4th century, Rustica 1st century, Textura 14th century, Textura 15th century, , Tourneure 15th century, Uncial 4th century. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typefounder in Nantes, b. 1704, d. 1760, Nantes. Until 1743, he was typefounder in Paris, and settled in Nantes some time between then and 1754. His work can be found in Épreuves des caracteres de la fonderie de Claude Mozet, fondeur&graveur de caractères d'imprimerie (Nantes, 1754). and in Épreuves des caracteres de la fonderie de Claude Mozet, fondeur&graveur de caractères d'imprimerie (Paris, 1743). In 1760, Mozet's foundry was taken over by J. Fr. Hémery, who was based in Paris, where he had been director of the Fournier foundry (the elder and the younger) for over 30 years. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer of Ayla (2008, geometric sans), NoblaCS (white on black sans), and Ideocs (scribbly hand). Fontsy link. graphicCS (2006) contains graphical dingbats. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student in Lyon. Creator of Antarctica (2012), and Miles Davis (2012, an inline art deco typeface). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic design student in Lyon, who created an art deco prismatic typeface called Striped (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French student who is studying graphic arts at the Winchester School of Art in the UK. He created a thin and moody typeface called Decay (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Lyon, France. Behance link. Creator of the stylish open face Yin (2010), of Mister Jun (a display face) and of Kilimandjaro (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer in London who has a Masters from Maryse Eloy Art School in Paris, 2011. Behance link. Dünn (2012) is a thin blackletter font created in collaboration with Claire Doghmi during a workshop with Jean Widmer. Dünn is the skeletal version of Fette Gotisch. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cochard&David | Typefounders in Paris. Their work can be found in this specimen book (Paris, ca. 1890). No full specimens in this publication, which has many of the useless faces of the late 19th century. The No. 549-553 faces are of the "Ronde" script style. Also standing out is No. 670, the Initiales Ornées Vénitien Romain, a very light face with frivolous border-like ornaments in the glyphs. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French designer of the pixel face Volter (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Small group of French type designers who created Amiens in 1996-1998. Members: Caroline Bapt, Delphine Le Fort, Christèle Cliquet, Carole Grandin, Virginie Rio, Alice Lagny, Ingrid Valette and Laurent Hembert. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jef Tombeur's site on orthotypography (in French). One can buy at this site the comprehensive book by Jean Meron entitled Orthotypographie : recherches bibliographiques (2002), which has a preface by Fernand Baudin. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Foundry in Paris, operational from 1714-1762. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cubo
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View all typefaces by Cubo Type / Florent Courtaigne. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
French pages on French typography. Links, a bit of recent history, and a list of French typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dadakool
| Dadakool (or DK) was founded by Parisian Gregory Flajszer and Padovan Alex Mazzuccato Mezzoccoli in 2005, after they met each other during their studies in Paris. They created the 3d experimental faces DK01 (2005) and DK Stencil (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
DaFONT
| Useful French archive with nice categories such as Cartoons, Horror, Tech, Fantasy, Script, Symbols, Famous fonts, pixel fonts, typewriter, Gothic. It has grown to be the number one site in the world for publishing new free fonts. All designers are clearly identified, and all font information is easily accessible. Links. About 10000 fonts now, with monthly additions. Newest stuff. Links to all designers. All pre-October 2009 fonts in one 660MB download file. Run by Rodolphe Milan. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
A 2011 graduate of École supérieure d'art et de design in Amiens, France, where he was supervised by Titus Nemeth. His type family, called Milosz, won the Type Design International Student Competition Milosz 2011. His thesis on the origins of italic script. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian designer (b. 1981) of PixArrows (2010, pixelized arrows), BeijingWigoWhat (2005, Indic simulation face), Coin Locker Datura (2005), Fucked Plate (2005, grunge face entirely based on old license plates), Destroyed License Plate (2005), BonesBummer (2005, scratchy handwriting), VerArmy (2005, stencil), Knife Fight (2005), Veru Serif (2005), Belgian Army (2005, no longer offered), Bnko (2005, no longer offered), Abuse (2005, handwriting) and Sweeep (2005, typewriter simulation), PoscaMadThrasherz (2009, graffiti), Rififi Serif (2010, pixel face). Alternate URL. Yet another URL. Old URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
DBS is a multidisciplinary visual design studio based between Brussels, Paris and Bordeaux. They are selling three commercial typefaces, Harring Stone (2011, squarish modernist), Aert Deck (2011, Victorian), and Qlacic (2011, more Victorian fare). Qlacic is attributed to Tom Haas. | |
Daniel Taupin | Daniel Taupin (1936-2003) held a degree of the ESPCI school and was a doctor in physics. He was a researcher in a solid-state physics lab at Orsay University (Physique des Solides, University Paris-Sud). Obituary. Another obituary with details of his mountain climbing career and death in the mountains. He published ttfmf2t1, a free C program, to clean up the output of Oleg Motygin's ttf2mf program that converts ttf files installed (!!) in Windows to metafont format. Metafont sources for Garamond, Times, Arial, Book Antiqua and Bookman Oldstyle are also at this site. He also codeveloped OpusTeX and Musixtex (for music notation) with Andreas Egler and Ross Mitchell. He published Les polices TTF converties en Metafont and MusiXTeX: L'écriture de la musique polyphonique ou instrumentale avec TEX. Designer of the metafont fraktur font families CM Fraktur and DM Fraktur. CM Fraktur, or cmfrak, is based on Yannis Haralambous' font yfrak (1990). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French type designer at the ADT (Atelier de decoupage typographique) who designed fonts like La Daphnée and L'Olivier (1998). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian illustrator and designer. Creator of JPO (2012), a squarish typeface named after the event it was created for, les Journées Portes Ouvertes des Gobelins. He also made Irregular (2012, a paper cutout face), History (2012), an experimental typeface that uses various layers of overlays. Tribu (2012) is hand-drawn. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Toulouse, France-based designer of a paper fold typeface in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer (b. 1978) at [T-26] of the techno/dot matrix font family Zink (2002). That font also appeared at Typotek. He graduated in 2001 from Ecole Estienne in Paris, where for his thesis, he created a type family called Villeneuve, which revived a type made in 1732 by engraver and type designer Jean de Villeneuve (Vilanova) for the Royal Academy of History of Portugal. He wrote another thesis there entitled Le Champfleury de Geofroy Tory. Manuel de typographie ou divagation esthétique autour de la lettre?. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian type designer (b. 1972) who designed Métropolice (1998), Ordinatires (1999, inspired by names of Paris metro stations), Métropolitaine (2001, with Julien gineste, commissioned by the RATP in the art nouveau style of Guimard), and a face for some tramways and the RER in Paris in 2004. Bio. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French graphic designer, journalist and photographer. In 2004, he started work in Istanbul for a branding company. Director of the collection Atelier Perrousseaux, and frequent speaker at design and type meetings. Author of Guide pratique de choix typographique (2009, Ateliers Perrousseaux). Creator of a nice poster for a Turkish debate held in November 2011 on the theme of freedom of expression, entitled Ghetto. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
De Passe&Menne
| Dutch foundry from 1842-1856, bought by Nicolaas Tetterode in 1856. Formerly, De Passe&Cie in 1841. Jean Baptist De Panne (b. Brussels, ca. 1806, d. Amsterdam, 1844) was a Belgian who had been a foreman of Firmin Didot in Paris. Kornelis Elix, an Amsterdam based typefounder, asked him to come to Amsterdam, where De Passe worked for him from 1837 on. In 1841, De Passe created his own foundry, only to die in 1844, a year after his first specimen was published. That specimen derived mostly from the Th. Lejeune foundry in Brussels, which was active there from 1836-1838. Specimen in the Amsterdam University Library. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
de Valence
| de Valence is a graphic design and type design bureau in Saint-Ouen, France, run by Alexandre Dimos and Gaël Étienne. Their typefaces: Dada Grotesk (2007, Optimo), Dodo Grotesk (2005), Trois-cent quinze (2003), Le Gras (2004), Manuel (2003, stencil), Sweet Sweat (2004), Le Gros (2003), Sansas (2005, futuristic). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Désigne (was: Calame Design)
| Désigne (which was Calame Design is run by Benoit Sjöholm from Rennes, France, b. 1980. Dafont link. Old URL. Fonts and font blog. Creator of the double-lined Margarette 01 (2008), the piano key face Désigne (2010), the sans display face Explora (2010), the elliptic Bagadek (2010), Fontastique (2010), Rajkeys (2010), the geometric sans Violette01 (2009), the octagonal face Yllia (2008), Nioubes (2008, very geometric hairline face), Julie01 (2008), Frida01 (2008, organic slab serif), Thamara01 (2008, sans), Linea (2008, outlined), and the ultra-contrast faces Lamia (2008, like leaves), Olivia (2008, art deco), Kanis (2009, organic), Kamalo (2009, upright connected script), Ageone (2009, organic), Agnes Serif (2009), Dollis (2009, elliptical), Johanna (2009, upright multiline script), Jalane Light (2009, techno sans), Yatis Black (2009, almost blackletter), Cilogie (2009, organic), Ageone Serif (2009), Kabys (2009), Kyma (2009), DekerS (2009, sans family), Sixty Queens (2009), Alice (2009), Genikas (2009), Naya (2009), Genikas, Margarette 01, Cross (2009), Johanna (2009, multiline face), Johanna Bold (2009), Kamalo (2009, +Bold), Sakiane (2009, a counterless geometric face), Balkeno (2010, display sans), Rachel (2011, minimalist sans), Marilou (2011, elliptical monoline sans), Melody (2011), Sophie (2011), Judit (2011), Monika (2011, handprinted), Fabrik (2011), Eve Isabelle (2011) and Nolla (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, she co-designed Rosart (2002), a font based on lettering by the famous 18-th century Belgian typographer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French codesigner of the arrows face Robin (Editions 205, with Damien Gautier). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Denis Diderot et Jean le Rond d'Alembert |
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Parisian creator (b. 1949) of Bibracte (1997, Creative Alliance), a Greek simulation face designed with Michel Redon. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Design & typo
| Peter Gabor's type blog and type education site in Paris, started in 2005. In French and English. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Didot family
| A wiki page on the Didot dynasty in France, started by François Didot (son of Denis Didot), a merchant born in Paris in 1689. He died there in 1757. In 1713 he opened a bookstore called La Bible d'or ("The Golden Bible") on the Quai des Grands-Augustins. François Didot was a learned man, and held by his colleagues in great esteem. His most famous sons were François-Ambroise Didot (1730-1804) and Pierre-François Didot (1732-1795). But it was only the third and fourth generations of Didot heirs that made an impact on type design by the creation and commercialization of the modern high-contrast and ultra-rational typefaces now known as didones. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Diskultur Type Foundry
| Frenchman, b. 1988, who works in New Caledonia's studio La Fabrik as a designer. He does some type work, which can be viewed at Behance. this includes the stylish slightly techno sans family called Neuforma (2009), and Reitag Regular (2011, sans). See also here and here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer of the free music font Rousseau (1999). Based in Ledignan, France, Montel is responsible for the Berlioz music software. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Poilly-sur-Tholon, France-based graphic designer who drew a funny alphabet in 2010. Here is his first complete font, called The First One (2010). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, she co-designed Métis (1998). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer of the beautiful futuristic font Dream Forge Classic (2006). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French digital artist who created Curves (2007, a curly font). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French art nouveau era artist who created, ca. 1894, a typical art nouveau face digitized in 2007 by HiH and called Mulier Moderne. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Ecole Municipale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques de la Ville de Paris | School in Paris, commonly called EMSAT, founded in 1983. Its students included Jean-François Porchez. The school is now EPSAA. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Teachers at this school include Catherine de Smet, Patrick Doan, Thomas Huot-Marchand, Sébastien Morlighem, David Poullard, and Titus Nemeth. One can get a post-diplôme in Systèmes graphiques, langage et typographie. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The ACT (Atelier de Création Typographique) at the Ecole superieure Estienne (18 boulevard Auguste-Blanqui, 75013 Paris) was created in 1991 by Franck Jalleau and Michel Derre. Tél : 01 43 36 96 19. Fax : 01 47 07 20 58. Current typography professors: Franck Jalleau, Michel Derre, Margaret Gray, Jean-Louis Estève. Some pictures. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ecritures du monde
| Michel Bottin's pages (in French) on the world's writing systems. He spends some time on the major Unicode fonts, Bitstream Cyberbit (downloadable), Titus Unicode (by Jost Gippert), Code 2000 (by James Kass), and Ballymon RO (by M. Ronald Ogawa). There are also pages on Unicode and standardization. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French designer of the grunge face Dark Flame (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Editions 205
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There is also a publishing component to Editions 205. Works published by them include Tout le monde connaît Roger Excoffon (2011), which was written by Alan Marshall (director of the Musée de l'imprimerie, Lyon), Tony Simoes Relvas, and Thierry Chancogne. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French publisher which has a nice series of books on writing. These include "Le Verbe géomètre Numérographies et écritures mathématiques" (Valère-Marie Marchand, 2004), "Lettres Latines Rencontre avec des formes remarquables" (Laurent Pflughaupt), "Les alphabets de l'oubli Signes et savoirs perdus" (Valère-Marie Marchand), "Le Bruissement du calame Histoire de l'écriture arabe" (Sophia Tazi-Sadeq), and "Entre Ciel et Terre Sur les traces de l'écriture chinoise" (Shi Bo). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
E.J. Bailly | Typefounders in Paris. Their work can be found in Épreuves des caractères de la fonderie de E.-J. Bailly, place Sorbonne, 2 (Paris, ca. 1855). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Emile Darmoise | Foundry in Paris. Its work can be found in Spécimen des caractères de la fonderie typographique de Émile Darmoise, 5, rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, 5 (Paris, Imprimerie Poitevin, rue Damiette, 2 et 4 [ca.1860?]). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French art student who created the electric circuit-themed font Saccade (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian illustrator and art director. She created some experimental typefaces in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Located at the University of Paris, Emmanuel Beffara designed the French Cursive font (2004), a cursive hand-writing font family in the style of the French academic running-hand. It comes in Metafont format. Experimental type 1 versions are available too: TeX-fcbx10, TeX-fcc10, TeX-fcf10, TeX-fcr10. See also here (last updated in 2004). He also created CMLL (2006, type 1), a set of symbols used in Linear Logic, designed for use with standard Computer Modern fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French government site about illuminated initials. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer born in Lerida, Spain (1908), who lived and worked mostly in Paris, where he had emigrated to during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). He died in 1987 in Noyon. All his fonts are available from Neufville. He was the founder of the movement that is known as Grafía Latina, which promoted the need to create a new system of typically Latin (as opposed to cold geometric nordic) typographic structures, graphics, alphabets and decorative ornaments. As art director of the Fonderie Typographique Française, he designed these fonts:
View Enric Crous-Vidal's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Italian designer (b. Rome, 1973) who studied Industrial Design and Visual Communication at Rome University. He works sometimes in Paris. For the magazine 2A+P, he created the monospaced font 2A+P (2000) which evokes robots and synthesized voices. Mènil (1999) is a fluid informal sans family. He also made Jollymusic. Solid Script and Streetfont were made in 2004 for the French mag Worldsigns. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Envy Technologies Ltd
| Damien Guard (Envy Technologies Ltd) resides in the parish of St. Peter Port, capital of an island called Guernsey that sits just off the coast of France in the English Channel. He created the screen font families Envy Code A, Envy Code R and Envy Code B (2006). FON and/or truetype formats. See also here. Typedia link. He used iFontMaker to draw the fat face Damien Typewriter (2011) and Damien Vertical (2011). FontStructor of Curvature (2008-2011), Atari ST (2011), Amstrad CPC (2011), Lickable 5 (2011), Magic 5 (2008), Magic 5 Bold (2008), Subpixel5 (2011), Tiny (2008). Most of these are screen or pixel fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Eragny Press
| Private press of Lucien Pissarro, a French type designer, 1863-1944. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Designer at You Work For Them who created Victrola, Metal Face, NYMN, DropBit Rnd, DropBit Hrzn, DropBit 50, HLLVTKA (a grungified Helvetica: see here), HLLVTKA Round, Connery, OffHand, Adderley, Offhand Round (simple handwriting), OffHand Sharp, and OffHand Script, ca. 2007-2008. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer (b. 1973) whose early fonts may be bought from 2Rebels in Montreal, and at La Fonderie. Some creations at 2Rebels: Malcom Light and Malcom Light Expert, Coeval (1998), Coeval Expert (1998), Garaline (1998), Garaline Expert (1998), Hector 1, Hector 2, Helwissa, Jandoni (great didone titling face!), Malcom, Malcom Expert, ITC Octone (1998), ITC Octone Expert (1998), Troiminut. Other creations available elsewhere (ITC, T26, AgfaType, Monotype, Linotype): Yesselair (1998, La Fonderie), Hamely, Klory, Koala, Kolinear (2009, angular), Maxime (nice complete garalde family), Merlin, Collos, Pack Trash, NLE2B210, EricMainDroite, June, ITC Berranger Hand and the Mosquito family (Agfa, 2001; Mosquito Formal appeared in 2003). MyFonts page. With Stéphane Gambini, he started La Fonderie. He does visual identity stuff for companies in France, most notably, the logo and logo font for Renault (2004). In 2005, he revived a 1972 didone of Hollenstein Studio as Natalie (no sales or downloads). In 2006, he created a 6-weight legible sans family for the STIP (Brussels transport society) called Brusseline. In 2007, he created the bold gothic headline face LFP Bold for the Ligue de Football Professionnel. In 2008, he published the stunning connected script Hermès Scripte used by the fragrance company by that name. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer of the connected educational font A La Main (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Erico Oleachea | Creator of OM12 (2012), a free font available from abfonts. This font is based on the organic lettering used on the jerseys of Olympique Marseille soccer team during the 2011-2012 season. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French designer interested in medieval and renaissance art. He created two free fonts at Devian Tart: Gothique Cursive V.II (2007, a medieval hand), 1413 Cursive (2006) and Hans Holbein (2006, decorative caps based on Hans Holbein's work: La Danse Macabre, 1523, and L'Alphabet des Enfants, 1532). See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Erté (Romain de Tirtoff) was a well-known art deco era artist. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1892, he died in 1990 in Paris. In 1912, Erté moved to Paris. In 1915, he began an association with Harper's Bazaar by designing covers of each of their magazines for the next 22 years. He became known for elegant lithographs and sculptures for the fashion industry. On these pages, you find an elegant set of capitals and numerals in which the glyphs are formed by elegantly drawn naked women. | |
At the ESAC in Pau, France, one can take type design courses. Teachers include Patrice Chaminade. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, Étienne Chaillou co-designed Bertrand (2003), a face based on work by the Fonderie Bertrand (end of 19th century). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Etienne de la Vaissière | Paris-based designer of a typeface for the Sogdian alphabet. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French designer of Pix Chicago (2006, pixel font). Dafont link. Yet another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French TV graphics personality who uses woodtype samples to set logos. In many cases, he also uses digital characters, but he resizes them and distorts them a bit. See also here and here. Artistic director of Canal+, and designer of the typeface used by Canal+ (in France). Additional URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The theme of EuroTeX 2003 was "Back to typography". This conference, masterfully organized by Yannis Haralambous, was held in Brest, France, from 24-27 June 2003. Pictures of Christian Paput, George Williams, Sivan Toledo, Thomas Milo and Jef Tombeur. Report by Jef Tombeur [navigate to August 29, 2003]. A proceedings will be published in 2005. Its contents:
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Basque font company headed by Thierry Arsaut from Biarritz, France. Sells about 12 Basque faces. Has a history of Basque letters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
With Olivier Nineuil at Bonté Divine, this French designer made P'tit François in 1997. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
F. Du Closel et co. | Typefounder in Paris. Its work can be found in Specimen des caractères anglais, français et autres de la fonderie de mm. F. Du Closel&co (Paris, rue Petrelle, no.7. 1838). This is a rather uninteresting book. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fabien Aubert (aka Fabien Graphiste) is a graphic designer in Aix en Provence and Marseille, France. Dafont link. Creator of the fantastic font Aniikla (2010) and of Natural Writing (2012) and Elegance (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer (b. 1985) of the grunge faces Plane Crash (2012), The Sickmen (2010), The Blood Shack (2010), Dead Kansas (2010), Forever Black (2009) and Survival Horror (2007) and the scanbat fonts Watch The City Burn (2008), Kids From Snow Hill (2009), Northern Territories (2011, grungy caps), DC Comics (2011), and This is my town (2008). Writing You A Letter (2009) is a simple handwriting font. We Spray (2009) and This Is My Town (2010) are dingbat fonts. Dafont link. Aka The Wondermaker. Dividing time between Paris and Montreal. Old URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer who graduated in 2011 with a DSAA from ESDRA in Lyon. Creator of Potemkin (constructivist face), Fractions (experimental), Sex Type (fun), Frogs, Glossy Bitch (connected paint simulation face), Western Spaghetto and Face Cachée. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French graphic designer who is Fabulous Design. Behance link. He used Clarendon as an outline to make a floriated experimental typeface in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Frenchman who started out in Grenoble in paris, but is now based in Montreal. Designer of the octagonal paper fold typeface Danses Libres (2012) and the titling font Nougatine (2012). These fonts are free. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fabienne Benoit | French type designer at the ADT (Atelier de decoupage typographique) who designed La Fabienne and La Fafabienne. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French author of Lettrenrébus, which offers letter puzzles. the lettering was done by Jean-Baptiste Levée. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designed the handwriting font Visible (1997) and the grunge face Garage (1997) at Garcia fonts. Lives and works as a graphic designer in Saint-Germain les Corbeil near Paris. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fabulous Rice Fonts
| Fabrice Ducouret (Fabulous Rice) is a Paris-based film maker and designer Fabrice Ducouret (b. 1981) uses the funny pseudoname Subarashi Sakana. He lives in Chatenay-Malabry. Fabrice created Kwaliteit (2007, dymo label font), Message in a bottle (a simple handprinted face), Scrawling, Smoothie (primitive hand), Diskoboll (2002), Colcothar (2008, African bold sans), April 16 (2008, child's script), Fly Leg (another children's hand), No Futur (2008, grunge), GeoffDarrow (3d handprinted outline face), Fabrice Handwriting, and Anthracite (2003, shaded metal surface simulation). Dafont link. In 2010, he went commercial. His commercial faces include Tar Teen (2010, an art deco all caps family). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
French type designer who designed Brito in 1997at Blaustudio. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French graphic and type designer in Paris. Between 1997 and 2007, she created these fonts (no downloads or sales though): Simplette (sans), Anthrite (experimental), Futurenner, Machine, Insitu, Annabelle (connected upright script), Régule, Singe, Serafine, Chantilly (VAG Round style), Remix 1, Remix 2, Elico (octagonal, mechanical), Fracture, Poule (dot matrix), Texto (experimental, dot matrix). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer (b. 1980, Sainte-Foy-la-Grande) with Jack Usine of Soupirs A through E (2006). These are delicate ornaments modeled after soupiraux, windows at the bottom of buildings to bring air and light to cellars. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Fatnobrain
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Designer in Strasbourg, France. Behance link. Together with Anaîs Lecomte-Boinet, he took aerial pictures of the Roseraie garden behind La Maison romane in Épinal, and then developed a geometric display typeface from it, called RoseTyler (2012). That font was then used to decoarte walls of buildings, both indoors and outdors. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian designer of a green grunge typographic poster entitled 1979 (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Regarding digitizations of his typefaces: Linotype Didot has 12 weights, and was digitized in 1991 by the Linotype crew and Adrian Frutiger. Hoefler type foundry makes a 42-weight Didot HTF, which I believe is superior to the Linotype version. And LetterPerfect has made a Didot LP family. His Initiales Grecques (ca. 1800) was digitized by ARTypes in 2007: see here. Biography by Nicholas Fabian. Linotype link. FontShop link. MyFonts link. Wikipedia. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Toulouse-based designer of the script face Nausicaä (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French graphic designer who studied at Rennes. His typefaces include Creatyon (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French crewator of the handprinted outline font Ice Age (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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French designer, aka Mseek, (b. 1988) of the pirate fonts Caribbean (2006), Caribbean Island (2008) and Caribbean's Treasure (2006), and the headline font Fleet Street (2008; "borrowed" from Larabie?) inspired by the movie Sweeney Todd. Alternate Dafont link. He writes about Caribbean Island, a Times Roman clone: This remarkable typeface first appeared in 1932 in The Times of London newspaper, for which it was designed. It has subsequently become one of the worlds most successful type creations. The original drawings were made under Stanley Morison's direction by Victor Lardent at The Times. It then went through an extensive iterative process involving further work in Monotype's Type Drawing Office. Based on experiments Morison had conducted using Perpetua and Plantin, it has many old style characteristics but was adapted to give excellent legibility coupled with good economy. Widely used in books and magazines, for reports, office documents and also for display and advertising. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Fonderie Bertrand | French foundry from the late 19th century. A revival of a roman face is being attempted by a group of Porchez's students at ENSAD in 2003: see here and here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fonderie Boudin |
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Fonderie de Bertrand Loeulliet
| Fonderie de Bertrand Loeulliet was a Paris-based foundry specializing in foreign languages in the 19th century. Léon de Rosny and Bertrand Loeulliet published Spécimen de caractères japonais Kata-Kana / gravés par Bertrand Loeulliet; sous la direction de Léon de Rosny in 1858. This 4-page folio is available at the Bibliothèque royale de Belgique in Brussels. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fonderie de E. Tarbé | Foundry in Paris. Its work can be found in Fonderie de E. Tarbé : successeur de Molé, rue de Madame, n. 4. Deuxieme cahier (Paris : Imprimé chez Paul Renouard, novembre 1836). This small book has nothing special to offer. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Fonderie Deschamps et Fessin | Typefounder in Paris who specialized in ornaments and vignettes. Its work can be found in Specimen des vignettes et ornements typographiques de la Fonderie Deschamps et Fessin (Paris, 1839) and Vignettes / gravées par Deschamps (Paris, ca. 1839). Both publications offer very little. The owner of the foundry was C. Deschamps. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fonderie du sieur Delacolonge
| French foundry in Lyon, est. 1720 by Alexandre de Lacolonge. The foundry was run by his widow, veuve de Lacolonge, from before 1742 until 1754, and by the widow and her son fro 1754-1766. In 1766, Louis Delacolonge took the reins and ran the foundry until some time after 1789. Their specimen appeared in The Type Specimen of Delacolonge. Les caractères et les vignettes de la fonderie du sieur Delacolonge (Lyon, 1773). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fonderie Française | French foundry. Designers of some beautiful often didone faces, such as the fat face Liliom. They also produced well-known Victorian decorated capitals under the names Romantiques No. 1 through 5. The Egyptian faces are called just that, Egyptiennes (Narrow, Bold, Italic). Henry Chaix made the display roman face Editor in 1937. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fonderie Générale | Paris-based foundry. Their work can be found in Épreuves de caractères. Aphe René&cie, successeurs de Firmin Didot, Molé, Lion, Tarbé, Crosnier, Éverat, Biesta, Pasteur, Laboulaye (Paris, Fonderie générale des caractères français et étrangers, 30, rue Madame, 30. Typographie Adrien Le Clere, 29, rue Cassette. 1858) and in Épreuves de caractères. Ch. Laboulaye&cie (Paris, Fonderie générale des caractères français et étrangers, rue de Madame, 30, Faubourg Saint-Germain. [ca.1852]). The foundry grew out of the fonderie de Lion et Laboulaye frères as this title suggests: Specimen des caractères de la fonderie de Lion et Laboulaye frères, rue Saint-Hyacinthe-Saint-Michel, 33 (aris, Imprimerie de Casimir, 1838). The early "graveurs" in the foundry were Vibert, Jacquemin and Lombardat. Later, artists such as Loeillet, Porthaux and Ramé (creator of nice imitations of "caractères anglais") were added. Several characters in Porchez's Ambroise, such as the "y" and "g", can be found here in the Neuf (or petit romain no. 5) and Onze (ou Cicéro no. 1). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French foundry which was started ca. 1828 by Alexandre de Berny (1809-1881), who had been given the priniting business of H. Balzac by his mother, Mme. de Berny, who was Balzac's first mistress. Balzac had bought the typesetting firm of Jean-François Laurent in 1827, and so, de Berny and Laurent worked together until 1840, when de Berny bought Laurent out in full. During this time, they made an extensive type library, and bought the wood-engraved letterstock of Pierre Durouchail. De Berny changed his business name to Deberny. In 1877, Deberny associated himself with Charles Tuleu, his illegitimate son (with farmer woman). Tuleu inherited the firm in 1881 upon the death of Alexandre, and ran it until 1914. He added many fine typefaces, including a series of ancient Latins, many scripts and neo-elzeviriennes, and a collection of foreign alphabets. In 1914, a childless Tuleu proposed the merger of his business with that of the family of his wife, Jeanne Peignot, the sister of Georges Peignot, who ran Peignot et Cie, a rival typefoundry. Jeanne refused to be associated with her brother and thus prevented any collaboration between the firms. Tuleu teamed up instead with an old school friend, Robert Girard. Ownership of the business passed to Girard in 1921 when Tuleu retired. The firm was renamed Girard et Cie. Talks were started with Peignot about a merger. Deberny&Peignot was incorporated on July 1, 1923. Charles Peignot now controlled Deberny's classic punches and matrices, the Peignot moderns, and two typefounding factories in Paris and Corneuve. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Foundry in Paris, also called La Fonderie Laval et Cie, Paris. Its work can be found in this specimen book (Paris, 1886, 201 pages). I made this scan from a catalog published in 1888. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fonderie Olive
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Fonderie Renault | Paris-based foundry operational in the early part of the 20th century. (Metal) typefaces by them include Denises. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Big Paris-based foundry, with an extensive factory. Their work can be found in Caractères de labeurs de la fonderie A. Turlot (rue de Rennes, 128, Paris [ca.1896?]), Filets (Paris, 128, rue de Rennes, [ca.1898?]), Spécimen des caractères anciens de la fonderie Turlot (Paris, 1885, and PDF file) and Réglure. Fonderie Ch. Derriey, A. Turlot, successeur (rue de Rennes, 142, Paris [1880]). See also "Caractères de labeurs de la fonderie A. Turlot" (1896). In 1880, they had acquired the Fonderie Charles Derriey. The major specimen book, Spécimen général de la fonderie Turlot, Henri Chaix, gendre, et cie successeurs (1910, 508 pages) [see also here] seems to indicate that the foundry was sold to Henri Chaix in 1910. The latter book is comprehensive. The "Néo-Didot" series mentions Fonderie J.-V. Éor, Turlot, successeur. Other niceties: "signes mathématiques", signes divers, the "Javanaises" (oriental simulation fonts, p. 103), the gorgeous vignettes (ex.: hibou, Japonaise, Nénuphar, Galvanos Modernes), and the hilarious "silhouettes reclames". This book has many illustrations of the start of the art nouveau style. Finally, in 1914, they published Spécimen Général (1914, Fonderie Turlot, Henri Chaix et cie, Paris: 454 pages). Scan of the caps face Lettrines Renaissance. Scans from the 1885 specimen book: Elzevir No. 3, Elzevir No. 3, Filets Elzeviriens, Gothiques blanches, Initiales Elzeviriens. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Berlintypes published the contents of the 454-page Spécimen Général, Fonderie Turlot (Henri Chaix et cie, Paris, 1914). By chapter:
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Fontastica
| Fontastica is a foundry that was established in 2006 by illustrator and art director Antony Squizzato, who lives in Vic-le-Comte, France. He is the designer at Periscope Creations of the pixel fonts Zboldiner (2003), Zflegmata (2003) and Zpixknit (2002). Pixel fonts found at Fontastica include the Z_periscope family, the Z-teatime family, Zpix2, Zpix1, Z_knitomatic (2006), Z-bunker (2007) and the Z_bobold family. All fonts are free. Creator of the black metal face FrameRangers (2008). Behance link. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Michel Bujardet (a Frenchman living in West Hollywood, CA) runs Matchfonts, and started Fontmenu.com in August 2001. Commercial fonts, but free demos in all formats. A partial list of fonts: Square Text (old English), Block Letters (orthography for kids), Skryptaag (2001, educational), Boulons (letters made from nuts and bolts), Kindergarten (funny faces), Learning Handwriting (K2), Learning Cursive Handwriting (Grade 2-4), Japanese Hiragana-Katakana (Year 1), Morse code, Dictionary phonetic notation for pronunciation, the calligraphic fonts Chancellerie Moderne (1998, chancery hand), Oncial, Rodolphe, Willegha, the dingbat fonts Dinosotype, Matched Potato, Nahkt hieroglyphs, SilBooettes, Angelots. Sceaux, Seraphiques, Talismans, the monospaced fonts Bordofixed, Dactylographe (1997), Normafixed, Oloron fixed width screen font), the mathy fonts Oloron program, Hexalist and Numberslist, the handwriting fonts Charlotte, Louise, Mariette, Milko, Pierre, Quinze, Raoul, and Thibault, the pixel font 8-PinMatrix, the Bauhaus font BabyFace, the Chinese simulation font Chinoiseries, the LED fonts Diode, Cristolikid and Display, the Greek simulation font Grecques, the display fonts Zébrures (striped letters), Venitiennes, Ruban Dis-Moi, Parador, Osselets, Octogone, Metropolitain (art nouveau), Malabars, Halloween Match, Coulures, Chapou Relief, Candy Kane, Calebasse, Bujardet Freres and Big Bacon, the MICR font MICR E13B, the serif faces Baguad, Chap Clerk, Parlante, Presse, TSF&Co (art deco; +Heavy), and the sans serif faces Bordini, Boum-Boum, Halotique (a sans family), Junien, and Normographe. Alternate URL for his shareware typefaces. MyFonts link for his commercial typefaces. Alternate MyFonts link. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Listing of fonts by foundry. Super-graphic pages that do not let all browsers through, not even the ones it claims to be sufficient. It crashes another computer of mine that has the latest version of Netscape. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Author of Pixaçao: Sãp Paulo Signature (2007, XGPress), and Cholo Writing: Latino Gang Graffiti in Los Angeles (2009, Dokument Press). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French craftsman who is an expert in lead type printing. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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French punchcutter who lived in the first part of the 16th century. In 1539, he became a resident of Antwerp, and from 1558 until his death in 1570, he delivered letter types to Plantin in Antwerp. His creations were used all over Europe and even in Asia. In his day, he was one of the greatest punchcutters. Day Roman (2002, Apostrophe) is described as follows by its designer: Day Roman, is a digitally redrawn version of what has come to be historically known as the "Two Line Double Pica Roman", a typeface designed by 16th century French punchcutter François Guyot, and used in numerous books between 1535 and 1570, most notable of which are J. Steelsius's printing of The Bible (1541) and Frisius (1551), Gillis Coppens van Diest's printing of Erasmus (1544), Georgius (1544), Serlio (1550) and Horatius (1552), and Rotarius's printing of Livius Brechtius (1549). The type was also used extensively by H. Dunham, and later J. Day, in London (the name Day Roman is simply a reference to J. Day having used the type). Original matrices of Guyot's roman type are now in the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp. A 1782 "Sale Catalog&Specimen of the James Foundry" shows a reproduction of that same type under the name "Two-Line Double Pica Macilent". Some specimens from unknown English printers dating back to circa 1650 also show the same typeface, but no proper references were given. The last recorded reference to Guyot's type can be found in "Type Specimen Fascimiles, vol. 1, No. 1-15," by John Dreyfus et al, printed in London circa 1963. See also here. In 2003, Frank Heine published Tribute at Emigre as a creative revival of a 1565 face by Guyot. I received this email from a typographer: Did you see Frank Heine's Tribute font at Emigre? They're claiming that it's a Guyot! What a slaughter! I don't know what he was thinking when he made the A, V and W there... and why use a Century Q in a Garalde?. Bill Troop calls Tribute a Frankenstein of a font: see here or here. He supports Apostrophe's interpretation of the Roman and Frank Blokland's interpretation of the Italic. The lower case letters of the italic of DTL VandenKeere are based on Guyot's Ascendonica Cursief of 1557. Sample of his Ascendonica Romaine (Gros Parangon). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
François Lallemant | French type founder who together with his brother Adolfo creater the print shop Lallemant in Lisbon. There, Libanio da Silva was introduced to typography and printing. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
François Moissette was born in 1972 in France. After training in communication and in graphic design, he worked at Michel Lepetitdidier (AGI), at the Triways Agency, and finally at the Infinirouge agency in Metz, where he is a graphic designer. He also collaborates with the people at Images d'écritures. He designed a character for Building Letters (Fleurons of Hope) and created a pair of flag dingbat faces called The Birth of a Nation (2005), which won an award at the 2005 FUSE competition. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French graphic designer whose studio is called Pour La Gloire. He created a free kitchen tile font with FontStruct in 2009 called Macrobloc. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Older son of the Didot printing business founder, François Didot, 1730-1804, Paris. François-Ambroise Didot inherited the work of his father François. Appointed printer to the clergy in 1788. He published "Artois" (Recueil de romans français, 64 volumes), "Dauphin" (a collection of French classics in 32 volumes, edited by order of Louis XVI), and a bible. More importantly, he invented a new printing-press, improved typefounding, and was the first to print on vellum paper. About 1780 François-Ambroise Didot adapted the point syste for sizing typefaces by width, using units of 1/72 of the pre-metric French inch. His "point", later named the didot after him, became the prevailing unit of type measurement throughout continental Europe and its former colonies, including Latin America. In 1973 it was metrically standardized at 0.375 mm for the European Union. Meanwhile, the English-speaking world adopted a "point" based on 1/72 of the smaller English inch. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
French type designer (b. 1969) who designed Oncia in 1993. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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As a student at ENSAD in Paris, he co-designed Rosart (2002), a font based on lettering by the famous 18-th century Belgian typographer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian type designer (b. 1972) who made the classical (old-style ligature) text font family Arcis and Arsis Sans in 1997. In 2010, he published the retro script Creamy Script at T26. Behance link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Frank Rausch | Creator of Caracteres L1, L2 and L4 (2004), free fonts that cover L1, L2 and L4, the French traffic sign alphabets. Not to be confused with the German type designer Frank Rausch. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French creator in Marseille of a monoline geometric sans face in 2011. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer of the medieval script face 1550 (2005). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Frenchman based in Nice. Dafont link. Creator of Hand of Cre (2012, caps-only and handprinted). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Frenchman (b. 1984) who created the pixel game font Pixel Invaders (2012), Night Train 382 (2012) and Night Train 315 (2012). This font supports many languages, including for example : Romanian, Serbian (Latin and Cyrillic), Croatian, Slovenian, Bosnian (Latin and Cyrillic), Bulgarian, Russian, Belarussian, Macedonian, Turkish. In 2012, he created the grungy poster face Mezzanine. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French Baguette Fonts
| French Baguette Fonts: Tonnerre, Correo Typewriter, Beverly Pills, TallyHand, Loki, Riad, and NoHandscript. Sold for 10 dollars per face. Downloadable test font versions available. Fonts made by Paul Soldermann, aka "frenchie". [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Fridaythethirteenth
| French youngster (b. 1991) who lives in Dourdan. He created the geometric sans face Tacoma (2008). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Dutch/French book seller with hundreds of old type books for sale. Their outlet is at 26, Rue des Béguines, 41100 Vendôme, France. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic and type designer in Paris and Bordeaux. He created a retro family that was inspired by the famous fifties car, the Facel Vega. His octagonal Ktulu face (2010) is also quite interesting. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French graphic designer. About his Prensa and Prensa Serif (2010), he says It is an elegant, twiggy and aerial font that brings weightlessness and respiration to a page. Gabriel lives in Paris, where he graduated in 2009 from the Intuit Lab Design School in Paris. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, he co-designed Bertrand (2003), a face based on work by the Fonderie Bertrand (end of 19th century). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typographical links by Thierry Bouche and Gaby Mrörch. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Cofounder with Alexandre Dimos of de Valence in Saint-Ouen, France. Their typefaces: Dodo Grotesk (2005), Trois-cent quinze (2003), Le Gras (2004), Manuel (2003, stencil), Sweet Sweat (2004), Le Gros (2003), Sansas (2005, futuristic). French designer of Labomatic (1999) at Bulldozer. The font can be ordered from Typotek. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Wiki page on Garamond, a group of old style serif faces that can be traced back to Claude Garamond (1480-1561) and Jean Jannon. Easy to recognize by the small-eyed e, the genuflexing italic h, the small-bowled a and the tall ascenders with downwards sloping serifs, this letter style came to prominence in the 1540s. Garamond was commissioned to create a Greek typeface for the French king François I, to be used in a series of books by Robert Estienne. The French court later adopted Garamond's roman types for their printing. The typeface was widely used in France and Western Europe. Garamond based much of the design of his lowercase on the handwriting of Angelo Vergecio, librarian to François I. The italics of most contemporary versions are based on the italics of Garamond's assistant Robert Grandjon. The only complete set of the original Garamond dies and matrices can be found at the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerpen, Belgium. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Garcia Usine Studio
| Established in 2006, this is a graphic design studio in Bordeaux, run by Fanny Garcia and Jack Usine. In 2006, together they designed Soupirs, a family of ornaments. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Gary Elsinger (Annecy, France) designed the straight-edge techno face Helva (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gasoligne Typofonderie
| (Dead link.) Foundry est. 2008 in Brest, France, by two brothers, one of them being Yves Patinec (Roubaix). Their fonts: Urqinoa (2008, sans), Roundabats (2008), Neborg Sans (2008, organic and techno), Oxea (2008, organic), Abalys (organic sans family), Korsen (techno), Consortium (Roman all caps titling family), Veeko, Veeko Wide (informal and organic), Bellila (mini-serifed) and Luvtoner (sales sign script). Barobats and Practicitymap were in the works. MyFonts link. Very soon after the start, we read this allegation of cloning: Urqinoa is identical to Logotypia Pro (by Ralf Herrmann), and Korsen seems like a clone of Aura (by E-lan Ronen, T26, 1998). About a week after the typophiles discussed the cloning case, Gasoligne disappared from the radar. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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Influential French type activist, b. Le Florez, 1927, d. 1998. Author of Aide au choix de la typo-graphie (Atelier Perousseaux, Reillanne, 1998) and Pour une sémiologie de la typographie (1979). Well-known for leading the Rencontres internationales de Lure for many many years. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Géraud Soulhiol | Student in Toulouse who with costudent Laure Afchain and with type designer Alejandro Lo Celso and professor François Chastanet (École Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Toulouse) codesigned Garonne in 2009 for the identity of the city of Toulouse. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Imaginative French illustrator and graphic designer, whose drawings shown in "L'arbre génialogique" (Editions de l'An 2, 2003) would make a fantastic ornamental typeface. In fact, she made a small dingbat face called Boo Dudes. More images. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
genmkttf | Daniel Taupin from the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, F-91405 Orsay, France, offers open source code for creating PK, GF and TFM files from TTF files. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French designer of these fonts (no downloads): NSBC (stencil), Opening (octagonal), 2/3 (experimental), Didi, Chatsworth Road (comic book face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Octavo.com sells a CD of the original book. You can also view the text on-line. Essay in Spanish on his life. Page at Columbia University. Scans, images: Letter I superimposed on a human face, Lettres Fantastiques (caps made from tools), [continued], Lettres Imperialles et Bullatiques (capitals), [continued], Lettres Tourneures (Lombardian capitals), Construction of an S, Construction of a Z, Construction of an A, his Lettres Latines alphabet, Cadeaulx (blackletter caps), [continued]. There have been rather few attempts at making a typeface based on Tory's drawings from Champ Fleury. Gilles Le Corre (GLC) created 1529 Champ Fleury Initials (2010) for example. The text of that book, which was printed by Gilles de Gourmond in Paris, led Gilles Le Corre to develop the rough typeface 1529 Champ Fleury Pro. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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French type designer and typefounder, b. Paris, 1872, d. Souchez, 1915. His very original typefaces include Grasset, Auriol, Bellery-Desfontaines, Cochin, Garamont Peignot and Naudin. Son of Gustave Peignot (the founder of the Peignot foundry, which Georges took over upon Gustave's death in 1899), and father of Charles Peignot. Georges and his three brothers were killed in WWI. Biography, including the influence of Peignot on the art nouveau movement, by Jean-Luc Froissart, his grandson. Quoting Froissart:En criant a sa section: “En avant !”, le 28 septembre 1915, Georges Peignot a reçu une balle en plein front et s’est effondré pour un mois dans la glaise picarde du no man’s land. Dans ces étendues désolantes balayées par la mitraille et visitées la nuit par les détrousseurs de cadavres, on n’a pu identifier sa dépouille que le 27 octobre. Ses frères André (1914) et Rémy (1915) sont déjà morts. Le dernier, Lucien, devenu le plus intime, mourra en juin 1916. Les quatre frères qu’une profonde amitié unissait ont participé dans leur mort généreuse à la disparition des élites dynamiques de la France. Ils seront remplacés après guerre par les planqués, les couards, les mal venus, les profiteurs, qui se donneront d’autant plus d’importance qu’ils n’auront pas à lutter pour s’imposer faute de concurrence. En 16 ans de gérance, Georges Peignot a transformé une grosse fonderie de blancs en la première Fonderie de caractères de France. Grasset, Auriol, Bellery-Desfontaines, Cochin, Garamond, Naudin, il a créé sans relåche à une époque où les autres copiaient. En voulant toujours une typographie et non un alphabet il a imposé dans la création de caractères la notion d’ensemble typographique permettant les mises en pages harmonieuses (caractères complémentaires et ornements). Avec l’aide précieuse de Francis Thibaudeau il a lancé sur le marché commercial des caractères d’imprimerie un Specimen et des plaquettes d’une qualité artistique inégalée, forçant ainsi le respect pour la beauté de ses caractères. Assurance-maladie, caisse de retraites, congés payés, ce patron de droite aimait ses ouvriers qu’il savait enthousiasmer pour les causes qu’il leur confiait. Louis Barthou, ancien Président du Conseil, écrit en 1916 à propos de Georges Peignot : “apprécier son intelligence active et ouverte, impatiente d’initiatives, la droiture de son caractère ferme et loyal, sa passion frémissante et réfléchie pour le noble métier auquel il avait voué sa vie”. Georges Lecomte, directeur de l’École Estienne, dit en juin 1918 de Georges et Lucien : “Les frères Peignot avaient conquis l’affectueuse estime de tous les industriels du Livre, imprimeurs et éditeurs, des artisans et ouvriers de la profession, des amateurs de belles éditions, des écrivains attentifs à la manière dont on les imprime” Ils étaient venus en 1914 lui présenter les Cochins et il se souvient de : “leur ton de simplicité grave et de satisfaction très modeste, (…) d’une amabilité raffinée mais sans artifice”. Catalog of digital descendants. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer of Améthiste (Fonderie Deberny&Peignot, 1954) and Bolide (Fonderie Deberny&Peignot, 1954). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French poster artist, 1883-1965. A poster for Piera Nova (1923) inspired Raconteur (2007, Nick Curtis). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, he co-designed Recréation (2000). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, he co-designed Recréation (2000). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Strasbourg, France, who created the minimalist geometric typeface Imagin (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gestecole
| Bernard Vivier's educational fonts, 1998-2003: BV-Cursive-Ital-Italic, BV-Api, BV_Baton-Boite, BV_Baton, BV_Baton_Italiques, BV_Rondes, BV_Rondes2, BV_Rondes2-ital, BV_Rondes_Boite, BV_Rondes_Ital, Bv-Arial-Boite. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
GGI Fonts
| GGI stands for Grenoble Graphik It, a French outfit run by Benjamin Boukagne, who is the designer of the dingbat face Tha Boukagne's (2005). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Antibes, France-based creator of Ufo Runes (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, he co-designed Recréation (2000). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Girard et Cie
| Robert Girard (b. 1883) was a school friend of Charles Tuleu, who had inherited Fonderie Laurent&Deberny in 1881. Tuleu teamed up with Girard in 1914 and they cooperated until 1921, when Tuleu retired and the business passed to Girard under the new name Girard Et Cie. Talks were started with Peignot about a merger. Deberny&Peignot was incorporated on July 1, 1923. Girard designed made Astrée (Fonderie Deberny&Peignot, 1921-1923, a recut of a baroque face; Stephenson&Blake's version is called Mazarin, 1926). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
GLC --- Gilles Le Corre
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Damien Gosset runs a small type foundry in Paris. He created Bnko (2005) as a derivative of Excoffon's Banco. In addition, he drew the characters of Courier by hand, and used that to make a typeface called Sweeep. This led to a heated discussion between Jean-Baptiste Levée and Damien Gosset regarding what constitutes a derivative. Gosset argued that in both cases, the "distance" between his creations and the originals was sufficient. Nevertheless, some time after the discussion, Bnko was removed from the site when a famous French type designer contacted Linotype to put pressure on Gosset. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French association for the promotion of the typographic arts. Fighting for the survival of the treasures at the Imprimerie Nationale in France. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Grégoire Pierre, who, like so many fellow frenchmen, has two first names, graduated in graphic design from ENSAD (Ecole normale supérieure des arts décoratifs de Paris). He studied under the direction of J.F. Porchez and R. Meyer. Currently freelancing, he joined CuboFonts in 2009 to distribute his fonts. In 2010, he made Mercurio (futuristic sans display family). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, he co-designed Bertrand (2003), a face based on work by the Fonderie Bertrand (end of 19th century). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian designer of the gorgeous display bitmap font Canevas, Kind of Rounded, Bagel (2002, display bitmap font) and Huge. In 2002, he made the fantastic 9-pixel Western style bitmap font Reno. In 2003, he created the dingbats Typophilicons. Alternate URL. In 2010, he started dabbling at FontStruct, where he published Reno (2010, a pixel Western face) and Bagel (2011, a rounded pixel face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gregory Eresman | French type designer at the ADT (Atelier de decoupage typographique). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French designer (b. 1982) of Bifurk (2006). Dafont link. Aka Gragoury. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Guillaume Benhamou (aka Zmo) was born in Marseille, France, and studies Graphic design and Typography at E.R.G. in Brussels. In 2010, he created a monoline face in which each letter was made with one stroke, called D'un trait. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Annecy, Haute-Savoie, France. He created a geometric typeface in three hours in 2012, and the result is not bad on the eye. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Guillaume H. (aka Le Doude) is from Toulon, France. He created the geometric typeface Mont (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nantes, France-based designer (b. 1991) of Artifact (2012, a thin straight-edged pen-drawn face). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French type designer (1895-1944) who designed for Projet Espana between 1929 and 1943 these fonts: Alcázar, Andalucía, Aragón, Baleares, Canarias, Castilla La Nueva, Castilla la Vieja, Cataluña, Extremadura, Galicia, Gracián, Grán Cursiva, Iberia, Lusitania, Mendocina, Soleares, Vascongadas, Pascal (with his son José). He also designed Touraine in 1943, which was published in 1947 at Fonderie Deberny&Peignot. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gustav Mori | Type designer (1872-1950) who reconstructed Gutenberg-Textura (1928, Stempel). In 1916, he published a book on the Frankfurt-based foundry of Benjamin Krebs, Nachfolger, Die Schriftgiesserei Benjamin Krebs Nachf., Frankfurt a.M. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Frankfurter Schriftgiesser-Gewerbes. Die Hochdeutschen Schriften aus dem 15ten bis zum 19ten Jahrhundert der Schriftgiesserei und Druckerei was published in 1919 at Elsevier. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Founder of the 19th century Parisian typefoundry Peignot. The business was carried on and extended by his second son Georges. He died in 1899. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Association of the French users of TeX. Has a newsletter, and publishes topical books. Run by Jacques André, University of Rennes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French creator of Grobold (2006, comic book face). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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H. Didot, Legrand et cie | Foundry in Paris. Its work can be found in Specimen des caractères de la fonderie Polyamatype de H. Didot, Legrand et cie, rue du Petit-Vaugirard, no 13 (Paris, Imprimerie de E. Duverger, rue de Verneuil, no 4. 1828). Of course, we have mostly modern faces in this book! [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Belgian printer who printed proofs for Théodore Simon Gando in 1828 in Brussels. Gando was French but operated out of Brussels in that year (rue Notre-Dame-aux-Neiges). Remy was located in the rue des Paroissiens in Brussels. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian designer. Behance link. Creator of various typefaces such as Neeo (2012, avant-garde), Recompose (2012), TypEra (2012), and an unnamed alchemic typeface (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hakim Ghazali | Moroccan/French type designer who created the calligraphic Arabic typeface Hakim Ghazali, which won the first prize for calligraphic Arabic type at Linotype's 1st Arabic Type Design Competition in April 2006. That typeface can be bought from Linotype. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typographer (b. 1938, Switzerland, based in Paris) who studied typesetting in Zürich from 1954-1958. Later he studied with Emil Ruder and Armin Hofmann in Basel (1965-1967). From 1967-1971, he was a type designer with Mergenthaler Linotype in Brooklyn, NY, where he worked with Matthew Carter. From 1971-1975, he worked with Frutiger in Paris, and became a freelance designer in 1976. From 1990-2006, he led some labs at the Atelier de Recherche Typographique, NRT, in Nancy. From 1998-2002, he had his own design bureau together with Ursula Held: Atelier H. He has also taught at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst in Zürich. He codesigned CGP (used in Centre Georges Pompidou; 1974-94, with Jean Widmer, and Adrian Frutiger), Centre Pompidou Pictograms (1974, for the same project in Paris), Cyrillic (in 1970 with Adrian Frutiger for IBM Composer), Frutiger (in 1976 with Adrian Frutiger at Stempel), Gando Ronde (a formal script, with Matthew Carter in 1970; Linotype; called French 111 at Bitstream), Helvetica (with Matthew Carter in 1970; Linotype), Iera Arabic and Iera Roqa Arabic (1983, Institut d'étude et de recherches pour l'arabisation; Honeywell Bull), Metro (in 1970 with Adrian Frutiger; used in the RATP), Univers and Univers Cyrillic (in 1970 with Adrian Frutiger; Linotype), and the Siemens custom type family (in 2001, a cooperation with URW). Siemens, the project he is best known for, won an award at the TDC2 Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2002. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Quoting MyFonts on Harry Kessler, b. 1968, Paris, d. 1937, Lyon. Wealthy Paris-born, English-educated son of a German-Swiss father and an Irish mother, a diplomat and patron of the arts, Count Harry Kessler established his private press, the Cranach Presse, in Weimar in 1913. In 1904 he came to London to seek the advice of Emery Walker on the design of books for Insel Verlag, the innovative Leipzig publishing house. While there he was introduced to Eric Gill and Edward Johnston, both of whom he commissioned to draw title pages for Insel Verlag. Kessler later asked Walker to produce a type for the Cranach Presse. Just as Walker had done with types whose design he had supervised for other major private presses --Kelmscott, Doves and Ashendene--- he chose Edward Prince to cut the punches. Unfortunately for all concerned, and despite help from Johnston, Prince had serious problems cutting the italic, seemingly unable to interpret the designs of Tagliente. The punches were finished only after Prince's death and barely used. Kessler's interests in fine printing were interrupted by World War I and his posting to Poland as ambassador. He left Germany for France in 1933, with the rise of the Nazis. Cranach published classic works by Shakespeare, Virgil, and Petronius, and such contemporary authors as Rilke, van de Velde and Hauptmann. Kessler's life story provides us with a valuable insight into the Weimar period of German history. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer of the bold squarish face Conviction (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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French designer of Cheap Font (2006, artsy). Updated version of this font. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hechicero is the French designer of the tattoo face Ivalician Gothic (2011), which imitates the font used in the video game Final Fantasy XII (a game by Square-Enix). Similar gibberish language faces include Crystal Bearers Script (2011), Pulsian (2011, from the video game Final Fantasy XIII), Clavat Script (2011, from Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles), Grace of Etro (2011, from Final Fantasy XIII) and Cocoonian (2011, from Final Fantasy XIII). Final Fantasy Symbols (2011, from Final Fantasy) is a dingbat face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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HelloHikimori Type Foundry | Located in Paris, this design studio created the modular face Lace (2009, HypeForType). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Designer in Bethoncourt and Montbéliard, France, who created the free art deco sans face Magna (2012), as well as a free and purely geometric typeface, ORI (2011), specifically for use in the design of logos.. Behance link. Aka Moinzek. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Hendrik D.L. Vervliet | Prolific Belgian type expert who was librarian at the University of Antwerp and professor at the University of Amsterdam. His work includes bibliography and books on humanism and book history. Author of
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Designer at the FT Française of Editor (1937), a display roman with short ascenders and descenders. Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Paris in 1765, he died there in 1862. He was the son of Pierre-François Didot (1731-1793), who in turn was the youngest son of the Didot printing business founder, François Didot. Henri is remembered for his microscopic types. For producing type he invented the Polymatype, which consisted of a long bar of matrices into which hot metal was poured. Over a hundred letters could be founded at once. Henri Didot engraved the assignats---the paper money used during the French Revolution. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Henri Estienne | Of the famous Estienne family in Paris. Check his type sample from 1509. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Born in Lyon in 1904, he died in Israel in 1996, after having spent most of his life as nead of the Hadassah College in Jerusalem. He designed Hadassah Hebräisch (1958). Winner of the Gutenberg Prize in 1971. Discussion of the Haddasha type by William C. Fontaine. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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French designer (b. 1980) who lives in Cannes. Creator of Vincente (a sans designed for Caplo Saint Vincent Clinic in Besançon, France), Diamond (2004, with Lars Harmsen and Boris Kahl, for Volcano Type), Xylopohone (experimental), Magny Cours [or Magnicourt, 2005), Typonautique (2008, with Ninja Himbert, for a watersports domain), Abrupte and Rollmops (experimental). Klingspor link. Link to Studio Roussier in Cannes. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
French creator (b. 1975) of Asylum (2011, grunge). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
High Bold (Paris) married Neo Sans Ultra and Baskerville Italic in its Caractère Hybride (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French books on the history of typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer of the handwriting fonts Sfontaneus (2006) and Sfontaneus Large (2006). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer (b. 1979) who has a very original web site. He created the free handwriting faces Sedna (2010), àKa (2007) and hubbubhum-font (2005), a scratchy script. I like he sense of humour in his "cv": HUBBUB = brouhaha, rumeur, tohu-bohu, tumulte, HUM = bruire, chantonner, fredonner, bourdonnement, grognement, grondement, ronflement, ronronnement, rumeur, vrombissement, saperlipopette. Based in Caen, he can also be found at La Sauce aux Arts and DaFont. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer of Gohufont: Gohufont is a monospace bitmap font well suited for programming and terminal use. It is intended to be very legible and offers very discernable glyphs for all characters, including signs and symbols. Free, in BDF and PCF formats. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Humanabase
| French designer who lives in Besançon. Home page. Creator of the sans face Yorkville (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Iara Principe (aka illustrissima) is a French-Brazilian-Italian freelance illustrator and graphic designer who resides in Paris. She drew a fat roundish face, ABC (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator and designer from Niort, France. Behance link. Another Behance link. Creator of the experimental faces Pen (2011) and Conceptualisation (2008), and of David's Font (2011). Zfont (2011) is an experimental excess done in a moment of mental weakness. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2011, he published Francobelge (comic book face), Freepress (grunge), Gamix (Western titling face), Inmyroom (dingbats), Majestrick (calligraphic), Onomatopaf (comic book dings), Outerzone, OuterzoneB, Starz (dingbats), Stenstreet (grunge), Tram, Tramix (texture face), TrashToys02, War-Lettersn, Mixagex, Massive Dynamite (grunge), Not Well (grunge), Actu, Blck, Gling (texture face), HeRioz (silhouettes), Brightoon (cartoonish brush face), Muzo (ink spill face), Sharpy, Space Shop (dingbats), Pulp Dance (handprinted), Essef (2011, art deco), Retro Sign (2011, grunge), Labo (2011, grunge), Exhausted (2011), Komikoz (2011), Puzzled (2011), Strokewith (2010), Strokeless (2010), Toonimals (2011 dings), Penstriped (2011, sketch face), Cashier (2011, grungy)), Dan Hand (2011), Hardwell (2011, grungy caps), Colleged (2011, athletic lettering), Goodjean (2011, jeans texture face), Seaside Things (2011, dingbats), Real Tek (2011, techno), Zou (2011, 3d handprinted caps), Painter, Border Line (grunge), Handout (grunge), Tract (grunge), Pulpatone (grunge), Logos I Love, Pal Antic (chancery hand), Twent (fat rounded display face), DoodFlow (dingbats), Afro Add (texture face), Crump (grunge), Big White, Dark Room (grunge), Manifesto (grunge), Tacketil (a FontStruct font), Otto Land (sketch face), Over (outline face), Under (brush dings), Baskertown (grunge), Nursery Tale, Panic (texture face), BlackNDot (ink spill face), Beyond (striped display face), Advert, Car Crash (grunge), Heartz, Starsteel, Smart Faces, Blackflag (a brushed blackletter), Dock 51 (grungy stencil), Lead (3d face). In Novemner 2011, he created a number of texture faces: Hotöcop, Pal Mod, Speedy (sketch face), Thirties Gold, Sunset GP. Further 2011 faces: Poptivi, Shadow Mole, Super Modern Black. Faces from 2012: Remanence, Winter Days (dingbats), Nowharehouse (grunge), Snuff (grunge), Cup of Tea (3d shadow face), Talk of the wall. Typefaces from 2012: Egirlz (dingbats), Art Post (white on black poster lettering), Volutes (copperplate calligraphic script), From me 2 you (curly script), PS I Love You, Kolossal (caps only), Kraash, Alexandre (3d engraved headline face), Monstres de poche (dingbats), Alternate (grunge), Warning, Dreams (brush face), Headline Crack, Bump Pad (textured typeface), Carton (grungy white-on-black stencil face), Maybe maybe Not, Frames n Riboons (sic), Blackboard (sketched face), Logotronik (a 3d techno face), Big Bad Dogs (dingbats), Libre Expression (engraved copperplate typeface), Mecagothix (textured blackletter face), Destroy. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Imprimerie de A. Fain | Foundry in Paris. Its work can be found in Épreuves de caractères de la Fonderie et de l'Imprimerie de A. Fain (Paris, 1832) and in Specimen des caractères de la fonderie Polyamatype de H. Didot, Legrand et cie, rue du Petit-Vaugirard, no 13 (1828). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Imprimerie du Commerce Evariste Mangin |
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French printer, est. Paris, 1618, and in Le Mans in 1751. In 1889, they published Spécimen des caractères de l'imprimerie Edmond Monnoyer (Le Mans) [Other link]. Picture of Edmond Monnoyer. Samples: Anglaise, Cover page, Elzevir, latines lithographiqes, Ronde and écossaise, Ronde and gothique. Antoine Monnoyer was master printer in Paris in 1618, and ran the print shop until 1634, when (his son?) Pierre Monnoyer took over. There is a historical hole after that, until Jean Baptiste Monnoyer (b. 1688, d. 1777, Joinville), who was a printer for the duke of Orleans in Joinville. Charles Monnoyer (b. 1720, joinville, d. 1793, Le Mans) became the printer of the king and the bishop of Le Mans, where he established himself in 1751. He headed the business until 1789. Charles II Monnoyer (b. 1758, Le Mans, d. 1811) was in charge from 1789-1811. Charles III Nicolas Monnoyer (b. 1793, Le Mans, d. 1860) headed the firm from 1811-1860, and was followed from 1860-1889 by Charles IV Edmond Monnoyer (b. 1829, Le Mans, d. 1899). Finally, from 1889-1932, the firm was in the hands of Charles V Antoine Monnoyer (b. 1868, Le Mans) and Paul Charles VI Frederic Monnoyer (b. 1903, Le Mans). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Imprimerie H. Balzac
| Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850), a famous author, got involved in printing in 1826 when he André Barbier (b. 1793), a typesetter, set up a printing and publishing business on the Rue de Marais-Saint-Germain in Paris. At one time, thirty workers were employed at Imprimerie H. Balzac which was funded with 70,000 Francs in borrowed money from Balzac's mother, as well as from his mistress, Laure De Berny. Link. The priniting business thrived. In 1827, he bought Laurent's typesetting firm in order to extend his immediate control over all aspects of the printing business. In 1827, he published a specimen book with many Egyptian letter types. Another publication was Specimen des divers caracteres vignettes et ornemens typographiques de la Fonderie de Laurent et De Berny (now republished with a foreword by J. Dreyfus). Earlier that year, he had also bought the famous foundry of Joseph-Gaspard Gillé. See also here. Balzac spent most of his income to access the social circles of his mistress, Duchess d'Abrantès. Barbier left the business in 1828. The Imprimerie went bankrupt that same year. Luckily, Balzac's first mistress, Louise-Antoinette-Laure De Berny (1777-1836), forgave her loan and took over the print shop. As the wife of a high-ranking official in the French royal court and god-child of Queen Marie-Antoinette, Laure De Berny had sufficient financial resources. She entrusted the business to her 19 year-old son, Alexandre De Berny (1809-1881). Balzac left the type and printing business. Laurent&Deberny was born. References include Balzac: A Life (Graham Robb, 1994: New York: W. W. Norton& Company), and an article in Caractère in 1975 entitled Deberny et Peignot: La Belle Époque de la Typographie. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Imprimerie L. Danel was founded in 1698, as a successor of Imprimerie Fache, which existed in Lille since the early 1600s. It has remained a family business, and occupies two factories, one in Lille, and one in Loos. It appears that some original type was made by L. Danel over the years, although it cannot be said that such was the focus of the business. The Livret Typographique L. Danel (Lille, 1935) describes some of its history and typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Ink Magazine
| Design magazine. Graphical concept by Patrick Lallemand and Pierre Delmas Bouly. They designed the random modular font Minimal Bloc (2007, Superscript): here modularly decomposed letters can switch between various geometric forms. This was followed in 2008 by Basics, another modular design. Superscript is located in Lyon. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
List of books on typography and calligraphy, covering 1450-1830. In French. The institute is part of the Musée de l'imprimerie de Lyon. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Studio in Paris, Zürich and Berlin. In 2008, they were commissioned to make a special identity typeface for Les Beaux-Arts de Paris. Clearly a near-copy of Verdana, the French typophiles recat with astonishment and surprise. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
International J. Fonts
| Julien Marie (International J. Fonts) is the French designer of the grunge font IJF0400-Crunched (2002) and the handwriting fonts IJF0100 through IJF03000. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Started in 2006, and edited by Yannis Haralambous (ENST Bretagne, Brest, France), John Plaice (University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) and Apostolos Syropoulos. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Study typography in the Computer Science unit of the University of Rennes (France) under the supervision of Jacques Andre. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Visual Communication student at ECV Paris, and graphic illustrator. Creartor of the geometric experimental typeface Moon (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, she co-designed Métis (1998). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Paris-based designer. He created the experimental faces We Are Enfants Terribles (2012, angular, angry and modular) and Gareth Pugh (2011). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Pau, France. He made Grafeo (2011, experimental) and Caseo (2011, also experimental). Behance link. Other creations include Rodeo (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
JAB'M Foundry
| Marco Miniussi (b. 1955, Nancy, France) is a sculptor who lives in Paris. His JAB'M Foundry produces logos, designs and fonts. The latter include the art nouveau Metro New One and Two (2008), which were inspired by Hector Guimard's design for the Paris subway, but extended to lower case. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
French art director. Home page Designer in 2000 of UniCase, and in 2008 of Blackfountain (a free modular face, FontStruct) and Azertype (a rounded squarish FontStruct font). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the dotted-endings font Soiree (2008, T-26), which was inspired by the neo-classical façades of modern Paris. MyFonts link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
French type professor (b. 1938) who designed some experimental fonts such as Delorme (1989). Jacques André has been working in the field of structured documents and digital typography since 1980. He was the leader of the European Didot Project concerned with the digitization of types. He is Research Director at INRIA (the French National Institute on Computer Science) in Rennes, and his work covers the digitization of ancient books and the encoding of their fonts and glyphes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer of Theresa (Éditions du Cerf, 1980). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Basque lettering artist in Biarritz, France. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French publishing house. Enjoy the pictures of old book covers. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jakob or Jacques Sabon (b. Lyon, 1535, d. Frankfurt am Main, ca. 1580-1590) was a typefounder who worked at the Egenolff Foundry in Frankfurt in 1555, and briefly at the Plantin Foundry in Antwerp in 1563. Jan Tschichold named his garalde typeface after him in 1964. Linotype writes about Tschichold's Sabon: In the early 1960s, the German masterprinters' association requested that a new typeface be designed and produced in identical form on both Linotype and Monotype machines so that text and technical composition would match. Walter Cunz at Stempel responded by commissioning Jan Tschichold to design the most faithful version of Claude Garamond's serene and classical roman yet to be cut. The boldface and particularly the italic are limited by the twin requirements of Linotype and Monotype hot metal machines. Bitstream's Cursive is a return to the form of one of Garamond's late italics, recently identified. Punches and matrices for the romans survive at the Plantin-Moretus Museum. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Typefounder in Paris from 1755-1806. Specimen book cover from 1776. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jan Brito | Jan Brito was born around 1415 in Pipriac (Brittany) and moved at a young age to Bruges, the Venice of the North and cultural capital of Europe at the time. There he lived his life and printed in French and Flemish. His publications included the poems of Jacob Van Maerlant. In the 19th century, M. Gilliodts published a thesis that would put Brito's first mobile metal characters around 1445, about ten years ahead of Gutenberg, but that thesis was refuted later on, and the date was changed to 1464. The first printer is probably Johannes Genfleisch (aka Gutenberg) in Mainz, but the Dutch claim it is Laurent Coster from Haarlem. Work by Brito can be found in Kortrijk, Brugge, Edinburgh and the national library of France. Brito died in Bruges in 1484. There is a Musée Jan Brito in Pipriac. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Jan Sonntag's fonts include the Hildegard family of sans faces (2003, Linotype), which won an award at the Linotype International Type Design Contest 2003 and S Beauty (pixel face). He also designed S Anticar (pixel family), S LegoBits, S Montag (based on an old wooden printing type from the collection of Alex Barbaix), S Sterre, S AnnaBeta (designed under the supervision of Gerard Unger while studying at Gerrit Rietveld), and S Takraf. Free fonts include S Spijner, S Guns, S Selfism (dotted line face), S Pincode. Jan Sonntag operates a Dutch web site, and claims, tongue in cheek, to live in Cadillac, France. His address, intriguingly, is Château Haut-Laroque, 33410 Laroque, France. Free fonts of his, designed from 2001-2004, include BomberNumbers, Selfism-Bold, Selfism, Spijner-Extreme, Spijner-Powerplay, Spijner, Takraf-3d, Takraf-Block, Takraf-Linie, Takraf-VEB (based on the old logotype from the VEB Schwermaschienenbaukombinat Takraf). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Jaune Wolf
| Jaune Wolf is Jonathan Mignot (b. 1987), a Paris-based illustrator and designer. In 2010, he created some expewrimental typefaces, including a part geometrical / part script face Marie Stuart, named after the queen of Scotland. He also has a nice book of drawings of alphabets. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
JB Foundry
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Commercial faces: JB Davayé (2010, connected upright script), Belladone (2010, a graceful display family), Maceriam (2010, +Nova, +Putri, +Lapide: letters cemented into walls---a great idea), Old French School Bold (2011, upright connected script), Filature (2011, a monoline connected upright script), Suilly La Tour (2012), Typha Latifolia (2012). Fontsy link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
JC Fonts
| JC Fonts is the foundry, est. 2009, of Joël Carrouché (b. 1984). Joël Carrouché lives and works in Kaysersberg in France's Alsace region. He created the minimal sans serif family Estate (2009, T-26). In 2011, he created the fattish comic book style face Bango and the monoline geometric sans family Ando. Klingspor link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Frenchman Jérémie Hornus studied typography at the University of Reading, and graduated in 2006. He works now at Dalton Maag, where he designed Tornac, a connected script face. Creator of Kefa (2006), a Latin/Ethiopic family with slab serif origins and a futuristic twist. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer who made BlueMono and Octogone in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer at Frank Adebiaye's Velvetyne Type Foundry in France, which is committed to the Open Source movement---all fonts are free. He created Rupture (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Toulouse, France-based designer (b. 1984) of the dingbat fonts Bubbles (2006) and Aaronfaces (2006). Dafont link. Another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer of the graffiti faces El&Font Block (2006), El&Font Brush (2006), El&Font (2006), El&Font Destroyl (2011), El&Font Tag (2006), El&Font Gohtic (2006), El&Font Urban Calligraphy (2010, graffiti face), and El&Font Bubble (2006). Fontsy link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, he co-designed Jannet (2001), a face based on Jannet's garalde revivals, ca. 1860. He is an independent designer since 1996, who is an active participant in Le Typographe. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic and web designer in Paris, b. 1983. He made the art deco blackened out geometric face Caligari (2008), the mirror face Rivulet (2011) and the martini glass-inspired art deco beauty called Sophia (2008). Home page with incorrect HTML code. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French punchcutter who was the successor of Philippe Grandjean, the developer of the Romin du roi in 1702. The complete set of 21 sizes of roman and italic letters was finished by Grandjean's successor Jean Alexandre and completed by Louis Luce in 1745. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Influential French master penman, 1538-1620. Jean de Beauchesne and John Baildon published the first writing manual in England: A Booke containing divers sortes of hands, as well the English as French secrataries with th italian, roman, chancelry&court hands (1570-1571, London: Thomas Vautrollier). In 1580, he published Le Tresor d'escriture, auquel est contenu tout ce qui est requis&necessaire à tous amateurs dudict art. His third book was La Clef de l'escriture laquelle ouvre le chemin à la jeunesse, pour bien apprendre à excrire la vraye lettre françoyse&italique (1595, London: G. Boulengier). He also published Specimens manuscrits anglais dédiés à Mme Elizabeth fille unique du roi de Grande Bretaigne (1610, England). Sample of his batarde angloise (1570). Digital typefaces based on his examples include Piacevole (2008, Marc H. Smith). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French typefounder and printer whose version of Civilité was used in "Galathée (1598). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jean de Villeneuve | French type founder who worked in Portugal from 1732 on. He was commissioned to create typefaces for the Academia Real de História. His work was of the greatest quality. That type family was recreated in 2001 by David Laranjeira for his 2001 diploma thesis at Ecole Estienne in Paris---it is called Villeneuve. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French type designer and punchcutter, 1580-1658, who has some typefaces named after him. Frantisek Storm writes this: "The engraver Jean Jannon ranks among the significant representatives of French typography of the first half of the 17th century. He was born in 1580, apparently in Switzerland. He trained as punch-cutter in Paris. From 1610 he worked in the printing office of the Calvinist Academy in Sedan, where he was awarded the title "Imprimeur de son Excellence et de l'Academie Sédanoise". He began working on his own alphabet in 1615, so that he would not have to order type for his printing office from Paris, Holland and Germany, which at that time was rather difficult. The other reason was that not only the existing type faces, but also the respective punches were rapidly wearing out. Their restoration was extremely painstaking, not to mention the fact that the result would have been just a poor shadow of the original elegance. Thus a new type face came into existence, standing on a traditional basis, but with a life-giving sparkle from its creator. In 1621 Jannon published a Roman type face and italics, derived from the shapes of Garamond's type faces. As late as the start of the 20th century Jannon's type face was mistakenly called Garamond, because it looked like that type face at first sight. Jannon's Early Baroque Roman type face, however, differs from Garamond in contrast and in having grander forms. Jannon's italics rank among the most successful italics of all time ? They are brilliantly cut and elegant." Many of today's Garamond style typefaces are in fact due to Jannon. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jean Joseph Marcel | At one point director of the "imprimerie de la république". Author of "Alphabet irlandais, précédé d'une notice historique, littéraire, et typographique" (Paris, Imprimerie de la République, nivôse an XII [1804]). This book explains the Irish alphabet, but has little in terms of typographic information. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Author of La lettre dans la peinture et la publicité (1957, Editions Charles Massin, Paris: see also here and here). His Futura Stencil-like Le Pochoir (plate 40) was digitally remade by Toto as Le Pochoir (2011), and also by Jan Gerner as Pochoir (2006). Author also of La lettre dans le décor. An art deco face from that book was digitally revived by Toto and Dick Pape in 2011 under the name La lettre dans le décor. Free download here. The alphabets of La lettre dans la peinture et la publicité (1957) include many styles, from art deco to blackletter, Victorian and retro. Joveneaux gave them names, so I will list them in alphabetical order: 1erEmpire, AnDeGrace1320, Antiquites, Aquarium, ArtsGraphiques, BalDeNuit, Bar, BeauxArts, Cafe, CompositionDecorative, Constellation, CoursDeStenotypie, DerniereHeure, EclairageFluorescent, Editorial, ElectroStatique, EnExclusivite, Exposition, Illustration, InitiationSportive, JeuDeDominos, LaGrandeParade, LePochoir, LettresOrnees, Massif, Meubles, ModeDEte1950, Motos, Nouvelle, Ordonnance, OrpheeAuxEnfers, PrestigeDeLaSoie, Promotion52, RealisationsGraphiques, RobesDEte, SalonMai1953, Samedi23Mai1953, TissusTousColoris, TouteUneGammeDeLaines, ZoneInterdite. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French type designer (b. 1947) whose fonts include Abécédaire à Renayures (1991, for Collector magazine), Beauté (1966, for Magazine Votre Beauté), Castillejo-Bauhaus (1980, Rapitype Madrid), Catich (1998), Digitale (1974, Hollenstein Phototypo), Gautier (1992, Agence J.-P. Gautier&Associés), Guapo (1973-75, Hollenstein Phototypo), Hollywood Script (1989), Honolulu (1974, Hollenstein Phototypo), Incise Volume (1981, for Cergy Magazine), Jamaica Experience (1978, for Rock Hebdo Magazine), Lancöme (1981, Rapitype, for Lancöme), Larcher (1974, Hollenstein Phototypo), Latina (1987, Mécanorma), Liberté Égalité Fraternité (1985, for the Ministère de l'Éducation Nationale), Logement (1980, Rapitype, for Cergy Magazine), Menhir (1973-75, Hollenstein Phototypo), New Crayon (1980, Rapitype, for Cergy Magazine), Optical (1974, Hollenstein Phototypo), Plouf (1970-74, Hollenstein Phototypo), Rasgueo (1979, for U&lc Magazine), Revival (1979, for 20 ans Magazine), Soleil (1973-75, Hollenstein Phototypo), Super Crayon (1976, Titrage CCT), Tornade (1974, Hollenstein Phototypo), Veloz (1987, Mécanorma), Vibrator (1976, Titrage CCT). 3D Alphabet (by Character) is inspired by an alphabet coloring book designed by Jean Larcher, 1978. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bio at Agfa/Monotype. FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Annemasse, France-based creator of the Music Typography typeface (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer at Strasbourg in 1834 of Diabolique, initials depicting the devil and other monsters. Jessica Slater digitized it in 2001 and writes: This alphabet was designed by Jean Midolle and published in Strasbourg in 1834. During the previous 50 years the French had seen violent revolution (1789-1799), and the Napoleonic wars (1803-15), followed by the restauration of a monarchy that was increasingly reactionary, intent on augmenting the influence of the wealthy classes, and curbing civil liberties (Louis XVIII 1814-24; Charles X 1824-30). The July Revolution of 1830 restored what promised to be a more moderate monarchy under Louis Philippe. But this new government was not to respond to the economic needs and political desires of the lower classes, and further discontent became inevitable. Within this context, the often tasteless images of this "Alphabet diabolique" may be better understood as portraying through satire the harsh realities that the French people had faced within a single lifetime. He also created Midoline (ca. 1840) at Julius Klinkhardt in Leipzig (revival by Gerhard Helzel). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Tarbes, France, who made Gothic Light (2012) based on a wood type specimen from Hamilton, ca. 1857, called Gothic Light No. 21. Dribble link. He specializes in custom retro type and graphic design. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Bordeaux-based designer. Behance link. Creator of the experimental geometric face No Name Typography (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jean Widmer | French type designer (b. 1929) who designed Bi-89 1989 (1989, Ministère de la Culture - ANCT) and CGP (1974, with Hans-Jörg Hunziker and Adrian Frutiger for Centre Georges Pompidou). Rather, he was the man who managed the visual identity part of the Centre. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Type designer, graphic designer and illustrator, born in Marseille in 1942. ALlessandrini (sometimes spelled Alessandrini in various publications) used to work at Paris Match, Lui and Elle. His typefaces: Akénaton 1969 (Hollenstein Phototypo) (1975, VGC??), Alias 1977 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Allessandrini 7 1972 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Anarchiste (Mécanorma), Andronique 1984 (Mécanorma), Astronef 1976 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Circus World, (Mécanorma), Cléopatre 1984 (Mécanorma), Combinat 1976 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Éclipso 1982 (Mécanorma), Electric-Type 1977 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Futuriste 1977 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Germain 1969 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Grand Dadais 1977 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Grand Large 1977 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Graphic Man 1973 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Grossium 1977 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Gyptis 1977 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Hypnos 1969 (Hollenstein Phototypo: a psychedlic face), Legitur, Mikado 1977 (Mécanorma), Mirago 1970 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Priam 1976 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Showbiz 1969 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Sigle (Mécanorma), Technos 1984 (Mécanorma), Trombinoscope 1964, Vampire 1969 (Hollenstein Phototypo), Wotan, (Mécanorma). Author of Typomanie / Jean Alessandrini; préface de Massin (Paris: La Noria, DL, 1977). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Jean-Benoist Prouveur | French designer of the skull dingbats font TotenKopf (2005). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Jean-Jacques Morello is a French digital craftsman. He has been working in the print and web industry in France and Burkina Faso since 1994 as a graphic designer. Creator of Easy Speech (2012, a free handprinted typeface) and Grumph (2012, a retro typeface). Home page. In 2012, he set up his own commercial foundry in Pierrevert. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Independent part-time type designer, ex-type teacher at the International Design Academy in Montreal, and presently working at an ad agency in France. Type glossary in French. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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French type designer at the ADT (Atelier de decoupage typographique) who designed fonts like Le JeanPhi, La Stephanie Blue Eyes (1998), La Tania (1998), Les Outils (1998, dingbats), La Edith (1998, after Edith Piaf). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Typographic afficionado who contributes links to the St. Bride Printing Library in London. This page has links to the main type sites on the web. I can't resist this wonderful short autobiography of Jef, and I do not want to translate it, because it would lose its punch: "Jef Tombeur, ex-vagabond professionnel&auto-stoppeur en Europe, au Moyen-Orient et en Amérique du Nord depuis l'âge de 15 ans, s'est rapidement tourné vers le journalisme par désoeuvrement. Vendre à la criée The International Times et The Black Dwarf à Londres, puis Le Monde à Strasbourg, l'y incita. Laissant tomber facs et école de journalisme, il contribua à rédiger, composer, gérer l'hebdomadaire franco-alsacien Uss'm Follik (Issu du Peuple), ce que facilitèrent ses origines bretonnes. Repéré ensuite à Belfort, Niort, Reims, devenant progressivement grand reporter et de moins en moins pigiste pour Libération et d'autres. Chef de desk à l'Agence Centrale de Presse, il en diffusa la dernière dépêche puis retourna à la rue et aux facultés. Ayant traduit divers auteurs anglophones au passage, tel Tom Coraghessan Boyle (cf. www.tcboyle.net), il s'est de nouveau passionné pour la typographie, en devenant le seul journaliste spécialisé français (notamment pour Création Numérique ou Pixelcreation.fr). Envisage de devenir chômeur en fins de droits et propagandiste plénipotentiaire pour Phil Martin en Afrique avant d'avoir atteint, prochainement, si possible, 55 ans. Localisé fréquemment chez Ali (bar La Gitane, près de Strasbourg-Saint-Denis, Paris) ces temps derniers." Author in 2004 of "Femmes&métiers du Livre, Women in the Printing Trades", which appeared with Talus in Belgium. It describes women typographers and printers throughout history. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, she co-designed Métis (1998). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Multimedia student at the University of Strasbourg. Creator of the geometric all caps face Ultra Violet (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian art director. Designer of the geometric face Type01 (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Joel Brogniart from the University of Lyon created the connected school handwriting font Cursiv JB based on Cursif by Christophe Beaumale. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Joel Christophe | French type designer at the ADT (Atelier de decoupage typographique) who designed fonts like Le Joel. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Freelance designer in Marseille, France. He created the angular face Guillemet (2011, Gestalten). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, she co-designed Poinçons (1999), a face based on a design of Fournier. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Johannes Bergerhausen | Johannes Bergerhausen (b. 1965, Bonn, Germany), studied Visual Communication at the University of Applied Sciences in Düsseldorf. From 1993 to 2000, he lived and worked in Paris. First he collaborated with the Founders of Grapus, Gérard Paris-Clavel and Pierre Bernard, then he founded his own office. He returned to Germany in 2000, where he is Professor of Typography at the University of Applied Sciences in Mainz (since 2002). In 2003, together with Paris-Clavel, he published the font "LeBuro" at ACME Fonts, London. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about Decoding Unicode. He describes his Unicode character collection project at Typotechnica 2005. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Jonathan Giuntini (Montplellier, France) is a freelance graphic designer. He created the slabby modular headline face L'Estoquefiche (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jorgensen Fonts
| Foundry in Copenhagen which sells the fonts made by Per Baasch Jørgensen: Escale (2010, humanist sans), Applejack (2008), Drakkar (2010, runic simulation face), FF Falafel (2002, simulation of Arabic), FF Bagel (2002 simulation of Hebrew), FF Holmen (2007, 19 styles in this didone family), Escale (sans). Other fonts by him include Versus (1994, his graduating project at EMSAT, Paris, a very fresh sans face). MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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Lisbon-based creator of the techno face Maria Alberta in 2011. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French creator of the wonderful decorative caps called Alphabet Pornographique, circa 1880. As an example, the letter C is a nun performing a certain oral service on a hooded monk who is holding a whip. The full set of naughty caps can be seen here. The caps were digitized in 2007 by bobistheowl. For the sake of completeness, here is that alphabet again: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Author of Alphabet Album Collection de soixante feuilles d'alphabets historiques et fleurons (Paris, 1843). Creator of an alphabet in 1834 in which each letter consists of human figures. See also here. The alphabet is referred to as the Silvestre-Girault alphabet, because it was etched by Girault. A digitization by Character (2006) is called SilvestreBodies. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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On digitizations. In 2011, Jose Jimenez of Celebrity Fontz created Parisian Ornamentals after a design by Gillé. Home Style (2003, Michael Hagemann, Font Mesa) is an exquisitily detailed family based on work by Joseph Gillé, and implemented elsewhere under the names Circus, Roma and Madame. See also Gillé Classic (2004, Michael Hagemann). I think that this is a renaming of home Style. Initiales ombrées (2007, Ari Rafaeli, ARTypes) is based on Gillé's original all caps face (from 1828, it is claimed). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer of Dialecte (2002), an extension of Times to accommodate some characters used in the West of France. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Joseph-Gaspard Gillé | Typefounder in Paris (d. 1827) who became famous for his borders designed in the 1790s. There are folios of his from around 1808-1810 entitled "Choix de nouvelles Vignettes de la Fonderie de Gille fils, à Paris, rue Jean-de-Beauvais, no. 28". Gille started directing the Fonderie de Gille fils (his father was a famous typographer, so he distinguished himself as Gille fils) in 1789. He was influenced by Didot in the design of his lush vignettes, borders and rules.. His work can be found in Recueil de divers caractères, vignetts et ornemens de la fonderie et imprimerie de J.G. Gillé (Paris, De l'imprimerie de Gillé fils, 1808). This house specialized in ornaments, fancy letters, and script letters. In September 1827, it was bought by Honoré de Balzac. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Strasbourg, France-based creator of some gridded typefaces in 2011. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Juart aka Juart Little is a graphic designer living and working in Paris (France). He also calls himself the Digital Blue Collar Worker. His typefaces: JAH (2012, a strong uppercase headline face), Someothaship (2012, a script face), Vador (2012, an octagonal typeface), and Juart (2012, a tattoo typeface). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Fourth generation Didot dynasty member in Paris, 1794-1871. Son of Pierre Didot. Jules Didot is famous for his invention of round-edged initials, to take the place of the sharp-edged ones. In 1825 he took his printing plant to Brussels and founded the Royal Printing House there. Relevant here isthe publication Specimen des caractères de la fonderie normale à Bruxelles, provenant de la fonderie de Jules Didot et de son père Pierre Didot (Haarlem: Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, 1914). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 1675, Colbert invites the Acadé'mie des Sciences to make a grand study of all machines used in the arts. In 1696, l'abbé Jaugeon obliges with a study entitled "Etude des Arts de construire les caractères, de graver les poinçons de lettres, d'imprimer les lettres". From 1692 on, Jaugeon created a mathematical/geometric theory of letters, all inscribed in a 48 by 48 grid (for upper case) or a 16 by 48 grid (lower case). This gridding was to lead to the type style associated with Louis XIV, the Grandjean. Fast forward 200 years to Arthur Christian, director of the Imprimerie Nationale from 1895-1906, who wanted to prove that Jaugeon's ideas were also esthetically justified by asking Hénaffe (official punchcutter of the Imprimerie, b. Paris 1857, d. Paris 1921) to precisely reproduce Jaugeon's designs (which he did in 1904). The resulting face is called Jaugeon or Hénaffe. This page describes more of his work for the Imprimerie Nationale, such as a Telugu set of punches (1901), a Coptic set (called "memphitique"), a Palmyrian set (1899), a Thai set (1903), and a "gothique Christian" type (1902). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French type designer who made Visconti 1950 (Novotype). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator, born in Fresnes in 1850. In the late 1880s, he published Alphabets (J. Rouam, Paris), a book that featured decorative alphabets. After studying under the ceramicist Ulysse Bernard in Blois, he moved to Paris in 1873, where he spent four years in the atelier of Jean-Léon Gérôme. Later, he was influenced by graphic artist Félix Bracquemond, one of the first "japonists" in France. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Julia
| Julia is Valerio Di Lucente (Italy), Erwan Lhuissier (France) and Hugo Timm (Brazil), who met at the Royal College of Art in London, founding the studio Julia in 2008 upon graduation. Julia works on books, typefaces, exhibition design, posters, websites, identities and tablet applications. Typefaces created by them include
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Parisian designer who graduated from ECV there. Behance link. Creator of Gracilis (2011, a geometric modular monoline face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian designer iof the octagonal semi-architectural face Chiver's (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Frenchman who has a wonderful historic overview of the calligraphic styles. Here are his categories:
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Julien Gaillardot | Born in Grésivaudan valley in France, Julien Gaillardot went to Lausanne to study graphic design at the University of Art & Design Lausanne (Ecal) in Switzerland. He now lives and works in Avignon, France. Designer of PharmaFont (2001) while he was a student at ECAL. Now available as (2007, Optimo). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Julien Gineste | In 2010, Sandra Chamaret, Julien Gineste and Sébastien Morlighem Morlighem wrote Roger Excoffon et la fonderie Olive. see also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French designer (b. 1977) of Djuice Writing (2011, hanprinted). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer at Typograsfree of Brique, Main Gauche, Rambobinette. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Julien Priez (b. 1986, Montreuil, France) studied typography and type design at Estienne in Paris (2006, 2008). In 2010, he worked at Atelier Pierre di Sciullo in Montreuil. His typefaces: Le Normandie (piano key face), Le Montreuil (an experimental family done in 2010 at Estienne with the help of Michel Derre, Margaret Gray et Franck Jalleau), Le Briqueterie (2010, with Pierre di Sciullo's studio: a modular pixelish family), Le Baaf (2010, with Margaret Gray---an experimental titling face), Le Composite (2010, an imaginary letter font made with under the guidane of Michel Derre and Franck Jalleau), Le Jimmy (2009, a face done to invoke the 1930 mafia; a beautiful idea executed with the help of Michel Derre, Margaret Gray and Franck Jalleau). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Dead link. French designer (b. 1978) of the free medical dingbats font Dr. Ross (2001), and the futuristic font Camion (2001). Member of the Trafik collective in Lyon. His fonts are available at Typotek. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French codesigner (b. 1986), with Emmanuel Blanc, of the free graffiti font Vandalism (2007). Dafont link. In 2009, Emmanuel Blanc and Julien Saurin set out to sell their fonts under the name La Goupil (based in Paris). MyFonts link. Alternate MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Julien Tourdot writes about himself: I am Juart Little aka The Digital Blue Collar Worker. I am a graphic&web designer residing in Paris (France). Behance link. Dafont link. Devian tart link. In 2010, he created the script face Someothaship, the octagonal faces Vador and Bionic, and the hairline face Lafine. In 2011, he made the Juart script face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Montrealer who wrote a thesis in 2006 on typography while studying in Paris. It includes a 2-minute video clip on the influence of geometric elements in typefaces, and draws on the work of Kurt Schwitters. He is working on a very original geometric outline font called Carousel (2007) [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, she co-designed Métis (1998). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian graphic design student who made the geometric experimental face Tangram (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2012, he designed Frontage, a layered type system. MyFonts link. Foundry link. You Work For Them link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Kaen Graphics
| Kaen Graphics is a French studio based in Lille. They created the experimental typeface Paintedfonts (2012). Behance link. |
Frenchman Karim Latrous (aka JayeW73) designed the techno stencil faces Agressiv (2010), Warriorz 73 (2011), and Block Jaye W73 (2010). He also made the beautiful Indian look face Dirty Vega (2011) and the experimental face Nelly (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian designer who made a techno alphabet in 2011. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born near Paris in 1991, Kevin Gotkovsky is a French art student. In 2010, he designed the wavy sans face Wave. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sétif, Algeria-based illustrator and designer. Dafont link. He designed Architek (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Kollebolle.com
| Christophe Chelmis is the designer with Olivier Chabanis at KolleBolle in Lyon of the connect-the-dots faces 0Pointe-AFaire (2004) and 0Pointe-Fait (2004). He also made A Croker (2006, apple dingbats), 3 Stars (2006), Au Point (2006) and Au Karre (2006, pixel simulation). No downloads. At Dafont, you can download 0Pointe-AFaire (2004) and 0Pointe-Fait (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
KP Fonts
| A free type 1 font package developed by Christophe Caignaert (Villeneuve d'Ascq, France) in 2007-2008 for typesetting text and mathematics as part of his Johannes Kepler project. The text faces are based on URW Palladio, with approval from URW. Many new mathematical symbols are also included. The font collection, originally published in 2007 contains these fonts: Kp--M-Ex-Medium, Kp--M-Ex-Regular, Kp--M-Exa-Medium, Kp--M-Exa-Regular, Kp--M-Italic, Kp--M-Medium, Kp--M-MediumItalic, Kp--M-Regular, Kp--M-Sy-Medium, Kp--M-Sy-Regular, Kp--M-Sya-Medium, Kp--M-Sya-Regular, Kp--M-Syb-Medium, Kp--M-Syb-Regular, Kp--M-Syc-Medium, Kp--M-Syc-Regular, Kp--M-Syd-Medium, Kp--M-Syd-Regular, Kp-Companion-Italic, Kp-Companion-Medium, Kp-Companion-MediumItalic, Kp-Companion-Regular, Kp-Expert-Italic, Kp-Expert-Medium, Kp-Expert-MediumItalic, Kp-Expert-Regular, Kp-Italic, Kp-Medium, Kp-MediumItalic, Kp-Regular, Kp-SC-Expert-Medium, Kp-SC-Expert-Regular, Kp-SmallCaps-Regular, Kp-Smallcaps-Medium, Sf-Kp-Comp-Regular, Sf-Kp-Companion-Medium, Sf-Kp-Exp-Medium, Sf-Kp-Exp-Regular, Sf-Kp-Medium, Sf-Kp-Regular, Sf-Kp-Sc-Exp-Medium, Sf-Kp-Sc-Exp-Regular, Sf-Kp-Sc-Medium, Sf-Kp-Sc-Regular, Tt-Kp-Comp-Medium, Tt-Kp-Comp-Regular, Tt-Kp-Exp-Medium, Tt-Kp-Exp-Regular, Tt-Kp-Medium, Tt-Kp-Regular. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Krispy Krush
| Marie Antoine (Krispy Krush) is an illustrator and art director in London, b. Gerardmer, France, 1979. Creator of the curvy free font A Taste ofHeaven (2010). Home page. In 2011, she went commercial at MyFonts. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
L' Atelier
| L'Atelier is run by Pierre Corbucci since 2001. He designed the free Mac fonts Fraktur, Pierre (handwriting), Meeting and Eloim. Some of these fonts are also available at Typograsfree. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
L' Encrier
| Philippe Tassel at L'Encrier made free school handwriting fonts: Beaumale, Ducahire. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
L. Léger | Foundry in Paris. Its work can be found in Spécimen des divers caractères, vignettes et fleurons des fonderie et stéréotypie de L. Leger, graveur, neveu et successeur de P.F. Didot (Paris, Place de l'Estrapade, no.28. [ca.1832]). This book has many Didot's (but no full sets), and many bookplates. Leger (1799-1835) was the nephew and successor of P. F. Didot. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
La Boîte Graphique
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Creator of the counterless octagonal fat face Bunker (2008), and the organic face Ibiscus (2008). In 2009, he created the informal all-caps families Fanfarone, Gram, Quinto, Rondi and Trouble, and the monoline Ficus (2009). In 2010, he added the gothic Rosa. In 2011, he published the informal paper cut family Brams, the handprinted poster font Nivel, the comic book family Gaspa, the brush faces Zoé and Street, and the handprinted face Behance. In 2012, he created the beautiful handprinted outline typeface Prune. Fontsy link. Klingspor link. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
French studio run by Alexis Godais and Julien Mession. Designers of the handwriting face laCartoonerie. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Foundry in Bordeaux, France, est. 2012. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
La Fonderie is a new French group of young typographers that may be consulted on all matters typographic. Based in Paris, and led by typographers Stéphane Gambini and Eric de Berranger. All fonts are by de Berranger. Another URL, and yet another URL. Font list: ITC Berranger Hand, Collos, Garaline, Hamely, Hector, Helwissa, Jandoni (a nice Bodoni titling face), June (a Garamond/Jenson like serif family), Koala, Malcom, Maxime, Mosquito, Nle2b210 (old typewriter font by de Berranger and Nicolas Leduc, 1997), ITC Octone, Oldbook, PackTrash or Ysselair (old typewriter/dymo font inspired by FF Dynamo, 1998), Troiminut. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
La Goupil
| Julien Saurin (b. 1986) and Louis-Emmanuel Blanc (b. 1986) are two experienced graffiti artists who created the foundry "La Goupil" in Paris. MyFonts link. Fontsy link. Klingspor link. Graffiti fonts: Ruelles (2009), Vandalism Alternate (2008). The original Vandalism (2007) was free at Dafont. The scratchy Carving (2010) is commercial, however. In 2011, Saurin made the pure geometric art deco face Haussmann. With Angela Bolliger, Julien Saurin published the classic avant-gardist hand-drawn typeface Paris (2012, La Goupil). Typefaces from 2012: Adrenaline (handprinted), Brighton Beach (a unicase Cyrillic simulation constructivist concoction that screams Molotov cockatils ahead). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
La Laiterie
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FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
La Vitrine de Trafik
| Alexandre Laügt is a young French designer, born in Lyon in 1975, associated with Typotek. There, he designed Gorb (grand pixelized font, 2000, free). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French designer (b. 1993) of Gilles' Comic Handwriting (2008) and Garfield (2008). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in 1921 in Transylvania, he trained at the Fine Arts Academy of Budapest (Hungary) and then at the Beaux-Arts in Rouen (Normandy, France). Ladislas Mandel was a stonecutter, painter and sculptor. However, he spent his life in France, mostly as a type designer at Deberny&Peignot, where he worked since 1954. In 1955, he headed the type atelier. He was taught by and cooperated with Adrian Frutiger during nine years at Deberny, finally succeeding Frutiger in 1963 as type director. In 1955, he was in charge of the transformation of the Deberny type repertoire from lead to phototype. He created original designs under the label International Photon Corporation, and turned independent designer in 1977. After that, he specialized in typefaces for telephone directories, and made, e.g., Colorado in 1998 with Richard Southall. for US West. He cofounded the ANCT in Paris in 1985 and taught there and at Paris VIII. In 1998, he published the book Ecritures, miroir des hommes et des sociétés (éditions Perrousseaux), which was followed in 2004 by Du pouvoir de l'écriture at the same publisher. He died on October 20, 2006. Olivier Nineuil's description of his achievements.
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Lafourmi-freelance
| Toulouse-based Frenchman (b. 1977) who created the Kafkaesque face HandNegativ (2007). Dafont link. Fontsy link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French school font archive. It also has a few school fonts created by Lakanal itself ca. 2006 such as cursive and beauger. I could not locate the name of the designer or even the name of the web site owner except that Lakanal is related to a school in Lille, a suburb of Belgium. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
L'Aractère organizes calligraphy courses given in Paris during 2002-2003 in the gallery/bookstore Comptoir des écritures of the Beaubourg: Hassan Massoudy, Serge Cortesi, Kitty Sabatier, Béatrice Balloy, Omikado Sachiko, Ouyang Jiaojia, Zhu Ya and Abdallah Akar will teach about calligraphy of many languages and cultures. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
LaTex Navigator
| Denis Roegel's grand site about fonts and LaTex. This will take months to fully explore and absorb. If you visit only one TEX site in your life, this must be the one. Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Professor of Applied Arts who graduated from Ecole Estienne. Designer (with H&eacut;loïse Tissot) of a French school font, which he presented in March 2005 during a meeting held at the National Museum of Edication in Rouen, France. The link given here refers to a PDF which contains the proceedings of that meeting. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, she co-designed Recréation (2000). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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French designer at Typotek of Karairond (2002). Lives in Lyon. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Laurent Catelan | French type designer at the ADT (Atelier de decoupage typographique) who made the double script font LaFaFabienne (1998). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French artist and illustrator. Creator of Gugli Ducky Rubber (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Frenchman from Strasbourg, b. 1964. He created the comic book face Hirn Bold (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, he co-designed Poinçons (1999), a face based on a design of Fournier. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French artist (b. 1981) from Donzère who created the Little Emma script family (2008), Nightmare Hero v1.0 (2008), a scary font. Other typefaces: Sorry Luthi (2008), LaurentHW (2008, his handwriting), Dream Builder (2009, condensed hand), Waterdrop07 (2007), Gloutix (2009, a fun handprinted font). At DaFont under the name "n3o", he published the grunge font Mis (2006). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French author (b. Algrange, 1964) of Lettres Latines (Éditions Alternatives, 2003). Calligrapher and activist for calligraphy in the streets of Paris. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Laurent Savoie (Paint Black Editions) is the French creator of the 3d paint emulation font Paint Black (2009), of the alphading pkSLD (2010), of the ultra grunge faces Jeremiah (2010, after the 1972 Sydney Pollack film Jeremiah Johnson), Outsider (2010), Mika Teuf (2010: done by Tristan Savoie) and Guignol's Band (2010), of the 3d outline face Dead Wallace (2010), OE RMX, OE dans l'O (2009), Yo La Tengo (2009), Anti-Folk PK (2009), PK&Co (2010, brush), Mekano (2010), Do It Yourself (or DIY) (2010), D The Hero (2010, grunge). Faces from 2011: Monotaure, Shady Lane (3d, handprinted), The Quick Monkey (ransom note face), Cool Hand PK, Figure Writing (Treefrog-style hand), Black Cobra (fat brush face), PK Cobra (chalk font). Creations from 2012: Trout (a circle-based typeface), Cruel Sun, Dragonfly. Dafont link. Fontsy link. Fontspace link. Paint Black Editions. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian print designer who is working on some experimental typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Young French graphic designer who graduated in 2006 from Ecole Estienne. She lives temporarily in Vancouver. Typefaces by her include Personal (handwriting) and Funambule (experimental). Her thesis at Estienne was entitled Baskerville: rupture ou continuité? [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Art direction student at ESAG Penninghen Paris. She created the horizontally-striped typeface Radiohead (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pages (in French) on the history of writing printing. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lazare Olive |
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Le Journal Perpendiculaire | French pages on the ancient history of the alphabet. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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This site has a blog and carries type news from "Typographe.com" (or: ATypI France), which is run in French by Jean-François Porchez, Damien Gautier, Jacques André, Nathalie Dumont, Guy Schockaert, Denis Ravizza, Matha Standún, Georges Plumet, Jack Yan and Jef Tombeur. Alternate URL. The team changed a bit in 2004 and now includes Martin L'Allier, Christophe Badani, Antoine Caillet, Xavier Dupré, Julien Janiszewski, Jean-Baptiste Levée, Georges Plumet, Jean-François Porchez, Jef Tombeur, and Jérôme Vogel. Trouvailles. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer born in the Var region of France in 1988. Dafont link. Creator of Tim Kid (2011, child's hand). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Pontarlier, France. Dafont link. He created the children's hand typeface Ultramat (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French type designer who designed Dorique with Carlègle in 1927 (Fonderie Deberny&Peignot). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Young French designer who created the minimalist experimental face Pepper (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
L'encrier, Ecriture scolaire
| At this site, there used to be wonderful school handwriting fonts (with rulers): EC, EC2, Douteau (from Jean-Marie Douteau), Beaumale, DuCahier (Philippe Tassel), Bernard Vivier (who made BV_Api, BV_Batboi, BV_Baton, BV_Baton_Italiques, BV_Rondes, BV_Rondes_Boite, BV_Rondes_Ital, Bv-AriBoi), Verchery. The site also had a bibliography (in French). I say "had", because it is now reduced to a single-font site, offering just DuCahier (Philippe Tassel, 1994). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Les Besnardtypo
| The French type designers Michel (b. 1942) and Rosalyne Besnard (b. 1946) live in Rouen. Under the brand Les Besnardtypo, they jointly designed Micmac (Agfa Creative Alliance, 1997), ITC Odyssee (1996), ITC Typados (1997), Rom (Creative Alliance, 1998), Bouchon (Letraset, 2000), Huit (Visual Graphics Corporation, 1972), Sargon (Visual Graphics Corporation, 1974: bilined and futuristic), Migraph (Agfa Monotype, 1999), PistolShot LT Std Normal and Light (Linotype, 2003), Nazca (Monotype Imaging, 2005), Sargon (Monotype Imaging, 2006), First One (Monotype Imaging, 2006: a family for teaching the alphabet to children), Mickros (Monotype Imaging, 2007), Pantin (Monotype Imaging, 2007), De Gama (Monotype Imaging, 2008), Pasta (Monotype Imaging, 2008). Linotype page. FontShop link. Another FontShop link. View Michel Besnard's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
The history of typography explained (in French) by the French typographers Michel (b. 1942) and Rosalyne Besnard (b. 1946) who live in Rouen. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Free demos of the Amazing Webdings dingbat series: Babies n Teens, Lifestyle, Leisure, Cool Tools (four fonts for now). Full versions cost $$. They also sell display fonts. Now also butterfly dingbats in the BombyxConnection font. And religious dingbats: New Age-Channeling (1 through 5), Jesus' Life (1 through 3), and Holy Art (1 through 3). Plus Pict'Animos, Toys'4U, Baby's World, Soccer Dance, Schooldays, Lifestyle Delight, Feast Day, P'tit-Dij, SmaragDings, Flower Show, Music for a while, Paradise's Fruits, Pharaoh, Summer Time, Little Gardener, Lovely Kitchen, Measure Tools, Pretty Pottery, Workshop Dings, Merry Christmas, My World, Chinese Cocktail, Happy Eggs, Paris Perfume, Potato'n Tomato, Bombyx Connection, Alpages, Hot Hat, Light Office. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Intro to the Georgian and Armenian alphabets. In French, by Jean-Christophe Loubet del Bayle. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Les Estienne
| Paul Dupont tells the history of the Estienne family of printers. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French web site with information on high quality printing, and lead type. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
News pages about upcoming events by the Rencontres de Lure guys. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
One of the "Trophée d'Or" awards is a typographic award. Like the others, it is handed out at the annual Intergraphic Congress in Paris. Given under the auspices of Agfa Monotype in 2003 and Linotype in 2004 (and who knows in 2005), it rewards the creator of the best typeface for a visual identity or a special use. Faces must be less than 5 years old. Dead link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
One of the "Trophée d'Or" awards is a typographic award. Given under the auspices of Agfa Monotype, it rewards the creator of the best typeface for a visual identity or a special use. Faces must be less than 5 years old. The 2003 awards were handed out at the 23rd Intergraphic Congress, held from January 15-17, 2003 in Paris. The winners:
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One of the "Trophée d'Or" awards is a typographic award. Handed out at the Intergraphic Congress in Paris in January 2004, it was given to Christophe Badani for his typeface Ubisoft (2003), a sans family developed by Christophe Badani in collaboration with the Seenk agency (design&MixMedia studio) for the video game company Ubisoft. Given under the auspices of Agfa Monotype in 2003 and Linotype in 2004 (and who knows in 2005), it rewards the creator of the best typeface for a visual identity or a special use. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
List of French typographers and some of their fonts. Beautiful and useful, well worth a visit. Internet archive version. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French organization that wants to promote good writing and calligraphy through contests, meetings, seminars, and get-togethers. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lespinasse et cie | Foundry in Paris. Its work can be found in this 44-page book pf specimen (Paris, 1879). Lespinasse was acquired in 1879 by A. Bertrand&Fils. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Lettres françaises
| Downloadable booklet by Jean-François Porchez detailing the history of French typography and its modern situation. First published at ATypI in 1998. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
List of French typographers and typefaces designed for the 20th century. Compiled by Jean Larcher and Jean-François Porchez. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lettres Vagabondes (or: Fonts by Holyrose)
| Agathe Richard (Lettres Vagabondes) is a French calligrapher from Lyon (b. 1986) who made Holyrose Sale (2005, painted letters) and who has a gallery with breathtaking calligraphy. Alternate URL. Yet another URL. Direct link to her fonts: Midnight Tea (2006, blackletter), Bonbon Gothique (2005, blackletter), holyrose-font-midnightea (2006), Script Gribouillon (2005), BonbonBleu (2006, calligraphic gothic face). Under "grenier" (attic), check out her illuminated caps. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Christophe Badani's French glossary on calligraphy. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator in Toulouse, France. I am not sure what Typictography. (2012) is---Lila says that it is a game between pictures and words, pictograms and typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Designer (b. Pau, France, 1970) of fonts at Garagefonts, including the pixel font family Kamaro (1999), Karazan, Klif (1999), Klock (1999), Kynzo, GF Mistic Art, Truth (2000-2001). He lives in Ares, near Bordeaux. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer of the free handprinted face Lionel of Paris (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French creator of a geometric experimental face in 2010. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian fashion designer. She created a beautiful handprinted typeface Guma (2011) which takes its roots in bubblegum. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Paris. Behance link. Creator of the experimental face Accent (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Lists of type books in French and English. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Influential French master penman, b. 1589, d. 1670. He published several texts including Les Escitures Financieres Et Italienne Bastarde Dans Leur Naturel (ca. 1650). He is known for his round hand, or "ronde". Hans Eduard Meier's Barbedor (1987, URW) is named after him. The ronde typeface La Petite Ronde (2008, Marc H. Smith) is based upon examples by Barbedor. Portrait. Specimen from 1640. Specimen from 1659. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Louis Braille (b. Coupvray, France, 1809, d. Paris, 1852) is the inventor of the six dot raised Braille reading system for the blind first proposed in his book Method of Writing Words, Music and Plain Songs by Means of Dots for Use by the Blind and Arranged for Them (1829). In fact, the Braille system was based on a method of communication originally developed by Charles Barbier in response to Napoleon's demand for a code that soldiers could use to communicate silently and without light at night, called night writing. Links: Hammill Institute on Disabilities, wikipedia. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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French type designer (1916-1993) who made Gauthier (Imprimerie Nationale, 1969) and Luce (Imprimerie Nationale, 1963). The imprimerie nationale, where he worked, had not made any new type since Jaugeon in 1905. Its director in 1948, Robert Blanchot, decided to create a new family, and gave the project to Louis Gauthier, punchcutter at Deberny&Peignot. Romans and italics (in 14, 18 and 24 sizes) were completed between 1969 and 1980, with the aid of punchcutters Michel Portron and Jacques Camus. The face has an "incised" style, halfway between garalde and sans serif. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Louis Morin |
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French punchcutter (1795-1865) who lived in Lyon. He designed Lyons Titling (1846, a roman titling font published by Chiswick Press) and Augustaux, about which René Ponot published a book, Louis Perrin: L'Enigme des Augustaux (Editions des Cendres, Paris, 1998). The book contains a history of Perrin as a printer and typographer, with special attention to Perrin's Augustaux type. It contains two fold-out Augustaux type specimens and several examples of Perrin's printing in black-and-white. The preface is by Fernand Baudin, and it is printed in Perrin type redesigned by L'Atelier National de Création Typographique in 1986. See also Etude sur Louis Perrin, Imprimeur Lyonnais (Editions des Cendres, Paris, 1994) by Jean-Baptiste Monfalcon. Hrant Papazian writes: While I was looking for something else I ran into the single most important publication about Perrin that I know of: Audin's book on the 1923 Perrin exhibition in Lyon. It's quite rare - it seems only 61 copies were printed. There's a very extensive text (120 pages), a complete catalog of works, and some great facsimiles (as well as actual prints -like pressmarks- from Perrin's own engravings). The paper is very yellowed though. There are two things in there that will probably interesting you most: (1) A facsimile of Perrin's famous specimen sheet, showing two sizes that are basically Marquet's designs: the 11 and the second 14. Here are scans: scan 1, scan 2 (a collage from two sections of the sheet). [...] A character set of floriated caps, from "A" to "V". Here's the "R". FontShop link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer (b. 1985) of some beautiful techno fonts. Dafont link. His creations include minimium (2006, pixel face), the free dot matrix font Snapix (2007), and Grenouille (2007), specially designed for a cookbook. He lives in Strasbourg. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Louis Vernange | Typefounder in Lyon. His work can be found in Épreuves des caracteres de la fonderie de Louis Vernange, fondeur&graveur de caracteres d'imprimerie (Lyon, Place de la Charité [ca. 1780]). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French codesigner (b. 1986), with Julien Saurin, of the free graffiti font Vandalism (2007). Dafont link. In 2009, Emmanuel Blanc and Julien Saurin set out to sell their fonts under the name La Goupil (based in Paris). At La Goupil, they codesigned the scratchy handprinted face Carving (2010). MyFonts link. Alternate MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer, punchcutter and engraver at the Imprimerie Nationale from about 1740 until 1770. He was the engraver of king Louis XV, who took possession of all of Luce's work in 1773, i.e., 7 typefaces, 8 sets of initial caps, some vignettes, some ornaments, and 15 "poetic" typefaces. Three of the typefaces were recut in 1955 and 1963 by Jacques Camus, Louis Gauthier and Christian Paput. Luce is mostly known for completing, with punchcutter Jean Alexandre, Philippe Grandjean's Romain du roi, in 1745. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer, b. 1989. Blog. Creator of the logo font TV France (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Loyson had his own foundry in Paris from 1727-1728. In 1728, he joined his foundry with that of Briquet, and Briquet and Loyson thrived from 1728 until 1751. Briquet had died some time in that period, and Loyson married Briquet's widow. Loyson and Veuve Briquet operated from 1751 until 1758, when the foundry, after a brief one-year passage to widow Briquet's son, was left to Vincent Cappon, Loyson's student. The foundry made the angular Gaelic manuscript face Paris (1732-1751). A draft digitization (Páris) exists. Audin's account. Cover of the 1728 specimen book by Loyson. Cover of the 1751 specimen book of Briquet and Loyson, which also covered Irish, Hebrew and Greek. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2012, he made the rounded monoline sans families Sornette, Imbroglio, and Rogaton, as well as the gorgeous art deco family Bonafetti. Pleine Page is his home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Luca Dotti and Sébastien Dragon (Atelier National de Création Typographique, 2010) made the slightly grungy Times Roman face Toothbrush (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in 1987, this Frenchman from StLaurent-Nouan is publishing fonts at Typotek: Ananormal (2001). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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French type designer, b. Paris, 1863, d. Hewood, 1944, who lived most of his life in England. Son of the painter Camille Pissarro. He designed Brook Type (1903) for his private press (Eragny Press), a typeface named after his house in Hammersmith. It is a Venetian face, with, however, slab serifs on the A and the M. Now owned by Cambridge University Press. He designed Disteltype, a calligraphic roman face, which was cut by E.P. Prince for De Zilverdistel (1918) as a private-press type for the printers in Holland. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Besançon, France, in 1983, Ludivine graduated from Ecole Estienne in Paris in 2006 and now lives and works in Brussels as a freelance graphic artist and illustrator for the Speculoos agency. Font creations include the handwritten Alphajet (2005) and the Ethiopian/Latin/Turkish/Hebrew mixed experimental font Kassidy. In 2008, she made NotCourier Sans (Open Font Library, a free typewriter family based on Nimbus Mono; Cyrillic glyphs added by Valek Filippov). Kernest link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French creator of the FontStruct fonts Comédie (2012: 1800 glyphs), Anguleux (2012: 2888 glyphs), and Mozart (2012, music font). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Techno fonts MMT_001 through MMT_006, made in 2005. Some have pixel influences. Based in Paris. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mademoiselle Pixelle
| Web designer and graphic designer in France. FontStructor who made the tall and elegent pixel face Little Big Thing (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Madgas
| Design group in Strasbourg, France, led by Matthieu Leclerc. Behance link. His typeface Curvelegant (2012) shows high contrast between vertical and horizontal, and as such, tends towards the piano key category. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French creator of MadnessFont (2005, handwriting). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French outfit which produced a fun comic book font, "caricature" (2001). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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French graduate student of typography at the University of Reading who graduated in 2005. His typeface Ficus (2005) won an award in the Creative Review Type Competition 2005. He wrote Technological Shifts in Type Design and Production (2006). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Belgian-born Paris-based designer and painter whose fonts may be bought from 2Rebels in Montreal. Some creations: LeScript, Manosk (1995, irregular hand), Marker, Maria's Font, Napoléon, Vintage Gothic. His work for Swatch. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
He created the gorgeous wedge-serif family Vernet (2011) together with François Malbezin: it takes its origins in an engraved stone of an hotel in Paris, Hotel Vernet. Creator of the informal typeface PasCap (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French dada artist, 1887-1968. Several fonts were made that were inspired by his writing, most notably FF DuDuchamp (Dung Van Meerbeeck). Interestingly, Richard Kegler, the founding partner of P22 type foundry in 1994, mentioned that P22 was an outgrowth of his Master's thesis project on Marcel Duchamp. P22 has had its trouble with the Duchamp font of Kegler, which was designed in 1994. As P22 puts it [text by them]:
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Born in Paris in 1904, died in 1989. Jacno was a poster designer who also did the cover of the Gauloises cigarettes. An ardent user of stencil fonts. His fonts: Brantôme, Chaillot (1951-1954, TNP, Fonderie Deberny&Peignot [Typophane]), Corneille (1978, for Théatre mémorial Corneille), Film (1934, Fonderie Deberny&Peignot), Hippograte, Italic Club, Memphis Ombré, Ménilmontant (1973, for Théatre de l'Est Parisien), Molière (1970, for Théatre de la Comédie Française), Quillet (1936, for Quillet), Rétif, Savoie (1949, Club Bibliophile de France), Scribe (1936, Deberny&Peignot), Jacno (1948). The 3d art deco font LeFilm was remade by Harold Lohner in as LeFilmClassic (2000), LeFilmLetters (2000) and LeFilmShadow (2000). Lohner gives an original date of 1927, not 1934. Marion Duval wrote a thesis in 2008 at estienne on Jacno entitled Marcel Jacno, redécouverte d'un créateur typographique. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Marcel Lenoir |
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Paris-based creator of the hybrid Gaelic typeface Legrand (ca. 1836). Typefounder in Paris. His work can be found in this specimen book (Paris, 1850, 97 pages). At the Imprimerie Nationale, he was asked in 1846 to cut an arabe maghrébin (the preferred Arabic writing style in Morocco and adjacent regions). He cut anotther weight in 1850. In 2009, Franck Jalleau made a digital version of this, called Le Maghrébin. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Margaret Gray | A graduate of the University of Cincinnati, Ohio and of the Atelier national de Recherche typographique (Paris). She is a professor of applied typography at the Ecole Estienne in Paris since 1994. Her work is centered around the use of writing within an architectural context, as a vehicule of information, or an element of architectural identity. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, she co-designed Métis (1998). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Toulouse, France-based designer (b. 1981) of Square (2006, a connected pixel font), Bubble Club (2006, rounded fat sans), Kinkub Flat (2007), and Squaropen (2006). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, he co-designed Bertrand (2003), a face based on work by the Fonderie Bertrand (end of 19th century). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French creator (b. 1983, Nantes) at FontStruct of the dot matrix face Schnee (2009) and of Frish (2009, grunge). She also made these typefaces in 2010. Behance link. Home page. Dafont link. She is based in Berlin. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer, aka Marine Jonas over at FontStruct, where she made Stars In The Sky (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Marion Andrews | Marion Andrews (from Saint-Laurent-en-Grandvaux), a winner of an award for writing organized by the Ministère de l'Éducation nationale in France, organized a workshop on Fraktur/Gothic fonts, from 21-26 July 2003, in the Jura region of France. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French calligrapher. Designer of a French school font, which he presented in March 2005 during a meeting held at the National Museum of Edication in Rouen, France. The link given here refers to a PDF which contains the proceedings of that meeting. Marion Andrews's school font has a basic monoline sans caps style tilted at only 5 degrees, and a connected lower case whose rhythm was influenced by the Dryad Writing style of Alfred Fairbank (1932). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Marion Delsuc | Graduate of the University of Reading in 2011 who lives in France. Creator of the garalde face Cassiope (2011), his graduation typeface. Delsuc writes: Cassiope is a small and delicate bookface. It is mainly intended to set the dialogues of plays. Thus, a key element of Cassiope's feel comes in the rather small size of the letterforms, so as to get some delicacy when set in 10-11 point. Yet the counters remain open and the serifs quite robust to ensure legibility in small sizes. There are Latin and Greek styles. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Parisian freelance graphic designer. Behance link. Creator of the deadly sins typefaces such as Gourmandise (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type historian from Lyon, 1872-1951. He had a major influence on the French typographical world before World War II. His son Maurice founded the Musée de l'imprimerie et de la banque in Lyon in 1964, starting from the family's archives. Author (1872-1951) of many books on typography and printing, including
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French designer of the decorative caps alphabet Letter To Flora (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Marquet | Typefoundry in Lyon. Its work was published in Épreuves des caracteres de la fonderie du sr. Marquet (Lyon, ca. 1770). Even though this appeared in 1770, we already find many types with the characteristic square didone serifs, although with less contrast than a typical Didot face. Many publications from the pre-Bodoni and pre-Didot period already show a convergence towards the didone trend. In 1923 (and reprinted in 1935), Douglas C. McMurtrie published A Mysterious Type Specimen on a typeface by Marqet: , page 4 (where he notices that Marquet's type is difficult to categorize, and is different from anything he had seen in the types of Lammesle, Mozet. Gillé, or Fournier le jeune), a scan of the type, some vignettes. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Interesting typefaces: Boulon (letters with bolts), Bujardet Freres (French restaurant type), Calebasse (1997, semi-psychedelic), Chinoiseries (Chinese look-alike), Cristolikid (LCD), Diodes Light, Grecques, Halloween, Malabars, Metroplitain (art nouveau), Monogram, Octogone, Osselets (bones), Parador, Ruban Dis-Moi, SilBooettes, TSF et Compagnie, Venitienne, Yiddilatin, Zebrues, and the dingbats Dinosotype, Alphabetzier, Nahkt Hieroglyphics, Norman Prince (children's handwriting), Angelots, Sceaux, Seraphiques, Talismans, La Main Guided, La Main Solid (both children's tracing fonts), Bordini, Bordofixed, BoumBoum, ChapClerk, Dactylographe (nice!), Halotique (sans serif), Tortillon (2001, art deco), Normographe (great too!), Normafixed, Oloron, Parlante (serif family), Presse (typewriter), Technicien. Plus handwriting fonts Skrypta, Skryptaag (upright and connected), Willegha. a Morse Code font. The Halloween pack includes Coulures, Halloween, Osselets and SilBooettes. Fixed width fonts include Dactylographe, Oloron, Bordo, Norma. Direct access. Interview and photo. Alternate URL (in French), with many more fonts, such as the handwritten Pierre, Mariette. MICR E13 B font. Fontspace link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Maternellecolor
| Jean-Claude Gineau is a French free font designer, who specializes in school fonts to teach handwriting. Font subpage. The fonts: Boite-pleine, Boite-vide, Cursive (by Jean-Claude Gineau and Antoine Fetet), Cursive-Fléchée, Maternellecolor-creuse, Maternellecolor-creusesans, Maternellecolor-cursive-case, Maternellecolor-graphisme, Maternellecolorgraphisme2, Maternellecolor-numération-espace, Maternellecolor-trace-cursive, Picto-Moustache. All these are made in 2005-2006. Only Maternellecolor cursive case has a 1997 date and shows the name Jean-Claude Gineau. I have no idea if he made just this or all the fonts. Dafont link. Designer of an upright connected school script face called GinoSchoolScript (1997), which can be found in this archive. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Frenchman who obtained an MA in typeface design from the University of Reading in 2008. His graduation type family, Cassius, won the sole award in the Text System category at TDC2 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French creator of the pixel face Little Lego (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Partner of sebastian bissinger at BANK, a French/German design agency based in Berlin. It markets its fonts through T-26, starting in 2009. In 2009, Sebastian Bissinger and Matthieu David made the display faces Sintra and Yummy. Sintra is a 3d face that simulates letters made from folded material---Sebastian Bissinger was inspired by the sign of a shoe shop in Sintra, Portugal. Yummy was inspired by cookie cutters. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French creator of Maximilien (2011, squarish) and Frederic (2011, sans). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Paris. Behance link. She created the experimental typeface Explode (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, she co-designed Poinçons (1999), a face based on a design of Fournier. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Maurice Ollière et cie | Paris-based foundry. Their work can be found in Extrait du spécimen des caractères de la fonderie typographique de Maurice Ollière&cie, successeurs de Lespinasse&Ollière (Paris, 25, rue Julie, 25, Paris [1901?]) [This small booklet has no full character sets], and Spécimen: gravures&vignettes, filets&sujets (Paris : Gravure&fonderie typographiques de Maurice Ollière&Cie, 252 pages). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Type designer whose face Deauville (FT Française, 1927) is soon to be republished by Neufville. Deauville is a fat modern with interesting modifications in letters such as the M and O. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator from Toulouse, France. He created the prison wall writing font Délivrance (2012) for a DVD cover for the film Seven. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French type designer and journalist, b. Condé-sur-Noirau, 1894- d. Lurs-en-Provence, 1974. Founder of the famous Rencontres de Lure in 1952. Designer of Banjo (Fonderie Deberny&Peignot, 1930), Éclair (Fonderie Deberny&Peignot, 1935), and Pharaon Blanc (Fonderie Deberny&Peignot, 1930) and Voxtype. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Mayeur Type Foundry
| The Mayeur Type Foundry was based in Paris and operated around 1905. It was led by Gustave Mayeur. They were located 21 Rue de Montparnasse. Their work can be found in Spécimen-album de la fonderie Gve Mayeur, Allainguillaume&cie, succrs. Labeurs&journaux, initiales&caractères variés de fantaisie, vignettes, ornements, etc (Paris, 1903) and Nouvelle collection des anciens types du XVIIe siècle imités par la Fonderie Gustave Mayeur (Paris, Fonderie typographique Gustave Mayeur, 21--rve dv Mont-Parnasse, 1883) (1888 edition). A major publication is Spécimen-album de la fonderie Gve Mayeur, Allainguillame&cie, succrs. Labeurs&journaux, initiales&caractères variés de fantaisie, vignettes, ornaments, etc (Paris, rue du Montparnasse, no 21-VIe arrondissement [1897], 343 pages, a comprehensive specimen book) (1900 edition, 288 pages, 1903 edition, 329 pages). Most of these books are simply magnificent, if only for the splendid use of frilly ornaments and borders, initial caps, Normandes (heavy didone titling faces), Italiennes (Western or Egyptian style), and emblems (such as the Armoiries des villes de France). Somehow, Fonderie Mayeur evolved (in an unclear manner, to me at least) from l' ancienne Maison Battenberg, created in 1843 by Battenberg, graveur and fondeur, located in rue du Dragon, 20, Paris. Battenberg's gorgeous engravings include vignettes du moyen age, vignettes raisins, vignettes grimpantes, vignettes rubans, vignettes treillage, tetes de chapitre, culs de lampe, fleurons, titling ornaments and initials. Their specimen books have many jewels, such as this Mauresques Noires (1898). Gustave Mayeur is credited with the Wedding Plate Script typeface. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
McMurtrie: Le Moreau-le-Jeune A Typographical Specimen with an Introduction by Douglas C. Murtrie |
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Scans of an 8-page booklet by Douglas McMurtrie published in Chicago in 1935: The Didot Family of Typefounders. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
This French outfit specializes in beautiful handwriting fonts, often calligraphic or with an old look. Prices vary from 50 to 200USD per font: Calligraphie Parchemin, Calligraphie Princesse, Ambassador, Karen, Charlotte, Sebastian are some of the fonts. Your personal handwriting font for 360USD. For a few extra dollars, you can have alternate characters made as well, such as dingbats, math, bold characters, signatures, or special accents. They also sell the handwriting fonts of famous people: Delacroix, Rousseau, Van Gogh, Voltaire, Gauguin, Chateaubriand, Monet, Mme de Sévigné, Georges Sand, François Rabelais, Victor Hugo, Rimbaud, Georges Washington, Nostradamus, Léonard de Vinci. For 600 dollars, you can get an 8-font set of your handwriting which, under Word, will make the letters change as you write. Finally, they offer a collection of orthographic fonts for kids (for connected handwriting). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ménestrel
| French medieval and paleotypographic jump page, mostly edited by Marc Smith, École nationale des chartes, Sorbonne, Paris. Marc Smith wrote Du manuscrit à la typographie numérique (Gazette du livre médiéval, no. 52-53, 2008, pp. 51-78), in which he describes the history of digital type and makes interesting comments on their roots and classification. The site is quite extensive---medievalists can spend weeks visiting links and sub-pages. PDF file. Marc Smith also designed some typefaces, notably Piacevole (2008, a 16th century cursive map script face after J. de Beauchesne), and the "ronde" La Petite Ronde (2008, after L. Barbedor). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French graphics lettering company initially involved in instant lettering (made by Trip Productions), and some original typeface designs. From 1989 until 1994, Mecanorma worked with another Dutch company Visualogik to create digital versions of their typefaces, all having MN in their names. Monotype licensed and digitized some of Mecanorma's typefaces. In 1995, Mecanorma got out of graphics and stepped into home decoration. In 1999, Trip Productions, a Dutch Company located in Lisse, purchased the Mecanorma brand and what was left of the company. In 2004, International TypeFounders from Cedars, PA, licensed the typefaces from Trip Productions and released them as the Mecanorma Collection. Their collection includes some great fonts: Access, Artdeco, Artworld, BalloonMN, Brio, BusoramaMN, Campus, CardCamio, Carplate, CaslonAntiqueVL, ChocMN, CircusMN, ComicStripMN, DynamoMN, Galba, Globe-Gothic-Outline, Glowworm, Jackson, LibraMN, MtPlacard, Ortem, Renault, RoslynMN, Sayer, SayerScriptMN, SquashMN, Sully-Jonquieres, Watch-Outline. You can also buy through Atomic Type. Projected new URL, which I am afraid will never be activated because in 1999, the company was bough by the Dutch company Trip Productions. Fonts.com sells these: MN Access Bold, MN Access Medium, MN Access Volume, MN Art Deco, MN Art World, MN Balloon Bold, MN Balloon Extra Bold, MN Blippo Black, MN Brio, MN Bulletin Typewriter, MN Choc, MN Circus, MN Comic Strip, MN Estro, MN Fumo Dropshadow, MN Galba, MN Gillies Gothic Bold, MN Gillies Gothic Light, MN Gillies Gothic Ultra, MN Gillies Gothic Ultra Shaded, MN Gillies Gothic Ultra Volume, MN Gillies Gothic Volume, MN Globe Gothic Bold, MN Globe Gothic Bold Condensed, MN Globe Gothic Outline, MN Globe Gothic Volume, MN Glowworm, MN Glowworm Compressed, MN Glowworm Volume, MN Gothique, MN Hotel, MN Isonorm, MN Jackson, MN Leopard, MN Milton Demi Bold, MN Orator, MN Organda, MN Organda Bold, MN Organda Volume, MN Ortem, MN Renault, MN Renault Bold, MN Renault Volume, MN Rondo, MN Sayer Interview, MN Sayer Script Black, MN Sayer Script Bold, MN Sayer Script Light, MN Sayer Script Volume, MN Squash, MN Squash Outline, MN Squash Volume, MN Sully Jonquieres, MN Sully Jonquieres Bold, MN Sully Jonquieres Volume, MN Swaak Centennial, MN Vivaldi, MN Watch Outline, MN Windsor, MN Windsor Elongated, MN Xerxes, MN Zambesi. Designers include Albert Boton, J.H. Crook, Jan van Dijk, J. Dresscher, Roger Excoffon, U. Fenocchio, L. Fumarolo, William Gillies, N. Glason, Lennart Hansson, B. Jaquet, K. Kochnowicz, J. Larcher, C. Mediavilla, José Mendoza y Almeida, L. Meuffels, Aldo Novarese, Geroges Renevey, F. Robert, Manfred Sayer, M. Schmidt, J.P. Thaulez, J. Werner and Bogdan Zochowski. The Western slabby font Figaro MT (2004) is ascribed to Mecanorma. A list culled from the web: AccessMN-Bold, AccessMN-Medium, AmericanUncialMN, AnatolMN, ArnoldBocklinMN, ArtdecoMN, ArtworldMN, AsterMN-Demi, AsterMN-Roman, BalloonMN-Bold, BalloonMN-ExtraBold, BlippoBlackMN, BrioMN, BritishInseratMN, BritishInseratMNCondensed, BrushMN, Bulletin-Typewriter, BusoramaMN-Bold, CaligraMN, CampusMN, CardcamioMN, CarplateMN, CaslonAntiqueVL, CelticMN-Bold, CelticMN-Italic, CelticMN, CenturyMNCondensed-BoldItalic, CenturyMNCondensed-Bold, CheltenhamMN-Book, CheltenhamMN-BookItalic, CheltenhamMN-Ultra, ChicagoMN, ChinonMN, ChocMN, CircusMN, ClassicScriptMN, ComicStripMN-Italic, ComicStripMN, CommercialScriptMN, ContestMN, Cooper-Black-Italic, Cooper-Black-Outline, CooperBlackMN, CushingMN-Book, CushingMN-Heavy, CushingMN-HeavyItalic, CushingMN-Medium, DubbeldikMN, DynamoMN-Bold, DynamoMN-Medium, DynamoMN-Shadow, EgyptienneMNCondensed-Bold, ElanMN-Extended, ElanMN-Light, ElanMN-Medium, EnrouteVL, ErasMN-Book, ErasMN-Demibold, ErasMN-Ultra, ErasMN, EstroMN, EurostileMN-Extended, EurostileMN-ExtendedBold, EurostileMN-Medium, FidelioMN, FolioMN-Bold, FolioMN-Extrabold, ForelleMN, FranklinGothicMN-Book, FranklinGothicMN-BookItalic, FranklinGothicMN-Heavy, FrizQuadrataMN-Bold, FrizQuadrataMN, Fumo-DropshadowMN, FuturaBlackMN, GalbaMN, Gillies-Gothic-Bold, Gillies-Gothic-Light, Gillies-Gothic-Ultra-Shadow, Gillies-Gothic-Ultra, GlobeGothicMN-Bold, GlobeGothicMNCondensed-Bold, GlobeGothicMNOutline, GlowwormMN, GlowwormMNCompressed, GorillaVL-Bold, GothiqueMN, HanssonStencilMN-Bold, HanssonStencilMN, HillmanMN, HillmanMNCondensed, HotelMN, IrishUncialVL, IsonormMN, Italia-Bold, Italia-Book, Italia-Medium, JacksonMN, JubileeLinesMN, LatinaMN, LeopardMN, LibraMN, MRunic-Condensed, MSwingBold, MachineMN-Bold, MachineMN, MichelinaMN, MiltonMN-Demibold, MistralVL, MtPlacard-Condensed, NormaliseDinMN, OklahomaState, OliveCompactMN, OliveMNBold, OliveNordMN, OratorMN, OrgandaMN-Bold, OrgandaMN, OrtemMN, PascalMN, PolkaMN-Bold, PolkaMN, PopplExquisitMN, PopplExquisitMN-Alternative, RenaultMN, RenaultMNBold, RondoMN, RoslynMN-Bold, RoslynMN-Bold, RoslynMN-Outline, RoslynMNMedium, SaphireMN, SayerMN-Interview, SayerScriptMN-Black, SayerScriptMN-Bold, SayerScriptMN-Light, SayerSpiritualMN-Italic, SayerSpiritualMN, SloganMN, SquashMN-Outline, SquashMN, StencilAntiqueMN, StencilAntiqueVL, StencilMN, StencilMNOutline, StopMN, StudioMN, SullyJonquieresMN-Bold, SullyJonquieresMN, SwaakCentennialMN, Syntax-Bold, Syntax-Roman, ToucheVL, TziganeMN, ViantMN-Bold, VivaldiMN, VoelBeatMN, WashSymbolVL-Light, WatchMN-Outline, WindsorMN, WindsorMNElongated, ZambesiMN. 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Media Type Foundry
| Media Type Foundry was created in 2010 by type designers Sonia da Rocha, Claude Mediavilla and Joel Vilas Boas (aka J85). It is an independent type foundry based in Paris. Thanks to Mediavilla and his ex-student da Rocha, the emphasis is on type that is deeply rooted in calligraphy. Sonia da Rocha is a graphic and typeface designer from Porto, where she gained her first degree in graphic design. She studied for four years at the Vila do Conde School of design. In 2007, she studied calligraphy under Claude Mediavilla in Paris. Since 2009, she works at the Porchez Typefoundry in Paris. Earlier, her name was Sonia Caramelo, and under that name she designed the Galadriel script face in 2008. With Aurélie Gasche, she designed the dot matrix face Insight in 2009. She also has some calligraphy on her web site. Typefaces:
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Medieval typefaces: Marc Smith's list
| This list of digital types with roots in the middle age was compiled in 2008 by Marc H. Smith [Ménestrel, and École nationale des chartes, Sorbonne, Paris] in 2008. He introduces a classification of these typefaces. PDF file. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Parisian, b. 1989, who made Apogee Rounded Sans (2009) and Wheelchair Sans (2009, organic sans). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Daniel Taupin (Université Paris-Sud) used Olyg Motygin's ttf2mf program, and lots of manual adjustments and additions to generate metafont versions of the usual Times, Arial, Arial Narrow, Book Antiqua, Bookman Old Style, Courier, Garamond, Helvetica and Times New Roman fonts, starting from truetype fonts. FTP site. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Metro Type
| Article by Jean-François Porchez on typefaces used in the Paris transport system, the RATP. It mainly covers the development of his own Parisine typeface. The time chart:
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French creator of Le Corniaud (2005, after the 1965 movie by Gérard Oury). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Assistant of the typographer and master printer François Da Ros, specializing in printing with metal founder's type. Part-time teacher at the Ecole Estienne in Paris. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French graphic designer in Paris who studied at the Beaux Arts of Toulouse and the art school Maryse Eloy. Behance link. Creator of the free hairline handprinted face Freaky (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pictures of some famous typographers and artists by Michael Levy. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creators of a type family in 2007 called DIN Interpretation, which comes with a stencil style. Before that, they created PacBit (2009, pixel font), BlaBla (2003, a script typeface for comic books), Empowered (2009, a comic book family for the series BD Empowered), SamSam (2007, handprinted), Crush (2006, pixelish), Blake & Mortimer (2008, based on the comic books series by E.P. Jacobs entitled Blake & Mortimer), and Caron (2006, a geometric sans family created for the Croulay vineyard). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer of the (free) Fourier-GUTenberg package (dated 2003) for Latex, which includes a number of mathematical type 1 fonts that are new: Fourier-Alternate-Black, Fourier-Alternate-Bold, Fourier-Alternate-BoldItalic, Fourier-Alternate-Italic, Fourier-Alternate-Roman, Fourier-Alternate-SemItalic, Fourier-Alternate-SemiBold, Fourier-Math-BlackBoard, Fourier-Math-Cal, Fourier-Math-Extension, Fourier-Math-Letters-Italic, Fourier-Math-Letters, Fourier-Math-Symbols. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French calligrapher, based in Paris. The broad-stroked calligraphic alphabet shown on this page is extraordinary. Alternate URL. In 2008, he got involved in and exhibited his Hebraic calligraphic art. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer (b. 1985) of the lively but incomplete comic book face Clovis Cheury (2008) and the handprinted Alyssa Martinel (2011). His blog. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Milho Cozido 38
| Marcus Dejean is the French designer of the handprinted face Milho Cozido (2008, with Andressa Ribeiro). Another URL. Blog. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Ministry of Candy
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French creator of Kerbrat (2011, handprinted). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer born in French Guiana in 1983, who is currently studying towards a Bachelors in graphic design in Portland, Oregon. Behance link. He created Viscera (2010), an unusual textured ornamental all caps face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French creator of the grungy OblivionFont (2008). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French creator (b. 1990) of the handwriting font Plastic (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Molé Foliate
| Molé Foliate is a great caps font designed by the Parisian founder Molé, with floral decorations inside the open face 3d letters. Redrawn by S.L. Hartz at Stephenson Blake (1960). I am not sure this face is available in digital format. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Berber fonts by the association Afus deg Wfus, located in Roubaix, France. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French type designer who designed Aïda, Monika and Silvia, all in 1972 at Hollenstein Phototypo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Mostar Design
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French youngster (b. 1989) who lives in Saint-Gaudens. He created Mouk Script (2008) and MK Chinese Brush (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French site with Tifinagh (Berber) derived fonts: Amazigh-Algerian Amazigh-AuntJudy, Amazigh-Civitype, Amazigh-GoodCityModern, Amazigh-GraphicLight, Amazigh-Treacyfaces, Amazigh-Arial-Bold-Italic, Amazigh-Arial-Bold, Amazigh-Arial-Italic, Amazigh-Arial, Amazigh-Courier-New-Italic, Amazigh-Arial-Rounded-MT-Bold, Amazigh-Book-Antiqua, Amazigh-Bookman-Old-Style-Bold, Amazigh-Braggadocio, Amazigh-Britannic-Bold, Amazigh-Brush-Script-MT-Italic, Amazigh-Century-Gothic, Amazigh-Colonna-MT, Amazigh-Desdemona, Amazigh-Footlight-MT-Light, Amazigh-Impact, Amazigh-Kino-MT, Amazigh-Wide-Latin, Amazigh-Matura-MT-Script-Capitals, Amazigh-Monotype-Corsiva, Amazigh-Times-New-Roman-Bold-Italic, Amazigh-Times-New-Roman-Bold, Amazigh-Times-New-Roman-Italic, Amazigh-Times-New-Roman, Amazigh-tifinagh-Masensen, Amazigh-tifinagh-Yugurten. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian-Chinesegraphic designer who created Comma (2012, a geometric typeface), FoldFont (2011), Croxxtypo (2011, octagonal), and CrossTypo (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Muriel Paris (b. 1965) and Alex Singer (b. 1971) are involved in type in Paris. They co-designed the wonderful Zinzolin in 1996, a free adaptation of Polyphème, 1926. Author of Des caractères (IPA Patoux, 2003) and "Petit Manuel de Composition Typographique". [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jean-François Champollion is the Frenchman who decrypted the Egyptian hieroglyphs. This is a museum dedicated to his work, in the heart of France. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
This museum has several hundred letter casts from the 19th and 20th centuries! There are also several hundred type specimen books. History of typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
This French museum sells useful books with hundreds of examples of medieval alphabets, illuminations, initial caps, and ornaments. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
MyFonts selection for the tag French. Interesting to see what one finds here, berets and baguettes aside. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
MyFonts selection for Jean Jannon. These are garalde faces, and various digital versions of Garamond. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
MyFonts hit list for typefaces by Peignot or in the style of Peignot's faces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French logo and type designer born in Caen, but living in Montreuil near Paris. Graduated in 2003 from the Ecole Estienne with a DMA in typography. Designer of the free roman column face Typo3 (2005). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
N. Gallay et Grignon | French company that published Spécimen des caractères, vignettes et fleurons, de la fonderie de N. Gallay et Grignon (Paris: Imprimerie de Schneider et Langrand, 1 rue d'Erfurth, 1842). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French painter, who published many (painted) alphabets in Album du peintre en bâtiment (1882, ed. Ducher et Cie, Paris). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Paris. She created an Origami alphabet in 2009. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nadja Cohendy and Kanda Rahamou (Paris, France) codesigned Slogo (2012), a font based on letters from famous logos. Cohendy studies graphic design at Ecole d'Art Maryse Eloy (Paris, France). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French creator of the free 3d experimental block font Namafont (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian graphic design student at ECV in Paris. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Natahalie Ouederni (Amarante Designs) is a French graphic designer and illustrator in Delft, The Netherlands. In 2010, she created a font from direction signs, and started work on an ink splatter font. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
(French?) [T-26] designer of the inkblot font Inspector Clouseau. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Nicolas Frespech | Frenchman Nicolas Frespech designed the Tata Karen grunge font, Karlalala (truetype) and the child handwriting font NicolasFrespech (2009). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French calligrapher, engraver and type founder, d. ca 1767. He acquired the types of Claude Lamesle: Épreuves générales des caracteres provenants de la fonderie de Claude Lamesle, lesquels se trouvent présentement dans celle de Nicolas Gando, l'aîné (Paris, Cloître S. Julien le Pauvre, 1758). See also Epreuves des caractères de la fonderie Gando, père et fils (Paris, Cloître Sc Julien le Pauvre, 1760). His son is Pierre=François. He was involved in music typography and wrote an angry response "Observations sur le traité historique et critique de M. Fournier" (1766) as a reaction to accusations of plagiarism made by Pierre-Simon Fournier in 1765 in "Traité historique et critique sur l?origine et les progrès des caractères de fonte pour l?impression de la musique". A 170-page specimen book was published in 1810: "Specimen des caractères de la fonderie de N.P. Gando à Paris et de son fils TH. S. Gandon à Bruxelles." [facsimile reprint in 1992 by Lane and Lommen] This shows that his son, Th. S. Gando, had set up shop in Brussels. He is often associated with upright connected script style. For example, French 111 (Bitstream, by Hans-Jörg Hunziker and Matthew Carter---this face was first called Gando Ronde in 1970 by Linotype, and after the big tansatlantic heist, it "became" French 111 at Bitstream) is based on Gando's ronde. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Brief bio by The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology of UCLA. Linotype link. FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
French type designer who co-designed NLE 2B210 with Eric DeBerranger at LaFonderie, 1997. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer (b. 1983) of Puzzle (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian designer (b. 1982) of the handprinted face Amiable (2011). Aka Iskoan. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French graphic designer located in Paris who created the experimental rubber band typeface Elasticum (2008). Alternate URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer in 2004 of these free school fonts: CrayonPoints, CrayonPointsEcriture, CrayonPointsSeyes. Nicolas works for the groupe départemental de la Loire de l'I.C.E.M. Pédagogie Freinet. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer of the sans face Alps (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graduate of the Regional Institute of Visual Art of Martinique. Parisian designer of Torcii (2012, scratchy hand) and of Clodo Note (2012, grungy). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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French graphic designer who lives in Chateaubriant. Devian Tart link. Her typefaces (ca. 2011) include Heimiotas, Arabno (Arabic, to match Univers), Gantoise, Laborine (text face), Mécatique (angular, almost blackletter). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Student at l'Ecole de Communication Visuelle (ECV) in Paris. She created a typeface for the identity of the Picasso Museum in Paris in 2012. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Nonpareille (or: Chastellun.net)
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Number Nine (or: N9)
| N9 is a French experimental type foundry run by Guillaume-Ulrich Chifflot. Chifflot's fonts from 1995-1996 made under the label "N9" or "Number Nine" include AnigGwar, AnigGwarFluffy, AnigGwarLight, BinaryTrash, CodeElizabeth, Drill, DrillBold, DrillDark, DrillDemiBold, DrillExtraBold, DrillExtraLight, DrillFluffy, DrillLight, DrillUltraLight, EdgeHorizontal, Layer, Rise, Rough, RoughBold, RoughDark, RufusOne, RufusOneDark, RufusTwo, Woof, WoofBlack, WoofBold, WoofDemiBold, WoofExtraBold, WoofExtraLight, WoofLight, WoofThin, WoofUltraLight. At some point, he started N9 or Number Nine and went partially commercial. He also made Baseline 303 (1999, commercial), Phuturized (1997, grunge), Computer Waltz (1997), Dodecadarian Remixes (2005), Dodecadarian EP (2005), Dummy XO (2004, free), Dummy (2004, free), Big Bang (1997), Colony-Bold (2000), Colony (2000), Hard Bleep (1997), Bleep (1997), Daedalus (2003), Rough Scholar (1996), Ultrawerk EP (1996), Woof Trash (1996), Rorschach (1996), Gotlib (1996), Burn (1995), Abwher Futura, Abwher Politika, RaveOne (1992), Zim Boom (1991), Dead Bodies Ecstasy (1991), Chaos (1989). His work contains mostly grunge and fonts with a computer theme. Other contributors to N9 include Clarisse Grossier, the designer of the dingbat face Tu Parles. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Ok Kyung Yoon | Ok Kyung Yoon (b. 1975, South Korea) works and lives in Paris. After studying at the Fine Art School in Mulhouse, she started as a freelance graphic designer and works in parallel with her studies at the EnsadLab, notably with the institutions of contemporary art like the Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain/FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais in France or La Fundación ArtAids, Barcelona. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. In 2009-2010, with fellow ENSAD students Anthony Dathy, Perrine Saint Martin and Timm Borg, she developed a complete family of fonts that extend blackletter and roman faces by Ulrich Gering that go back to the 1470s. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Codesigner with Christophe Chelmis at KolleBolle in Lyon of the connect-the-dots faces 0Pointe-AFaire (2004) and 0Pointe-Fait (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Young French designer, born in Ringendorf, associated with Typotek. He lives in Strasbourg. Noted for the font family Les Insectes (first prize in the symbols category of the 1998 ITC type competition; available from ITC) and Linotype Modulo (1997). At Typotek, he designed Coda (1997), Inky (1998), Nouilles (1999), Lysana (interesting dingbats, 1998), Ebe (1998), Error (pixel font, 1998), and Sanstitre (2001). He is also part of L'atelier de découpage typographique, where he designed typefaces such as La Sabine (1998). Yisana won an award at Bukvaraz 2001. He also made the arrow font La Girouette (1998). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
orangebleu (was Terra Nova, or 808 State)
| French site proclaiming itself "lieu d'experimentation typographique". Click on "cuisines" and then on the yellow bullets (one per font). Christophe Martin's fonts are for PC and Mac: finished fonts include After 45', Coperniq, BoxRegular, Codex and Lexomil. This site has become an impossible maze. See also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Orly fonts
| BDF and FON (bitmap) fonts designed by Jean-Luc Vinot [Orly Fonts], an interface designer at CENA in Toulouse, France. He says: "We designed those fonts for X window system radar displays. Building bitmap fonts was a big issue already, and we only needed them by the time we started." Included are nice lettering fonts and some dingbats: orly-clock-b24-v1.0, orly-fixed-m14-v1.0, orly-fixed-o14-v1.0, orly-label-b16-v1.0, orly-label-b17-v1.0, orly-label-m14-v1.0, orly-label-m16-v1.0, orly-label-o14-v1.0, orly-symbol1-v1.0. There is also a Bleriot series of bitmap fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Frenchman (b. 1986) located in Paris. He created I Shot The Serif (2008), an ultra-black blockish face. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ouvrez!!! Police!!! (Claude (Chloe) Derieppe)
| From Lille, France, Claude (Chloe) Derieppe's (now Madame Claude Bernollin-Derieppe) wonderful archive with many fonts displayed in an artistic manner. Specializing in music group, movie and animal theme fonts and dingbats. Go here for her own (free) creations: AbcdaireEnfantin, AgendaduDirecteur, AlphaBones, AlphaClouds, AlphaFitness (2005), AlphaGraphics, AlphaMusicMan (2004, letters with instruments built in), AlphaNails, AlphaRunning, Alpha Sports (2004, letters made of athletes), Crazy Zoo (2004, alphadings with animals), Woman Hair (2004), Elephant and Alpha Elfin (2004), Good Fellow (2005, caps face made from people), AlphaSmoke, AlphaTrees, Amadeus, AmericanDream, Arbitre, BeMyValentine, Bouhbouh, CDCrossword, CafeduMatin, ChatBada, ChausettesdeNoel, CountryButton, CouteauSuisse, Cuicui, Elles, FirstAid, FleursdeLiane, Georges, GoodFellow, GrazingOnGrass, HalloweenBats, HalloweenSpider, JackO, JoeDiMaggio, Lucky-Font, MixedGrill, MovingCarton, PaquetCadeaux, TheFontWithNoName, Touchdown, Tourbillon, ValentineRibbon, WhiteChristmas, WienerGentilToutou, Zazou, Alpha Unplugged, Patchwork Angel, Alpha Topiary, Alpha Elfin, Alpha Paint, Wiener Gentil Toutou, Grazing On Grass, Hungry Frog, Amadeus, AmericanDream, Aquarium, Arbitre, AStarisBorn, BasicFont, Bestioles, Beurk, Bouhbouh, BrokenGlass, BzzzBee, CanadianAutumn, ChausettesdeNoel, ChloeConfetti, CheeseandMouse, CouteauSuisse, CrazyZoo, DaddyTie, DowntheDrain, DecoStamp, Boum-Boum, ExtravaDance, FleursdeLiane (1999, caps font with branches), HalloweenSpider, JoeDiMaggio, LotusPaws, Lucky-Font, MapleLeafRag, Mariposa, MissingPiece, Once-uponatime, PatchworkLetter, Georges, PanierdePaques, PetitsBateaux, RoseNote, RubanExtravaganza, ScaryMonsters, SpottyFont, StrictoSensu, SavageSausage, TavernDoors, Touchdown, Tomate, Zippo (2000), HobbyHeadline, ryp_snata1, PapaNoel, PoleNord, Three Little Pink Pigs, LuckyFont, MixedGrill, Explosif, Abcdaire Enfantin, AgendaduDirecteur, BasicFont, BzzzBee, CafeduMatin, CrackBoum, EroticaCD, FirstAid, MovingCarton, PersonaNonGrata, TacoBox (Mexican simulation face), WalkingAround. Features an erotic font archive with Big Breast Font (Lions Den), Condom Font (Lions Den), Koksure (Les Rowe), StripLetter, Martini Olive (Solar*Sister Fonts/Isabelle Trolio), SexFont (Lions Den), Marlboro (WSI), ScripteaseLetPlain (Letraset), DongCasual (Chank Diesel), Hole (Dieter Schumacher), Pigpen (Thomas Rogerstam), Pornhut (Fontalicious), MargueritaLetPlain (Letraset), and Groupsex (Fish Dicks). Plus links. Many music theme fonts. Warning: Someone reported to me that visiting this site will infect your computer with a nasty script (I could not verify this as this seems to apply to PC users only). Alternate URL. Dafont link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
P. Digney | Foundry in Saint-Germain en Laye. Its work can be found in Épreuves de caractères de la fonderie de P. Digney (Imprimerie L. Toinon, Saint-Germain en Laye, ca. 1860). Digney was succeeded by Warnery Frères located at 49 et 51, boulevard Saint-Jacques, Paris. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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P. Ribadeau Dumas | French printer from the early 20th century. His work is shown in Spécimen : caractéres, vignettes, filets, sujets (Paris : P. Ribadeau Dumas, 192?, 271 pages). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Pachyderm88 is the French designer from the Vosges region of the skulls dingbat font Totenkopf (2002) [see also here]. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Pampa Type
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French creator in Bordeaux of Lutin Paniquangoisse (2011, curly face). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Panorama de polices OpenType
| Thomas Linard's list of available OpenType fonts, with some discussion (in French). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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French designer, b. 1972, aka Joe Skull. Creator of Skull Type Wr00 (2003) and Skull Font 00 (2003). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French type designer (b. 1967) who designed Son, 1996. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer, b. 1979, Amiens, France. Cofounder with Elena Albertoni of Anatole Type Foundry. After studies at ESAD in Amiens, he moved to Berlin. He is working on Valora, Schneider and Hélène. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pascale Rismondo | French type designer at the ADT (Atelier de decoupage typographique). Designer of Le Antoine (1998). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French designer of these rounded script fonts at Linotype in 2008: Tendria (upright connected signage type) and Saussa (brush face). Tendria was based on lettering she designed for Tendriade. Saussa was conceived for fruit salad packaging. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Quebec-based computer scientist who has been involved in the multilingual and Unicode world. He was one of the authors of a proposal adding Tifinagh to Unicode. He is currently working with people in France and Niger on the development of OpenType fonts to support Tuareg. He is also involved in other African scripts such as Moroccan and Sahelian Arabic and a recent script from the Congo (Mandombe). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Paul Bürck | Born in 1878 (Strassburg), died in 1947. Designer of Bürck Schrift (1904, Stempel). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French youngster (b. 1996) who created the special effect face BLE (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, she co-designed Recréation (2000). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian illustrator and designer. He created the modular Benedictine Type (2010) and Triangular Type (2010). But his illustrations are a must-see, especially the Mafia series [more images: i, ii, iii, iv]. Alternate URL. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French type designer who is coeditor of Typographe.com. She graduated in 2007 from Ecole Estienne with a thesis entitled Pierre-Simon Fournier, typographe absolu, typographe accompli?. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French type designer, 1657-1729. Famous for his Truchet tiling system. Module (2008, ST) is based on his work. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Pelzin et Drevon
| Printer in Lyon from the 18th century until 1810, when it became A.M. Pelzin (1810-1828), then Cl. J. Pelzin (1828-1833) and then L. Boitel (1833-1852). Léonard (or Léon) Boitel (b. 1806, Rive de Gier, d. 1855, Irigny) published some specimen books. In an 1846 book, he showed a roman alphabet that was designed by H. Leymarie and engraved on wood by Brevière. Laurent Hippolyte Leymarie (b. 1809, Lyon, d. 1844, Saint-Rambert en Bugey) was a painter, illustrator and engraver. Louis Henri Brevière, b. 1797, Forges les Eaux, d. 1869, Hyères) was an illustrator and wood engraver in Rouen and then in Paris. Boitel's printing enterprise was left to A. Vingtrinier (1852-1876), which was then passed to A. Waltener (1880-1894), and on to P. Legendre (1894-1932), to finally become Etablissements Legendre in 1932, still in Lyon. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Peplum
| Besançon, France-based designer of the pixel fonts PEPgenius10 (dingbats) and PEPminus10 (letters). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Perrine Saint Martin | Perrine Saint Martin was born in France in 1980 and lives and works in Paris. After graduating from the Fine Art School of Toulouse, she has worked in graphic design, more particularly in the field of book design with a special interest in typographical layout. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. In 2009-2010, with fellow ENSAD students Anthony Dathy, Timm Borg and Ok Kyung Yoon, she developed a complete family of fonts that extend blackletter and roman faces by Ulrich Gering that go back to the 1470s. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Peter Keller | Swiss type designer and teacher (b. Basel, 1944). Since 1989, he heads the Atelier national de recherche typographique (ANRT) in Nancy. Before that, he ran type courses at ENSAD (École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs) in Paris (1969), had his own studio in Paris (1970), taught courses at ESAG (École supérieure d'Arts Graphiques) in Paris (1972), and worked as a type consultant for Roger Tallon in Paris (1974). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French designer of the animal silhouette face Le monde de Victor (2010). His web site is dedicated to children. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French type designer (b. Paris, 1962) who designed the experimental fonts Carré, Octobre and Aleph in 1994. [The digital versions of these fonts are due to Franck Montfermé.] First prize at the Tokyo Type Directors Club in 1995, and a Judges' Special Prize at the same competition in 1999. Poster exhibition. Bio. Since 1992, he has been teaching typography at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs. Alternate URL. Photograph. Winner in 2009 of the typographic design award of the International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French (Corsican) designer of the semi-calligraphic script face Pecita (2009). Home page, which is entirely set in this script, yet is text-searchable and used as a regular font---great example to follow. Pecita also covers Greek, Turkish, Vietnamese and IPA. Alternate URL. See also the Open Font Library. Font Squirrel link. Kernest link. Fontspace link. Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typefounder and printer in Paris, who made a Civilité in 1597. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Zürich-based French designer at Optimo of Editor (2005), modeled after the Swiss typewriter brand Hermes. Creator at Lineto of the stencil face Le Corbusier. With Marco Walser of Elektrosmog, he worked on the six weights of LL Brauer Neue (1999-2006), after and original typeface called Brauer by Pierre Miedinger, nephew of Max Miedinger, who created it in 1974 for the Züriuch-based brewery called Brauerei. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Behance link. Flickr page, where one can find more experimental types, like AbstractMin (2010), AbstractStruct (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pierre Cot | French typefounder of the early 18th century. Pierre Cot Type Specimen of 1707 was written by Douglas C. McMurtrie in 1924 (Chicago: Robert O. Ballou). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Born in paris in 1761, he died there in 1853. He was in the third generation of the Didot dynasty of printers, son of François-Ambroise Didot. Wikipedia: Pierre Didot was awarded a gold medal at the exhibition of 1798, for his edition of Virgil. By order of the Government, his presses were established in the Louvre, where they remained during the Consulate. The celebrated Louvre editions are Virgil, Racine, Horace, and La Fontaine. The board of examiners of the 1806 exhibition pronounced the Racine edition "the most perfect typographical production of all ages". Pierre Didot was also a poet and translated in verse the fourth book of Georgies, the first books of Horace's Odes, and wrote a number of original poems. Didot published this book in 1819: Specimen des nouveaux caractères de la fonderie et de l'imprimerie de P. Didot, l'ainé, chevalier de l'ordre royal de Saint-Michel, imprimeur du roi et de la chambre des pairs (Paris). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer of Golf (Hollenstein Phototypo, 1970). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Basque type designer and lettering artist in Biarritz, France. Died in 1976. Type owned by Imprimerie Ferrus, 3 rue Barthou, 64600 Biarritz, France. Tel (33) 05 59 24 00 10. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
From Computer-Aided Design, vol. 22, November 1999, an obituary: Pierre Etienne Bézier was born on September 1, 1910 in Paris. Son and grandson of engineers, he chose this profession too and enrolled to study mechanical engineering at the Ecole des Arts et Metiers and received his degree in 1930. In the same year he entered the Ecole Superieure d'Electricite and earnt a second degree in electrical engineering in 1931. In 1977, 46 years later, he received his DSc degree in mathematics from the University of Paris. In 1933, aged 23, Bézier entered Renault and worked for this company for 42 years. He started as Tool Setter, became Tool Designer in 1934 and Head of the Tool Design Office in 1945. In 1948, as Director of Production Engineering he was responsable for the design of the transfer lines producing most of the 4 CV mechanical parts. In 1957, he became Director of Machine Tool Division and was responsable for the automatic assembly of mechanical components, and for the design and production of an NC drilling and milling machine, most probably one of the first machines in Europe. Bézier become managing staff member for technical development in 1960 and held this position until 1975 when he retired. Bézier started his research in CADCAM in 1960 when he devoted a substantial amount of his time working on his UNISURF system. From 1960, his research interest focused on drawing machines, computer control, interactive free-form curve and surface design and 3D milling for manufactoring clay models and masters. His system was launched in 1968 and has been in full use since 1975 supporting about 1500 staff members today. Bézier's academic career began in 1968 when he became Professor of Production Engineering at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers. He held this position until 1979. He wrote four books, numerous papers and received several distinctions including the "Steven Anson Coons" of the Association for Computing Machinery and the "Doctor Honoris Causa" of the Technical University Berlin. He is an honorary member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and of the Societe Belge des Mecaniciens, ex-president of the Societe des Ingenieurs et Scientifiques de France, Societe des Ingenieurs Arts et Metiers, and he was one of the first Advisory Editors of "Computer-Aided Design". [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of La Police Coupable, a font that when cut horizontally is such that top halves and bottom halves can be matched almost at will to make new letters. It created controversyt, because "police" (font) also means the police force. So, the font is called "The police is guilty". As a result, the INPI (Institut National de la Propriété Industrielle, the French IP institute) refused the publication and registration of the trademark La Police Coupable. About the same time, Sarkozy accepted 170,000 Euros in cash in a brown envelope from a rich woman, and the corrupt French circus continues---the good are bad and the bad get rich. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian designer. Behane link. Creator of the organic caps face Hartland (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pierre Hamon | Or Pierre Hammon. Pierre Hamon introduced the chancery script (cancellaresca) in France in his 1561 book, Alphabet de l'invention des lettres en diverses. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French engraver and typefounder who worked with Paulo Manucius from 1588 on, and who was commissioned to create a typeface for the Vatican. He cooperated with Granjon. Mark van Bronkhorst writes about his MVB Verdigris font: MVB Verdigris is a Garalde text face for the digital age. Inspired by the work of 16th-century punchcutters Robert Granjon (roman) and Pierre Haultin (italic), Verdigris celebrates tradition but is not beholden to it. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian librarian who published a type specimen in 1856 made by him and cut by M. Gouet. With a large x-height and triangular serifs, this specimen is reminiscent of the "Dutch" typefaces and of Fournier. The specimen book entitled Specimen des Nouveaux Caracteres Destinees à l'Impression de la Bibliothèque Eléevirienne is published here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Apprentice of J. Gill&aeacute;. He took over the Briquet (or Briquet and Loyson, or Cappon, or Veuve Cappon) foundry in 1785, and ran it in Paris until 1837. Its work can be found in Épreuves des caractères anglais de la fonderie de Vafflard, à Paris (Paris, 1811). This publication shows nothing really original. Bill Troop worked at some point on a typeface called Vafflard's First Manner Type in the 1990s. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Pierre Moreau | Pierre Moreau (ca. 1600-1648) was a notary, calligrapher and "écrivain juré" in Paris in the 17th century. He wrote several books on the art of writing, and designed the six typefaces used to print "Les Saintes Metamorphoses," in a style imitating handwriting. He created a script in 1644 that is discussed here. He endeavoured to cut printing types in the style of handwriting. In 1644, he published these handwriting imitation ideas in "Les Heures de la nouvelle imprimerie inventée par Pierre Moreau, dediées à Madame la Marquise de Senecey, gouvernante du Roy." Fournier, and later Updike and Doyald Young document this attempt. Christian Paput found some of Moreau's alphabets in the Cabinet des Poinçons of the Imprimerie nationale (of France). Isabelle de Conihout wrote a chapter on Moreau in Poésie&calligraphie imprimée à Paris au XVIIème siècle. His script type and ornaments from 1643 can be admired here. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Pierre Nguyen (Welcome to Cloud) lives and works in Paris as a graphic designer. His poster typefaces include Papercut (2007), Director (2007, octagonal), Toyz (2007, art deco), Helium (2007, bloated glyphs), and Architype (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Dead link. French designer (b. 1978) of Ascii (2001, a stitch font), and the dingbat font Celebrity (2001), Celebrity No (2001). Member and co-founder of the Trafik collective in Lyon. His free fonts are available at Typotek. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French graphic designer, type designer and type designer (b. 1947) who lives in Strasbourg and who designed Marpessa (1996), Nolico (1998), and the Pastille (1998) pixel family at Sogral. These fonts are also available at Typotek. He teaches at l'École supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer of a font for the role play game SimulacreS: CasusBats (1999) [see also here]. He also designed a font based on the handwriting of the comic book artist Enki Bilal. It is unknown where this font can be found, but Jef Tombeur assured me that it exists! [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, he co-designed Poinçons (1999), a face based on a design of Fournier. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Youngest son of the Didot printing business founder, François Didot, 1732-1795 (some sources say 1731-1793, and others 1732-1793). Pierre-François Didot founded a paper factory in Essonne and made improvements in type-founding. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer in Tours, France, b. 1979. Creator of the monoline sans face Climpse (2011). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typographer who studied at the Ecole Estienne in Paris. Together with Guillaume Crouzet, he founded Zone Opaque in August 2004 in Montreuil, near Paris. He is the first President of Zone Opaque. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French typefounder (b. Paris, 1712, d. Paris, 1768) also called Fournier le jeune.
Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
French graphic designer in Montpellier who made several experimental fonts in 2010, such as Architekt, Progress and Delicious as Hell. In 2011, he added Forest (ultra-black poster face) and Sunrise. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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News stories and picture galleries related to graphic design and typography in France. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Jean-Christophe Loubet del Bayle's web site on typography. In French. Besides articles, there are also useful type links. Old pages. Temps typographiques. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Plon Frères | Typefounders in Paris. Their work can be found in Spécimen de la fonderie nouvelle de Plon frères ... rue de Vaugirard, 36, à Paris (Paris, Typographie Plon frères, 36, rue de Vaugirard. 1851). This book offers ultra contrast "Lettres initiales", liquid style initials, beautiful filets (noirs, composés and ornés), a gorgeous Fraktur face, Gothique allemande Corps 36, and two nice sets of letters made of animals (called Arméniennes). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Point Central | French typographical non-profit organization, run by Guillaume-Ulrich Chifflot, but now off-line. It had sections entiteled "Font user's guide', "Anatomy of a font", "Bibliography", "Intro to wood type" (Stephen O. Saxe, 1983), "Font-making tutorial". [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French type and web typography site, with commentary and tips. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pontifial de Metz | Nice pages (in French) on the history of letterforms, and in particular, Fraktur and uncial types. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Porchez Typofonderie
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FontFont write-up. Adobe write-up. Bio. At ATypI 2004 in Prague, he spoke about Parisine and legibility. Linotype link. FontShop link. MyFonts link. MyFonts interview in 2009. Behance link. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. View the typefaces made by Typofonderie Porchez. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Présence Typo
| Friendly French Agfa Creative Alliance designer (b. 1961) who lives in Baratier. He was an ex-student of José Mendoza at the Imprimerie Nationale à Paris. He started Présence Typo in 2000. Great web pages, great designer, fantastic fonts. Bio. He published numerous typefaces in various places:
View the typefaces designed by Thierry Puyfoulhoux. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
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Agency in Strasbourg, France, that with the help of Pierre Roesch has adapted the handwriting of Uderzo and made it into a multi-accented central European font. Contact: Bernard Maufras. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Course by James Mosley at l'Institut de l'Histoire du Livre (IHL) in Lyon, France, from October 14-17, 2002. Limited to twelve persons. 450 Euros. A beautiful course content: Introduction---the writing, of the Roman capital to the tiny Gothic. The discovery of the Roman capital in Italy to the 15 E century. L B Alberti, Felice Feliciano, Luca Pacioli, Geoffrot Tory, Albrecht Dürer. The invention of printing works and Gothic character. The Italian writing: scrittura umanistica and corsiva cancellaresca. Roman characters and italics in Italy and France, 1470-1600. Nicolas Jenson, Francesco Griffo, Claude Garamond, Pierre Haultin, Robert Granjon, Guillaume Bé. Literature of the engraving of the punches and the foundry of the characters: Joseph Moxon (London, 1683), Jacques Jaugeon (Paris, 1704) Pierre-Simon Baker (Paris, 1764). Characters with the "taste hollandois". Hendrik van den Keere, Nicolas Briot, Christoffel van Dijk, Nicolas KIS, Joseph Moxon, William Caslon. Towards a new penmanship 1560-1740 G.F. Cresci, Lucas Materot, Louis Barbedor, Charles Snell, George Bichkam. Of the "Roman of the roi" in Didot. Philippe Grandjean, John Baskerville, Pierre-Simon Baker, François-Ambroise (and others) Didot, Giambattista Bodoni. A new typography: use of the conceited person-face, antique and the Egyptian woman in printed publicity. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Technical reports available from Project BibOpera, which is concerned with typesetting, document production, and typography. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Cahiers GUTenberg and La Lettre GUTenberg are French publications dealing with all typographical matters. They are situated on the threshold between good typographical practice and the development of related software. Archives GUTenberg. Run from IRISA in Rennes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer. Dafont link. Creator of the human face dingbat font Fluid Death Qkila (2011), of Vandal on The Fluid (2011, shadow display face), of Broken Fluid (2011), Fluid Christmas (2011), Fluid Spiral (2011), Rock n Fluid (2011) and of the counterless geometric face Cube Kila (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Qréalib
| Graphic designer in Veauche, Loire, France. Dafont link. Creator of the free typefaces Aqualib (2012), Erolib (2012, white on black), Ginolib (2012), Qréalib (2012, monoline avant-garde unicase sans), Airlib (2012, grunge), Angelib (2012, fat finger face), and Tramlib (2012, grungy). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Quartet Systems
| Eric Wannin's French commercial foundry with PC and Mac fonts for all European languages, most Indic languages, Cyrillic, Vietnamese, Amharic, Inuit, Slavonic, Greek, Tibetan, Thai, Lao, Khmer, Burmese, Cri. Hieroglyphic fonts too. Free font family: EuroQuartet. These fonts have one glyph only, the Euro symbol. It has some bar code fonts too. Multilingual fonts. They cover Braille, East European languages, Turkish, Baltic, Cyrillic, Icelandic and Greek. According to the Google] [More] ⦿ |
Quentin is based in Bordeaux, France. He developed Unipasta, a Unicode browser. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Qui Résiste
| Pierre di Sciullo (b. 1962) is the award-winning Parisian designer of FF Flèches and Minimum. At FUSE17 (1997), he published SpellMe. Creative Alliance designer of Gararond. In 2000, he started QuiRésiste. Bio at FontFont. In FUSE 5, he created the experimental font ScratchedOut. There is also a free pixel family called Aligourane for the Tuaregs (in their national writing system, Tifinagh). Commercial pixel families: Zèbre, Minimum serifs, 3 par 3, and Minus. He also made a medieval-futuristic font Nicolas2000 (nice!), several experimental fonts such as Quantange, Syntetic, Basnoda, Miroir, Epelle-moi, Amanar (2009, runic), Kouije, Sintetik, Quantane, Paresseux, Sonia, and Spell me, as well as more traditional fonts such as Gararond, Gararond Lié, Gararaide, Garadico, Durmou, and destructionist fonts such as Découpé and Paris-Gretz. At Buildingletters, one can buy his Aligourane (1995) in these weights: Contour, Noir, Orner, Leger and Etroit, as well as Amanar (2003) in these weights: Condense, Decor, Demigras, Noir. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Radiateur Fontes (ICI)
| Really killer type designs by Lille-based Frenchman Jean-Jacques Tachdjian (b. Lille, 1959). Fonts: ADNFont, BlueNote, Cécarré, Cathedrale, Dia, Kijno, Pabo, Plastico, Salon, ALTERNA, AVATAR, Alex (1995), Alex2, AlternaBlack, Atom (1998), BAROK (1996), Bdni, Bobold, CAVERN, CCARR, CDU, CYBERTYPE, Carrement, Centauri-Bold, DINER, Disfit, Elck, Elevation, Fili, GRIS, Granul, HLIOSBasdeCasse, Lachienne, Nobodi, Numero, ORTI, Plastic, SATURN, SEPTENTRION-Medium, SQUEEZE, TEKST, USINE-Bold, YCARE, ATOM#1, EUROPIC, FRIA, HEAD (1995), ORTA, PABO, POTAGER, ZONE1, ZONE2, ZONE3. Brief bio. Fonts distributed by Linotype (see Linotype Barock (1999)), Typo-arts, Mindcandy and Typotek. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Basque type designer and lettering artist in Hasparren, France. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer of the grotesque faces Raoul Transport Britannique (2011) and Raoul AUTOROUTE Britannique (2011), which are modeled after the glyphs of British traffic signs. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian student who used FontStruct to make the octagonal 3d shadow face Beastie Boys (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Home page of this French graphic designer. He created the bewitched angular face RqF (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Aka Shaashimov. French creator of the free font Tribal Garamond (2010), and the grungy faces Raslens Szayel Abedossen (2011), Raslens Shaa Abedossen (2011), Shamsini (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Raúl Rodríguez | Spanish type designer who lives in France. He won an award at Tipo-Q in 2006 for RRhidalgo. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French typographer, 1905-2000 (Paris). April 99 interview with this supporter of the famous Rencontres de Lure. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Réjus&cie | Paris-based foundry that published Petit spécimen des caractères de la fonderie Réjus&cie (1884). This small book has no full type showings. The cover has another title: "Fonderie Universelle. Petit spécimen des caractères des fonderies J. Ristou de Montpellier, E. Constantin de Nancy, Réjus et cie successeurs". [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Aka Psycho Hedgehog, Frenchman Rémy Demarest designed Psycho (2004), available at Dafont. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French type designer, b. Paris, 1924, d. Paris, 1986. Designer of Cristal (1955, Fonderie Deberny&Peignot). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer of Xbox 360 (2005). Dafont link. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer of Nishuki Pixels (2011). Aka goku 500. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Regarfix
| Roubaix-based photographer. At Behance, one can admire his psychedelic font Kubold (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Rules of French typography (punctuation, etc.), compiled by people at the Université René Descartes in Paris. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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The French state-owned car company has the rights to the Renault font, commissioned from Wolff Olins in the late 1960s. Pierre Bézier worked there as an engineer. The inventor of Bezier curves was a wizard with splines and mathematical shapes, but the Renault company managed to produce some of the ugliest looking cars anyway. They never made cars as streamlined as the Citroen DS or the Peugeot 203. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Rencontres Internationales de Gravure Calligraphie Typographie | Meeting held at the Château de Grouchy in Osny. The meeting is mainly a reunion of ex-students at the Ecole Estienne. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
In the early 50s, Maximilien Vox, Jean Giono and Jean Garcia created a French type association that gets together each year during the last week of August in the picturesque village of Lurs-en-Provence. There is a monthly newsletter. The meetings in Lurs have become very popular. Present president: Jacques Blociszewski. By the way, a superb web page! The 2006 meeting entitled L'é'crit de l'amour was held from 20-26 August. It featured Perinne Rouillon, Rudi Meyer, Peter Bil'ak, Yves Perrousseaux, Monsieur Obertelli, Marc Kopylov, Eric Kindel, Jean-François Porchez, Fred Smeijers, Michel Melot, Claude-Laurent François, Anne et Patrick Poirier and Malte Martin. The 2007 meeting, from 19-25 August, is about universal typography. The 2008 meeting, from 25-30 August, is about money (and the typography of money). Report of the 2008 meeting by Frank Adebiaye. Historic pictures by Jean-François Porchez. Old URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
René Ponot | French type designer (b. 1917, d. 2003) whose faces Roncesvalles (FT Nacional, 1955) and Psitt (FT Française, 1953-1954) will soon be republished by Neufville. His fonts: Blason (1978), Continent (1959, Optype - Letterphot), Mopon (1965, Moreau - Lettrage Relief), Nil (1978), Psitt (1954, Fonderie Typographique Française), Castellane&Valensole (Fonderie typographique Française), Roncevalles (1955, Fundicíon Tipográfica Nacional), Solide (1958, Optype - Letterphot), Suresnes, Ulysse (1958, Optype - Letterphot), Uncialis (1950, Optype - Letterphot). A quote from him: "La typographie est un art précieux parce qu'elle forme le dernier revêtement de la pensée". Author of Louis Perrin et l'Énigme des Augustaux (Editions des Cendres, paris, 1998). This book has a history of Perrin as a printer and typographer, with special attention to Perrin's Augustaux type. It contains two fold-out Augustaux type specimens and several examples of Perrin's printing in black-and-white, has a preface by Fernand Baudin, and is printed in Perrin type redesigned by L'Atelier National de Création Typographique in 1986. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Reticula.net
| Reticula.net (Reticula.fr) is a web design and web culture site run by Frenchman Vincent Wicky-Demaria, who made the free grunge font Defused (2006), 20 Cents Marker (2005) and the free futuristic stencil font Officer X (2006), as well as Inception (2011, multilined face) and Sweet Confusion (2011). Dafont link. Another URL. And another URL. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
RGSONE
| Rudy Marc (RGSONE) is the Cambrai-based French designer (b. 1983) of the futuristic faces TYPORM01R (2005) and TYPOM01S (2005). Image. Downloads. Alternate URL. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typefounder and printer in the Rue St Jacques, Paris, who made a Civilité in 1597. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
For his Masters Thesis at the University of Rennes, Richard Simon made a typographically animated short clip of a speech delivered on June 20, 1940 by Charles De Gaulle, then in exile in England, to unite the French resistance in World War II. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Book printer, born in Paris in 1503. He died in Geneva in 1559. Of the famous Estienne printer family in Paris and Geneva. He cut an italic alphabet after an Aldine design, and used it in his edition of Cicero's "Opera". [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Rome, 1513-1589. He did most of his work in Paris. Granjon's designs live on in the balanced Plantin family, designed by Frank Hinman Pierpont in 1913 at Monotype, and available at Linotype (and elsewhere). The Gothic italic typeface Civilité (1566) is also due to him, as well as Parangonne Grecque. W.A. Dwiggins' Eldorado (153) was based on an early roman lowercase of Granjon. Font Bureau's Eldorado (1993-1994), developed by David Berlow, Jane Patterson, Tobias Frere-Jones and Tom Rickner for Premiere Magazine, was a far-reaching extension of that. Brigitte Schuster did a revival of Monotype Plantin at KABK in 2010. Scans of original work: Gros Cicero (1569), Saint Augustin (1580), French Civilité (1566). The Linotype Granjon face designed by George W. Jones in 1928 is a garamond though---Jones used Granjon's work as a model for his italic---, and the name seems to suggest that Granjon created the model for this garamond, which is not the case. Images of digital typefaces that descend from Granjon's work. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in 1973, he studied graphic design at the University of Applied Science Augsburg, Germany from 1994-1999, and attended a year at the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Strasbourg, France. He founded his own shop in 2001 and teaches calligraphy, type design and typography in various workshops and seminars. One of the three cofounders of Lazydogs Typefoundry in Augsburg, Germany. His (fabulous---in my view) typeface Fabiol (2005) was a winner at the TDC 2005 type competition. In 2008, he created the Pandera family. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French typographer who won the Slimbach Prize at the Seventh Morisawa International Typeface Design Awards competition for 2002, for Mounira. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French type information site, with a bibliography, a type classification according to Vox, a glossary (in french), and type anatomy pages. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Famous French calligrapher who wrote "La civilisation de l'écriture" with Herman Grégoire (Fayard, 1976). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
View Excoffon's typefaces. View Roger Excoffon's type designs and all digital revivals. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
French type designer who designed Pietra Romana in 1970 at Hollenstein Phototypo. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Parisian art director and graphic designer. Creator of the experimental face Numberz (2009), in which all the capitals are made up of pieces of numbers. Other experimental fonts: Seven (only the 7 is used to make up letters), Binary (only 1 and 0 are used), and Suffer (letters made by removing chunks). Creator of CrisisFont (2010), a display face created to remmember the Greek finincial crisis of 2010. Its letters are quite geometric and seem lost in confusion. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French creator of the high-contrast face Virgule (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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French type designer (b. 1958) who designed Baccarat (1989, for Renault), Credit National (1992, for Credit National), La Mondiale (1992, for La Mondiale), SNCF (1992, at Desgrippes et associés, for the SNCF), Sopexa (1991, for Sopexa), Total (1991, for Total). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The French type designers Michel (b. 1942) and Rosalyne Besnard (b. 1946) live in Rouen, France. Under the brand Les Besnardtypo, they jointly designed Micmac (Creative Alliance, 1997), ITC Odyssee (1996), ITC Typados (1997, art nouveau), Rom (Creative Alliance, 1998), Bouchon (Letraset, 2000), Huit (Visual Graphics Corporation, 1972), Sargon (Visual Graphics Corporation, 1974: bilined and futuristic), Migraph (Agfa Monotype, 1999), PistolShot LT Std Normal and Light (Linotype, 2003), Nazca (Monotype Imaging, 2005), Sargon (Monotype Imaging, 2006), First One (Monotype Imaging, 2006: a family for teaching the alphabet to children), Mickros (Monotype Imaging, 2007), Pantin (Monotype Imaging, 2007), De Gama (Monotype Imaging, 2008), Pasta (Monotype Imaging, 2008). Linotype page. FontShop link. Another FontShop link. View Roselyne Besnard's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Roxane Jubert | Parisian graphic designer and type designer (b. 1969) who designed Roxane, 1995-1996, which is sold by François Boltana's foundry. Bio. After studies at the École Estienne, the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs (where she teaches typography) and the Atelier national de recherche typographique, she became an independent graphic designer and type designer. In parallel, she is studying to get a Ph.D. on the subject of the history of graphic and typographic design at the Sorbonne. She spoke at ATypI in Copenhagen in 2001 on the history and classification of certain typeforms. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French graphic designer, b. 1985, who lives in Lyon. He created the experimental face Urban (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the scary chalk face Vaudoo RF (2005). Rudolf is based in Magny Le Hongre, France. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
S. Berthier&Durey | Typefounders in Paris. Their work can be found in Specimen de la fonderie S. Berthier&Durey. Caractères d'affiches (Paris, 46, rue de Rennes (place St-Germain-des-Prés), 1893). Metropolitaines (1905). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Safari typographique Eitienne Mineur archives
| French found type site by Etinne Mineur, professor at ENSAD in Paris. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Born in Paris in 1767, he died in St. Jean d'Heurs in 1829. He was the son of Pierre-François Didot (1731-1793), who in turn was the youngest son of the Didot printing business founder, François Didot. He made paper in the Didot factory in Essonne. MyFonts link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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French designer of Dieselis (2003, techno square sans), Snowslider (futuristic), Saturn (techno sans), Rigolette (2003, bouncy comic book style), Magma, Flembo Text, Flembo Title, Elektra (2006, dot matrix), Fluid Light (2006, grunge typeface), and Normograf (2006, grunge). At 2Rebels in Montreal, he created Faxo and Kaiser at T-26. He recently joined Typotek, where he did Plastik (2002) and Swingo (2002). Since 2003, he is associated with Union Fonts. Yet another URL. FontShop link. View Sam Halim's typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Sandra Chamaret (b. 1975) is co-principal of Sogral. Designer in 1997 of Mademoiselle Berthe, Bonne Fête Maman and of EnHaut-EnBas. In 2010, Sandra Chamaret, Julien Gineste and Sébastien Morlighem Morlighem wrote Roger Excoffon et la fonderie Olive. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, she co-designed Jannet (2001), a face based on Jannet's garalde revivals, ca. 1860. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, she designed Scripte (2002), a font based on her own handwriting. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of the Fournier era family Rameau (2011, Linotype). Linotype writes: Sarah Lahzarevic is a graphic designer and typographer. She has worked for ten years with the photographer Max Yves Brandily. She is now working as a freelance graphic and type designer for clients such as the French Post Office (La Poste), Millau City Council and the International Francophone Organisation. She teaches graphics and typography at the Ecole Professionnelle Supérieure d'Arts Graphiques et d'Architecture de la Ville de Paris (Graduate Training School in Graphic Arts and Architecture in Paris). She is also developing her own work in copper-plate engraving. She derived the italics of Rameau from the manuscript of the opera Les fêtes de l'´ymen et de l'amour, the music for which was composed by Jean-Philippe Rameau in 1747. Linotype: In the 18th century, musical compositions were published in the form of impressions from copper plates that had been hand-engraved in contrast with books and other texts, which were printed from moveable lead type. The italic letters of Rameau include many ligatures and are thus typical of the engraving style of the period. Linotype link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Toulouse, France. Behance link. Creator of the wonderful music note-inspired typeface Musica (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Scola is a commercial upright script for schools sold by La Classe in france. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typography school located at 246, chemin de Tournefeuille, 31300 Toulouse, France, created in 1968. Tél : 05 61 49 20 09. Fax : 05 61 49 20 09. Director until 2005: Professor Bernard Arin. Famous ex-students include Franck Jalleau, Thierry Puyfoulhoux, Severine Hameau, and Rodolphe Giuglardo. Bernard Arin gives a historical perspective. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Creator of Flabby Bums Handwriting (2009). Fontsy link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer of Acopik (2000), Bizeau (2002), Fish (2001), Equinox (2000, a liquid font), Delory (2002), Lanne (2001, faces), Stronote (2002), Nuk (2002), Normal (2000), Merik (2002), Lienne (with Xavier Meurice, 2001), SV01 (2002, dingbat), the pixel and dot fonts Kune (2002), Le Dixca (2000), and the free dot fonts Steroid (2002), Vabo (2002), Bepierre (2002), LeCicerond (2000-2001). Cofounder in 1998 of Atelier Telescopique in Lille. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer at Frank Adebiaye's Velvetyne Type Foundry in France, which is committed to the Open Source movement---all fonts are free. In 2011, he created the experimental faces Semicir, Hangul and Rotunda. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Professor of the history of typography and type design at Ecole Estienne in Paris (since 1997) and, since 2009, at the Ecole supérieure d'art et de design d'Amiens. Born in 1971, he was trained at the same school by Franck Jalleau and Michel Derre in type design and calligraphy. At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he spoke on the contributions of José Mendoza to French typography. José (Martin Majoor and Sébastien Morlighem, introduction by Jan Middendorp, 2010, Bibliothèque typographique) describes Mendoza's contributions. In 2010, Sandra Chamaret, Julien Gineste and Sébastien Morlighem Morlighem wrote Roger Excoffon et la fonderie Olive. Morlighem lives in Paris. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer who happens to have the same name as the 17th century French typographer. He created the modular counterless faces Module and Module 4-4(2011) and the squarish humanist sans family Humanex (2011). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
French type designer (1970-1995) who designed the award winning face Romane, 1994. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Illustrator (b. 1980) in Paris who does quite a bit of lettering and typographic work. At Behance, one can check some of his typefaces: Tag Me (2010, graffiti-inspired), Big Up (2010, fat brush face), and Sketches (2010, handprinted). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer of Struct Destruct Serif (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Soustons, France. Creator of Lettrine 2 (2011) and the rounded Tuscan (Western) face Brooklyn Type (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French graphic and type designer who makes mainly typefaces for companies. His oeuvre:
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Student in Strasbourg, France, who used the theme of zippers in the design of ZIP (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
A beautiful French alphabet, ca. 1880, by Joseph Apoux, with couples in 26 different positions. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer of Think Pink (2012, fat blocky face). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
SHOM - Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine | French government site with three free map fonts: DiTimes (2000, the diacritics for Times), Sy1Ca (1998), Sy2Ca (1998). The latter two have nice sets of marine map symbols. All three are copyright of EPSHOM. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Sideshow
| Eau Claire, WI-based outfit who sell their fonts at MyFonts and Font Diner. Their first work is a collection of calligraphic borders called the Certified Series (2008, by Stuart Sandler of Font Diner and Bai MellonBai Mellon from France). Other work includes Goofball (2008, retro lettering by David Cohen and Stuart Sandler), Cocktail Shaker (2008, a retro font typical for Stuart Sandler), Bamboozle (2008, wooden plank look by David Cohen and Stuart Sandler), Blackcat (brush face by Sam Gambino and Stu Sandler), Creaky Frank (2008), Creaky Solid (2008), Creaky Tiki (2008) [all wood-style faces made by Sandler and Derek Yaniger], Blackcat Fever (2008), Weird Bill (2008), Weirdbats (2008, by Cohen and Sandler) and Toylab (2008, by Molly Z and Stuart Sandler). Sandler added Derekbats (in cooperation with Derek Yaniger), Savage Hipsters (a bebop curly display face), Weird Bill (with David Cohen) and Coffee Service (a signage face) in 2008. At Google Web Fonts in 2011: Creepster (Halloween font), Trade Winds (pirate font), Frijole [image], Flavors [link]. Free fonts done in 2012: Rock Salt (handdrawn). Fontsquirrel link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Font work, vendor of fonts, all languages. Based in Saint-Maur, France. Run by Malcolm John and Chris Dubber. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Born in Normandy, France, in 1979, Simon Carrasco graduated from LISAA (Superior Institute of Applied Arts) in Rennes in 2001. In 2008, he moved to Buenos Aires where he worked for Negro. In 20907, he moved to Montreal where he was artistic director at Cassette. Finally, in 2009, he returned to France to become artistic director for Vanksen Group in Paris. With Kevin Lo and John Stuart, hesigned the triangular fashion font Paranoid. His web site is called Grafik War. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French Renaissance era printer and typographer, 1480-1547. Colines was associated with the elder Henri Estienne and continued his work after his death in 1520. That work included marrying Estienne's widow and running Estienne's press. Robert Estienne I, the son of Henri, entered the business in 1526, by which time Colines had set up his own shop nearby. In 1528 Colines started using italic type. He published Greekand latin classics, as well as scholarly works in the natural sciences, cosmology, and astrology. He is credited with the design of italic and Greek fonts and of a roman face for St. Augustine's Sylvius (1531), from which the Garamond types were derived. In 1525 he published the ewll-known Grandes Heures de Simon de Colines, with decorations by Geoffroy Tory. Check out Kay Amert's book Intertwining Strengths: Simon de Colines and Robert Estienne (2005, Penn State University Press). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Paris. Home page. Not a type designer, but his Fuck Putin poster (2009) deserves an award. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typefoundry in Puteaux, France. Creators of the comic book / graffiti font family Cry One (2012). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Slang Graphic Design
| Berlin-based graphic design company. In 2003, Nathanael Hemon (b. 1973, France) designed the free experimental font Brother. Hemon moved first to the US in 1983, and thewn to Berlin in 2000. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
SMeltery Fonts
| SMeltery is the French foundry of Jack Usine. Free fonts: Megalopolis Extra (2008), Vidange (2008-2009, a sans at PsyOps; in 2010, a commercial version appeared), Geronto Bis (2008), Telerysm Mono 2 (2008), Bankrutt (2008), Trottoir (2007, inspired by the writing on the sewer covers of Pont-à-Mousson), Stigmate (2007), Sans Merci (2006), Jules Vernacular (2006, upright script), Alusine (2005), Geronto (2005, wow!), Justice (2004, octagonal), Megalopolis (2004), Mon Nom (2004, mono), Oh My God (2004, experimental), Telerysm (2004), Telerysm Mono 2, Heretica (2004, gothic), Consume More (2004), Est-ce que (2004), Bankrutt (2004, blackletter stencil), Audimat (2003), Audimat Mono (2005), Patronne (2003, octagonal), Enfer (2003), Redevance (2003, fifties diner font), Outil (2003), Work (2003), Watch TV (2003, stencil), Kebab (2003), Consume (2003, dingbats), Gazole (2003), Icone (2003), Ax&Swar (2003, artsy), TwentyOne (2003), Phylloxera (2002), Jack Usine (2002, great techno face), Charles (2002), Fat (2002). No longer supplied: Laplakett, Bogota, Lamemoire, Lafacture, Hustla, Goody, UseIn, CPUX, Daplakijtt, Zero. Commercial fonts: Vidange (2008, PsyOps), Rouge Sans (2007), Sans Merci (2006), Vernissage (2006, stencil), Manifest Destiny (T26, 2006). In 2006, Usine and Fanny Garcia published Soupirs A through E, nifty ornaments based on the soupiraux found in Bordeaux). Experiments: Toypography (2004), TypoClock (2003). Alternate URL. MyFonts page. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Sogral | French foundry created in 1997 by Gérald Alexandre and Sandra Chamaret. Distributors of some faces by designers such as Pierre Roesch. Recent faces include Altmodisch, Pastille, Marpessa, and Nolico. Sogral is to France what Emigre is to the USA, in my view, if you like that kind of style. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Paris-based author, book publisher, gourmet critic and typographer, and co-designer, with Apostrophe at Apostrophic Laboratory, of Independant, a faithful revival of a 1930s font by Collette and Dufour for Maison Plantin in Belgium---a fantastic Art Deco font with Italics, Small Caps and Alternates thrown in as well. Steve Matteson designed a commercial version of the same font called Dujour (2005), but Sophie's font family (with alternates etc.) is of superior quality. Her "nom de plume" is Phynette. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Sophie Chamaret | Rumoured to be working on a set of titling fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French foundry which made the modular face Module (2008). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer of the handprinted face Boluge (2007). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Typefoundry in Montreal. French creator of Cry One Duc (2012), a graffiti font created in memory of CRY1, a graffiti artist in the 1980s. Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
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Born in 1983 in Lyon, he obtained arts degrees from Sèvres and Ecole Estienne. He cooperates on type design projects with Christophe Badani, with whom he co-designed the custom typefaces Alstom (2007, a sans family), Eurodatacar (2007, stencil), Graphèmes (2007), Peugeot (2007) and Vinci Sans and Vinci Serif (2007). Klingspor link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French creator of Grutch Grotesk (2008), Grutch Handed (2007), a 3d-oil-stain simulation face. He also made GrutchConstrukt, GrutchLine, GrutchShaded (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer (b. 1975) of the free Mac fonts Panzani Soup V3 (handprinting), Push Tab (based on Heineken beer bottle lettering). In the works are Neolt (based on drawings with Rotring pens) and Dinan. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Les Mureaux, France. Creator of the experimental constructivist typeface Latinoruskov (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Designer of Roxane, a font designed with legibility in mind. Plus an essay on legibility. Stuart Gluth teaches graphic design, leads the Design Research Group at the University of South Australia, and has a master's degree from the ANCT in Paris. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Design studio in Montpellier, France. Behance link. Creators of the heavy metal / tattoo blackletter face Blackwars (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Suz Musson | I am guessing that she probably was a French poster artist at the height of the art deco movement. Nick Curtis claims that his Soda Jerk NF font is based on this poster by Musson entitled Remiremont Vosges, Chemins de Fer de L'est. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Swimming Poulp
| Paris-based designer (b. 1980) of the dot matrix face Ventouse of the Poulp (2007), The Block (2007), Paper (2009, horizontally lined), Stick (2009), and the upright connected script A La Nage (2007). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Swiss Legacy
| Swiss Legacy is about Swiss design and Swiss type. The page is run by Xavier Encinas, a French Art Director who lives in Paris. He is also known as Rumbero Design. In 2000, he started business school studies at l'Institut Supérieur du Commerce. Since 2004, he works as a freelance Art Director specializing in print, logotype and web design. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French researcher at the University of Amiens, who created these free dingbat fonts: Cartapoints, Cartapoints2, Cartapoints3, Cartacopains from 2004-2006. The fonts have 5 by 2 grids with balls drawn in them. Unclear what they are used for... [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Type designer at Frank Adebiaye's Velvetyne Type Foundry in France, which is committed to the Open Source movement---all fonts are free. He created Metamorphosis (2011) and Distrikt (2011, a constructivist face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
His typefaces: Bikini (2010, fatty poster face), Skizzenfont (2009), Palast Black (2008, ultra fat), Pestorino (2008). He also did a great typographic job in his Foch Flyer (2010) and Mückenschwein logo (2008). Arapix12 (2012) is a Latin-Arabic pixel font with very special capabilities: every Latin and Arabic glyphs are designed within just 12 pixels, which is especially reduced for fitting Arabic extended ascenders and descenders. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer who won an award at Bukvaraz 2001 for Nathan (Sephardi Hebrew). Co-designer with Serge Cortesi of the new Gaz de France typeface, called Dolcevita, produced for the studio Plan Créatif. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Synthview
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Fontsquirrel link. MyFonts link for Synthview. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
French page with a listing of the tables of international phonetic symbols. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Tarbé | 19th Century foundry in France. Sample of an ornamental typeface from 1837 called Pompadour. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
TattooFont 3D
| Commercial tattoo fonts. I can't figure this site out. At one point, access will cost you 1000 Euros, but wait, you'll get 50% off right now---that is only 500 Euros to access a site with useless fonts. The guy behind this is Tahiti-based Frenchman André Allaguy-Salachy. There appears to be *one* freeware font, China, but for that you need to register. At Fontspace, we find a number of their fonts for free, such as ATHREEDTOFFUGRADIENTASIAN (2010), ATHREEDTOFFUCUBIC (2010), ATHREEDTOFFUCUBICASIAN (2010), and ATHREEDTOFFUCUBICLOUPE (2010): these are interesting typefaces with a gray gradient. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Textes rares
| Pieces of historical value (in French) are making it to the web. Contains a history of French printing (until 1850) by Paul Dupont. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Archtypical French neoclassic face designed by Pierre Simon Fournier in 1742. Monotype made a version in 1924 that to this day has survived (available at Adobe). Textism warns against its use in small sizes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
The Chambord--Touraine affair | Deberny&Peignot published Touraine in 1947, after a design of Guillermo Mendoza (the father of José) in 1943. Chambord is a face published by Fonderie Olive in Marseille, which was headed by Roger Excoffon. The four basic weights of Chambord were designed by François Ganeau and published by Olive in 1946/1947. Legend has it that Roger Excoffon said he saw proofs of Touraine on Charles Peignot's desk, took the next train to Marseille, drew Chambord at Olive and beat Deberny&Peignot to market. Olive also had a better marketing machine at the time. By the end of the 40's, Charles Peignot tried to go to court over the Chambord/Touraine affair because the fonts were just too similar, but they settled financially out of court. José Mendoza also claims, as reported by Porchez, that Ganeau changed Vendôme after having seen an exhibition of Guillermo Mendoza's type in 1943. All of this may to some extent explain Peignot's initiative to create ATypI to protect typefaces. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Nineteenth century French punchcutter who designed the transitional text face Romana with Gustave F. Schroeder (Kingsley ATF, 1860; now available at Bitstream). He also ran a typefoundry, Beaudoire et cie. See also Old Roman Stephenson Blake (1878). [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic and web designer in Paris. He created the octagonal display face Révolte (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer in Paris. His typefaces include Shapeflow (experimental, 2009), Narra (2009, all caps, free), and Falcon (2009, shadow headline face, free). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 1921, François Thibaudeau, a French typographer, proposed a simple classification system based on serifs: triangular serifs are called Elzevir (or antique, as in Jenson and Garamond); rectangular serifs are found in the Didot family; then there are the Egyptians with rectangular serifs on top and bottom of thickness equal to the stroke witdth; and finally there are the "Antiques" or sans-serif faces. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, he co-designed Poinçons (1999), a face based on a design of Fournier. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Font connaisseur. Author of "Ce monde odieux" (2001). Bitstream font samples. Other font samples. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2012, he created the rhombic face Iddi Head. Dafont link. Another Dafont link. And another link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer of Pandastyle (2006, graffiti face). Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Thomas Linard is a specialist on OpenType, Unicode and internationalization. He is based in Strasbourg, France. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
He created Game Over (2011, an experimental game/pixel font). He was also commissioned by Puzzle SAS in 2011, a company that specializes in assembling real estate transactions, focusing on old buildings. His architecturally-inspired typeface Puzzle is a high-contrast caps face done for them. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Thorey et Viray | Typefounders in Paris. Their work can be found in Fonderie en caractères de Thorey&Virey, rue de Vaugirard no 90 (Paris, Imprimé par Ducessois, 55, quai des Grands-Augustins. Lacrampe&cie, 2, rue Damiette, 1843). That publication only shows a few (incomplete) modern faces. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French FontStructor who made Snakebold (2011, pixel face). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Timm Borg | Born in Sète, France, in 1983, Timm Borg is a graduate type design student at ENSAD, Paris. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. In 2009-2010, with fellow ENSAD students Anthony Dathy, Perrine Saint Martin and Ok Kyung Yoon, he developed a complete family of fonts that extend blackletter and roman faces by Ulrich Gering that go back to the 1470s. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Russian-born designer of the freeware fonts Tangerine, New World Vibes, MacType and the outline typeface Iron Maiden, all 1996 designs for Lucifer Vision (defunct?). Now living in Paris. His fonts are not at his site, but live on at many freeware sites. Alternate URL. Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
In 2008, he worked as an assistant professor of Graphic Design at Virginia Commonwealth University in Doha, Qatar and continued his work as a freelance designer and consultant. Designer of the futuristic face Wallflower (2004; he calls it a humanist stencil) and of Fra Bartolomeo (2004, based on the lettering on a sketch by Italian renaissance artist Fra Bartolomeo). Working on this serif face (2005). His talk at ATypI 2008 in St. Petersburg: Tasmeem, a new software jointly developed by WinSoft and DecoType, offers new perspectives for Arabic typeface design. Titus Nemeth was invited by the developers to be the first third party designer to get insights of the system, its methodologies and to actually design for Tasmeem. He was asked to convert his existing Nassim typeface from an OpenType based rendering, to rendering within Tasmeem. Hiba Studio interview. At ATypI 2009 in Mexico City, he spoke about l'arabe maghrébin. Since 2009 Titus has been teaching typography in Amiens. His typeface Aisha (2009) won an award in the non-Latin category at TDC2 2010, and was published at Rosetta Type in 2010. He states: Aisha is a multi-script typeface for Arabic and Latin. While the Arabic design is a revival of a metal fount inspired by Maghribi calligraphy, the Latin design was newly conceived and drawn to echoe the feel and look of the Arabic. Samples of Aisha: i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix. In 2011, Rosetta published Nassim. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Frenchman, b. 1992. He created the graffiti fonts Loose Gangster and Death Friends in 2008 and the scribbly kid's face Fractrish (2009) and the inkstain handwriting font The Haine Au carré (2009). In 2010, he made the handprinted Le bain au milieu de la fin d'après-midi vers 17:49. Dafont has a home page URL for him, but clicking on it may bring a virus or spyware to your computer. This guy is bad news all around. Fontsy link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer and design studio in Paris. He created SimpleKoelnBonnSymbols (2004), a rounded typeface and appropriate dingbat set for the Koeln Bonn Airport, which was done as part of the design effort of the design studio Intégral Ruedi Baur et Associés. Toan Vu-Huu teaches at ESAD in Amiens. Scan of some experimental fonts made by his students in 2008 at ESAD: My students just finished their second project for this year. The aim was to choose an object from their daily life and create a font out of it. From top to bottom we have Maël Fournier Comte (American Apparel Slip), Auré-Line Lecoq (Tooth Paste), Jérémie Garric (Allium), Céline Bouchez (Chewing Gum), Arnaud Dupond (Nails), Matthieu Laroussinie (T-Shirt). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
German-born design student in Strasbourg, France. Creator of the thin avant-garde face Early Sans Serif (2011) and of the paperclip face Trombone (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French youngster from Brive (b. 1992) who created the fun ransom or crime themed font simply called Tom (2007). He also made afGiHmtV (2007) and Archierotick (2007). Dafont link. Home page. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Traffic Sign Typefaces: France
| Ralf Herrmann discusses L1, L2, L4 and L5, the French traffic typefaces. Frank Rausch made a free font for these, called Caracteres. Signal (1995, URW++) is a 4-style commercial type family for these alphabets. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Trafik
| Damien Gautier (b. 1971) studied typography in the Atelier de création typographique at l'Ecole Estienne, Paris. He co-founded Trafik, a type studio in Lyon. At Typotek, he designed LeQuincaillerie (fifties font, 2000), LeMenuiserie (2000), LeConfiserie (2000, an electronic panel font), LeConfiserie Couleur, L'ekran Dix (a pixel font), LeBoucherie-Ornament (2000), LeBeaune (1998, roman lettering). Alcala was designed in 1994. For Salomon (the ski company brand font), Damien Gautier received a Trophée d'Or nomination at the Integraphic Congress in Paris in 2003. MyFonts sells these faces: Colonel (stencil), Laikran (pixel family), Le Bazar, Le Beaune, Le Chaufferie, Le Confiserie, Le Confiserie Couleur, Le Gendarmerie, Le Menuiserie, Le Quincaillerie, Pam, Robin (2010, a dingbat face with arrows). With Quentin Margat, he created some faces in 2011 such as Norr and Colonel. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Parisian graphic designer. He created the dotted outline face Discommander (2010). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Trobo
| Trobo is run by Frenchman Gabriel Rebufello. He designed Trobo Sans (1995) and Zonga, both available at Typograsfree. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Truchet and Types
| A great article by Jacques André and Denis Girou on the lettering of father Sébastien Truchet, 1657-1729. Their thesis: the Romain du Roi font (ca. 1702) is the first digital font, as it has the notion of outlines by arcs of circles, grids as in bitmaps and dpi measurements, and even notions of italic transformations and hinting. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Tstype
| Tstype is Philippe Dabasse's outfit. He is a French type designer (b. 1972) who designed Gange, 1996-1998, and Remont (1998, free font at Typotek: lettering as on the traffic signs in St. Petersburg, with versions called Symbol, Latin, Cyrillic). See also here. He lives in Levallois-Perret. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French designer of the futuristic techno face Bleach (2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French typography magazine headed by Nicolas Taffin. The editorial board consists of Serge Cortesi, Pierre Di Sciullo, Julien Gineste, Jean-Paul Martin, Frédérique Mathieu, and François Richaudeau. Head office at C&F editions, Caen, France. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphical artist, typophile and teacher in Strasbourg, France, Pierre Roesch gives an excellent survey of the choice of type for pocket books. His essay (in French) was taken in May 2004 from the French type list Typo IRISA. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Typiko
| New commercial foundry with a few fonts by François H. Villebrod, such as the sans serif Global Era, Titan and Odyssea Oval. Villbrod also designed the Greek and Cyrillic versions of Matthew Carter's small screen font family Nina. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
46-page article about the design of symbolism and typefaces in the subway systems of Prague, Paris and London. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Gérard Blanchard (1927-1998) writes one of his last articles on type: Les états de la création typo-graphique contemporaine en France de la fin de la seconde guerre mondiale à l'an 2000. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French typographical rules, explained by Yvonne Méchaly from the Université René Descartes. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Alex Gulphe's fantastic typographical thesaurus. In French. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Useful French typography mailing list started by Jacques André, Thierry Bouche, Alain Hurtig and Olivier Randier. Managed by Jacques André from the University of Rennes. Complete archive of this mailing list. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Typograsfree
| Eddie Baret was born in 1978 in Marseille. He studied graphic design and typography in Paris, Besançon and Brussels. In 2001, he founded, with Clément Lyonnet, the association Typo.gras.free. Eddie Baret designed the handwriting font FF Eddie (2001). He currently works in Paris as a free-lance graphic designer. The Typograsfree fonts are (were) mostly of the deconstructivist kind:
FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Typonet
| By French font maker Geoffroi Duchambon: 10 commercial display fonts (with accents!) for 35 dollars. A few free dingbat fonts: Smaragdings, Ptitdej font, Baby's world and Music for a while. The font names: Smaragdings, PtitDéj, Baby's World, Bab-El-Web, Junky Mail, Net Censor, Ebone Fraktur, Beauty Spot, Push Data Irregular, Antiquity, Virusty Jam. Firewall Fever is ugly and costs 50USD. Recently, the site offers free downloads of trial versions, such as FlowerShow, Amazing Dingbats, and so forth. Link went dead. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Christophe runs Typophage, a type activity center. Interview with Planete Typographie. Some of his fonts are also at Typotek. In 2004, he joined Ultra Pixel Fonts, where he made the pixel face Mr. Pixel. His historical pages explain about things such as Quadrata (first century roman lettering). Dafont link. Klingspor link. FontShop link. Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Typorium
| 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). Since 1998, he has published Augustal, Augustal Cursiva, Galena, Peplum, Stancia, Stancia Lyrica. All of these fonts are available through Agfa-Monotype. L'espace culturel showcases his fonts. Bio chez Porchez. Bio at Agfa. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ |
Typositoire
| French blog which showcases new fonts created by others. I wish Doctypo would at least mention the names of the respective creators. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Typositoire
| Olivier Huard runs a French blog entitled Typositoire: Une typo et au lit. Each day, a typeface gets highlighted. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Dead link! Damien Gautier's type pages, with a bit of history, a bibliography, news, etcetera. In French, well worth a visit. They are open to any proposals, and sell fonts for whoever wants to join, a real community effort. Founded by Gautier, Typotek has some fonts as well. Its typographers with their (mostly commercial) fonts are
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He is generally thought to have made the first typeface in France in the 1470s. Quoting the wiki page with more biographical details of this French printer: Ulrich Gering (active as a printer in Paris from c. 1470 to 1508; died 23 August 1510) came from Beromünster in the diocese of Constance. He was one of three partners to establish the first printing press in France. Invited to Paris in 1469 by the Rector of the Sorbonne, Johann Heynlin, and his colleague Guillaume Fichet, Gering together with Michael Friburger and Martin Crantz set up a printing press within the Sorbonne to produce texts selected and edited by his patrons. The press produced 22 works between 1470 and 1472. By the end of 1472 this subsidised venture came to a close and the three printers left the Sorbonne to set up on their own at the sign of the Soleil d'Or on the rue Saint Jacques in Paris. The partnership came to an end in 1477, after which Gering continued to print on his own, moving in 1483 to the rue de Sorbonne at the same sign. Between 1484 and 1494 books printed at the Soleil d'Or carry the names of Jean Higman (1484-1489) and George Wolf (1490-1492). Gering is found there again in partnership with Berthold Rembolt from 1494 to 1508, after which Rembolt worked alone. At ENSAD in Paris in 2007, Émilie Rigaud started work under the guidance of Alejandro Lo Celso and Philippe Millot on a revival of the first type printed in France, at the Sorbonne, by Ulrich Gering. This work is based on a 1478 edition of Virgilius. Another project at ENSAD, this time headed by André Baldinger and Philippe Millot, in 2009-2010, led to complete revivals of Gering's blackletter and roman faces. The graduate students involved in the latter project are Timm Borg, Anthony Dathy, Perrine Saint Martin and Ok Kyung Yoon. They have thoroughly reworked the letterforms found in the extant incunabula available in the Bibliothèque Nationale, complementing the original characters with italics, small caps, and supplementary weights, as well as all of the glyphs necessary in a 21st century font. This Portuguese language site has examples of some types used by Gering. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French type designer who designed Flora in 1972 (at Hollenstein Phototypo). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Ultrabrain
| Specialist of fashion mag typefaces. Qamari Ally (Ultrabrain, Paris, France) made the delicately thin display types Luxurious (2011) and Qult (2011), and the high-contrast serif script face Transition (2011). He also did the grotesk display face Pli (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Une petite histoire de la calligraphie | On the history of calligraphy: great French pages. Learn about the differences between Rotunda, Uncial, Textura, Roman, Gothic and Humanist. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Browse digital versions of old books at the University of Strasbourg. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
UrCompany
| French company, which made MichelGelly'sScript (2004), Plastica(2004) and Ur Company's Bubbles Fantasy (2004). Perhaps the designer is Michel Gelly. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Uzimweb
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Paris-based Italian type designer (b. 1972) who designed Estrella (1996), a Basque font based on research she did at L'école Estienne (1996) on Basque art. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Valentin Haüy | Frenchman who made an alphabet of raised letters for the blind, explained in his 1786 book, l'Essai sur l'éducation des aveugles. Harold Lohner's Valentin script font (2005) is based on this. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Parisian art director who made a nice personalized metro map / poster called RATP Maligne (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vectorian
| A vector ornament pack (EPS and AI formats) can be downloaded here. By Vincent Le Moign from Rennes, France. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Type blog in French. The author created the Open Font Library font Vielfalt (2008, ornaments). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Velvetyne Type Foundry (or: VTF)
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Creator of some free (often experimental) fonts in 2010-2011. Cooperators include Sylvain Henri, Jérémy Landes-Nones, and S&eacue;bastien Hayez. Frank's typefaces:
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French typefounder, born ca. 1775. Vibert, Vibert Pè et Fils, and Vibert Fils, operated a foundry in Paris from 1797 onwards. He was the Didot family's punchcutter. There is a publication in 1805 entitled Epreuves des caractères de la fonderie de Vibert et Luy, Paris (16 pages). Deberny named a didone typeface after him, Gras Vibert. Paulo W made a 4-style family, also called Gras Vibert (2006, Intellecta Design). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vier5
| Vier5 is a graphic design studio, founded 1999 in Germany and located in Paris as of 2002. Run by Marco Fiedler and Achim Reichert. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, he co-designed Rosart (2002), a font based on lettering by the famous 18-th century Belgian typographer. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
St. Flour, France-based designer (b. 1991) of Runes - The elder scroll (2008). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, he co-designed Bertrand (2003), a face based on work by the Fonderie Bertrand (end of 19th century). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French designer (b. 1995) of Vinc (2008, made with FontStruct). Dafont link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Graphic designer and illustrator from Clichy, France. Behance link. He created Alphabook (2010), an experimental face inspired by the folding of books. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, she co-designed Poinçons (1999), a face based on a design of Fournier. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Paris-based web and graphic designer who made ElektroKlash (2009, experimental), 2KX (2010), Cosmo Bar (2011) and Hang On Type (2009, fat and counterless). Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Pages on language and calligraphy, in French. In 2003, Vlad wrote a doctoral thesis on calligraphy: "Le phénomène calligraphique à l'époque du sultanat mamluk" (Paris, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Vox type classification
| In 1954, Maximilien Vox published his type classification system:
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German type designer (b. 1904, Neuenhaus, d. 1944, France) who was associated with Ludwig&Mayer. His typefaces include the humanist sans serif Colonia (Ludwig&Mayer, 1938-1939), which was revived in 2006 by Ari Rafaeli. [Google] [MyFonts] [More] ⦿ | |
Warnery Frères | Foundry in Paris that succeeded P. Digney. Its work can be found in Spécialité de caractères pour journaux et labeurs, fantaisies noires--signes divers (Paris, 1875) and [Spécimen de la] Fonderie de caractères et de blancs Warnery frères (Paris, Usine et bureaux: 8, rue Humboldt, maison de vente: 6, rue Des Forges (place du Caire). Juin 1882 [1884]). A similar;y-titled specimen was also published in 1899. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Wearekern
| Wearekern was established in 2003 by Dylan Jones (graphic designer) and Jean-Baptiste Levée (graphic and type designer). It is located in Paris. Levée's typefaces include Kaffemaschine (2003), Miroslava (2004, made for Kenzo), Cerame (2003), Organon (2004), Panorama (2004, a French road sign font created for his diploma thesis), and Theophraste (2003). Fantastic web page! In 2004, Jean-Baptiste joined the effort at Zone Opaque. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Webep's Fonts (also: Ainsi)
| Two free handwriting fonts, gib-frog and Test Frog Rehix. By Frenchman Thomas Carrias. Archive will soon open. Temporarily off-line. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French painter, b. 1920. Nick Curtis's Gulfstream NF (2007) is based on a 1934 art deco poster by Mucha for Ouistream Riva Bella, France. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French-Italian graphic designer who made an experimental star-studdedc face in 2011. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Wolfgang Hopyl | Hopyl (Hoppyl) was a printer in Paris (1489-1523). He made Textura typefaces (some are now called Hopyl Textura) and his work served as inspiration for many. For example, the Bauersche Giesserei published the Manuskript-Gotisch face (Hopyl, 1514) in 1899 (see also Stempel's version), which was digitally revived by Gerhard Helzel and Petra Heidorn (2004). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Woohoo Studio (Paris) created typefaces such as the polyhedral FaceTypo (2012), and the hexagonal Hexagraphie (2012). Woohoo Studio is a collective of freelance graphic designers founded by Virginie Blasin and Laurianne Duchemin. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Designer near Paris who created a display font called Vigilante for a project. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
With Olivier Nineuil at Bonté Divine, this French designer made Bonté Divine 009 in 1996 and Fiston Divin in 1997. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
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Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice are the authors of Omega typesetting system, which is an extension of TeX. Its first release, aims primarily at improving TeX's multilingual abilities. In Omega all characters and pointers into data-structures are 16-bit wide, instead of 8-bit, thereby eliminating many of the trivial limitations of TeX. Omega also allows multiple input and output character sets, and uses programmable filters to translate from one encoding to another, to perform contextual analysis, etc. Internally, Omega uses the universal 16-bit Unicode standard character set, based on ISO-10646. These improvements not only make it a lot easier for TeX users to cope with multiple or complex languages, like Arabic, Indic, Khmer, Chinese, Japanese or Korean, in one document, but will also form the basis for future developments in other areas, such as native color support and hypertext features. ... Fonts for UT1 (omlgc family) and UT2 (omah family) are under development: these fonts are in PostScript format and visually close to Times and Helvetica font families. Active participant in the GNU Freefont project. With John Plaice, he contributed to these Unicode ranges:
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French print and web designer. Behance link. He created the typeface ID Typography (2011). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, she co-designed Métis (1998). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
As a student at ENSAD in Paris, he co-designed Jannet (2001), a face based on Jannet's garalde revivals, ca. 1860. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Yves Gouraud from Montpellier has designed several good free fonts for Greek in 2004: Tadzoatrekei, Tagma, Takeros (in the spirit of Comic Sans), Talaurinos (Arial-like) and Talaurinos étroit. There are no Latin sections in the fonts. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Author (d. 2011) of Histoire de l'Écriture Typographique (2005), a 2-tome account of typography from the French perspective. The first volume is called Tome I: de Gutenberg au XVIIe siècle. The second one is Histoire de l'Écriture Typographique le XVIIIe siècle. In 1995, he set up L'Atelier Perousseaux. He attended the Lurs meetings almost without interruption from 1980-2010. Pic. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
French design studio. Creators at FontStruct of the grungy The Terriffic Kerganogggg (2009). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Arc-en-Barrois, France-based designer who used a kitchen knife as inspiration for the typeface Eat Music Only (2012). [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Zenkilla Fonts
| Stéphane Mondesir (Zenkilla Fonts) is the French creator (b. 1980) in 2009 at FontStruct of Paperface, Ceed, Dconstruct, LightA, Zen F, Twodays, Bad Bold and Bad Bold College (athletic lettering stencil face). In 2010, he added Erika (+Deco). Home page. He lives in Montreuil sous Bois. Behance link. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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Olivier D (b. 1976, living in Villeparisis near Paris) made the graffiti fonts Zit Graffiti and Reskagraf (2000-2002). He also runs Zit's Fonts. Reskagraf is also here. [Google] [More] ⦿ | |
Zone Erogene (was: Dasklem)
| Dasklem (Zone Erogene) was a French foundry (est. 2002) in Nancy whose founder, Clément Nicolle, created nice faces such as Frakturika (2004), Phonetica (2003, a semi-phonetic unicase face), C'dans l'air, Irreversible, Migraine Sans (2002), Migraine Serif (2002, unicase), Fleur aux Dents (dingbats), 3 Grammes 5 (2002), Arriere Garde (2002), Base 02 (2002), Perestroika (Russian simulation face), Petiote (2003, pixel face), Marcelle (2004, fifties writing), Madredeus, and ReclameDingbats. Older (dead) URL. Dafont link. The foundry survives as Stereo Type (since about 2005). [Google] [More] ⦿ |
Zone Opaque
| Established in August 2004 in Montreuil, near Paris, by ex-students of the Ecole Estienne. The main founding members are Guillaume Crouzet (engraver, type designer) and Pierre-Marie Jamart (type designer and president of Zone Opaque). They intend to publish using the best historical type processes, and mention that they have rare metal type on hand. They will on occasion also produce digital work, but only if it is created in the correct historical context. The resident type designer is Jean-Baptiste Levée. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
French outfit (site under construction). Designers of Le Zap Sans at Typograsfree. [Google] [More] ⦿ |
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123 Buero is Timo Gaessner's graphic design studio, est. 2002 in Berlin. Gaessner studied at the Kunstacademie in Maastricht, at the University of Arts, Berlin, and at G. Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. He was a founding member of Balcony Magazine in Paris in 2001. His typefaces include 123Naiv (2004), 123Queen (2004), 123Sweater (2005), 123Julia (2001). All of these are characterized by minimalist shapes. Fonts like 123Naiv can also be bought at 
Type designer who created various alphabets and showed them in 
French foundry on the margins of type society, obsessed with psychotherapeutic experiments, hyper-experimental, and indeed mental, typefaces. This outfit goes under various names. At 
Alejandro Lo Celso, a graphic and type designer born in 1970 in Córdoba, Argentina, was art director at several publishing media in Buenos Aires. He has written several articles for typo magazines, and taught typography at the University of Buenos Aires. In 2000 he completed his MA in Typeface Design at the University of Reading (UK). In 2001, he obtained a post-diploma at the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique, Nancy (France). He teaches typography at the Universidad de las Americas in Puebla, Mexico, and at Centro Gestalt in Veracruz, and is Principal of Pampa Type in Mexico City. His Rayuela (Hopscotch) type family was a winner at the Bukva:raz type design competition held by the ATypI, Moscow 2001. 
Graduate student from 
Typefounder in Paris, ca. 1900, whose production included 
Fourth generation Didot dynasty member in Paris, 1790-1876. Oldest son of Firmin Didot (1764-1836), the most influential of all Didot printers. He headed the Didot house with his younger brother Hyacinthe Firmin Didot. He was mainly a printer, and is known for his improvements in papermaking. [
French graphic and type designer who graduated from 
Parisian editorial designer, who created a typographically interesting calendar in 2011 entitled 
French foundry, est. 2007, which published many extensive free sans and sans serif families by Hirwen Harendal, who supports Open Source projects. The purpose of ADF is to provide a large number of high quality fonts (174 fonts as of the end of August 2007). Harendal has help from Clea F. Rees, most notably on the TeX part and the extensive Venturis family. 
Fonderie Nordik is a new French foundry in Wasquehal near Lille, which publishes some fonts such as 
Designer of 
Pierre Bézier (born in Paris on 1 September 1910, died on 25 November 1999) was a friend of Brian Barsky, a famous graphics professor at Berkeley, and an ex-graduate of my own university, McGill. Bézier gave Barsky a wonderful Bézier curve drawing, signed and dated. This is a thing of beauty. [
Typographer and graphic designer. He created the free web font 
French foundry opened in April 2010. It is a cooperative effort of 
Benjamin Gomez studied graphic design first at Valence's art school, and then at Ecole Supérieure des arts décoratifs in Strasbourg. He went on to graduate from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, where he started the design collective Délpi in 2007. The studio provides design solutions in communication, signage, motion design, multimedia, print, and type design. 
French designer of these free faces that can be downloaded at 
French illustrator and occasional type designer (b. Châteauroux 1870 or 1876, d. Paris 1946) who designed the extraordinarily beautiful Naudin Roman and Italic, and the open capitals face Naudin Champlevé between 1912 and 1927 at Fonderie Peignot Frères. These were accompanied by a series of ornaments called "Le Jardin Abandonnée". He also designed Tradition (related to Nicolas Cochin), which formed the basis of the Scriptorium decorative script font family 
French type designer (b. 1974) who lives in Asnières-sur-Seine. 
Bukacake is the foundry of 
Albert Boton is a Parisian type designer and teacher, born in 1932 in Paris. In 1957 he started work at Deberny&Peignot under Adrian Frutiger. From 1958 to 1966 he helped create several typefaces for the Hollenstein phototype catalog. In 1968 he became the art director for Robert Delpire publishers, but continued designing faces for the Hollenstein collection and later for Mecanorma and Typogabor. From 1968 to 1997 he was a teacher of type design and calligraphy at the École nationale des arts décoratifs (ENSAD) in Paris. From 1988 to 1998 he taught type design at the Atelier National de Recherche Typographiques. In 1981 he became art director and head of type department at the design agency Carré Noir. 
French designer who obtained an MA in typeface design from 
French punchcutter, b. Paris, 1883, d. Paris, 1955. He hand-cut 
Graduate of the 
Parisian copperplate engraver, b. Paris, 1715, d. Paris, 1790. His work influenced the letter shapes of Baskerville, Didot and Bodoni. His engraved tall-ascendered letters have been preserved in many fonts bearing the Cochin name. One of the best revivals is by Georges Peignot. The irregularities of the metal are well preserved in the digital typeface 
French typographer, born and died in Paris, 1897-1983. Founder of ATypI, son of Georges Peignot, and lifetime director of Deberny&Peignot. Designer of Peignot (with Adolphe Mouron Cassandre). Founder of ATypI. Starting in the late fifties, the company prepared the fonts for Lumitype, European Photon. In the sixties, Charles Peignot invested heavily in Lumitype, which used up some of the money to buy control of Deberny&Peignot, and let Charles go. Deberny&Peignot closed in 1979, at which time the designs passed to the Haas'sche type foundry in Basel/Münchenstein. [
Parisian designer of alchemic or mystery fonts such as 
Born in Saint-Avertin, near Tours, in 1514, died in Antwerp in 1589. He left France in 1555 and settled and worked in Antwerp, where he published many books that drew attention because of their beautiful typography. He often used types by Claude Garamond and Robert Granjon. He was the main catholic publisher of the counter-reformation, but he also published material for the protestants. One of his main achievements was the Biblia polyglotta (1569-1573), the eight-volume polyglot Bible in Aramaic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and Syrica, with text in parallel columns. For two years, from 1583-1585, he was the official typographer at the newly erected University of Leiden. After his death in 1589, his son, Jan Moretus (1543-1610), carried on his work. Plantin's press, Officina Plantiniana, survives in its entirety as the Plantin-Moretus Museum, sold to the City of Antwerp in 1876. This collection of 16th century typefaces (punches, matrices, the works) is a unique historical treasure. 
She graduated in 2007 from 
One of the fathers of typography. 
French type designer (b. 1948) who was born in the South of France. He studied typography, calligraphy and painting at the School of Fine Arts in Toulouse. He received the Prix Charles Peignot in 1982. In 1992, the President of France invited him to design the inscriptions for the royal tombs in the Basilique Saint Denis in Paris. He published 
Florent Courtaigne graduated in graphic design - ENSAD / Art Décoratifs de Paris. He founded created Cubo Fonts in 2008, and works as a graphic designer and drawing teacher in the LISAA Design School in Paris. Florent Courtaigne is the creator of the free circle arc and straight-line fonts Cyclo and Cyclo Bold (2006). In 2008, Florent started 
Authors in 1751 of 
German cartoonist and animated gif artist (b. 1965) who lives in Lorraine. She designed 
Bios of the main members of the Didot family: François Didot (1689-1757), François-Ambroise Didot (1730-1804), his son, Pierre-François Didot (1731-1795), the second son, Pierre Didot (1761-1853), the oldest son of François-Ambroise, and 
French foundry, est. 2011 by Damien Gautier and Quentin Margat, and located in Villeurbanne. Their fonts: 
This is a gallery and a discussion of the fonts created by the students at ENSAD since 1997. A partial list: 
Éric Parisot is the French creator of the vertically striped face Namaskar (2009, 
Fatnobrain is Adrien Midzic's design studio in Paris. Born in 1982, he designed these typefaces or type families: 
Celebrated Parisian designer (b. Paris 1764, d. Mesnic-sur-l'Estrée, 1836), son of the printer François Ambroise Didot, and grandchild of the Didot printing business founder, François Didot. Designer of a sloped script face called 
French art director, graphic and type designer, and illustrator who lives in Rambouillet. His typefaces include the refined multilined bling face 
French foundry established and run by Georges Peignot and his son Charles. In 1923 it merged with Girard Et Cie to become Fonderie Deberny&Peignot. Their collection includes Nicolas Cochin (1912) and faces by: 
Paris-based foundry operational in the early part of the 20th century. (Metal) typefaces by them include 
The timeline of this French foundry of the 19th century and early 20th century: 
Important French typefoundry established in 1836 in Marseille and originally headed by Marcel Olive. In the middle of the 20th century, Roger Excoffon became its major type designer. In 1978 or 1979, the rights to all faces were transferred to Haas, which in turn was taken over by Linotype in 1989. The 
Foundry in Paris. They made the Paris subway font Metropolitaines in 1905. Also called Berthier&Durey. 
French type designer based in Toulouse, born in 1950, died in 1999. He is an early graduate of Scriptorium de Toulouse (1972). In his lifetime, he achieved a great deal of success, including the Morisawa Prize in 1990. From 1975-1997 he was also a freelance graphic designer. 
French cartoonist and designer of 
François Chastanet (b. 1975, Bordeaux) is an architect and a graphic designer in Toulouse, France. He specializes in signage systems for transportation networks. Graduate of the École d'Architecture et de Paysage de Bordeaux, he pursued research in 2001 at the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique in Nancy, and completed a DEA in architectural&urban history at the École d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville in 2002. He currently teaches graphic design and typography at the École Supérieure des Beaux-arts de Toulouse. At ATypI 2006 in Lisbon, he spoke on Pixaçao letterforms, the shantytown graffiti letterforms found in the 1990s in Sao Paulo. In 2009, he and Alejandro Lo Celso cooperated with two students, Laure Afchain and Géraud Soulhiol, on an identity type for the city of Toulouse called 
Born in Paris in 1912, Ganeau died there in 1983. He worked with Roger Excoffon, and designed 
French designer and type specialist (b. 1962). Works at the Imprimerie Nationale in Paris, and 
Born in 1984, Tracer graduated from the National College of Arts and Design Olivier de Serres in Paris. He is now based in London, where he is a freelance graphic and type designer. His typefaces include 
Parisian type designer (b. 1974) who designed 
Also Maistre Geofroy Tory de Bourges. Parisian printer, designer and engraver, 1480-1533. As designer and engraver he produced beautiful initials, borders, and illustrations. In 
French lettering artist and type designer, b. Beauvais, 1863, d. Paris, 1938. His real name was Jean-Georges Huyot. He was an 
Designer ca. 1900 of a decorative caps face, shown 
Hassan Haider from Bielefeld, Germany, created the geometric face Skate or Die (2009) and the grungy stencil face Soundpieces (2009). Nice accompanying 
Hector Guimard (b. Lyon, 1867, d. New York, 1942) was an architect, who is widely considered today to be the most prominent representative of the French Art Nouveau movement (1890-1905). Designer in 1901 of the art nouveau font Metropolitaines used in the Paris metro (see 
French art nouveau era painter and illustrator, b. 1867 Paris, d. 1909 Les Petites Dalles. He designed a 
Frenchman (b. 1957) who started making fonts in 2010. In that year, he created the free fonts BabyJo (pixel face), Bayday, Chrom (beveled face), LaPresse (grunge), 
French printer. In 1867, they published 
The national French foundry and press from 1640, when it was created, until today. It grew out of the Imprimeurs du roi pour le Grec, which itself was founded in 1538 by king François I. Today, it is entirely state-owned. The imprimerie nationale contains le cabinet des poinçons (where one can find all the old metal types) and a historic library. Between 1985 and 2004, Paul-Marie Grinevald wrote about ten articles on the Imprimerie. [
French designer (b. 1939), calligrapher by training, who lives in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges. He is the designer of 
Jean-Baptiste Levée is a French type designer who commures between Paris and Montreal. He designs custom and other typefaces. 
French type designer (b. 1968) who designed 
He made free school handwriting fonts (with and without rulers): 
Jean-Michel Moreau (Moreau Le Jeune) was a French draughtsman, illustrator and engraver, 1741-1814. Born in Paris, he produced drawings of 
Marseille, France-based designer of Argor Priht Scaqh (2007, blackletter), Argor Brujsh Scaqh (2007, blackletter), Argor Cwar Scaqh (2006, pixel blackletter), Argor Biw Scaqh (2006, blackletter), Argor Flahm Scaqh (2001, blackletter), Argor-Got-Scaqh (2001, blackletter) and Argor-Man-Scaqh (2001). The author's fonts can be used for his artificial language Silarg. 
Influential French type designer, born in Sèvres in 1926. 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 1985-1990, he was a professor at the Imprimerie Nationale, Paris, where his students included Thierry Puyfoulhoux, Frank Jalleau, and Poul Søgren. 
Born in Marseille (1907-1978), under the pseudonym of Berto, Bertocchio designed Berto in the 50s as a lithographer. In 2000, 
Typefounder in Paris (d. 1789). His work can be found in Caractères de la fonderie de J. Gillé, graveur et fondeur du roi pour les caractères de l'imprimerie de la loterie royale de France,&autres (Paris, Rue&petit marché Saint-Jacques, 1778). This book still shows mainly transitional faces, with slight hints of the start of the geometric trend in typography. Gillé seems to be mostly remembered for being the author of the ornamental face called Madame. 
Julia is Valerio Di Lucente (Italy), Erwan Lhuissier (France) and Hugo Timm (Brazil). They met at the Royal College of Art in London having come from different professional backgrounds in editorial design, web and art direction. The studio was founded in 2008 upon their graduation. Together, they on books, typefaces, posters, websites, identities and exhibition design. They teach as visiting lecturers at Kingston University. Typefaces: 
Swiss art director (b. Empoli, 1979), currently living and working in Paris, France. His type family 
Creator of the African-style handprinted Kokekoko (2009). 
Flash page not accessible to UNIX users. La Laiterie is a foundry started by Paris-based Julien Janiszewski (b. 1973). His fonts sell for 30 to 75 USD. His creations include Ambule (1998, a unicase attempt), Bidule (1997, funny dingbats), Biot (1997, T-26), Curve (1999, Bitstream), Frothy (2000), Grind (2001), Home Script (2000), Indoo (1997, Indic simulation, since 2004 available at 
Graduate from 
Parisian designer of 
Graduate of 
Typefoundry in Marseille. Its work can be found in 
Character set for the typeface used by Le Monde and designed by Jean-François Porchez in less than three months. It was used by Le Monde from 1994 until 2005. In 2002, the headlines were replaced by a face designed by Lucas De Groot (but 
French designer who obtained an MA in typeface design from 
French type designer at FT Française who made the simple linear script font Clipper (1951). He is also credited at Identifont with a version of 
French illustrator who illustrated, e.g., 
Engraver at the Imprimerie Royale in Paris, b. Orleans, 1654, d. Paris, 1727. He drew and worked on the 
Saint-Pierre-lès-Elbeuf, Rouen, France-based creator of the free faces 
Ex-student at Scriptorium de Toulouse (2001) who published some of her fonts at 
French designer for 
French graphic designer in Morlaix. 
Designer at Fonderie Turlot of a 
Match Fonts is the West Hollywood, CA-based foundry led by Michel Bujardet (b. Bordeaux, France, 1951), who is Mike Budge on alt.binaries.fonts. They make and sell interesting font paks. A particular favorite of mine is the 
Scans of an 8-page booklet by Douglas C. McMurtrie published in Chicago in 1936: Le Moreau-le-Jeune A Typographical Specimen with an Introduction by Douglas C. Murtrie. McGraw writes about 
Graphic designers in Paris. 
His business is Ministry of Candy. London-born graphic designer and artist (b. 1983) who works in Nantes, France, although Behance says he is in Lyon, which leads us to the board game Find Ronan and the titillating movie sequel Free Ronan. Creator of 
Graphic and type design studio founded in Cubjac, France by 
French printer and artist born in Sommevoire, France in 1420. He worked mostly in Venice as a printer, type designer, punch cutter, and engraver from 1470 until his death in Venice in 1480. In 1475 he was made a papal count by Pope Sixtus IV. He produces his first roman type in Cicero, Epistolae ad Brutum (1468), which is described as perfect and unequaled. A Greek typeface which is used for quotations was made in 1471. In 1473, he creates a blackletter typeface which he uses in books on medicine and history. In 1475, he founds his first book trading company, Nicolaus Jenson sociique, whose partners include the Frankfurt businessmen Peter Ugelheimer and Johann Rauchfass. In 1480, his second book trading company is launched under the name Johannes de Colonia, Nicolaus Jenson et socii. Jenson's typefaces influenced many new alphabets. William Morris based his Gold Type on Jenson' type in 1890. Cobden-Sanderson modeled his typeface for Doves Press on Jenson's alphabets in 1900. Bruce Rogers emulated them with his Centaur font (1914; called Venetian 301 at Bitstream). In 1926, Jenson's roman is recut by Morris Fuller Benton as Cloister Old Style. Eusebius (Ernest Detterer and Robert Hunter Middleton, Ludlow) is a further extension. Jim Spiece's NicolasJensonSG is a digital type family that builds on and extends Eusebius. Perhaps the most prominent of digital Jensonian faces is Robert Slimbach's 
Parisian graphic designer and 
Parisian creator of 
French graphic designer who lives in Vincennes. Creator of 
With a name like that, this web and print designer should move from France to Quebec and experience real cold. His (free) typefaces, available from 
French author of Recueil Méthodique de Principes d' Ecriture (ca. 1920, Limoges). Samples: 
Parisian fine artist. Creator of an intricate caps typeface called 
Pampa Type is the Mexico City-based foundry of 
The parti Socialiste de France offers a free download of its workhorse and identity sans face, Jaurès. [
French creator at FontStruct in 2009 of textured or 3d faces such as Perspective (+Gras), Pliages (+Gras), Relief Plein, Zebrures, Bambou, Georges, Damiers, Relief Gras, Perspective Gras, Lozanges, Circles, Grilles, and Relief. He also created Fil de fer, Parchemin (parchment alphadings) and Fantaisie. [
Born in Budapest in 1957, but Parisian since 1957. Designer and type artist who made many custom and magazine fonts. 
Engraver, b. Macon (1666), d. Paris (1714). In 1695, king Louis XIV of France commissioned a typeface, which until today is described as the first digital font, and at least as the first mathematicallly defined type, the 
French graphic designer who lives in Perugia, Italy. I would call him an experimental typographer. He likes experimenting, for example, with modular typeforms, as is apparent from his typefaces called 
Illustrator in Marseille, France, who graduated in 2003 from ESA Institut St. Luc in Brussels with a Bachelors degree in plastic arts. In 2011, he created a 
Free school fonts by Frenchman Henri Rogelet, ca. 2000: Abaque (2011, abacus font), Alphonetic, AlphoneticGB (two phonetic fonts), 
Parisian type designer, b. 1988. He created the calligraphic Arabic look type family 
Author of 
Free artificial langauge / game or role playing fonts by Rackham Fonts in France: Akkyshan, Alahan, Cynwaell, Daikinee, Drune, Goblin, Griffon, Keltois, MidNor, Mortvivant, Ork, Syhar, TirNaBor, Yllia-and-Vile-Ti. All the fonts were made in 2003 and depict some artificial scripts used in computer games. [
Parisian graphic designer and motion type artist. 
French graphic and type designer from Villaudric (b. 1965) who designed the 
Born in Marseille in 1910, Roger Excoffon died in Paris in 1983. Co-founder of the Urbi et Orbi advertising agency in Paris, he was a graphic artist and type designer. 
Graphic designer in Toulouse, France, b. 1983. 
Parisian graphic and web designer. He created the kitchen tile face 
Ex-student at the Ecole Estienne in Paris whose diploma work consisted of the creation of 
Ex-student at ENSAD in Paris, graduating in 2004. Since then, he moved to New York, where he is a freelance designer. In 2003 at ENSAD, he co-created the experimental typeface 
French graphic design and typographic company, est. 2006 in Lyon by Patrick Lallemand and Pierre Delmas Bouly. Typefaces created by them include various logotypes, as well as 
Born in 1980 in Chambéry, France, he studied at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee in 2007, and has been working in Berlin since then, mainly as a type designer at LucasFonts, where he specialized in Arabic type, as a graphic designer at the mückenschwein publishing house, and as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator. 
Dysfunctional web page warning. 
Toulouse-based designer and illustrator. 
Based in Montpellier, France, Thomas Boucherie designed the dingbat faces Ghost Smileys (2009), Punk Smileys (2009), thomasboucherie (2007), thomasboucherie3 (2008), Pictoserie 5 (2009, Pingbats), pictoserie 6 (2011, dingbats), 
Thomas Perrin obtained a BAC Scientifique, Sciences de l'ingénieur (option Art) from the Lycée des métiers de l'audiovisuel et du design Léonard de Vinci, Villefontaine. From 2011-2012 he is studying at DNAP in the Ecole des Beaux arts of Besançon. 
French design student from Clermont-Ferrand, b. 1991. In 2009, he created Folda (octagonal), Braille, Stencila, and Grafical. Some of these were made with 
Titus Nemeth runs TNTypography in Paris, and specializes in Arabic typeface design, typography and custom type. A 2006 graduate in the Master of Arts Typeface Design programme at the Department of Typography and Visual Communication, University of Reading, he also studied Arabic script at the École Supérier d'Art et de Design d'Amiens, France. Originally from Vienna, he specialises in multi-script typeface design with an emphasis on the Arabic script. He lives in Paris. His Masters thesis researched the current state of Arabic newspaper type and typography and found acclaim by experts in the field (The current state of Arabic newspaper type and typography (2006, Reading: University of Reading)). The typeface 
A web font tool by Mircea Piturca who used to be at the University of Dijon. TypeFolly is probably the first web typography tool that allows designers to easily create beautiful "type follies". The result is a fully html and css3 compliant code. TypeFolly gives designers the freedom to create beautiful type compositions, test new font combinations and fully enjoy the power of css3. At this time we support the following css properties: font-family, font-size, color, letter-spacing, word-spacing, font-style, font-weight, text-decoration, text-align, z-index, line-height, width, height, opacity, moz/webkit-transform, text-shadow and font-face. [
French foundry, est. 2008, by Jonathan Perez and Laurent Bourcellier. Graduates from the Ecole Estienne in Paris, they have made the following fonts: 
Christophe Badani (b. 1969, Marseilles) is a French type designer. He resides in Boulogne-Billancourt, France. His typefaces: 
Uzim is a French type designer with a very nice output: 1920, 1920Bold, Acid2, AcidIII, AcidOne, Apocalypse, AtomicPasta, AtomicPastaItalic, Biolid, BlackRoses, BruisedFifty, BruisedFive, BruisedHundred, BruisedTen, BruisedTwentyFive, BruisedZero, BurningLight, BurningNormal (scratchy hand), ClearTypewriter, Distorted Faith (2001, a hacker font), Ephotical, FStein, FilthySunshine, Fishinthebathroom, Handmade, HerbeRouge, Index29, Jungle, Klassenarbeit, LiquidNewspaper, MoonyCat, November, OrganicDisease, Origin, Pantheon, 
French graphic designer who spent 2007-2009 at Ensaama Olivier de Serres in Paris. He does experimental type. His creations include Fake, 
Velvetyne Type Foundry (or 
French type designer (b. 1977), who studied graphic design in Paris as well as calligraphy and typography at the Scriptorium de Toulouse. From 1999 to 2001, he worked as a type designer in a packaging design agency. He collaborated with Ladislas Mandel on Renaissance writings. From 2001 to 2004, he lived in 
French graphic designer who moved to New York in 2007. 
Metafont/TEX font and font software developer, specializing in non-Latin fonts and their integration in TEX. Ran 
Zim&Zou is a French graphic design studio based in Nancy, France. The team is composed of graphic designers Lucie Thomas and Thibault Zimmermann. 
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