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BVS Boton [Albert Boton]

Albert Boton is a Parisian type designer and teacher, born in 1932 in Paris. Boton died in 2023. 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 typefaces 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. Interview in the ENSAD Journal B. His company is called BVS Boton.

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), Agora (1990, Berthold: a lapidary typeface), Chadking (1958), Roc (1959), Brasilia (1960), Primavera (1963), Rialto (1964), Black Boton (1970), PL Brazilia (PhotoLettering, a sans family), Zan (1970), Pharaon (1971, a great fat slab, eventually digitized by Monotype), 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, Albotoni Book (made in 1974 originally), Kit, FF Page (2003, in PageSans and PageSerif families). Since 1998, he distributes his own fonts through BVS Albert Boton:

• Agora BQ (Berthold).
• Boton BE (Berthold), Boton BQ (Berthold), and Boton Pro (Berthold). Created in 1986. See also B790 Slab in the Softmaker collection.
• Carre Noir (Monotype).
• Chinon (Mecanorma Collection).
• FF Aircraft (FontFont).
• FF Cellini Pro (FontFont), FF Cellini Titling Pro (FontFont) and FF Cellini (2003, FontFont). Boton's take on Bodoni.
• FF District (2004, FontFont). A squarish sans family.
• FF Elegie (FontFont).
• FF Page Sans (FontFont) and FF Page Serif (FontFont).
• FF Studio (FontFont).
• FF Tibere (2004, FontFont). A classic roman family.
• FF Zan (FontFont).
• Hillman (Mecanorma Collection).
• ITC Elan (1985, ITC). A lapidary typeface.
• ITC Eras (1961-1976, ITC, Adobe). ITC Eras, a weird high x-height and open-bowled-a fashion victim of the 1970s, was copied by many---see, e.g., E820 Sans in the Softmaker collection.
• Linex Sans (Monotype) and Linex Sweet (Monotype). These fonts were first published by Agfa in 2003.
• Memo (Monotype).
• Pompei (1993, Monotype).
• Scherzo (Monotype).
• Tzigane (Mecanorma Collection).

Citroen's logo font at Delpire.

Klingspor link. 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.

Picture.

View Albert Boton's typefaces. Announcement of his death.

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