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Sébastien Truchet [Père Sébastien Truchet]

French type designer in Lyon, 1657-1729, whose name at birth was Jean Truchet. He was famous for his Truchet tiling system. Sébastien Truchet designed a modular typographic system during his last year in the School of Fine Arts of Besançon. His work was summarized in a thesis he wrote in 1704, and which is also reflected in Methode pour faire une infinité de desseins differens, avec des carreaux mi-partis de deux couleurs par une ligne diagonale: ou Observations du pere Dominique Douat, religieux au carme de la province de Toulouse, sur un Memoire inserédans L'histoire de l'Académie royale des sciences de Paris, l'année 1704, présenté par le reverend pere Sébastien Truchet, religieux du même ordre, Académicien honoraire (1722, Dominique Douat, Paris, chez Florentin de Laulne, rue Saint Jacques). Local download of that book.

In 2008, someone started the type foundry Sébastien Truchet and promptly published the modular counterless typefaces Module (2008) and Module 4-4 (2011) and the squarish humanist sans family Humanex (2011).

In 2020, Vanessa Zuñiga designed Sébastien, a set of color typefaces inspired by Truchet's tilings.

References: Jacques André; The tiling patterns of Sebastien Truchet and the topology of structural hierarchy (1987, Cyril Stanley Smith); Multiscale Truchet patterns<./i> (2018, Christopher Carlson).

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