A Is For (was: Aisforapple)

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A Is For (was: Aisforapple) [Emilie Rigaud] 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 2010, she founded Aisforapple, where she published Jaakko (signage), Coline Cursive, Coline Première, Coline Extrême, Grotesque 6, David (2014) and BTP (polygonally-outlined typeface). In 2016, the type foundry published Knif Mono Regular, which was designed by Axel Pelletanche-Thévenart under the art direction of Guillaume Grall and Benoit Santiard. It was produced by Emilie Rigaud. In 2017, Émilie Rigaud published the sharp-edged typeface Tongari, which was modeled after samurai blades. Tongari Display followed in 2020. In 2018, she designed Naoko, a 7-style wide sans with short descenders, named after astronaut Naoko Yamazaki. Typefaces from 2020: Pachinko (six rounded almost typewriter styles including many monospaced fonts and italics), Olympe Mono (a monospaced and monolinear typeface revived from an old typewriter). Speaker at ATypI 2017 in Montreal. Old URL: Mouton Sauvage. Klingspor link. Personal site.	EXTERNAL LINKS A Is For (was: Aisforapple) Fontspring link [Buy fonts] Klingspor Museum page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type design in France ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Signage typefaces ⦿ Monospaced fonts ⦿ Polygonal typefaces ⦿ Typewriter fonts ⦿ Monoline script fonts ⦿