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ABOUT

Apex Type Foundry [Alex Chavot]

Lyon and/or Paris, France-based graphic designer and illustrator. He created the geometric fat counterless Tangoes and the monoline sans faceSlim in 2009.

Aka UnderNoControlTypofoundry.

Creations in 2012 include the free font Modul (OFL), Lavoir (OFL, based on an old art-deco public bath sign in Lyon), Interval (OFL, monospaced) and Modulo (OFL).

In 2016, he designed the delightful fat sans display typeface Marsel Black, and writes: What could have happened if Roger Excoffon and Eric Gill gathered in Marcel Olive's backyard in Marseille to share a few Pastis back in the days? In some way, Marsel could be the result of this hypothetical experiment. A colourful fat sans with uncanny high contrasts and utter personality. While flirting with the strangeness of Gill's Kayo, Marsel primarily stands as a very distant hommage to Excoffon's mythical Antique, a reminiscence of a Latin taste for exuberance.

Typefaces from 2018: Pyros (a didone with Hebrwew influences), Peckham (transitional).

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Typefaces from 2019: Kellar (a smashing quirky headline didone named after Thomas McKellar).

Typefaces from 2020: Gortex (an agate typeface), Hazel Display Nerw (stencil), Smithee (a condensed American gothic; Alex writes: The basis for Smithee was found in an old French foundry's wood type specimen in the archives of the Musée de l'imprimerie et de la communication graphique, in Lyon), Almeria (a display typeface developed between 2015 and 2020).

Typefaces from 2021: Practical Grotesk (a Swiss sans), Granit Display (based on granite headstone engravings).

EXTERNAL LINKS
Apex Type Foundry
Behance page
MyFonts search
Monotype search
Fontspring search
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INTERNAL LINKS
Type design in France ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Sites with only a few free fonts ⦿ Monospaced fonts ⦿ Art deco typefaces ⦿ Commercial fonts (small outfits) ⦿ Modern style [Bodoni, Didot, Walbaum, Thorowgood, Computer Modern, etc.] ⦿ Wood Type ⦿ Stencil fonts ⦿