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Velvetyne Type Foundry (or: VTF) [Frank Adebiaye]

Velvetyne Type Foundry (or VTF) is the French foundry of Parisian Frank Adebiaye (b. 1982, Versailles). It used to be called Velvetyne TypeForgery because he uses FontForge to design all his free fonts, which come complete with FontForge sources. Originally, it had many free fonts by Frank Adebiaye himself. At some point, it became more of a coop, and started publishing experimental typefaces by several contributors and collaborators. These fonts are reported elsewhere on my pages under the names of their designers.

Creator of some free (often experimental) fonts in 2010-2011. Cooperators include Sylvain Henri, Jérémy Landes-Nones, and Sébastien Hayez. Frank's typefaces:

• Ajonc.
• Babacar (2012). He calls it an African fractur.
• Babbage.
• Backout (2012). He writes about this flared poster all-caps typeface: BackOut is what an African Albertus could be.
• Barjavel and Barjavel Mono.
• Basteljau.
• Bi-lined typefaces: Eighteen, Bachibouzouk.
• Bluff, Bold, Boxer, Cardinal, Grotesk, Jimmy: geometric experiments.
• Chaumont: ransom note family.
• Chedid.
• Combat (2015). A wedge serif based on the title of an early 20th century anarchist newspaper published in Limoges, France, called Le combat social.
• Compute, Elektron: computer-inspired typefaces.
• Coqnegre Perspective: angular face.
• Coqnegre Turismo, Stencil: art deco stencil typefaces.
• Experimental typefaces: Blanka, Courrrier (sic), Faber, Firenze, Five, Georges, Ink, Jake, Lenny, Normant.
• Fabuliste: an experimental modern face.
• Fersen.
• Forward (2021). A commercial futuristic font at Future Fonts, co-designed with Studio Triple.
• Frank: monospaced techno blackletter face.
• Geek, Inky, Marcelle, Ping: playful typefaces.
• Gegenwart.
• Gorki and Gorki Block: a pixel typeface and a constructivist brother.
• VTF Grotesk (2010).
• Format 1452: a DIN style typeface.
• Hangul: A Korean simulation font.
• Konzern: a texture font.
• Kravitz.
• Leyde.
• Lineal: clean sans.
• Lment.
• Mandeville.
• Mainz: Ornaments based on sewer plate designs in Mayence.
• Manset: a geometric sans.
• Meginhart.
• Mercandieu: grotesk.
• Metropolis.
• Mono (2011). A monoline sans.
• Mont Chauve: experimental.
• Mourier. Based on a geometric alphabet created in 1973 by Danish graphic designer Eric Mourier. The font uses square of 7 x 7 units and consists of unclosed lines. The first and only use was in the booklet The Myth about Bird B by Knud Holten. Sébastien Hayez was the first to digitize the typeface (in 2002). Published by Velvetyne in 2011.
• Murat.
• Mutations.
• New Wave: avant-garde.
• Nkm.
• Pierrafeu. A brush face.
• Pompidou.
• Prospective, Robusto Mechanica, Grey Charles: more geometric experiments.
• Radikal.
• Resistance (2016). A geometric sans serif created using Glyphr Studio by the students of ENSAD Paris at La Gééale.
• Rhinox.
• Rnic. A runic simulation typeface.
• Sagittaire.
• Slang.
• Stencil typefaces: Free Jazz, Rogue Leader, Rogue Two, Stencil.
• Steps Mono Mono (2015). An octagonal monospaced typeface created for the magazine Étapes.
• Therow.
• Thiefaine.
• Vielfalt: dingbats.
• Waltenberg.
• Wozniak.
• Zukunft (+Oblique): a geometric sans family.

Author of a book on the life and work of Fran+çois Boltana (2012, with Suzanne Cardinal).

Behance link. Open Font Library link. Klingspor link. Home page. Future Fonts link.

EXTERNAL LINKS
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INTERNAL LINKS
Sites with only a few free fonts ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Type design in France ⦿ Experimental type ⦿ Pixel/bitmap fonts ⦿ Type design and constructivism ⦿ Blackletter fonts ⦿ Monospaced fonts ⦿ Textured typefaces ⦿ Stencil fonts ⦿ Ransom note fonts ⦿ Books on type design ⦿ DIN ⦿ Dingbats (original) ⦿ Oriental simulation fonts ⦿ Rune simulation fonts ⦿ Octagonal typefaces ⦿ Futurism ⦿ Books on type design ⦿