123 Buero
[Timo Gaessner]

123 Buero is Timo Gaessner's graphic design studio, est. 2002 in Berlin. Gaessner studied at the Kunstacademie in Maastricht, at the University of Arts, Berlin, and at G. Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam. He was a founding member of Balcony Magazine in Paris in 2001. His typefaces include 123Naiv (2004), 123Queen (2004), 123Sweater (2005), 123Julia (2001). All of these are characterized by minimalist shapes. Fonts like 123Naiv can also be bought at Die Gestalten. Free font: Naiv-Fat (2007). Since 2010, partner with Alexander Meyer in Milieu Grotesque. At MilieuGrotesque (or: Meyer&Gässner, Zurich), his fonts Maison (2010, grotesque family) and Chapeau (2010, rounded) can be bought.

In 2014, Timo designed Patron at Milieu Grotesque, a typeface inspired by type designers Günther Gerhard Lange and Roger Excoffon. [Google] [More]  ⦿

205 Corp (or: 205tf)

French type foundry with headquarters in Lyon that sells typefaces made by French type designers Matthieu Cortat, Roxane Gataud, Damien Gautier, Thomas Huot-Marchand, Yoann Minet, and Alice Savoie. These include:

• Matthieu Cortat: Petit Serif, Louize (+Display), Henry, Helvetius, Stuart, Basetica, Stockmar, Brett, Cosimo, Battling, Anacharsis, Bonesana, Chrysaora.
• Roxane Gataud:
• Damien Gautier: Heliuum, Maax (+Display, Rounded, Raw, Mono), La Chaufferie, Robin, Plaak, Le Beaune, Caporal, Colonel, Amiral, Beretta (Sans, Serif).
• Thomas Huot-Marchand: Minérale, Minuscule, Garaje, Album Sans, Album Slab.
• Yoann Minet: Clifton.
• Alice Savoie:

256tf
[Thomas Huot-Marchand]

256tm is the foundry of Besançon, France-based designer Thomas Huot-Marchand (b. Dole, France, 1977). He studied under Peter Keller at the ANRT in Nancy, and teaches at the École d'Art de Besançon. He has been Director the Atelier national de recherche typographique (ANRT) in Nancy since 2012.

His typefaces are distributed by 205tf (was: 205 Corp, or 256tm):

• The 72-weight Garaje (from Garaje 55 to Garaje 100; Garaje 53 Unicase Black is free).
• Minuscule. A ten style family for small print, which won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition. In Comedia he writes about legibility and the creation of Miniscule, which was optimized to be read at 2 to 6 points. His research for this at the ANRT was based on the theory of "compact typography" put forth by Emile Javal, a French ophtalmologist who explained his ideas in "Physiologie de la lecture et de l'écriture" (1905). For examples, see here and here.
• The experimental typeface Minerale (2017). Minerale won an award at the Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2019.
• In 2021, he released Album Sans and Album Slab. These fonts were based on designs by Walbaum. He explains: Justus Erich Walbaum (1768-1837), a confectioner by trade, carved his own cake molds. Quite gifted, he became a specialist, developing an activity as a punch-cutter, and eventually bought Ernst Wilhelm Kirschner’s type foundry. Considered to be one of the foremost creators of his time, he engraved gothic letters and Antiqua type, similar to those of Didot and Bodoni. But his romans had a different flavor, and for some, they contain the origins of the Grotesques that followed. In 2010, Thomas Huot-Marchand and SPMillot were asked to develop the typographic identity of the Musée d'Orsay that had been based on Berthold Walbaum since its very beginnings. They proposed adding distant cousins in later typographic styles: a bold grotesque and a thin slab serif, but these typefaces would ultimately remain unused. In 2020, Thomas Huot-Marchand decided to redesign them while developing an extended family. Album is a subtraction of Walbaum: with no serifs for Album Sans and with no contrast for Album Slab. Its silhouette retains some memory of the particular proportions and slightly flattened curves of Walbaum. Album Sans proposes a new reading of grotesques with an extended range of weights: the horizontal terminations of the R and the a, the binocular g, the junction of the k along with the singular design of the numbers, distinguish it from usual forms. The duplexed italics have a reduced slant.

Abstract Fonts link. Home page. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

4-Paris
[Grégori Vincens]

Grégori Vincens is the French type designer who designed the text fonts Albia in 1997, and Firenzia in 1998. He lives in Viroflay, near Paris. He won a judge's award at the Sixth Morisawa type competition in 1999. In 2002, he received a nomination for "Lipton Ice Tea", a corporate identity font, at the Trophées d'Or du salon Intergraphic de Paris. In 2003, he set up 4-Paris, a graphic and typographic design company.

In 2013, he started Fontyou, where he is CEO of a commercial font coop.

Brief bio. [Google] [More]  ⦿

4px.me (was: CtrlAltF12)

French designer (b. 1978) of the dingbat fonts Social Shapes (2015, social media icons), World CXup 2k14 (2014), Social Logos (2011), Clubz (2007, shields of European soccer teams), 2006 Team (2006, soccer team emblems), IT Logos (2005), OpenLogos (2007) and Illustrate IT (2005). Dafont link. Yet another URL. Old URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

5ive
[Fabrice Bats]

5ive is the design studio of Fabrice Bats, a Parisian who has moved to Oslo. His lettering includes a couple of alphabets called Kinky (2010). Dafont link. Devian Tart link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

60 Kilos (or: Sesenta Kilos)

Spanish designer of the hipsterish display typeface Belle de Mai (2020), a variable display typeface inspired in the cultural shock between high cost zones and the lowest suburbs near big metropolitans cities like Paris, and in the French culture, especially in the hood of La Belle de Mai, where it takes the name from.

Typefaces from 2021: Galipo or Galipos (a Latin / Cyrillic display typeface inspired by Andalusian society and culture). [Google] [More]  ⦿

A. Bardi

Type designer who created various alphabets and showed them in Publicité Vignettes Lettres Chiffres Monogrammes et Rehauts Modernes (Les Editions Guérinet, Paris, 1931) [reprinted in 1986 by Dover (NY) as Authentic Art Deco Alphabets]. Examples include

• Decaration Big (1931): digitized by Nick Curtis as Labyrinth NF.
• Disque (1931): digitized by Nick Curtis as Nightcap NF.
• Elancé (1931): digitized by Nick Curtis as Tropicana NF.
• Obtuse (1931): digitized by Nick Curtis as Full Tilt Boogie NF.
• La Massive (1931).
• La Courante (1931).
• L'Ajourée (1931).
• La Boule (1931).
• La Monstre (sic) (1931).
• Paris-Rome (1931).
• Aviation Civile (1931).
• Publicité (1931).

A collective

A group of designers at Velvetyne who published some free fonts. These include:

• Resistance (2015). A brutalist sans typeface by these students at ENSAD Paris: Pauline Cormault, Esther Michaud, Claire Mucchieli, Merlin Andreae, Raphaël Maman, Pedro Gomes-Cardoso, Juliette Nier, Gabrielle Meistretty, Damien Bauza.
• Saintjean (2017). A font created from ampersands received during a workshop from about one hundred participants.

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. [Google] [More]  ⦿

A. Laplace et cie

Bordeaux-based foundry. Their work can be found in Épreuves des caractères de la fonderie A. Laplace&cie (Paris, Bordeaux, ca. 1860) and in Épreuves des caractères de la Fonderie bordelaise. A. Laplace&comp (Bordeaux, Imp. de mad. V. Laplace, née Beaume, rue du Parlement, 19. [ca. 1850]). [Google] [More]  ⦿

A. Marty

Type designer at Deberny & Peignot who, with P. Roy, cut Cochin, Moreau-le-Jeune, and Nicolas Cochin (1912) at Deberny & Peignot. Moreau-le-Jeune was later copied by Ludwig & Mayer as Sonderdruck. [Google] [More]  ⦿

A. Pinard

Typefounder in Paris. His work can be found in Quelques caractères de la fonderie Pinard, rue de la Harpe, 88. Paris (Paris, ca. 1840). No full type showings in that publication, which mostly has filets, borders and vignettes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

A. Renaudin

Designer of the French school font AA Cursive. [Google] [More]  ⦿

A. Saintignon

Typefounder in Paris. His work can be found in Fonderie typographique A. Saintignon (Paris, 5, rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, 1889). This small booklet has no full character sets. [Google] [More]  ⦿

A six is not a six: the Landis case

An analysis of the handwriting in the Floyd Landis Tour de France doping case shoots down at least one of the arguments of Landis's lawyer. By yours truly. [Google] [More]  ⦿

A Tribute to Pierre Bézier (1910-1999)
[Pierre Bézier]

This tribute to Bezier states: At least two mathematicians solved the problem before Bezier: Airplane designer James Ferguson, and engineer Paul de Casteljau who worked for Citroen. The latter's work is mathematically equivalent to Bezier, in fact the formula listed above is De Casteljau's. Unfortunately, their discoveries were closely guarded industrial secrets and were not published until after Bezier. [Google] [More]  ⦿

AACF2

The association of Assyro-Chaldeans in France offers an archive of Assyrian fonts, including CarloAtor (1997, Timm Erickson, Summer Institute of Linguistics), GabrialAtor (1997, Timm Erickson, Summer Institute of Linguistics), Issa-&GilianaClassic (1997), Nisibus (1998, a font modified by Tony Khoshaba), SPEdessa (1998, based on Leiden Peshitta, Estrangela). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aakash Verma

Art director in New Delhi and Paris who created the illustrative New World Typeface (2012) and DaKali Font (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

ABC Typo (was: Bonté Divine)
[Olivier Nineuil]

Olivier Nineuil (b. 1964) created Bonté Divine around 1998, and renamed it ABC typo in 2001. He teaches at the La Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris. Olivier does custom work and has published fonts in the Agfa Creative Alliance such as Comedia.

Other typefaces by Nineuil: P'tit François, Bolobolo, Cassecroute, Garatoi, Maboul, Fiston, Jeuve-upa, Faidodo, Badaboum, Bigoudi, Japapeur, Giboulette, Garamome.

Custom work: Club Med (1996), Hachette Multimédia (1998), Polaris (1995, Autoroutes). Bonté Divine fonts: Picasso (1997), Bonté Divine! 007 (1996), Bonté Divine! 015 (1996), Bonté Divine! 022 (1996), Bonté Divine! 031 (1996), Bonté Divine! 036 (1996), Bonté Divine! 044 (1996), Bonté Divine! 061 (1997), Bonté Divine! 066 (1997), Bonté Divine! 077 (1997), Bonté Divine! 092 (1997), Bonté Divine! 097 (1997), Bonté Divine! 105 (1998), Bonté Divine! 112 (1998), Bonté Divine! 117 (1998), Bonté Divine! 121 (1998). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Abed Loutfi

French graphic designer Abed Loutfi created the octagonal typeface Antec (2011), the honeycomb-inspired Mecanorganic (2011) and the piano key typeface Muse (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Abneurone Typografix (or: Abneurone Trauma Types, or: Neurone Error, or: Abneurone Fluid Types, or: Cirque Traumaccord)

French foundry on the margins of type society, obsessed with psychotherapeutic experiments, hyper-experimental, and indeed mental, typefaces. This outfit goes under various names. At FontStruct, where most of its fonts are produced, it is known as Neurone Error. At Dafont, it is known as Abneurone Fluid Types. Its commercial branch at MyFonts is called Abneurone Typografix or Abneurone Trauma Types.

Their first commercial fonts are ATT49 Fanfare, ATT48 Thrax, ATT47 Candies, ATT46 Exlixir, ATT45 Transfix, ATT44 X-Cute, ATT43 Small Proteus, ATT42 Childhook, ATT41 Arcane, ATT40 Lysergic4a, ATT39 Liquor, ATT38 Once Upon A Damned, ATT37 Innocence, ATT36 Kidding, ATT35 Bestiaire (2011), ATT34 Lysergic 2a (2011), ATT33 Koan (2011), ATT32 Faun Call (2011), ATT31 Paraphilia (2011), ATT30 Lysergic 1b (2011), ATT29 Mad Hatter (2011), ATT28 Minimori (2011), ATT27 Tripton (2011), ATT26 Lysrergic3a (2011), ATT25 Multicoloured Rythm (2011), ATT24 Swallow (2011), ATT23 Artlien (2011), ATT22 Dopamine (2011), ATT21 ABTOY (2011), ATT20 Rankle (2011), ATT19 Ink Lust (2011), ATT18 Overabundance (2011), ATT17 Ink Circus (2011), ATT16 The Orgians (2011), ATT15 For Whom The Bell Tolls (2011), ATT10 Stereo (2011), ATT11 Heterodoxa (2011), ATT12 Psilocybine (2011), ATT13 Sync (2011), ATT14 Prehisto (2011), ATT8 Human Decay (2011), ATT9 Eroded Eclosion (2011), AT4 Parallax (2011), ATT7 Medieval Sweet Shop (2011), ATT6 Detected Future (2011), ATT5 Hard Sync (2011), ATT4 Chalice (2011), ATT3 Outer Christ (2011), ATT2 Macpanic (2011), ATT1 Nimal Nimoy (2011), AT54 Intermezzo (2011), AT26 Metamorph Candies (2011), AT29 Dystrogonyx (2011), AG2 Placenta (2011), AT17 Farandole (2011), AT27 Innocence (2011), AT3 Nuclear Project (2011), AT38 Nanogonyx (2011), AT49 Neuromicr (2011), AT16 Faun Call (2011), AG1 Neuroticons (2011), AT55 Neo Geo (2011), AT36 Mad Hatter (2011), AT51 Pharmaceutic (2011) and AT5 Childhook (2011).

The FontStruct production in 2011: 00dot 5 TRANSFIX, 00dot 15 DYSTROPHIE POLYGONALE, 00dot 20 CURSED, 00dot 13 PARALLAX, 00dot 12 NUCLEAR TARGET, 00dot_7_nimal_nimoy, 00dot 17 SYNDROME F.K., 00dot 9 NEW TO, 00dot 6 DECLINE AND CODE, 00dot 3 ROBOX, 00dot 2 MINIDECO, 0dot 26 INKSECTS, 00dot 32 STEREO, 00dot 10 SMART PLAYGROUND, 00dot 33 FUTURE NOW, 00dot 23 BLING STREET, 00dot 4 TOXINE, 00dot 31 FAUN CALL, 00dot 19 ELIXIR, 00dot 30 DWARF LOGIC, 00dot 8 THRAX, 00dot 14 A NEW FORM OF BEAUTY, 00dot 22 HETERODOXA, 00dot 27 KIDDING, 00dot 21 INNOCENCE, 00dot 34 PICTORIAL ABUSE, 00ne Stretched Empty Cow (2011, a piano key stencil face), 00ne Empty Cow (2011), 00ne Medication (2011), 00ne Pills, 00ne Minipills, 00ne Stency, 00ne Neurelm, 000tag6 LYSERGIC, 000tag4 ROBOX, 000tag NUCLEAR WARFARE, 00ne dat / dot, 00ne Bat Kidding (+Stencil, +Stencil Quadrillé), 00ne Stencirc, 00ne Neurocirc Neue Deco, 00ne Neurocirc, 00ne Neurologo, 00ne Nutech, 00ne Nutech Black, 00ne Top Pix (+Clean), 00ne Not So Atroce Pixels (+Black), 00ne Videotech, 00ne Videotech Tamagochi, 0One Bad Video, 0One Exagg Superstrong, 00ne Blockollida, 00ne Minicut, 00ne Neuromoog, 00ne Exagg, 00ne XChurch, 00ne NeuroNeoq, 00ne Imprimante Matricielle, 00ne C64 NeurOOpart2, 00ne Heterodoxa, 00neZnorg, 00ne Znorg Heads, 00ne Zwrappearing (dotted and textured), 00neVideotech, A Present for Intaglio (2011, cloned from Intaglio's Wallachia), Inicial 1 (2010, an improvement of a typeface by Infotipografia), Neo Geo (2011), NE XS, NE 4x4 Technirement, NE Religious Migraine, NE Abtechre. NE Churching, NE Strange Light Pax Pact, NE Cellphone Cutie Punched Cards, NE Cellphone Cutie, NE Obl. NE Pax Pact, NE Pictorial Abuse, NE Charlie Chaplin Cybernetic Brains, NE Chaplin Cyborg, NE Unknown Remix, NE Neurofat, NE Neurocompressor, NE Neurocompressed Pictograms, NE Alien Orders, NE Filament Techneriment, NE Strange Light Pax Pact, NE The Eye, NE Moving Parallels, NE Alien Orders, NE Reordered Alien Orders, the NE New Newbix family, Parallax (2011).

Typefaces made in 2012 at FontStruct: AFT1 Heterodoxa, AFT2 Forbidden Apple, AFT3 Kidding, AFT4 Spacelab Parallax, AFT5 Detected Future, AFT6 Lysergic 2b, AFT7 Lysergic 2a, AFT8 Transfix, AFT8 Smart Kids, AFT10 Candies, AFT12 Neo Geo, AFT13 Arcane, AFT15 Hard Sync, AFT17 Cortech Hallucination, AFT18 Lysergic1b, AFT20 Abtech, AFT21 Bling Chief Story, AFT22 Ink Lust, AFT23 Faun Call, AFT24 Toying, AFT27 Fluffy Clown, AFT30 Koan, AFT31 Innocence, AFT33 ETPheuneHeume, AFT34 Neuromicr, AFT35 Tripton, AFT36 Intermezzo, AFT37 Rankle, AFT38 Dark Rankle, AFT39 Rankle Distone, AFT40 Smart Kids, AFT41 Smart Playground, AFT42 Lysergic 4a, AFT43 Small Proteus, AFT44 Lysergic 3a, AFT45 New Forgee, AFT46 Space Connect, AFT47 Mondrian Drone, AFT48 Bark At The Code, AFT49 Stereo, AFT50 Artlien, AFT51 Liquor, AFT52 Neuromecha, AFT53 Lysergic 1a, AFT54 Dinoxyde, AFT55 Human Decay, AFT56 Eroded Eclosion, AFT57 Outer Christ, AFT58 Boing Code, AFT59 Nimal Nimoy, AFT60 X-Church, AFT61 Macpanic, AFT62 Lovely Breeze, AFT63 Mad Hatter, AFT64 The Orgians, AFT65 Chalice, AFT66 Ssaammothrax, AFT67 Panthrax, AFT68 Less Is More Neuromicr 2, AFT69 Paraphilia, AFT70 Psilocybine, AFT71 Childhook, AFT72 Once Upon A Damned, AFT73 For Whom The Bell Tolls, AFT74 Medieval sweetshop, AFT75 Nanoprehistoryx, AFT76 Pictorial Abuse, AFT77 Bestiaire, AFT78 Fanfare From Outer Space, AFT79 X-Cute, AFT80 Medication, AFT81 Wrong DNA, AFT82 Wrong DNA, AFT83 Minimal Disto, AFT84 Abacadabra, AFT85 Pharmaceutical, AFT86 Code Flu, AFT89 High-Diving Blindness, AFT90 Nopix, AFT91 Floppy Disk O, AFT100 Farewell dawn, AFT104 Locked-in Glow, AFT105 Vivant, AFT106 Sharp Gloss, AFT107 Madame Guillotine, AFT108 Newbic, AFT109 Ataxie, AFT110 Strenuous MICR, AFT111 Effaceur, AFT113 Zeppelin Legacy, AFT1010 Jabbering, AFTN1, BUT1 Quarx, BUT2 Newbix, BUT3 Disto Matricielle, BUT4 Tomono, BUT5 Blurred Clown, BUT7 Religious Pill, BUT8 Nopix (octagonal), BUT9 Tipi Video, BUT10 Slanxic Acid, BUT11 Metamphetamental, BUT12 Znorgs, BUT13 Soyokaze, BUT15 Stick Tech, BUT16 Uninteresting Tech.

In the Testament series from 2012 until 2013, we mention Testament 132 New Indication, Testament 131 The New Orgians, Testament 128 Camphre, Testament 126 Neuromoog, Testament 122 Dissecting Geometry, Testament 115 Placenta Numérique, Testament 116 Abnormal Fairy, Testament 109 Madame Guillotine, Testament 85 Axone, Testament 84 Keen, Testament 83 Minimixture, Testament 52 Neuromecha, Testament 51 Liquor, Testament 50 Artlien, Testament 49 Stereo, Testament 48 Bark At The Code, Testament 56 Eroded Eclosion, Testament 55 Lysergic 1a, Testament 54 Inflated, Testament 59 Nimal Nimoy, Testament 60 X-Church, Testament 64 The Orgians, Testament 67 Panthrax, Testament 66 Human Decay, Testament 69 Chalice, Testament 47 Mondrian Drone, Testament 44 Lysergic3a, Testament 42 Lysergic 4a, Testament 27 Arcane, Testament 11 Minimori, Testament 8 Transfix, Testament 7 Lysergic2a, Testament 6 Lysergic 2b [The Lysergic series is about very large (around 200 cases high) grid pixel fonts with a severe inclination to psychedelism], Testament B Formaldehyde, Testament C Neuroticons, Testament Artefact, Testament Back Home, Testament 1 Heterodoxa, and Testament 12 Neo Geo. He also created an Archive series in 2012, which features an ornamental caps typeface called Archive 10, a geometric typeface called Archive 5, TEST PPain, and a textured typeface called Archive 8. He has a Trauma series that features Trauma 145 Razzmatazz Architect, Trauma 126 Lysergeek Boy, Trauma 127 Lysergeek Girl.

Typefaces from 2014: Trauma 155 Overly, Trauma 151 Migraine Bit.

In 2017, Abneurone allowed me to host his 120-strong Abtox series, which grew out of the FontStruct collection between 2014 and 2016. Download directory. All fonts in one zip file. The complete list: Abtox 1 ATAXIE, Abtox 10 GRIEF, Abtox 100 CORRODED SPACESHIP_0, Abtox 101 LYSERGIC GAMMA_1, Abtox 102 TOXIC DATA, Abtox 103 NEUROTIC CHURCH_3, Abtox 104 SCHIZOPHRENIA TYPE_1, Abtox 105 TWO STAGES OF CONTAMINATION_2, Abtox 106 DINOXYDE_1, Abtox 107 FAUN CALL_0, Abtox 108 SMART KIDS_9, Abtox 109 FORBIDDEN APPLE_1, Abtox 11 SANTA CLAWS, Abtox 110 DYSTOPIAN GEOMETRY_0, Abtox 111 CHEMICAL ABERRATION_1, Abtox 112 DOUBLE-DEALING_3, Abtox 113 FORBIDDEN PLANET_4, Abtox 114 KARMIC_4, Abtox 115 DIZZY MOLECULES, Abtox 116 COMPUTING ELSEWHERE_0, Abtox 117 DEEP LOW_2, Abtox 118 MODULOTNIK, Abtox 119 DATACIDE_3, Abtox 12 CLOUD BLOOD, Abtox 120 CLOSE ENCOUNTERS_7, Abtox 13 CHILDHOOK_C, Abtox 14 BACTERIA_0, Abtox 15 ALCESTE_3, Abtox 16 PSILOCYBINE_1, Abtox 17 AXONE_1E, Abtox 18 GALACTIC ORGAN_0, Abtox 19 NEUROMOOG_1, Abtox 2 TANTRISME_1, Abtox 20 UFOLOGY, Abtox 21 PAIN PDJ_4, Abtox 22 MY VALENTINE_0, Abtox 23 SUCROKID, Abtox 24 FLOPPY DISK CODE, Abtox 25 VERKIDGO, Abtox 26 NEO GEO_1, Abtox 27 MANDRAGORE_F, Abtox 28 HORNS TO COME_1, Abtox 29 NITROX BEAT_7, Abtox 3 DECORATORIO, Abtox 30 FLYBUTTER_1, Abtox 31 MATRIX YELL_0, Abtox 32 BUBBLE GUMMY_A, Abtox 33 SPAWN_2, Abtox 34 SQUARRY_0, Abtox 35 BUBONIC AK47_0, Abtox 36 VINAIGRE GOTHIQUE_3, Abtox 37 NEO POMPOUS, Abtox 38 EFFACEUR GLUED_1, Abtox 39 EFFACEUR BAROQUE_8, Abtox 4 OVERLY_6, Abtox 40 EFFACEUR SOLID_3, Abtox 41 EFFACEUR CODA_5, Abtox 42 DARK ATROXID_1, Abtox 43 LUMINOUS ATROXID_9, Abtox 44 DRUGGED UP ATROXID_0, Abtox 45 NEUROMECHANIC, Abtox 46 CAMPHRE_4, Abtox 47 FEAST OF UNIQUE RITES, Abtox 48 CHALICE, Abtox 49 SPACE DRUG_0, Abtox 5 NEW PUPPY_0, Abtox 50 TRONIXHALLEY_1, Abtox 51 NO DUMMY, Abtox 52 LOST CHILDHOOD_1, Abtox 53 TRAUMATOLOGY_0, Abtox 54 THE NEW ORGIANS_7, Abtox 55 AMOEBA PUNK_2, Abtox 56 MEDICATION, Abtox 57 SIDE EFFECTS_3, Abtox 58 RE-VOLT_1, Abtox 59 CYBERNODE_1, Abtox 6 RAZZMATAZZ ARCHITECT_1, Abtox 60 OUTER CHRIST, Abtox 61 NEW CIRCUS_0, Abtox 62 ART DRONE, Abtox 63 COAXIAL_2, Abtox 64 PONG !_2, Abtox 65 LYSERGEEK GIRL_0, Abtox 66 NEWBIC_1, Abtox 67 BRAIN SURGERY_4, Abtox 68 RETROFUTURE PRECIOUS_0, Abtox 69 TRIPTONITE_2, Abtox 7 LOG_3, Abtox 70 NEUROMICR_8, Abtox 71 HUMAN DECAY, Abtox 72 INK LUST_0, Abtox 73 PANTHEIST_2, Abtox 74 X-CUTE_6, Abtox 75 DATAXY_4, Abtox 76 FRAGRANCE_0, Abtox 77 TOOTH AXIS_2, Abtox 78 MADAME GUILLOTINE_0, Abtox 79 NARCO_2, Abtox 8 KOAN, Abtox 80 GENOMETRY_1, Abtox 81 SAFE TRAIN_4, Abtox 82 NO ISLAND, Abtox 83 LOCKED-IN GLOW_5, Abtox 84 ABNORMAL FAIRY_A, Abtox 85 ACME_0, Abtox 86 GLITCHY ELIXIR_1, Abtox 87 BLACK ELIXIR, Abtox 88 NEW INDUCTION_0, Abtox 89 MECAMYTHIC_3, Abtox 9 ABSTEREO_4, Abtox 90 MEDIEVAL SWEETSHOP, Abtox 91 PARAPHILIA_0, Abtox 92 HARD SYNC_3, Abtox 93 SECT TOY_1, Abtox 94 ARTEFACT_2, Abtox 95 SPACE LAB, Abtox 96 WAX, Abtox 97 E.T. PHEUNE HEUME_C, Abtox 98 COLD FLOWERS_2, Abtox 99 INJECTING DOPAMINE_0, Abtox ALIEN TOYS_14, Abtox NEUROTICONS_13, Abtox X-HEADZ_37.

Dafont link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Abyme

Abyme is a type foundry founded by Adrien Vasquez and John Morgan. Their typefaces:

• English Egyptian (2011-2017, by John Morgan and Adrien Vasquez). English Egyptian is an interpretation of William Caslon's Two Lines English Egyptian of 1816, considered by some to be the first sans serif printing type to be sold commercially.
• Nizioleti (2011-2017). An all caps stencil typeface designed by John Morgan and Adrien Vasquez, Nizioleti is named and modeled after the nizioleti, or Venetian street signs. Nizioleti is a typeface consisting of painted letters stencilled within white plaster panels directly onto the city walls, in use since the early 19th century.
• Berthe (2011-2018), designed by Charles Mazé. Berthe is designed after another typeface called Série no. 16, whose first cuts were produced at the end of the nineteenth century by the Parisian type foundry Deberny & Peignot. It was engraved by Constant and Auguste Aubert under the direction of Charles Tuleu, the adoptive son of Alexandre Deberny whose mother, Laure de Berny, had bought from her lover Honoré de Balzac the printing house he didn't manage to transform in a profitable company. Série no. 16 quickly became a popular choice among printers and found its way into many editions of classic and popular texts. Review by Hrant Papazian, who wrote that it presents a congenial evolution of the theatrical Didone style of type. Lower contrast, fluid structures, humane proportions. It is like a Didot or Bodoni taking leave of the catwalk and relaxing among friends..
• Mercure (Charles Mazé, 2010-2021). Mercure is based in part on Beaudoire's Elzévir, and also goes back to the epigraphic origins of Perrin's Augustaux.

Achim Reichert

Type designer based in Paris, who makes experimental commercial fonts at "For Home or Office Use" (Frankfurt). One of his families is called Lini (2000, semi-technical). Others: 2Try-Strich, 3Try-Straight, 4Try-kerned, 7Try-Medserif, 8Try-Micro, 12Try-Lego, 131Try-Klinspor, 161Try-Bitter, 172Try-Reg, 1722Try-Fliess Fett, 1721Try-Reg Inline, 174Try-Serif, 1742Try-Serif Fett, 18Try-Annette, Densite, Ouvert, Knubb, Knubb-20, Lini Eins, Lini Drei, Lini-Viers, Love-1, Love-10, NEW FEw, NEW GEw, NEW Klein, sBit34, WIR 2, WIR 3, WIR 4, WIR 6Vi, WIR 7Vi, WIR 7Vi Fat. Achim also runs Vier5 with Marco Fiedler, a graphic design studio. At Vier5, he published the experimental typeface SVT (2010) and the futuristic angular Shake (2010), which was originally designed for the Centre d'art Contemporain de Brétigny in France. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Acmé-Paris
[Élodie Mandray]

Acmé-Paris is a design studio in Paris run by Élodie Mandray and Caroline Aufort. Creators of New Gothic Textura (2009), Canevas (2010-2012, stitching font), Acme (2013), Tropique (2011, experimental), Minuscule (2012), Tribute (2012, children's hand), Juicy (2010), Eclipse, Thésard, the music-inspired Swing (2010), the heavy monoline sans typeface Acmé (2013), the titling sans typeface Le Creux (2013), and the stitching font Canevas (2013).

Typefaces from 2015 include the multiline neon font Neo Neon.

In 2016, Acmé Paris designed the copperplate style poster typeface Aylak, the titling sans Truck, the art nouveau typeface Bertand, the art deco typeface Beaumont, and the avant-garde typeface Cattolica.

In 2017, they designed the artsy rounded sans typeface Kasha.

Typefaces from 2022: Madrid (inspired by vintage posters from the Spanish Civil War). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adan Nadot

Paris-based student-designer of the techno typeface Diodr (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adélaïde Michel

French creator (b. 1993) of the primitive hand-printed typeface Adenote (2012).

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Adèle Antignac

Graphic designer, living in Paris, b. 1986. From 2007 until 2009, she studied type design at Ecole Estiene in Paris. In 2010, Budapest inspired her to create the open organic typeface Buda, which is characterized by large counters. Free download at Google Fonts.

Home page. Klingspor link. Google Plus link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adèle Gallé

During her studies at Ecole Estienne in Paris and La Cambre in Brussels, Paris-based Adèle Gallé designed the informal poster typeface Nord Express (2016) and the connected script typeface Sanour (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adèle Henninger

Strasbourg, France-based designer of the nature-themed typeface Nature (2016), which was a school project at Université de Strasbourg. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adèlle Onnillon

During her studies, Lyon, France-based Adèlle Onnillon designed the handcrafted poster typeface Lehre (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adelaide Laureau

French designer of Neon (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adelaide Nvu

Rouen, France-based designer of Paperclip Type (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adeline Goyet

Ex-student at l'Ecole Estienne in Paris, who wrote a thesis on the SuperVeloz typeface of Joan Trochut Blanchard (the exact reference is: Supertipo Veloz, Fundición José Iranzo, 1942). She digitized the typeface to some degree. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adeline Jendrejak

Lille, France-based designer of a sharp-edged typeface in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adeline Richerioux

Parisian graphic designer who created the logotype font Samaritaine (2013). This modular slightly anorexic sans display typeface was influenced by the new architectiural identity of the department store. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adi Cohen

Parisian designer of the modular typeface Grid Font (2013) and the high-contrast modular display typeface Eden Regular (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adine Marie-Amélie

Parisian graphic designer. She created the experimental typeface CLAP (2012) to represent rhythm, and illustrated it on the Serge Gainsbourg song Des clip crap des bang des vlop et des zip.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adobe: French glossary

French type glossary by Adobe. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adolph Rusch

Or Adolf Rusch von Ingweiler, who was active in Strasbourg from 1460 until 1489. The first roman antiqua north of the Alps is ascribed to him in 1464. The consensus is that this was not as pretty as the later types by Griffo et al.

Nevertheless, Shane Brandes did a large digital revival of his antiqua in 2013 and called it Rusch.

Revivals by Alexis Faudot and Rafael Ribas in 2018 during a type design workshop at ESAL Metz and Bibliothèque municipale de Metz, France:

• Rusch Bizarre 103R. A Proto-Roman first used in Strasbourg by Adolf Rusch for Raban Maur's De universo between 1467-74 (exact date unknown) and used until 1475.
• Rusch 100G, Gotico-Antiqua first used in Strasbourg by Adolf Rusch for Balbus' Catholicon, between 1470-75 (exact date unknown) and used until 1478.

Adolphe Mouron Cassandre

His real name is Adolphe Jean-Marie Mouron, and he was born in Kharkiv, Ukraine in 1901. He committed suicide in Paris in 1968, after the rejection of one of his innovative designs by a German publisher. After studies at the Ecoles des Beaux Arts in Paris, Cassandre adopted France as his country. He produced his first poster Au Bucheron at 22, and became a successful and influential poster artist best known for his epoch-defining travel posters and for his advertisements for products such as Dubonnet. The consummate art deco artist, he tried to create posters for people who did not try to see them. In 1936 he traveled to America to work on several projects. While there he designed several surrealistic covers for Alexey Brodovitch at Harper's Bazaar. In addition, he created for NW Ayers, the classic eye of the Ford billboard and several pieces for the Container Corporation of America. His career as a poster designer ended in 1939 when he changed disciplines and became a stage, set and theatrical designer. Most of Cassandre's work was done at Fonderie Deberny&Peignot. The 1960s work was at Olivetti.

He created these typefaces:

• Bifur (1928-1929). See the digital form by Richard Kegler (P22, 2004).
• Acier Noir (1930-1936). His poster Nord Express (1927) (Acier Noir really) inspired Nick Curtis to draw Nord Express NF (2003). In 2010, and then again in 2019, Jean-Baptiste Levée designed Acier (Noir and Gris) as a revival of Acier. Other revivals include HFF Black Steel and Ferrus (2010, Gert Wiescher).
• Peignot (1933-1937, designed with Charles Peignot for Deberny & Peignot). Typefaces like this are called Peignotian on my site; some are calling them modulated sans typefaces. Buy a digital version from Linotype. See this poster by Matt Blaisdell, this poster by Julieta Liberson, and this poster by Guillaume Bret. Noteworthy digital revivals include the rounded multi-style family Pinot Grigio Modern (2014, Alan Meeks) and Greyhound (2012, SoftMaker).
• Touraine (1947). Done with Charles Peignot, it is based on a design of Guillermo Mendoza. This Peignotian typeface was revived ca. 2014 by Clément Bonnetin.
• Cassandre (1968). Cassandre (1968) was largely unfinished, after having been turned down by Berthold and Olivetti (and was possibly the cause of his suicide). It was finished in a revival of sorts by Thierry Puyfoulhoux (2003).
• Graphica81 (1960).
• Cassandre Initials (1927). This artsy typeface was digitized by Gerd Wiescher at Elsner&Flake.

Books: A.M. Cassandre, "L'architecture, l'art que je préfère à tous les autres." (2008) is a small PDF file/essay by Estienne student Antoine Stevenot. In 1988, Letraset published Baseline 10 The Cassandre issue, a fifty-page magazine volume edited by Mike Daines and art directed by Newell and Sorrell.

References:

• Blaie Cendrars: Le spectacle est dans la rue, Montrouge, Draegr Frères, 1935. Has Cassandre's posters.
• Paul van Capelleveen, Sophie Ham, Jordy Joubij: Voix et visions. La Collection Koopman et l'Art du Livre français, Zwolle, Waanders, 2009.
• Peter van Dam, Philip van Praag: A.M. Cassandre en zijn Nederlandse opdrachtgevers 1927-1931: Catalogue raisonné. Abcoude, Uitgeverij Uniepers, 1999.
• Henri Mouron: Cassandre, London, Thames and Hudson, 1985.
• Maximilien Vox: A.M. Cassandre, peintre d'affiches, St-Gall, Zollikofer, 1948.
• N.R.A. Vroom: A.M. Cassandre, Amsterdam, Rijksacademie van Beeldende Kunsten, 1967.

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Adolphe Paul Giraldon

French type designer (1855-1933) who made Giraldon (Fonderie Deberny, 1900), an ornamental serif typeface undoubtedly influenced by Grasset and Auriol. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrian Frutiger

Famous type designer born in 1928 in Unterseen, Switzerland, who died in September 2015. He closely cooperated with Linotype-Hell AG, after having been artistic director at Deberny-Peignot in Paris since 1952. He established his own studio in 1962 with André Gürtler and Bruno Pfaftli. Art director for Editions Hermann, Paris 1957 to 1967. Frutiger lived near Bern, Switzerland, and was very interested in woodcuts. In 2009, Heidrun Osterer and Philipp Stamm coedited Adrian Frutiger Typefaces The Complete Works (Birkhäuser Verlag), a 460-page opus based on conversations with Frutiger himself and on extensive research in France, England, Germany, and Switzerland. Quote: Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay. He designed over 100 fonts. Here is a partial list:

• Président (Deberny&Peignot, 1954). Digitized by Linotype in 2003.
• Delta.
• Phoebus (Deberny&Peignot, 1953).
• Element-Grotesk.
• Federduktus.
• Ondine (Deberny&Peignot, 1953-1954). The Bitstream version of this font is Formal Script 421. Adobe, Linotype and URW++ each have digital versions called Ondine. Bitstream's Calligraphic 421 is slightly different.
• Méridien (Deberny&Peignot, 1955-1957). Digitized by Adobe/Linotype in 1989.
• Caractères Lumitype.
• Univers (Deberny&Peignot, 1957). About the name, Frutiger wrote I liked the name Monde because of the simplicity of the sequence of letters. The name Europe was also discussed; but Charles Peignot had international sales plans for the typeface and had to consider the effect of the name in other languages. Monde was unsuitable for German, in which der Mond means "the moon". I suggested "Universal", whereupon Peignot decided, in all modesty, that "Univers" was the most all-embracing name!. Univers IBM Composer followed. In 2010, Linotype published Univers Next, which includes 59 Linotype Univers weights and 4 monospaced Linotype Univers Typewriter weights, and can be rented for a mere 2675 Euros. In 2018, Linotype added Univers Next Typewriter. In 2020, Linotype's Akira Kobayashi dusted off Univers Next Cyrillic and Univers Next Paneuropean.
• Egyptienne F (1955, Fonderie Deberny&Peignot; 1960, for the Photon/Lumitype machine).
• Opéra (1959-1961, Sofratype).
• Alphabet Orly (1959, Aéroport d'Orly).
• Apollo (1962-1964, Monotype): the first type designed for the new Monotype photosetting equipment.
• Alphabet Entreprise Francis Bouygues.
• Concorde (1959, Sofratype, with André Gürtler).
• Serifen-Grotesk/Gespannte Grotesk.
• Alphabet Algol.
• Astra Frutiger. A typeface variant of Frutiger licensed under Linotype. It is the font used on the highways in Switzerland.
• Serifa (1967-1968, Bauersche Giesserei). URW++ lists the serif family in its 2008 on-line catalog. Other names include OPTI Silver (Castcraft), Ares Serif 94, and Sierra. Bitstream published the digital typeface Serifa BT. But it is also sold by Adobe, Tilde, Linotype, URW++, Scangraphic, and Elsner & Flake. The slab serif is robust and is based on the letterforms of Univers.
• OCR-B (1966-1968, European Computer Manufacturers Association).
• Alphabet EDF-GDF (1959, Électricité de France, Gaz de France).
• Katalog.
• Devanagari (1967) and Tamil (1970), both done for Monotype Corporation.
• Alpha BP (1965, British Petroleum&Co.).
• Dokumenta (1969, Journal National Zeitung Suisse).
• Alphabet Facom (1971).
• Alphabet Roissy (1970, Aéroport de Roissy Charles de Gaulle).
• Alphabet Brancher (1972, Brancher).
• Iridium (1972, Stempel). A didone with slight flaring.
• Alphabet Métro (1973, RATP): for the subway in Paris.
• Alphabet Centre Georges Pompidou. The CGP typeface (first called Beaubourg) used in the Centre Georges Pompidou from 1976-1994 is by Hans-Jörg Hunziker and Adrian Frutiger, and was developed as part of the visual identity program of Jean Widmer. It is said that André Baldinger digitized it in 1997.
• Frutiger (1975-1976, Stempel, with Hans-Jörg Hunziker). In 1999, Frutiger Next was published by Linotype. In 2009, that was followed by Neue Frutiger (a cooperation between Frutiger and Linotype's Akira Kobayashi). In fact, Frutiger, the typeface was made for the Charles De Gaulle Airport in 1968 for signage---it was originally called Roissy, and had to be similar to Univers. It was released publically as Frutiger in 1976. The modern Bitstream version is called Humanist 777. Frutiger Next Greek (with Eva Masoura) won an award at TDC 2006. Other digital implementations of Frutiger: M690 (SoftMaker), Quebec Serial (SoftMaker), Frutus (URW), Provencale (Autologic), Frontiere (Compugraphic), Freeborn (Scangraphic), Siegfried (Varityper). In 2018, under the aegis of Akira Kobayashi, the Monotype Design studio published the 150-language superfamily Neue Frutiger World (including coverage for Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Georgian, Armenian, Hebrew, Arabic, Thai and Vietnamese).
• Glypha (1979, Stempel). See Gentleman in the Scangraphic collection).
• Icône (1980-1982, Stempel, Linotype). Digitized by Linotype in 2003.
• Breughel (1982, Stempel; 1988, Linotype).
• Dolmen.
• Tiemann.
• Versailles (1983, Stempel).
• Linotype Centennial (1986). Based on Morris Fuller Benton's Clarendon typeface Century, Linotype Centennial was designed for Linotype's 100th birthday.
• Avenir (1988, Linotype). In 2004, Linotype Avenir Next was published, under the supervision of Akira Kobayashi, and with the help of a few others. In 2021, the Monotype team released Avenir Next Paneuropean (56 styles, by Akira Kobayashi). Avenir Next World, released by Linotype in 2021, is an expansive family of fonts that offers support for more than 150 languages and scripts. The subfamilies include Avenir Next Hebrew, Avenir Next Thai, Avenir Next Cyrillic, Avenir Next Arabic and Avenir Next Georgian. Avenir Next World contains 10 weights, from UltraLight to Heavy.

  Contributors besides Adrian Frutiger and Akira Kobayashi: Anuthin Wongsunkakon (Thai), Yanek Iontef (Hebrew), Akaki Razmadze (Georgian), Nadine Chahine (Arabic), Toshi Omagari (Arabic) and Elena Papassissa (Greek, Armenian). Lovely poster by Ines Vital (2011).

• Westside.
• Vectora (1991, Linotype).
• Linotype Didot (1991). See also Linotype Didot eText Pro (2013), which was optimized by Linotype for use on screens and small devices.
• Herculanum (1989, Linotype): a stone age font.
• Shiseido (1992).
• Frutiger Capitalis (2006, Linotype): a further exploration in the style of Herculanum, Pompeijana and Rusticana. Linotype trademarked that name even though at least five fonts by the name Capitalis already exist.
• Pompeijana (1993, Linotype).
• Rusticana (1993, Linotype).
• Frutiger Stones (1998, Linotype) and Frutiger Symbols.
• Frutiger Neonscript.
• Courier New, based on Howard Kettler's Courier, was one of Frutiger's projects he was involved in ca. 2000.
• AstraFrutiger (2002): a new signage typeface for the Swiss roads. Erich Alb comments: With a Frutiger condensed Type and illuminated signs during night it is mutch better readable.
• Nami (2008) is a chiseled-stone sans family, made with the help of Linotype's Akira Kobayashi.
• Neue Frutiger (2009, with Akira Kobayashi) has twice as many weights as the original Frutiger family.
• In 2019, the Linotype team released variable fonts for Frutiger's main typeface families, Avenir Next Variable, Neue Frutiger Variable, and Univers Next Variable.

Frutiger's books include Type Sign Symbol and Signs and Symbols. Their Design and Meaning (1989, with Andrew Bluhm, published by Studio Editions, London; Amazon link).

Linotype link. FontShop link. Adrian Frutiger, sa carrière française (2008) is Adèle Houssin's graduation thesis at Estienne.

Klingspor link. Wikipedia link. View Adrian Frutiger's typefaces.

View some digital versions of Avenir. Vimeo movie on Frutiger by Christine Kopp and Christoph Frutiger entitled "Der Mann von Schwarz und weiss: Adrian Frutiger". More Vimeo movies. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Adrien Alrivie

French type and graphic designer. His typefaces include Adrianistique, Ad Scriptum, Coffea and Ixoxi (logotype). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrien Ballanger

During his studies, Adrien Ballanger (Nantes, France) created Sorry Mom (2014), a typeface that was inspired by Quaver Serif (2011, Nick McCosker, Tipple Type). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrien Bourmault

As a student in Suresnes, France, Adrien Bourmault designed the artistic typeface Point Type in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrien Burnet

Marseille, France-based designer of the display typeface La Marseillaise (2013) which was inspired by the film movement La Nouvelle Vague. It was designed for the streetwear brand Souvenir Perdu. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrien Coquet

Web designer in Lille, France, who, despite the nearness of Belgium, managed to design a beautiful display sans typeface, Farray (2014), and the great free triangulated typeface Polya (2014), and its predecessor, Low Poly (2014). In 2015, he published the free handcrafted typeface Cabana and the rounded monoline display sans semicircle-patterned typeface Slot (free, with Hugo Dath). Cabana was adjusted in 2016.

In 2015, he created the commercial sans display typeface Panama.

Behance link. Another Behance link. Creative Market link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrien Delmas

French designer of the 4-weight decorative sans typeface Grisaille (2020): Grisaille has a strong square base and contrasting rounded aesthetics. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrien Dillmann

Valleiry, France-based designer of the school project typeface Galbe (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrien Guessaïmi

Lille, France-based designer of the connected monoline script font Dum Dum (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrien Jacquemet

Adrien Jacquemet is a graphic designer based in Paris. His typefaces include Slash (2021), which takes inspiration from Chinese calligraphy. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrien Joufflineau

At a workshop held in his home town of Mulhouse, France, Adrien Joufflineau designed an avant-garde typeface family (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrien Kerros

Adrien Kerros (Sokrea, Paris) created the free circle-based typeface Ablax in 2015. Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrien Lefalher

French designer (b. 1990), aka Neo Keitaro, of Graphic Trash (2006, scribbly hand). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrien Levavasse

During his studies, Adrien Levavasse (Faverges, France) drew a charcoal origami alphabet (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrien Masanaba

Bordeaux, France-based designer of the simplified sans typeface Police (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrien Menard
[Edition Studio]

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Adrien Midzic

Fatnobrain was Adrien Midzic's design studio in Paris. Born in 1982, he co-founded Pizza Typefaces with Luc Borho in 2018. Midzic designed these typefaces or type families: Fine (lineal), Blokus (free pixel font, 2009), Cimen (strong sans, designed for Smacl Entraide), Mesquine (lineal), Blitz, Cucha, Stencil Reverse, Huit (2009, a gorgeous didone headline face), Stenha (stencil).

Fonts made in 2010: The ETH family (art deco sans).

Custom typefaces by Midzic: Aquitaine (2013, for Région Aquitaine), Nilka (2013, for his personal identity), No End (2013, a fat didone), Ethon Serif (2013, a perked up serif typeface for Penguin Books), Kasai Est (2011, for the Congo-based Kasai Est Magazine), Festival De Film Documentaire (2011), Nevenka (2011, condensed sans).

In 2014, Adrien Midzic, Jason Vandenberg, Jérémie Hornus, Julien Priez and Alisa Nowak co-designed the creamy script Vanilla FY. It was renamed Vanille FY after a few days. Still in 2014, Adrien Midzic, Jérémie Hornus and Alisa Nowak co-designed the very humanist sans family Saya FY and Saya Semisans FY. Adrien Midzic and Joana Correia co-designed Saya Serif FY (2015).

At the free font cooperative Velvetyne, he published the sans typeface Lack (2014).

In 2015, he made the 3-style sans typeface Suber for an art fair in Paris. The roman transitional typeface Bota Serif (2015), which was inspired by Cochin (designed by Charles Peignot in 1912) is a custom font designed for Hotel des ventes de Poitiers. In 2017, it was finally released for retail.

In 2016, Adrien designed the bold titling typeface Debeo and the modern condensed Latin/Arabic typeface 29LT Adir (with Naji El Mir; at 29 Letters).

In 2017, he published the piano key typeface Mixal, which became a large experiment on variable fonts and is free for everyone.

Typefaces from 2018: Kern, Kern Office (a sans with some Futura features), Forno (sans), VTF Lack (a free single weight monoline geometric sans for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic, published by Velvetyne), Metal (an all caps multi-width variable font originally designed for marché Dauphine), Orelo (a 120-style high-contrast fashion mag font family; +Orelo Hangul, 2020).

Typefaces from 2019: Ultra Solar (experimental), 1871 Mane (a custom sans typeface), Wasa (a tense sans in seven styles), Shrill, Gangster Grotesk (free), Stupid (a hacker / hipster font), Kern (geometric sans).

Typefaces from 2020: Shreck Issue (very tall and ultra-condensed), Metal (brutalist), Version ACT (a two-axis variable font), Debeo (a heavy sans), Dozza (a hybrid family named after ITC Mendoza by Jose Mendoza Almeida), XMX (experimental).

Typefaces from 2021: Campingo (a roundish informal typeface inspired by camping and outdoor life), Bota (with Ines Davodeau: first designed for Boissnot&Tailliez, Bota is a modern interpretation of Georges Peignot's Cochin (2012)), Pleasure (hipsterism pushed to the fringe of addiction), Model Standard (ModelStandard Mono, ModelStandard SemiMono, ModelStandard Sans).

Dafont link. Klingspor link. Behance link. Another Behance link. Hellofont link. Velvetyne link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Adrien Missera

Student creator in Paris of the thin blackboard bold typeface A Deux C'est Mieux (2014) and the display / logotype typeface Palais de Tokyo (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adrien Tétar
[Trufont]

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Adrien Vasquez

Adrien Vasquez is from Grenoble, France. He studied in Valence and the University of Reading (class of 2011). He lives in London and teaches type design at ESAD Valence. His graduation typeface at Reading was Modern Seven (2011), a didone family for Latin and Cyrillic that comes with its own Modern Slab Serif.

With John Morgan, he founded Abyme in 2017. At Abyme, he published these typefaces:

• English Egyptian (2011-2017, with John Morgan). English Egyptian is an interpretation of William Caslon's Two Lines English Egyptian of 1816, considered by some to be the first sans serif printing type to be sold commercially.
• Nizioleti (2011-2017, with John Morgan). Named and modeled after the nizioleti, or Venetian street signs, Nizioleti is typeface consisting of painted letters stencilled within white plaster panels directly onto the city walls, in use since the early 19th century.

Adrien Zammit
[Formes Vives]

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AF-FLUX

French outfit that designed the bullets/pixel dingbat font Signotek (free) in 2000. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Afterlounge.com
[Ion Lazarescou]

Afterlounge.com is run by Ion Lazarescou (b. 1976), a Frenchman from Levallois-Perret who since 2000 is the artistic director for APM Publicité. He designed Helltime and Fuconexbo at Typograsfree. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Agathe Boudin

Parisian graphic designer. Creator of Evolutive Typeface (2013, alchemic). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Agathe Challeton

During her studies, Agathe Challeton designed the free typeface Wisigotik (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Agathe Nedelec

During her graphic design studies in Nantes, France, Agathe Nedelec designed the art deco typeface Stroke (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Agathe Pourchet

Aix-en-Provence-based designer of the bold sans typeface Pina (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Agathe Richard
[Lettres Vagabondes (or: Fonts by Holyrose)]

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Agence Eureka

Flickr page by Agence Eureka, which has scanned many lettering books from the art deco era and the immediate post-war era. [Google] [More]  ⦿

A.-H. Bécus

Parisian type foundry. In 1882, they published a specimen book, Spécimen des caractères de labeur de l'imprimerie typographique A.-H. Bécus.

Scans: Bretonnes, normandes, initiales, initiales allongées, elzevier. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aiko Oshima

As a student at ENSAD in Paris, she co-designed Rosart (2002), a font based on lettering by the famous 18-th century Belgian typographer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ainakely

Parisian graphic and web designer who created a cursive typeface and Thing Icons in 2014. In 2015, he/she created a multicolored circle-based alphabet. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ainsifont

French digital type foundry, est. 2007, located in Lille. The type coop includes Stéphane Meurice, Xavier Meurice, Sébastien Delobel (the three founders), as well as Jérémie Perrin and Baptiste Servais.

Commercial fonts include these made by Atelier Télescopique: Stone Heure (2007, multiline), Ader, Bepierre (pixel), Beye (pixel), Birinte (experimental), Boureuse (an elegant geometric sans), Byme, Capulco, Ciceron (dot matrix), Delory (clean sans), Dicion (dot matrix), Dixca (pixel), Fisher, Fluo (2012-2014, a stencil font by Xavier Meurice and Sébastien Delobel), Hic, Kune (sans family), Lailuya, Lienne, Mentable (dot matrix), Mento (clean sans), Merik, Miante, Micale, Mulette, Naconda, Nalfabait (dings), Natomi (techno), Nibalsmith (ultra-fat), Norak, Normal, Peindice, Rabik (paperclip face), Raoul, Rijsel (2013, sans), Rondie (kitchen tile), Rubal, Scard, Screenex, Stone Heure (prismatic), Singolo, Sphiquesy, Steroid, Stuce, Tino, Tomica, Treen, Varo, Velinge (dings), Veu, Vrette, Vure, Yoli (dings), Xatif, Zofage.

Corporate typefaces by them include the Quechua family (for the sports company Quechua in Domancy, France), which consists of four typefaces, Bionnassay (for cross-country skiing), Forclaz (mountain hiking), Arpenaz (for recreational hiking) and Capcir (for Nordic skiing).

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Ainsifont (was: Atelier Telescopique, or: Fonderie Nordik)
[Xavier Meurice]

Fonderie Nordik was a French type foundry in Wasquehal near Lille, which published some fonts such as Tomica (2009, a geometric sans done for Wéo Télé Nord Pas de Calais), Le Dixca, Le Cicerond, LaNormal, La Lienne. Founded in 1998 by Xavier Meurice and Sébastien Delobel, it changed its name in 2007 to Atelier Telescopique and then to Ainsifont. Stéphane Meurice and Guillaume Berry are also involved.

Font list: Font list: Scard (2000, Xavier Meurice), Stonehenge, Dixca (free pixel font), Fish, Delory, Lienne (2001, with Delobel), Bizeau, Raoul, La Cidulée, Ader (Xavier Meurice, 2002), Tex (2002, pixel font by Xavier Meurice), Normale (free), PSUS (Xavier Meurisse, 2000), Bépierre, Péro, SV01 (dings), Cicerond (free dot matrix font), Réka (2001, Meurice and Delobel), Nuk, Stéroide, Rosoir (2002, Xavier Meurice, dingbats), Equinox, Acropik, Wazemmes, Kune, Stoneheure (2001, Xavier Meurice), Sphiquesie (Xavier Meurice, 2002, an octagonal font), Nyctalope (2002).

Xavier Meurice participates in the type cooperative Ainsifont in Lille. His typefaces there include:

• The rounded sans typeface Fluo (2012, with Stéphane Delobel).
• AF Singolo (2012, with Stéphane Delobel). A stencil typeface created for Lille Design.
• Mento (2015, with Stéphane Delobel). Original from 2007.
• Playtime (2012-2018). A stackable sans typeface by Xavier Meurice and Sébastien Delobel.
• Raoul (2007, with Stéphane Delobel). Original created for the Kursaal in Dunkirk, and named in honor of Lille-based singer Raoul de Godewarsvelde.
• Rubal (2011).
• Screenex.
• Stone Heure (2011). A prismatic typeface.

Airbus: B612

B612 is a free Google font published in 2018 by a team of designers. They explain: B612 is a highly legible open source font family, designed and tested to be used on aircraft cockpit screens. Its design makes it particularly suitable for degraded contexts (ensuring legibility and readability of data), with a positive effect on reducing visual fatigue and cognitive load. Particular attention was given to the uniformity of the typeface, whether being used for isolated terms, reading information on a map, mixing capital letters and numbers, waypoint lists, long or abbreviated texts, specific terms and data in the aeronautical field. In 2010, Airbus initiated a research collaboration with ENAC and Université de Toulouse III on a prospective study to define and validate an aeronautical font: the challenge was to improve the display of textual data information on all cockpit screens, concerning more specifically legibility, readability and reading comfort, and to enhance the overall cockpit consistency. The typographical research was conducted through iterations from experimentation to design. Two years later, Airbus came to Intactile DESIGN in order to design and develop the eight variants of the font. Baptized B612 in reference to the imaginary asteroid of the aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the font has been optimised following a calligraphic approach, in order to preserve the readable qualities of humanist typefaces like réales and incises, but also the technical and functional image of sans serif or bitmap. B612 is a two-weight font family including roman and italic styles but also a monospaced variation, B612 Mono. It was designed in 2012 by Nicolas Chauveau, Thomas Paillot and Jonathan Favre-Lamarine from the design agency Intactile DESIGN, and Jean-Luc Vinot from ENAC (French National University of Civil Aviation) Interactive Informatics Team for Laurent Spaggiari from the Airbus Human Factors department---prior research by Jean-Luc Vinot (DGAC/DSNA) and Sylvie Athènes (Université de Toulouse III). In 2017, Airbus agreed to publish the font with an open source license (Eclipse Public License) within the Polarsys project, an industry-oriented project hosted by the Eclipse foundation. B612 project was awarded the Observeur du Design: Industry Star in 2018.

Github link for B612. Google Fonts link for B612 Mono. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Akalollip
[Loïc Sander]

Loïc Sander (Akalollip) is a Strasbourg-based graphic and type designer, b. Germany. He is associated with Production Type.

Creator of the free font family Fengardo Neue (2012, Velvetyne Type Foundry and Open Font Library), a (very) humanist sans with a Gillian lower case g.

In 2015, he designed the didone typeface family Trianon at Production Type, in Text, Grande and Caption sub-families. Benedikt Bramböck writes: Weighing in at a total number of forty-two styles spread out over four size-specific families, it is certainly not another blunt revival of a Didot typeface. Even more remarkable than the size of the type system is the stylistic scope it covers, including elaborate italics, monolinear Lights, heavily slab-serif-flavored Caption cuts, and Grande styles that verge on becoming stencils---all referencing different works from the golden era of the Didots. With this pluralism of style and character, Trianon almost commands you to use it in all the "wrong"ways, exhibiting flamboyant shapes, flexibility, and individuality. In 2016, he added the gorgeous fat didone typeface Trianon Normande, which was done with the aid of Sandra Carrera, Roxane Gataud and Yoann Minet at Production Type.

Fontsquirrel link. Loïc Sander at Velvetyne. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Akbar Ahmad

Paris-based designer of the great custom vintage typeface Illusions of Grandeur (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Akvaléir

French designer (b. 1972) of the Celtic look typeface Akvaleir (2007). Dafont link. Aka Ysengrin. [Google] [More]  ⦿

AL Creation

Rennes, France-based designer of Fire Stone (2018) and Trombone (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Al Luce

Lyon, France-based designer of the art nouveau-lettered illustration Metadream (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alain Chavard

Ex-student at Scriptorium de Toulouse who created this roman inscription face. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alain Rodriguez

In 2012, Parisian graphic designers Thomas Bizzarri and Alain Rodriguez co-designed Feu (a sans face) and Thermidor (a revival based on the work of French type designer Charles Beaudoire (end of the nineteenth century), custom designed for the Feu Sacré books). Feu is an original typeface designed for the visual identity and the books of the publishing house Le Feu Sacré. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alan Cloiseau

Paris-based designer of the free comic book typeface ACL (2020) and the commissioned typeface Club Med Pictograms (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alan Marshall

Alan Marshall worked at the Musée de l'imprimerie in Lyon, France, from 1995 until his retirement in 2015. He was director of the Museum from 2002 until 2015. A type and book expert, Alan Marshall published Tout le monde connaît Roger Excoffon (2011). Musee de l'imprimerie link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alaric Garnier

Educated as a sign painter, he now poractices type and book design. Creator at Production Type of Mars Extended and Mars Condensed (2018) and the high-contrast inscriptional typeface family Kessler (2013-2019) which is a revival of a bespoke type commissioned in 1905 by Harry Kessler. Kessler won an award at 23TDC.

In 2020, he published the text family Big Daily at Production Type, which writes: Big Daily is inspired by daily newspaper typefaces---not ubiquitous headline display fonts, but the small copy. At its best in small point sizes from 6pt - 12pt, its contrast is both significant and sturdy, avoiding the clunky, zoomed-in nature of many fonts designed for this size. . [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alban Corbin

French creator of the scratchy hand-printed typeface Alban (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Albert Boton
[BVS Boton]

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Albert Hollenstein
[Studio Hollenstein]

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Albin Loyal

Nantes, France-based designer of the high-contrast tweetware typeface Punctuation (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aldona Gritzmann

Graphic designer in Paris, who created the textured decorative caps typeface Wykinanki (2015) [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alec Chignol

Montreuil, France-based designer of Brickcity (2013), a pixelish modular typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alejandro Lo Celso
[Pampa Type]

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Aleksandar Marjanovic

Graphic designer in Paris, who created the Latin / Cyrillic Slova Stencil typeface in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alekz

Parisian designer of Typo3 in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alessandro Colizzi

Alessandro Colizzi (b. Rome, 1966) is associate professor at Milan's Politecnico, Department of Design, where he teaches graphic design history, typography, and type design. He was professor at the Ecole de design of UQAM (Montreal) from 2005 to 2019, and visiting professor at the Design Academy Eindhoven (2014/15). He holds a PhD from the University of Leiden (with a thesis on Bruno Minari), an MA in Type Design from The Hague's Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten, a postgraduate diploma from the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique (Nancy, France, 2001), and an MLitt in English Literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza (1985-2000). He researches graphic design history, typography, and information design and interned in 1999 with Paul Shaw at Parsons School of Design in New York. He is a member of the Nebiolo History Project and has been a member of the cooperative Italian type foundry CAST since 2019.

His typefaces include:

• Mignonne (2004, aka Mirabelle). This was specially designed for small text setting under modern printing conditions.
• The condensed Offbeat (1998, T-26, with Marco Tancredi).
• Neon Nbl (2019-2020, CAST). Neon Nbl is a display typeface working at its best for headlines, posters and logos. It is the faithful digital redesign of the original geometric monocase sans designed by Giulio da Milano and released by Nebiolo in 1933-1934. The original face had different proportions with varying widths for each type size, ranging from extra narrow (72 pt) to wide (6 pt), while Neon Nbl comes in a coordinated range of weights (Thin to Bold) and proportions (UltraCondensed to Normal). Neon Nbl also comes in a shaded titling version (Ombra) in four styles. Colizzi extended the oroginal character set which now contains 700 glyphs per font.

Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam: Forma, Dattilo, Modulo. Nebiolo's last effort to produce a 'universal' typeface. Organizer of ATypI 2017 in Montreal. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alex André
[Keussel Studio]

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Alex Chavot
[Apex Type Foundry]

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Alex Lasserre

Graphic designer in Toulouse, France, who created a geometric solid font and an experimental textured font in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alex Roux

During his studies at l'Institut Supérieur des Beaux Arts de Besançon, France, Alex Roux designed a hipster typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandra De Assunçao

Based in Nates, France, Alexandra De Assunçao created the experimental typeface Le Renard Qui Court in 2013.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandra Dumas

Photographer and designer in Lyon, France, who created the curly vampire typeface Madlex (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandra Nolot

Graphic designer in Versailles, France. In 2015 she created Manel, a typeface that consists of letters drawn by a class of eight-year old children. She also designed the monoline sans typeface Leer (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandra Schaffner

Parisian art director who created the squarish modular typeface La Recalle (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandre Bassi

Alexandre Bassi is a type designer and researcher. He specializes in art direction, visual indentity and type design. During Type Paris 18, Alexandre Bassi designed Optika, a text typeface that was influenced by Dwiggins.

At ANRT, he designed the free script font Chaumont Script (2021), which is based on the handwriting of Chantal Jacquet, a sign painter in Chaumont (Haute-Marne, France) in the 1980s. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandre Carre

During his studies at ESAG-Penninghen, Paris, Alexandre Carre designed an unnamed modular typeface (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandre Condemine

Dijon, France-based designer of the all caps display typeface Alphabetica (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandre Debelloir

Graduate of the DSAA program at Ecole Estienne in Paris. In 2018, he released the grotesque typeface family Sonar at E162. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandre Delvert

During his studies in Bordeaux, France, Alexandre Delvert created the stencil typeface Bitmap Alphabet (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandre Dimos
[de Valence]

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Alexandre Godreau

Parisian illustrator and graphic designer who created the spurred typeface Peak (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandre Guerrero

In Lyon, France, Alexandre Guerrero designed the typeface Chambrine (2016) and Charmille (2016) for a school project. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandre Laügt
[La Vitrine de Trafik]

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Alexandre Lemarechal

Graphic designer in Toulouse, France (b. 1990, Tours, France). Creator of Typo 3D (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandre Leray

Graduate of ESAD Grenoble Valence, France in 2006. In 2012, Stéphanie Vilayphiou, Alexandre Leray, Coline Sunier and Charles Mazé co-designed the readable typeface Dauphine, which can be downloaded from Github and Open Font Library. See it in action on the web site of ESAD (Ecole Supérieure d'Art et de Design). Dauphine is a sans-serif font inspired by lettering in late 19th and early 20th century maps. ESAD Groble Valence link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandre Le Saulnier de Saint Jouan

As a student at ENSAD in Paris, he co-designed Poinçons (1999), a typeface based on a design of Fournier. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandre Liziard
[Interstice]

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Alexandre Marc

French youngster (b. 1994) who created the simple hand-drawn typeface Newjosh (2012) and the grungy typeface Smoky Cloud (2012). He also made the African look caps typeface Tribalistik Tatwu (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandre Noyer

Roazhon, France-based designer of Sansandre Script (2019) and the shadowed sketched typeface Red Hook (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandre Renard

Paris-based Chilean student-designer of the art deco typeface Palais de Tokyo (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandre Rivault

Parisian creator of the very experimental typeface Typographie Modulaire (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexandre Tonneau

Parisian graphic designer who created experimental typefaces such as Futidot (2013), and 1 Point Dudh (2013). Le First (2013) is a squarish typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexis Boscariol

Alexis Boscariol is a Paris-based freelance graphic and type designer. He completed his Masters in graphic design at ESAD Valence, before entering the Type Media program at KABK in Den Haag, The Netherlands, class of 2019. His KABK graduation typeface is Picardy, a variable font designed for the web. The display version also has a variable outline axis, enabling more interactivity and animations.

In 2020, he published the rounded display typeface Caspar Condensed at Future Fonts. Caspar Github link. Future Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexis Chevallier

Graphic designer in Bordeaux who created the 3d engineering typeface Bocave in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexis Faudot and Rafael Ribas

In 2019, Alexis Faudot and Rafael Ribas released fifteen free fonts that are all revivals resulting from a 2015 workshop led by Jerome Knebusch at ANRT in Nancy, France, a 2016 workshop at ESAD Valence led by Jerome Knebusch and Thomas Huot-Marchand, a workshop at Hochschule Mainz and Gutenberg-Bibliothek, Mainz in 2016, a workshop at ISDAT in Toulouse, France in 2018, and a workshop at Bauhaus University Weimar and Anna Amalia Bibliothek Weimar in 2018. The project, entitled Gotico-Antiqua, Proto-Roman, Hybrid dealt with 15th century types between gothic and roman in the period 1459-1482. They explain: This relatively understudied period---after Gutenberg and before the consolidation of Jenson's model--extends from the earliest traces of humanistic tendencies to pure roman, including many cases of uncertain or experimental design, voluntary hybridisation and proto- or archaic roman. In 1459 in Mainz, Johann Fust and Peter Schöffer printed the Rationale Divinorum Officiorum by Guillaume Durand, using a typeface (now known as Durandus) that looked like no other before. From that point, we can follow a wide variety of developments, partly related to the travels of early printers from the Rhine area to Italy and France. By extension, we are also interested in the Private Press movement initiated by William Morris and Emery Walker at the end of the nineteenth century in England, which revived some of those typefaces before they were once more largely forgotten. The typefaces:

• Ptolemy Great Primer 18 (from the 2015 workshop at HEAR Mulhouse). Ptolemy was designed in Chelsea by St John Hornby, Sidney Cockerell and Emery Walker, and was cut in 18 pt by Edward Prince for Cervantes's Don Quixote, which was published by the Ashendene Press in 1927. The type used until 1935 was a revival of Lienhart Holle's cut for Ptolemaeus's Cosmographia printed in 1482 in Ulm. It is possible that Lina Kahal was the actual designer at that 2015 workshop in Nancy.
• Jessen Mittel 14 and Jessen Cicero 12 (from the 2016 workshop in Valence). Jessen Schrift is hybrid of gothic (blackletter) minuscules and roman capitals (including the characteristic Basque capital A) designed and cut without preliminary drawings in Offenbach am Main by Rudolf Koch for The Four Gospels, which was printed at the Klingspor press in 1926 and published by Koch himself. Formerly named Bibel-Gotisch, the type was released as Jessen in several sizes by the Klingspor foundry in 1930.
• Hamlet Tertia 18 and Hamlet Cicero 12 (from the 2018 workshop in Weimar). Hamlet (also named Kessler-Blackletter) was designed by Edward Johnston and cut in three sizes (10, 12 and 18 pt) by Edward Prince for William Shakespeare's Hamlet (published by Harry Kessler's Cranach Press in Weimar in 1929). The type is based on the Durandus for the lowercases, and Sweynheim & Pannartz's Subiaco type for the capitals. Type design workshop at Bauhaus Universität Weimar and Anna Amalia Bibliothek Weimar, January 2018.
• Parix Hybrid 111R (from the Toulouse workshop in 2018). This hybrid was first used in Toulouse by Johann Parix for Rodericus Zamorensis's Speculum vitae humanae, around 1475 (exact date unknown) and was used until 1481. Type design workshop at isdaT Toulouse and Bibliothèque municipale de Toulouse, February 2018.
• Fust&Schoeffer-Durandus-GoticoAntiqua118G (from the Mainz workshop in 2016). Durandus's 118G, Gotico-Antiqua was first used in Mainz by Peter Schoeffer and Johann Fust for Guillaume Durand's Rationale Divinorum Officorum in 1459. The book displays two sizes, the smaller 92G for the main text and the bigger and more contrasted 118G used only for the colophon and later for the famous 48-line Bible in 1462. It was used until the end of the 15th century.
• Sweynheim & Pannartz Subiaco 120R. A Proto-Roman first used in Subiaco by Konrad Sweynheim & Arnold Pannartz, for an edition of Donatus in 1465 (no longer preserved) and used until 1467 in four editions in total. Type design workshop with students of ANRT at Biblioteca Statale del Monumento Nazionale di Santa Scolastica, Subiaco, May 2018.
• Sweynheim & Pannartz 115R A Proto-Roman first used in Rome by Konrad Sweynheim & Arnold Pannartz, for Cicero's Epistolae ad familiares in 1467 and used until 1476. Type design workshop with students of ANRT at Biblioteca Statale del Monumento Nazionale di Santa Scolastica, Subiaco, May 2018.
• Spira 110R. A Proto-Roman first used in Venice by Johannes and Vindelinus de Spira for Cicero's Epistolae ad familiares in 1469 and used until 1473 by Vindelinus. Type design workshop at ENSBA Lyon and Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon, March 2017.
• Rot 102R. A Proto-Roman first used in Rome by Adam Rot for Dominicus de Sancto Geminiano's Lecturae super secunda parte sexti Decretalium in 1471 and used until 1474. Type design workshop at HBK Saar and Bibliothèque municipale de Metz, Sarrebrücken, December 2016.
• Rusch Bizarre 103R. A Proto-Roman first used in Strasbourg by Adolf Rusch for Raban Maur's De universo between 1467-74 (exact date unknown) and used until 1475. Type design workshop at ESAL Metz and Bibliothèque municipale de Metz, April 2018
• Rusch 100G, Gotico-Antiqua first used in Strasbourg by Adolf Rusch for Balbus' Catholicon, between 1470-75 (exact date unknown) and used until 1478. Type design workshop at ESAL Metz and Bibliothèque municipale de Metz, April 2018.
• Soufflet Vert 106R, Hybrid first used in Paris by the Au Soufflet Vert workshop for Guido de Monte Rochen's Manipulus Curatorum in 1476 and used until 1480. Type design workshop at ISBA Besançon and Bibliothèque d'étude et de conservation de Besançon, May 2018.
• Zainer 96G, Gotico-Antiqua first used in Ulm by Johann Zainer for Jacques de Voragine's Legenda aurea not after 1477 and used until 1485. Type design workshop at Hochschule Aachen and Stadtbibliothek Aachen, October 2017.
• Zainer Initials, richly decorated gothic initials of 45 mm height, first used in Ulm by Johann Zainer for the Spiritual Interpretations of the Life of Jesus Christ around 1478. Used until 1480. Type design workshop at Hochschule Aachen and Stadtbibliothek Aachen, October 2017.

ANRT Nancy link. Github link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexis Foucault

Parisian student-designer of the modular typeface STWO (2015) at ESAG Penninghen. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexis Gunkel

During his studies, Alexis Gunkel (Strasbourg, France) designed the grungy Track Ink typeface (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexis Merlault

French Lyon-based Creative Alliance designer of Esquisse (1996-1997) and Equilibre Gauche (1997-1998). He also designed Labeur (1998). Bio. Equilibre Gauche won the Morisawa award. Klingspor link. FontShop link. Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alexis Renard

As a student at Iscom Lille, France, Alexis Renard designed the Greek simulation font Horion (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alexis Robin

Graduate of ESMA (Ecole Supérieure des Métiers Artistiques) in Nantes, France. As a student in 2016 at Ecole Sup de Pub in Bordeaux, he designed a bicolored modular typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alfab
[Bruno Bernard]

French type and graphic designer (b. 1974) who lives in Asnières-sur-Seine and works in Paris. Educated at Ecole Estienne, Paris, and ANRT, Nancy, he designs custom-made typefaces and has released several commercial fonts including Adso and Mihaly. He co-founded BAT foundry in 2009 and set up Alfab in 2019. His typefaces:

• Acheminé: for the French railway, the SNCF.
• Adso: a hookish family done at the ANRT, and published at BAT Foundry in 2010.
• Anima (2013).
• Chanson: a serif revival from the 19th century.
• Departure: a dot matrix face.
• Dinette: commissioned by the graphic design studio Malte Martin.
• Mazette (2013). A high-contrast stencil typeface.
• Mgetine: for the corporate identity of MGET.
• Mihaly Display (2019) and Mihaly (2013). A fine geometric sans family originally created for the Mihaly exhibition.
• Montille: a formal calligraphic typeface for the Domaine de Montille.
• Piccolo (1998): for the Figaro newspaper.
• Posthume: a set of nice symbols for the Side One Posthume Theatre.
• LFDJ (2010): a corporate organic all caps sans typeface for La Française des Jeux, art directed by Anja Krohne.
• Quadrile (2013). A semi-stencil typeface for the visual identity of Quadrant.

At ATypI Montreal 2017 Bruno Bernard spoke on Excoffon Book, the last typeface by Roger Excoffon? [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alfred Moustache

Alfred Moustache (b. 1980) lives in France's Medoc. I did not know that Moustache was a family name in France, but I guess it must be. He created the straight-line high-contrast geometric typeface Auf Blik (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alice Bertin

Bordeaux, France-based student-designer at ECV of the display typeface Typoney (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alice Bottigliero
[Studio Pépouze]

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Alice Chapuis

Parisian designer of the shaded poster display typeface 45 Degrees (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alice Deparis

During her studies, Loos, France-based Alice Deparis designed the triangulated typeface Graphic (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alice Doan

Alice Doan (Paris, France) created the thin display typeface Bambou (2013) starting from Neue Helvetica. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alice Gautier

Parisian student-designer of the painter's font Karel Appel (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alice Hien

During her studies in Paris in 2016, Alice Hien designed the school script typeface Guariguette and the squarish titling typeface Jean. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alice Mancini

Parisian designer of the Peignotian typeface Mystelegant (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alice Mesguich

Free-lance art director and photographer who graduated from Esag Penninghen, Paris. Designer of the sketched poster typeface Cocorosie (2014), which was developed during her studies at ESAG Penninghen. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alice Péchot

Parisian designer who created the spurred typeface Changeante (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alice Protin

Grenoble, France-based designer of the pixelish video game typeface Space (2016) and the blocky color font Modular (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alice Pruvost

During her graphic design studies at ESAG Penninghen (Paris), Alice Pruvost created the artistic typeface Twist (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alice Resseguier

French type designer who contributes to FontYou. In 2014, Alice Resseguier co-designed the punchy poster typeface Kraaken FY with fellow FontYou designers Bertrand Reguron, Valentine Proust, Julien Priez, Gia Tran, Jérémie Hornus, and Alisa Nowak.

Bertrand Reguron, Alice Resseguier and Gia Tran co-designed the retro signage script typeface Coco FY (2014).

Alice Resseguier and Gia Tran co-designed the girly script typeface Lola Lola FY (2014). This typeface was forcibly renamed Chelly FY a few days after its first appearance, possibly because there already was a typeface called Lola by Laura Messeguer. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alice Savoie
[Alice Savoie, Frenchtype]

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Alice Savoie, Frenchtype
[Alice Savoie]

Alice Savoie is an independent typeface designer and researcher, b. 1984, based in Lyon. She studied graphic design and typography in Paris at Ecole Duperré and Ecole Estienne, and in 2006 graduated from the MA in typeface design from the University of Reading (UK). In 2014 she was awarded a PhD from the University of Reading for the research she carried out in collaboration with the Musée de l'imprimerie in Lyon (France). Her research focuses on the design of typeface in France, the UK and the USA in the postwar period, and for phototypesetting technologies in particular: International cross-currents in typeface design: France, Britain, and the US in the phototypesetting era, 1949-1975. She collaborates with international type foundries such as Monotype, Process Type Foundry, and Tiro Typeworks, and specializes in the design and development of typefaces for editorial and identity purposes. She also designs multi-script type families, including Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Hebrew. She intends to sell her typefaces via 205 Corp.

Between 2008 and 2010 Alice joined Monotype as an in-house type designer, working mainly on custom type designs for international clients (The Times, Turner Broadcasting, Ogilvy, etc.). She has also contributed to the design of new typefaces for the Monotype library, such as the Ysobel type family (in collaboration with Robin Nicholas), and Rotis II Sans. Her type family Capucine is distributed by Process Type Foundry. In 2012 she collaborated with John Hudson/Tiro Typeworks over the development of the Brill typeface family for the Dutch publisher Brill. Since September 2013 she teaches typeface design at the Atelier National de Recherche Typographique in Nancy, and at ESAD Amiens (France). Her type foundry is called French Type.

She holds an MA and a PhD from the University of Reading (UK). She collaborates with design studios and type foundries on the design of multi-script typeface families. In 2018 she released the typeface family Faune, commissioned by the Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP) in partnership with the Groupe Imprimerie Nationale. Alice teaches and supervises research projects at ANRT Nancy and ENSBA Lyon (FR). She is the principal Post-doctoral Researcher on the Leverhulme-funded project Women in Type under the supervision of Fiona Ross at the University of Reading. Her typefaces:

• Her graduation typeface at Reading, Capucine Greek (2007) has been awarded as the best text typeface of the Greek alphabet exhibition, taking place during the 3rd international conference on typography and visual communication in Thessaloniki, Greece, 2007. Capucine is a very informal, almost hand-printed family covering both Latin and Greek in many styles. In 2010, finally, she published Capucine at Process Type Foundry (Grand Valley, MN), where she was briefly part of Eric Olson's team.
• The constructivist typeface Pozor (2005).
• The connected handwriting typeface Jeanine, done in 2006 at the École Estienne in Paris, where she studied from 2004 until 2006.
• In 2009, she co-designed Ysobel (Monotype; winner of an award at TDC2 2010) with type designers Robin Nicholas, head of type design at Monotype, and Delve Withrington. The sales pitch: According to Nicholas, the idea for the Ysobel typefaces started when he was asked to create a custom, updated version of the classic Century Schoolbook typeface, which was designed to be an extremely readable typeface - one that made its appearance in school textbooks beginning in the early 1900s. Buy it from Monotype.
• Brill (2012), co-designed with John Hudson for Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands, won an award at TDC 2013.
• The Royal Docks typeface was developed in 2012 for the London-based design studio APFEL (A practice for everyday life) as part of a wider architectural project by the London Development Agency, which proposed a new vision for the Royal Docks in East London. The strong-willed sans display typeface draws inspiration from the kind of industrial lettering frequently found around the Docklands, such as on cranes and containers. The typeface was used for a number of publications in relation to the redevelopment of the Royal Docks, and remains to this day exclusive to APFEL.
• The Fred Fredburger family was conceived by Monotype as a custom design for the identity of a children's TV channel. Conceived to be fun, friendly and adventurous, Fred Fredburger is a distinctive family of five styles: The Headline versions are conceived to be visually striking and appealing to children, while the Roman, Bold and Condensed weights are a touch quieter in order to be comfortable to read at text sizes. All five weights are also designed to work harmoniously across five different scripts: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew (designed by Alice Savoie) and Arabic (designed by Patrick Giasson).
• Egra Tiflex was designed in collaboration with London-based Fraser Muggeridge Studio. The starting point for the design came from an unidentified set of old stamping capital letters produced by Tiflex, a French company specialised in industrial signage. A set of lowercase letters was later designed to accompany the caps, which was inspired from Grotesk wood types from the beginning of the twentieth century.
• In 2014, she worked on the typeface family Bogartes, which is a contemporary tribute to French typographic history, from Garamond, Fournier, and Didot to the idiosyncratic shapes of the 19th century. As a result of its mixed genetic make-up, the typeface family is rather playful. The project was started with the support of the Centre National des Arts Plastiques.
• Romain Vingt (2016) is a modern reinterpretation of a foundry face originally released by the Fonderie Alainguillaume at the beginning of the twentieth century. Alice writes: An elegant and voluptuous design with a resolutely French touch, this digital interpretation departs in places from its original model, just enough to withstand modern taste.
• In 2016, she designed Faune for Centre National Des Arts Plastiques. It is freely available from Fontsquirrel and at the Microsite. Faune won an award at the Type Directors Club's Type Design Competition 2019.
• Lucette (2021, Future Fonts). Alice writes: Lucette revisits the heavy top idea, a concept dear to French type designers throughout the last century. The typeface toys with the theory that emphasizing the top part of letterforms increases legibility, taking the concept to an extreme in Lucette Black. Lucette is loosely inspired by a variety of designs such as Gill Sans Double Elefans, Antique Olive, and the unreleased Nordica by Ladislas Mandel. Its name was chosen as a tribute to Lucette Girard, a talented letter-drawer who assisted some renowned designers throughout the second part of the twentieth century, including Adrian Frutiger, Roger Excoffon and Raymond Loewy.

Typecache link. Klingspor link. At ATypI 2014 in Barcelona she spoke about phototypesetting. Speaker at ATypI 2016 in Warsaw on Typefaces for telephone directories, a talk in which she and Dorine Sauzet describe Ladislas Mandel's oeuvre. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp. Behance link. Estienne link. Reading link. Another link for the University of Reading. Fontsquirel link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alice Wolski
[Grafikly]

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Alicia André

Paris-based designer of Genesis Mono (2018), a display typeface that is influenced by nuclear disasters such as the one in Fukushima in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alicia Garcia Garcia

As a student at ENSAD in Paris, he co-designed Bertrand (2003), a typeface based on work by the Fonderie Bertrand (end of 19th century). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alisa Nowak

French type designer who studied at Fachhochschule Düsseldorf (2009) and at the Ecole supérieure d'art et de design d'Amiens, France, class of 2011. At ESAD her graduation typeface was called Eskapade. In 2012, the blackletter typeface Eskapade Fraktur was published by Type Together. The angular weights Eskapade Regular and Eskapade Italic were added in 2012.

With Sebastien Degeilh, she is a partner in Nowak & Degeilh, a French type foundry started in 2012. At Nowak & Degeilh, she created the 3d geometric overlay font family Carton (2012).

For the next few yours, her work was published by Fontyou:

• She co-designed the stylish Egyptian typeface Achille FY (2012) with Gia Tran, Gregori Vincens, Valentine Proust and Bertrand Reguron, and Achille II FY (2014) with Valentine Proust and Gregori Vincens.
• With Gia Tran, Gregori Vincens, Valentine Proust and Elvire Volk, she co-designed the monoline sans display typeface Younion FY (2013). Younion One FY is free at Dafont.
• Codesigner of Kaili FY (2013): an exotic typeface with crazy ligatures, inspired by Indian scripts, designed by Gregori Vincens, Bertrand Reguron, Gia Tran and Alisa Nowak.
• The EPS format display typeface Alice FY (2013). Co-designed by Alisa Nowak, Micaela Neustadt, Gia Tran, Bertrand Reguron and Valentine Proust. Alice FY was inspired by Adrien Genevard's lettering. Sub-themes are Alice in Wonderland and playing cards.
• The EPS format frilly script typeface Lullaby FY (2013), co-designed by Alisa Nowak, Micaela Neustadt, Gia Tran, Bertrand Reguron and Valentine Proust at Fontyou. It too was inspired by Adrien Genevard's lettering.
• Exquise FY (2013). A fashion mag didone co-designed by Bertrand Reguron, Alisa Nowak, Valentine Proust, Elvire Volk and Gia Tran at Fontyou.
• Bruum FY (2013) by Gia Tran, Alisa Novak, Micaela Neustadt, Bertrand Reguron and Grégori Vincens. Bruum FY is a curvy stressed elliptical sans typeface.
• Four typefaces done with Luis Gomes and Jeremie Hornus: Booster FY (2013: a rounded sans), Gauthier FY (2013: a transitional typeface family, followed in 2014 by Gauthier Next FY), Lean-O FY (2013: a slab serif with leaning asymmetrical brackets; see also LeanO Sans in 2014), Marianina FY (2013: a contemporary condensed 24-style headline sans family with simple strokes. Characterized by kinks in the ascenders).
• Gregori Vincens, Gia Tran, J&eacxute;rémie Hornus and Alisa Nowak co-designed the humanist sans typeface Klaus FY (2013).
• The slender display typeface Sérafine FY (2013). Co-designed with Jason Vandenberg and Jérémie Hornus.
• Codesigner with Mr. Zyan of the alchemic hipster font Pyrenees FY (2013).
• She collaborated with Jérémie Hornus and Fabien Gailleul on the design of the astrological simulation typeface Astral FY (2013). The same group of three collaborated in 2014 on Naive Gothic FY.
• In 2014, Adrien Midzic, Jason Vandenberg, Jérémie Hornus, Julien Priez and Alisa Nowak co-designed the creamy script Vanilla FY. It was renamed Vanille FY after a few days.
• Still in 2014, Adrien Midzic, Jérémie Hornus and Alisa Nowak co-designed the very humanist sans family Saya FY and Saya Semisans FY.
• Luis Gomes, Jérémie Hornus and Alisa Nowak co-designed the rounded sans typeface family Booster Next FY in 2014.
• Joao Costa co-designed the thin lachrymal typeface Zitrone FY in 2014 at FontYou with Jérémie Hornus and Alisa Nowak.
• In 2014, Monica Munguia, Alisa Nowak and Jérémie Hornus co-designed the blackletter typeface Blackmoon FY.
• In 2014, Matthieu Meyer, Alisa Nowak and Jérémie Hornus co-designed the wedge serif typeface Ennio FY at FontYou.
• The punchy poster typeface Kraaken FY (2014) was designed by the FontYou team of Bertrand Reguron, Alice Resseguier, Valentine Proust, Julien Priez, Gia Tran, Jérémie Hornus, and Alisa Nowak.
• In 2014, Joachim Vu, Jérémie Hornus and Alisa Nowak co-designed the classical copperplate script typeface Vicomte FY.
• Codesigner with Jan Dominik Gillich of Sperling FY (2014, FontYou), a didone-inspired headline or fashion mag display typeface family.
• Designer of Marianina Wide FY (2014).
• In 2014, Alisa Nowak, Gregori Vincens and Andrey Kudryavtsev created Achille II Cyr FY.
• Codesigner of Hansom Slab FY (2014, Gia Tran, Jeremie Hornus and Alisa Nowak).
• Still in 2014, Julien Priez, Hugo Dumont, Jérémie Hornus and Alisa Nowak co-designed Rowton Sans FY, a sans family patterned after Gill Sans in six weights, from Hairline to Bold---named after Arthur Eric Rowton Gill, it has the Gillian lower case g but italic lowercase is a bit too far afield for my own taste, especially the squeezed g.

In 2015, Jérémie Hornus, Clara Jullien and Alisa Nowak co-designed the spurless / organic slightly inflated sans typeface family Diodrum at Indian Type Foundry. Diodrum Rounded (2020, by Manushi Parikh, Jérémie Hornus, Clara Jullien and Alisa Nowak) is a spurless organic sans family.

In 2016, Alisa Nowak, Julie Soudanne and Jean-Baptiste Morizot co-designed Graphico (Indian Type Foundry): Its letterforms are industrial and square-sided. The typeface looks like the product of precision mechanics: it should be featured together with tech---either old tech like appliances or watches, or new tech like apps and laptop stands.

In 2016, Alisa Nowak designed the all caps art deco / avant garde typeface family Inbox that comes with many great ligatures and interlocking glyph pairs. It was published at Indian Type Foundry.

Alpinist (2016) is a humanist sans with a small x-height optimized for magazine design and other editorial applications. The edges are slightly rounded for easy reading. It was designed by Jeremie Hornus and Alisa Nowak. Somehow, it evolved into Alpino at Fontshare.

In 2016, Jeremie Hornus and Alisa Nowak released Associate Sans and Slab (+Stencil), and Associate Mono at Indian Type Foundry. This is a family with an American gothic look.

Vesterbro (Jeremie Hornus, Alisa Nowak, Ilya Naumoff, Black Foundry, 2017) is a high-contrast Latin / Cyrillic typeface with a Viking feel that won an award at Granshan 2017.

Papelli (2016) is an informal typeface family by Alisa Nowak and Julie Soudanne.

At Fontstore / Fontshare, she released the 6-weight sans typeface Excon in 2017. Excon is named after and a tribute to French designer Roger Excoffon (1910–1983). Excon's letters are top-heavy, a rarely-explored idea in type design Excoffon himself experimented with.

In 2017, Jérémie Hornus, Théo Guillard, Morgane Pambrun, Alisa Nowak and Joachim Vu co-designed Bespoke Sans, Bespoke Serif and Bespoke Slab at Fontstore / Fontshare. In 2020, Bespoke Stencil was added.

In 2017, Jérémie Hornus, Julie Soudanne and Alisa Nowak designed the attractive titling didone typeface Zesta.

Zodiak (2021, Jérémie Hornus, Gaetan Baehr, Jean-Baptiste Morizot, Alisa Nowak, and Théo Guillard at Fontshare) is a free 24-style text family with Century-like newspaper roots and sturdy bracketed slab serifs that was originally named Claire (2020).

In 2020, Jeremie Hornus, Theo Guillard, Morgane Pambrun, Alisa Nowak and Joachim Vu co-designed Bespoke Stencil (2020, Fontstore). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Alizée Ramiara

Lorient, France-based co-designer, with Justine Herbel, of the modular display typeface KWay (2018). In 2017, she designed the experimental hybrid typeface Jukebox. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alizée Thily

During her studies at ESAG Penninghen in Paris, Alizée Thily designed the hipster typeface Yung Lean (2016) for the Swedish music group Yung Lean. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Allain Guillaume

Typefounder in Paris, ca. 1900, whose production included Batardes coulées, Gauloises, and Ronde Ancienne (upright script). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Allen O'Toole

During his studies at ESAG Penninghen in Paris, Allen O'Toole created an outline typeface (2014). In 2015, he designed Subway Round (based on the principle of the bent paperclip), System A and a pixelish typeface. His graduation project in 2016 was the incised Midi typeface. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Almarena
[Jérémie Gauthier]

Almarena is a creative agency founded in 2006 and based in Lyon and Paris. In 2020, they released the retail font Almarena.

Typefaces from 2021: Miju (a sharp-edged display font inspired by Japanese culture), 1769 Display (an elegant and modern serif typeface inspired by the history of France and more particularly the romantic movement (1700s and 1800s): the roundness of its characters and its numerous ligatures reflect the grace, refinement and sensitivity that were omnipresent during the 18th century), Almarena Mono (a hipster sans). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Aloïs Ancenay
[Baba]

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Alphabet érotique

This Lesbian erotic alphabet was published ca. 1910 by an anonymous French artist in Livre d'heures ou guide de la Dégrafée parisienne. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alphabeth de la Bourbonnoise

A French naked figure initial caps typeface from 1789. High quality image [46MB]. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alphaquark

French typographical rules. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alphonse Mucha

Born in Ivancice, Moravia (Czechia), in 1860, died in Prague in 1939. Famous for his sleek posters of women at the height of the art nouveau movement. In 1885 he studied at the Munich Academy of Art and then moved to the Academie Julian in Paris. In Paris, he took commissions for illustrations, portraits and decorative projects, but became most famous for his poster designs for plays, especially under the patronage of Sarah Bernhardt in the 1890s. The success of his posters led to a commercial career in decorative design for commercial and advertising products. Mucha also created jewelry designs, and briefly taught art in New York. In 1910, Mucha returned to Prague to work on nationalistic art, including murals, postage stamps, stained glass and bank notes.

Digital fonts that were inspired by Mucha:

• Scriptorium published fonts based on his lettering, such as Abaddon, Bernhardt, Slava, Moravia, Gehenna, Princess Hyacinth, Gismonda and Samaritan.
• Herbert Van Brink (aka Character) created a free font called Mucha French Capitals (2010).
• P22 Mucha (2001, P22): an art nouveau font inspired by Alfons Mucha, ca. 1900.
• Lukyan Turetskyy: Modern Wave (2013).
• Dave Ward: Mucha (1999).
• Kiwifrog: The free font Mucha Like (2009).
• Milos Kunst: Mucha (2011, art nouveau).
• Gryzor: Mucha Font.

CV. One of his alphabets. Viennese Secession link.

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Altay
[Altay Dagistan]

Graphic designer in Istanbul, b. 1988, who now resides in Pornic, France. He made the free modular counterless futuristic typeface Beams (2012, OFL).

Typefaces from 2014 include Misket (created in Onur Yazicigil's class at Sabanci University). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Altay Dagistan
[Altay]

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Amanda Plenet

Graphic designer in Boulogne-Billancourt, France, who created the curly caps typeface Onduline in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amandine Dijoux

As a student in Bordeaux, France, Amandine Dijoux designed a modular typeface (2016), and a rounded text typeface, Bellaria (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amandine Loiseleur

Paris-based student at ECV Digital in 2016. Designer of the art deco typeface Aventure (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amandine Mauvais

French designer of the stick font Tokyo (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amaury Hamon

Amaury Hamon (Lille, France) created the alchemic typeface Modulando in 2013 during his graphic design studies.

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amb+
[André Baldinger]

André Baldinger is the Swiss typographer and type designer (b. 1963) who made the Newut (1996, all letters of equal size, and thus a semi-unicase) and the B-Dot (pixel) families (1998). His outfit in Lausanne is called amb+. In 1994, he graduated from the Atélier National de Création Typographique (ANCT) in Paris. Since 1995, he teaches typography at the École supérieure d'arts visuels de Lausanne. He lives in Paris. Together with Philippe Millot, he heads the type design unit of the Creation and Innovation Research Centre (EnsadLab) at ENSAD Paris. He teaches typography and type design at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) and the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK). He was involved in projects such as the logotype for the Cité Universitaire and a custom type for the Eiffel tower. He also digitized the Frutiger-Hunziker typeface CGP (used in the Centre Georges Pompidou, originally designed in 1974) in 1997.

The full list of his typefaces: AB BaldingerPro Font, AB BDot Font, AB BLine Font, AB CiteInter Font, AB Eiffel Font, AB Newut Font.

Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin where he introduced the Gering project. I cite: Based on a close analysis of typefaces created by Ulrich Gering at the Atelier de la Sorbonne and the Soleil d'Or workshop in the 1470s, the first typefaces produced in France, postgraduate students Timm Borg, Anthony Dathy, Perrine Saint Martin and Ok Kyung Yoon have been working on a versatile, modern font family for the last 2 years under the guidance and watchful eyes of André Baldinger and Philippe Millot. Focusing on two of Gering's designs --- a sturdy roman font that closely imitates the texture of blackletter and a roman with blackletter influences --- the EnsadLab team has developed a complete family, reviving the work of the father of the printed word in France and bringing together aesthetics rarely seen in such an ensemble. Working only a few hundred metres from the original site of Gering's workshop they have thoroughly reworked the letterforms found in the extant incunabula available in the Bibliothèque Nationale, complementing the original characters with italics, small caps, and supplementary weights, as well as all of the glyphs necessary in a 21st century font.

Klingspor link. Home page. Old URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

AmboboDesign
[Ambroise Maupate]

Ambroise Maupate (was AmboboDesign) made the pixel typeface B.M. Pixel (2008) and the handwriting typeface Binetruy Script (2011). Ambroise was born in 1989 and lived in Besançon, France. He joined Rezo Zero in Lyon. Home page. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ambroise Firmin Didot

Fourth generation Didot dynasty member in Paris, 1790-1876. Oldest son of Firmin Didot (1764-1836), the most influential of all Didot printers. He headed the Didot house with his younger brother Hyacinthe Firmin Didot. He was mainly a printer, and is known for his improvements in papermaking. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ambroise Firmin Didot

Member of the famous French printers family, 1790-1876. Author of Essai sur la Typographie. Paris, typographie de Firmin Didot frère (1851). Bigmore & Wyman mention that This work, an excerpt from the "Encylopédie Moderne," contains the result of the author's lengthened experience, and of his vast theoretical and practical knowledge of the subject. The early history of printing is treated with great clearness and a thorough acquaintance with the best authorities. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ambroise Maupate
[AmboboDesign]

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Amélie Bonet

French graphic and type designer who graduated from Ecole Estienne in 2005 with a thesis entitled La cancellaresca, L'âge d'or de la calligraphie italienne.. She also studied visual communications at Ecole Duperré in Paris. She has an MA in typeface design from The University of Reading (2009), based on her typeface Polydom, which covers Latin, Greek and Devanagari. Her other typefaces include Groe (2010), We Folk (2010, caps only), Operetta (a cancellaresca based on Tagliente's lettering), PSA (an iconographic and sans type system for Peugeot and Citroen), and Gustan. She lived in Los Angeles. In the spring of 2010, she joined Dalton Maag in South London as a type designer.

At Dalton Maag, she helped out with Nokia Bengali, which won an award at Granshan 2014.

Roxane (2011, Rosetta Type) covers Latin and Devanagari.

Typecache link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Amélie Boutry

French type designer (b. 1977) currently based in Paris, who created Cargoth (2001), a hybrid of Carolingian and Gothic. Other typefaces by her include Pelleport in 2004 and Trente-trois in 2006. She is involved now in type design and corporate identity projects at Porchez Typofonderie. As a student at ENSAD, she co-designed the Garamond typeface Recréation (2000). Typofonderie link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Amélie Brunot

During her graphic design studies at E-Artsup in Lyon, Amélie Brunot created a grid-based compass-and-ruler typeface (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amélie Dugon

Amélie Dugon graduated with a Bachelor en arts plastiques visuels et de l'espace from ESA Saint-Luc in Tournai, Belgium, class of 2016. Strasbourg, France-based designer of a typeface that was inspired by Frank Gehry's architectural style. Just called Gehry (2015), it has the wavy look of early art nouveau types. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amélie Guilloux

During a workshop at Ensamaa, Paris-based Amélie Guilloux designed the elegant variously stressed text typeface Contralto (2018). She also created the marine-themed decorative caps typeface Undulata (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amélie Ruellan

At LISAA in Rennes, France, Amélie Ruellan designed a display typeface (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amélie Touchet

Marseille, France-based designer of the Memphis style color font Aigu (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amélie Valverde

During her graphic design studies in Lyon, France, Amélie Valverde created the experimental geometric typeface Moveo (2015) and Kutch (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Amélie Wagner

Parisian designer of Alphabet Impossible (2012), in Escher's style.

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Ameline Larue

French type designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ameze

French designer of the graffiti typeface Ameze (2005). Web page. Yet another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Lou

At ECV in Nantes, France, Ana Lou designed the display typeface Capsule (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana Parracho
[Ana's Fonts]

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Anaëlle Cuizinaud

Limoges, France-based designer of the sans typeface Moncada (2016) and the rounded slab serif typeface Copperfield (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anais Barthélémy

During her studies, Paris-based Anais Barthélémy designed the futuristic circle-based typeface Astronaut (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anais Mendes

During her studies in Paris, anais Mendes designed the circuit font Elektron (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anais Racaud

During her studies, Toulouse, France-based Anais Racaud designed a weathered typeface (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anaïs Guigue

Paris-based designer of the De Stijl typeface La Flottante (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anaïs Lefebvre

Parisian designer of the circle-based modular typeface Scolastifont (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anaïs Marie

During her studies in Rennes, France, Anaïs Marie designed the decorative color typeface Pastel (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anaïs Valentin

Anaïs Valentin, a graphic designer in Avignon, France, created the Thai simulation typeface Thaï Type (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ana's Fonts
[Ana Parracho]

Paris-based Portuguese designer (b. 1990) of the free old typewriter typeface Ana's Rusty Typewriter (2013) and the sans typeface Squiggly Asta (2013). In 2014, she made Night Still Comes (a 4-style serif family), a serif typeface family in four styles, Candlebright (blackletter), Mystery Typewriter, Strangeways (brushed), and Calling Cards (sans). In 2015, she created the informal typefaces Rough Notes and Chalk Marks. In 2016, she designed the connected script typeface Better Phoenix.

Typefaces from 2017: Reckless (thick brush), Bloxhall (art deco titling sans), Delirium (brush style), Blue Fires, Unexpected Typewriter, Wild Creatures (brush script), A Pompadour (11 styles, from retro sans to display), Night Wind Sent.

Typefaces from 2018: These Days (brush SVG font), Soft Notes (blackletter), Popless (Serif, Script), Pitch or Honey, Be Cool, Honolulu (a hand-drawn blackboard bold typeface), Floret, Landslide, Bellevue (brush), BigRiver (+Script), Farewell Angelina (a display family in Sans, Serif and Text substyles), Siren Song, Something Exquisite (signature font).

Typefaces from 2019: Amateur Typewriter, Be Cool, Big River (Sans, Script), Soul Drifter, Fletcher Typewriter, Rockford, Gumball (sans), Unika (a signature font).

Typefaces from 2020: Thesis Typewriter (an old typewriter font family), The Voyager (a decorated full-bodied sans), Leaves and Twigs (dingbats), Notes and Quotes, Honey and Smoke, Summer Days (a monoline fat finger font), Smoke Signals, Secretary Typewriter, Clockwise (a friendly sans), Calling Cards (a condensed sans), Pitch Or Honey, Porchlight (a text typeface inspired by vintage French types).

Typefaces from 2021: Little Things (a children's hand), Moon And Stars (handwriting and doodle bats), Dramatico Script (a rough-edged chancery script), Populaire Typewriter, Garden Song (a handcrafted text typeface), Morning Magpie (a fat finger font).

Typefaces from 2022: Handy Typewriter, Linoblox (a linocut font; +Ornaments). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Andrea Bouin

Rennes, France-based student-designer of the display typeface Straight Lines (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

André Allaguy-Salachy
[TattooFont 3D]

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André Baldinger
[amb+]

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André Brossier

Printer in Bordeaux, France, 1767-1836. In 1808, he published Epreuves des caractères de l'imprimerie d'André Brossier à Bordeaux, rue Royale. Local download. [Google] [More]  ⦿

André Chante

French designer of Club (1972), Go (1972) and Or (1970), all at Hollenstein Phototypo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

André Housset

Basque type designer and lettering artist in Biarritz, France. Runs La Negresse there. [Google] [More]  ⦿

André Jammes

French type and photography historian, b. 1927, who is the son of Paul Jammes, who founded Librairie Paul Jammes in Paris in 1925. Author of many books. Those relevant to typography include:

• La naissance d'un caractère: le Grandjean---la réforme de la typographie royale sous Louis XIV, Librairie Paul Jammes (1961) and Promodis (1985).
• Didotiana, recueil d'articles consacrés à Ambroise-Firmin Didot, in Bulletin du bibliophile, 1990-1993, Paris, 1994.
• Spécimens de caractères de Firmin et Jules Didot, Paris, Librairie P. Jammes Éditions des Cendres, 2002.
• (with Isabelle Jammes) Collection de spécimens de caractères: 1517-2004, catalog, Paris, P. Jammes Éditions des Cendres, 2006.
• Alde, Renouard & Didot: bibliophilie & bibliographie, Paris, Éditions des Cendres, 2008.

André Vigneau

Author of [Etude publicitaire pour la fonderie] Deberny et Peignot. [Caractères d'imprimerie] (1932, Paris). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andréanne Roy

Quebec City-based designer of a piano key typeface for the identity and logo of the Musée du Jouet de Nantes (France) in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

André-Michel Lubac

French type designer, b. 1955, who drew the calligraphic Le Griffe in 1973 (Letraset).

Fontshop link. Klingspor link. Linotype link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Andrei Bocan

Bordeaux-based designer of KNKTR, a severe modular typeface (2009). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andreosso Corentin

French graphical artist. During his studies, he designed the modular octagonal typeface Oriza (2013). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Andy Song

Creator (1936-1995) of the following phototype fonts at Studio Hollenstein: Arc en ciel (multilined), Indigo (1972; ornamental, art deco), Or (1967: prismatic). Or was digitally extended in 2016-2020 by Arve Båtevik as Store Norske Tyggis. Indigo was revived as a colour remix in 2021 by Arve Båtevik as Store Norske Stilig. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angèle Banus

During her studies at ESAG Penninghen, Paris-based Angèle Banus designed the bilined display typeface Eso (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angèle Banus

During her studies at ESAG Penninghen in Paris, Angèle Banus designed the bilined display typeface Esoteria (2017). In 2015, she designed two experimental typefaces as a tribute to Belgian singer Stromae. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angèle Prott

Trélguier, France-based student-designer of Nova Stella (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angele Cha

During her studies in Paris, Angele Cha designed two modular typefaces dedicated to Stromae (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angelfires
[Mathieu Texier]

French free font outfit offering work by Mathieu Texier, who is based in Bordeaux. Fonts include Angel Tribal, Funky Tribal and New Gothic.

Dafont link. Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Angelique Boutaud

During her studies, Toulouse, France-based Angelique Boutaud designed a deconstricted brushy version of DIN (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anja Linke

As a student at ENSAD in Paris, he co-designed Bertrand (2003), a typeface based on work by the Fonderie Bertrand (end of 19th century). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Dardou

Paris, France-based designer of the experimental typeface Cercle in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Issabekian

Yerevan, Armenia-born and Paris-based graphic designer. Creator of Shape Type (2012, an octagonal or paper fold typeface).

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Anna Le ortz

French designer of the experimental all caps typeface Magnets (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Personne

During her studies at ECV in Bordeaux, Anna Personne created the ornamental Cyrillic caps typeface Cyrillique (2014) and the Bifur-style art deco typeface Modulaire (2015). Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Piat

Parisian designer of Retro (2016), a geometric solid typeface inspired by the Café Français in Paris. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anna Rigaud

During her graphic design studies in Nantes, France, Anna Rigaud designed the Inca-inspired decorative caps typeface Inca (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Annabelle Perrin

Junior art director in Paris. Designer of the deco typeface Le Récit (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Annaelle Gobé

With the help of fellow students Claire Maroufin, Pauline Ah-Fa, Marie Peyrat and Mathilde Vogt, Annaelle Gobé designed the modern lapidary stencil typeface La Radica in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Annaëlle Cousinié

Graphic designer in Lyon, France. She created the colorful textured geometric solid typeface Dyslexie (2013), the geometric display typeface Codex (2016), and the connect-the-dots electronic circuit typeface Le Lien (2016, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anne Catel

Paris-based designer of Iris de Moüy (2011), a typeface that is based on the handwriting of illustrator Iris de Moüy. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anne Denastas

As a student at ENSAD in Paris, he co-designed Bertrand (2003), a typeface based on work by the Fonderie Bertrand (end of 19th century). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anne Elise Wu

Parisian creator of the multiline school project typeface Rature (2013) and of the curvy display typeface Boa (2014), which started out from the letters B, O and A, and tries to emulate the movements of a snake. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anne Faure

Lyon, France-based designer of the experimental typefaces Tangram (2017) and Alphabody (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anne Kieffer

During her studies at ESAG-Penninghen in Paris, Anne Kieffer designed the Peignotian typeface Rhoap (2012) and the modular display typeface Archer (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anne Lefebvre

In a workshop led by Laurent Bourcellier, Anne Lefebvre (Saint-Quentin, France) designed the hipster typeface Phasme (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anne Mars

Parisian type designer (b. 1968) who designed the dingbat font Microbe, 1997. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anne-Cécile Boulet

Parisian editorial designer, who created a typographically interesting calendar in 2011 entitled Un Jour Un Cocktail. Information design for cocktails at its best. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anne-Claire Gambet

Paris-based illustrator and graphic designer. Creator of the poster or logo type Gambette's Tyography (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anne-Dauphine Borione
[Daytona Mess]

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Anne-Lise Bertrand

During her studies at the École de Communication Visuelle ECV Aquitaine, Bordeaux-based Anne-Lise Bertrand designed the origami-style typeface White Shape (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anne-Mari Ahonen

As a student at ENSAD in Paris, she co-designed Métis (1998). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anne-Sophie Hostert

Parisian typographer and graphic designer. She created the experimental typeface called Brush (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anne-Sophie Poivet

Bordeaux-based designer who created the modular deco typeface Cir (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anne-Sophie Vandel

French designer of the rounded sans typeface SpeedBurger (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anouck Fourès

Toulouse, France-based designer of the nicely lettered piuece Leimotov (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anouk Hinoran
[Calligraphr]

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Anouk Hinoran
[Spikerog Lab]

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ANRT

The Atelier national de recherche typographique (ANRT) in Nancy is headed by Peter Keller (b. 1944, Basle, Switzerland). It is part of the École nationale supérieure d'art, BP 3129, 1, avenue Boffrand, 54013 Nancy Cedex, France. Tél : 03 83 41 62 82. Fax : 03 83 41 51 93. Peter Keller asked me to insert this blurb: " In 1985, the French ministry of Culture launched the National Institute for Typographic Research (ANRT), for the promotion of typography and type design. The educational approach of the Institute invites students to project themselves towards the future, to keep an open eye on the demands of the creative and industrial world. Experimental research should therefore be closely linked to the constraints of economic reality, while integrating th= e constantly changing cultural and technical factors. The program offers students the possibility of completing research in the area of their choice. Close ties and frequent contacts with respected designers and specialists in the field underline the openness of the Institute and its close links with the professional world. To apply : Candidates (graduate students from visual art schools, designers, artists=8A) who wish to be considered for the 2001/2002 term should send their application to the Administrator before 30 April 2001. After the initial selection procedure, retained candidates are requested to present their portfolio during an interview with the selection committee at the end of May 2001. The successful candidates will be notified by post.The term commences in October 2001 and ends in June the following year. Each year, the Institute offers a one year grant to students or professionals who wish to pursue research in these areas." [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anthony Beyer

French creator of Gagaille Premiere (2005) and Gagaille Seconde (2005). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anthony Bossard

French graphic designer, illustrator and type designer (b. 1982) who graduated from LISAA in 2006. His typefaces: Danoise (+Bold) (art nouveau influences, 2006), Station Debout (2006, sans), Krug (2006, irregular handwriting), Digitaline (2006), Forficula (2006, artsy). Bossard lives in Rennes, where LISAA is located. Dafont link where one can download Danoise. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anthony Datty

Anthony Dathy is a graphic and type designer. He graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 2008 with a degree in graphic design. Since then he followed the type design programm of André Baldinger and Philippe Millot and worked as freelance designer on a variety of design projects, including identity, editorial and interactive design. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. In 2009-2010, with fellow ENSAD students Timm Borg, Perrine Saint Martin and Ok Kyung Yoon, he developed a complete family of fonts that extend blackletter and roman typefaces by Ulrich Gering that go back to the 1470s. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anthony Martin

Freelance designer in Paris who made the modular display typeface Seraphin (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anthony Pate

Parisian designer of the modular typeface Dropline (2014) and the fluffy typeface Mouton (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anthony Phan

From the University of Poitiers, France, Anthony Phan's math symbol package (in metafont) is called mathabx (2002). It extends the Computer Modern mathematical symbol set. Other series by him, all in metafont: Mbb (2000, blackboard outline), Mcalligra (2001), Mxy (2002), Mgrey (2000). In 2011, type 1 outlines were made by Kohsaku Hotta. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anthony Pinna

During his studies at ECV Nantes, Anthony Pinna designed the decorative typeface Impromptu (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anthony Pinna

Nantes, France-based designer of the free textured typeface Alegreto Lettrine (2015), which was finished during his studies at ECV Nantes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antique Categorie 1 (Deberny & Peignot)

A grotesque wood type family by Deberny and Peignot, shown in their 1936 specimen book Spécimen Général des Fonderies Deberny et Peignot Tome II. A PDF scan of Antique categorie 1 by yours truly. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antique Olive
[Roger Excoffon]

Antique Olive is a brash humanist sans-serif typeface designed in 1959 by French type designer Roger Excoffon for an Air France logo. It was released at Fonderie Olive (Marseille, France) as a retail typeface in 1962 with further development occurring until 1968. In addition to a basic weight, Antique Olive was produced in medium, condensed, wide, bold, condensed bold, extra bold (known as Antique Olive Compact), and ultra bold (known as Nord). Its almost reverse stress disqualifies Antique Olive from use as a body typeface. It was effectively used, e.g., in the Sesame Street credits from 1969 until 1983.

Digital revivals:

• Antique Olive (Adobe).
• Antique Olive (Linotype).
• Antique Olive (URW).
• Bitstream: Incised 901.
• Antique Oakland (Brother Industries Ltd), late 1990s.
• Antigone (Infinitype).
• Antigone (Softmaker).
• Ravenna Serial (Softmaker).
• Oliva (Autologic).
• AO (Itek).
• Olive (Varityper).
• OPTI Ancienta (Castcraft).
• Antique Olive Heavy (1992, Gary Elfring).
• Other names used by smaller outfits: Alphavanti, Berry Roman, Gibson Antique, Olivanti, Olive Antique, Oliver, Olivette, Olivette Antique, Olivia, Provence.

Digital typefaces influenced by Antique Olive:

• Anton Moglia's Paysage (2020).
• Kia Tasbihgou's Propos (2018).
• Lena Douani's Teelay Sans (2017).
• Aero (2011, Chester Jenkins and Jeremy Mickel).
• Aurelien Vret's Prosaic Black (2017) is a distant cousin on Antique Olive Nord.
• Kelly Media's Antiqua 1010 (1994).
• Zizou or Clouseau (2011), by Christian schwartz. A reworking (from memory) of Antique Olive. This was published at the end of 2013 as Duplicate (2013, with Miguel Reyes). In three styles, Slab, Sans and Ionic. Commercial Type writes: Christian Schwartz wanted to see what the result would be if he tried to draw Antique Olive from memory. He was curious whether this could be a route to something that felt contemporary and original, or if the result would be a pale imitation of the original. Most of all, he wanted to see what he would remember correctly and what he would get wrong, and what relationship this would create between the inspiration and the result. Though it shares some structural similarities with Antique Olive and a handful of details, like the shape of the lowercase a, Duplicate Sans is not a revival, but rather a thoroughly contemporary homage to Excoffon. Duplicate Sans was finally finished at the request of Florian Bachleda for his 2011 redesign of Fast Company. Bachleda wanted a slab companion for the sans, so Schwartz decided to take the most direct route: he simply added slabs to the sans in a straightforward manner, doing as little as he could to alter the proportions, contrast, and stylistic details in the process. The bracketed serifs and ball terminals that define the Clarendon genre (also known as Ionic) first emerged in Britain in the middle of the 19th century. While combining these structures with a contemporary interpretation of a mid-20th century French sans serif seems counterintutive, the final result feels suprisingly natural. The romans are a collaboration between Christian Schwartz and Miguel Reyes, but the italic is fully Reyes's creation, departing from the sloped romans seen in Duplicate Sans and Slab with a true cursive. Mark Porter and Simon Esterson were the first to use the family, in their 2013 redesign of the Neue Züricher Zeitung am Sonntag. Because the Ionic genre has ll ong been a common choice for text in newspapers, Duplicate Ionic is a natural choice for long texts. Duplicate Ionic won an award at TDC 2014.
• Utile (2020, Kontour Type). Utile was influenced by Hermann Zapf's Optima in its flaring and by Roger Excoffon's Antique Olive in its brashness.
• Oliver New (1995, Anastasia Babalyan at TypeMarket).
• Filt (Martin Fredrikson Core).
• Chalfont (2003, Alan Meeks).

Antoine Augereau

French type designer and punchcutter, ca. 1490-1534, and teacher of Claude Garamond in Paris. He was one of the first French to engrave roman letters, when other French printers were mostly using blackletter. He began to work for Robert Estienne, one the first Parisian printers to use this type. Influential in creating a French typographical look, he was hanged for printing a poem without permission. George Abrams' rendering of Garamond, called Augereau [digitized by Charles Nix], is a wonderful text family! Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Antoine Begon

French designer who has made some typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antoine Boire

Nantes, France-based designer of the decorative geometric didone alphabet Palansia (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antoine Brun

Antoine Brun is a French graphic designer based in Paris. After a bachelors in graphic design at LTAA Auguste Renoir Paris (class of 2019), he specialized in identity, editorial graphics and typography.

Designer of the phantasmagoric typeface Kaliste (2020) at Lift Type. During a workshop led by Yoann Minet, he designed Liza, which was inspired by Benguiat Caslon, and under the supervision of Julien Priez, he created the letterpress typeface Emily. Commissioned typefaces by Brun include Hic&Nunc (a brush type), and Opie. Finally, he created the modular typeface Module. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antoine Chrétien Fils

Foundry in Paris, operational from 1688 until 1706, when Antoine Chrétien fils (the son) died. Cover of his 1689 specimen book. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antoine Colombeau
[Colorbean]

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Antoine Crama
[AntoineCrama-Locutio-2014b.png]

Vincennes, Paris-based designer of the sans typeface Locutio (2014). His web site also called Locutio. In 2020, he went public at MyFonts. His first font released on that platform was the nine-style humanist sans family AC Texto, which was meant to be used for sending text messages. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Antoine Decerisy

Baule, France-based designer of a few handcrafted alphabets (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antoine Derouineau
[Lafourmi-freelance]

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Antoine Doury

Designer at Autre planète with Thierry Charbonnel of the ink splash dingbat typeface Oups (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antoine Elsensohn

Parisian graphic designer who created the fat stencil typeface Fatty Boom Boom (2014), a project finished during his studies at ESAD Amiens. In 2014, Samy Halim, Antoine Eisensohn and the FontYou team co-designed the haedline typeface Ilya FY, which is characterized by flared stem endings.

During his studies at ESAIG Estienne in Paris, Antoine Elsensohn designed the reversed stress typeface Navigator (2016) under the guidance of Franck Jalleau and Michel Derre. Ballast (2016) is a bold supermarket typeface. Damocles (2017) is a demi-contrast lapidary typeface. Tactic (2018) is a wide sans. Tactic, Navigator and Damocles were all released at E162.

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Antoine Gelgon

Graduate of ESAD Valence. French designer of the free font Autopia (2014) that can be downloaded from Open Font Library: This project was initiated during the Summer School of OSP in August 2013. The particularity of this fonts is in the process of developing its shape. The skeleton was generated through Autotrace Program (a program that converts bitmaps to vector graphics). Calligraphic forms were drawn with Python Fontforge's code. Github link.

In 2015, he released Career.

In 2019 he designed the free typeface Meta Old French using the Plancton font editor, based on Luuse's Hershey Old French (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antoine Grootaert

Lille, France-based designer of the blocky 3d typeface Typo Architecturale (2016), which is inspired by the architecture in Lille. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antoine Guinet

Parisian designer of an untitled modular typeface in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antoine Martin

Parisian designer of a reverse contrast serif typeface in 2017. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antoine Mauron

During his studies at DSAA Design Graphique, Lycée La Martinière Diderot in Lyon, France, Antoine Mauron created Tubular (2014) and mauron Display (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antoine Perrenot
[Perrenot et Fils]

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Antoine van Waesberge

Strasbourg, France-based designer of Diagonale (2015), Vel Textus Nova (2014, inspired by both Textura and Suetterlin Schrift), the monospaced typeface Wisconsin Monospaced (2014), of Cro-Magnon Antique (sans) and of the maritime sans Fsk (2013).

Behance link. Tumblr link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antoine Vérard

Famous Parisian printer and publisher (1450-1512 or 1519), who also on occasion illustrated and even wrote texts. The link shows a Venetian wide-feathered alphabet of initial caps made around 1500. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antoine Veronneau

During his studies at ECV Nord Europe, Antoine Veronneau (Lille, France) created the modular display typeface Volcano (2015) and the cursive font Velvet (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antoine Wadin

Carvin, France-based designer of an outline compass-and-ruler typeface in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

AntoineCrama-Locutio-2014b.png
[Antoine Crama]

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Antoinette de Maintenant

During her studies at ESAG Penninghen in Paris, Antoinette de Maintenant designed the 1970s era typeface Pepite (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anton Moglia
[Maous Studio]

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Antonin Bonnet

In 2020, at The Type Department, Paul Coumoul, Clothilde Bouan and Antonin Bonnet published the display typeface Octane. It is a variable font with two axes, weight and width. Octane is a free font consisting of a total of 18 weights, but the free version consists in fact only of one variable font and it has no numbers. They explain that Octane was initially created to fit with any car designed by Pininfarina. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antonin Caulo

In 1856, Antonin Caulo published many alphabets, including Alphabet De Personnages and Alphabet des Diableries in Nouvelle collection de lettres de différents genres à l'usage de MM les peintres et graveurs (chez Caudriller, Paris). The latter book showcases about 50 decorative all caps alphabets. An earlier version, published by Grim, is dated 1846. It can be downloaded from Google Books. Local download. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antonin Schéou-Archibald

During his design studies in Lyon, France, Antonin Schéou-Archibald created the art deco typeface Nausicaa (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Antony Squizzato
[Fontastica]

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Antony Villéger

Graphic designer in Reims, France, where he runs bertholet&villéger, a multidisciplinary design studio. Behance link. He created a special elliptical sans face for his logo in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anybo Design
[Thomas Villain]

French designer of the free typeface Subotype (2018). Open Font Library link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

AP Fonts
[Michel Welfringer]

Paris-based type foundry set up in 2006 by Thierry Charbonnel, Nicolas Hoffmann and Michel Welfringer as a commercial outlet for Les Designers Anonymes (Hoffmann&Welfringer) and Autre planète's fonts (Charbonnel). Hoffmann and Welfringer designed Normale (2006) and Edibulle (2006). Charbonnel created Digital Planet (2006, futuristic) and Oups (2006, ink splashes; with Antoine Doury). [Google] [More]  ⦿

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).

Home page.

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). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Apolline Angebaud

Paris-based designer of Gambadi (2014), an organic sans typeface that was inspired by dance. This typeface was finished during her studies at ESAG Penninghen. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Applied Meta Projects (was: Tunera Type Foundry, Ariel Graphisme)
[Ariel Martin Perez]

Born in the Canary Islands, Ariel Martín Pérez is a freelance art director and illustrator based in Paris. He set up Ariel Graphisme. In 2020, he founded Tunera Type Foundry with Anton Moglia. In 2021, he started Applied Meta Projects. Parisian designer of Nord Sud Boulenger (2015), a squarish all caps typeface based on the tiled letters used in the subway in Paris on the Nord-Sud line (now lines 12 and 13). It is named after the Boulenger tile factory, also known as the Choisy-Le-Roi tile factory.

In 2018, he designed the display typeface CMT and the free typeface Ouroboros (at Velvetyne), a font for alchemists, witches, heretics and outsiders that has art nouveau elements. In 2021, he improved some curves and added some symbols suggested by artist Hélène Mourrier.

Typefaces at Tunera:

• Brassia (Ariel Martin Perez). A wavy typeface designed in 2019.
• Canarina (Ariel Martin Perez). Canarina (2020) is an angular font inspired by the Canary Islands, that celebrates its history and culture. Perez writes: Canarina is a fingerprint, a phonolitic stone, the leaf of a succulent plant, the silhouette of a volcanic rock against the sky, a feeling that is hard to translate.
• In 2020, with Sébastien Hayez, he released the free typeface Cantique at Velvetyne. Cantique was inspired by some hand-carved titles used in post-romantic French bookplates, both for their ornamental qualities and for their kind of medieval mood.
• Générale Station (Ariel Martin Perez). In 2017, he designed the free typeface families Générale Mono (octagonal, bi-width), NordSudA, NordSudB and NordSudC. Générale Mono was extended in 2019 to Générale Station.
• Kobata (Ariel Martin Perez). An experimental pixelish typeface from 2020.
• Manosque (Ariel Martin Perez). Manosque (2019) is a bulky rounded typeface inspired by lettering found in the train station of Manosque, a city in the south of France.
• Paysage (Anton Moglia). Paysage is a redesigned and extended version of Garcia Regular, a typeface started in 2016. This humanist sans released in 2020 was inspired by Roger Excoffon's Antique Olive.

Behance link. Open Font Library link. Old link to Ariel Graphisme. Ariel Martin Pérez at Velvetyne. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aquila Quentin

Aquila Quentin (aka Qkila on the fluid) is a French designer, most likely located in Nimes. Creator of the human typeface dingbat font Fluid Death Qkila (2011), of Vandal on The Fluid (2011, shadow display face), of Broken Fluid (2011), Fluid Christmas (2011), Fluid Spiral (2011), Rock n Fluid (2011) and of the counterless geometric typeface Cube Kila (2011).

In 2013, he designed Level 01, Bombing, Quenelles, La Bande en Baskets (baseball script), Super Cube, Smoke The World, Mr. Poppey, Haricot Magique, Moulin Rouge, Slam (a confident script face), Je n'aime pas le lundi, Love You Mom (+Shadow), Felix (brushy script), Carte Postale (neatly hand-printed letters), Dos Campos, Promotion (grungy caps), Shoes Center, Vertige, Sold Out, Chomage (a textured typeface), Origine du Monde, Metropolis, Crazy Cookies (a 3d face), Spectro, Sea&Turtle, Vamos A La Playa, Bad Boy (dingbats), Yo Mama (outlined typeface), Fat & Cap, Miaou, Basscrw, Fluid LCD, Jam Session, and Fluid Maska (grunge), La Chim de 23:50, Milk Shake Fraise, Made in France, Quand Tu N'es Pas La (a shaded typeface), Souvenir, Filament Galactique, Street Hunter, Eau de Rose, Good Life, Poker Style, Painterz, Spoutnik (constructivist typeface), Jeans de Nîmes, Clothing Brands (script), Moulin Rouge, Mexican Fiesta (Victorian ornamental typeface).

Typefaces from 2014: This Night (grunge), Mirabelle (fat brush script), Kaleidoscopic Vision (dingbats), Kaleidoscopic Mind (dingbats), Chrome, Ghetto Fabulous, Pink Vapor (upright connected brush script), Cargo, Snack, Queen of Today (script), Trouble (grunge), Hip Hop Lab 1, Grind, Road Trip (graffiti font).

Typefaces from 2015: Moi Je M'en Fous (brush script), Peinture Fraiche (fresh paint sign emulation).

Typefaces from 2016: Bigiliw Patterns (ornaments).

Typefaces from 2020: Whole Trains (a graffiti font).

Home page. Dafont link. Creative Fabrica link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ariane Sauvaget

Parisian creator of a poster for a Kurt Schwitters exhibition in Paris in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ariane Seibert

Graduate of Ecole Estienne. Based in Paris, she designed the interesting variable width sans typeface Baticol in 2016 for a school project. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ariel Martin Perez
[Applied Meta Projects (was: Tunera Type Foundry, Ariel Graphisme)]

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Aristide Bruneau

French creator of the rune font Rune (2007). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arkandis Digital Foundry
[Hirwen Harendal]

French foundry, est. 2007, which published many extensive free sans and sans serif families by Hirwen Harendal, who supports Open Source projects. The purpose of ADF is to provide a large number of high quality fonts (174 fonts as of the end of August 2007). Harendal has help from Clea F. Rees, most notably on the TeX part and the extensive Venturis family.

His typefaces:

• Accanthis (2009: an alternative for Galliard or Horley Oldstyle).
• AlbertisADF (from URW-A028), Albertis Titling.
• Ameris ADF (from URW n33012t).
• ArrosADF (from URW n021003L).
• AurelisADF (2009, almost art nouveau).
• Baskervald ADF (7 years of work according to Harendal: an alternative for New Baskerville).
• BerenisADF (2008, a didone family), BerenisNo2 (2008).
• BirkenADF (from URW-n033014t).
• ColonnadeADF (from URW-n033014t).
• EditorialisADF (from URW-n033014t).
• Electrum (like Eurostile and URW City).
• FenelrisADF (sans).
• FrontonADF Titling (from URW-n033014t).
• GaramondeADF (from URW-g043004t), GaramondNo8ADF (from URW g043024t).
• Gillius ADF and Gillius ADFN (from Vera Sans, an alternative for Gill Sans MT).
• HelvetisADF (from URW U001).
• Ikarius (2008, semi-serif; inspired by Hypatia Sans), IkariusNo2 (2008), Ikarius-Serie (2009).
• Irianis (2008; IrianisADFMath (2009) was made for the TeX math community).
• Keypad (2010). a dingbat face.
• LibrisADF (sans, patterned after Lydian).
• MekanusADF (2009, typewriter style).
• Mint Spirit (2012) and Mint Spirit No. 2 (2012). An original minimalist sans design. The truetype version is Mintysis (2012).
• NeoGothisADF (2009).
• OldaniaADF (2009, art nouveau).
• OrnementsADF (2009).
• PalladioADFStyle (a Palatino derived from URW g043023t).
• RomandeADF (with hints of Caslon, Times and Tiffany; CTAN download).
• Solothurn (2011). A family developed for Scribus, a free text preparation package that competes with Adobe's InDesign.
• SwitzeraADF (derived from Vera).
• SymbolADF (2008, bullets and arrows).
• Teknis: under development.
• TribunADF (2009, like Times New Roman).
• Universalis ADF (2008-2009, a take on Futura). Open Font Library link.
• VenturisADF, VenturisOldADF, VenturisTitlingADF and VenturisSansADF (2007: alternatives for Utopia).
• Verana Sans and Serif (from Bitstream Vera Sans and Serif).

Kernest link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arkilion
[Nicolas Kadri]

French designer of Awax (2020), which Nicolas refers to as a typeface for ancestral Zen. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Arlee Draw

Paris-based designer, b. 1993, of the alien language fonts Verlanerand (2018) and Wind Listener Graphic (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Armelle Danjour

During her studies in Nantes, France, and in particular, during a workshop led by Jack Usine, Armelle Danjour designed the display typeface Gothak (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Armelle Danjour

French designer of the spurred display typeface Folia (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arnaud Aubry

Graphic designer and illustrator in Nantes, France, who designed the reverse stress display typeface Louisette in 2019. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arnaud Chemin

Arnaud Chemin studied applied arts in Reims, graphic design in Paris, typography at ESAD Amiens and type design at Ecal (in a Masters program). He worked at Typofonderie and Black Foundry before embarking on the TypeMedia program at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in Den Haag, The Netherlands, where he graduated in 2020. His graduation typeface at KABK was called Epitre---a roman text typeface in which he tries to bring the italic closer to the lower case roman.

In 2021, he released the ten cut gorgeous in-your-face-deco-didone typeface NN Didot Moderne at Nouvelle Noire. That typeface was renamed NN Didot Modern a few days after its release. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arnaud Darré

Parisian creator of the warm sans font Ottolino (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arnaud Laly

During his studies in Rennes, France, Arnaud Laly created the geometric solid alphabet Transparence Typographie (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arnaud Le Roux

Parisian graphic designer who created Meneïde (2013, a free blackletter stencil) and Foresee (2013, a free geometric display typeface).

In 2014, he created the free experimental typeface Coda as a tribute to Paul Renner. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arnaud Louis

Illustrator and graphic designer in Saint-Germain-en-Laye near Paris. He created a beautiful poster for his city in 2010. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arnaud Loyau

Villeparisis, France-based designer of the hexagonal typeface Cube (2014), the elliptic typeface Hybrid (2015), and the squarish typeface Straight (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arnaud Michelland

Grenoble, France-based designer of Kashi Condensed (2014). Behance links. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arnaud Saunier

Based in Marseille, France, Arnaud Saunier created the free experimental typeface Polygonal in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arnaud Vigoureux

Creator of the hand-drawn bilined script typeface Polisse Palisse (2013). He also made the grungy My Sketch Font (2013) and the hand-printed Je ne t'oublierai jamais (2013), Le Futur Attendra (2013), Les Jours Heureux (2013), Pataques (2013, +Pataques Brush), Caligstroy (2013). Typefaces from 2014 include 24 Janvier. In 2015, he made Quand tu dors. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arno Geisseler

Student graphic designer in Avignin, France. He created the signage script Pencils (2012) and a graffiti face (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arnoldas Dambrauskas

An Italian graphic designer in Paris, b. 1983. Creator of Arnold (2009, outline face). Another link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Art Grootfontein

Paris-based designer and illustrator, b. 1975 in Paris. He created Lemon Twist (2009), a filled-bowl, black geometric face. On his home page, one can find free fonts such as Grootfont1 (2009, pixel face).

In 2020, he released Balter Serif (a handcrafted layerable font inspired by sign painting, 1960s movie posters and jazz album lettering) and the all caps hand-printed typeface Jazzy Croquette.

In 2021, he released Bangel (a fat display typeface) and Flexible (a sans headline typeface in 18 styles, with a variable font thrown in; the typeface was created for animations and allow its user to play with width and height). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Art Illustration Gaspard

Gaspard sells 26 illustrations, one for each letter, showing people in interesting positions. He sells similar sets called Fish, Danse, T-Bone (skeletons), M.I.B. (men in black), Bonne Année and Acid. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arthur Chamaret

As a student at LISAA Rennes, Arthur Chamaret designed the modular typeface Sandbox (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arthur Denonain

Parisian designer of several display typefaces in 2017. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arthur Francietta

Parisian designer of Trenellographie (2014), a series of grungy typographic posters. He created the sans typeface Thaurr Caps in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arthur Moustik Gaillon

Paris-based designer of the modular typeface Chet (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arthur Ravenel

During his studies in Lyon, France, Arthur Ravenel designed the great concentric circle typeface Typo Cinema (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arthur Teboul

Graduate of Estienne in Paris who created Brussel Typeface (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Artypografik

French type art blog. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Asbeen Design

Montigny-lès-Metz, France-based designer of the free all caps sans typeface Orosko (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Asenso
[Romain Diant]

Asenso is the design studio of Romain Diant (art director; he founded Asenso in 2005) and Samuel Roger, located in Béziers, France. In 2018, Romain Diant designer the art deco typeface Braciola for the branding of Le Boucanier, a bistro in Sète, France.

Typefaces from 2021: Baissanoi (a curly all caps typeface by Romain Diant and Samuel Roger). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Asgeir Pedersen

Bordeaux, France-based designer of the 16-style rounded squarish sans typeface family Norden Round (2022) and the 12-style comapnion font Norden Display. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Astrid Ogereau

During her studies in Nantes, France, Astrid Ogereau designed the 3d typeface Isométrie (2017) [Google] [More]  ⦿

Astrologie CURA

The truetype font Astrol. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Atelier About
[Valentin Besset]

Valentin Besset (Atelier About, Lyon, France) designed Giant Brick (2016: a 3d typeface), Die Geometrische (2016), Fraternity (2016, hipster style) and Point à Point (2016, connect-the-dots typeface). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Atelier Bouda

Paris-based graphic designer and illustrator, who made a decorative caps alphabet in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Atelier de Découpage Typographique (or: ADT)

Consortium of French type designer in Strasbourg (see also here for font downloads). Web site disappeared. Designers include

• Olivier Umecker: La Pierre, La Fanette, La Sabine, La Sibane, Le Joel.
• Aurélia Gaud: Le Vincent.
• Daphnée Legrand: Le Jean-Phi, La Daphnee-Normal, La Daphnee-Anormal, L'Olivier.
• Fabienne Benoît: L'inconnu, Le clude-francois.
• Gregory Eresman: La Sophia.
• Jean-Philippe Goussot: La Edith, La Stéphanie Blue Eyes, La Tania.
• Joel Christophe: La Fabienne.
• Laurent Catelan: La Fafabienne.
• Paul Rismondo: Le Antoine.

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Atelier de Design Holistique
[Joel Maillot]

Designer in Camboulazet (was: Albi and Toulouse), France, who created the didone display typeface Black Italic in 2014, and the blackletter Gothique, the wavy Dancing Font, Tape Font, Mosaique, the splendid Mono Gorille, Curiosité, the free geometric sans typeface Activitic, and the signage font Shibby in 2016.

In 2017, he designed Sharpness Grotesk.

Typefaces from 2018: Joplin (a free experimental pair of typefaces that play on positive and negative spaces), 518 (a free color font), Meta (a courageously named emoji-enriched free monoline rounded sans; I am sure that under pressure from FontShop, it was renamed 518 after a few weeks), Spectacle (free), Fracture (a free blackletter font).

Typefaces from 2019: Abac (free).

Typefaces from 2020: Spectacle (free). Behance link. Another URL. Yet another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Atelier Graphique
[Vincent Menu]

Vincent Menu (born in Rennes) is the French designer who runs Atelier Graphique in Rennes. Designer of the great screen/pixel fonts Carré, CarréLié and Petite. Associated with Typotek, where you can buy Tampons (2000), Cut (2000), Carré (2000), Space (2001). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Atelier Pariri
[Jerome Corgier]

Jerôme Corgier (Atelier Pariri, Montreuil, France) created the poster sans typeface Pariri (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Atelier Perrousseaux

Interesting font links. In French, by Yves Perrousseaux. Jef Tombeur describes this as follows: "The Atelier Perrousseaux is a small publishing house having on its catalogue the founder's books but also books, essays, studies by the late Gérard Blanchard, Adrian Frutiger, Ladislas Mandel, François Richaudeau (a linguist) and, soon, René Ponot." [Google] [More]  ⦿

Athenais Borg

As a student in Paris, Athenais Borg designed the display typeface Gemini (2017, based on FontStruct). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Atomik

French on-line mag by Benoit Godde, who has designed about ten beautiful typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

ATypI 1998

ATypI meeting held in Lyon from 23-26 October 1998. [Google] [More]  ⦿

ATypI 2001 Country delegate report

Porchez's 2001 report on the type situation in France in 2001. Report for 2000. [Google] [More]  ⦿

ATypI 2020

ATypI 2020 was to be held in Paris, but got canceled due to COVID-19. It was then rescheduled in Paris in 2021. And then again to May 2023, still in Paris. [Google] [More]  ⦿

ATypI 2021

ATypI 2021 was supposed to take place in Paris. It was postponed to May 2023 in Paris. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aubert Freres

Parisian foundry, which made typefaces such as Antique Old Style No.2 (1869), purchased by Stephenson Blake. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aude Degrassat

Student who graduated in 2008 from Ecole Estienne in Paris. She wrote a thesis on Albert Boton, and developed a gothic typeface that was published in the magazine Etapes. She presently works at Uzik in Los Angeles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aude Trémoureux

Nantes, France-based co-designer of the trekkie / alchemic typeface family Yoda (2018), which was developed together with Yuting Tang, Oriane Noguès-Lassaigne and Doriane Ono-Dit-Biox at ECV Nantes. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aude Trémoureux

Nantes, France-based designer of the rounded sans typeface Around (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Audrey Evrard

Parisian designer who created the modular typeface Bento in 2010. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Audrey Le Goff

Paris-based creator of the grunge font Mixité (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Audrey Manlot

London-based designer, b. Paris, who created the script typeface Arrow (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Audrey Recio

Multimedia designer in Paris. In 2013, Audrey created the Zemo typeface in a larger project of a gameboard for explaining children about different emotions. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Audrey Stanton

Graphic designer in Ann Arbor, MI. Her hipster typeface Tatter was created in 2014 as part of a typography course at the University of New South Wales College of Fine Arts. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Audrey Templier

French designer (b. 1984). Creator of the free monowidth sans typeface Cjust (2006). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Auguste Bernard

Author (1811-1868) of Geoffroy Tory, peintre et graveur, premier imprimeur royal, réformateur de l'orthographe et de la typographie sous François Ier (2e édition, entièrement refondue) (1865, E. Tross, Paris). Local download in PDF [13.8MB].

In 1856, Auguste Bernard published Les Estienne --- Les types grecs de François premier, in which he presents 16th century Greek typefaces known as les grecs du roi. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Auguste Roubille

French painter, designer, poster artist, book illustrator and caricaturist, b. Paris, 1872, d. Paris, 1955. His early work was influenced by the art nouveau movement. He drew some typographic silhouettes that represent that epoch. His most famous posters are Les Appareils photographiques Demaria frères, La Motocyclette Werner, Spratt's Patent, High Life Tailor, Le Bourgeon, Scala en Bombe, Au Smart Carmen and La Maison du Rire. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aurélia Gaud

French type designer at the ADT (Atelier de decoupage typographique). Designer of Le Vincent (1998). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aurélie Attuil

Born in 1986 in Paris, Aurélie Attuil studied graphic design and typography at École Estienne, Paris, where she obtained a Masters in Type Design & Graphic Design (DSAA Création Typographique) in 2009. Her typefaces include Bricklane (2014) and Galim (for Hebrew). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aurélie Gasche

Parisian designer who is part of Dépli, a design studio founded in 2007 by Vadim Bernard, Aurélie Gasche and Benjamin Gomez. Her typefaces there include

• Mondara (2011). A Latin / Arabic typeface done for l'Institut du monde arabe designed by Benjamin Gomez, Mathieu Réguer, Aurélie Gasche and c-album. The Arabic has both Naskh and Kufi styles. Both the Latin and Arabic are absolutely gorgeous.
• Kufica (2008). Arabic typeface by Aurélie Gasche, with help of Mathieu Réguer, Antoine Barjini and Amir Dhia.
• Insight Team (2008). A dot matrix typeface designed by Aurélie Gasche and Laurent Ungerer.

Aurélie Lenglet

Parisian graphic designer who created the calligraphic typeface Joe in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aurélien Buffet

Paris-based designer of Adami (2016), a typeface that is based on the handwriting of Valério Adami. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aurélien Guerout

Freaky Typeface (2013) is a collaborative experimental school project of Aurélien Guerout and Michael Descharles at Ecole d'Art Maryse Eloy under the supervision of Eva Kubinyi and Jean Widmer. Aurélien lives in Montreal.

Behance link. Linkedin link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aurélien Medinger

Orleans, France-based designer of a city-inspired decorative caps alphabet in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aurélien Vret

Aurélien Vret is a multidisciplinary artist and type designer. Born in Noisy-le-Sec, France, in 1987, he studied visual art at the fine arts school in Toulouse (Isdat). He studied type design with François Chastanet and obtained his B.F.A. in 2010.

Now based in Vincennes near Paris, he designed an experiment type based on Frutiger called L'in-vu. In 2017, he created his first real typeface, Prosaic, at Typofonderie under the guidance of Jean François Porchez. Typofonderie describes Prosaic as a postmodern vernacular sans. They write: Prosaic Black is comparable to the Antique Olive Nord, while the thinner versions can refer to Frutiger or some versions of the Ladislas Mandel typefaces intended for telephone directories. To a lesser extent, the search for forms and counterforms can be reminiscent of Jeremy Tankard's Fenland or certain Evert Bloemsma typefaces such as FF Balance or FF Legato.

Interview by Porchez. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Aurelie de Bonis

Graphic designer in Aix, France. Creator of Origami (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aurore Laga

Parisian designer of a squarish alphabet in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aurore Mathieu

During her studies at Ecole Intuit Lab in Paris, Aurore Mathieu created an untitled hipster typeface (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aurore Salvi

During her studies at École de design Nantes Atlantique, Aurore Salvi created a deco typeface perhaps called Ordre Grec (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Autre planète
[Thierry Charbonnel]

Autre planète is run by Thierry Charbonnel in Paris. Designer of the futuristic typeface Digital Planet (2006) and of the ink splash dingbat typeface Oups (2006, with Antoine Doury). Fonts are sold through AP Fonts. Autre planète home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ava O'Byrne

Graphic designer in Paris who created these typefaces: Institut du Monde Arabe (2018), Maya (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Avant Post

Studio in Paris founded by Quentin Berthelot, Johan Mossé and Adrien Weibel. In 2011, they designed the German expressionist typeface Guillemet, which is available at Die Gestalten and FontShop. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Awista M

While studying in Versailles, France, Awista M created the display typeface Destruct (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Axel André

French calligrapher who designed some (mostly hand-drawn) typefaces in 2011-2014. These include Utah (2011), Les Caves Populaires, [Google] [More]  ⦿

Axel Bizon

Art director in Nantes, France, who created the free display sans typeface Bizon in 2014. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Axel Morin

Art director and photographer in Paris. He experimented in 2009 with gridded typefaces. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Axel Pelletanche-Thévenart

French designer of

• Knif Mono Regular (2016, Aisforapple). This high-contrast typeface was art directed by Guillaume Grall and Benoit Santiard. It was produced by Emilie Rigaud.
• Trabis (2019, Aisforapple). A typewriter typeface.

Axel Vagnard

Paris-based designer of the display typefaces Roma (2018), Detroit (2017) and Charlie B (2016). In 2019, he released the sans typeface The Circle Line. Typefaces from 2020 include Dahlia, Atlanta, Grotesk, Blue Velvet, Oklahoma (a slab serif and a blackletter), Monique. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Axelle Billon

For a type design class in Nantes, France, Axelle Billon created Roundness (2014), a typeface that is based on Clarendon. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Aymeric Bernard

Tarbes, France-based designer who made Idea (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ayoub Ahrrar

Artistic director in Paris who designed a geometric siolid and several other experimental typefaces in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

B. Bleu

Parisian art director who created the bespoke typeface Institut Laser Biotherm in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baba
[Aloïs Ancenay]

Graphic design studio in Paris set up and run by Aloïs Ancenay. In 2017, he designed Ace Regular (2016) and Ace Bold (2017), which were published at Lift Type. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baba Graphic Design Studio

Studio in Paris that created Glace Sans (2015), which was inspired by the concert hall Le Brise Glace in Annecy, France. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Babel Font
[Brahim Boucheikha]

Babelfont is a design studio located in Paris and Casablanca that was co-founded by Gia Tran and Brahim Boucheikha. They were later joined by Salaheddine Bellizi. Their typefaces, mostly bespoke, include:

• Luset (2012). A font commissioned by Dragon Rouge for an actor.Their typeface family is called PSG.
• PSG (2013). A font commissioned by Dragon Rouge to create a typeface family for the soccer club Paris Saint-Germain.
• The Latin/ Arabic sans typeface Gibraltar (2014).
• The Latin / Arabic sans typeface Ines (2013).
• The Latin and Maghrebi Arabic typeface Alegia (2015).
• Mao (2013). A decorative simplified Chinese font.

Gia Tran is a self-taught calligrapher and type designer. He has worked for Dragon Rouge, 4uatre and A&Mcreative in Paris, as well as Saffron Brand Consultants in Madrid. Gia was the Type Director at the French foundry Fontyou. He also teaches calligraphy and type design at various graphic design and visual communication schools such as Strate College Designer, Intuitlab and ESAV Marrakech.

Brahim Boucheikha (b. Morocco) studied graphic design at the ECV in Paris and was an apprentice of Arabic calligraphy expert Abdallah Akar. He joined the branding agencies Landor (Dubai) and Dragon Rouge (Paris). He has worked at the ESAV (School of Visual Arts) in Marrakech since 2009 as head of the Arabic typography laboratory.

Salaheddine Bellizi is a typographer and 3D designer at Babelfont Studio. He studied at the ESAV (School of Visual Arts) in Marrakech, Morocco, and specializes in Arabic calligraphy and typography. He also works intermittently as an assistant at ESAV Marrakech. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bachir Soussi-Chiadmi

Designer of Bousni Carré LT (2002) and Bousni Ronde LT (2002) in the Linotype Taketype 5 collection. Bousni Ronde is a connected upright script with Arabic ingredients. And Bousni Carré is a squarish version of that. Bachir was a student at ESAD in Strasbourg, France, and a promising graphic designer. FontShop link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bai Mellon
[Sideshow]

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Bailleul et cie

Typefounders in Paris. Their work can be found in Spécimen des caractères de la fonderie Bailleul et cie, rue des Boucheries St.-G. 38. Premier cahier (Paris, Imprimé chez Paul Renouard, rue Garancière, n.5. [ca.1850?]). This is a very ordinary book with only text samples in the typical post-Didot style.

For a digital revival, see the free didone typeface Bailleul Roman (2019) by Guillaume Litaudon. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bamboo Types
[Florian Bambhout]

Foundry that grew out of the now defunct and controversial Gasoligne in Brest, France, which was run by Yves Patinec (Roubaix) and his brother. The Bamboo Type fonts rescued from Gasoligne in 2008 are Neborg Sans (2008, organic and techno), Mignone (2011, fat organic face), Bambhout Connect Trial (2010), Bambhout (2009, experimental), Oxea (2008, organic), Magenta (2009, italic display type inspired by Inverserif from Infinitype, which in turn has roots in Speedway from FontBank, Concorde from Brendel Informatik, OptiIambic from Castcraft, and so forth), and Veeko, Veeko Wide (informal and organic). Bamboo Types says that the fonts were designed by freelance designer Florian Bambhout. I don't believe that for a second----that name was made up.

Typefaces from 2014: Meditation.

Dafont link. Abstract Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bank Graphic Design Today
[Sebastian Bissinger]

BANK is a French/German design agency based in Berlin, led by Laure Boer and Sebastian Bissinger. It marketed its fonts through T-26, starting in 2009, but later switched to Colophon. In 2009, Sebastian Bissinger and Matthieu David made the display typefaces Sintra and Yummy. Sintra is a 3d typeface that simulates letters made from folded material---Sebastian Bissinger was inspired by the sign of a shoe shop in Sintra, Portugal. Yummy was inspired by cookie cutters.

Laure Boer and Sebastian Bissinger published their all caps license plate font Guida at Colophon Type Foundry. Guida is based on an Italian license plate that was in use some time between 1980 and 1990. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Banzai Tokyo
[Sergey Epifanov]

Experimental foundry in Toulouse. Run by Sergey Epifanov (b. 1978, Kostroma, Russia), a graphic designer and an illustrator, it sells fonts like Banzai Moloko (2009) via MyFonts.

In 2013, Banzai Tokyo published the icon font Web Hosting Hub Glyphs Essentials.

Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

BaoMy DangTrong

During her studies in Strasbourg, France, BaoMy DangTrong designed Octogon Type (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baptiste Bernazeau

During his studies in Paris, Baptiste Bernazeau designed the display typefaces Dragon (2017), Agrafe (2016), Chimera (2016) and Brique (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baptiste Chaloux

Graphic designer in Rennes, France, who created the über-modular typeface One Curve (2015), in which each glyph is either a rectangle or a quarter circle. He also made the free monoline sans typeface Crossed Type (2015) [careful: the zippyshare download site has viruses]. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baptiste Chlx

During his studies in Rennes, France, Baptiste Chlx designed an angular typeface called Gothype (2012) and Cross Type (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baptiste Dairaine

Graduate of ESTEL, now based in Bordeaux, France. Designer of the stylized typeface Edgedrop (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baptiste Datin

I think that if one is going to experiment, then there should be no limits to how far one can go---explore, enjoy and explode. In this spirit, I presume, Parisian Baptiste Datin created his Chromosome Alphabet (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baptiste Feuillatre

Nantes, France-based designer of the deformed Baskerville typeface Skerfold (2014). This was a school project at l'École de Design Nantes Atlantique. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baptiste Gios

Baptiste Gios (Yerres, France) created the school project typeface Mango (2014), which has the curvature of anthroposophic typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baptiste Guesnon

Type designer based in Paris and Stockholm, who graduated with a master's and a bachelor's degree in graphic design from ESAD Valence, in 2016 and 2014 respectively. In 2013, he did a post-graduate diploma in Fashion at Duperré (Paris) after completing a technical degree in visual communication at Estienne (Paris). Baptiste did a five-month internship in 2015 at Underware, working on Cyrillic and learning Python scripting and type design from Bas Jacobs.

He released the semi-experimental typeface Agate at the Swedish foundry So Type. Agate was originally designed to be used as a display font for Strates, an architecture magazine edited by Baptiste Gerbelot Barillon who took part in the early days of the project. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baptiste Lavigne

Parisian designer of the constructivist Kodage (2017), the rounded sans typeface Polaire (2017) and the prismatic typeface Linenn (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baptiste Liquard

Baptiste Liquard (Nantes, France) designed the modular typeface La Ressourcere de l'Ile (2012), the multilined octagonal typeface Book Font (2013) and the origami typeface Foldee (2013).

In 2014, he made Misère, a spurred piano key stencil typeface that has the characteristics of a FontStruct font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baptiste Pitasi

French designer of the sci-fi / techno typeface Hatove (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baptiste Vandaele

Paris-based type designer at the open source type foundry Velvetyne in Paris. His creations include Treefamily (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baralon Thibault

Graduate of ECAL, class of 2015. Originally from Lyon, France, he presebtly is a designer in Evian Les Bains, France. Creator of the spectacular display typeface Bosozoku (2015), which is inspired by Japanese culture and NHRA in the USA. This work was declared Exhibition winner at Pangrame International Student Typeface Design, with a special Coup de coeur of Gerard Unger.

In 2016, he created the squarish futuristic Renegade. In 2017, he designed New Bosozoku and Tropic. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Barbara Alaimo

As a student at Ecole d'art Maryse Eloy (Paris), Barbara Alaimo created the modular stencil typeface Split (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Barbara Masson

Paris-based designer (b. 1993) of the free experimental condensed typeface Gestalt (2016). Behance link. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Barbara Toth

Freelance motiondesigner and illustrator, currently living in Paris. She created the modular geometric typefaces Doves (2011) and Elephants (2011). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Barnard B

French type designer. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Barré de couleur

Font made exclusively for the Centre George Pompidou in Paris in 1995 by the Atelier de création graphique. The designing group consists of Pierre Bernard, Cyril Cohen, Uli Meisenheimer, Johannes Bergerhausen. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Barsky and Bézier
[Pierre Bézier]

Pierre Bézier (born in Paris on 1 September 1910, died on 25 November 1999) was a friend of Brian Barsky, a famous graphics professor at Berkeley, and an ex-graduate of my own university, McGill. Bézier gave Barsky a wonderful Bézier curve drawing, signed and dated 29 November 1997. This is a thing of beauty. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Basile Buisson

Parisian graphic designer. He made the techno pixel typeface FFZX (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bastien Muttoni

Lyon, France-based designer of several typefaces in 2015, such as a textured typeface, a copperplate typeface and a Bauhaus-inspired typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bastien Salvan

Toulouse, France-based designer of the brushy caps typeface Walkyrie (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bastien Sozeau
[Uplaod]

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BAT Foundry

French foundry established in April 2010. It is a cooperative effort of Bruno Bernard, Stéphane Buellet, Jean-Baptiste Levée and Patrick Paleta. Fontdeck page. BAT stands for Bureau des Affaires Typographiques. Its fonts: Acier BAT (Jean-Baptiste Levée), Adso (Bruno Bernard), Synthese (Gilles Poplin and J.B. Levée), and Francesco (Franck Jalleau). Creative Market link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bayard-Nizet

Commercial music fonts at this French site: Virtuoso, Charleston, Grupetto, Staccato, Vivace, Espressivo, Koechlin, Fingering, Ars Nova, Flamenco, Oratorio, Timpani. [Google] [More]  ⦿

bbm
[Gilles F. Robert]

bbm is a serifed blackboard bold math symbol (meta)font by Gilles F. Robert from Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bénédicte Lacapère

At ECV in Paris, Bénédicte Lacapère designed the Tuscan typeface Borsetta (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beaulieu-Fournier

French typefoundry. Specimen books by them include

• Epreuves de nouveaux caractères de la fonderie de Beaulieu-Fournier, successeur de Fournier le jeune (Paris, ca. 1802). Local download.

Beaumarchais
[Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais]

French editor, author, printer and typefounder (b, 1732, d. 1799) who ran a foundry in Kehl (Germany) from 1781 onwards. He had acquired the types, punches and matrices of John Baskerville (Birmingham) from John Baskerville's widow in 1775 for 3700 pounds. In 1795 the Beaumarchais foundry was partly sold to Franz Laurent Xavier Levrault (1762-1821) who ran the Levrault family print shop in nearby Strassbourg (est. 1675). Levrault in turn was sold in 1854 and became Berger-Levrault. The latter company resettled in Nancy, France, in 1873. Beaumarchais's ex-employee Jaquot continued as independent typefounder in Strassbourg.

Beaumarchais was the first to print the complete work of Voltaire, best known as the Kehl edition, under the name "Imprimerie de la société littéraire typographique".

The name Beaumarchais also pops up in type designs. For example, David Nalle designed a typeface called Beaumarchais. The typeface 1785 GLC Baskerville (2011, Gilles Le Corré) was inspired by one of the types sold to Beaumarchais by Baskerville's widow. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beautiful Type

Freelance web designers Francis Chouquet and Aurélien Foutoyet, both based in France, run a type blog, reporting on great finds. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beeline
[Claude Derieppe]

Free Beeline fonts by "Miss Claude" (Claude Derieppe) and "The Font Goddess": Alpha3D, AlphaBalloon, AlphaBalloons2, AlphaBizzyBee, AlphaBones, AlphaBoy, AlphaCar, AlphaClouds, AlphaCrooner, AlphaCutOut, AlphaDishes, AlphaElephant, AlphaElfin, AlphaFitness, AlphaFlowers, AlphaFunky1, AlphaFunky2, AlphaGarden, AlphaInky, AlphaMan, AlphaMusicMan, AlphaNails, AlphaPaint, AlphaParty, AlphaPencils, AlphaRemember, AlphaRope, AlphaRunning, AlphaSausage, AlphaSausage, AlphaScribble, AlphaSkyParty, AlphaSmoke, AlphaSports (2002), AlphaSquiggle, AlphaSurvivor, AlphaThin, AlphaTopiary, AlphaTrees, AlphaUnleaded, AlphaUnplugged, AlphaWizard, AlphaWoman, AlphaWomanHair, AlphaWood, Baby, BabyBeeline, BizzyBunny, CarBeeline, DinosBeeline, HeliumHeaven, TicketCapitalsImpressed, TicketCapitalsRepressed, WormAlpha, WormBeeline. Fontspace link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ben Brousseau

Designer (b. 1985) in Reunion Island of the fat finger typeface Ben Brousseau (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ben Mensah

During his studies in Paris, Ben Mensah designed various untitled modular typefaces (2013). He created the decorative Feather Font (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ben Saurine

Parisian designer of the experimental typeface GBG (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

BenBenWorld (or: BB Bureau)
[Benoît Bodhuin]

Benoît Bodhuin (aka Ben Ben) lived in Tournai, Belgium, and after a brief spell in "chti" country, i.e., in Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, he relocated to Nantes in France. He studied mathematics and graphic design. Freelance graphic designer since 2004. In 2011, he set up Benben World at MyFonts.

Designer of the pixel fonts Logotix (2004), Latham and 5x7 Negatie Moyenne. In 2010, he made the paperclip typeface Pipo (first published in 2011 by Die Gestalten, and in 2017 by bb-bureau). He created the commercial angular sans typeface S-L (2006) which was originally made for the University of Arts Saint-Luc in Tournai. It was published by Volcano.

Commercial typefaces include S-L Bold (2012, a hexagonal typeface based on his design at St. Luc in 2006), Zigzag (2012, Volcano Type; a font originally made for the Vivat theater), and Marianne (2012, BenBenWorld: an inline and modular typeface family).

In 2013, he published the stencil / fractured typeface Mineral.

In 2014, he designed the experimental triangle-based Bauhaus-inspired Side A typeface.

In 2016, Bodhuin designed the expressive Italian typeface family BB Book A and bb-book Contrasted. He added the wedge serif BB Book B, BB Book Mono and BB Book Text to that series in 2018.

Typefaces from 2017: Brutal, Elastik.

Typefaces from 2019: Grotesk Remix (extended to Grotesk Remix Monospace and Grotesk Remix Variable in 2020), Tme (experimental: an update of Sl drawn in 2006 for the University of Arts Saint-Luc de Tournai), Standard-bb, Pickle Standard (extravagant and thought-provoking).

Typefaces from 2020: Gikit (in Text and Title version, for a perfect gridnik feel), Ballpill (designed for printing at very small sizes).

Typefaces from 2021: Bilibot (an experiment with overlapping strokes), Pimpit (rounded, condensed and with reverse stress), Volcano Type link. View Bodhuin's commercial typefaces. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Benjamin Blaess

Benjamin Blaess (Blah, Strasbourg, France) is a graphic designer and letterer. During a summer course called Type@Paris (2015), under the guidance of Jean Fran&ccdil;ois Porchez, Malou Verlomme and Mathieu Réguer, Benjamin Blaess created Brambly, a text typeface with calligraphic tension.

In 2019, Ilya Naumoff and Benjamin Blaess co-designed the variable font Grtsk at Black Foundry. Its three axes, weight, width and slant, combine for 126 styles, that are all captured in one variable font. Mini-site. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benjamin Boukagne
[GGI Fonts]

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Benjamin Campana

During his graphic design design studies in Marseille, France, Benjamin Campana co-designed Helado (2014) together with Sabrina Ekecik and Simon Becker. He created the thin sans titling typeface Kim (2014) with Julia Lambert for the Lana del Rey's video clip Summertime Sadness. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benjamin Dennel

Designer in Amiens, France. In 2014, Clio Chaffardon and Benjamin Dennel co-designed the ink-trapped typeface Calico Monospace. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benjamin Fernandez

Parisian graphic designer who created the Arcfu typeface in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benjamin Gattet

French designer of the programmed typeface Typorond (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benjamin Gomez
[Dépli]

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Benjamin Gomez

Benjamin Gomez studied graphic design first at Valence's art school, and then at Ecole Supérieure des arts décoratifs in Strasbourg. He went on to graduate from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, where he started the design collective Délpi in 2007. The studio provides design solutions in communication, signage, motion design, multimedia, print, and type design.

In 2011, he published the wavy typewriter face Treza at Die Gestalten, which is umbilically linked to ITC American Typewriter. It was developed in collaboration with Maroussia Jannelle for a technical book with many tables. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benjamin Grossi

French creator of Hand of Ben (2013), a free hand-prnted typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benjamin Lieb

Graphic designer in Paris-Plage, France. He made the hand-printed typeface Kitano (2011, after the handlettering of Takeshi Kitano), the semi-blackletter typeface Millénaire (2011), and the angular typeface Grenade Serif (2011).

At Fontyou, Benjamin Lieb, Gia Tran and Julien Priez co-designed the hand-drawn typeface Brixton FY (2013). Not to be confused with two earlier typefaces called Brixton, one by Tom Chalky, and one by Luke Ferrand. Since two of the three Brixtons are commercial, I expect FontYou to change the name imminently. With Jeremie Hornus and Alisa Nowak, he designed the slab serif typeface Lean-O FY (2013) and Lean O Sans FY (2014).

In 2014, still at FontYou, Benjamin Lieb and Gia Tran co-designed the 4-style retro display family Belleville FY. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Benjamin Martinez

During his studies at ECV in Bordeaux, France, Benjamin Martinez designed the monoline rounded sans poster typeface Beach Craft (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benjamin Moulin

French creator (b. 1981) of SMD Black (2010, a squarish face). Klingspor link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benjamin Noguera

As a student at the Axe Sud school in Toulouse, France, Benjamin Noguera created the display typeface Carmine (2013). In 2015, based in Epinal, he created the Inuit display typeface in cooperation with Noemie Mangin, as well as the blocky Bloc Font. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benjamin Rylewski

Motion designer in Versailles, France, who created the hexagonal psycho typeface Opium in 2015. Quartz (2015) is a modular typeface based on shapes of minerals. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benjamin Varin

French type designer who created these typefaces in 2011: Al-kimiya Font (typewriter style with fun variations), Le Méliès SOFT, Le Méliès (sans), Dinette Ultra (rounded and fat), Dinette (based on DIN), Archipel (thin slab face).

. Typecache link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benoît Bodhuin
[BenBenWorld (or: BB Bureau)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Benoît Champy

French designer of these free typefaces that can be downloaded at Dafont:

• Stencil category: Game Plan (2011), Karen Stencil (2011), Fine Stencil (2011), Stencil Gothic (2011).
• Constructivist: Konstructiv (2011).
• Handprinted or marker fonts: Andi (2014), Dker Finepoint (2011), Dker Feltpen (2011), Dker Poster (2011).
• Grunge: Aerial Demented (2011).
• Shadow face: Oh Jay (2011).
• 3d face: Bleuck (2011).
• Geometric experimental typefaces: Rondie (2011), Again (2011), Kawai Desu (2011), Modular Tkno (2011), Modern Plate (2012).
• Upright connected script: Bellefine (2011).
• 3D Simulation face: Bonus (2011).
• Tuscan: De Flandre (2012).
• Experimental: Comic Tragedy (2013), Scan Me (2011), Jizz Mass (2011, a gooey play on snow cover at Xmas...).
• Ransom note typefaces: Weird Cuts (2012).
• Arts and Crafts: Home Square (2012).
• Other: Flea Market (2013), Computer Aid (2016).

Benoît Desprez

Lyon, France-based founder of the BlueRats (les rats bleus) foundry, Frenchman Benoit Desprez (b. 1967) designed many fonts:

• At T26, you can get BlueBrush (1996-98), BlueCentury (1997-98) BlueType (1996-98) and BlueAkkrobat (1997).
• At BlueRats, we have in 1996, BlueTrash.
• In 1997: BlueApplet, BlueArsenal, BlueBond, BlueCake, BlueStuff, BlueTone, BlueStorm, BlueLacke, BlueFlag BlueExpeditt, BlueLittle Horn, BlueNylon, BlueSkin, and BlueCalcium.
• In 1998: BlueBurnt, BlueCarnage, Bluenorma, BlueSmolt, Bluespent, BlueVelvet, Bluepugg, and BlueSandblast.
• In 1999: BlueCopy, BlueFaxSimili, BlueOilstain, BlueLIax, BlueVirtue, BlueWaves, BlueYummy.
• In 2000: BlueFitful, BlueGlobal, BlueJussi-1, BlueJussi-2, BluePlanet. At T-26: BlueBrush, BlueCentury, BlueType.
• In 2001: BlueMecca. MyFonts page.

Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Benoît Macaigne

French designer of the rough poster font Bajorelle (2013).

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benoît Santiard

Graphic designer in Paris, b. 1980. Teacher at the École d'Architecture de la Ville&des territoires in Marne-la-Vallée. Cofounder, with Guillaume Grall, of Building Paris. Creator of the traffic-like sans typeface capitale (2009) for the signage of a concert hall. Werkman Letterpress (2009) is a font designed from letterpress woodblocks. It was inspired by the first issue of the magazine The Next Call (1923) by Hendrik Nicolaas Werkman. UnkleBenz (2009) is based on his own handwriting. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benoit Beracassat

Art director in Paris who designed the art deco typeface Veloztica (2016) and the display typeface Anguline (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benoit Desprez
[Bluefonts.com (was: theblueratsfontsarchives, or les rats bleus)]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Benoit Dupré

French designer of Fazioli (2017: a piano key typeface) and Mo (2018: a geometric solid typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benoit Gast

Lille, France-based graphic designer who created an unnamed typeface in 2012.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benoit Lety

French creator of the pixel typeface Invade My Type (2009, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Benoit Sjöholm
[Désigne (was: Calame Design)]

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Bernard Anne

Bernard Anne (Bordeaux, France) created the experimental circle-based geometric typeface Circa (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bernard Arin

Ex-director of Scriptorium de Toulouse, calligrapher, teacher and typographer. Michael Levy took these pictures of him in 2004: Arin drawing, sketching a Trajan typeface on a stone. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bernard Bruno

French type designer who designed the Piccolo family, 1998. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bernard Naudin

French illustrator, painter, and occasional type designer (b. Châteauroux 1876, d. Paris 1946) who taught drawing at the Académie Colas-Rossi in Paris, and was an active type designer at Deberny & Peignot from 1911-1924. He designed the extraordinarily beautiful Naudin Roman and Italic, and the open capitals typeface Naudin Champlevé between 1912 and 1927 at Fonderie Peignot Frères. These were accompanied by a series of ornaments called Le Jardin Abandonnée.

Naudin also designed Tradition (related to Nicolas Cochin), which formed the basis of the Scriptorium decorative script font family Interlude (2001). Naudin taught drawing at the Académie Colas-Rossi in Paris.

Champlevé was revived in 2006 by Ari Rafaeli. Woodley Park (2001, Nick Curtis) is also based on Naudin Champlevé.

Gert Wiescher's Nadine Script (2005) is a formal script based on Naudin's work.

Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bernard Vivier

Frenchman Bernard Vivier made some wonderful school handwriting fonts (with rulers) between 1998 and 2003: BV_Api, BV_Batboi, BV_Baton, BV_Baton_Italiques, BV_Rondes, BV_Rondes_Boite, BV_Rondes_Ital, BV-Cursive-Ital-Italic, BV_Baton-Boite, BV_Rondes2, BV_Rondes2-ital, BV_Rondes_Ital, Bv-Arial-Boite.

Old dead URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bernie Diril

Graphic designer in Paris. In 2015, Perrine Winkler and Bernie Diril co-designed Brigitte, Karina and Pierrot, three typefaces based on the credits of Jean-Luc Godard's movies. The fonts are named after Brigitte Bardot, Anna Karina and Jean-Paul Belmondo (Pierrot Le Fou). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bertille Nadaud

During her studies at E-Art Sup in Paris, Bertille Nadaud designed the neo deco typeface New Wave (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bertille Saunier

Parisian codesigner with Virginie Poilièvre and Graphica of the art deco typeface family Séduction (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bertrand Galimard Flavigny.

Author of La Chronique du bibliophile: La typographie des Didot. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bertrand Loeulliet
[Fonderie de Bertrand Loeulliet]

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Bertrand Martel

French designer known as Zorg78. After a stint in Montpellier, he settled in Cannes. His type creations include Dripping Alphabet (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bertrand Reguron

French designer of Achille FY (2012, a slab serif typeface done with Gia Tran, Alisa Nowak, Valentine Proust, Elvire Volk, and Gregori Vincens). This typeface was published at Fontyou.

Codesigner of Kaili FY (2013: an exotic typeface with crazy ligatures, inspired by Indian scripts, by Gregori Vincens, Bertrand Reguron, Gia Tran and Alisa Nowak) at Fontyou.

The EPS format display typeface Alice FY (2013) was co-designed by Alisa Nowak, Micaela Neustadt, Gia Tran, Bertrand Reguron and Valentine Proust at Fontyou. It was inspired by Adrien Genevard's lettering. Sub-themes are Alice in Wonderland and playing cards. The EPS format frilly script typeface Lullaby FY (2013) was co-designed by Alisa Nowak, Micaela Neustadt, Gia Tran, Bertrand Reguron and Valentine Proust at Fontyou. It too was inspired by Adrien Genevard's lettering. Exquise FY (2013) is a fashion mag didone co-designed by Bertrand Reguron, Alisa Nowak, Valentine Proust, Elvire Volk and Gia Tran at Fontyou. Gia Tran, Alisa Novak, Micaela Neustadt, Bertrand Reguron and Grégori Vincens co-designed the curvy stressed elliptical sans typeface Bruum FY (2013). In 2013, Denis Moulin, Bertrand Reguron, Valentine Proust and Laurène Girbal co-designed the hipster typeface Theory FY (2013, alchemic).

In 2014, Gia Tran and Bertrand Reguron co-designed the zombie script Vidok FY (free at Dafont).

The punchy poster typeface Kraaken FY (2014) was designed by the FontYou team of Bertrand Reguron, Alice Resseguier, Valentine Proust, Julien Priez, Gia Tran, Jérémie Hornus, and Alisa Nowak.

Bertrand Reguron, Alice Resseguier and Gia Tran co-designed the retro signage script typeface Coco FY (2014). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bertrand-Pottier

Louis-Marie-Charles Bertrand-Pottier was a printer in Bordeaux, France, 1779-18xx. In 1809, he published Epreuves des caractères de l'imprimerie de Bertrand-Pottier. Local download. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bethune&Plon

Paris-based foundry. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bettina Canet

During her graphic design studies in Montpellier, France, Bettina Canet created a fun children's book typeface (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bibliopolae (was: Brice You)

French designer (b. 1982, Paris) of Mossy (2011, hand-printed): as skinny as Kate. In 2014, he/she created Thin Fingers (hand-printed). Dafont link. iFontmaker link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bibliothèque de l'école Estienne

As part of the Ecole Supérieure Estienne (18, boulevard Auguste-Blanqui, 75013 Paris, Tél : 01 55 43 47 47: subway Place d'Italie), this library has many books on typography. Free, 9-12 and 1-5, Monday to Friday, except Wednesdays and during the school holidays. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bibliothèque virtuelle de livres de typographie
[Jacques André]

Jacques André (IRISA-INRIA, Rennes, France) has compiled a great bibliography of type. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bibliotheqie Nationale de France

The national library of France. Has nice Samples of lettrines, including Alphabet de Paulini (1570), Alphabet des diableries, in Nouvelle collection de lettres de différents genres à l'usage de MM. les peintres et graveurs, A. Caulo (1856), Les Cris de Paris no1 (Paris, Maison Basset, vers 1845), Alphabet comique de Daumier (1836), Alphabet, Kate Greenaway (London, 1885), Alphabet diabolique (1837), Les polichinelles utiles ou l'origine des lettres (1826). Sandrine Maillet accepts donations and specimen of typographic work. They specialize in rare books and historical typographical pieces, but present day work is also being collected right now. Address: Réserve des livres rares, Quai François Mauriac, 75706 Paris Cedex 13. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bibliotheque Forney

Located at 1, rue du Figuier, 75004 Paris, this quaint old library is rumored to have unpublished Deberny&Peignot typefaces in its archives. [Google] [More]  ⦿

BiViTy: Bibliothèque virtuelle de typographie
[Jacques André]

Jacques André's site that lists all digitally available type specimen books. [Google] [More]  ⦿

biz-yod
[Jil Daniel]

Type designer at the open source type foundry Velvetyne in Paris. Jil's creations there include Bizmeud (2014, a hipster typeface co-designed with Quentin Bodin). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Black Foundry
[Jérémie Hornus]

Type foundry in Paris, est. 2016 by Jérémie Hornus, who is the design lead. Type designers associated with Black Foundry include Alisa Nowak and Ilya Naumoff. They initially bought the font collection of FontYou. Typefaces not included in the original FontYou collection:

• Angus (2018). A multiplexed rounded sans typeface family by Elliott Amblard that includes a variable font.
• In 2018, Elliott Amblard and Jérémie Hornus co-designed the information design humanist sans typeface family Drive. It is accompanied by the more typewriter-styles families Drive Mono and Drive Prop, and published by Black Foundry. The fiorms in Drive Mono and Prop are great, but all fonts in Drive are too widely spaced (as are several other fonts in the Black Foundry collection).
• Clother (Jeremie Hornus, Julie Soudanne, Ilya Naumoff, 2017). This geometric sans workhorse covers also Cyrillic, Hebrew and Arabic.
• Vesterbro (Jeremie Hornus, Alisa Nowak, Ilya Naumoff, 2017). High-contrast Latin / Cyrillic typeface with a Viking feel that won an award at Granshan 2017.
• Jeremie Hornus, Gregori Vincens, Yoann Minet, and Roxane Gataud (and possibly Riccardo Olocco) designed the free Google web font Atma for Latin (in comic book style) and Bengali. Github link.
• In 2016, Google Fonts published the free Latin / Bengali signage font Galada (2015). It is based on Pablo Impallari's Lobster (for Latin). The Bengali was developed as a studio collaboration by Jeremie Hornus, Yoann Minet, and Juan Bruce at Black Foundry.
• In 2016, Franck Jalleau designed the monospace sans typeface family Aubusson. Initially designed as a custom typeface by Franck Jalleau for the Cité internationale de la tapisserie d'Aubusson, the monowidth proportions are linked to pattern and tiles arrangements used in tapestry. The retail version of Aubusson offers four weights with matching italics. It was published by Black Foundry.
• Drive (2016). A corporate sans serif family.
• Dragon (2016). A clean sans typeface.
• Galien (2019). By the Black Foundry team, a mix with didone elements in the roman and garalde features in the italic. There is also a variable font with a weight axis.
• A custom sans font family for DS Automobiles (2019).
• Finder is a multiscript typeface developed in 2020 at Black Foundry by Jérémie Hornus, Gaëtan Baehr, Changchun Ye and Zhang Miao. This neutral sans is intended for interface design, and covers Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hangul, Hebrew, Japanese, Latin, Simplified Chinese, Thai and Traditional Chinese.
• Screen Sans (2020). A 14-style sans by Jérémie Hornus and Ilya Naumoff published by Indian Type Foundry.
• Alpine Script: a variable font with four axes including boldness, humanity, and irregularity, made for the identity of the French (Renault) Alpine sports cars.
• Maif (2020). A sans family for the corporate identity of the Mutuelle d'Assurance Automobile des Instituteurs de France.
• In 2017, Jérémie Hornus, Théo Guillard, Morgane Pambrun, Alisa Nowak and Joachim Vu co-designed Bespoke Sans, Bespoke Serif and Bespoke Slab at Fontstore / Fontshare. In 2020, Bespoke Stencil was added.
• Egitto (2020). A huge Egyptian (slab serif) family together with a handy variable font. By Jérémie Hornus and Solenn Bordeau.
• Rowton (2021) is a humanist sans in black, regular and hairline weights, named after Arthur Eric Rowton Gill. It is accompanied by two stencil styles.
• NouvelR (2021). A corporate geometric sans typeface for Renault covering Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic and Korean. Characterized by a totally square lower case r. All terminal angles are 28 degrees, to align with the angle in Renault's logo.
• Enedis (2022). A commissioned sans.

Black Owl

Nancy, France-based designer of the display typeface Bipolaire (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Blackmoon Foundry (was: La Letteria, or: Anatole Type Foundry)
[Elena Albertoni]

Elena Albertoni (Blackmoon Foundry, and before that, La Letteria, and before that, Anatole Type Foundry, est. 2005) is an Italian type designer (b. 1979, Bergamo) who studied at ESAD Amiens and the Ecole Estienne in Paris, before taking a position as type designer at FontFabrik in Berlin, where she still lives. She cofounded Anatole Type Foundry with Pascal Duez. La Letteria is located in Berlin. In 2011, Elena cofounded LetterinBerlin, a studio dedicated to handmade and digital design, with a special focus on lettering and type-design.

At the Rencontres de Lure 2005, she spoke about OpenType and Latin characters.

Her typefaces:

• The connected script typeface Dolce (2005), which won an award at the TDC2 2005 type competition.
• Dyna (2009). A connected feminine script. Review of Dolce & Dyna.
• Kigara.
• Scritta (connected calligraphic script). Followed by Scritta Nuova (2011): a rhythmic upright connected script, which evokes retro calligraphic styles taught in Italian schools around the 1950s.
• Helene (squarish face).
• Valora.
• Schneider.
• Gregoria. A Gregorian chant font that won an award at TDC2 2007.
• Deja Rip and Deja Web (2010). An eight-style sans family of great utility, co-designed with Fred Bordfeld; Cyrillic included.
• Acuta (2010). An all-purpose type family.
• Nouvelle Vague (2011). A connected display script along the lines of Mistral.
• Spinnaker (2011). A sans design based on French and UK lettering found on posters for travel by ship.
• The plump and curvy script typeface Molle (2012, Google Web Fonts).
• Kiez (2016, The Blackmoon Foundry).
• Vidal (2018). A wide sans with low contrast and medium-to-tall ascenders.
• Coast (2018). An almost monoline sans inspired by enamel signs from the 1920s.

Alternate URL. MyFonts link. Behance link. Klingspor link. Google Plus link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Blanche de Lasa

French graphic designer who has a BA from La Cambre in Brussels, and an MA from the Royal College of Art, London, 2012. Her MA project involved the development of seven handwriting typefaces (called Blanche) to be used in email. This was done together with Stina Gromark. She also created an experimental typeface called Typemotif (2012).

Unrelated to type design, Blanche is responsible for a fun verbalized text utility called Ohhhhhhhhh. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Blaze Type Foundry (was: Adèle Type Foundry)
[Matthieu Salvaggio]

Lyon, France-based designer founded first Adèle Type Foundry and in 2018 renamed it Blaze Type Foundry. Creator of these typefaces:

• In 2021, Tim Vanhille, Léon Hugues and Matthieu Salvaggio co-designed the blackletter font Emeritus at Blaze Type.
• Area (2020). Area is a variable typeface family of 88 grotesque fonts. Interestingly, all styles have an inktrapped version.
• Inferi (2019). Inspired by garaldes.
• Oroban (2018). A high-contrast text typeface in six styles, Oroban Masuria & Italic, Oroban Hermonthica & Italic and Oroban Elegans & Italic. The name is unrelated to Hungary's despot, Orban.
• AT Apoc (2017-2018), short for AT Apocalypse. A text typeface that exhibits angst in the face of a bellicose American crackpot. In 2020, varialble and Cyrillic options were added.
• AT Surt (2017). A 54-style Scandinavian sans typeface family, expanded in 2018. In Normal, Expanded and Extended widths.
• Scriptures Memoriam (2017). A didone.
• Scriptures Keops (2017). A didone with angular modifications inspired by blackletter type.
• Arges (2017). A very condensed American headline sans, updated in 2019.
• Osmose (2017). A "neoclassical grotesk". He writes that all of his licenses have been sold. Huh?
• AT Global (2017). A sans.
• Vuit Grotesk (2016). Not part of the Adele collection.
• S1 (2013). A sans typeface designed during his studies at L'École européenne supérieure d'art de Bretagne (2012-2014). Not part of the Adele collection.
• AT Inexpugnable. A free font that was promised for 2017.
• AT Goliath. A free font that was promised for 2017.

Behance link. I Love Typography link. Cargocollective link. Type Network link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Blondina Elms Pastel

Blondina lived and worked in Martinique, France for eight years. She graduated in 1999 from Insitut régional d'art visuel de la Martinique (IRAVM). Blondina founded Atelier Elms in Cave Hill, Barbados, in 2002. Her clients can be found in the United States, the British Virgin Islands, Martinique, Dominica and Barbados. She returned to settle in Barbados in November 2003. Graduate of the University of Reading in 2011. Her graduation typeface there was Naej (2011), a typeface family for recreational children's storybooks. Lively and bouncy, it blends script and sans into a refreshing breakfast. She calls the family calligraphic and neohumanist. Blondina finally published Naej in 2012 at a German foundry, URW.

In 2013, she graduated from the Plantin Institute's type design program under Frank E. Blokland. Her graduation typeface there was the children's storybook font Calina. At Plantin, she also attempted a Jacques Francois rosart revival.

She writes that for Google Fonts, she developed Dinah (for Latin and Devanagari), but there is no record of that at Google Fonts.

Custom fonts by Blondina include Barefoot (for bare Greetings greeting cards)

Presently, she is a PhD student at the Aix-Marseille University, and is based in Aix-en-Provence. Since 2015, she organizes Typote, mobile workshops for training in calligraphy, lettering, typeface design and graphic design. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bluefonts.com (was: theblueratsfontsarchives, or les rats bleus)
[Benoit Desprez]

The Blue Rats Fonts Archives is a French font archive, maintained and nicely presented by Lyon-based cartoonist Benoit Desprez. Many free fonts, and a few commercial fonts sold by [T-26] such as BlueBrush, BlueCentury, BlueGlobal (2001) and BlueType. Some really nice irregular or graffiti fonts in the bluefonts collection: BlueAkkrobat, BlueApplet, BlueArsenal, BlueBond, BlueBurnt, BlueCake, BlueCalcium, BlueCarnage, BlueExpeditt, BlueLacke, BlueLittleHorn, BlueNorma, BluePax, BluePugg, BlueSkin (my favorite Treefrog-like font), BlueStorm, BlueStuff, BlueTone, BlueJussi, BlueTrash, BlueVelvet, BlueCake Full, BlueFaxSimili, BlueFlag, BlueNylon, BlueSandBlast, BlueSmolt, BlueSpent, BlueVibes. Commercial: BlueBrush, BlueCentury, BlueType, BlueKayack, BlueCookie, BlueKompakt, BlueVertue, BlueCopy, TestFrogRemix, BlueFish Sans (2005, Comic Sans competition?), BluePlanet, BluePadd, BlueScript, BlueMecca, BlueAlpha, BlueGribouille, Camille, BlueLustic, BlueLiner, BlueBeard, BlueLimace, BlueDingbats Heads. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

BMD Design

Bordeaux-based studio which specializes in hand-made lettering.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bob Nickas
[System B]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bocan Andrei

Designer at Clear Studio in Bordeaux, France. In 2009, he made the straight line experimental typeface KNKTR. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bonjour Monde
[Lucas Descroix]

Lucas Descroix is graphic and type designer based in France. After researching at the National Institute for Typographic Research in Nancy, France, and graphic design degrees at Ecole Estienne (2012) and at HEAR (Haute Ecole des Arts du Rhin) in Strasbourg (2015, Masters), he started designing typefaces, books, posters and visual identities. His typefaces:

• The monospaced Nostra (2016, Future Fonts and Type Tomorrow).
• The angular and blackletter typeface family Forje (2016).
• Hernani (2015).
• The ultra-condensed hip-hop sans family Grandmaster (2018, The Designers Foundry).
• The 16-style sans family Odisea (2018).
• The wide sans typeface families Syne (2018) and Syne Mono (2018). The free Syne family was originally designed in 2017 for the Art Center Synesthésie, based in Saint-Denis. Syne became a Google font in 2020. Syne was imagined by Bonjour Monde and designed by Lucas Descroix with help from Arman Mohtadji. The Mono style was distorted using Bonjour Monde's DataFace, written by Arman Mohtadji. There is also Syne Tactile. Gitlab link.

  Fragen (2019). A 16-style hybrid that combines a slab serif with ball terminals and spirited italics (The Designers Foundry).

• Faidherbe (2019). At Future Fonts. Faidherbe was initially based on Ile-de-France by Crous-Vidal for Fonderie Typographique Française (1956-1961).
• Paraiso (2021). Paraiso is a condensed display typeface with a constructed feel, influenced by 19th and early-20th century wood typefaces.
• Custom typefaces by Lucas include the unicase font family ACL Ebène (2018) done for the carpentry shop Atelier Champs Libres, and the display typeface Villa (2018: for the visual identity of Villa Gillet).

Future Fonts link. Gitlab link. Type Tomorrow link. Fontsquirrel link where one can find some free fonts such as Syne. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bonsoir Bonsoir Studio

Studio in Toulouse, France. Designer of the hipster typeface Psaume (2020), and the monolinear sans typeface Lactarium (2020), about which he/she writes: Lactarium est copieuse, plantureuse, opulente, nourrissante, généreuse, réconfortante, abondante et rassasiante. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bonzer Herrbrecht

French designer of the free spurred sans typeface Bonzer-SanFrancisco (2014), the free blackletter typeface Bonzer Dresden (2014), and the free multilined typeface Bonzer Herzogenaurach (2014). In 2015, he made Bonzer Bruxelles. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Borho Studio
[Luc Borho]

Lyon, France-based designer of the reverse stress display sans typeface Fadoli (2017). In 2018, he co-founded Pizza Typefaces with Adrien Midzic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Boris Gautier

Parisian graphic designer who created several unnamed modular display typefaces in 2013. In 2012, he designed the sans caps typeface Type 41. In 2013, he created Bofur, which was inspired by A.M. Cassandre's Bifur. Le Parfait Pictograms (2013) has restaurant dingbats. [Google] [More]  ⦿