You’ll love this new typeface. When Stéphane Elbaz has submited to us his Geneo in 2008, we were immediately charmed by the subtle mix of styles. Presented in ExtraLight only at the time, the potential was already latent.
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Geneo, a new design by Stéphane Elbaz
Le Monde Sans is a sanserif based on Le Monde Journal — a practice that become commonplace from early nineties. Designed originally in 1994 for the Le Monde newspapers (they switched to standard fonts in 2005), it was expended over the years to the large family we know today. As many others members of the extensive Le Monde family, Le Monde Sans was revamped for the relaunch of Typofonderie website
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Le Monde Sans Pro and its new g
Le Monde Sans is a sanserif based on Le Monde Journal — a practice that become commonplace from early nineties. Designed originally in 1994 for the Le Monde newspapers (they switched to standard fonts in 2005), it was expended over the years to the large family we know today. As many others members of the extensive Le Monde family, Le Monde Sans was revamped for the relaunch of Typofonderie website.
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Le Monde Sans Pro and its new g
We wanted to meet The Shelf Journal team, a brand new publication dealing with the book. The moment a magazine is created is always an important event, specially when this one is French and is broadcasting abroad.
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Meet The Shelf Journal
On Sunday 15 April 2012, Jean François Porchez is invited by the ECV design school for a lecture at the Lille Art Fair.
La Belle Juliette is a new hotel located in Paris’s Latin quarter.
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In use: La Belle Juliette
Presentation of Student Projects in the Post Diploma “Typography & Language” The entrance to the ESAD in Amiens I am currently doing an internship at Typofonderie, you may have already seen the article I wrote: Escape to the KABK describing the open doors of this school. Well, once again, I took a short break in February 2012 to discover a type design course. I went to the ESAD in Amiens, the city of beets, brick walls and cold.
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Visit of the ESAD in Amiens
a part of the mythology of French typography The confident and keen gaze of Roger Excoffon spoke volumes; his place in French typographic and graphic design history spans generations, some rejecting his work, while others, often more recent, venerating his vision and the visual force of his work. In my beginnings, as a student at the end of the 1980s, Mistral, Banco and Choc were lumped among the tacky fonts that should only have been used for parodying the shop window of a provincial butcher, baker or hair salon
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Roger Excoffon,
After a week in Seattle, Jean François was invited in Los Angeles. The welcome was fantastic
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Lectures + workshop in Los Angeles
Angie was the first typeface created by Jean François Porchez, started during his design school years in 1989. At the time the design was created by hands on tracing paper. Few months later, the one weight font was submitted to the Morisawa Awards and won the Brattinga prize in 1990
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Angie Sans goes Pro
