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
I know some of you are wondering what’s up with fonts for CS6. The font set shipping with CS6 closely resembles the set that shipped with CS5 . However, the following new families will ship with CS6.
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Useful Details About Creative Suite 6 (CS6) Fonts
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
Typography is writing with prefabricated letters, so says legendary Dutch typographer Gerrit Noordzij. But what about stencil lettering? The shapes are pre-existent, yet each letter needs to be drawn by hand.
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Between Writing and Type – The Stencil Letter
On Sunday 15 April 2012, Jean François Porchez is invited by the ECV design school for a lecture at the Lille Art Fair.
Marloes van Dijk, from Studio Daad, created a book for a group of architects from their city of Hertogenbosch. They already used Parisine Plus for another project last year, and they love the typeface! The new theme was “Reset the City.” It’s about old buildings/fabrics that became useless
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
Morag Myerscough @ TYPO London. Photo © Gerhard Kassner The 2012 Shapeshifters lectures focus on how graphic designers visualise/transform information so that it becomes almost intuitively comprehensible. Six lecturers reflect from their own vision and know-how on interactive design, editorial/news design, data visualisation, exhibition design, cartography and wayfinding systems
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Shapeshifters 2012 focuses on Designing Information
At the ATypI conference 2011 in Reykjavík, I gave a talk entitled ‘Pitfalls of Pi fonts’. This presentation was the culmination of a project that involved the creation of keyboard layouts for all of our dingbat fonts. The ultimate purpose of this project was the desire to replace obsolete T1 fonts with more current OTFs, which was necessary for various reasons, the most important of which being that T1 fonts lack proper Unicode information
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On Keyboard Layouts
As part of the typeface design workshop program organised up by Karen Cheng, Jean François Porchez was invited to gives three lectures during his stay in Seattle in February 2012. The first was about Sabon Next and Henderson projects, and was hosted by Geoffrey Turnovsky course about the impact of the printing press in 16th-18th-century Europe at Washington University. Another about logotypes and bespoke fonts, organised jointly by French-American chambers of commerce and Alliance Française.
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Lectures in Seattle
