Bienvenue is an exclusive corporate typeface designed in 2000 by Jean François Porchez for France Telecom, the leading French telephone & internet company.
The Costa PTF typeface family began life in 1999 as a corporate typeface for Costa Crociere, an Italian cruise company who still use it for many of their communication needs.
The Henderson designed by Jean François Porchez for the number two strategic consulting firm in 2006-7, contributes both to strengthening company’s presence and to enhancing the reader’s comfort through increased clarity and readability.
Lion is a exclusive corporate typeface designed for Automobiles Peugeot. The new typeface is used by Peugeot for all the brand names used on their cars.
The Mencken family was created by Jean François Porchez for The Baltimore Sun in 2005. Focus groups liked the Mencken family; tests with online reader panels showed 75 percent preferred Mencken over the previous typefaces.
Parisine has been designed by Jean François Porchez in 1996 for Ratp to solely fulfil the unique needs of signage legibility. In 1999, the family was revised and extended for use in maps and external communication.
Retiro, created by Jean François Porchez in 2006, was specially designed to gives a unique voice of the Madriz magazine. Its a bilingual city magazine, its main object is to offer to local and foreign readers ideas to go out, fashion, interior design and gossips.
Vuitton Persona is an all-capital two-color custom font designed by Jean François Porchez for Louis Vuitton Malletier in 2007-08. Vuitton Persona was created in order to rediscover historical in-house letterforms from the early 20th century.
Founded in 1994, Porchez Typofonderie is an independent digital type foundry in France, designing, manufacturing and selling high quality typefaces for adventurous digital typographers. This is the first place in the world to buy our typefaces.
Jean François Porchez (born 1964) worked as a type director at Dragon Rouge. By 1994, he had created the new typeface for Le Monde and Paris métro. Today he designs custom typefaces for the Baltimore Sun, Beyoncé Knowles, Costa Crocieres, Louis Vuitton, Renault, as well as distributing internationally his retail typefaces via his typofonderie.com website. For the Linotype Library Platinum collection, he has created a revival of the Sabon, a Jan Tschichold revival of Garamond in 2002.
He is hononary President of the Association Typographique Internationale (was ATypI President in 2004–2007). He was awarded the Prix Charles Peignot in 1998, many of his typefaces have received honorable recognition.
Porchez Typofonderie specializes in producing custom fonts, typefaces, digitizing existing analogue designs. A bespoke font family can meet specific requirements that standard market fonts and typefaces cannot. Please consult Jean François Porchez for a quotation or to simply ask for more specific information. The best is to use the form here, or to contact me by phone, email.
Letterings and logotypes comprise another part of the work done at PTF, whether that work is completely original or redrawn from designs by other people. Major clients include corporate & packaging agencies or directly.
![]()
Logotype The Walrus. Art direction Brian Morgan, September-October 2008. Nameplate for The Walrus Magazine, 2008. A small size version was also designed.
Specialized fonts
Various areas of implementations
—Corporate identity
—Signages
—Publications, newspapers, magazines
—Lettering and Logotypes
Custom versions of our collection and from any others typefaces
Licences and cost
Technology
—Hinting
Alpha Poste
Angie
Anisette
Bienvenue
Charente
Costa PTF
Deréon
Endless Story
Henderson Serif
Henderson Sans
LeMonde Journal
LeMonde Journal Ipa
LeMonde Sans
Macif
Mencken Text
Mencken Head
Lion
Parisine PTF
Parisine Office
Renault Identité
Retiro
Sabon Next
Sitaline
Verspieren
Vuitton Persona