Bienvenue
Bienvenue is an exclusive corporate typeface designed in 2000 by Jean François Porchez for France Telecom, the leading French telephone & internet company.
Costa
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.
Henderson
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
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.
Mencken
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
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
Retiro, created by Jean François Porchez in 2007–09, 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
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.
Typofonderie
Founded in 1994, 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.
Specialized fonts
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. Custom Type website propose several examples of bespoke typefaces with various applications of the corporate fonts in real context.
Jean François Porchez
After training as a graphic designer Jean François Porchez (born 1964) worked as a type director. By 1994, he had created the new typeface for Le Monde newspapers. Founder of Typofonderie, his expertise enables him to propose beskope typefaces as well as distributing his fonts via his typofonderie.com website. He is hononary President of the Association Typographique Internationale, taught type design in various schools and conduct regularly type design workshops all over the world. He also contributes regularly to conferences and international publications. He founded the french community Le Typographe in 2003. He was awarded the Prix Charles Peignot in 1998 and numerous prizes for his typefaces.
Awards — Interviews — Exhibits
Lettering and logotypes
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.
Nameplate Maclean’s, for the magazine of the same name. Client: Rogers Publishing limited, 2010.
Nameplate Pèlerin, for the magazine of the same name. Client: Bayard Presse S. A., 2010. Read more.
Logotype Iow, A design agency based in Paris. Client: Iow Paris, 2010.
Nameplate Chatelaine, for the magazine of the same name. Client: Rogers Publishing limited, 2010.
Lettering Candida, a Migros toothpaste brand. Client: CB’a Design solutions –- Parangon, 2009.
Lettering Cristie, Cristie Kerr. An American professional golfer who plays on the LPGA. The project include small size versions (not presented here). Client: Dune Road Group, 2010.
Custom fonts
Specialized fonts
Custom fonts client list
Implementations of bespoke typefaces
—Corporate identity fonts
—Signages fonts
—Publications, newspapers, magazines typefaces
—Lettering and Logotypes
Custom versions of our collection and from any others typefaces
Custom font licences and cost
Technology
—Font hinting
Recent custom type projects
Additional weights designed in 2009. Client: The Boston Consulting Group.
Retiro titling font for Madriz magazine, 2009. Client: Madriz magazine.
Vuitton Persona for Mon Monogram, 2008. Additional designs on the way in 2010. Client: Louis Vuitton Malletier.
Bespoke typefaces
Alpha Poste
Angie
Anisette
Ardoise PTF
AW Conqueror
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
Contact me
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 call directly.
Typofonderie address
88 rue de Chatillon (map)
92140 Clamart, France
Phone 33 (0) 146 542 692
Fax
Ape 222g, Siren 398593798,
Siret 39859379800034,
Urssaf 920191241634001003,
Tva FR 35 398 593 798
