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Bienvenue

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Bienvenue 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. is an exclusive corporate typeface designed in 2000 by Jean François Porchez for France Telecom, the leading French telephone & internet company. The new family was developed in conjunction with Landor Associates, who redesigned the corporate identity. It is intended for use in all France Télécom communication and advertising. The typeface features a family of 4 variations plus a brand names font, a semiserif titling font & a picto font. Bienvenue is a proprietary typeface for France Télécom and will as such never be made available to the general public.

 
Custom fonts

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

List of custom typefaces

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

 
 
 

Porchez Typofonderie

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

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

 

Specialized fonts

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.

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.


Logotype The Walrus. Art direction Brian Morgan, September-October 2008. Nameplate for The Walrus Magazine, 2008. A small size version was also designed.

 

Contact me

Please use the form to contact directly Jean François Porchez.

Porchez Typofonderie

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

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{designed by Jean François Porchez in 2008 using 960 grid system and textpattern}