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
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.