Back in June 2010, Sébastien Hayez, the founder of Designers books—a good resource about rare & out of print books reviewed by designers—published the Jean François Porchez’s short list of favorite books about typography for beginners.
Enjoy yourself (for beginners only).
Typofonderie hotnews posted on 01 09 2010.
We should recall that a paper collection is generally based on similar roots, with various “flavors,” colors. A collection of typefaces should reflect this similar mood, even the style of papers should be reflected into the fonts. Each of the members try their best to be different from the others because of their features. They should work harmoniously in contrast.
Jean François Porchez was approached at the end of 2009 by Reflex Image to create a set of typefaces to relaunch the Conqueror papers collection. An important website and various others communications material was created by the agency. The designer Seb Lester and the photographer Thomas Brown have been hired to created various visuals using Conqueror fonts.
For the first showing to the agency, we’ve created a set of fake in use pieces using the AW Conqueror fonts (at the time with a very small glyph set who explain some fake texts). The idea was to recreate a 60-70’s ambiance to clearly the set the general feeling of the typeface family.
Launched at the end of August 2010 by Arjowiggins, AW Conqueror is a family of Free fonts available at Conqueror.com website. This family include 5 variations with great potential: Small glyph sets, mostly all caps, but based on same structure, with some connection between them (width for example), to offer a great & easy titling toolbox to any designers, from skillful to beginner.
The fonts will be available at the Conqueror website for free until the 1st April 2012. The licence follow the usual commercial font licence, so you can use for any projects, but not allowed to distribute the fonts to third parties. The only difference is that you don’t have to paid for your licence. Indeed, feel free to contact us in case of specific requests about the family, such additional weights, specific needs not available on the existing set.
AW Conqueror is family created for Arjowiggins in 5 variations.
AW Conqueror pdf specimen of the AW Conqueror.
Typofonderie hotnews posted on 29 08 2010.
Photo by Tipocracia, enjoy more on his Flickr page.
Following TypeCon, you may enjoy few feedback’s tweets during the talk of jfp:
2nd day of @Typecon conference in Los Angeles: very inspiring talks, like a typeface Porchez did for Conqueror and Cholo’s graffiti.
@crystiancruz
Jean-François Porchez demonstrates how #TypeCon differs from ATypI.
@stewf
From JF. Porchez to D. Young, what a day at #typecon
@tipocracia
2nd day of @Typecon conference in Los Angeles: very inspiring talks so far, like the typeface Porchez did for Conqueror and Chaz’s graffiti.
@crystiancruz
Out soon, Porchez’s fonts for Conqueror Paper will be wildly popular — not just cuz they’ll be free — they hit nearly every pop trend.
@typographica
Presentation by Jean-François Porchez was great. I often wonder what motivates type designers to create new designs. One answer is: clients.
@nicewebtype
Enjoyed Jean François Porchez’ presentation. He has some new and interesting stuff coming out soon; available for free.
@delvew
Jean Francois Porchez is giving us a preview of his new project, Conqueror family. Brilliant.
@EricMacLeod
Client work is nourishing. It pushes you to do things you wouldn’t have thought to do or wanted to do on your own. — Jean-François Porchez
@typographica
“… it’s very different, in the same way …” — Jean François Porchez describing his flavour of Baskerville. #typecon
@splorp
The location of TypeCon 2011 has been announced… New Orleans, Louisiana.
Typofonderie hotnews posted on 26 08 2010.
New Maclean’s nameplate on the 2010 cover.
In 2009, Typofonderie was asked by Jason Logan in charge of the cover design of Canadian Business to improve their current masthead which was to be used for their upcoming redesign.
Maclean’s cover in 1964.
Maclean’s cover in 2006.
This time, Jason Logan teamed again with Jean François Porchez for Maclean’s cover. The idea was to recreate the 60’s version of Maclean’s nameplate. The job wasn’t so simple, as an autotrace of the original wasn’t the immediate solution. Maclean’s masthead was fully redesigned from scratch, to create the perfect balance between the open forms of the C+L and the quite heavier M+A+N diagonals letterforms. When the best form was achieved, several grades have been designed and tested, to create the best result on the cover when used with usual headlines. A good collaboration again.
Maclean’s 2010 masterhead designed by Jean François Porchez.
Typofonderie hotnews posted on 16 08 2010.
Rudi Meyer wrote (in french only) a piece about his longtime friend and colleague, Peter Keller (1944-2010) in the columns of the Typofonderie Gazette. On the french blog le Typographe, a biography of Peter Keller and few comments also available.
Photo Édouard Baudelet, Rencontres internationales de Lure.
Typofonderie hotnews posted on 08 08 2010.
“Type doesn’t grow on trees”… simply means someone is out there designing it. This is a collection of typeface specimens from designers around the world. Shown here are new artworks created especially for the Bangkok International Typographic Symposium 30-31 October 2010 combined with work from the 2008 major type design exhibition “Schrift in Form” at Klingspor Museum Offenbach, Germany. Typofonderie recent works is also featured.
Exhibition at Alliance Française de Bangkok, Library.
Part of Bangkok International Typographic Symposium 2010 hosted by Alliance Française de Bangkok with association of Geothe and Japan Foundation.
Presented by Cadson Demak
19 August until 31 october 2010
Typofonderie hotnews posted on 05 08 2010.
In the June 2010 issue of Publishing Praxis (German magazine), Volker Ronneberger wrote a piece about today sanserif typefaces. Allumi PTF is featured among others typefaces such Aeonis, Giorgio and Klint. Volker say about the Typofonderie typeface: The generous design of the Allumi glyphs underlie the forms of the Renaissance-Antiqua. There is slight variations in the glyphs proportions to ensure that the result do not appear too technical.
Allumi PTF is a 27 series sleek typeface family.
Buy it! from € 210 for 8 users.
Typofonderie hotnews posted on 26 07 2010.
Type makes a big splash when TypeCon2010: Babel takes over the City of the Angels. The Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) presents its annual letterfest, featuring more than 70 of the brightest names in type and design. Among many international speakers, Jean François Porchez joint TypeCon this year 2010 for the first time.
TypeCon 2010: BabelAugust 18th – 22ndLos Angeles, United States.TypeCon 2010 Registration still open.
Typofonderie hotnews posted on 24 07 2010.
Logotype for FM Fukuoka, a radio was designed by Masahiko Kimura, GK Graphics. Its one of Japanese use of Le Monde Sans PTF. The two F means the station “Always Fitting” Fukuoka (the listeners and the region).
Buy it from € 210 for 8 users for a full pack.
Typofonderie hotnews posted on 15 07 2010.
In recent months, Retiro bespoke typeface created for the Madriz magazine won several awards. The recent one was a nomination for the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany 2011.
Yves Peters in its entry about this year TDC 2 winners wrote: What I like most about Jean François’ “Castilian/Andalusian Didot”—no too shy to rewrite typographic history—is the way it balances decorum with exuberant ornamentation. This typeface is an art director’s/typographer’s dream, with a myriad of alternative choices to spice up the setting.
Retiro awards 2010:
—Designpreis 2011 Nominee Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany 2011: Custom typeface Retiro Nominee for 2011.
—Club des directeurs artistiques: 41e Palmarés Prix 2009.
—Tdc2 2010 Certificate of Type design Excellence for the custom typeface Retiro.
Typofonderie hotnews posted on 28 06 2010.
One week left for this special offer: Parisine Office Std, a complete family of four weights to set legible and simply beautiful texts.
All details about it here: Parisine Office Std: 50% off until end of June 2010
Typofonderie hotnews posted on 24 06 2010.
Cristie Kerr (part of LPGA Golf Tour) new website was designed Olivia Choi, Senior Art Director at Dune Road Group. Olivia selected Ambroise as titling typeface for its style, precision without the coldness too usual for today Didones. Ambroise is used as central point of communication.
Cristie lettering artworks designed for different sizes.
The logotype is a customized version of Ambroise with its nice st ligature: Minor adjustments have been made by Jean François Porchez on the standard version along several versions specially cut for small sizes and screen use.
In use: Weekend Musical
Another recent use: Cheeri Paris signed a very nice poster set in Ambroise and Parisine Plus PTF.
→ More Ambroise in use.
→ Special offer Ambroise 3 packs from 315 € (regular price € 420) for 2 users.
Buy it from € 140 for 2 users for a full pack.
Buy it from € 50 for 8 users for Ambroise Std Regular.
Typofonderie hotnews posted on 23 06 2010.
If you’re looking for a good and professional type library, we’ve created a special package who include all of our exclusive PTF fonts. 24 packs, 97 high quality fonts in OpenType with many features, extended glyph set. Probably perfect for a graphic studio or a design agency who need high quality fonts. You can save more 40% compared to the purchase of the 24 original separate packs. For reference, 24 separate packs should cost € 5040. The STD collection is also available.
—PTF collection: 8 pages specimen in pdf format.
Extract from the pdf specimen.
PTF Collection: Complete collection of 97 fonts / 24 ptf packs.
Buy it! from € 2835 for 8 users.
Typofonderie hotnews posted on 21 06 2010.
During the summer 2009 we’ve been asked by Real Simple to customize Parisine PTF for their own use. We’ve adjusted few things for Real Simple and created new weights. Today, we’ve integrated this idea of intermediate weights into Parisine PTF Gris: A new Regular between the original Parisine PTF Clair Bold and Parisine PTF Regular (as on the image above). Bold follow same mechanism. Finally, it’s also why this new sub-family was called Gris (Gray in English).
All details
—New weights comparison charts in pdf, or via Issuu
—Full pdf specimen
—Test it online
Parisine PTF Gris feature intermediate weights between Parisine PTF Clair and Parisine PTF. Perfect for lighter text settings. Parisine PTF family now include 16 weights.
Buy it! from € 210 for 8 users.
Based on the fact now Parisine PTF is now a large family, a new offer was launched: Parisine PTF x4. An excellent way to buy 16 series for the price of 12 series.
Buy it! from € 630 for 8 users (save € 210).
Typofonderie hotnews posted on 15 06 2010.
Interview by Étienne Hervy for Étapes, watch it on Vimeo.
Interviewed for LePoint.fr and the Who’s Who France, watch it on YouTube.
Over the past months, Étapes magazine published a video, probably know by some of you, but never announced here. This week, another video was published jointly by the Le Point and Who’s Who France. In French only, but it give an different vision of the same subject.
Jean François Porchez video interviewsBy Étienne Hervy for Étapes, watch it on Vimeo.For LePoint.fr and the Who’s Who France, watch it on YouTube.
Typofonderie hotnews posted on 11 06 2010.
In June 2010, a new design conducted by Marc Guillon for the Pèlerin magazine was launched. This redesign feature Typofonderie fonts and new nameplate designed by Jean François Porchez.
For text and some subhead, headlines, Mencken typeface family originally designed for the Baltimore Sun was used in order to improve readability of the content. Along various sizes cut of Mencken, a new sanserif specially created for this redesign appear. Called Ardoise PTF (Slate in english) because of the sharped endings and strong vitality of the shapes: 14 series in roman and italic. Roughly based on an old condensed sans design for Charente Libre, the result smell a bit of Antique Olive. The italic was designed between a slanted roman and a pure italic to perform well in editorial use. The new sanerif family, Ardoise PTF should be available later in the year at Typofonderie.
Ardoise PTF in large size use.
Ardoise PTF together with Mencken for text.
Various weights of Ardoise PTF in small size use.
Ardoise PTF sample.
The new masterhead of the Pèlerin was designed in capitals in a way to recreate an identity lost along the years. The general style, a pure geometrical sanserif with flair refer to some thirties style of lettering. R ending stroke was acclaimed during testings as adding the necessary “values” to the magazine.
Front page using new masterhead designed by Jean François Porchez for Pèlerin.
Pèlerin masterhead: Before (on top), after (on bottom.)
Typofonderie hotnews posted on 08 06 2010.
Tag der Schrift is an annual one day type conference in Switzerland. A full saturday dedicated to various lectures about typefaces and typography. Speakers include: Veronika Elsner, Richard Frick, Marco Ganz, Stefan Huber, Fritz Maurer, Gabriele Wenzel, and Jean François Porchez.
Tag der Schrift 2010
5th June 2010, registration required.
Berufsschule für Gestaltung, Medien Form Farbe.
Ausstellungsstrasse 104, 8005 Zürich, Switzerland.
Typofonderie hotnews posted on 31 05 2010.
For the first time, only available in June 2010: Parisine Office Std, a complete family of four weights to set legible and simply beautiful text just for 50% of the normal price.
Parisine Office Std was originally created by Jean François Porchez for RATP in 2005. This new variation “Std” is the basic version of the tailored Parisine Office PTF who feature a smaller xheight and perform better on text setting, editorial projects. The design of the italic lowercases is more cursive than in Parisine PTF. Two sets of figures are provided—standard, oldstyle, and lining—in tabular widths.
—All details
—Test it online
—Full pdf specimen
Buy it! from € 70 (only, until the 30 June 2010) for 2 users.
Typofonderie hotnews posted on 31 05 2010.
Following a 4 days typeface design workshop conducted by Jean François Porchez in April 2010 in Geneva, few images and samples of typefaces designed by the students have been posted on Chez Porchez | AtelierTypo blog. Enjoy.
Typofonderie hotnews posted on 27 05 2010.
On Tuesday 25 May 2010, Jean François Porchez is invited by the ECV design school for a lecture open to everyone (free entrance). This lecture is in connection to the TDC 55 exhibit in Bordeaux, France.
Lecture
Tuesday 25 May 2010, 19:00
Information on the phone: 05 56 52 90 52.
Halle des Chartrons, Place du marché des Chartrons, Bordeaux.
TDC 55 exhibit from 21 to 28 May 2010 on same place.
Monday to Saturday, 10:00—18:00
Typofonderie hotnews posted on 20 05 2010.
In 1995, a small A4 specimen about FF Angie was designed. The software used was Illustrator 6.0. The file was recently found and opened with a Illustrator CS3 (13.0) without problem. Only a small detail to correct! Note the presence of phone numbers, no email, no web at the time here (email in 1996, website and domain name in 1997). By the way, FontShop will launch an OpenType Pro version before the summer 2010.
FF AngieOriginal specimen in French of Angie at Issuu in pdf.Angie page at TypfonderieAngie page at FontShop
Typofonderie hotnews posted on 12 05 2010.
Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 May 2010, Typofonderie will be open to the public. Its time to ask your very special question you never find a way to ask before by phone or email! You will be able to see recent and on going type projects and discuss in deep about typeface design, bespoke fonts, lettering, nameplates and so on. Few specials items will be available for purchase at affordable prices. Check all details to come here.
Join us on Sunday afternoon, around 16:00 to meet everyone! And don’t miss to download the pdf.
Typofonderie88 rue de Chatillon, 92140 ClamartTelephone 01 45 54 26 92
Typofonderie hotnews posted on 10 05 2010.
Because of expensive conversion from Euro to USD, for USD based country currencies, our fonts reached around 315 USD for a Euro 210 pack for our exclusive PTF collection. Now the situation is different!
Today rates help USD customers(save 15%):
€ 210 = now $ 267 ($315 in december 2009)
€ 140 = now $ 178 ($210 in december 2009)
So, now you can buy a PTF pack for the price of a STD pack back in December 2010. Better to enjoy the best of French fonts from 1994. Example…
Buy it from € 210 / $ 267 for 8 users for a full pack.
Typofonderie hotnews posted on 08 05 2010.
Various In use added on Parisine Plus PTF page
The general catalog 2008 Uni-presse is set in Parisine Plus PTF. Created at atelier Designes by the graphic designer Biblis Duroux.
The Uni-presse corporate identity use Parisine Plus PTF. Designed in 2007 by atelier Designes.
Powerful use of Parisine Plus PTF by vijf890 for the Theater Zuidplein.
Buy it from € 210 for 8 users for a full pack.
Typofonderie hotnews posted on 03 05 2010.
Back in 2002, Eye magazine published an excellent profile about Jean François Porchez. This piece was wrote by Petra Černe Oven and now available in pdf version here. Enjoy.
This issue of Eye magazine feature Parisine PTF Clair as titling typeface.
Download the pdf of The ABCs of J-FP
by Petra Cern Oven. Eye magazine #72, 2001.
Typofonderie hotnews posted on 29 04 2010.
