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Franck Jalleau, a eulogy
Today we say goodbye to Franck Jalleau, who passed away on Sunday, April 13th, 2025.
History of the Hershey fonts
Originally created in 1967, the “Hershey Fonts” are among the earliest digital representations of type. Their creator, Dr. Allen Vincent Hershey, was not an ordinary typeface designer – he was employed as a theoretical physicist at the Naval Weapons Laboratory in Dahlgren, VA. Hershey’s usual work was mostly theoretical: he concerned himself with the analysis of submerged ships and their influence the waves flowing above, he calculated how liquids behave when they flow around objects, and analyzed ship hulls.
The Didot style: a short survey of the career of Firmin Didot
Didot is the name of a French family which was involved with printing, publishing, papermaking, punchcutting and typefounding over almost three centuries. Its most prominent members designed many typefaces between the 1780s and 1830s; yet, what is called and still known as the ‘Didot style’ was the achievement of Firmin Didot (1764–1836) and the peak of a persistent maturation process.
The specimen of La Perle, 1785
The specimen of La Perle (1785) is a publication whose small size is stunning: at a time when typefaces were not given specific measures but names, the Perle refers to what could be nowadays 4pt.
Maths vs. Machines
From cars to curves to computer graphics — the making of the de Casteljau algorithm.
“Room Service Graphic Design Festival” will host PT’s own Charly Derouault for a lecture in Lyon, FR. 24/04, 6:30. Book tickets!
New italics, new Cyrillic, new Greek: Proto Grotesk 2 is now ready!
Congratulations to Chi-Long Trieu for his selection in “100 Best Posters 2024” with his design of “Japanische Grafik heute” for Museum für Gestaltung Zürich!
Curated Playlists
See all Font PlaylistsOur team prepares especially curated playlists every month.
Museum exhibitions & identity fonts
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5 fonts handpicked by Violaine & Jérémy
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Sports & athletics
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Top-3 fonts by Sara de Bondt
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These fonts live in my mind rent free
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Typefaces
Fonts in use
- Invented Institution / Izmišljena institucija poster
This poster is a part of series, designed by Oleg Šuran for Drugo more – a non profit organisation that produces, promotes, researches and disseminates culture. The posters are treated fairly loosely as series, each one using different colors, typefaces and images. For this specific event, seminar o…
- Albertville 1992 Winter Olympics
If you watched the epic opening ceremony to the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, you might have seen the typeface featured in this post. Just before hoisting the Olympic flag upside down, you could have spotted the inscriptions on Palais de Chaillot, made from golden letters displaying A.M. Cassandre&rs…
- Maiden Voyage Festival 2024
Maiden Voyage Festival is a yearly music event held in London, UK. It was initiated in 2019 by the notorious Jazz Café from Camden and focused on jazz, hip hop, afrobeat and funk. For pandemic reasons, there was no 2020 edition and after that, the festival slowly shifted to other musical fields. In …
Identity for the second volume of the Purewal Cup football tournament. This is a neighbourhood event where a team of young people organise a two-day party every year. The “Mondiale del Kebab” comprises a 5vs5 football tournament, a beach volleyball tournament, and many other small activities. The in…
Tempel Grotesk Wide + Tempel Softland Condensed
Purewal Cup Vol.2- YoungCapital NEXT
YoungCapital NEXT is one of the latest additions to the portfolio of The Works, a holding specializing in recruitment and job brokerage based in Hoofddorp, the Netherlands. What started in the year 2000 with a Dutch online platform bringing students into student jobs, meanwhile grew into a network o…
- Rarezas at Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum
For two years in a row, Rebeka Arce Studio developed #aperitivosthyssen: a creative campaign and visual identity for the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid, a series of summer concerts held on the museum’s terraces. The 2021 edition curatorial concept is Rarezas (“Rarities”) and explores w…
Explore 80+ typefaces by Production Type, offering over 800 font styles of all types: serif, sans serif, monospace, variable…
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