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Production Type is a digital type design agency. Its activities span from the exclusive online distribution of its retail type for design professionals, to the creation of custom typefaces for the industrial, luxury, and media sectors.

Contact

France

73 boulevard de Sébastopol 75002 Paris +33 7 68 72 24 00 info@productiontype.com

China

703, No.1366 Wuzhong Rd, Minhang District, 201103 Shanghai +86 189 1839 5004 shanghai@productiontype.com

Foundry team

Jean-Baptiste Levée

CEO, founder

Jean-Baptiste Levée (1981) has designed over a hundred typefaces for industry, moving pictures, fashion and media. He is the founder of the independent foundry Production Type.
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Marion Sendral

Foundry Manager

Trained a type designer and a font developer at Production Type, Marion Sendral has switched from managing curves to managing operations.
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Arthur Schwarz

Communication Lead

Arthur Schwarz is a Swiss type designer and the communications specialist at Production Type.
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Charly Derouault

Type designer & Font engineer

Charly Derouault is a type and graphic designer who combines technical precision and creativity in his typographic creations.
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Léa Bruneau

Type Designer

Léa Bruneau is a passionate type designer, trained at École Estienne and KABK Type&Media. Her love for calligraphy drove her to explore intricate script capitals, multi-style type superfamilies, and unconventional writing systems.
As a type designer at Production Type, Léa Bruneau crafts captivating typefaces that resonate with clients and users.
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Marte Verhaegen

Font engineer

With a strong background in font development and technical expertise, Marte ensures that Production Type’s fonts meet the highest standards of quality.
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Anna Bessone

Art director

Anna Bessone is our art director. She is responsible for creating visual designs and materials that communicate Production Type’s concepts.
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Louna Castano

Licensing specialist

Louna Castano manages the legal agreements and contracts between Production Type and licensees. She works closely with cross-functional team members to help clients and partners achieve optimal licensing solutions.
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Vincent Page

Sales support specialist

Vincent Page assists customers in selecting and purchasing fonts, addressing inquiries about font features, compatibility, licensing, and pricing. He also handles orders, provides technical support, and ensures a satisfactory customer experience.
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Chen Tao

Associate creative director

Passionate about Sino-French culture, Tao lived and worked in France for 8 years before running the Shanghai-Chi office. There, he applies his experience in integrating Western branding practices into the Chinese market environment, thus helping customers enhance their brand and corporate value.
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Xia Shijun

Senior type director

Xia Shijun has been passionate about typography for years. He has designed a multitude of typefaces and edited and published several type-related books.
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Chen Linan

International Affairs Specialist

Holding an MFA in Graphic Design from UMass Dartmouth, Linan continues to refine his aesthetics and skills in typography and branding design. He believes that designers need to be constantly and continuously building their visual database to create the best designs.
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Xu Pengfei

Design director

Eric has 10 years of experience in visual identity design. He is committed to bringing to his audience the best visual experience through every visual identity design project.
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Zou Tingting

With extensive industry experience, Tingting works to increase brand value from all aspects: market research, strategic planning, visual identity design, and marketing campaign. She is also specialized in the research of color trending.
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Production Type Galaxy

Emmanuel Besse

Designer

Emmanuel Besse is an art director and a type designer with a focus to open-ended and inclusive approach to communication.
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Chi-Long Trieu

Designer

Chi-Long Trieu is a Swiss type designer, graphic designer, and educator based in Lausanne, Switzerland. He holds a bachelor’s degree in visual communication from ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne (ÉCAL), where he also teaches.
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Franck Jalleau

Designer

Franck Jalleau is a type designer, calligrapher, and stonecutter. A former student of the Scriptorium de Toulouse, and ANCT (Atelier National de Création Typographique), he is a type designer at the French Imprimerie nationale, where he develops a program of exclusive typefaces since 1990. He teaches at École Estienne in Paris.
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Hélène Marian

Designer

Hélène Marian is a type designer, a signpainter, and a graphic designer. Her work is based on the use of letters, which she lays out, vectorizes or paints by hand.
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Studio Feed

Designer

Studio Feed, an independent graphic-design studio based in Montreal, Canada, was founded in 1999 by Anouk Pennel and Raphael Daudelin. Over the years, the studio has garnered numerous awards from both Canada and the international design community, some of which have been featured in conferences and exhibits.
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Bureau Brut

Designer

Bureau Brut is a graphic design studio specializing in visual identity, editorial design and typography.
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Alaric Garnier

Designer

Alaric Garnier superimposes the practices of a typeface designer, a letter painter, a graphic designer, and a publisher. His views on letter shapes have produced a small collection of explorative typefaces.
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Yoann Minet

Designer

Yoann Minet is an École Estienne alumni where he grew an attire in both cultural aspects of type design and folklore. His works span from the most traditional aspects of text typefaces to utterly contemporary designs. He is the co-founder of the design studio Bureau Brut.
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Hrvoje Živčić

Designer

Hrvoje Živčić is a graphic and type designer based in Zagreb, Croatia. Graduated from KABK Type & Media, his interests include vernacular type, typographic systems and book design, while his graphic design work revolves around the local arts and culture scene.
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Max Esnée

Designer

Max Esnée is a type designer and web developer who is passionate about the blend of creativity and technical skills.
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Cassandre

Designer

Cassandre was a major figure in French graphic design, known for his energetic approach to typography and his experiments on legibility in his work. Born with two innate tendencies, a need for formal perfection and a burning thirst for lyrical expression, he found it difficult to reconcile the two.
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Hugues Gentile

Designer

Hugues Gentile is a type designer and font developer. He is an instructor at the EsadType Amiens postgraduate program.
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Michel Wlassikoff

Author

Michel Wlassikoff is a French author, consultant, and expert in visual communication, graphic design, and typography. He has researched, documented, and written extensively on these subjects, publishing books and articles in both French and English.
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Superscript²

Designer

Superscript² is a Lyon-based graphic design studio, founded in 2006 by Pierre Delmas & Patrick Lallemand.
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Loïc Sander

Designer

Loïc Sander is a typeface designer, currently serving as a lead program manager at Apple's Fonts and Typography Division.
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Simon Renaud

Designer

Simon Renaud is a type designer and graphic designer based in Paris. He is known for his diverse range of work across various media of design expression, including publishing, typography, and digital media.
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Eirini Vlachou

Designer

Eirini Vlachou is a type designer and typographic consultant. A University of Reading graduate, Vlachou has collaborated with international type foundries and corporations, from designing typefaces to serving as a consultant on Greek typography.
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Sébastien Morlighem

Author

Sébastien Morlighem is a French teacher and researcher in typography and graphic design. He has also been active in various artistic fields: painter, graphic designer, illustrator, typographer, writer, publisher and creator of a record label.
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Mathieu Réguer

Font engineer

Mathieu Réguer is a typeface designer and font engineer, with a keen focus on the underpinnings of font development. Réguer's practice includes writing custom font development scripts and plugins. He teaches typeface design at École Estienne in Paris.
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Reymund Schröder

Designer

Reymund Schröder graduated from his typedesign studies with a focus on experimental print-making. Reymund collaborates with artists on letterform-related projects, and has worked as an independent type designer for a wide range of clients – for print publishing production as well as for custom fonts. He is a founding member of the type foundry Forgotten-Shapes.
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Announcements

Mark your calendars: Soirée Signes @ école Penninghen, Dec 18th, 6pm-9pm.
The Paris team will be in Shanghai, Dec 9th-14th. Get in touch to arrange a meeting! :)
🏋️ New font release: Mars family expansion by Alaric Garnier
Production Type listed in Creative Boom’s top 20 independent type foundries set to be popular with designers in 2025.

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Useful type with an edge.

Useful type with an edge.

Production Type provide retail as well as dedicated creative services in typeface design for brands.

Based in Paris and Shanghai, Production Type is a digital type design agency. Its activities span from the exclusive online distribution of its retail type for design professionals, to the creation of custom typefaces for the industrial, luxury, and media sectors.
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