About us
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.
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.
Arthur Schwarz
Communication Lead
Arthur Schwarz is a Swiss type designer and the communications specialist at Production Type.
Charly Derouault
Type designer & Font engineer
Charly Derouault is a type and graphic designer who combines technical precision and creativity in his typographic creations.
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.
As a type designer at Production Type, Léa Bruneau crafts captivating typefaces that resonate with clients and users.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bureau Brut
Designer
Bureau Brut is a graphic design studio specializing in visual identity, editorial design and typography.
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.
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.
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.
Max Esnée
Designer
Max Esnée is a type designer and web developer who is passionate about the blend of creativity and technical skills.
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.
Hugues Gentile
Designer
Hugues Gentile is a type designer and font developer. He is an instructor at the EsadType Amiens postgraduate program.
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.
Superscript²
Designer
Superscript² is a Lyon-based graphic design studio, founded in 2006 by Pierre Delmas & Patrick Lallemand.
Loïc Sander
Designer
Loïc Sander is a typeface designer, currently serving as a lead program manager at Apple's Fonts and Typography Division.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Announcements
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.
🏆 Léa Bruneau has been recognized as a winner in the 2024 Ascenders competition by the Type Directors Club.
