Magazine
Franck Jalleau, a eulogy
Today we say goodbye to Franck Jalleau, who passed away on Sunday, April 13th, 2025.
Culture
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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.
A (very small) history of (very) small types
What is the raison d’être of ‘microscopic’ types in our time? Saving ink, paper, and time? Playing with a peculiar aesthetic vocabulary? Gemeli Micro, a new series of the Gemeli sans serif family, asks the very same questions and meets the various needs of designers for print and screen.
Maths vs. Machines
From cars to curves to computer graphics — the making of the de Casteljau algorithm.
Lombardic capitals: the first Latin monospaced script
The roman weights of Minotaur include a hidden gem, unexpected in a typeface referencing cubism and early computer fonts — Lombardic capitals.
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.
Announcements
“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!
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The world of Tuner
Debuting in the Production Type Catalog in 2018, Tuner is a versatile and expressive collection of 14 fonts that’s worth a deeper look. On first glance, it’s a clean and classic grotesque sans typeface with a modernist air and a contemporary personality, but that immediate sense of familiarity is quickly followed by a surprise sense of oddity, prompting questions like “Is that monospaced?” “What’s up with those apexes?” “How would you use that?”
The Essence of the PVC Font Family Unveiled
Connecting the Heterogeneous Dots of a Widespread Family
Notes on the release of Kessler
Kessler is the second release by Alaric Garnier at Production Type.
Pursuing the designer’s explorations in vernacular lettering, stonecarving and signpainting, Kessler is a first retail incursion into the realm of type not designed for the public space but instead for books.
Read the signal
Signal is a typeface loop that opened in 2003, that we are now able to pursue in this year 2019.
Curation
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150+ New fonts from Production Type
Exclusive new designs, now available to try and license. Only at Production Type.
Reviving the Signes Archive
Why the Signes Archive is essential: it preserves and showcases the history of French graphic design and typography, offering invaluable resources and commentaries for students, professionals, and enthusiasts.
Production Type’s 10-year anniversary
Production Type celebrates its 10th anniversary this year!
Production Type × Cahu Paris
Sleek and sustainable — introducing “La Claude Signals” sleeve.
