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Curation
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Culture
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“Dark Peignots”, the long trail of a successful design, 1937-2023
First proofings of Cassandre, 1970
The first proofs of the last typeface designed by Cassandre.
Joveneaux, La lettre dans la peinture et la publicité, ed. Charles Massin, 1950.
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.
Case Study
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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.
Announcements
🍎We’re going to New York! If you’re in town during the last week of May and want to grab a coffee, drop us a line. If you want to join us for a special workshop, please RSVP.
🏆Ciel is a finalist in the TDC72 Type Design Competition, and will be a part of the traveling TDC72 exhibition. Big congrats to Léa Bruneau!🪢
We moved offices! Find us at our new address: 15 rue Barbette, 75003 Paris.
From closing down the collective studio Large to opening his own foundry Formagari, type designer Emmanuel Besse talks about his journey on the French podcast Graphic Matter. Listen to the episode here.
