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🎂 2014-2024: 10 years of Production Type!
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New: 164 additional in-progress fonts now available in the beta program.
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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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Culture
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The Lumitype saga: France’s early attempts at phototypesetting
The Lumitype was the first phototypesetting system, introduced by Deberny & Peignot in the late 1950s. The technology was revolutionary in terms of impact on printing, by leveraging advanced technologies from automatic telephony, ultra-fast photography, and electronics to surpass traditional metal typesetting in quality and productivity. The catalog notably omits Charles Peignot’s role in the outbreak, reflecting the foundry’s shift away from his influence, about 15 years before the company’s closure.
Deberny et Peignot’s “Ancien”, “Ondine”, “Typophane” ,“Cristal”, ca 1955
The short-lived Typophane system had kickstarted a few original typefaces.
Hermann Zapf’s Manuale Typographicum
A typographic masterpiece comprising one hundred plates featuring typographic interpretations of quotes from renowned writers and typographers in sixteen languages. This work highlights Stempel’s typefaces and promotes a reconciliation between traditional and modern typography, culminating symbolically with a biblical text in Hebrew characters.
Collection Hollenstein, “L’Or”, André Chante
Maximilien Vox, DĂ©fense et illustration de la lettre, Paris, Monotype, 1955
An illustrated brochure that aimed to embody Vox’s classification of typefaces, discussed at the Rencontres de Lure since 1953. This series of double-page spreads featured original commentaries by Vox alongside drawings symbolizing typeface families, with illustrations by artists of the time.
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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 Ă— Cahu Paris
Sleek and sustainable — introducing “La Claude Signals” sleeve.
Production Type Ă— Cassandre
Cassandre’s Type Designs Have a New Home at Production Type.
