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150+ New fonts from Production Type
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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!
Upcoming lecture by Jean-Baptiste Levée on AI and typography at the Paris Book Festival (Festival du Livre de Paris), Grand Palais, April 12th, 2pm. More info
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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Culture
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The specimen of La Perle, 1785
The specimen of La Perle (1785) is a publication whose small size is stunning: at a time when typefaces were not given specific measures but names, the Perle refers to what could be nowadays 4pt.
Specimen de la Fonderie A. Bertrand, 1880
The French XIXth century saw a rarely seen vitality in type design, whether it be on the side of typographical standards or ornamental and decorative typefaces. One of the books that gives a faithful glimpse into this period is A. Bertrand foundry’s catalog, and it has a quite surprising approach to the naming of its fonts.
Photo Lettering's One Line Manual of Styles, 1971
Photo Lettering One Line is a useful tool to enhance creativity at the start of new projects.
Modern Encyclopedia of Typefaces 1960-90, Lawrence W. Wallis, 1990
Modern Encyclopedia of Typefaces, 1960-90, by Lawrence W. Wallis is one of the rare testimonies of the 1960s-1980s in type design.
Letterproef van Joh. Enschedé & Zonen, Deel II: Fantaisie-Letter, 1889
In 2003, type specimens were not such formal objects as we expect them to be nowadays, as we can see with these printing proofs from Enschedé.
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Vernissage: Production Type × Paris Design Week 2024
Paris Design Week 2024 is just around the corner. As with every PDW edition, this event is a significant milestone celebrating design excellence. For this year’s edition, Production Type has been invited to showcase .
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.
