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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.

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.

Specimen Book of Typefaces, Stempel Haas, 1975
This typeface specimen published in 1975 by Stempel & Haas is an example of how the alliance of content and form can result into a beautiful demonstration of ergonomics.
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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.
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Europa Prima & Ciel: Double font release party
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150+ New fonts from Production Type
Exclusive new designs, now available to try and license. Only at Production Type.


