Ardoise
Designed by Jean François Porchez

Collections
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Ardoise 4Weights Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic
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Ardoise Narrow 4Weights Extra Light, Regular, Bold, Heavy
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Ardoise Tight 4Weights Extra Light, Regular, Bold, Heavy
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Ardoise Compact 4Weights Extra Light, Regular, Bold, Heavy
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Ardoise Family 18 Fonts
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Ardoise Narrow Family 9 fonts
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Ardoise Tight Family 9 fonts
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Ardoise Compact Family 9 fonts
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Ardoise Full Family 45 fonts
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Ardoise Full Family Try-out 45 fonts
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Styles
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Ardoise Thin
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Ardoise Thin Italic
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Ardoise Extra Light
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Ardoise Extra Light Italic
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Ardoise Light
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Ardoise Light Italic
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Ardoise Regular
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Ardoise Italic
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Ardoise Demi
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Ardoise Demi Italic
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Ardoise Bold
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Ardoise Bold Italic
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Ardoise Extra Bold
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Ardoise Extra Bold Italic
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Ardoise Heavy
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Ardoise Heavy Italic
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Ardoise Black
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Ardoise Black Italic
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Ardoise Narrow Thin
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Ardoise Narrow Extra Light
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Ardoise Narrow Light
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Ardoise Narrow Regular
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Ardoise Narrow Demi
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Ardoise Narrow Bold
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Ardoise Narrow Extra Bold
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Ardoise Narrow Heavy
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Ardoise Narrow Black
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Ardoise Tight Thin
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Ardoise Tight Extra Light
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Ardoise Tight Light
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Ardoise Tight Regular
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Ardoise Tight Demi
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Ardoise Tight Bold
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Ardoise Tight Extra Bold
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Ardoise Tight Heavy
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Ardoise Tight Black
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Ardoise Compact Thin
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Ardoise Compact Extra Light
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Ardoise Compact Light
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Ardoise Compact Regular
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Ardoise Compact Demi
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Ardoise Compact Bold
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Ardoise Compact Extra Bold
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Ardoise Compact Heavy
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Ardoise Compact Black
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Ardoise met the needs of publications
Ardoise was born from a research started with the Charente typeface created in 1999. The later, designed for the daily La Charente Libre, met the needs of a newpapers typeface featuring a low contrast, straightforward forms, as Franklin Gothic. The typeface extension to normal widths was developed from 2006 by Jean François Porchez and materialized in 2010 for the redesign of the magazine Pèlerin. The weight completion of the family, including italics was a first stage, followed by the extension to condensed series for the public launch at Typofonderie few months later. The verticals metrics and proportions of Ardoise match perfectly Le Monde extended family.
Ardoise, inspired by the needs of today’s fine newspapers offers simple and tense shapes designed to renew and revitalize. Ardoise and its 45 series could be considered as an homage to Antique Olive, but quite indirectly and as an organic result of the designer’s longstanding admiration of the work of Roger Excoffon. Ardoise shares a purity and dynamics with Excoffon’s designs giving it a unique elegance and excellent readability. Its sturdiness means it is virtually immune it to distortion. Each font features a full glyph set covering nearly all languages which use the latin script. All typographic needs are provided for including small caps, various set of figures, dingbats & so on. In addition, a few alternates glyphs (a, c, g, l) can be used to alter the overall tone of a text setting.
PRO Open Type Features
Ligatures
Discretionary Ligatures
Small Caps
Case forms
Caps figures
Old Style Figures
Semi Oldstyle figures
Tabular Figures
Proportional Figures
Fractions
Numerators, Denominators
Ordinals/Superior Letters and figures
Contextual ligatures
Stylistic sets or Stylistic Alternates
Swashes
Historical sorts
Ornaments, Dingbats