Time to choose between Mislab and Ardoise typefaces
Why making a choice? Because they indeed may not work so well when employed together. Due to their style, Mislab as Ardoise are particularly suited to a masculine universe, tech environments, serious and rigorous. When it comes to talking about economics, sport cars, technology toys, they will bring your layouts a beautiful vibration. The Mislab and Ardoise are the most complete typeface families available on Typofonderie library… And now available in STD versions.
Year book of type, a typographic compendium
Year Book Of Type is a book collecting the best of digital typographic production in the past 2 or 3 years: Typefaces of both students and well-known designers are shown evenly. Each font its double page, one page with some informations about the author and other existing glyphs, and the other page with a specimen created by the designer himself.
Jean François Porchez inaugurated knock knock sessions at Futurebrand Paris
To push the creative team of Futurebrand Paris, the design agency just launched the Knock Knock session. The first speaker was Jean François Porchez, who came to talk about the role of typography in branding and communication. The Futurebrand team was enthusiastic following the two hours spent together.
2014’s Best calendar for designers and typographic aficionados!
The curator of the Letterform Archive, Rob Saunders collecting typography and letterforms of all kinds for 35 years. He created the Archive to share his passion and build community around the collection. His last idea is to publish a calendar for designers and typographic aficionados! It will be your calendar for 2014, but Rob Saunders need your help now.
Introducing try-out fonts
The online samples, pdfs and printed specimens, online testing help to confirm if a typeface can be appropriate to a new project. But you want to be sure the quality is there. It’s only when your fonts are installed that you can really confirm if the expected quality is there. It’s why we have introduced what we call Try-out fonts. Enjoy!
In use: Done not done meet Parisine Plus
Among the many applications and TodoList web services, Done not Done is a rather atypical case since it allows the user to focus not on what he “should”, but rather on what he “wants” to do. Here, your desires are classified into three categories: watching, reading, listening. We are far from a stressful TodoList, the “Done not done” look and feel is fun and it is noticeable immediately.
Anisette Petite goes Pro
The 1996 version of Anisette, built around the idea of two widths capitals can be described as a geometric sanserif typeface, influenced by the 30s and the Art Deco movement. Its design relies on multiple sources, from Banjo through Cassandre posters, but especially lettering of Paul Iribe. So, when Jean François Porchez has decided, five years later, to create lowercases, the story became more complicated. His stylistic references couldn’t be restricted anymore to the French Art-déco period but to the shop signs present into our cities throughout the twentieth century. In 2013, Anisette Pro Petite marks a rebirth.
In use: The unexpected choice of Ambroise for Wired
Claudia de Almeida is an art director who, for years, has designed admirable typographic assemblages where rhythm, typeface mixture, lines, outlines and images create a great atmosphere onto the pages. Her layouts for various US based publications once again prove that a layout can be optimistic, high contrasted, vivid, thanks to the typography and to her savoir-faire. Since 2013, she is the director of design for Wired and, of course, her first task has been to redesign the magazine, adding his unique typographic touch. Its new typographic palette include Ambroise…
Independence and creativity of Xavier Dupré
Xavier Dupré is a world-renowned type designer. After studying calligraphy and typography at the Scriptorium de Toulouse, France, he collaborated with Ladislas Mandel. Since then, he has established himself in Cambodia where he designs typefaces with as much freedom as possible. He appreciates Licko’s creativity, as much as the fluidity and calligraphic tensions in Slimbach’s works, and the simplicity of the design of Carter or Unger. Xavier began type design on screen but then moved back to pencil drawings on tracing paper and even painting with gouache. This allowed him to sharpen his eye. He published Mislab with Typofonderie in 2013. Dàvid Ranc interviewed him for Typofonderie’s Gazette.
In use: The Reflex Group wise choice of AW Conqueror for their Seat Maybelline ads
In recent years, bespoke typefaces help companies to express their identity through all the communication materials. Many designers and art directors are confident that these unique fonts reinforce the company’s branding. Seat, like many automakers, has its own bespoke typeface and all design agencies, advertising companies must to use it without limit. But there always are special cases where the good and beautiful corporate typeface does not work perfectly.