Albert Boton’s colorful world of black and white
Presenting 50 years of type design was not an easy task. Albert Boton’s career was indeed long and very prolific. He was born in 1932 in Paris. His father was a carpenter so he grew up in the smell of glue and wood chips. Nothing predisposed him to become a type designer and yet that’s when he joined his father’s workshop that he discover type design.
Time to read
2012 has truly been a year full of work at Typofonderie. Enjoying the begining of a new year, the readings late for some months have been made with pleasure. Among them some books rise by the qualities of their contents or layouts.
Typekit added AW Conqueror and new styles of Le Monde Courrier
Since 2009, Typofonderie propose webfonts through his Typekit partner (also via WebINK). Such services are the best way to use easily fonts on the web, their interface works really easily. Each page (on Details tab) of our typeface catalog propose links to Typekit pages when available. Few days ago, Typekit added new fonts to their catalog.
Young Type Lovers: What to do?
Its interesting to see a group of students producing a video about font piracy in design schools. Conducting interviews of various people from students — who actually use illegal fonts — to typeface designers, teachers and so on. Its a good topic about something that many people doing everyday (& not only students), without speaking and saying anything about it. Based on what I have understand from this nice video, is that learning more about the value of typefaces will help a lot. A step to the right direction.
Best wishes 2013
Best wishes for this new year 2013. We wish you a year ahead full of promise and success. All our best wishes for happiness and prosperity. Thanks to all for your great support, we prepare a lot of new things for the forthcoming year!
Typofonderie special offers: 5 days, 5 typefaces, 15% off
Only 5 days left until the new year 2013. This year has been fantastic for us, a structural change, a new website, the first published not in-house designer, moving to a new place, etc. It seemed so interesting to you share our pleasure. Would not it be a good idea to offer you some special offers before the last of last, the 31 December 2012?
France looks at Le Monde
Okay, we agree that that isn’t a symbol at the level of 2007 Obama campaign set in H&FJ’s Gotham, still we are very happy to announce that the French presidency website, Élysée.fr use Le Monde Livre Classic as principal headline typeface.
Typofonderie recent move
Since we moved earlier this month, some friends asked to see how looklike our new place. Here it is in images. We are still in Clamart but closer to the train station which is about 6 minutes by train from the Gare Montparnasse. The team is very happy with the move, great space, good lighting, and a bonus room dedicated to our library, including a comfortable sofa, we all promised to use in order to fall asleep with a good book about typography in hands.
Pecha Kucha Vol. 19: Jean François Porchez
As part of the Observeur du design 13, a Pecha Kucha session is organized during which 10 designers will present a project. For ZeCraft, Jean François Porchez will present the project Parisine Girouette, Labeled Design Observer 13.
Handmade signs in Soweto
In September 2012, I was invited to Johannesburg and had a great chance to discover a beautiful country, South Africa. Indeed as typeface designer, one of the first things I look into a new place is the typography, specially signs in the streets.