American friends were in Paris few weeks ago. We invited them at home & spent a wonderful evening together. Today, just on time after the lunch, we received with a great surprise a package from Pierre Hermé know well for his fabulous macarons.
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Sometimes, projects take a while. Le Monde Livre Classic was one of them. But we are finally happy to launch it tomorrow Tuesday 2nd October 2012. The PRO version will be available exclusively on Typofonderie.
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Le Parisine a été créé en 1996 pour la signalétique de la RATP. En 1999 cette famille a été agrandie et le Parisine Plus a fait son apparition. Il était temps d’expliquer le sens du mot Plus ajouté au Parisine!
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“Angles, curves, shapes: the language of architecture is the language of art.”
This quote by Zaha Hadid apply so well to typography and just prove again the connection between the two fields in a sense like architecture, typography plays two roles at the same time.
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Few weeks ago Thomas Jockin asked why in a good interaction at Dribbble.
I replied that the quality of typeface shapes will gain a lot by looking carefully to historical sources, even not their contemporary interpretation: So rather than looking (as example) at the beautiful Austin by Paul Barnes it can be better to review the sources such type specimen and books set by Richard Austin and John Bell.
The best way to find our way as typeface designer is to built our own unique history, roots, unique references, based on a melting pot of elements. Avoiding looking too deeply today typefaces is a fundamental attitude to keep a certain fresh eye and vision. References should be always indirect and built from an internal maturation.
Not later than 2 days ago, I’ve got this discussion with Typofonderie’s team and shared the fact that many of reputable typographers speak a perfect french. Then, today, I found back this old piece, wrote this small homage about John Dreyfus in 2002, founding member and second president of ATypI. Already more than ten years ago.
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Avez-vous vu la liste infinie des acteurs de la scène typographique Française?
par Frank Adebiaye
France lost one of its A, thanks to Credit rating agencies As typeface designer, A is crucial in my everyday job. Help us to find back our A.
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Quelques références à propos de l’usage des caractères typographiques, les licences de fontes numériques (et/ou polices de caractères).
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