Tag: french

1. Trilby

   Designer: David Jonathan Ross ; Foundry: Font Bureau

   A wholly useful contemporary design with offbeat charm and subtle wit. The 19th-century French Clarendon, with its unorthodox reversed stress,…

2. Garamond 3

   Designer: Jean Jannon ; Foundry: Linotype

   Opinion varies regarding the role of Claude Garamond (ca. 1480“1561) in the development of the Old Face font Garamond. What…

3. Antique Olive

   Designer: Roger Excoffon ; Foundry: Fonderie Olive

   Designer/History Roger Excoffon, 1962, for the French foundry Olive (“antique” is used as an equivalent of “sans serif” in France).…

4. Typo Upright

   Designer: Morris Fuller Benton ; Foundry: Kingsley/ATF, Inland Typefoundry

   A French Ronde by Morris Fuller Benton. Also known as Linoscript from…

5. Pauline

   Designer: Jeremy Dooley ; Foundry: Insigne

   

   Pauline is a sans serif with a strong influence from retro scripts. Pauline is a geometric face formed with slow…

6. Enzia

   Designer: Jeremy Dooley ; Foundry: Insigne

   

   Enzia is a friendly and flowing sans serif. Enzia exists somewhere between a slab serif and a semi-sans, and features…

7. Garamond Premier

   Designer: Robert Slimbach, Claude Garamond ; Foundry: Adobe Systems

   Garamond Premier Pro had its genesis in 1988, when Adobe senior type designer Robert Slimbach visited the Plantin-Moretus Museum in…

8. Zingha

   Designer: Xavier Dupré ; Foundry: Font Bureau

   

   Zingha “balances French rhythm with American style.” Traditional inscriptions inspire design of the roman capitals, but Dupré allowed himself more…

9. Brossard

   Designer: Paul J Lloyd ; Foundry: Greater Albion Typefounders

   Brossard is a slab serif face redolent of French atmosphere and the design ethos of the 1920s. Use it for…

10. Orion MD

    Designer: Michael Doret ; Foundry: Alphabet Soup Type Founders

    A font where “each word that’s set approaches becoming its own logo” is how some have described this unique typeface.…

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