Jean François Porchez () (born in 1964) is a
French type designer
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A typeface differs from other modes of graphic production su ...
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He founded the French
type foundry
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Typofonderie in 1994. He was president of
ATypI
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(Association Typographique Internationale), the leading organisation of type designers from 2004 to 2007. He is probably best known for releasing the new typefaces for
Le Monde
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, the French evening newspaper in 1994. He has designed custom typefaces for customers such as
Beyoncé Knowles
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,
Costa Crocieres,
France Télécom
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,
Peugeot
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,
RATP (Public Transport in Paris). For the
Linotype Library Platinum collection, he did
Sabon Next, a revival of
Sabon, itself
Jan Tschichold
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's revival of
Garamond
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.
Porchez has been a visiting lecturer at the MA typeface design
MATD program at the
Reading University
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(United Kingdom) and regularly conducts type design workshops all over the world. He also contributes regularly to conferences and international publications. He published Lettres Françaises, a book (in French & English) that, at the time, showed a large selection of contemporary French digital typefaces. In late 2001 he was the President of a jury set up by the Ministère de l’Éducation Nationale to select the new handwriting model and system for France and was a jury member of the 3rd
Linotype Type Design Contest.
He founded the community blog and website ''Le Typographe'',
typographe.com
/ref> dedicated to French speaking typography and typeface design.
References
External links
Typofonderie
ZeCraft: Bespoke fonts by Jean François Porchez
Blog: Chez Porchez
Typofonderie on Facebook
Typofonderie on Twitter
Designing typefaces: For more reference to this biography
The Blank sheet project
for Arjowiggins on YouTube
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Work Inspiration with Jean François Porchez
- Interview on Workspiration.org
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Caractère Le Monde
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Site de son entreprise
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Entretien avec Jean-François Porchez
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Entretien vidéo de Jean-François Porchez par le Who's Who in France
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French typographers and type designers
Logo designers
French graphic designers
1964 births
Living people
Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres