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Jean François Porchez () (born in 1964) is a French

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. He founded the French

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Typofonderie in 1994. He was president of

ATypI The ATypI () or Association Typographique Internationale (the International Typography Association) is an international non-profit organisation dedicated to typography and type design. The primary activity of the association is an annual fall confe ...

(Association Typographique Internationale), the leading organisation of type designers from 2004 to 2007. He is probably best known for releasing the new typefaces for

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, the French evening newspaper in 1994. He has designed custom typefaces for customers such as

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, Costa Crocieres, France Télécom,

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, RATP (Public Transport in Paris). For the Linotype Library Platinum collection, he did Sabon Next, a revival of

Sabon Sabon is an old-style serif typeface designed by the German-born typographer and designer Jan Tschichold (1902–1974) in the period 1964–1967. It was released jointly by the Linotype, Monotype, and Stempel type foundries in 1967. The design ...

, itself

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's revival of

Garamond Garamond is a group of many serif typefaces, named for sixteenth-century Parisian engraver Claude Garamond, generally spelled as Garamont in his lifetime. Garamond-style typefaces are popular and particularly often used for book printing and bo ...

. Porchez has been a visiting lecturer at the MA typeface design MATD program at the

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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
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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

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Work Inspiration with Jean François Porchez
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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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