Jean Francois Porchez

Current

• Founder at Le Typographe.com
• Founder, Owner at Typofonderie.com

Past

• Founder member at SND France
• President at ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale)
• Type director at Dragon Rouge

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Education

• Imprimerie Nationale
• Emsat

Recommended

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Connections

180 connections

Industry

Graphic Design

Websites

• My Company
• French Type community
• My Blog

Jean Francois Porchez’s Summary

After training as a graphic designer Jean François Porchez (born 1964) worked as a type director. By 1994, he had created the new typeface for Le Monde newspapers. Today he designs custom typefaces as well as distributing his fonts via his typofonderie.com website. He is hononary President of the Association Typographique Internationale, taught type design in various schools and conduct regularly type design workshops all over the world. He also contributes regularly to conferences and international publications. He founded the french community Le Typographe in 2003. He was awarded the Prix Charles Peignot in 1998 and numerous prizes for his typefaces.

Jean Francois Porchez’s Specialties:

Porchez Typofonderie, Typeface, Fonts, Graphic Design, Type, Alphabet, Lettering, Calligraphy, Consulting, Custom fonts

Jean Francois Porchez’s Experience

• Founder

  Le Typographe.com

  (Graphic Design industry)

  January 2003 — Present (7 years )

  French community for the promotion of typography.
  http://www.typographe.com

• Founder, Owner

  Typofonderie.com

  (Graphic Design industry)

  October 1994 — Present (15 years 3 months)

  Porchez Typofonderie is an independent digital type foundry in France, designing, manufacturing and selling high quality typefaces for adventurous digital typographers.
  
  This foundry born unofficially circa 1994, and launched his first retails typefaces in 1995 with Apolline, Angie Sans and Anisette. Followed by custom fonts project as Le Monde in 1994. The objective of the foundry was to propose the Jean Francois Porchez typefaces in a exclusive way.
  
  http://www.typofonderie.com
  
  -Custom fonts
  
  http://www.custom-type.com/fonts/
  
  –Lettering
  
  http://www.custom-type.com/lettering/
  
  -Retail fonts collection
  
  PTF OpenType fonts with extended glyph set, large OpenType support. Its exclusive to Typofonderie.com
  http://www.typofonderie.com/alphabets/technical/ptfopentype/
  
  Std OpenType fonts with basic glyph set, few OpenType features. Its what few font distributors have.
  http://www.typofonderie.com/alphabets/technical/stdopentype/
  
  
  Font & Typefaces list:
  1989-95, Angie
  1993-95, Apolline
  1994, Angie Sans
  1994, Le Monde, Le Monde Sans
  1995, Anisette
  1996, Parisine (2 series)
  1997, Le Monde Journal, Le Monde Sans, Le Monde Livre, Le Monde Courrier
  1998, Sitaline
  1999, Lion
  1999, Parisine (full family)
  1999, Costa
  1999, Parisine Plus
  1999, Le Monde Livre Classic
  2000, Charente
  2000, Bienvenue
  2001, Ambroise
  2001, Anisette Petite
  2002, Marianne
  2002, Sabon Next
  2003, Le Monde Journal Ipa
  2004, Renault Identité
  2004, Costa PTF
  2005, AlphaPoste
  2005, Dereon
  2005, Parisine Office
  2005, Mencken
  2006, Parisine Plus PTF
  2006, Parisine PTF
  2006, Graph Schneider
  2006, Retiro
  2006, Macif
  2006, Henderson Serif
  2006, Henderson Sans
  2007, EndlessStory
  2007, Verspieren
  2007, Vuitton Persona
  2007, Le Monde Journal PTF
  2008, Le Monde Livre PTF
  2008, Le Monde Courrier PTF
  2008, Le Monde Sans PTF
  2009, Parisine Office PTF
  2009, Allumi PTF

Additional Information

Jean Francois Porchez’s Websites:

• My Company
• French Type community
• My Blog

Jean Francois Porchez’s Groups:

ATypI, Snd

•    Drupal
•    Society for News Design
•    Type Directors Club
•    Linotype
•    Typophile
•    Khatt Foundation
•    Alliance française des designers – AFD – French Designers Alliance
•    TypeCon
•    ATypI
•    FontLab

Jean Francois Porchez’s Honors:

He was awarded the Prix Charles Peignot in 1998. FF Angie (1990) & Apolline (1993) were prize-winning entries in the Morisawa typeface competition. Costa received a Certificate of Excellence in Type Design at the TDC2 2000. Ambroise, Anisette, Anisette Petite, Charente, Le Monde Journal, & Le Monde Courrier were all prize-winning entries in the Bukva:raz international competition (2001). Deréon and Mencken won a Creative Review Type Awards (2006). Parisine Office won a star at the Observeur du design 07.

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