# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jean-francois-porchez
# Generated: 2026-08-16T05:22:58.486Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jean-francois-porchez"
name: "Jean François Porchez"
slug: "jean-francois-porchez"
description: "Jean François Porchez is a French type designer. He founded the French type foundry Typofonderie in 1994. He was president of ATypI, the leading organisation of type designers from 2004 to 2007. He is probably best known for releasing the new typefaces for Le Monde, the French evening newspaper in 1994. He has designed custom typefaces for customers such as Beyoncé Knowles, Costa Cruises, Orange, Peugeot and RATP. For the Linotype Library Platinum collection, he did Sabon Next, a revival of Sabon, itself Jan Tschichold's revival of Garamond."
tagline: "French type designer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Discours_de_Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Porchez_Arts_et_Lettres.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
birthDate: "1964-12-04"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.26
  momentum:             1.742424242424243
  historical:           4.60558
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/typofonderie"
    handle:    "typofonderie"
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B2"
    title: "جان فرانسوا بورشيز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Fran%C3%A7ois_Porchez"
    title: "Jean François Porchez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Fran%C3%A7ois_Porchez"
    title: "Jean François Porchez"
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  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Fran%C3%A7ois_Porchez"
    title: "Jean François Porchez"
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  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Fran%C3%A7ois_Porchez"
    title: "Jean François Porchez"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3172123"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump