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Jean François Porchez

French type designer · France · Born 1964 · age 61

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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.

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Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
Prix Charles-Peignot

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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.

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France
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Born 1964 · age 61

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