About
Porchez Typofonderie
This foundry born in Malakoff (France) unofficially circa 1994, and launched his first retails typefaces in 1995 with Apolline, Angie Sans and Anisette. Its the first sales who make the foundry official! The objective of the foundry was to propose the Jean Francois Porchez typefaces in a exclusive way without the help of retails-local distributors. It can be understood as way to control all the sales process and support. Along theses years, some interns, and few people worked internally or externally with Jean Francois Porchez. Today, its still a one man operation company.
The website under the URL porcheztypo.com was launched in middle of 1997 in same time as the launch of the big family Le Monde. In 1999, with the launch of the E-commerce with immediate downloads and secure payments, the domain name typofonderie.com started his life and remain the only domain name used today. Until December 2003, the website was never really redesigned completely. This new version of the website is a major step who let us able to manage the content online directly and more easily. It was the only way to propose OpenType families too.
Typofonderie®©™ is a trademark, une marque déposé à l’Inpi.
People
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Jean François Porchez profile
Tom Grace profile
Mathieu Réguer profile
Interns
Please contact us Interns if interested by this. Note that good skills with Béziers curves, knowledge of FontLab, a small experience in typedesign calligraphy is required.
Past interns have included Elsa Audouin, Amélie Boutry, Laurent Bourcellier, Stéphane Elbaz, Milo Levin, Marc Rouault, Clara Sfarti…
Connections
We are proud to support the Association typographique internationale.
We manage the ATypI France section, a collaborative type blog in French.
Member of the Alliance française des designers.
Facebook fan club
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