Newsletter March 2008
Porchez Typofonderie Press release:
Introducing Le Monde Livre PTF
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3 fonts: Regular, Italic, Bold, from €210 for a licence covering 8 worstations.
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3 fonts: Demi, Demi Italic, Bold Italic, from €210 for a licence covering 8 worstations.
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6 fonts: Regular, Italic, Demi, Demi Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, from €315 for a licence covering 8 worstations. On this later case, you save 25% from the purchase of the two first packs.
Introducing Le Monde Livre PTF family
Sèvres, France, 4 March 2008. Porchez Typofonderie introduce a new OpenType family for retail market designed by Jean François Porchez (see bio here after). A family of 6 weights complete with all of the most common OpenType features (more than 4600 glyphs and 30 0 000 kerning pairs total). Starting at euros 210 for a licence covering 8 workstations.
Special offer for clients
Available through 31 March 2008.
To celebrate the launch of the Le Monde Livre PTF, clients benefit a special price of only euros 168 (standard price at euros 210). To access this special offer, you must login at, then jump to your account page. Please contact us for activation.
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Upgrades
All our OpenType font families have user licenses with a minimum of 8 cpus. As such, upgrades from Le Monde Livre packs purchased before 15th February 2008 consist of a free OpenType upgrade to any purchases of a licence of 8 cpus or greater. For users of the basic 2-cpu licence, the upgrade is available for euros 70 (the cost difference between 2 and 8 cpus). Contact us with your previous purchase details to take advantage of this offer.
Le Monde Livre packs in PostScript Type 1 formats are still available separately and do not qualify for the special upgrade offer when bought after the 15th February 2008. Conversely, no crossgrades to PostScript Type 1 formats are available to users of the Le Monde Livre PTF OpenType version.
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About the design of Le Monde Livre PTF
Before the arrival of photocomposition, each font size had a specific design. Le Monde Livre PTF, designed by Jean François Porchez, along with Le Monde Journal PTF, re-establishes this practice. In effect, the latter was developed specifically for use at small point sizes (below 10 points.) Le Monde Livre is better suited for everyday work (above 10 points,) from books to posters. Additionally, in comparison to the italics in Le Monde Journal, Le Monde Livre’s italics are of a totally new design, closer to the models of the Renaissance. The Le Monde Livre series is offered in three weights, in roman, italic. If you’re looking for something more typographically appealing based on the same initial style, you should take a look at the Classic version who include various ligatures (not yet OpenType).
Presented to the public in 1997, the 2008 OpenType version is the next step in the history of the Le Monde Livre. The glyph set has surpassed the usual 250 to a size of more than 700, which allows for the composition of numerous Latin-script European languages. Along with small caps available in the three weights, 4 sets of figures are provided–lining and oldstyle–in tabular and proportional widths, depending on the version. Minuscule lowercase, figures for automated fractions, are also included, and in addition a set of dingbats for everyday use in newspaper and magazine layout. The full family is composed of more than 4600 glyphs and feature around 300 000 pairs.
Welcome to this “new Le Monde Livre” and enjoy.
News
OpenType font features glossary updated
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The OpenType glossary is updated and now more visually effective.
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New pdf specimens
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For our PTF versions, the OpenType collection from Porchez Typofonderie, we’ve just put online complete type specimens in pdf format (Acrobat 7), ready to be locally printed. The pdfs are available from the typeface family pages (pdf link on the top) in the Alphabets section.
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Face to Face interview
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A great interview of Jean François Porchez by John Broadley for iLT. Read by yourself!
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Font sales
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Typofonderie.com ecommerce is secured by Atos Origin (French leader), you can buy in complete trust and download your fonts immediately. Credit card information is directly handled by the bank.
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If you would like further information, please contact:
Porchez Typofonderie
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1 rue Bernard Palissy, 92310 Sèvres, France
33 (0) 146 542 692 Telephone
33 (0) 146 540 464 Fax
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About Porchez Typofonderie
This foundry was unofficially born circa 1994, and launched their first retail typefaces in 1995 with Apolline, Angie Sans and Anisette. It was the first sale which made the foundry official! The objective of the foundry was to offer the typefaces designed by Jean François Porchez in a exclusive way without the help of retail or local distributors. It was also seen as a way to control all sales and support. Through the years, there have been interns and few other people who have worked internally or externally with Jean Francois Porchez.
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About Jean François Porchez
After training as a graphic designer, during which he focused on type design, Jean François Porchez (born 1964) worked as a type director at Dragon Rouge. By 1994, he had created the new typeface for Le Monde newspapers. Today he designs custom typefaces for the Baltimore Sun, Beyoncé Knowles, Costa Crocieres, France Télécom, Louis Vuitton, Peugeot, RATP (Public Transport in Paris), as well as distributing internationally his retail typefaces via his typofonderie.com website. For the Linotype Library Platinum collection, he has created a revival of the Sabon, a Jan Tschichold revival of Garamond in 2002.
He is hononary President of the Association Typographique Internationale (was ATypI President in 2004–2007). He taught type design at the MA typefaces design at the Reading University (United Kingdom) and at Ensad and conduct regularly type design workshops all over the world. He also contributes regularly to conferences and international publications. 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.