Jean-François Porchez

Jean François Porchez (born in 1964) was president of ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale), the leading organisation of type designers from 2004 to 2007. In 1994, he released the new typeface for Le Monde, the newspaper. He has designed custom typefaces for customers such as Beyoncé Knowles, Costa Crocieres, France Télécom, Peugeot, RATP (Public Transport in Paris), and distributes his retail typefaces internationally via his typofonderie.com website. For the Linotype Library Platinum collection, he did Sabon Next, a revival of Sabon, itself Jan Tschichold's revival of Garamond.

Porchez has been a visiting lecturer at the MA typeface design MATD program at the Reading University (United Kingdom) and regularly conducts type design workshops all over the world. He also contributes regularly to conferences and international publications. He published Lettres Françaises, a book (in French & English) that shows all contemporary French, digital typefaces. In late 2001 he was the President of a jury set up by the Ministère de l’Éducation Nationale to select the new handwriting model and system for France and was a jury member of the 3rd Linotype Type Design Contest.

Porchez has received many awards. He received 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 Creative Review Type Awards (2006).

Typefaces

Typefaces designed by Jean François Porchez include:

External links

* [http://www.typofonderie.com/ Porchez Typofonderie]
* [http://www.porchez.com/ Chez Porchez]
* [http://www.new.facebook.com/pages/Porchez-Typofonderie/9755756508/ Facebook Page]