Jean François Porchez (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃swa pɔʁʃɛz]) (born in 1964) is a French type designer.[1] He founded the French type foundry Typofonderie in 1994. He was president of ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale), 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 Crocieres, France Télécom, Peugeot, RATP (Public Transport in Paris). For the Linotype Library Platinum collection, he did Sabon Next, a revival of Sabon, itself Jan Tschichold's revival of Garamond.[2][3]
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,[4] a book (in French & English) that, at the time, showed a large selection of 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.
He founded the community blog and website Le Typographe,[5] dedicated to French speaking typography and typeface design.
References
edit- ^ "Font 007". Issuu. FontShop. 10 October 2008. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
- ^ Burke, Christopher; Porchez, Jean François (2009). Sabon Next specimen. Linotype GmbH. pp. 18–21.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - ^ Ronneberger, Volke (2002). "Die Sabon von Jan Tschichold" (PDF). Publishing Praxis. Retrieved 13 December 2015.
- ^ Lettres Françaises
- ^ typographe.com
External links
edit- Typofonderie
- ZeCraft: Bespoke fonts by Jean François Porchez
- Blog: Chez Porchez
- Typofonderie on Facebook
- Typofonderie on Twitter
- Designing typefaces: For more reference to this biography
- The Blank sheet project for Arjowiggins on YouTube
- Work Inspiration with Jean François Porchez - Interview on Workspiration.org
- (in French) Interview détaillée
- (in French) Caractère Le Monde Archived 2008-08-27 at the Wayback Machine
- (in French) Site de son entreprise
- (in French) Entretien avec Jean-François Porchez
- (in French) Entretien vidéo de Jean-François Porchez par le Who's Who in France
