Granville

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Granville In Use

New mens’ edition of leading fashion magazine Grazia debuted with a florilege of Production Type’s finest. Art director Adrien Pelletier combined Trianon for elegant titles and pull quotes, Granville for opening pages and subtle details, and the full collection of Gemeli for complex combinations (Gemeli, the foundry's most accessible sans serif; Gemeli Micro, with prominent inktraps; and Gemeli Mono, the fixed-width sibling). The main text is set in a more classical American Garamond.
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Grazia Hommes French edition
Perfect Days is the latest film by Wim Wenders. Based on a script written by Wenders together with Takuma Takasaki, the Japanese-German co-production combines four short stories and stars Kōji Yakusho in the role of a janitor. Match Factory, who handles the world sales, describes the film as follows: Hirayama seems utterly content with his simple life as a cleaner of toilets in Tokyo. Outside of his very structured everyday routine he enjoys his passion for music and for books. And he loves trees and takes photos of them. A series of unexpected encounters gradually reveal more of his past. A deeply moving and poetic reflection on finding beauty in the everyday world around us. The film premiered on 25 May at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, where it competed for the Palme d’Or and won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and the Best Actor Award for Kōji Yakusho. It was selected as the Japanese entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards. Perfect Days will hit theaters in Germany and Japan later this month. Shown here is the typography for the trailer by US distributor NEON. It uses a single typeface, the bold weight of Granville, exclusively in capitals. Designed by Jean-Baptiste Levée and available from Production Type, this modulated sans is a reinterpretation of the thick-thin style that was a mainstay of signs and posters, as well as advertising text during the mid 20th century. It is built with a rational construction like the early French Moderns, yet without a tie to any specific period or model. In the various text cards, Granville’s letterforms can be seen in interplay with the images: street lanterns were isolated so that they appear in front of the type. The praise from Next Best Picture follows the camera panning as if the text was affixed to the trees. Hirayama and Niko (played by Arisa Nakano) ride their bikes between two lines of text. A van crosses the scene, momentarily obscuring the blurb’s sender. Such spatial illusions with a back and forth between foreground and background are common in static designs (see the “flat depth” tag here on Fonts In Use), but feel still quite fresh in moving images.
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Perfect Days trailer

Information

Design

Jean-Baptiste Levée

Release Date

2015-01-13

Team

Mathieu Réguer

Version

1.002

Awards & distinctions

Typefacts Best of 2015

Typographica’s notable 2015

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About this font

The modulated sans serif — that is, a sans with visible contrast between thick and thin strokes — was once a mainstay of signs and posters, as well as advertising text during the mid 20th century. These faces lost their appeal with the rise of Modernism and were rarely seen over the last 40 years, but Jean‑Baptiste Levée rediscovered their charisma for his latest release. Granville is a reinterpretation of the thick-thin style, built with a rational construction like the early French Moderns, yet without a tie to any specific period or model. This concept brings to mind the classic charmer Peignot, but Granville’s character isn’t derived from eccentric letterforms, but subtle details instead, making it a much more adaptable design. The family range was planned for versatility as well. Unlike most typefaces in this genre, Granville is sufficiently sturdy for text setting, despite its elegant contrast. A Granville Display variant, with the relatively delicate hairlines and narrow stature of a titling face, is available.

In its italic Granville radiates a muted calligraphic tone yielded from the flexibility of the pointed pen. Strokes gently turn and swell. Small tails curl upward. This italic has a distinct personality of its own, but never departs too far from its roman counterpart. The 6-font family has all the debonair refinement of an old modulated sans, without its antiquated baggage.

Granville CJK support is powered by FZYaShiHeiS (Founder Type), TP Sky StdN (Type Project).

Formats

Static (OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2)

Language support

Acheron, Achinese, Acholi, Afar, Afrikaans, Alekano, Aleut, Amahuaca, Amarakaeri, Amis, Anaang, Andaandi, Dongolawi, Anuta, Ao Naga, Aragonese, Arbëreshë Albanian, Arvanitika Albanian, Asháninka, Ashéninka Perené, Asu (Tanzania), Atayal, Balinese, Bari, Basque, Batak Dairi, Batak Karo, Batak Mandailing, Batak Simalungun, Batak Toba, Bemba (Zambia), Bena (Tanzania), Bikol, Bislama, Borana-Arsi-Guji Oromo, Bosnian, Breton, Buginese, Candoshi-Shapra, Caquinte, Cashibo-Cacataibo, Catalan, Cebuano, Central Aymara, Central Kurdish, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chiga, Chiltepec Chinantec, Chokwe, Chuukese, Cimbrian, Cofán, Congo Swahili, Cook Islands Māori, Cornish, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dehu, Dutch, Eastern Arrernte, Eastern Oromo, Embu, English, Ese Ejja, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Galician, Ganda, Ga’anda, German, Gheg Albanian, Gilbertese, Gooniyandi, Gourmanchéma, Guadeloupean Creole French, Gusii, Haitian, Hani, Hiligaynon, Ho-Chunk, Hopi, Huastec, Hungarian, Icelandic, Iloko, Inari Sami, Indonesian, Irish, Istro Romanian, Italian, Ixcatlán Mazatec, Jamaican Creole English, Japanese, Javanese, Jola-Fonyi, K'iche', Kabuverdianu, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Kamba (Kenya), Kaonde, Karelian, Kashubian, Kekchí, Kenzi, Mattokki, Khasi, Kikuyu, Kimbundu, Kinyarwanda, Kituba (DRC), Kongo, Konzo, Kuanyama, Kven Finnish, Kölsch, Ladin, Ladino, Latgalian, Ligurian, Lithuanian, Lombard, Low German, Lower Sorbian, Luba-Lulua, Lule Sami, Luo (Kenya and Tanzania), Luxembourgish, Macedo-Romanian, Makhuwa, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Makwe, Malagasy, Malaysian, Maltese, Mandinka, Manx, Maore Comorian, Maori, Mapudungun, Matsés, Mauritian Creole, Meriam Mir, Meru, Minangkabau, Mirandese, Mohawk, Montenegrin, Munsee, Murrinh-Patha, Mwani, Mískito, Naga Pidgin, Ndonga, Neapolitan, Ngazidja Comorian, Niuean, Nobiin, Nomatsiguenga, North Ndebele, Northern Kurdish, Northern Qiandong Miao, Northern Sami, Northern Uzbek, Norwegian, Nyanja, Nyankole, Occitan, Orma, Oroqen, Palauan, Paluan, Pampanga, Papiamento, Pedi, Picard, Pichis Ashéninka, Piemontese, Pijin, Pintupi-Luritja, Pohnpeian, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Quechua, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Samoan, Sango, Sangu (Tanzania), Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Seri, Seselwa Creole French, Shambala, Shawnee, Shipibo-Conibo, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, Soninke, South Ndebele, Southern Aymara, Southern Qiandong Miao, Southern Sami, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Sranan Tongo, Standard Estonian, Standard Latvian, Standard Malay, Sundanese, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Swiss German, Tagalog, Tahitian, Taita, Tedim Chin, Tetum, Tetun Dili, Tiv, Tok Pisin, Tokelau, Tonga (Tonga Islands), Tosk Albanian, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Uab Meto, Ume Sami, Upper Guinea Crioulo, Upper Sorbian, Venetian, Veps, Võro, Walloon, Walser, Wangaaybuwan-Ngiyambaa, Waray (Philippines), Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, West Central Oromo, Western Abnaki, Western Frisian, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xhosa, Yanesha', Yao, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Yucateco, Zulu, Záparo

About the designers

Jean-Baptiste Levée is a type designer with a strong focus on corporate and bespoke typefaces.
Jean-Baptiste Levée
CEO, founder
Jean-Baptiste Levée (1981) has designed over a hundred typefaces for industry, moving pictures, fashion and media. He is the founder of the independent foundry Production Type.
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Glyphs

OpenType Features

Production Type ships OpenType fonts with built-in features such as ligatures, alternates, or pictograms. Here are some of the most important features. To view a comprehensive list of features, please refer to the PDF specimen.

Capital Spacing

UPPERCASE

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Case-Sensitive Forms

[CASE-SENSITIVE] !¡?¿-–—()[]{}‹›«»·

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<>+−×÷=±

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Stylistic Set 6

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