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Curation
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In the library with Eliott Grunewald
Type designer and founder of Ornamental Title & Type Eliott Grunewald came over to spend a morning in our library. He showed us some of his favorite items and talked about his love for diverse, experimental shapes in type design.
In the library with Céline Jouandet
Amsterdam-based graphic and type designer Céline Jouandet led an excursion in our library, through her favorite typographic treasures and the books that shape her practice. Dive in as she walks us through local Dutch printing history, her spider-inspired lettering, essential reading for aspiring designers and some of the quirkiest alphabets.
In the library with Marc Armand
We invited graphic designer and art director Marc Armand into our library to pick out the type specimens, catalogues and design curiosities he loves, uses, and (only occasionally) disagrees with.
Culture
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“Dark Peignots”, the long trail of a successful design, 1937-2023
First proofings of Cassandre, 1970
The first proofs of the last typeface designed by Cassandre.
Joveneaux, La lettre dans la peinture et la publicité, ed. Charles Massin, 1950.
History of the Hershey fonts
Originally created in 1967, the “Hershey Fonts” are among the earliest digital representations of type. Their creator, Dr. Allen Vincent Hershey, was not an ordinary typeface designer – he was employed as a theoretical physicist at the Naval Weapons Laboratory in Dahlgren, VA. Hershey’s usual work was mostly theoretical: he concerned himself with the analysis of submerged ships and their influence the waves flowing above, he calculated how liquids behave when they flow around objects, and analyzed ship hulls.
Case Study
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The world of Tuner
Debuting in the Production Type Catalog in 2018, Tuner is a versatile and expressive collection of 14 fonts that’s worth a deeper look. On first glance, it’s a clean and classic grotesque sans typeface with a modernist air and a contemporary personality, but that immediate sense of familiarity is quickly followed by a surprise sense of oddity, prompting questions like “Is that monospaced?” “What’s up with those apexes?” “How would you use that?”
The Essence of the PVC Font Family Unveiled
Connecting the Heterogeneous Dots of a Widespread Family
Notes on the release of Kessler
Kessler is the second release by Alaric Garnier at Production Type.
Pursuing the designer’s explorations in vernacular lettering, stonecarving and signpainting, Kessler is a first retail incursion into the realm of type not designed for the public space but instead for books.
Read the signal
Signal is a typeface loop that opened in 2003, that we are now able to pursue in this year 2019.
Announcements
🎙️ Save the date: Hélène Marian presents the lecture “Serving Noise” on Nov 4th at 7 PM in Montreuil. Happening just after the Fonts & Faces symposium next door. Don’t miss it!
🤘 Fresh off the press: Sébastien Hayez’s Heavy Metal: Une épopée graphique explores the visual fury and vernacular branding of metal logos, featuring work by Production Type. Grab your copy!
Seoul: Jean-Baptiste Levée gives a lecture at Sandoll Saisiot 2026 on October 17th titled “On timezones, jetlag, and fonts: inside Production Type’s Paris-Shanghai model.” Swing by if you’re in town!
🪧 Jean-Baptiste Levée joins the AREP x Designfax panel to talk about post-carbon wayfinding design on Oct 13th. Reserve your spot!
