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Jean François Porchez (French pronunciation: ​[ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃swa pɔʁʃɛz]) (born in 1964) is a French type designer. 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.

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  • Jean François Porchez (French pronunciation: ​[ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃swa pɔʁʃɛz]) (born in 1964) is a French type designer. 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. Porchez has been a visiting lecturer at the MA typeface design 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, 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, dedicated to French speaking typography and typeface design. (en)
  • Jean François Porchez (né en 1964) est un créateur de caractères typographiques français. (fr)
  • Jean François Porchez (Parijs, 1964) is een Franse ontwerper van lettertypes. In 1994 sticht Porchez Typofonderie. Tussen 2004 en 2007 was hij voorzitter van ATypI. Hij is medestichter van ZeCraft, een ontwerpbureau van lettertypes, logotypes en typografie op maat. (nl)
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  • Jean François Porchez (né en 1964) est un créateur de caractères typographiques français. (fr)
  • Jean François Porchez (Parijs, 1964) is een Franse ontwerper van lettertypes. In 1994 sticht Porchez Typofonderie. Tussen 2004 en 2007 was hij voorzitter van ATypI. Hij is medestichter van ZeCraft, een ontwerpbureau van lettertypes, logotypes en typografie op maat. (nl)
  • Jean François Porchez (French pronunciation: ​[ʒɑ̃ frɑ̃swa pɔʁʃɛz]) (born in 1964) is a French type designer. 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. (en)
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  • Jean François Porchez (fr)
  • Jean François Porchez (en)
  • Jean François Porchez (nl)
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