font_designer: Matthieu Cortat

Stuart Pro

Stuart Pro font

Punchcutters (when types had to be cut, and not just drawn), were working with steel, a strong metal they had to sculpt. They were subject to physical contingencies: each type cast was engraved separately...

Stuart Standard

Stuart Standard font

Punchcutters (when types had to be cut, and not just drawn), were working with steel, a strong metal they had to sculpt. They were subject to physical contingencies: each type cast was engraved separatly...

Glovis

Glovis font

Glovis is a ‘typewriter’ font — meaning monospaced (all characters use the same width) — and is also italic. But the italic style was originally created to take less space than roman: its letters...

Stockmar

Stockmar font

Long-time work of a revival of a baroque font of 1720, after Johann Rudolf Genath II, Stockmar was primarily designed with three italics (more or less geometrical, cursive, dynamic). This work and details can...

Ecstrat

Ecstrat font

Ecstrat is not a ‘serious’ typeface, but a contemporary version of ornamented ‘flowered’ letters of the eighteenth century, like those of Pierre-Simon Fournier le Jeune and Jacques-François Rosart. Only in capitals: its use is...

Brett

Brett font

Brett is a rounded bitmapped typeface, with strange serifs. With its elegant — even quite useless — small caps and its ‘old style’ ligatures (like ‘ct’ or ‘st’), it found itself half-way between ‘techno’...

Ebnor

Ebnor font

Ebnor is a digital version of the ‘Écriture Bâton Normalisée’ (Standardized Sans Serif) presented by M. Brun in a self published booklet of 1959. The shape of letters respect the standard E-04-105 edited by...

Svafa

Svafa font

Svafa is a free revival of a lettering designed by Eugène Grasset in 1893, on a poster for Richard Wagner’s opera ‘The Valkyrie’. Brisk an rough, but full of youthfullness, it is a surprisingly...