font_foundry: Nonpareille

Battling

Battling font

Battling is a geometric sans serif inspired by the ‘Universelles’ types, distributed by the Dutreix typefoundry, in Limoges, in the 1930s. They were probably designed to challenge the ‘Europe’ (French name of Paul Renner’s...

Basetica

Basetica font

Basetica has been design for the project ‘Open Switzerland’, by Base design (www.basedesign.com), which wants to conciliate a commitment to ‘Swiss’ graphic design — with all its quality of precision and rigour — with...

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...

Chrysaora

Chrysaora font

Chrysaora is based on Art Deco engraved letters, on the Palais de la Porte dorée (Palace of the Golden Gate) in Paris. Chrysaor is the son of Poseidon and Medusa, the brother of Pegasus....

Louize

Louize font

Louize is a contemporary revival of the ‘Augustaux’ designed by Louis Perrin between 1846 and 1855, and considered as the first revival in the history of typography. Louize mixes roman square capitals with a...