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Jean François Porchez

After training as a graphic designer, during which he focused on type design, Jean François Porchez (born 1964) worked as a type director at Dragon Rouge.

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By 1994, he had created the new typeface for Le Monde newspapers. Today he designs custom typefaces for the Baltimore Sun, Beyoncé Knowles, Boston Consulting Group, Costa Crocieres, France Télécom, Peugeot, RATP (Public Transport in Paris), as well as distributing internationally his retail typefaces via his Typofonderie website. For the Linotype Library Platinum collection, he has created a revival of the Sabon, a Jan Tschichold revival of Garamond in 2002.

He is the President of the Association Typographique Internationale (ATypI).

He teaches type design at the MA typefaces design at the Reading University (United Kingdom) as visiting lecturer and conduct regularly type design workshops all over the world. He also contributes regularly to conferences and international publications. He published Lettres Fr Jean François Porchez - Identifont VANEL