Nuits Sonores music festival
- 2 styles (Regular, Display)
For the visual identity of the Nuits Sonores indie electronic music festival, Superscript² design studio designed a monospaced typeface that I developed.
My role in the project: design assistance, character set extension, OpenType programming.
Pour l’identité visuelle du festival de musique éléctronique les Nuits Sonores, le studio de design Superscript² a créé un caractère monochasse que j’ai développé. Mon rôle dans le projet: assistance au dessin, extension du jeu de caractères, programmation OpenType.
Graphic design © Superscript²
Gemeli
A clean and versatile Sans designed to give a contemporary output to today’s messages.
- 12 styles (Mono Regular, Ultralight, Light, Book, Regular+Italic, Demi, Bold+Italic, Black+Italic, Black Condensed)
Gemeli is precise and strong, and conveys ideas in a clean, sharp way. Gemeli shares the same structures as Cogito, but its vertical stroke endings allow for a firmer voice. Initially Gemeli was a outsider prototype proposition which almost got discarded during the developping process of what would later become Cogito. Frutiger, Gill Sans and Antique Olive typefaces are clear references in this family.
Le Gemeli est un caractère précis et fort, convenant à des messages clairs. Il partage une structure commune avec le Cogito dont il est le faux-jumeau: il reprend une des pistes structurelles écartée en phase de recherche et la développe en un système complet et compatible avec le Cogito (graisses, proportions, hauteur d’x, etc.) en y ajoutant une version Monochasse et des italiques. Frutiger, Gill Sans et Antique Olive sont des références appuyées pour cette famille.
Cogito Atelier Malte Martin
As architecturally geometric as DIN can be, as latinized as drawing can be.
Cogito is a compatible typeface family commissioned by Atelier Malte Martin both for its in-house projects and for its studio work.
The commission is quite unusual since design studios are more used to request an exclusive design for them or for their client. Here, the goal is to serve as a workhorse for all kind of work.
The initial purpose of the commission was to replace DIN, extensively used by the atelier, yet it revealed itself to be a latinized sans living at the border of geometry. Cogito has round but stiff shapes and a large x-height, making it suitable for body and display copy.
Cogito has a fraternal twin: Gemeli.
Le Cogito répond à un brief atypique: créer un caractère d’identité pour une agence, qui sera utilisé aussi bien pour l’identité de cette dernière que pour ses clients. Là où usuellement une agence commandite un caractère exclusif pour elle ou pour un client, le Cogito sert, de projet en projet, à affirmer une direction visuelle sur le long terme.
Initialement destiné à remplacer le DIN, le Cogito en est une version assouplie qui est restée rationnelle dans sa construction.
Le Cogito a un faux-jumeau: Gemeli
Nathan Enfantine
- 2011
- 3 styles (Light, Regular, Bold)
With Enfantine, the written letters are now drawn too. Enfantine was commissionned by Nathan publishing house for their children’s book collections. The curvy, friendly alphabets inspired by French cursive scripts embeds countless ligatures and alternates to properly handle the flaws of such typeset scripts. A modern set of uppercases gives the extra contemporary touch.
Carrefour Origin
- 2011
- 1 style
- OpenType-TTF
Pushing the design to the borders of legibility, Origin answers the problem of fitting information in extremely narrow spaces.
Origin is a reglementary typeface commissioned by the retail distribution group Carrefour. By law, it is compulsory in France to set groceries’ geographical origin in the same point size as the price. Origin adresses this need in allowing the “specials” to be still typeset in a “special” point size. Instead of using an artificially compressed typeface, Origin makes drawn shapes tighter than ever.
Synthese
Started in 2007, Synthese entered the production phase in October 2010. The Synthese project blends different influences into a single typeface families and major Sans-Serifs of the XXth century are hereby revisited.
6 weights (Light, Regular, Bold + Obliques)
6 rounded weights
Available for retail sale. → Order here
© Gilles Poplin & Jean-Baptiste Levée
Original design & art direction Gilles Poplin
Design, development & programming Jean-Baptiste Levée
Specimen design © Gilles Poplin
Progress
- 2010
- 1 style
- OpenType-CFF
For the visual identity of the In Progress exhibition, Superscript² design studio designed a monospaced typeface that I developed.
My role in the project: design assistance, character set extension, OpenType programming.
Pour l’identité visuelle de l’exposition In Progress, le studio de design Superscript² a créé un caractère monochasse que j’ai développé. Mon rôle dans le projet: assistance au dessin, extension du jeu de caractères, programmation OpenType.
Expert
- 2009
- 1 style
- OpenType-CFF
I designed Expert for a professional & technical magazine about fruits & vegetable. It is aimed at setting titles and strengthen the magazine’s identity (which uses FF Scala). It is a curious mixed-case typeface!
J’ai créé Expert pour un magazine technique professionnel pour les fruits & légumes. Il est destiné à être utilisé en titrage et à renforcer l’identité du magazine. C’est un drôle de caractère à casses mélangées!
Criterium (Forma Léger revival)
- Client: Zone Opaque
- 2009
- 1 style (Léger)
- OpenType-CFF
Criterium is a digital revival of Forma Léger, an existing metal typeface by the italian type foundry Nebiolo. This foundry is closed now.
It has been designed to help association Zone Opaque, which uses the typeface as a metal font, to quickly set mock-up proofs and calibrate text. The digital font is compatible with its metal counterpart and helps gain time. That’s also why it has no kerning!
Vuitton Persona
Started in 2007, the Vuitton Persona typeface is personalization alphabet designed by Jean François Porchez his client Louis Vuitton.
From the concept and base letterforms designed by Jean François Porchez, I developped the rest of the weight under his direction, did the kerning (very particular, each letter being made of 2 glyphs), designed internal tools for the OpenType programming and the managements of shadows, hinted in TrueType the font, tested and generated the whole.
Démarré en 2007, le Vuitton Persona est un alphabet de personnalisation créé par Jean François Porchez pour le compte de son client, Louis Vuitton.
D’après le concept et les lettres de base créées par Jean François Porchez, j’ai décliné le reste d’une graisse sous la direction de ce dernier, développé le kerning (très particulier, chaque signe étant composé de deux glyphes), conçu des outils internes pour la programmation des fonctions OpenType et la gestion des ombres, hinté en TrueType la fonte, testé et généré le tout.
