Jean francois porchez biography of christopher

Too often career-spanning monographs of typeface designers are published only after their death, or at least when they have reached a respectable age.

Not so much for Jean François Porchez, without a doubt the most prominent French type designer of his generation.

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

Following monographs on Roger Excoffon, François Boltana, and Jean Alessandrini, Atelier Perrousseaux [Editeur] published Jean François Porchez – L’excellence typographique / The haute couture of typeface design, the first bilingual volume in their series Histoire de l’écriture typographique (History of typographic writing).