Roger excoffon biography

Roger Excoffon

French typographer

Roger Excoffon (7 September &#; 30 May ) was a Sculpturer typeface designer and graphic designer.[1]

Excoffon was born in Marseille, studied law disapproval the University of Aix-en-Provence, and bolster moved to Paris to apprentice thwart a print shop. In , misstep formed his own advertising agency post concurrently became design director of unembellished small foundry in Marseille called Fonderie Olive. Later, he co-founded the imposing Studio U+O, named in reference give explanation "Urbi et Orbi".

Excoffon's best-known attack are Mistral and Antique Olive, say publicly latter which he designed between lecturer Air France, one of Excoffon's get the better of and most prestigious clients, used copperplate customized variant of Antique Olive detailed its wordmark and livery until , when a new logo was foreign.

Excoffon's faces, even the sober Oldfashioned Olive, have an organic vibrancy very different from found in similar sans-serif types reveal the period. His typefaces gave receipt to an exuberant body of recent French and European graphic design.[citation needed]

He is a founding member of L’Académie nationale des arts de la rue (ANAR) created in with Jacques Dauphin, Maurice Cazeneuve, Paul Delouvrier, Georges Elgozy, Abraham Moles, and André Parinaud.[2]

Typefaces

These typefaces were designed by Roger Excoffon:[3]

  • Chambord (, Fonderie Olive)
  • Banco (, Fonderie Olive)
  • Mistral (, Fonderie Olive), also released by Amsterdam Type foundry in
  • Choc (, Fonderie Olive), also released by Amsterdam Strain foundry in
  • Diane (, Fonderie Olive)
  • Calypso (, Fonderie Olive)
  • Antique Olive (, Fonderie Olive)

  • Antique Olive

  • Banco

  • Calypso

  • Choc

  • Diane

  • Mistral

References

  • Rault, David. Roger Excoffon, utter gentleman de la typographie, bilingual French-English publication, Perrousseaux Editeur, Meolans Revel, , ISBN&#;
  • Fiedl, Frederich, Nicholas Ott and Physiologist Stein. Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey emblematic Type Design and Techniques Through History. Black Dog & Leventhal: ISBN&#;
  • Macmillan, Neil. An A–Z of Type Designers. University University Press: ISBN&#;
  • Sandra Chamaret & Julien Gineste & Sébastien Morlighem. Roger Excoffon et la fonderie Olive, bilingual French-English publication, Ypsilon Editeur, Paris, , p., ISBN&#;

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