Initial release.

This is Fungal, a fork of Deja Vu Sans, as it was used in the zine published by Hato Press in August 2022. This fork applies a fungus on most of the base glyphs used in the Latin alphabet plus a few punctuation. The same (component-based) method could easily be used to extend this effect to the rest of the Deja Vu character set.

Are you ready for da Lithops?

First public version of the Sligoil typeface. Only the regular weight is available right now.

After discovering Ange Degheest’s archives at the Rennes School of Fine Arts, we decided to put together an exhibition that attempted to finally give the designer the full recognition she deserves. In this exhibition, visitors learnt about Degheest’s life story and professional achievements, and discovered many original archival documents that had never previously been presented to the public. In addition to this historical research, we revived some of Ange Degheest’s most remarkable typefaces and lettering work, which are now available in digital format under an Open Source license on Velvetyne Type Foundry’s website.

Basteleur is in the place!

Amdal released by Walid Bouchouchi for Yennayer 2972

Initial version of Façade as released on the Velvetyne website. It was started in 2020 during the 4th year Visual Graphic Design course of ÉSAD Orléans, then expanded during 2021 for the release on Velvetyne.

Basteleur is in the place!

Outward V1.0 Outward is a display font family coming in three cuts: Block (regular), Round (italic) and Borders (bold). Outward Block was initially designed in capitals only with the intent of getting rid of white spaces to reach a black type color, as opposed to the ideal grey sought after by typographers. The extended set of characters and families was developped following this root.

First version as uploaded to Velvetyne.

First release of Mess as it was designed for the Typographic Sabotage installation.

This is the long waited version 1.0 of Cantique by Sébastien Hayez with some decisive contributions from Ariel Martín Pérez. Cantique is the fruit of years of work and has had different faces which we will show in a dedicated blog post soon.

First version of Karrik, as designed for the Ghost issue of Cercle Magazine. The family has 2 styles, a roman and an italic.

First version as released on Velvetyne. Contains capitals, lowercase, some diacritics, ligatures and special non-binary characters.

This first version of Typefesse is made of 3 styles with a minimal character set. Future releases will expand the character set ( with emojis? symbols?) and explore other styles.

Kaeru Kaeru v0.1 as published for the HfG Karslruhe Rundgang 2019.

This first version of Minipax is made of 4 weights with a pretty large character set. Future releases will explore italics and monospace styles.

This is the first version as it as been delivered to Cercle Magazine for the issue dedicated on Volcanos.

TINY 5x3 first version comes as a variable font with a size axis to modify dot size from 0—300, as well as 15 separate instances (each increasing the dot size by 20 units). Future releases will include more widths (up to at least 5x13) and variable axes.

After years of development, this is the first version of Avara to be released on Velvetyne, with never seen before Black and Bold Italic styles added to the already famous Bold.

The initial release of VG5000 on Velvetyne.

This is the original version of the font that was published on Velvetyne.

First release of the family with a common effort on each style. Later update might not be on the whole family.

This is the version of the font that has be commissioned by and delivered to Agence Murmure for them to use for their identity and website. It has been created between the summer and fall of the year of 2017.

Created for the Hyper Chapelle exhibition in Metz.

Latest functional version published on Velvetyne.

First version uploaded to Velvetyne.

First version.

First version as uploaded to Velvetyne.

The 2017 updated version of this iconic font.

The first version of Solide Mirage as it was created for Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains eponymous music album.

First version

This is the first version of Sporting Grotesque, drawn by Lucas Le Bihan during his last years of studies. It comprises only one weight for now.

First version as uploaded to Velvetyne.

First version as posted on Velvetyne.

Combat comes from an early XXth century anarchist newspaper published in Limoges, France, called "Le combat social". Only the 10 letters of the title were created for printing. 100 years later, the font exists on its own.

First version as posted on Velvetyne and published in Étapes.

First version as uploaded to Velvetyne.

First version uploaded to Velvetyne.

Again another "experimental" monolinear sans. Enjoy or not.

First iteration of Bluu. No italic.

First version as uploaded to Velvetyne.

Experimental sans with fake inline style.

First version as uploaded to Velvetyne.

First version as uploaded to Velvetyne.

Experimental sans with fake inline style.

Original version of Boeticher designed by Charles Pailler. An ornamented, sailor-like friendly type.

First version as posted on Velvetyne, BackOut is a kind of African Glyphic typeface. Its name refers to Bob Marley's eponym song.

First version as published on Velvetyne.

First version as uploaded to Velvetyne.

A monolinear narrow titling typeface, with vertical ligatures

First version as uploaded to Velvetyne.

Terminal Grotesque is a font that I started in December 2010 while working for a game project, on a pixel font called Modulicon. The characters of Modulicon are not alpha-numeric but a series of icons designed to be displayed in small sizes. After some time spent completing this font, working with pixels made me want to start another drawing that could be used for titles within higher sizes. This side project, was given the temporary name of Junkette and then became Terminal Grotesque: a pixel font inspired by Paul Renner's Futura and some features of Radim Peško's grotesque drawings.

The first versions of Terminal Grotesque were designed using the online app Fontstruct. Later, the project migrated to the open source software Fontforge.

Type design inspired by the Basque country capital, Bilbao. A sharp sans-serif based on the basque vernacular writing and from the industrial past of the city.

A modular titling fantasy

First version as uploaded to Velvetyne.

Chaumont is a titling fantasy paying tribute to Chaumont poster festival.

Lineal is originally inspired by the song "2870" by Gérard Manset. It ends up with a Futura built with modules, without any optical corrections.

First version as uploaded to Velvetyne.

First version as uploaded to Velvetyne.

Format 1452 is a Din-like typeface built with modules, without any optical corrections.

Grotesk is a plain titling sans serif remaining simple enough to be usable in many contexts.