projet

Zeïnaba Fonsat

Joseph Gillé’s 1767 specimen catalog

Type revival

2025-2026 (work in progress)

About

I am currently working on a revival of a typeface from Joseph Gillé’s 1767 specimen catalog. After a collaborative study of the catalog, I chose to focus on Gillé’s italics. Because the original printed source material is aged and sometimes imprecise, this project requires significant re-interpretation and careful design choices to translate the character of the metal type into a modern digital format.

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