Apolline STD
About this font
Apolline received a Morisawa Award in 1993 (Japan). The objective was mainly to obtain a horizontal emphasis. The asymmetry of serifs reinforce the writing rhythm. The original drawings are very small. They began on tracing paper & were then digitized at larger sizes. ’Roughness’ makes the face more lively. This typeface quite economical because of its large x height (compared to Adobe Garamond for example) and provides strong color to the printed page. More about Apolline STD...
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- Total size: 149K
- Regular
- Size: 25K
- The five boxing wizards jump quickly.
- Italic
- Size: 23K
- Brawny gods just flocked up to quiz and vex him.
- Semi Bold
- Size: 27K
- Waltz, bad nymph, for quick jigs vex!
- Semi Bold Italic
- Size: 25K
- Vamp fox held quartz duck just by wing.
- Bold
- Size: 24K
- The five boxing wizards jump quickly.
- Bold Italic
- Size: 25K
- Brawny gods just flocked up to quiz and vex him.
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Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean.
A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth.
Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts — it is an almost unorthographic life. One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar.
The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli, but the Little Blind Text didn’t listen. She packed her seven versalia, put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way.
When she reached the first hills of the Italic Mountains, she had a last view back on the skyline of her hometown Bookmarksgrove, the headline of Alphabet Village and the subline of her own road, the Line Lane. Pityful a rethoric question ran over her cheek, then she continued her way.
Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean.
A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia. It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth.
Even the all-powerful Pointing has no control about the blind texts — it is an almost unorthographic life. One day however a small line of blind text by the name of Lorem Ipsum decided to leave for the far World of Grammar.
The Big Oxmox advised her not to do so, because there were thousands of bad Commas, wild Question Marks and devious Semikoli, but the Little Blind Text didn’t listen. She packed her seven versalia, put her initial into the belt and made herself on the way.
When she reached the first hills of the Italic Mountains, she had a last view back on the skyline of her hometown Bookmarksgrove, the headline of Alphabet Village and the subline of her own road, the Line Lane. Pityful a rethoric question ran over her cheek, then she continued her way.
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About this foundry
Porchez Typofonderie, based in Clamart, France, is the creative home of Jean François Porchez. Since 1994, he has designed custom typefaces for clients including Le Monde newspapers. He is hononary President of the Association Typographique Internationale, has taught type design in schools and workshops all over the world, and founded the french community Le Typographe in 2003. He was awarded the Prix Charles Peignot in 1998 and numerous other prizes for his typefaces.