After an MA degree in typeface design at École Estienne, Hugues Gentile followed the EsadType postgraduate program in Amiens, where he developed typefaces for complex Latin-Bengali typesettings. He is a senior typeface designer at Production Type.

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New typeface: Signal

Rigid yet racy, the typeface by Emmanuel Besse (Production Type) stepped out of French road signage, having grown bigger, better, and very fit to work in UI

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New Typeface: Qommodore

High-contrast monospace serif which features both classics and glitch

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20 questions from type.today: Part 3

Third chapter of our accidental survey on what the work of a type designer looks like today

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20 questions from type.today: Part 4

The final episode of our accidental survey on what the work of a type designer looks like today

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type.today playlist: sketching

We asked our authors what music they listen to while sketching ideas and turned their answers into a playlist

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type.today playlist: drawing

We asked our authors what music they listen to while drawing typefaces and expanding the glyph set, and turned their answers into a playlist

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type.today playlist: drawing

We asked our authors what music they listen to while working on kerning, and turned their answers into a playlist

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Qommodore in use: Serenity

A modern take on fiction augmented by the 19th-century display type