Based in Paris, Production Type is a digital type design agency founded in 2014 by Jean-Baptiste Levée. Its activities span from the exclusive online distribution of its retail type for design professionals, to the creation of custom typefaces for the industrial, luxury, and media sectors. Production Type’s collection is well known for gathering talented and innovative designers, and strives to release contemporary, unique typefaces for demanding designers. Through numerous awards (D&AD, Type Directors Club, Tokyo TDC…), the agency has also been acclaimed for its projects for Renault, Vanity Fair or Courrèges.

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New typeface: Stratos

A family that rethinks concepts of weight and width, spanning multiple hierarchies within a single style.

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New typeface: Proto Grotesk

Over the last hundred years or so, utilitarian typefaces have shed most of their quirks and eccentricities on the way to becoming more versatile and universal. That makes some sense, but there’s no reason type can’t be both steadfast and peculiar

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Dusseldot and Spectral in use: Design as an Attitude

A book by Alice Rawsthorn on how designers can also change the world (or at least try)

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Stratos in use: Wonderwheel

How to depict a vinyl record using a rounded о — and do not look cheap

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Proto Grotesk in use: Canvas Creative

A website of a studio that can arrange digital design for literally anything