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designdefontes

Designdefontes (www.designdefontes.com) is a small independent type foundry based in Merzig, Saar (Germany). Founded in early 2023 by Loïc Choquet, a French graphic and type designer living in France and Germany and working since 1998 with Marion Olk together at graphic design studio Choquet-Olk (www.choquet-olk.com). This foundry's name: designdefontes comes from the French translation of font design. Since 1990, Loïc Choquet, passionate about graphic design, type design & typeface History, creates typefaces for himself. 2023, he established this foundry to spread its fonts. The first type proposed by the foundry is the Amecane. As its name indicates Amecane is a mecane (mecane or mechanistic according to the classification Vox-Atypi) i.e a slab serif.