Production Type — Libé Sans and Libé Typewriter for #Libération
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Libé Sans and Libé Typewriter are comprehensive font families designed for the French daily newspaper Libération.
For the redesign of Libération, art directors Yorgo Tloupas and Javier Errea requested ultra-condensed, tall and flat-sided sans serifs in the vein of Compacta and the American Gothics (e.g. Trade, Franklin, News). However, none of these typefaces were a match for the complex specifications of the new Libération: a wide palette of expressions across a set of weights and widths, a very dense texture and space efficiency, a stacking system, and an automatic underline system — all of them referencing the typography of the newspaper when it launched in 1973. Beyond that, a tribute to Libération’s design history would not be complete without the influence of 1970s French faces.
#presse #typo je suis pas hyper fan ce qui m’attriste parce qu’en revanche je suis à fond pour l’idée que les journaux fassent développer leur propre typo…