Adventurous Typefaces

Roger Excoffon was born in Marseilles in 1910 and is known for designing some of the most adventurous typefaces of the 1950's. Excoffon was a succesful French graphic designer whose typefaces shook up French advertising. He went to Paris to study painting and then later became design director of a small type foundry in Marseilles, the Fonderie Olive.

His Antique Olive family of types is regarded as his masterpiece. Other typefaces such as - Calypso, Choc, and others - became symbolic of the stylish modernity and exuberance of post-war nouvelle vague France, and a benchmark for French graphic design.

Most of his fonts are very free flowing and linear. The two that caught my eye because they were very loose and curvy were Choc and Banco. I like how all of Excoffon's fonts have a certain similarity to them but are also very different at the same time.











The first image is Banco Light which is more linear then the second example, Choc. I really like how both of these fonts give off a care free feeling and are unique.







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