ABOUT NEUF

Neuf is a typeface based on a French font called 'Gravure Taille Douce,' dating back to the late 1920s. It first appeared in the general catalog of the Fonderie Typographique Française (FTF), a consortium of French foundries from the early 20th century (1921), including Chaix, Marcou, Saling, Durey, and Huart, contemporaneous with the Deberny et Peignot (D&P) and Fonderie Olive in Marseille, which are certainly better known today than FTF. FTF, however, held, like its competing foundries, many exclusive characters designed by the founding foundries of the FTF. Some of these characters were widely used in France in advertising and signs, such as the Champs Elysées, Deauville, Caravelle, Île de France, and Paris typefaces. One of their characters in the 'Fantaisies Modernes avec bas de casse' category is, therefore, a French sans-serif grotesque that they call 'Gravure Timbrage' for its regular version and 'Gravure Taille Douce' for its bold version, the designer/punch cutter is unknown, probably an employee at FTF as for the many of their fonts.

Neuf is thus a revival that aims to closely match the bold version of this typeface, maintaining the same weight, proportions, and curve dynamics as those in the original versions. Some letters have still been slightly revised in the design, simply for 'stylistic' reasons.

The result is a typeface in the style of French Antiques, but with many peculiarities in design and letter construction that give it a lot of personality and identity within an already well-filled category of fonts. This particular flavor also highlights the interpretation of the sans-serif style, which appears here as a 'French' interpretation of this typographic genre, little used in France at that time, at least not as text typeface.

Numerous original features demonstrating artistic liberties appear in the numbers, symbols, and punctuation. Some of these style elements appeared in the original designs, while others were added to the Neuf character during the digital redesign. A new weight, along with italics, is currently in the works, also based on the original designs.

INFORMATIONS

Character set: Latin extended

File formats delivered: OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2

Supported Languages:

Abenaki, Afaan Oromo, Afar, Albanian, Alsatian, Amis, Anuta, Aragonese, Aranese, Aromanian, Arrernte, Arvanitic (Latin), Asturian, Aymara, Bashkir (Latin), Basque, Bikol, Bislama, Bosnian, Breton, Cape Verdean Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chickasaw, Cimbrian, Cofán, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar (Latin), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dawan, Delaware, Dholuo, Drehu, Dutch, English, Estonian, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, Folkspraak, French, Frisian, Friulian, Gagauz (Latin), Galician, Genoese, German, Gooniyandi, Guadeloupean Creole, Gwich’in, Haitian Creole, Hän, Hawaiian, Hiligaynon, Hopi, Hotcąk (Latin), Hungarian, Icelandic, Ido, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interglossa, Interlingua, Irish, Istro-Romanian, Italian, Jamaican, Javanese (Latin), Jèrriais, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kapampangan (Latin), Kaqchikel, Karakalpak (Latin), Karelian (Latin), Kashubian, Kikongo, Kinyarwanda, Kiribati, Kirundi, Klingon, Ladin, Latin, Latino sine Flexione, Latvian, Lithuanian, Lojban, Lombard, Low Saxon, Luxembourgish, Makhuwa, Malay, Manx, Māori, Marquesan, Megleno-Romanian, Meriam Mir, Mohawk, Moldovan, Montagnais, Montenegrin, Murrinh-Patha, Nagamese Creole, Ndebele, Neapolitan, Ngiyambaa, Niuean, Noongar, Norwegian, Novial, Occidental, Occitan, Oshiwambo, Ossetian (Latin), Palauan, Papiamento, Piedmontese, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Q’eqchi’, Quechua, Rarotongan, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Sami (Lule Sami), Sami (Southern Sami), Samoan, Sango, Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian (Latin), Seri, Seychellois Creole, Shawnee, Shona, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Slovio (Latin), Somali, Sorbian (Lower Sorbian), Sorbian (Upper Sorbian), Sotho (Northern), Sotho (Southern), Spanish, Sranan, Sundanese (Latin), Swahili, Swazi, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tetum, Tok Pisin, Tokelauan, Tongan, Tshiluba, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen (Latin), Tuvaluan, Tzotzil, Uzbek (Latin), Venetian, Vepsian, Volapük, Võro, Wallisian, Walloon, Waray-Waray, Warlpiri, Wayuu, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Xhosa, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Zapotec, Zulu, Zuni