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<div><b>A new, free font designed by Alice Savoie</b></div>
<div><img
src="cid:f06240837d69a0665eb71@[192.168.0.59].1.0"><i>Faune</i
> type family, created by Alice Savoie. Thin, Bold and Italic
versions.</div>
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<div>The<i> Centre national des arts plastiques</i> (Cnap), a public
establishment of the French Minister for Culture, in partnership with
the Groupe<i> Imprimerie Nationale</i>, commissioned the creation of a
type family.</div>
<div>Alice Savoie was chosen by a panel of experts following a call
for applications.<br>
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<div>This commission follows the one awarded to Sandrine Nugue in
2014, with the creation of<i> Infini</i>, a typeface family that has
been widely distributed and used all over the world since its
creation.<br>
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<div>Alice Savoie created the<i> Faune</i> type family, proposing a
contemporary approach that has been created using the plurality of the
animal world and the diversity of its morphologies. She based her work
on two magistral reference works that have both been printed and
conserved by the French Imprimerie Nationale:<i> Histoire
naturelle</i> by Buffon and the<i> Description de l'Égypte</i>,
commissioned by the Emperor Napoleon I. The use of three categories of
animal, reptiles, birds and mammals, has allowed her to create the
basis for a heteroclite typographic grammar whose weights, curves and
volumes stimulate the imagination. Thus, the thin and sinewy viper has
inspired the design of a version of the typeface with very thin lines,
while the stocky ram dictates the design of the bold forms, and the
black ibis was at the origin of the very particular design of the
italic. Alice Savoie also chose to use the most advanced technology
available in the field of typeface design by employing interpolation,
allowing intermediary variations to be generated, with each one being
suitable for the composition of texts. This has resulted in a hybrid,
inventive and unique typeface family that can be adapted to the most
contemporary of uses. Homage is made to the scientific representation
of animals by illustrator Marine Rivoal, who has imagined a
contemporary bestiary that has been created using collagraphy<i>,</i>
in which all types of hybrid forms are permitted.<br>
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<div>The<i> Faune</i> type family can be downloaded and used by
anyone, for private or professional purposes, thanks to a Creative
Commons license that allows it to be used freely and at no cost, on
condition that the author's name is mentioned. The website also
allows users to discover all of the steps in the process of<i>
Faune's</i> creation by way of a text written by Alice Savoie which is
accompanied by numerous illustrations. The Méli-mélo section
invites users to create their own hybrid animal along with a
personalized message that can be shared on social networks.<br>
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<div>Beyond the unique project proposed by Alice Savoie, the aim of
the Cnap, through this commission, is to bring the attention of a wide
public to typeface design in its broadest sense, and the dynamic
nature of this creative field, both in France and abroad.<br>
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<div>The<i> Faune</i> typeface family, along with all of its
preparatory studies, sketches and drawings, is now part of the
collection of the Cnap. Regularly enhanced since 2010, it contains
numerous sets of typeface families, with<i> Faune</i> by Alice Savoie
now joining<i> Infini</i> by Sandrine Nugue,<i> Coline</i> by Emilie
Rigaud,<i> Panorama</i> by Jean-Baptiste Levée,<i> Camille</i> by
Malou Verlomme,<i> Minuscule</i> by Thomas Huot-Marchand,<i>
Colvert</i> by Natalia Chuvatin, Jonathan Perez, Kristyan Sarkis and
Irène Vlachou and<i> Bely</i> by Roxane Gataud.<br>
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<div><b>Alice Savoie</b> is a typeface designer, teacher and
researcher in type history. She is a graduate of the École
supérieure des arts appliqués Duperré, of the École Estienne and
of the University of Reading (United Kingdom). In 2014, she was
awarded a PhD in type history from the University of Reading. She
teaches and runs research projects in the Atelier National de
Recherche Typographique of Nancy (ANRT), in the "Typography &
Language" post graduate programme in the École supérieure
d'arts et de design of Amiens (ésad) and in the École nationale
supérieure des beaux-arts of Lyon (Ensba Lyon).</div>
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<div><b>Download<i> Faune</i></b> <a
href="http://www.cnap.graphismeenfrance.fr/faune/en.html"><b>here</b></a
><b>.</b><br>
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<div><b>Download<i> Infini</i></b> <a
href="http://www.cnap.graphismeenfrance.fr/infini/en"><b>here</b></a><b
>.</b><br>
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<div><b>Contact</b></div>
<div><a
href="mailto:info.cnap@culture.gouv.fr">info.cnap@culture.gouv.fr</a><br
>
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<div><b>Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap)</b></div>
<div>Tour Atlantique, 1 Place de la Pyramide<br>
La Défense</div>
<div>92911 Paris, France</div>
<div><a href="http://www.cnap.fr">www.cnap.fr</a></div>
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