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Fonderie Typographique Française
Company type	Defunct
Industry	Type foundry
Predecessor	Turlot, Durey & Berthier, Renault & Marcou, Huart, Chaix, and Saling type foundries
Founded	1921; 104 years ago
Defunct	1974; 51 years ago
Fate	Merged into Fundición Tipográfica Neufville
Successor	Fundición Tipográfica Neufville
Headquarters	Paris, France

Fonderie Typographique Française was a French type foundry. Founded in Paris in 1921 following the merger of the Turlot, Durey & Berthier, Renault & Marcou, Huart, Chaix, and Saling type foundries. In 1969 it moved to Champigny-sur-Marne and took the name "Société Nouvelle de la Fonderie Typographique Française". Sold in 1974 to the Fundición Tipográfica Neufville, in Barcelona^[1]

Typefaces

These foundry types were produced by Fonderie Typographique Française:^[2]

Amadis, a blackletter face
Apollo, a knock off of Futura.
Ascot
Atlas (1933, Karl Hermann Schaefer) An Art Deco typeface originally issued as Fatima by Schriftguss Type Foundry^[3]
Bizerte
Blanches Saint Germain, pearly capitals.
Caravelle (1957–62, Baum + Bauer), originally sold as Folio by Bauer.^[4]
Clipper, (1951, Louis Ferrand)
Deauville (1927, M. Loewe) ^[5]
Décor, a pixelized face with mosaic effects.
Ecriture parisienne (ronde)
Editor (1937, Henri Chaix) ^[6]
Egyptiennes, a slab-serif face.^[7]
Estienne (c. 1929-30, George W. Jones ), based on the slightly earlier type designs owned by Parisian printer Robert Estienne.^[8] Very tall ascenders and descenders.
Excelsior FTF, an Art Nouveau face.
Garamond FTF
Hélios, a shaded titling face.
Horizon (1952–55, Baum + Bauer), originally sold as Imprimatur by Bauer.^[9]
Ile de France (Enric Crous-Vidal)
Italienne (c. 1820) ^[10]
Marocaines FTF, revived by Mario Feliciano as Mazagan (2019).
Muriel (1950, Joan Trochut-Blanchard), a script typeface.
Normandy
Paris (1953, Enric Crous-Vidal)
- Flash (1953, Enric Crous-Vidal), a shaded version of Paris, not to be confused with the more famous type of the same name by Lanston Monotype.^[11]
Pittoresques FTF (1924), a Japanese style art nouveau face, revived by Yanick Blancho as Koëlh (2015).
Psitt (1954, René Ponot)
Ramsès, a slab-serif face.
Stylo(1935), a connected script.
Swing, an Art Deco typeface.
Vulcain, an Art Deco typeface.

References

^ "Fonderie typographique française". BnF Data. 2020-09-22. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
^ Unless otherwise noted, all types in this list are cited from "Fonderie Typographique Française Pro". Fonderie Typographique Française type list. Luc Devroye. 2021-02-01. Retrieved 2021-02-02.
^ Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983, ISBN 0-7137-1347-X, p. 251
^ Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983, ISBN 0-7137-1347-X, p. 274
^ Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983, ISBN 0-7137-1347-X, p. 64
^ Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983, ISBN 0-7137-1347-X, p. 74
^ Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983, ISBN 0-7137-1347-X, p. 78
^ "A Distinguished family of French printers of the sixteenth century: Henri and Robert Estienne". ABAA. Retrieved 12 March 2017.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983, ISBN 0-7137-1347-X, p. 116
^ Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983, ISBN 0-7137-1347-X, p. 122
^ Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983, ISBN 0-7137-1347-X, pp. 77-78