Roger Excoffon Database

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Installation of the Air France sign, designed using Excoffon's Antique Olive Nord, 1963

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Excerpt from the specimen for the bold version of  Antique Olive (1951) published by Founderie Olive.

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Excerpt from the specimen for the NORD version of  Antique Olive (1951) published by Founderie Olive. 

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Specimens for the bold version of Antique Olive, published by Founderie Olive in 1963.

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Regular and Italic versions of letter ‘a’ from Excoffon's Antique Olive (1961-1970)

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Excoffon's poster for Campari on the streets of Paris, 1960s.

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Digitalizing Excoffon's font Calypso (1958)

You can download the font for free from FontHaus.

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Excoffon's real recognition came in 1953 with the publication of Mistral, released by Founderie Olive. Mistral was his first script typeface. Years later, Adrian Frutiger, Excoffon’s friend and adversary, would admit to him that he had examined the typeface closely under a magnifying loupe and wondered how on earth he had managed to pull off such a tour de force.

The Amsterdam Type foundry released a version in 1955.

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Antique Olive's regular version used on 500 Franc of Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire), issued in 2002 by Banque Centrale des Etats de l'Afrique de l'Ouest.

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Excerpt from Excoffon's font Chambord's specimen, showing the light version of the font. Published in 1945 by Founderie Olive.

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Excerpt from the specimen of Excoffon's font Banco (1951) published by Founderie Olive.

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Excoffon's poster for the film Le Prisonniére/Woman in Chains (1968)

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'Created for the French Exhibition of Montreal in 1963, the form of the' cock was reissued in posters, and for the announcement of the French Weeks in Switzerland in 1965, 1966 and 1967 and for the French Exhibition in Tokyo 1966 as well as covers of Graphis Annual 1966 and the journal published by the French Chamber of Commerce of the United States.

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Roger Excoffon's titles for Pathé News, 1958.

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Cover of Antique Olive Specimen, published by Founderie Olive in 1961.

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Light, Regular, Medium and Bold versions of letter 't' of Antique Olive (1963)

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Postcard from 1968 Grenoble Winter Olympics.