About. Founded in 2014, Black[Foundry] grew from a shared passion for typography and attention to detail. Over the years, we’ve brought together a committed, international team in central Paris, collaborating with clients and partners worldwide.
We specialize in crafting custom typefaces tailored to brand needs while also creating genuine retail fonts for designers and creative agencies. By combining design expertise, technical precision, and a collaborative spirit, we aim to deliver typographic solutions that meet the demands of today’s connected world.
Our clients span a range of industries and sizes, all seeking clear, consistent, and impactful communication through type. We continue refining our craft to ensure that each project reflects a thoughtful, lasting approach to design.
Awards
Grand Prix Stratégies
Gold for "Inria Poster"
Visual identity & Typography category
2024
Communication Arts
Award of Excellence for "Fat"
Typeface in Latin and Japanese
2024
Grand Prix Stratégies
Grand Prix for "Alpine New Alps"
Visual identity & Typography category
2023
Grand Prix Stratégies
Gold for "Jott Identity Font"
Visual identity & Typography category
2023
Grand Prix Stratégies
Gold for "Alpine New Alps"
Visual identity & Typography category
2023
Transform Awards
Gold for Renault
Best visual Identity from Automotive Sector
2023
Transform Awards
Grand Prix for Renault
Global Rebranding & Brand Strategy
2023
Grand Prix Stratégies
Gold for "Dacia Block"
Visual identity & Typography category
2022
Grand Prix Stratégies
Silver for "Dacia Block"
Global Brand Design category
2022
Grand Prix Stratégies
Gold for "NouvelR"
Visual identity & Typography category
2022
Grand Prix Stratégies
Gold for "NouvelR"
Global Brand Design category
2022
Grand Prix Stratégies
Silver for "Enedis"
Visual identity & Typography category
2022
Top Com
Gold for "Dacia Block"
Brand Typeface
2022
Top Com
Gold for "NouvelR"
Brand Typeface
2022
German Design Award
Winner for "Read"
Typography
2020
Grand Prix Stratégies
Gold for "Read"
Visual identity & Typography category
2020
TDC
"Read"
Certificate of Typographic Excellence
2020
Communication Arts
Gold for "Vesterbro"
Typeface Design
2018
Team.Lead
Jérémie Hornus
Team.Coordination
Claire Lagarde
Diane Chevreau
Team.TypeDesign
Gaëtan Baehr
Yuxin Li
Mark Zhu
Masaki Ando
Hirbod Loftian
Kyeongsik Kim
Liu Yunlai
Team.Development
Just van Rossum
Olli Meier
Fabio Caccamo

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Black[Foundry] is a type design company dedicated to creating, refining and producing fonts.
Do you have a specific request
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Vision. We believe a font is a lot more than a few glyphs and letters. It’s both a creative asset that sits at the very heart of any brand identity and a technological asset that empowers consistent brand expression. In short, fonts add value to brands.
Our mission is to help brands make the most of their font assets by creating, developing and managing high quality fonts for a connected world. We believe in the power of identity fonts to stand out against the competition, in the value of global fonts to speak out consistently across borders and the importance of seamless fonts to work reliably.
Make Your Mark
A distinctive custom font is an often underestimated and yet extremely powerful brand asset that sits at the very heart of your identity. It is a great tool acting as an interface between your brand and your customers.
Closer Together
Global brands need to express themselves consistently in all languages, global fonts translate their personality in all writing systems such as Arabic, Cyrillic, Chinese, Devanagari…
Digital Fit
Creating fonts can get very technical. Making them work across all platforms, devices and screens (Human-Machine Interfaces, webfonts…) is a key step in building a strong brand perception and ensuring a fluid experience.

Our expertise can be
defined as mix between
engineering and design.
We call it Type+Tech®.
Services. Over the years, we’ve developed a unique set of tools to help brands make the most of their font assets. Our services includes font design to help brands express their personality (across all languages) font engineering to ensure that the fonts developed work across all platforms and font consulting to train our clients, their teams and their suppliers on font management and advise on technical and licensing issues. We call this expertise Type+Tech®.
Design
Custom font creation
Script and language extensions
Pictograms and emojis
Font modification
Logo finetuning
Font design refinement
Letterspacing
Engineering
Quality assurance
Hinting (Screen optimisation)
System integration
Kerning
OpenType coding
Python scripting
Font mastering
Font formats
Consulting
Training for creatives
Training for engineers
Software problem solving
Licence advising
Workshops

We believe a font is
a lot more than a few
glyphs and letters
Do you have a specific request
about our services?