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
 

     

     

Black[Foundry] is a type design company dedicated to creating, refining and producing fonts.

Black[Foundry] is a type design company dedicated to creating, refining and producing fonts.

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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

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

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

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®.
 

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

Design

Custom font creation
Script and language extensions
Pictograms and emojis
Font modification
Logo finetuning
Font design refinement
Letterspacing
 

Engineering

Engineering

Quality assurance
Hinting (Screen optimisation)
System integration
Kerning
OpenType coding
Python scripting
Font mastering
Font formats

Consulting

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

We believe a font is
a lot more than a few
glyphs and letters

Do you have a specific request
about our services?

Contact us