Hi and welcome to Anatoletype.
This website features our type design portfolio. We are passionate about a variety
of vernacular sources, as well as manual experimentation, drawing and handwriting. Technologies related to web design, programming, opentype, interest us as they are
the means to revisit past issues or ideas, give them a new interpretation and make
them evolve into a contemporary context.
Enjoy your visit and the fresh anatole air!

elena albertoni
Italian type designer, she studied graphic design in Amiens, France (école supérieure d’art et de design) and followed a typographical formation in Paris (DSAA Typo at École Estienne).
She’s currently working at Luc(as) de Groot’s FontFabrik in Berlin.

pascal duez
French illustrator and graphic designer, he studied architecture in Paris, and graphic design in Amiens. His vocabulary goes from painting, photography to typography and webdesign. He’s currently working as freelancer between Berlin and France.
You can visit opalescent for more of Pascal’s works.

about the anatoletype.net website

copyright
All material displayed on the anatoletype.net website is copyrighted, including all artwork, design, type design. No portion of this website may be reproduced, copied or in anyway reused without permission from Anatoletype.

the font section
We invented the texts, mixing all the languages we could play with...
For the serious ones we took some passages from the following authors:
Yoni Wolf “Why?” · Waterfalls and Light Leaves from the album Elephant Eyelash.
Italo Calvino · Le città invisibili, Il barone rampante.
Friedrich Nietzche · Menschliches II, Meinungen 188.
Herman Melville · Moby Dick, Chapter 124.
Boris Vian · L’herbe rouge, l’arrache coeur, l’écume des jours, diverse quotes.
Georges Perec · La vie mode d’emploi.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti · Pictures of the gone world.
Ian McEwan · The cat, from The Daydreamer.
Anatole France · Les sept femmes de la Barbe-Bleue et autres contes merveilleux.
Sharrif Simmons · Musical revolution[s], from Fast cities and objects that burn.
Paul Bogaert · Welcome hygiëne.

characteristics
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