Alphabets, typography, clients, users, letters, lowercases, brief, distribution, availability, stencils, signage, literature, capitals, institutions, legibility, contrast, books, masks, counterforms, freedom, constraints, printing, collaboration, symbols, triplexing, consistency, poetry, French fries, proofs, flags, handwriting, serifs, systems… Through a series of case studies, Mathieu will explore the challenges of custom type design, likely providing little answers, hopefully raising many questions.
Mathieu Réguer is an independent typeface designer based in Paris. He draws letters and builds fonts. After studying at École Duperré and École Estienne, he received his MA in Typeface Design from the University of Reading (UK) in 2008. He designed and produced custom font families for institutions and brands such as the French State, the Tasmanian West Coast, Culture Amp, Evolved by Nature or World Rugby. Mathieu enjoys programming tools and taking fonts apart. He writes custom scripts and plug-ins for himself and a variety of other type foundries. Mathieu teaches typeface design at École Estienne in Paris.
He is one of the founders of the typeface design programme at TypeParis, and has been a core instructor since the first session in 2015.
The 6-week type design programme that you’ve been waiting for starts on 2 June and ends 10 July 2026.
Open to all Our summer programme is in English and covers typeface design and calligraphy techniques, type history, and software practices. Whether you’re a design pro or just curious about type design, you can learn all about it in a relatively short amount of time.
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