Caractères conference 2023–24

Published September 13, 2024

Contributed by Lucas Descroix

Caractères is a type-centered design conference organized in Lyon, France, with five talks taking place in the course of a school year. The first edition began in October 2023 and gave the floor to some local designers: Lucas Descroix, Emma Marichal, Juliette Flécheux, Max Esnée, and Alice Savoie.

The communication was developed by Emma Marichal, centered around Plain Form’s Ready Active in its heaviest weight — making it the first-ever use of this quasi-illegible style — paired with Production Type's Gamuth and, for each speaker, a typeface that they either designed or used in recent projects. These are: Lucas Descroix's Paraiso, Emma Marichal's Ploquine, Salmanazar as used by Juliette Flécheux in her Dossier Scriptorium de Toulouse, Max Esnée's unreleased Laurifer and Alice Savoie's Loire, a bespoke typeface for the Val de Loire territory.

Caractères is organized by Rémi Forte, in partnership with the design school Strate and the type foundry 205TF.

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