Auriol® Font Family

Auriol® Roman (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

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Auriol® Bold (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

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Auriol® Black (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

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Auriol® Flowers 1 (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Auriol® Flowers 2 (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Auriol® Vignette Style (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 26.00

Auriol Complete Family Pack (Linotype Originals) More details ... Add to shopping cart Price from: US$ 135.00

Georges Auriol (real name: Jean Georges Huyot) – born 1863 in Beauvais, France, died 1938 in Paris, France – type designer, graphic artist, painter, author. 1883: joins the editorial staff of the magazine "Chat Noir", the literary organ of the cabaret of the same name in Paris. 1900: Auriol designs several alphabets at the request of Georges Peignot, director of the type foundry Peignot & Sons. Friends with Th.-A. Steinlen and H. de Toulouse Lautrec. Fonts: Auriol® (1901–1904), La [...]

Created by a merger of the two companies Deberny & Cie (founded 1818) and Peignot & fils (founded 1842) in 1923. Its main font designers were A. M. Cassandre and Adrian Frutiger. One of the first practicable phototypesetting machines, the Lumitype, was developed in the 1950s. In 1972, the company was acquired by the Haas foundry (Haas’sche Gießerei) in Münchenstein.

Auriol and Auriol Flowers were designed by Georges Auriol, born Jean Georges Huyot, in the early 20th century. Auriol was a French graphic artist whose work exemplified the art nouveau style of Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1900, Georges Peignot asked Auriol to design fonts for Peignot & Sons. The resulting Auriol font was the basis for the lettering used by Hector Guimard for the entrance signs to the Paris Metro. It was re-released in 1979 with a new bold face, designed by Matthew Carter. These decorative fonts with a brush stroke look are well-suited to display settings.