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
[...]Fruit de la fusion des entreprises Deberny & Cie (fondée en 1818) et Peignot & fils (fondée en 1842) en 1923. Les principaux dessinateurs de caractères étaient A. M. Cassandre et Adrian Frutiger. Les années 50 marquèrent la création de l’une des premières machines de photocomposition utilisables, la Lumitype. La fonderie Haas (Haas’sche Gießerei) de Münchenstein acquit la société en 1972.
In the second half of the 19th century there was a cold, ugly academic tendency making itself evident in all areas of design. It manifested itself in the incompetent repetition of earlier styles and considered that enough. But then young artists all over Europe started to break out of this torpidity and create something completely new.
The origin of this renewed vigor lay in the philosophy and achievements of an outstanding figure of the times, William Morris (1834-1896). His goal was a
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Font Designer: Georges Auriol
Georges Auriol (born Jean Georges Huyot) was a French graphic artist whose work exemplifies the art nouveau style practiced in Paris in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
In 1900 Georges Peignot asked Auriol to design fonts for PEIGNOT & SONS, the result was the font Auriol®. Auriol, with its distinctive 'M', was the basis for the lettering used by Hector Guimard for the entrance signs to the Paris Metro. It was re-released by Deberny
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Font Designer: Georges Auriol, 1991/1903
Georges Auriol (born Jean Georges Huyot) was a French graphic artist whose work exemplifies the art nouveau style practiced in Paris in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
In 1900 Georges Peignot asked Auriol to design fonts for PEIGNOT & SONS, the result was the font Auriol®. Auriol, with its distinctive ‘M’, was the basis for the lettering used by Hector Guimard for the entrance signs to the Paris Metro. It was
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