With La création typographique – Concevoir des polices de caractères (“Type Design—Creating typefaces”), Matthieu Salvaggio delivers a handbook for anyone looking to explore the world of type design. As the founder of Blaze Type and the creator of many contemporary typefaces, Salvaggio shares a detailed, experience-based methodology – generously illustrated and grounded in practical design logic. Conceived as a step-by-step manual, the book guides the reader through the entire process: from sketching and spacing to technical production and the creation of diacritics. The final chapters offer concrete advice on how to produce, distribute, and monetize a typeface in today’s landscape.

The graphic design was handled by Paris-based studio Hic et Nunc, founded by Sidonie Bernard and Line Monthiers. With a strong emphasis on typographic hierarchy and efficiency, the layout embodies Hic et Nunc’s motto: designing for the here and now, while aiming for timeless relevance.

The book’s typographic system is built entirely from Blaze Type’s catalog, using Rules for titles and section markers, Balette for body text, and Surt for navigational elements and annotations. Together, these typefaces form a cohesive, readable, and contemporary composition. The book features 324 pages, bound in a Bodonian binding format, and sized at 16×26 cm: a generous yet manageable canvas. The contents are completed by a series of vibrant still-life photographs by IGO Studio, a Marseille-based photography studio specializing in stylized product shots. Their crisp, colorful visuals highlight the book’s physicality with the same care given to its typographic content.

CD and cover for World Music Radio

Maragsâ by Jad Maza is prominently used in the album art, booklet, and promotional materials for Jon Batiste's 2023 album World Music Radio. The typeface is paired with a maximalist, retrofuturistic design approach befitting the album's concept—an interstellar pop radio host, Billy Bob Bo Bob, showcasing the music of Earth.

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A spread from the booklet for World Music Radio

Posters showcasing the visual approach for the album and collaterals

Spread from the booklet for World Music Radio

The booklet for World Music Radio.

For my design and photography portfolio website, I used Taklobo as the animated display type on landing and in the footer. Body copy is set in Forma DJR, while tags and captions are set in NT Bau Mono.

The site’s layout site is set in a strict modular grid, using a 24 pixel baseline grid for vertical rhythm. Projects included on the site are Arabic typography experiments, user experience and research projects, 3D visualisations, and service design.

The seventh edition of the Online Gallery Magazine (The OG) sought to shine a light on artists and visionaries who intersect activism and creative work in new and provocative ways.

For each edition of the magazine, we take inspiration from the talented list of contributors. Our designs seek to amplify their work and personality, to encapsulate their characteristics through colour, layout and typography.

This issue features Eddie Arroyo, Lindsay Adams, Sheldon Scott, Blue Light Junction, Rewind Collective, Nate Lewis, Abby Pucker & Zoe Lukov, Dee Dwyer, Chris Pyrate, Keyonna Jones, Ronald Moten, Hank Willis Thomas, Antonio Gibson, Lindsey Brittain Collins, Yashua Klos, Liz Plank, Paul Stephen Benjamin, and Jeffrey Meris.

Spread with the names of the people featured in the issue, set in all-caps Rama Gothic Condensed

Editors’ note with more Rama Gothic and text set in Freight Text

Opening spread for a feature about Eddie Arroyo, pairing Plakato and ITC American Typewriter

Pull quote in Plakato with more text in Freight Text

Pull quote in Freight Big, with captions set in Neue Helvetica

More Freight Big for a quote by Lindsay Adams

Spread with Anton and justified PT Mono

Spread with a quote by Sheldon Scott in all-caps Anton

Basteleur for Kenya Miles

Q&A with Autumn Breon, featuring an unidentified bitmap-like face and PT Sans Mono

Opening spread for the Nate Lewis feature, using Michroma and Freight Big

Neue Helvetica, Snell Roundhand, and Freight Big Italic on the opening spread for a feature about Abby Pucker and Zoe Lukov

Caps from an unidentified italic stencil face, paired with Helvetica for the Soufside feature by Kalila Bohsali

More of the unidentified stencil face and PT Mono for a feature about Dee Dwyer

Outward and Neue Helvetica Condensed Black for Hank William Thomas

Commune Nuit Debout in all caps for “Dreams Run Big”

More Commune Nuit Debout with Freight Text

Pull quote in Maragsâ

Neue Helvetica is combined with Brush Script for “Tangling with the Grid”

Center-aligned caps from Neue Helvetica for a quote by Yashua Klos

New York and Freight Big for Liz Plank

Bely Display for the opening spread of Max Levin’s contribution

All-caps Agharti Condensed with Freight Big Italic for Jeffrey Meris

Closing out with more Rama Gothic