Simon Renaud

Conférence jeudi 16 avril (ce soir), à 18h30 à l'Université Paris 8 — r͟e͟t͟r͟a͟n͟s͟m͟i͟s͟s͟i͟o͟n͟ ͟e͟n͟ ͟d͟i͟r͟e͟c͟t͟ — Merci @felixmullerparis pour l'invitation ! @graphismepointdesign De manière conventionnelle, pour donner accès au texte, les designers doivent reprendre des modèles de lettres convenus. Ces conventions rattachées à un sens verbal doivent être connues des lecteurices pour être comprises. En plus du modèle à lire, ces signes ont une forme graphique qui les incarne. Une relation entre des modèles à lire et des signes à comprendre s’installe dans nos lettres : un lien entre un texte à lire et des formes à voir. Dans son activité de dessinateur de caractères, Simon Renaud travaille sur ces enjeux et principalement sur des problématiques liées à la perception dans la lecture d’un texte. Sa recherche propose un ensemble d’hypothèses typographiques à partir d’expérimentations plastiques cherchant à renouveler les modèles de lettres. Du plus lisible au plus crypté, la plupart de ses travaux partent d’une tension entre ce qui est lu, le sens verbal, et ce qui est vu, le sens graphique. Parfois les deux tentent de rester en tension et de se matérialiser ensemble, parfois le second prend le dessus et il devient difficile, voire impossible, de lire le texte.

[archive] Exhibition @esad_amiens — Design is Capital — 2020 Tripostal @lille_france Photograph: @veroniquepecheux

DAZZLE — 3 days workshop at ÉSAD Amiens The aim of this workshop is to explore the creation of movement from a two-dimensional still image. The intention, based on this design challenge, is to create optical illusions between simple shapes in order to play with the perception of letters. Each letter will be designed by a student by assembling geometric shapes to generate impressions of movement and vibration. The aim is to reveal an optical phenomenon that we perceive when we read or look at these letters. Students: Frédéric Adjanohoun @siirfredo Gabriela Prieto Angel @gabriela_prt Franck Hu @franck._.hu Eloïse Malavielle Romain Bénard @romainbenard_ Noé Benais @noebenais With Eva Kubinyi Thanks to all the students! LISTEN/SILENT ↔558 cm ↕93 cm @esad_amiens #typography #typeface #forms #letter #reading #workshop #dazzlerazzle #opart

Augure Mono, Duo, and Stereo [210 + 420] + 630 + 840 https://www.205.tf/augure-mono https://www.205.tf/augure-duo https://www.205.tf/augure-stereo Many thanks @205tf Team (@rmfrt , @vnls_tanguy , @damien_gautier_205 , @florenceroller ) #graphicdesign #typography #typedesign #typeface #font #design #graphic #letter #reading #brutalism #205TF #auguretypeface #simonrenaud

Traits Grande Vitesse — workshop dessin de caractères — 5 jours avec les étudiant·es de @abc_dcdg , décembre 2025 @campus_fonderie_de_limage Simon Renaud & Anne-Dauphine Borione L’enjeu de ce workshop a été de faire émerger deus hypothèses typographiques à partir d’expérimentations d’écriture manuscrite. Les étudiant·es ont exploré différentes modalités d’écriture en mobilisant l'ensemble du corps : écrire avec le doigt, la bouche ou le pied. Dans ce workshop, l’expérimentation prime sur la maîtrise, et la lettre se transforme au rythme du corps en action. En privilégiant la vitesse d’exécution, ces pratiques ont générées des tracés spontanés, expressifs et imprévisibles, ouvrant de nouvelles pistes de recherche autour de la forme des lettres. Merci Elsa et Christophe pour l’invitation ! Et bravo à tous·tes les participant·es Structure : Pauline D’Achille, Sarah Ben Hayoun-Evain, Thaïs Bégards, Philibert Blanquet, Marie Bonnet, Raphaël Carvou, Maëva Cubizolle Cluzel, Luna Da Cunha, Keren Despres, Carla Gledel, Jules Guillemot, Marina Holm, Emeline Jousset, Léonie Levallois, Sarah Moulin, Sofia Sashenkova, finalisé par Simon Renaud & Anne-Dauphine Borione. Tructure : Anne-Lise Agnès, Manon Debray, Veronika Dolia, Paul Figari, Giovanni Gil-Escriche, Gatien Giraudon, Kieran Herbé, Talia Nguyen, Vivien Nicolas, Chloé Pesson, Romane Raffestin, Madina Toure, finalisé par Anne-Dauphine Borione & Simon Renaud. #typedesign #typography #typeface #graphicdesign #handwriting

New Release: Augure Mono, Duo, and Stereo, by Simon Renaud⁠ ⁠ Augure Mono, Duo, and Stereo, extend the Augure typeface by applying a rigorous logic of measurement and alignment. Augure already possesses a strong visual rhythm—a distinctive typographic “color” and a clear cadence in its drawing—and these new variants reinforce that quality through a system of character widths conceived as a regulating grid.⁠ ⁠ Augure Mono is a monospaced variant in which all glyphs share a uniform width. Letters, symbols, and punctuation are aligned to the width of round lowercase characters such as o, c, and e. The original Augure design has been adapted to this constraint while maintaining legibility and formal idiosyncrasy.⁠ ⁠ Augure Duo introduces a second, increased width for capitals, figures, and certain naturally broader lowercase letters such as m and w, providing them with additional space. This added width makes it possible to recover a degree of roundness that the constraint of a single width significantly compresses in some capital letters, notably O, C, and E. This second width interacts with the first through a proportional increase of one third. The resulting capital forms produce a clear alignment effect both horizontally and vertically. The visual rhythm remains governed by the same regulating metric system.⁠ ⁠ Augure Stereo brings together the principles of the Mono and Duo versions within a single variable font. The second width becomes adjustable, ranging from the minimum value defined by Mono to the maximum value defined by Duo. This allows users to adapt the typeface while preserving its underlying rhythmic principle.⁠ ⁠ —⁠ #typography #graphicdesign #design #typedesign #typeface #contemporarytype #tomorrow_featured #365typefaces #designeveryday #font #typeinspiration #artdirection #designfeed #goodtype #typelover #typeindex #certainmagazine #eyeondesign #augure #simonrenaud #205tf @smnrnd

New Release: Augure Mono, Duo, and Stereo, by Simon Renaud⁠ ⁠ Augure Mono, Duo, and Stereo, extend the Augure typeface by applying a rigorous logic of measurement and alignment. Augure already possesses a strong visual rhythm—a distinctive typographic “color” and a clear cadence in its drawing—and these new variants reinforce that quality through a system of character widths conceived as a regulating grid.⁠ ⁠ Augure Mono is a monospaced variant in which all glyphs share a uniform width. Letters, symbols, and punctuation are aligned to the width of round lowercase characters such as o, c, and e. The original Augure design has been adapted to this constraint while maintaining legibility and formal idiosyncrasy.⁠ ⁠ Augure Duo introduces a second, increased width for capitals, figures, and certain naturally broader lowercase letters such as m and w, providing them with additional space. This added width makes it possible to recover a degree of roundness that the constraint of a single width significantly compresses in some capital letters, notably O, C, and E. This second width interacts with the first through a proportional increase of one third. The resulting capital forms produce a clear alignment effect both horizontally and vertically. The visual rhythm remains governed by the same regulating metric system.⁠ ⁠ Augure Stereo brings together the principles of the Mono and Duo versions within a single variable font. The second width becomes adjustable, ranging from the minimum value defined by Mono to the maximum value defined by Duo. This allows users to adapt the typeface while preserving its underlying rhythmic principle.⁠ ⁠ —⁠ #typography #graphicdesign #design #typedesign #typeface #contemporarytype #tomorrow_featured #365typefaces #designeveryday #font #typeinspiration #artdirection #designfeed #goodtype #typelover #typeindex #certainmagazine #eyeondesign #augure #simonrenaud #205tf @smnrnd

New Release: Augure Mono, Duo, and Stereo, by Simon Renaud⁠ ⁠ Augure Mono, Duo, and Stereo, extend the Augure typeface by applying a rigorous logic of measurement and alignment. Augure already possesses a strong visual rhythm—a distinctive typographic “color” and a clear cadence in its drawing—and these new variants reinforce that quality through a system of character widths conceived as a regulating grid.⁠ ⁠ Augure Mono is a monospaced variant in which all glyphs share a uniform width. Letters, symbols, and punctuation are aligned to the width of round lowercase characters such as o, c, and e. The original Augure design has been adapted to this constraint while maintaining legibility and formal idiosyncrasy.⁠ ⁠ Augure Duo introduces a second, increased width for capitals, figures, and certain naturally broader lowercase letters such as m and w, providing them with additional space. This added width makes it possible to recover a degree of roundness that the constraint of a single width significantly compresses in some capital letters, notably O, C, and E. This second width interacts with the first through a proportional increase of one third. The resulting capital forms produce a clear alignment effect both horizontally and vertically. The visual rhythm remains governed by the same regulating metric system.⁠ ⁠ Augure Stereo brings together the principles of the Mono and Duo versions within a single variable font. The second width becomes adjustable, ranging from the minimum value defined by Mono to the maximum value defined by Duo. This allows users to adapt the typeface while preserving its underlying rhythmic principle.⁠ ⁠ —⁠ #typography #graphicdesign #design #typedesign #typeface #contemporarytype #tomorrow_featured #365typefaces #designeveryday #font #typeinspiration #artdirection #designfeed #goodtype #typelover #typeindex #certainmagazine #eyeondesign #augure #simonrenaud #205tf @smnrnd

Traits Grande Vitesse — workshop dessin de caractères — 5 jours avec les étudiant·es de @abc_dcdg , décembre 2025 @campus_fonderie_de_limage ✍🏻 Simon Renaud & Anne-Dauphine Borione [plus d’informations et le résultat prochainement 🔠] #typography #type #typedesign #workshop #graphicdesign

Rendez-vous jeudi prochain à Lyon. Ma conférence aura lieu à 18h à Strate, École de Design (23 rue Paul Montrochet, Lyon 2e). Merci @rmfrt pour l'invitation ! @typolyon @strateecolededesign

Elementary R, 2025 Fonts & Faces #12 — Nothing Else Models — #typography #typeface #letterdesign #typedesign #elementarytypeface #fontsandfaces

“This is the hand — issue 4” — type design workshop — 4 days at @fh.aachen.gestaltung — 19 students — It all starts with students writing in 1 mm (x-height or capital) to produce a typographic hypothesis and ends with the ‘Neue Ductus Solid’ font. Students: Christoph Brandtner, Vivienne Dinsing, Alexandre Duprat, Kassandra Fickert, Christoph Helden, Ivy Hoffmann, Paul Jürgens, Felix Jüssen, Lisa Keiber, Ilayda Tasci Krautwig, Angelo Kurtz, Jan Matthias Lizon, Lena Ludwig, Schröders Martin, Vitus Möllmann, Juliane Pohl, Christoph Sauter, Ramin Strauss, Tom Tietz. Prof. Eva Kubinyi Thanks to all the students and thank you again Eva! Vielen Dank an alle Schüler und nochmals vielen Dank, Eva! #typedesign #typography #typeface #handwriting #fhaachen