“While Vendôme is signed by François Ganeau (best known for his
stage designs), this typeface bears the characteristic imprint of
Excoffon, the artistic director of the Olive foundry, who ‘advised’
Ganeau at every stage of the creation.” [Musée
de l’imprimerie de Lyon.] “Almost everything that is original
in Vendôme … is from the hand of Excoffon.” [Mendoza
1983]
The two designers worked for over five years on the initial
design. Olive released the regular and italic in 1950. Four more
styles were issued 1952–1956 [Chamaret/Gineste/Morlighem 2010].
Also cast by Bauer in 1962. [ad]
[Reichardt 2011] The étroit (condensed)
style of 1954 is quite similar to More…
“While Vendôme is signed by François Ganeau (best known for his stage designs), this typeface bears the characteristic imprint of Excoffon, the artistic director of the Olive foundry, who ‘advised’ Ganeau at every stage of the creation.” [Musée de l’imprimerie de Lyon.] “Almost everything that is original in Vendôme … is from the hand of Excoffon.” [Mendoza 1983]
The two designers worked for over five years on the initial design. Olive released the regular and italic in 1950. Four more styles were issued 1952–1956 [Chamaret/Gineste/Morlighem 2010]. Also cast by Bauer in 1962. [ad] [Reichardt 2011] The étroit (condensed) style of 1954 is quite similar to Trump-Mediäval schmalhalbfett which came eight years later.
