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LORIS OLIVIER

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Type.Index is a personal portfolio site started in 2016 with the purpose of
presenting  type design projects in progress.

All projects are in varying degrees of progress, some for the use in ongoing
identity designs, some are designed independently.

All the projects are digital sketches and will probably take different and more
concrete visual directions.

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01
Lemanic
Transitional Serif [text]

Status: In progress

Started: 2015

infos

Lemanic is a project that started in February 2015. It consists of an
exploration of 5 months into the construction of an extended type family for
newspaper. Working with three different grades, it lets the designer construct a
page with very dynamic and dynamic elements. The first grade made for text is
the book one. It has a regular, an italic, a bold and a bold italic. The second
grade is the display and is at the actual state made of a bold and a bold
italic. Finally, the third grade is the head made of a special blackletter.

02
Phily
Lineale Geometric [headline + display]

Status: In progress

Started: 2015

infos

Phily is a three cuts project oriented around the grotesk version. Merging
together traditional geometric sans-serif shapes and adding some contrast. This
combination brings a crispy texture by playing with thin junction and more
monolinear shapes.
While Phily project being in progress it contains a grotesk, a rounded, a
condensed and a compressed version. It will slowly evolved into different cuts
in order to leave the "adaptation" area.

03
Soprana
Transitional Serif [text + display]

Status: In progress

Started: 2014

infos

After long hours of walking in different little village in the middle of Sicily,
we stopped in an old city called Soprana. Different signed engraved in stone
were visible in streets and religious building. I made several research and went
back the next day with the idea of photographing several sources. All of the
sign were engraved in marble and have the specificity of being only made in
uppercases.

04
Medley
Transitional Serif [display]

Status: In progress

Started: 2015

infos

After browsing the virtual medieval manuscript library, some document contained
some interesting details that can be used in a more contemporary context. After
searching for unconventional documents, the document below brings some
interesting design elements. The particularity of this set of letters is the
unusual ligatures and some experimental ligature. After launching, this font
seemed particularly popular on adult websites. Both OnlyFans and XXX Fans have
adopted the typeface into their new logos. I am really interested to know why
not only one, but two of the most popular porn sites on the internet decided to
use this style. This font has literally become the "typeface" of porn.

05
Phantom
Transitional Monospace Serif [text + display]

Status: In progress

Started: 2016

infos

Phantom started as a logo for Sunbilt. "Swiss Efficiency" being the base model
on which the project began, it gave me somehow a lot of information of the
visual and proportions needed. The recipe extracted from the logo was:
mono-space, serif, light and quite some contrast.
The project slowly evolved and included two other weight. This family expansion
installed new problems due to the serifs and the monospace restrictions.
Solutions need to be challenged and problem solved.

06
Bachus
Brush script [headline + display]

Status: In progress

Started: 2016

infos

Bacchus is this brushy type project born from a logo. The decision to turn the
identity of Wine District, a local Geneva based wine cellar, into a punk/casual
identity really lead the visual direction. Based on letters made with a brush,
the goal was really to break up with the very traditional and codified world of
wine traditions and graphic world.
The whole typeface has several conditional ligature and each letters has at
least 3 differents version of it. It includes initial and final forms.

07
Animax
Lineale Geometric [text + display]

Status: In progress

Started: 2016

infos

Animax is the typeface born after the Enigma rebranding. Having to reshape and
identity and use a typeface to do it leaded to many questions. Merging specific
shapes stated in the brief and a sense of contemporary shapes and rhythm was a
big challenge. The goal was to offer a tool that could really support the
identity.
The choice of a very geometric sans serif is explained by the decision present
all around. This project was made with the intention to pair this type project
with two other google font.

08
Chablaix
Neo-textura [display]

Status: In progress

Started: 2015

infos

Chablaix has been extracted from the original Lemanic project. After setting up
a tool box in The Hague during the TypeMedia program, it was time for the
different cuts and type version to exist by itself.
This black-letter typeface in progress will include three weight and italics
paired with it. In both cases, roman and italic, the intended size is for big
headlines.

09
Volpe
Transitional Serif [display]

Status: In progress

Started: 2015

infos

Volpe has been extracted from the original Lemanic project. After setting up a
tool box in The Hague during the TypeMedia program, it was time for the
different cuts and type version to exist by itself.
This in progress project is made for headlines and titles. Its important
contrast limit its usage for small size but really give some rhythm and some
noise to a layout. In addition to the roman and italic set, the type project has
a condensed and a stencil version.

10
Kartel
Lineale Neo-Grotesk [text]

Status: In progress

Started: 2014

infos

[COMING SOON]

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Aragon
Transitional Serif [display]

Status: In progress

Started: 2014

infos

If we could say that, this project is my candy. It gathers different shapes that
interest me and that is quite a challenge to make it work together. This
specific font is probably the most in progress work and is a daily playground
that helps me to understand shapes and type design.
The high contrast is a sort of ease but its counter-brother which has quite no
contrast and no serif is on its way in order to study the evolution and drawing
of both direction

12
Arancia
Lineale Geometric[display + text]

Status: In progress

Started: 2016

infos

Some project start from an identity built around a logo and some start from a
sentence leading the identity. L'Oranger, an ancient and well-known cafe in
Geneva, rebranded their identity and asked Enigma to make the whole work. One of
the proposal revolve around a custom typeface for the sentence "La terre est
bleu comme une orange", earth is blue as an orange.
The proportions and the very geometric choices built this visual identity. Those
two characteristic produced some very wide circular shapes to highlight the
contrast between the tradition and the modern times.

13
Moritz
Slab Serif [text]

Status: In progress

Started: 2015

infos

This project is a revival born out of traveling guide from Switzerland. The main
goal is to really experiment with a Clarendon like typeface and to study the
very dynamic and complex aspect of the italic.

14
Orniere
Lineale Humanist [text + display]

Status: In progress

Started: 2015

infos

Born out of the roman face of the Lemanic typeface, it evolved quite a lot since
it was considered at the end of the first 2015 semester.
The project took a text oriented way and included since the beginning some
specific ingredient. While working in parallel with the Lemanic serif face, the
similar proportions were the first point to keep. Then came the inktraps and the
low contrast. All of that built the regular width while in parallel working on
the condensed version and its unconventional alternates and ligatures.

15
Rouka
Lineale Neo-grotesk stencil [headline]

Status: In progress

Started: 2015

infos

Part of a logo research started in December at Theoreme Communication.
The goal was to reach the point of a stencil typeface with a mix of a sans-serif
features and mechanical contrast.

16
Susanfe
Lineale Transitional [display + text]

Status: In progress

Started: 2016

infos

Many project beginning leave some little seeds that can be develop into study
project.
Born after a sketching research for Wine District (an Enigma project), this
leaded to the recipe of a condensed grotesk alterning very straight and regular
stem and some more curvy elements. In this project, the straight features of the
h, n, m or d with incurved shapes such as the one in a and e, will create a dual
shape pattern.

17
Tweelo
Garalde [text]

Status: In progress

Started: 2014

infos

Tweelo was an academic project made during Pr. Peter Verheul's class. Starting
from paper sketches to digital interpretation, the study gave us the opportunity
to compare the drawing element to the one made with a brush. Slowly evoling,
this typeface is made for text in small size.

18
Milwaukee
Slab serif [display]

Status: In progress

Started: 2013

infos

[COMING SOON]

19
Groo
Lineale Neo-Grotesk [text + display]

Status: In progress

Started: 2013

infos

[COMING SOON]

20
Saudade
Transitional Serif [text + display]

Status: In progress

Started: 2013

infos

[COMING SOON]

21
Wicht
Humanist Serif [text]

Status: In progress

Started: 2016

infos

[COMING SOON]

22
Cozette
Didone Serif

Status: In progress

Started: 2016-present

infos

Jaggi, a swiss architecture agency, hired Enigma to rebrand their identity. From
a specific brief given by Daniele Catalanotto, the logo opened different
directions and created a big collaborative session.
At the end, the choice of prestige and contrast leaded the way and gave this
four in progress weight.

23
Misc.
Serif + Sans + Script

Status: In progress

Started: 2013-present

infos

From individual projects to experimentation to very tiny project, here are some
of the work in progress or simply put quietly in a drawer.

24
Merle
Slab Serif

Status: In progress

Started: 2016-present

infos

Emerging from a logo made for Merantix, the whole typeface responded to two
specific criteria. The first one being the expression of a digital and
humanistic/technological version of Hermès. The second one was to visually
create a prestige and mystic universe.
The whole typeface finally has been deployed in four weight. These four are
contrasted but still maintain quite a narrow range of weight difference.

25
Civilitate
Broken script

Status: In progress

Started: 2016-present

infos

Civlitate is more of a study, a revival and an adaption of the original R.
Granjon characters called "Caractères de Civilité". The goal of this project is
two creates three process in parallel. This first one is the pure observation
and revival aspect of the type found in different sources. The second one is to
clean the first paper and digital sketch of the previous observation. Finally,
the third direction is to create a second master with a very contemporary
adaptation of the original shapes.


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