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Contributed by Skritur SAS _**Source: www.instagram.com **David Yven. License: All Rights Reserved. _ For the new formula of Bretons magazine, art director David Yven has built a typographic system around three distinct voices. The magazine’s existing masthead, based on**Base 9 Sans** by Zuzana Licko, has been retained, preserving a visual continuity with previous issues. Monotype’s **Futura Now** , set exclusively in capitals, provides the display layer for the main headlines. Between these two poles, **Bilzig** handles the editorial matter and most of the intermediate levels of hierarchy. Bilzig Regular is used for running text in roman and italic. Its Bold and Black weights extend the family into the macrotypographic scale, handling subheads, standfirsts and other intermediate levels. Changes in size, weight and colour allow the hierarchy to be built largely within the same type family, rather than multiplying typefaces. The choice of Bilzig is also functional at the character-set level. Designed with the specific requirements of Breton in mind, the typeface includes forms and glyphs that are not incidental to the language, such as the **K** with diagonal stroke (**Ꝃ**) and the **N** with tilde (**Ñ** /**ñ**), alongside the numerous apostrophes characteristic of Breton typography. These details become particularly visible in a publication where Breton is not treated as an ornamental layer, but as a language of everyday editorial content. Bilzig was initiated by Brest-based type designer Jeanne Saliou during her research at the Atelier national de recherche typographique (ANRT) and developed with Skritur, where the typeface was finalised in 2025. Its design explores how a typeface can accommodate the linguistic and typographic specificities of Breton while remaining fully functional for extended reading. In _Bretons_ , that research is put to work in a complete editorial system: a geometric display face for headlines, a retained masthead as an identity marker, and Bilzig as the typographic infrastructure connecting the different scales of reading. _David Yven. License: All Rights Reserved. _ _David Yven. License: All Rights Reserved. _ _David Yven. License: All Rights Reserved. _ _David Yven. License: All Rights Reserved. _ _David Yven. License: All Rights Reserved. _ This post was originally published at Fonts In Use * * *

Contributed by Skritur SAS _Fañch Le Henaff. License: All Rights Reserved. _ Drawing: Au Bon Marché _(_ 1932) by Pierre Péron Blanc, gouache, private collection The exhibition _Pierre Péron, un graphiste moderne_ was held in the Brest Museum of Fine Arts, 2015–2016, curated by Fañch Le Henaff, under direction of Pascal Aumasson and in collaboration with Françoise and Yves-Marie Péron. Fañch Le Henaff was also responsible for the visual design, ecompassing signage, exhibition design, posters and an exhibition catalogue, published by Locus Solus. Dedicated to the graphic work of Pierre Péron – better known as a painter than as a prolific graphic designer – the exhibition highlighted his posters, illustrations, engravings, lettering, and typographic experiments. A member of the Seiz Breur movement, Péron embraced a distinctly modern vision rooted in Breton culture. Le Henaff, whose own practice consciously draws on this legacy, composed every support with **Brito** , the typeface he designed and released through the Breton type foundry Skritur. The result establishes a visual dialogue across generations, extending the formal and cultural ambitions of Seiz Breur into a contemporary typographic language. _F. Le Henaff. License: All Rights Reserved. _ _F. Le Henaff. License: All Rights Reserved. _ _F. Le Henaff. License: All Rights Reserved. _ _F. Le Henaff. License: All Rights Reserved. _ _**Source: youtu.be **Tébéo. License: All Rights Reserved. _ Guided tour of the exhibition at the Brest Museum of Fine Arts with curator Fañch Le Henaff, in a TV report by Julie Sicot for the Tébéo channel. This post was originally published at Fonts In Use * * *

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Maxime Lancien, gallerist and publisher, runs Din Heol Books. Following the release of the second issue of Les Bonnes Choses in September 2025, he published Naïa in October 2025, a bilingual French–Breton publication designed with Studio Boulon. Positioned between memory and

The Chantier Le Cœur was a shipyard in Lesconil, in southern Finistère, active from 1905 to 1980. It bears witness to the traditional artisanal activity of a small Breton port in the 20th century and has held the designation of “Port of Heritage Interest” since 2018. This f

Petite Histoire de la Bretagne, de la préhistoire à nos jours (“A Brief History of Brittany, from Prehistory to the Present Day”) is a book by Michèle Guilloux and Gwenola Pichard. It was designed by Benjamin Bruneau and published by Éditions Locus Solus in April 2026.

Auction catalog featuring paintings, furniture, and works of art: From the Seiz Breur to the Seiz Avel. This auction in Rennes will bring together works by the Seiz Breur artists and those by their modern-day successors, known collectively as the Seiz Avel. Designed by Cyril Des

The designer collaborated with Skritur, a foundry specializing in the written traditions of Brittany and the Celtic regions, to bring the typeface to life.

Bilzig, nouvelle typographie imaginée par la designer brestoise Jeanne Saliou et éditée par la fonderie Skritur, est la première famille de caractères pensée pour épouser les spécificités du breton, du gallo, du gallois et même du français. En donnant une forme graphique aux mutations consonantiques et en intégrant l’écriture inclusive, elle fait de la lettre un terrain d’innovation au service des langues de Bretagne et du monde celtique.

Contributed by Skritur SAS _La Doëlanaise. License: All Rights Reserved. _ Based in Le Pouldu, Clohars-Carnoët (Brittany), Cécile Ollier a.k.a. La Doëlanaise produces prints and stationery drawn from the Breton coast. A former graphic designer, she launched her imprint in 2023, translating linocuts into postcards, notebooks, and other paper goods. Her stark black-and-white compositions – Mamm-gozh, seagulls, coastal views – stem from a slow, hands-on engraving process, later refined digitally without losing their raw edge. Type is central to the system. Ollier uses faces from the Breton foundry Skritur, especially Kornog, whose angular, decorative forms reference the Art Deco vocabulary of the Seiz Breur. The small type is also available from Skritur: it’s **Brito**. Designed, printed, and largely produced in Brittany, the work ties together image, type, and place. _La Doëlanaise. License: All Rights Reserved. _ _La Doëlanaise. License: All Rights Reserved. _ _La Doëlanaise. License: All Rights Reserved. _ _La Doëlanaise. License: All Rights Reserved. _ This post was originally published at Fonts In Use * * *

Contributed by Skritur SAS _Studio Boulon. License: All Rights Reserved. _ Maxime Lancien, gallerist and publisher, runs Din Heol Books. Following the release of the second issue of _Les Bonnes Choses_ in September 2025, he published Naïa in October 2025, a bilingual French–Breton publication designed with Studio Boulon. Positioned between memory and creation, _Naïa_ explores a dialogue between language and contemporary art, drawing on the collections of Breton museums and the notion of the Matter of Brittany. Folklore emerges as a key source of inspiration. This first issue features, among others, filmmaker Emmanuel Piton and writer Maaï Youssef, gathered around the theme of death. The layout combines **GT Alpina** (Reto Moser, Grilli Type) and **Gallmau** (Malou Verlomme, Skritur). _Studio Boulon. License: All Rights Reserved. _ _Studio Boulon. License: All Rights Reserved. _ _Maaï Youssef. License: All Rights Reserved. _ This post was originally published at Fonts In Use * * *

Contributed by Skritur SAS _Association Bag Leskon. License: All Rights Reserved. _ The Chantier Le Cœur was a shipyard in Lesconil, in southern Finistère, active from 1905 to 1980. It bears witness to the traditional artisanal activity of a small Breton port in the 20th century and has held the designation of “Port of Heritage Interest” since 2018. This former shipyard was converted into an eco-museum in 2019 and is managed by the Bag Leskon association. The museum showcases the original buildings, collections, and equipment, and takes its name from the shipyard’s principal owner, Alain Le Cœur (pictured in the first photo). _Yoann De Roeck. License: All Rights Reserved. _ View of the antique tools on display in the museum’s showcases. _Yoann De Roeck. License: All Rights Reserved. _ View of the antique tools on display in the museum’s showcases. _Yoann De Roeck. License: All Rights Reserved. _ View of the antique tools on display in the museum’s showcases. _Yoann De Roeck. License: All Rights Reserved. _ Fañch Le Henaff, creator of the Brito typeface, posing in front of the museum entrance. _Yoann De Roeck. License: All Rights Reserved. _ More uses of Brito! This post was originally published at Fonts In Use * * *

Contributed by Skritur SAS _Photo: Skritur SAS. License: All Rights Reserved. _ Petite Histoire de la Bretagne, de la préhistoire à nos jours__(“A Brief History of Brittany, from Prehistory to the Present Day”) is a book by Michèle Guilloux and Gwenola Pichard. It was designed by Marianne Ramel and published by Éditions Locus Solus in April 2026. _Photo: Skritur SAS. License: All Rights Reserved. _ This post was originally published at Fonts In Use * * *

Contributed by Skritur SAS _Rennes Enchères Bretagne. License: All Rights Reserved. _ Auction catalog featuring paintings, furniture, and works of art: From the Seiz Breur to the Seiz Avel. This auction in Rennes will bring together works by the Seiz Breur artists and those by their modern-day successors, known collectively as the Seiz Avel. Designed by Cyril Dessirier at Bluepoulp for Rennes Enchères Bretagne, with photos by Laurent Guizard. The cover features a painting by Lukian Denez and a wood sculpture by Joseph Savina – as well as Kornog for the title. _Rennes Enchères Bretagne. License: All Rights Reserved. _ _Rennes Enchères Bretagne. License: All Rights Reserved. _ _Yoann De Roeck. License: CC BY-NC. _ This post was originally published at Fonts In Use * * *

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