About Chardon

Originally designed in 2012 for the publishing house Le Feu Sacré, Chardon draws freely from the Elzevir of the Beaudoire & Cie Fonderie générale des caractères français et étrangers. It is attributed to Charles Beaudoire but largely inspired by the work of his father Théophile, the foundry's former director, who died in 1903. Starting from the classical silhouette of the Elzevir — archetype of the golden age of Dutch printing — Beaudoire altered its terminals, making them more calligraphic and organic. In an aggregation of styles typical of the nineteenth century, his design evokes the forms of Art Nouveau, to which he added fanciful interpretations of older styles. This is particularly visible in the alternate characters r and s, whose forms draw from the French Ronde script of the seventeenth century. Chardon is a project of updating and displacement of these forms, typical of a specific era and milieu: that of the book and publishing in France at the dawn of the twentieth century. Bolder, more robust and rationalized, it has been adapted to contemporary uses and media. Chardon also features numerous OpenType functions and possibilities which, in combination, allow the appearance of the text to be varied and its ornamental dimension to be modulated.

Details

Character set: Latin extended

File formats delivered: OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2

Designed by Thomas Bizzarri and Alain Rodriguez. Development and mastering by Solenn Bordeau at OTT.

Supported Languages

Afrikaans • Albanian • German • English • Asu • Low German • Lower Sorbian • Basque • Bemba • Bena • Bosnian • Cape Verdean • Catalan • Cebuano • Chewa • Chisena • Cornish • Corsican • Mauritian Creole • Croatian • Danish • Jola-Fonyi • Embu • Spanish • Esperanto • Estonian • Faroese • Filipino • Finnish • French • Friulian • West Frisian • Scottish Gaelic • Galician • Welsh • Ganda • Greenlandic • Gusii • Upper Sorbian • Hungarian • Ido • Indonesian • Interlingua • Interlingue • Irish • Isangu • Icelandic • Italian • Javanese • Jju • Kalenjin • Kamba • Kiga • Kikuyu • Kinyarwanda • Kölsch • Kurdish • Latvian • Ligurian • Lithuanian • Lojban • Lombard • Luo • Luxembourgish • Luyia • Makonde • Makua • Malay • Malagasy • Maltese • Manx • Maori • Matchame • Meru • Northern Ndebele • Southern Ndebele • Dutch • Norwegian Bokmål • Norwegian Nynorsk • Nyankole • Occitan • Oromo • Polish • Portuguese • Rejang • Romansh • Rombo • Romanian • Rundi • Rwa • Samburu • Inari Sami • Northern Sami • Sango • Sardinian • Shambala • Shona • Silesian • Slovak • Slovenian • Soga • Somali • Northern Sotho • Southern Sotho • Sundanese • Swedish • Swiss German • Swahili • Swati • Taita • Taroko • Czech • Teso • Tsonga • Tswana • Turkmen • Vmw • Vunjo • Walloon • Walser • Wolastoqey • Wolof • Xhosa • Zhuang • Zulu