Blaze Type Foundry

Blaze Type Foundry Blaze Type Foundry is a digital type design foundry based in Lyon, France.

Our aim is to design and produce beautiful typefaces, which will age gracefully and provide incredible functionality over the years.

02/09/2026

We’ve worked for world-scale companies and for your local music store. Same process, same care. No project is too big or too small.

Blaze Type is an independent type foundry with a team of 50+ designers, linguistic experts and engineers around the world.

Here’s what we do:
→ Custom Font Design. A typeface that’s yours and nobody else’s. Standing out starts with the letters.

→ Wordmark & Lettering. From a one-off logotype to a full proprietary type system. Concept, design, production, delivery. If it involves letters, we can build it.

→ Consulting. Typography decisions are permanent. We audit type stacks, select the right families and build systems that hold together across every touchpoint. We don’t push fonts we sell, we tell you what actually works.

→ Font Production & Mastering. Got a typeface that’s 80% done? We take it the rest of the way: glyph expansion, language coverage, spacing & kerning, variable axes, rendering fixes, any delivery format. Whether we designed it or not.

Case studies → link in bio (blazetype.eu/case-studies)
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Machine GK is our newest release from our dear friend  Jeremy Bégel Available in 10 styles and variable with 4 distincti...
08/07/2026

Machine GK is our newest release from our dear friend Jeremy Bégel

Available in 10 styles and variable with 4 distinctive stylistic sets

This project is one of the closest to my heart because we started working on this project back when I was Jeremy’s intern, nearly 15 years ago!

Being able to finish this Din inspired heavy on the ligatures font with our dear friend is such an awesome feeling!

Machine GK is a typeface built around a rational structure inspired by 20th-century technical and industrial alphabets. Its design is based on a deliberate economy of means: simple shapes, low contrast, and a homogeneous rhythm in the direct lineage of typefaces like DIN-Mittelschrift.

This apparent neutrality serves as the foundation for an extensive ligature system developed as a fully fledged typesetting tool. Divided into several stylistic sets, these ligatures introduce varying degrees of transformation to the text. Some subtly affect its texture, while others produce more visible fusions capable of altering the silhouette of words.

Designed as much for text setting as for display use, these ligatures offer an alternative to traditional hierarchy mechanisms such as italics, weight variations, or letter-spacing adjustments. Their repetition generates a specific typographic gray and imparts a distinct identity to the text while maintaining the coherence of the original system. In their most pronounced variations, they locally transform the letters they connect and alter the silhouette of words, opening up expressive possibilities particularly suited for large-format layouts and display typography.

Machine GK subverts the logic of standardization from which it stems to offer new forms of typographic differentiation and to expand the possibilities of expression within typesetting itself.

29/06/2026

Zeyond Stencil by amazing .type is out and available on blazetype.eu

Styles as weights for a width evolving sharp stencil to use in display sizek all day everyday

Our favorite sandwich spot in Marseille .sandwich.coffee got a full re branding done by our homies .studio   who also wo...
25/06/2026

Our favorite sandwich spot in Marseille .sandwich.coffee got a full re branding done by our homies .studio who also worked on a custom display!

Funny thing they are using Homie designed by other homie .otf

Check the new visuals and go get that food

Awesome font un use by ・・・My name is François Halard.We are very proud to share with you to this catalogue we designed f...
09/06/2026

Awesome font un use by
・・・
My name is François Halard.
We are very proud to share with you to this catalogue we designed for and on the occasion of the exhibition Ne rien jeter (33 ans après)

The exhibition is visible until the 27th of September in Fondation Gallifet in Aix-en-Provence!

Special tanks to François Halard, and Nicolas Mazet

Book printed by
Typeface in use : Aman, by

Meet the jury for the first Ignition Award! Deadline : 31 of July.If you’re studying type design — this one’s for you.We...
04/06/2026

Meet the jury for the first Ignition Award!

Deadline : 31 of July.

If you’re studying type design — this one’s for you.

We’re launching the Ignition Award: our annual scholarship for type design students worldwide. Five laureates selected each year. No ranking, no hierarchy — every winner is equal.

✦ €1,000 cash, unrestricted
✦ 6 months mentorship with our team
✦ Option to distribute on blazetype.eu (not mandatory)

You don’t need a commercial release. You don’t need to be at a famous school. You need a typeface worth showing and a clear point of view.

Open call: April 10 → July 31
All nationalities welcome.

https://blazetype.eu/ignition-award

Jury for this year :  .otf 
 .hugues Matthieu Salvaggio

        

Type in use by ・・・A   for the Thresholds of Existence by Jan Söffner. A question of what is real is no longer the no-bra...
14/05/2026

Type in use by
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A for the Thresholds of Existence by Jan Söffner. A question of what is real is no longer the no-brainer it once was.
Art direction: Michele Wetherbee .design

Typeface: Area Inktrap by graphicdesigncommunity

Fusion Grotesk in use by .studio’s refresh for .matches pulls forward the brand’s 60s and 70s designs, when Swiss Modern...
12/05/2026

Fusion Grotesk in use by .studio’s refresh for .matches pulls forward the brand’s 60s and 70s designs, when Swiss Modernist thinking had filtered into its packaging.⁠

The Melbourne-based studio set the new wordmark in Fusion Grotesk from Blaze Type, chosen for the small grotesque quirks in its lowercase ‘l,’ ‘t’ and ‘a.’ Ms Redheads sits alongside it, simplified but unmistakable, her hair reintroduced as a flowing graphic that flickers across the lower half of every pack like a flame.⁠

A flexible grid holds the system together across formats as different as a slim box of long matches and a four-kilogram bag of charcoal – and absorbs the dense regulatory copy required, even the smallest matchbox.⁠


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CREDITS⁠
Design: .studio⁠
Brand: .matches⁠
Typography: Fusion by

Cant get enough of Balete available on blazetype.euotf Balete is a typeface evoked by the eerie structure of the native ...
07/05/2026

Cant get enough of Balete available on blazetype.eu
otf Balete is a typeface evoked by the eerie structure of the native balete tree, infamous in Philippine folklore for being a dwelling place of supernatural beings. Characterized by dangling roots which the hemiepiphytic species uses to strangle and eventually consume its host tree victim, the letterforms feature creeping, slender terminals that emerge from twisting stems, wrought from the illusion of fluid calligraphy without the presence of a single curved line.

Get it now at blazetype.eu/typefaces/balete

filipino type63 filipinotype filipino baybayin philippines philippinenativetree balete

Have you marveled at a real-life balete tree yet?

Lyst is our latest release by  ❤️💌 NEW RELEASE 💌 НОВИЙ РЕЛІЗ 💌I am so excited to present to you my new typeface! Meet LY...
06/05/2026

Lyst is our latest release by ❤️

💌 NEW RELEASE 💌 НОВИЙ РЕЛІЗ 💌

I am so excited to present to you my new typeface! Meet LYST! And now you can explore it with the incredible 🫰

LYST is a condensed serif shaped by the visual culture of the late 20th century. Rather than reviving a single source, it captures the broader editorial atmosphere of the period — where corporate clarity met magazine sophistication. The initial spark came from a familiar sight: mechanically condensed Times New Roman in everyday print. Instead of treating that compression as a flaw, Lyst takes it as a subtle point of departure.

LYST includes 27 styles across a broad weight range, featuring Roman, true Italic, and Slanted cuts. The Slanted styles are set at a precise 10° angle and carefully adjusted to maintain visual balance. Their presence reflects the original conceptual premise: if mechanical compression can define proportion, mechanical inclination can define movement. An alternative stylistic set with Italic Forms allows users to replace the Roman or Slanted structures with upright italic constructions for a more expressive tone.

And of course, LYST comes with extended Latin and Ukrainian Cyrillic support.

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