Max Esnée

I am an independent type designer and art director based in Lyon, France.

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Typefaces

Savate

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Savate is a humanist sans-serif typeface with reverse contrast.

Its name, borrowed from the French martial art, reflects the typeface’s sense of motion.

This new release is a complete redraw of the original Savate, first published in 2016 by the We.ch collective (Max Esnée and Hadrien Bulliat) through Velvetyne. While it stays true to the spirit of the original design, every glyph has been refined to improve rhythm, structure, and overall cohesion.

Gamuth Sans

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Gamuth Sans is a sans-serif companion to Gamuth.

It is made to be economical and legible in small sizes. It was designed specifically for UI and data presentation. Gamuth Sans is multiplexed, meaning that all the weights have the same metrics. This allow for more predictable layout in interfaces or tables.

Gamuth Sans is available at Production Type.

Buvard

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Buvard is an old-style serif inspired by Renaissance typefaces.

It features an unconventional, bottom-heavy, weight distribution. It is inspired by a common characteristic found in Renaissance-era prints: imperfection in the printing process resulting in certain parts of letters getting heavier than other.

Despite this added weight giving it a hint of goofiness, Buvard does not renounce its original dignity and retains some of that classical elegance.

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