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La Perruque is a 1 × 90 cm-long magazine publishing nonstandard type specimens printed in the margins of industrial prints.

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La Perruque hacks unused paper surfaces from print shop production and turns them into playgrounds for type designers rather than waste.

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Each issue is accompanied by an article documenting the process of designing the font.

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FACE A/FACE B, PVC Type Project, Before and Beyond

N.28 – PVC/Lettering, Hélène Marian

In this specimen, Hélène Marian puts her type design and sign painting practices back to back. On the recto, a noise solo typeset in PVC, an off-standard typeface made up of…

Cut From Vinyl

N.26 – Crickx/Publi Fluor, Chrystel Crickx & Crickx Lab

What is commonly known as “la Crickx” (recently renamed Publi Fluor) is a typeface that Chrystel Crickx used to cut from vinyl in a variety of colors and sell in her Schaerbeek (Brussels) store before the year 2000…

A Petition of the Left Hand

N.21 – La Gauchère, Marion Cachon

From her “gaucherie” Marion Cachon draws a methodological and creative force in order design a troubling and riveting font that surpasses the pejorative…

Des imaginaires possibles autour d’une typographie inclusive

N.24 – Various typefaces, Bye Bye Binary

The collective Bye Bye Binary uses La Perruque for an “exquisite corpse” exercise, presenting a large number of typographic proposals overcoming gender binaries…
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La Perruque
type specimens magazine
Colophon & Licenses
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Brussels, Belgium
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