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Type foundry in New York and London. commercialtype.com

The complete Delusse family, with the name of each style set in its respective typeface.
JE NE SAIS QUOI in Delusse Regular
Toronto Life cover from August 2025. REVENGE OF THE COTTAGERS is the main headline.
Text in Royal Gothic Bold
Text in Royal Gothic Black
AFTONBLADET nameplate in yellow with a black shadow on a red background
1975 poster for A Chorus Line
Pullquote from an interview with Shiva Nallaperumal: "I've always oscillated between type and graphic design. I love the rigor and craft of the former and the conceptual side of the latter." Typeset in Delegate Bold
Caslon Ionic Rounded (Bold)
Jargon in Jargon Black
Cover page of the PDF specimen for Place, with a short description of the family. Place is a beautiful typeface. Its beauty is supported by the rigorous craft and thinking that French calligrapher and type designer Julien Priez put into its creation. Two full sets of capitals, offering both Latin and blackletter structures, also make the family an indispensable tool for logotypes. Typeset any word in Place—chances are it will look like a logo. Relatively low stroke contrast expands the range of sizes at which Place can be used, and defies the cliché that a typeface needs to have high contrast to be elegant. Though its display qualities are obvious, its ability to serve as a supporting player should not be overlooked. Its four weights enable complex typography, allowing things like headers, footers, page furniture, and other utilitarian nagivational elements set in Place to be functional and poetic at the same time.
16 styles of Place, showing the standard and Extra styles side by side.
Practise sheet written by Julien Priez early in the process of designing Place upright.
Sonnet 36,127,693,221,580 by Raymond Queneau (1903–1976), lines 1-7 C’était à cinq o’clock qu’il sortait la marquise pour la mettre à sécher aux cornes des taureaux une toge il portait qui n’était pas de mise elle soufflait bien fort par dessus les côteaux Le cheval Parthénon frissonnait sous la bise d’où Galilée jadis jeta ses petits pots le gourmet en salade avale la cytise At five o’clock he rests in his marquise and sleeves are wrapped round horns of buffalo he wore his toga like an old chemise across the hillocks comes a steady blow The Parthenon horse is shivering in the biz where Galileo once took pots to throw mixing broom with chives shows expertise
IN THE RIGHT PLACE in Place Bold and Bold Extra
A grey book cover with a large black figure sitting on the ground with its head in its arms on its knees. Small text in the center of the figure reads "Franz Kafka The Metamorphosis"
Williamson Italic
White text on a blue background: “Then and Now: Letters in the Library”
Two copies of "Double Acts in Pop" on a red table next to a classical sculpture of a bust.