Emma Marichal on designing Ploquine from wood type to variable font
- Date
- April 2024
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We interviewed French national Emma Marichal after the release of her Ploquine family, discussing her work, the Gerard Unger Scholarship, and more.
We introduced you to Emma Marichal in 2022 when she won the Gerard Unger Scholarship for her Ploquine typeface. After months of work to expand the family and perfect the variable fonts, we have just released it and hope you also appreciate the same expressive joy and usefulness we found in it. This video interview covers a bit of Emma’s history, her process, her thoughts on the Gerard Unger Scholarship, and her hopes for the Ploquine family.
Ploquine is a slab serif of structured delicacy, able to set context with subtlety or be stylistically captivating. Designed for editorial use from wood types, the family can be aggressive or delicate. Its 14 well-balanced styles are suitable for paragraphs where its details improve the overall text color, and those details become a distinctive branding feature when Ploquine is set at large sizes. Her experimentation and research produced a typeface with calm-fidence in every style.
Emma Marichal is a French type designer and font engineer based in Lyon, France. Initially from a graphic design background, she specialised in type design at EsadType in Amiens and concluded her studies with an internship at the 205TF foundry. She then met font engineer Rosalie Wagner who trained her in font engineering, equipping her to work for several large foundries in that role. Emma currently helps various clients develop their typographic projects from both a design and technical point of view.
Emma’s Ploquine font family was the winner of the 2022 Gerard Unger Scholarship, was released in 2024, and she continues work to extend the family.
