Jean François Porchez
![Jean-François Porchez (centre) in 2015, knight of the French [[Order of Arts and Letters](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/Discours_de_Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois_Porchez_Arts_et_Lettres.jpg)
Porchez has been a visiting lecturer at the MA typeface design MATD program at the Reading University (United Kingdom) and regularly conducts type design workshops all over the world. He also contributes regularly to conferences and international publications. He published Lettres Françaises, a book (in French & English) that, at the time, showed a large selection of contemporary French digital typefaces. In late 2001 he was the President of a jury set up by the Ministère de l’Éducation Nationale to select the new handwriting model and system for France and was a jury member of the 3rd Linotype Type Design Contest.
He founded the community blog and website ''Le Typographe'', dedicated to French speaking typography and typeface design. Provided by Wikipedia