Roger Excoffon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Roger Excoffon

French typographer

Date of Birth: 07-Sep-1910

Place of Birth: Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Date of Death: 30-May-1983

Profession: type designer, poster artist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Roger Excoffon (7 September 1910 – 30 May 1983) was a French typeface designer and graphic designer.Excoffon was born in Marseille, studied law at the University of Aix-en-Provence, and then moved to Paris to apprentice in a print shop.
In 1947, he formed his own advertising agency and concurrently became design director of a small foundry in Marseille called Fonderie Olive.
Later, he co-founded the prestigious Studio U+O, named in reference to "Urbi et Orbi". Excoffon's best-known faces are Mistral and Antique Olive, the latter which he designed between 1962 and 1966.
Air France, one of Excoffon's largest and most prestigious clients, used a customized variant of Antique Olive in its wordmark and livery until 2009, when a new logo was introduced. Excoffon's faces, even the sober Antique Olive, have an organic vibrancy not found in similar sans-serif types of the period.
His typefaces gave voice to an exuberant body of contemporary French and European graphic design.