Le Jeune
Le Jeune is a serif typeface published by Commercial Type in 2016, designed by Paul Barnes. It comes in 5 weights, with italics. It is one of 139 typefaces from Commercial Type in the Type.lol catalog, 35 of them serif.
From the foundry
Originally designed by Paul Barnes and Christian Schwartz for Chris Dixon's refresh of Vanity Fair in 2013, Le Jeune is named for the Parisian typefounder and punchcutter Joseph Mole Le Jeune, a contemporary of the Didot family. With the help of type historian Sebastien Morlighem, Barnes and Schwartz settled on Mole Le Jeune's famed 1819 broadsheet specimen as their primary source, creating a refined French Modern in four optical sizes from huge headlines down to 6-point text.
Published by Commercial Type
Typeface on the foundry website
- Classification
- serif
- Weights
- Hairline, Thin, Light, Medium, Black
- Released
- 2016