Franck Jalleau is a type designer, calligrapher, and stonecutter. Former student of the Scriptorium de Toulouse, he has followed the training of Atelier National de Création Typographique and then worked with Ladislas Mandel and José Mendoza. He designed typefaces for Agfa, the city of Brives or the non-profit group ATD Quart-Monde. Sole designer at the French Imprimerie nationale, he develops a program of exclusive revivals since 1990. He equally accomplished several original designs for French passport and ID, tax reference codes and numerous other secure print applications of which we can’t say a word. Teacher at the École Estienne, he frames there the only French educational program in type design. His stonecut letters cant be sighted from the parisian Trocadéro Square to the UN headquarters, along with the small paths of southern Provence. He received the Prix des Graphistes in 1998 and several international prizes among which are 1987 and 1996 japanese Morisawa awards. His successes extend to numerous obscure sports competitions of “palet vendéen”.