Production Type has released Vendôme Nouveau, its redrawing of Vendôme, the French serif that François Ganeau drew under Roger Excoffon's art direction for Fonderie Olive in 1950. Started by Jean-Baptiste Levée in 2007 and completed by Léa Bruneau and Charly Derouault, it comes in three optical sizes (Caption, Text, Display), three widths and seven weights with italics: 126 styles, the largest serif system the foundry has published. Single styles start at €90.
nearly twenty years of work for a face most people know only from blunted digitisations; the Caption cut, which the metal original never had, is the part to test first.