Curriculum Vitae

Léo Paillette
Tel : +33625040141
E-mail : lpaillette@orange.fr
Adresse : Rue de La Source 19, St-Gilles, 1060, Belgium

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Présentation

I specialize in bespoke typeface design, editorial design, and visual identities. I work on cultural, commercial, and artistic projects, bringing a bold and distinctive approach to every collaboration.
As a freelancer, I balance client work with personal research. Follow my updates on social media or get in touch for inquiries, collaborations, or to talk type and design.

Education

Master Design et Politique du Multiples option Typographie, École de Recherche Graphique (Erg), 2023-2025

Bachelor Design Typographique, Ensav La Cambre,
Bruxelles, 2020 - 2023

BTS Design Graphique, ÉSDM Marseille, 2018 - 2020

Permis B Forcalquier, 2018

Bac Arts Appliqués ÉSDM Marseille, 2018

Skills

Glyphsapp 3.0
Fontforge
Adode Illustrator
Adode Indesign
Adode Photoshop
Adode Première Pro
Suite Office

Workshops

ATD Automatic Type Design 3 :

- Workshop :

Eugénie Bidaut, Antoine Gelgon, Pierre Huyghebaert, Ludivine Loiseau (OpenSource Publishing / ERG / La Cambre Brussels, BE). METAFONT / METAPOST

Philipp Koller and Lena Weber (Burrowlab & Burrow Berlin, DE). A Parametric Type System

- Talks :

Keynote: Ferdinand Ulrich (Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, DE), Patrick Baudelaire. Digital type from the day before yesterday and tomorrow

Julie Blanc and Clémence Imbert (HEAD-Genève, CH). Typesetting and Publishing Tools: Beyond WYSIWYG

Maurice Meilleur (Iowa State University, USA). From score to algorithm to diagram

Keynote: Anushah Hossain (University of California, Berkeley, USA). Creativity or Constraint? The Limits of Text Technologies for Non-Latin Scripts

Abeera Kamran (University of Reading, UK). Reading Nastaʿlīq: from print mastery to web failures

Kostas Bartsokas, Eleni Beveratou, Gerry Leonidas, Natalia Qadreh, Emilios Theofanous, Irene Vlachou, and Alexios Zavras (University of Reading, UK). Consequences of being early and a few: unfinished business for Greek typography

Fraser Muggeridge (Leeds Beckett University, UK). Justified and unjustified setting (at the same time)

Olivier Lebrun (Paris, FR). Energy Made (Them) Visible, Chap. III, Jean Crampilh-Broucaret and “le plancher de Jeannot (1971-1972)”

Keynote: Scott Kim (Stanford University, USA). Knuth, Hofstadter, Warnock — An Eclectic Typographic Synthesis

Roland Früh, Sophie Wietlisbach (ECAL/HES-SO, CH), Anna-Lena Wuerth (Hochschule Mainz, DE). Book launch of ‘Impact Type’ – about technological innovation, type design, and typewriters

Keynote: David Březina (Rosetta, CZ). What is a universal script grammar?

Ann Bessemans (Hasselt University, BE). The automatization of rhythm deduction in type

Giulio Galli (Hasselt University, BE). The challenges of defining typographic parameters

Keynote: Kai Bernau, Alice Savoie, Matthieu Cortat Roller, Radim Pesko (ECAL/HES-SO, CH). Beyond “Beyond Bézier”

Niteesh Yadav (Pocket FM, IN). Beyond Screens: Reimagining Typography in Immersive Realities

Francois Chastanet (isdaT Toulouse, FR). Breaking the glass ceiling of open-path fonts’ export (and use)

Filip Paldia (Academy of Fine Arts and Design Bratislava, SK) and Samuel Čarnoky (Faculty of Arts - Technical University of Košice, SK). Generating fonts with transformers and normalised datasets

Petr van Blokland (TypeMedia, KABK The Hague, NL. Cooper Union, USA). Combining machine learning and rule based digital assistants to create short design cycles for type design projects

Keynote: Gary McGraw (USA). ML/AI, Typographic Design, and the Four "I"s

Erik van Blokland (TypeMedia, KABK The Hague, NL). See Also: the cosine similarity in type design

Closing keynote: NORM (Zürich, CH)

Jany Belluz and Robert Pratley (Dalton Maag, London, UK). How to Make COLRv1 Fonts Without a Font Editor: The Feedback Loop Between Design and Technology

Jeremy Tribby (Countertype, Oakland California, USA). Italic Assistant : a multi-modal approach to automatic italics

Laurence Penney (Axis-Praxis, UK). Visualizing the mathematics inside variable fonts

Léna Le Pommelet, My-Lan Thuong (Sharp Type, USA). The OmniLatin Tool

Cédric Rossignol-Brunet (ESAD Valence, FR). Typographic Program

Filip Paldia and Samuel Čarnoky (LTTR/CORP, Brno, CZ). Beyond The Stroke — The Skeleton Type Design Study

Marte Verhaegen (RoboFont, BE / Production Type, FR). (Reintroducing UFOStretch and RoundingUFO)

Gaetan Baehr, Jérémie Hornus, Just Van Rossum (Black Foundry, FR). FONTRA

Philipp Koller (Burrowlab & Burrow Berlin, DE). A Parametric Type System

Workshop with BeBeBooks at Erg (École de Recherche Graphique). Bruxelles

Workshop with Dries Wiewauters at La Cambre. Bruxelles

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Léo Paillette C.V. Éditorial Design—Murs Blancs, Peuple Muet. Type Design—Xplicit Typeface Custom Typeface—Usine-C Éditorial Design—Jardins Typographiques Type Design—Érodium Type Design—Nævus Visual Identity—Zéphir Busine Éditorial Design—Désobéissance Civile

Léo Paillette
C.V.

Éditorial Design—Murs Blancs, Peuple Muet.
Type Design—Xplicit Typeface
Custom Typeface—Usine-C
Éditorial Design—Jardins Typographiques
Type Design—Érodium
Type Design—Nævus
Visual Identity—Zéphir Busine
Éditorial Design—Désobéissance Civile