Le Beaune
An unrealised municipal commission revived sixteen years later
Le Beaune was designed in 1995 for the city of Beaune in Bourgogne, intended for municipal building signage—a use that was never realised. In 2011, Damien Gautier undertook a complete overhaul, simplifying and clarifying the design while preserving its engraved origins. The numerous ligatures remain a visible sign of that inscriptional heritage.
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Insights
- The 1995 original was purpose-built for a specific city's signage system but went unused, leaving the design dormant for over a decade.
- The 2011 overhaul pursued liveliness through simplification, with the source describing the result as 'simplified and stated'.
- Ligatures are described as a clear sign of the typeface's engraved origins, alongside other detail-level choices the source calls surprising.
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