We are passionate about letters, type and everything that comes along with. That’s why we enjoy to offer retail typefaces and custom solutions. Due to our French roots we also like to dine well and see many parallels between cooking and designing fonts. It is always the details in the preparation process that make the difference – therefore Font Cuisine.

Font Cuisine’s branding is based on Julien’s family history. Since the early 20th century, his ancestors ran a delicatessen butcher’s shop with a very special, and by the standards of the time, very elaborate branding. This was largely based on the work of the Alsatian artist "Hansi" (Jean-Jacques Waltz †1951), who created a symbol that has endured to this day with the silhouette of the two butchers (Julien’s great-grandfather and his brother) in Colmar, France. Over the years, a wide range of advertising posters, packaging and business stationery were created, some of which are still in the family’s possession today, even though the butcher’s shop no longer exists.



To this day, a large sign with the silhouette of the two butchers adorns the façade of the former business house with the words "Fincker Frères Colmar" and has even become a tourist attraction.



Font Cuisine’s figurative mark is therefore a homage to this symbol and has been adapted and modernised.



The name Font Cuisine is also more or less a continuation of the butcher's theme and keeps the initials F.F.C. as well. "Fincker Frères Colmar" becomes "Fincker Font Cuisine". The simplified F.F.C. logo is used in particular for very small applications.



Luckily, the butcher brothers will never know that one of their descendants has decided to not eat animals anymore.

Meet the people

Julien Fincker is a French Designer and lives near Stuttgart, Germany. After graduating as a communications and graphic designer, he worked for influential agencies and companies such as Grafisches Atelier Stankowski + Duschek. Type has always been a big part of his work – but only as a user. In 2018 he finally started to draw his first letters and released his first typeface in the beginning of 2019. With Font Cuisine he takes the focus on type in all its facets, from designing fonts to woodcutting and printing in his workshop.