Kernevel Book
Fonderie Bretagne · Lucas Le Bihan · 2020
A book-weight serif from Lucas Le Bihan's Fonderie Bretagne, shaped by the rugged textures and deep cultural memory of Brittany.
About
Kernevel Book is a single-weight serif released as part of Fonderie Bretagne's wider exploration of Breton landscape and identity. The foundry's writing frames the design around the idea of surfaces marked by elemental forces, suggesting a typeface built for sustained reading at text sizes. It sits within a family of faces developed by Le Bihan under the Kernevel name.
Classification
The page imagery and foundry context suggest a text-weight serif with humanist characteristics, consistent with the foundry's focus on typographic forms rooted in calligraphic tradition and regional French craft.