Yesterday we lost a friend, a colleague, and a design legend.

Jean Widmer (1929–2026) was closely associated with the ANRT throughout its history. As early as 1989, he designed, together with the ANCT, Bi-89, a typeface for the signage of the ceremonies marking the bicentennial of the French Revolution. He later taught at the ANRT for ten years, from 1996 to 2006. In the photographs (by Yoann De Roeck), he can be seen in the Atelier in Nancy, on Avenue Boffrand, in June 2002, alongside his colleagues and friends Hans Jurg Hunziker and Peter Keller.