Catherine Bellot

Catherine Bellot is a Montréal-based designer whose path into type began in the visual arts. With a background in fine arts, she spent her early years immersed in form, composition, and mark-making — a foundation that still shapes how she approaches letters today: as drawn objects with weight, rhythm, and intent, not merely functional shapes. Montréal's bilingual, design-rich culture left its mark on her eye. A city where French and English signage, gallery posters, and hand-painted storefronts sit side by side taught her to notice how letterforms carry tone, mood, and identity. That fascination with type as expression gradually drew her from the canvas toward the typeface. Her work is guided by a simple conviction: display type is where personality lives. She is drawn to letterforms that feel confident and characterful while staying disciplined enough to perform — bold without losing legibility, expressive without slipping into decoration. She cares about proportion, spacing, and the small adjustments that make a design feel resolved and intentional. Catherine designs across a deliberately broad range of styles, from geometric sans to high-contrast serifs, searching for the distinct voice each project deserves. Her aim is to make type with a genuine point of view — letters that give brands and designers a voice of their own.