The typeface “Marcel” is named in honor of Marcel Heuzé, a Frenchman who was conscripted into labor during WWII. During the months Marcel was in Germany, he wrote letters to his beloved wife and daughters back home in France. His letters began with affectionate greetings such as “Mes chères petites” (My little darlings) and were filled with the most beautiful expressions of love imaginable. Marcel’s letters also contain rare and extraordinary first-person testimony of day-to-day survival within a labor camp. The letters — stained and scarred with multiple censor marks — were the original source documents used to create a font that retains the expressive character of Marcel Heuzé’s original ink-on-paper handwriting.