Plus, there are a bunch of stylistic sets including alternate glyphs to tweak your texts and wordmarks, and elevated decimal figures for compact price and time settings. With overgrown terminals, hairline punctuation and symbols, it takes Sombra’s concept further.With more than 680 glyphs in each style, Sombra supports over 140 Latin languages and comes packed with arrows, starry icons, circled numbers, compact figure settings, as well as standard and fancy ligatures. And when you want an even more free-spirited attitude? There’s the ultra bold Poster style to top it all off. How Sombra combines width and weight can bring an exciting tension to your design. It’s a versatile choice for demanding typographic tasks: a condensed Thin for short synopses on the back of packaging, a Regular balanced for all kinds of text and a wide Black that boosts headlines. Across seven weights, Sombra sprouts from a condensed Light into an extended Black before revealing its most eccentric colour in the UltraBlack poster style. This tension between organic momentum and the geometric construction means Sombra flowers in branding, editorial and packaging projects connected to nature, urban life and culture. It combines geometric structure with leafy, sharply swelling strokes and exaggerated incisions. Sombra is an organic grotesque typeface with flourishing spirit.
Parisine Plus is a precursor in the way it offers many ligatures and strange forms we generally find more in serif typefaces families that express historical connotations.The various Parisine Plus typeface subfamiliesParisine Plus is organised in various weight subsets, from the original family Parisine Plus (4 compatible fonts), Parisine Plus Gris featuring lighter versions of the usual Regular and Bold (4 compatible fonts), Parisine Plus Claire featuring extra light weights (4 compatible fonts), to Parisine Plus Sombre with his darker and extremly black weights as we can seen in Frutiger Black or Antique Olive Nord (4 compatible fonts).About ParisineParisine helps Parisians catch the right busParisine Plus and its fancy type effectsObservateur du design star of 2007 In fact, when Parisine try to express neutrality (a typeface is never neutral), Parisine Plus has fun with contrasts and not-so-obvious additions for a sans family.
A reaction to the subjective functionalism of Parisine. Not connected with Ratp and public transports, Parisine Plus was created as an informal version of Parisine.Parisine: Introducing narrow and compressed familiesAbout ParisineParisine helps Parisians catch the right busObservateur du design star of 2007Ī playfull fancy sanserif typeface in 16 fontsParisine Plus was designed in 1999 as an informal version of Parisine. Parisine remain the official corporate typeface of the public transport in Paris, the worldwide capital for tourism, and now integral part of the French touch.Directly related, Parisine Office was initially created for Ratp’s internal and external communication, Parisine Office is available at Typofonderie too. Many years of adjustments were necessary to refine this complex family.Initially, Parisine was designed by Jean François Porchez in 1996 for Ratp to solely fulfil the unique needs of signage legibility.
The Narrow version will be useful as direct compagnon mixed to standard width version when the space is limited.The various Parisine typeface subfamiliesParisine is organised in various widths and subsets, from the original family Parisine, Parisine Gris featuring lighter versions of the usual weights and italics, Parisine Clair featuring extra light styles, to Parisine Sombre with his darker and extremly black weights as we can seen in Frutiger Black or Antique Olive Nord. In editorial projects, the Compress version will enhances your headlines, banners, allowing ultra large settings on pages. Born as signage typeface family, the various widths and weights permit a wider range of applications. on the italics, to keep certain expected regularity, important for information design, signages, and any subjects where legibility, sobriety came first.
More human, but not fancy: No strange “swashy” f, or cursive v, w etc. The Parisine was created to accompany travelers in their daily use: ultra-readable, friendly, human while the context is a priori hostile.Meanwhile, Parisine is now a workhorse and economical sanserif font family, highly legible, who can be considered as a more human alternative to the industrial-mechanical Din typeface family. This family of typefaces has become over years one of the symbols of Paris the Johnston for the London Underground or the Helvetica for the New York Subway. Ultra legible forceful sanserif in 32 fontsParisine was born as official parisian métro signage typeface.