Parisine Plus PTF

Parisine Plus Ptf was born in 1999, alongside its brother, Parisine Ptf. Parisine Plus was always a sort of critic in reaction to the subjective functionalism of Parisine. In fact, when Parisine try to express neutrality (a very relative term…), Parisine Plus Ptf has fun with contrasts and not-so-obvious additions for a Sans family. It seems that 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.

With the introduction of OpenType, it was natural to expand on Parisine Plus’ concept, circa 1999, with the addition of features such the alternates and ligatures more readily accessible in software as time progressed. Groups of similarly-styled alternate characters (called stylistic sets) offer many combinations to the user, ranging from muted variations to extreme, colorful effects to apply to text:
1. Fancy alternates;
2. Fancy and uncommon ligatures (fi… and st… ligatures are activated through the usual ligature and special ligature features);
3. Formal alternates;
4. a-a alternates;
5. Disconnected c cedillas (for visual harmony with Parisine Plus in PostScript Type 1 format);
6. Arrows in positions from A-a to H-h.
In addition, the family has Small Caps, 4 sets of figures, fractions along with other goodies.

Each member of the family is composed of more than 900 glyphs (around 11 000 for the full family of 12 series) and feature around 40 000 kerning pairs (around 500 000 pairs for the full family). Many months of adjustments were necessary to finalise this complex family. For cross-platform compatibility, it continues to follow the earlier Parisine’s arrangement of sub-families: Clair and its regular, italic, bold, bold italic; the standard and its 4 fonts; and the Sombre with its 4 fonts.

Welcome to “Parisine Plus Reloaded” and have fun.

See also the article on Parisine featured on the Gazette section

OpenType

OpenType support page.
—Ptf OpenType glyph set
—OpenType features
—Small Caps,
—Case forms
—Ligatures
—Special ligatures,
—Alternates,
—Stylistic Sets,
—Swashes
—Caps figures,
—Oldstyle figures,
—Tabular Figures,
—Fractions,
—Superscript/Subscript, Superior/Inferior figures,
—Ordinals/Superior Letters and figures,
—Ornaments.

Upgrades to OpenType Ptf version

• Upgrades from OpenType Std to OpenType Ptf

• Upgrades from Type 1 to OpenType Ptf

Nota bene

The PTF Essayage (Try it) have some limitations on the rendering due to the graphic ressource it is based on, FreeType engine, different to the rendering used by your own computer. The kerning is supported and with few built in texts (reload the page…) who show ligatures and alternates when presents. On Mac OS, you can use the Glyph palette of your system to add some specials glyphs.