Parisine PTF

New: Parisine PTF Gris launched in 2010 feature intermediate weights between Parisine PTF Clair and Parisine PTF.

Parisine has been designed by Jean François Porchez in 1996 for Ratp to solely fulfil the unique needs of signage legibility. In 1999, the family was revised and extended for use in maps and external communication. Not connected with Ratp, Parisine Plus PTF appeared also in 1999. Much later, Parisine Office (for exclusive use by RATP until public availability in June 2008) was created for Ratp’s internal and external communication. Now, the next step has been to create an OpenType version of the original Parisine. The glyph set has surpassed the usual 250 to a size of more than 700, which allows for the composition of numerous Latin-script European languages. Along with small caps available in all weights, 4 sets of figures are provided–lining and oldstyle–in tabular and proportional widths, depending on the version. Miniscule lowercase and figures for automated fractions, are also included.

Another feature of Parisine PTF is also in its alternate f ligatures. With the contextual alternates feature, a short top f will automatically replace the standard f in front of glyphs such as ì. The f ligatures of the original Parisine were designed disconnected to ensure perfect legibility in signage (and to be seen) where real traditionally-joined forms would not be suitable. The contextual feature replaces as well the sequence”word space-en dash-word space” by an en dash with surrounding fine spaces. The OpenType version of Parisine and its stylistic set 3 feature switches from these disconnected f ligatures to joined forms. Stylistic set 5 converts the connected c cedillas to disconnected c cedillas (for visual harmony with Parisine Plus in PostScript format). Stylistic set 6 replaces caps ’A’ through ’H’ and lowercase ’a’ through ’h’ with multi-directional arrows.

Each member of the family is composed of more than 720 glyphs (around 11 000 for the full family of 16 fonts) and feature around 26 700 kerning pairs (around 600 000 pairs for the full family). Many months of adjustments were necessary to refine this complex family. For cross-platform compatibility, it continues to follow the original Parisine’s arrangement of sub-families: Clair and its regular, italic, bold, bold italic; Gris and its 4 fonts; the standard and its 4 fonts; and the Sombre with its 4 fonts.

Welcome to this “new Parisine” and enjoy.

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,
—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

Full glyph set

Parisine PTF