Custom Fonts

Parisine Office

Parisine Office was created by Jean François Prochez for RATP in 2005. It is based on Parisine PTF, designed in 1996, which was created to solely fulfil the unique needs of signage. Year after year, its use was broadened to include maps and external communication. Concerned with consistency during the revision of their internal and external communication guidelines, RATP chose to evolve its typographic practices by abandoning Gill Sans, in use since the early 90s. The organization has strengthened its main logo with the expansion of the Parisine family.

This new variation is also the first to be designed in OpenType, a font format that can be used in either Windows or MacOS. With a character set surpassing the usual 250 to a size of more than 600, Parisine Office allows the composition of numerous Latin-script European languages, a major feature that will help RATP when it expands abroad.

Because the original Parisine possesses a wide body, Parisine Office was developed to allow support for older documents set in Gill Sans without changing the length of text. In addition, this typeface offers many standard and decorative ligatures for careful use. Several sets of figures are provided—standard, oldstyle, and lining—in tabular and proportional widths, depending on the version. Miniscule figures, necessary for fractions, are also included.

Parisine Office is a typeface family in which its reserved use is for RATP communication until June 2008; after which, it can be used for all project types. Outside RATP, this family requires licencing corresponding to the number of workstations in which it is installed, assuming work is done for RATP.

With your authorisation from RATP, contact Porchez Typofonderie to obtain licencing.

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OpenType features support

Standard character set, Case forms, Ligatures Special ligatures, Alternates, Swashes, Caps figures, Oldstyle figures, Semi Oldstyle figures, Tabular Figures, Fractions, Superscript/Subscript, Superior/Inferior figures, Ordinals/Superior Letters and figures, Ornaments.

Character set