Isabel Willason

PF Mellon is a modernist variable grotesque with mixed roots.

Its unconventional aesthetic is the product of an exploration into the art of emphasizing titles, headlines and text in captivating and unpredictable ways. Contrary to conventional practices of highlighting text with heavier weights, PF Mellon proposes an intriguing new scheme based on striking and attention-grabbing compositions of narrow and extended letterforms- even when set in lowercase. Part geometric and part grotesque, PF Mellon’s expressionist alphabet and extravagant style challenge conventions of visual culture in an Art Deco-like manner.

PF Mellon’s rebellious idiosyncrasy takes its cues from the eccentric personality of our popular PF Venue, an earlier geometric sans serif characterized by its daring combinations of non-uniform structures. PF Mellon’s basic design skeleton was influenced by nineteenth and early twentieth century condensed sans serif typefaces such as Stephenson Blake’s Grotesque No.77 and ATF’s Alternate Gothic, adding an extra contrast to the thickness of strokes.

PF Mellon is also available as a variable font format which you may request it free of charge from Parachute® once you purchase the whole type family.

-OC Pájaro [pah-hah-roh, Spanish for bird] is a contemporary sans serif available in twelve styles. It combines the readable width, rhythm and regular proportions of a grotesk with roots in a geometric. The result is a highly versatile font which fuses the timeless elegance of Futura with the compact utilitarian typesetting of the likes of Akzidenz and Helvetica.

-OC Pájaro effortlessly traverses the spectrum from high-end sophistication, approachable readability, and functional information design. Crafted with a tireless focus on kerning, angled terminals are cut to fit neighboring curved letters making the bolder weights perfect for logotypes and display type, while lighter weights are well suited for long passages of text. A large x-height and short ascenders that run level with the low cap-height give a strong horizontal emphasis and allow for tightly packed lines of type.

Typical of both grotesk and geometric styles the design has an even weight with minimal stroke contrast and the slanted form is an oblique rather than a true italic. The default double-story ‘a’ and ‘g’ give a more academic touch, while the friendlier single stories are available as alternates.

The font is designed with extensive open type features including old style figures when setting extensive copy in sentence case and circled uppercase, numbers and symbols inspired by 1960s transit signage.

Maipo Sans is a modern typeface inspired by the mountain landscape of Cajón del Maipo, Chile. Its
forms are inspired by the first sans serif European Humanist fonts of the twentieth century along with a touch of reverse contrast. This typeface is specially designed for projects using extensive text blocks and striking ads.
Maipo Sans puts a careful focus in the interpolation; therefore it gains expressiveness as its weight
increases. That is why it has moderate and functional forms in its thinner weights, while in his heavier variants it gains freshness and sympathy.
To make it more complete, this family has a complete Stencil Version with a lot of character and power.
Maipos Sans is composed by 40 styles, 826 glyphs and Small Caps.
Besides, it has powerful OpenType features for each style, including stylistic sets, extended language
support, ligatures, contextual alternates, lining figures, oldstyle figures, arrows, fractions,
superscripts, subscripts and many more.