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. 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’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. Part geometric and part grotesque, PF Mellon’s expressionist alphabet and extravagant style challenge conventions of visual culture in an Art Deco-like manner. 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. PF Bague Sans Std contains 18 styles and family package options. Its unconventional aesthetic is the product of an exploration into the art of emphasizing titles, headlines and text in captivating and unpredictable ways. PF Bague Sans Std was designed by Panos Vassiliou and published by Parachute. Since then, 13 designers have joined in to form a select group of open minded, free spirited individuals, all coming from diverse design fields.
It landed in 1999, but it wasnt till 2001 that it started operating as a full-scale company. PF Mellon is a modernist variable grotesque with mixed roots. Parachute is an independent award-winning type foundry.