Parisine is a typeface that was created by Jean-François Porchez and is distributed by Typofonderie.
In 2015, the Osaka City Subway in Japan adopted Parisine as the Latin-character component of its new signage system, which is gradually being introduced throughout its network.
The font was originally developed in 1996 as a custom typeface in Bold and Bold Italic developed for the RATP to improve signage legibility and space economy.
Each member of the family is composed of more than 720 glyphs and feature around 26700 kerning pairs.
Some additional alternates glyphs are included in PostScript Type 1 format.
Each member of the family is composed of more than 900 glyphs and features around 40000 kerning pairs.
Parisine Office was a version created for RATP in 2005, as replacement of Gill Sans.
Parisine Girouette Frontale is used for the main direction on the front of bus and was designed to be quite narrow to Allô the display if a maximum of content.
Parisine Girouette Latérale is also designed at 50% of the size of the main typeface to set information on the side of the bus.