Author's note

Parisian by George Williams is a free Art Nouveau serif built from sweeping circular curves, broad verticals, and pronounced changes in stroke weight. Its tall letterforms combine fine hairlines, compact rounded lowercase shapes, and very large capital curves, giving the design a poised but lightly eccentric manner reminiscent of vintage cafe lettering.

It can shape a refined period identity for restaurant branding, fragrance packaging, and intimate theater posters. In wedding invitations and editorial features, those looping forms can become part of a decorative border or illustrated emblem, repeating the same arches and circles found throughout the letters.

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Basic font information

Copyright notice
The programs to draw the splines of this font are copyright © 1999 by George Williams
Font family
Parisian
Font subfamily
Regular
Unique subfamily identification
Macromedia Fontographer 4.1.4 Parisian
Full font name
Parisian
Name table version
Macromedia Fontographer 4.1.4 10/23/00
Postscript font name
Parisian

Extended font information

Platforms supported

PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 1.0 semantics
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only

Font details

Created2000-10-23
Revision1
Glyph count250
Units per Em1000
Embedding rightsLicensed font (protected)
Family classSans serif
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleBold
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Pattern natureRegular
PitchNot monospaced