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Parachute Psychedelia WinAll Commercial Font
Parachute is an award-winning type foundry. It started outin 1999 by Panos Vassiliou, a University of Toronto graduate, after he decided to turn his passion for design and typography into a profession. Since then, 12 designers have joined in to form a select group of open-minded, free -spirited individuals.
Parachute is based in Athens and is a major font supplier to most publishing houses and advertising agencies in Greece. It has built a strong network of valuable relationships with customers in Europe, United States, Canada and Australia, by providing custom font services and corporate font licensing.
It"s clientele includes multinational companies such as Ikea, Vodafone, Nestle and Unilever, advertising and branding gencies such as BBDO, McCann Erickson, Young&Rubicam, TBWA, MetaDesign, JWT, Sudler&Hennessey, Interbrand, Wieden+Kennedy, publications such as National Geographic, Playboy, Elle, Vogue, Harper"s Bazaar, Marie Claire, PC Magazine, Votre Beaute and many others. The year 2003 marked the beginning of a new era for Parachute with the release of an award-winning catalog (PRINT European Design Annual 2004). Since then an emphasis was placed on multilingual support and opentype technology.
In the last 5 years Parachute"s designers have won four featured and extensively presented in design-oriented magazines. Recently, one of the newest entries, the Centro Pro series of superfamilies, was the award winner of the prestigious European Design Awards 2008 for original typeface.
All Parachute fonts have been designed to offer multilingual support, for major scripts such as Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.
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