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Paramount Rounded

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Last Call for New Astronauts
Dallas 1:37 p.m. CDT (18:37 UTC) ✪ ✪ ✪ 25.3°N 104.1°W Total Solar Eclipse April 8, 2024 → North America
The International Space Station (ISS) combines NASA’s Space Station Freedom project with the Soviet/Russian Mir-2 station, the European Columbus station, and the Japanese Kibō laboratory module. Not just looking up, NASA launched the Orbiting Geophysical Observatory to look down at Earth and observe its interactions with the Sun. The Uhuru satellite was the first dedicated x-ray telescope, mapping 85% of the sky and discovering a large number of black holes.
Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) are a contract solution to deliver cargo and supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) on a commercial basis. NASA signed its first CRS contracts in 2008 and awarded $1.6 billion to SpaceX for twelve cargo Dragon and $1.9 billion to Orbital Sciences for eight Cygnus flights, covering deliveries to 2016. Both companies evolved or created their launch vehicle products to support the solution.
SpaceX flew its first operational resupply mission (SpaceX CRS-1) in 2012. Orbital Sciences followed in 2014 (Cygnus CRS Orb-1). In 2015, NASA extended CRS-1 to twenty flights for SpaceX and twelve flights for Orbital ATK. This project aims to enhance the temperature range of the Thermal History Coating up to 1,500°C (2,730°F) and beyond. The final goal is improving the safety of jet engines and increasing efficiency and reducing CO₂ emissions.
1997 Sojourner Opportunity Spirit | 2004 2021 Curiosity Perseverance
Martin Marietta X-24
Docking SYSTEMS
MISSIONS Skylab B

Information

Design

Chi-Long Trieu

Release Date

2023-06-07

Team

Marion Sendral
Arthur Schwarz
Hugues Gentile
Léa Bruneau
Charly Derouault
Guillaume Besson
Igino Marini

Version

1.001

Awards & distinctions

Red Dot Award: Brands & Communication Design 2024

About this font

Paramount is a study in humanist geometry. The typeface family begins with a rational, grounded tone, from which neofuturistic branches emerge. While ahistorical in nature, Paramount balances forward-looking atmospheres with the legacy of iconic, pseudogeometrical typefaces like Bauhaus.
Designed by Swiss designer , Paramount conveys a visionary quality—sleek, minimalist, where precision and exploration converge. The typeface concretizes an intriguing ambivalence, blending the neo-retro, post-retro, and future-nostalgic in a way that feels equally fitting for branding a spaceship as for packaging everyday products. Paramount’s numerous alternate letterforms add rhythm and texture, providing a logo-like uniqueness when used in a single word. These stylistic alternates offer substantial shifts in tone and texture within text, giving designers flexibility to adapt Paramount across various applications.
The Paramount type system includes two sans-serif subfamilies: “Paramount,” a geometric design, and “Paramount Neo,” a slightly more informal, neofuturistic cut. Both families are available in rounded versions, aptly named “Paramount Rounded” and “Paramount Neo Rounded.”
In its Rounded variations, Paramount embraces softer, more playful shapes by easing sharp edges. Paramount Rounded retains the core structure of the original sharp-edged design while introducing a cushioned, approachable feel. The regular and rounded fonts share the same dimensions and proportions, allowing them to be mixed harmoniously to create complex and dynamic typographic hierarchies.
Paramount brings a systematic, lightly varied rhythm in its typesetting. It maintains a relatively large x-height without sacrificing its potential for small-size use. While its lowercase letters have an almost visually consistent proportional width, a selection of uppercase characters are on the narrower side (A, B, E, F, I, L, P, R, S, T, U, V, Y, Z) while others are wide (C, D, G, H, J, M, O, Q, W, X), resulting in a dynamic, flexible texture.
The a features a rounded bowl, with a smooth connection to its stem and vertical terminals, all typical of its geometric roots. Some key glyphs give away the organic nature of Paramount’s proportions: crossbars for E and F extend slightly; top bowl for B tends to stand out; high-waisted crossbar for the G set a distinctive feel.
Alternates include a single-storey a, futuresque geometric C and G, “avant-gardesque” sloped A, M, V, W, v, and w (all equipped with flat-right and flat-left versions), and y comes in a more conventional, normcore design. Numerals come in all their various typographic flavours, including superscripts and subscripts. The same is true for lowercase and uppercase letters, punctuation, and many symbols complete the set.
Specifically in Paramount Neo, distinctive design features lies in the letters a, b, d, g, m, n, p, q, and r: these share a ductus that’s abide to a single-stroke construction. Similarly, B, P, R, 3, and 8 follow this principle, with B, R, and 8 sharing the unique trait of an untouching mid-stroke connection. Letters A, E, F, L, M, N, S, V, W, Z, and numerals 1, 4, 5, and 7 have softened, rounded corners, replacing sharp angles. Y and y stand out with an eccentric design: a U-shape sitting on a vertically centered stroke, echoing the structure of Q with its vertical tail.
Paramount CJK support is powered by FZLTHPro Global (Founder Type), Sandoll GtNeo2Uni (Sandoll), TP Sky Fitfont (Type Project).

Formats

Static (OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2)

Language support

Acheron, Achinese, Acholi, Achuar-Shiwiar, Afar, Afrikaans, Aguaruna, Ahtna, Alekano, Aleut, Amahuaca, Amarakaeri, Amis, Anaang, Andaandi, Dongolawi, Anuta, Ao Naga, Apinayé, Aragonese, Arbëreshë Albanian, Arvanitika Albanian, Asháninka, Ashéninka Perené, Asu (Tanzania), Atayal, Balinese, Bari, Basque, Batak Dairi, Batak Karo, Batak Mandailing, Batak Simalungun, Batak Toba, Bemba (Zambia), Bena (Tanzania), Bikol, Bini, Bislama, Borana-Arsi-Guji Oromo, Bosnian, Breton, Buginese, Candoshi-Shapra, Caquinte, Caribbean Hindustani, Cashibo-Cacataibo, Cashinahua, Catalan, Cebuano, Central Aymara, Central Kurdish, Chachi, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chiga, Chiltepec Chinantec, Chokwe, Chuukese, Cimbrian, Cofán, Congo Swahili, Cook Islands Māori, Cornish, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dehu, Dimli, Dutch, Eastern Arrernte, Eastern Oromo, Efik, Embu, English, Ese Ejja, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Gagauz, Galician, Ganda, Garifuna, Ga’anda, German, Gheg Albanian, Gilbertese, Gooniyandi, Gourmanchéma, Guadeloupean Creole French, Gusii, Haitian, Hani, Hiligaynon, Ho-Chunk, Hopi, Huastec, Hungarian, Icelandic, Iloko, Inari Sami, Indonesian, Irish, Istro Romanian, Italian, Ixcatlán Mazatec, Jamaican Creole English, Japanese, Javanese, Jola-Fonyi, K'iche', Kabuverdianu, Kaingang, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Kamba (Kenya), Kaonde, Kaqchikel, Karelian, Kashubian, Kekchí, Kenzi, Mattokki, Khasi, Kikuyu, Kimbundu, Kinyarwanda, Kirmanjki, Kituba (DRC), Kongo, Konzo, Kuanyama, Kven Finnish, Kölsch, Ladin, Ladino, Latgalian, Ligurian, Lithuanian, Lombard, Low German, Lower Sorbian, Lozi, Luba-Lulua, Lule Sami, Luo (Kenya and Tanzania), Luxembourgish, Macedo-Romanian, Makhuwa, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Makwe, Malagasy, Malaysian, Maltese, Mandinka, Mandjak, Mankanya, Manx, Maore Comorian, Maori, Mapudungun, Marshallese, Matsés, Mauritian Creole, Meriam Mir, Meru, Minangkabau, Mirandese, Mohawk, Montenegrin, Munsee, Murrinh-Patha, Muslim Tat, Mwani, Mískito, Naga Pidgin, Ndonga, Neapolitan, Ngazidja Comorian, Niuean, Nobiin, Nomatsiguenga, North Azerbaijani, North Ndebele, Northern Kurdish, Northern Qiandong Miao, Northern Sami, Northern Uzbek, Norwegian, Nyanja, Nyankole, Occitan, Ojitlán Chinantec, Orma, Oroqen, Otuho, Palauan, Paluan, Pampanga, Papantla Totonac, Papiamento, Paraguayan Guaraní, Pedi, Picard, Pichis Ashéninka, Piemontese, Pijin, Pintupi-Luritja, Pipil, Pite Sami, Pohnpeian, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, Purepecha, Páez, Quechua, Romanian, Romansh, Rotokas, Rundi, Rwa, Samburu, Samoan, Sango, Sangu (Tanzania), Saramaccan, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Sena, Seri, Seselwa Creole French, Shambala, Shawnee, Shipibo-Conibo, Shona, Shuar, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, Soninke, South Azerbaijani, South Ndebele, Southern Aymara, Southern Qiandong Miao, Southern Sami, Southern Sotho, Spanish, Sranan Tongo, Standard Estonian, Standard Latvian, Standard Malay, Sundanese, Swahili, Swati, Swedish, Swiss German, Tagalog, Tahitian, Taita, Talysh, Tedim Chin, Tetum, Tetun Dili, Tiv, Toba, Tok Pisin, Tokelau, Tonga (Tonga Islands), Tonga (Zambia), Tosk Albanian, Tsakhur, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Uab Meto, Umbundu, Ume Sami, Upper Guinea Crioulo, Upper Sorbian, Venetian, Veps, Vietnamese, Võro, Walloon, Walser, Wangaaybuwan-Ngiyambaa, Waorani, Waray (Philippines), Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, West Central Oromo, Western Abnaki, Western Frisian, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xavánte, Xhosa, Yanesha', Yao, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Yucateco, Zapotec, Zulu, Zuni, Záparo

About the designers

  • Chi-Long Trieu

    Designer

    Chi-Long Trieu is a Swiss type designer, graphic designer, and educator based in Lausanne, Switzerland. He holds a bachelor’s degree in visual communication from ECAL/University of Art and Design Lausanne (ÉCAL), where he also teaches.

Glyphs

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OpenType Features

Production Type ships OpenType fonts with built-in features such as ligatures, alternates, or pictograms. Here are some of the most important features. To view a comprehensive list of features, please refer to the PDF specimen.

Capital Spacing

UPPERCASE ­

off

Case-Sensitive Forms

[CASE] ¡SENSITIVE! «R@VER» ­

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Slashed Zero

0123456789 ­

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Tabular Figures

H0123456789 ­

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Proportional Figures

H0123456789 ­

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Superscript

H(super)script. H0123456789 ­

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Scientific Inferiors

H(in)ferior. H0123456789 ­

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Numerators

H(num)erator. H0123456789 ­

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Denominators

H(denomi)nator. H0123456789 ­

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Fractions

1/2 2/3 1/4 1/5 2/5 3/5 4/5 1/6 1/7 1/8 1/9 0/0 0/00 ­

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Ordinals

2a 2o No. ­

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Stylistic Set 1

012345678910 ­

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Stylistic Set 2

012345678910 ­

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Stylistic Set 3

<>+−×÷=± ­

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Stylistic Set 4

abcdef ­

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Stylistic Set 5

Waveform ­

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Stylistic Set 6

Aviation ­

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Stylistic Set 7

Gravity ­

off

Stylistic Set 8

Radiation ­

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Stylistic Set 19

CRYOGENIC ­

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