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PVC

Specimen

Logistic
PARK & RIDE Immediate METAMORPHOSE Cannibalize PREFABRICATION
Station
Geographic National ↲ Habilitation
Intermediate Bulk
Annual Package Internal Industry Before Glossary Transit Security
National Safety 38 Council
RADIO-FREQUENCY I.D. Oriented Strand Board LOW-DENSITY STANDARDS United States Resident COUNTERFEIT SOURCES
Contract Packager & Services
Metrocable
“ENERGY INTENSITY INDICATORS” Zero-Fare Public Transport
ELECTRIC CARGO Services Vehicle
Haul Truck SECURITY PRINTING Intercity Bus

PVC In Use

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Information

Design

Hélène Marian

Release Date

2018-11-20

Team

Jean-Baptiste Levée
Hugues Gentile
Léa Bruneau
Arthur Schwarz

Version

1.003

Awards & distinctions

Contemporary Type - Best Fonts 2023
Hiii Typography Finalist 优异奖 2023
Hiii Typography Nominee 优异奖 2018

About this font

PVC is a rambunctious font family that plays at the edges of width and weight. Just like PolyVinyl Chloride, it is extremely durable and incredibly versatile.
Versatilty is indeed of the essence for that type family, which includes six super-varied styles: Menu, Promo, Banner, Banner Ultra, Dynasty, and Express. All of them share a hearty backbone rooted in lettering and shop sign design, but differ in regards to the tools used to draw the typeface. The resulting shapes showcase radically disparate design personalities and ways to fill in design briefs. Here’s a walkthrough:
PVC Menu is Marian’s personal take on typical French brush lettering styles (such as the ones that lead to the design of the notorious Antique Olive decades ago). Menu is conceived as the family’s go-to style, its sturdiness being efficient in most design cases, from loud yet elegant uppercases to the je-ne-sais-quoi of the lowercases.
PVC Dynasty is the family’s serif with a deliberately strong personality. While the font’s other styles are steering towards extreme width (Banner) or density (Promo), PVC Dynasty and its italics pursue explorations around space-filling typesetting by focusing on the inner space of words, having no shame in some letter shape being intertwined. Remember, there is “Nasty” in “Dynasty”. It is nervous, spiky, unbalanced. PVC Dynasty can display anything as long as it needs to show how original it is.
PVC Banner is obsessed with filling the horizontal space: store signs, rolls of adhesive tapes, truck tarps, drumsticks… You name it. Of course, PVC Banner can also be stacked vertically and deliver a different rhythm. If this is not enough, the thicker PVC Banner Ultra is even more intense and should do the work.
PVC Promo is here to… promote your message, making sure that it will never be discounted! Compact yet bulky, Promo strives to be visible, even in tricky situations. The heavier, the better.
PVC Express shares a strong point of view with its siblings: speed and space matter. The quick gesture drawn from Marian’s ultra-fast practice is paramount in the way Express goes full throttle. Also based on her own sign-painting practice, PVC Express proposes a translation of this “work of speed” into a readymade digital typeface. Swift loopy gestures — a typical feat of the trade — are preserved in this aptly named style.

Formats

Static (OTF, TTF, WOFF, WOFF2)

Language support

Acheron, Achinese, Acholi, Afar, Afrikaans, Alekano, Aleut, Amahuaca, Amarakaeri, Amis, Anaang, Andaandi, Dongolawi, Anuta, Ao Naga, 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, Bislama, Borana-Arsi-Guji Oromo, Bosnian, Breton, Buginese, Candoshi-Shapra, Caquinte, Cashibo-Cacataibo, Catalan, Cebuano, Central Aymara, Central Kurdish, Chamorro, Chavacano, Chiga, Chiltepec Chinantec, Chokwe, Chuukese, Cimbrian, Cofán, Congo Swahili, Cook Islands Māori, Cornish, Corsican, Creek, Crimean Tatar, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dehu, Dutch, Eastern Arrernte, Eastern Oromo, Embu, English, Ese Ejja, Faroese, Fijian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Friulian, Ga’anda, Galician, Ganda, 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, Kala Lagaw Ya, Kalaallisut, Kalenjin, Kamba (Kenya), Kaonde, Karelian, Kashubian, Kekchí, Kenzi, Mattokki, Khasi, Kikuyu, Kimbundu, Kinyarwanda, Kituba (DRC), Kölsch, Kongo, Konzo, Kuanyama, Kven Finnish, Ladin, Ladino, Latgalian, Ligurian, Lithuanian, Lombard, Low German, Lower Sorbian, Luba-Lulua, Lule Sami, Luo (Kenya and Tanzania), Luxembourgish, Macedo-Romanian, Makhuwa, Makhuwa-Meetto, Makonde, Makwe, Malagasy, Malaysian, Maltese, Mandinka, Manx, Maore Comorian, Maori, Mapudungun, Matsés, Mauritian Creole, Meriam Mir, Meru, Minangkabau, Mirandese, Mískito, Mohawk, Montenegrin, Munsee, Murrinh-Patha, Mwani, Naga Pidgin, Ndonga, Neapolitan, Ngazidja Comorian, Niuean, Nobiin, Nomatsiguenga, North Ndebele, Northern Kurdish, Northern Qiandong Miao, Northern Sami, Northern Uzbek, Norwegian, Nyanja, Nyankole, Occitan, Orma, Oroqen, Palauan, Paluan, Pampanga, Papiamento, Pedi, Picard, Pichis Ashéninka, Piemontese, Pijin, Pintupi-Luritja, Pohnpeian, Polish, Portuguese, Potawatomi, 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, Sicilian, Silesian, Slovak, Slovenian, Soga, Somali, Soninke, 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, Tedim Chin, Tetum, Tetun Dili, Tiv, Tok Pisin, Tokelau, Tonga (Tonga Islands), Tosk Albanian, Tsonga, Tswana, Tumbuka, Turkish, Turkmen, Tzeltal, Tzotzil, Uab Meto, Ume Sami, Upper Guinea Crioulo, Upper Sorbian, Venetian, Veps, Võro, Walloon, Walser, Wangaaybuwan-Ngiyambaa, Waray (Philippines), Warlpiri, Wayuu, Welsh, West Central Oromo, Western Abnaki, Western Frisian, Wik-Mungkan, Wiradjuri, Wolof, Xhosa, Yanesha', Yao, Yapese, Yindjibarndi, Yucateco, Záparo, Zulu

About the designers

  • “Format is my first trigger for ideas, the starting point for shapes.”

    Hélène Marian

    Designer

    Hélène Marian is a type designer, a signpainter, and a graphic designer. Her work is based on the use of letters, which she lays out, vectorizes or paints by hand.

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.

Case-Sensitive Forms

[CASE-SENSITIVE] !¡?¿-–—()[]{}‹›«»· ­

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Standard Ligatures

fichier flicker affliger ­

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Slashed Zero

0123456789 ­

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Superscript

H1234 ­

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Ordinals

2a 2o NO No Nº N° nO no nº n° ­

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Ornaments

+ − ± × ÷ = < > ­

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Stylistic Set 1

TOKEN ­

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Stylistic Set 2

LIQUIDS ­

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Stylistic Set 3

AIRLINE ­

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Stylistic Set 4

Plastic ­

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Stylistic Set 5

Engine ­

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Stylistic Set 6

Trucks ­

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Stylistic Set 7

Sticker ­

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Stylistic Set 8

Cyclist ­

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Stylistic Set 9

<>+−×÷=± ­

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Stylistic Set 10

←→↑↓↖↗↙↘ ­

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Stylistic Set 11

abcdef ­

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