Parachute is an award-winning type foundry. It started
out in 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 agencies 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
major typeface design awards, while their work has been
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.

http://www.parachute.gr

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