About Par Avion Air Mail
Par Avion is the visual language of mid-century international airmail: the UPU-standard PAR AVION etiquette, the red-and-blue barber-pole envelope edge, and featherweight onionskin paper tinted cool blue-white to shave postage weight. Ink is strictly cool — royal blue, postal vermilion, navy-black — never warm sepia.
Everything is engineered for lightness and legibility across borders: condensed caps for addressing, typewritten correspondence, circular and wavy-line cancellation postmarks, and a crisp gridded layout that never rounds its corners or softens its geometry.
- Origin
- Global / UPU member nations
- Era
- 1950–1990 (UPU airmail etiquette standard era)
- Key figures
- Universal Postal Union (UPU) · national postal administrations
- Movements
- Mid-century postal/transport graphic standards · international correspondence aesthetic
Par Avion Air Mail design spec
Colors
Typography
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