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Par Avion Air Mail — Cover

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.

Learn more about the Par Avion Air Mail style

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

Background
Surface
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Typography

OswaldHeadings
ArchivoBody
Courier PrimeMono
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