Eurostile
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| Typeface | Eurostile |
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| Category | Sans-serif |
| Designer(s) | Aldo Novarese, Akira Kobayashi |
| Foundry | Nebiolo |
| Date released | 1962 |
| Re-issuing foundries | Linotype, URW |
| Design based on | Microgramma |
| Variations | Microgramma Microstyle |
Eurostile (sometimes misspelled as Eurostyle) is a geometric sans serif typeface designed by Aldo Novarese in 1962. Novarese originally made Eurostile for one of the best-known Italian foundries, Nebiolo, in Turin.
Eurostile was developed, because although the similar Microgramma came with a variety of weights, it had only upper-case letters. A decade after the creation of Microgramma, Novarese remedied this with the creation of Eurostile, which added a lower-case alphabet and some additional weights, such as Compact. Additional widths, such as condensed and extended, have been produced. In URW version, there are also Greek, Cyrillic, subscript and superscript, box drawing characters.
Eurostile is a popular display font. Its linear nature is said[citation needed] to suggest modern architecture, with an appeal both technical and functional. As such it has found some popularity in contemporary graphic design, as well as in science fiction novel and film artwork.
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[edit] Characteristics
Although the font is based on the Microgramma, some of the characters in the Linotype version do not follow the styling of the family. The characters include non-letter characters like integral, infinity, pilcrow; letterlike symbols like @, copyright mark, registration mark; accents such as cedilla and the tilde.
[edit] Eurostile Relief
It is a shadowed version of the font designed by URW Studio.
[edit] Eurostile Stencil
It is a stencil font based on URW's Eurostile black extended (D), designed by Achaz Reuss.
[edit] Eurostile Next
It is an optically-rescaled and redesigned version of the original font familiy, designed by Akira Kobayashi. Redesigned features include restoring the super curve lost in the previous digital type, reduced stroke weight difference between the upper and lowercase letters, type-sensitive accents and letterlike symbols (eg: ç, É, @, €).
The familiy consists of 5 weights with 3 widths each, without oblique fonts. OpenType features include small caps, tabular and proportional figures, superior and inferior numerals, diagonal fractions, and ordinals.
[edit] Availability
Eurostile and Eurostile Bold (URW versions) were distributed with Microsoft Office 97, Microsoft Works 2002, Microsoft Home Publishing 99, Microsoft TrueType Font Pack 2.
[edit] Use in popular culture
Eurostile Extended has been used extensively in music, where it has featured in album cover artwork from U2, Ash, The Supernaturals and several dance compilations from Warner. Eurostile Extended 2 can also be seen in the cover artwork for the 1998 Marilyn Manson album "Mechanical Animals".
It has also been used in television (BBC One holding slides from 1976-83 were in Eurostile) and as a logo for companies such as Diadora, and also in several video games such as Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon and Driv3r. Eurostile is also used on most FIA GT cars for the car numbers. It is also used by Toshiba.
It is also used by SPEED Channel programs since 2007 in credits, news ticker, subtitles.
