Eurostile

Infobox font
name = Eurostile
style = Sans-serif


based_on = Microgramma
releasedate = 1962
creator = Aldo Novarese, Akira Kobayashi
foundry = Nebiolo
foundries = Linotype, URW
variations = Microgramma
Microstyle
sample =

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 Novarese originally made Eurostile for one of the best-known Italian foundries, Nebiolo, in Turin.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 saidFact|date=June 2007 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.

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.

Eurostile Relief

It is a shadowed version of the font designed by URW Studio.

Eurostile Stencil

It is a stencil font based on URW's Eurostile black extended (D), designed by Achaz Reuss.

Eurostile Next

It is an optically-rescaled and redesigned version of the original font family, designed by Akira Kobayashi. The redesign was based on the specimens of the original metal fonts.

Redesigned features include restoring the super curve lost in the previous film and digital versions, reduced stroke weight difference between the upper and lowercase letters, type-sensitive accents and letterlike symbols (eg: ç, É, @, €). In addition, Kobayashi added new Light and Ultra Light weights to complement the Extended, Normal, and Condensed variations within the family, added small caps letters and figures, unicase alternate characters. [ [http://www.fonts.com/FindFonts/RecentReleases/2008/EurostileNext.htm Eurostile Next] ]

The family consists of 5 weights with 3 widths each, without oblique fonts. It supports ISO Adobe 2, Adobe CE, Latin extended character sets. OpenType features include small caps, tabular and proportional figures, superior and inferior numerals, diagonal fractions, and ordinals.

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.

Use in Pop 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.

In the music business, it has also been used by Westlife until their album Coast to Coast and is currently used by argentine electrotango band Tanghetto as complementary typography to the band's logo.

It is also often used on the sides of british police vehicles for signwriting.

Eurostile can also be seen in the fashion world, as it is the font type for the widely known (and commonly mis-interpreted) clothing company "fcuk™", or "French Connection - United Kingdom" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCUK]

Eurostile was the primary font used in the science fiction series UFO, created by Gerry Anderson in 1969. All of the vehicles and clothing bearing the logo of the series' secret organization SHADO used the font, in addition to the main titles.

References

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* [http://www.fonts.com/FindFonts/detail.htm?pid=201396 Fonts.com listing for Eurostile]
* [http://urwpp.de/cgi-bin1/dalcgi/source/fontliste0.htd?sprache=english&auswahl=-1&fontnummer=e004003t&yhpb-id=wdc6c6b0df27ed19849987dbeae12bccd5a861fbdec URW's Eurostile page]
* [http://urwpp.de/cgi-bin1/dalcgi/source/fontliste0.htd?sprache=english&auswahl=-1&fontnummer=e04003t3&bapb-id=wd939938a872b291f39987dbeae12bccd5a861fbdec Eurostile Relief by URW++]
* [http://urwpp.de/cgi-bin1/dalcgi/source/fontliste0.htd?sprache=english&auswahl=-1&fontnummer=e034086d&fapb-id=wd939938a872b291f39987dbeae12bccd5a861fbdec Eurostile Stencil by URW++]
* [http://www.linotype.com/en/178/eurostile.html Type Gallery - Eurostile]
* [http://www.linotype.com/en/384/eurostile-family.html Linotype's Eurostile page]
* [http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FID=96&FNAME=Eurostile Microsoft Typography: Eurostile]
* [http://www.toshiba-brandguide.com Toshiba Brand Guidelines]
* [http://www.linotype.com/en/5324/eurostilenext.html Eurostile Next - Linotype Font Feature]
* [http://www.linotype.com/en/270780/eurostilenext-family.html Eurostile Next Font Family - by Akira Kobayashi]