Eurostile
Eurostile
Aldo Novarese, 1962
Sans-serif · The future, as imagined between 1965 and 1985. Squarish, technical, spaceship.
Square letterforms with rounded corners, drawn to fill the rectangle of a television screen, and consequently the typeface every production designer reaches for when a set needs to look like the future. It has been used so consistently for this that it now reads as the past's idea of the future rather than the future.
The facts
- Designed by
- Aldo Novarese
- Released
- 1962
- Classification
- Sans-serif
- What it signals now
- The future, as imagined between 1965 and 1985. Squarish, technical, spaceship.
Where you have seen it
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Alien
- WALL-E
- Countless sci-fi interfaces
Other typefaces from the 1960s
| Typeface | Year | Designer | What it signals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Impact | 1965 | Geoffrey Lee | An image macro. Nothing else, any more. |
This page describes the typeface rather than showing it. Displaying a specimen requires a licensed font file and almost none of these may be redistributed, so the descriptions name the letters to look at instead.
Common questions
- Who designed Eurostile?
- Aldo Novarese, in 1962.
- What is Eurostile used for?
- The future, as imagined between 1965 and 1985. Squarish, technical, spaceship. You will have seen it on 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien, WALL-E.
Related pages
- Typefaces from the 1960s 2 here
- Akzidenz-Grotesk H. Berthold AG, 1896
- Franklin Gothic Morris Fuller Benton, 1902
- Johnston Edward Johnston, 1916
- Futura Paul Renner, 1927
- Gill Sans Eric Gill, 1928
- Helvetica Max Miedinger and Eduard Hoffmann, 1957
- Univers Adrian Frutiger, 1957
- Optima Hermann Zapf, 1958
Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (CC0 1.0)