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title: "Eurostile (1962) — Aldo Novarese"
description: "Eurostile was designed by Aldo Novarese in 1962. What it signals, where you have seen it."
url: https://atoneplace.net/font/eurostile/
site: "At One Place"
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# 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](https://atoneplace.net/font/decade/1960s/)
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- [Univers](https://atoneplace.net/font/univers/)
- [Optima](https://atoneplace.net/font/optima/)

## Sources

- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation (https://www.wikidata.org/) [CC0 1.0]