Eurostile

Eurostile is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Aldo Novarese in 1962. Novarese created Eurostile for Nebiolo, an Italian foundry in Turin. A decade after Novarese's involvement with Microgramma, a similar font with only uppercase letters in a variety of weights, Novarese designed Eurostile as a successor. Eurostile added lowercase letters, a bold condensed variant, and an ultra narrow design he called Eurostile Compact, for a total of seven fonts. Like Microgramma, Eurostile is popular for headings and signs, especially in science fiction and media set in the 1960s and 70s. Its linear nature suggests modern architecture, with an appeal both technical and functional. The squarish superellipse shape evokes television screens from the 1950s and 1960s.