Eurostile

Category	Sans-serif
Designer(s)	Aldo Novarese
Foundry	Nebiolo
Date released	1962
Re-issuing foundries	Linotype, URW, Monotype Imaging,
Design based on	Microgramma
Variations	Microgramma Microstyle

The Eurostile type font style 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 Novarese originally made Eurostile for one of the best-known Italian foundries, Nebiolo, in Turin.

Novarese developed Eurostile to succeed the similar Microgramma, which he had helped design. This came with a variety of weights, but had only upper-case letters. A decade after Microgramma, Novarese resolved this limitation with his design of Eurostile, which added lower-case letters, a bold condensed variant, and an ultra narrow design he called Eurostile Compact, for a total of seven fonts.

Eurostile is a popular display font, particularly suitable for headings and signs. Its linear nature suggests modern architecture, with an appeal both technical and functional. The squarish shapes with their rounded corners evoke the appearance of television screens of the 1950s and 1960s. It is particularly popular in science fiction artwork and media set or produced in the 1960s and 70s, alongside other graphic design use.

Introduced by Nebiolo in 1962.

The popularity of Eurostile continued strong right into the cold type era, and it was offered by various manufacturers under the following names:

In the URW version, there are also Greek, Cyrillic, subscript and superscript, box drawing characters. The family has 16 fonts in five weights and three widths, with condensed fonts on regular and heavy weights; extended fonts on regular and black weights; complementary oblique fonts on black, bold, heavy, heavy condensed, medium, regular, regular condensed.

Eurostile DisCaps is a small caps version of the font. The family comes with one width in regular and bold weights, without obliques.

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