Eurostile is a geometric scriptless font designed in 1962 by Aldo Novarese as one of his best products for the Italian letter publisher Nebiolo.
Eurostile is clearly based on Microgramma's uniform font, which was issued in multiple instances, but consisted only of capital. Novarese passed the upper and lowercase letters in Eurostile, as well as a Bold Condensed, and an "Ultra Condensed" called Eurostile Compact. This font family has a total of seven sets: Eurostile, Eurostile Condensed, Eurostile Extended, Eurostile Bold Extended, Eurostile Bold Condensed, Eurostile Compact, Eurostile Bold. Characteristics
Eurostile is a popular font for advertising printing and logos. Its linear shapes reflect modern architecture, and its applicability can be both technical and functional. The typical square shapes with rounded corners resemble the old television screens, and were therefore popular for use in science fiction series and movie titles.
Publisher URW brought Eurostile to the market with the Greek and Cyrillic, superscript and subscript extensions. This font has 16 letter sets in 5 degrees and 3 widths. URW also released Eurostile Relief, with shadow letters. Eurostile Stencil is also made of URW, designed by Achaz Reuss, based on Eurostile Black Extended. The Eurostile DisCaps lettering consists only of small capital.
Linotype has been distributing Eurostile for decades, and in the 80's, it worked with Adobe on a digital PostScript version. This font family consists of 10 sets of 3 grads and 3 widths. Linotype Eurostile LT has some adjustments in non-literal characters, although circles (copyright, trademark) and apestaart ('@') and omega ('O') were still around. The font family counts 11 sets, including a new 'Outline Bold' set.
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