UFO Font

>Heh, well I certainly don't mind you taking the word >"UFO" from my site!
>I think I used Eurostyle Extended Bold. I believe that >this is the
>exact
>font used in UFO, or if not it's "close enough". :-) I >purchased this
>font back in 1991 for $80 for my Macintosh, although >these days I see
>that Eurostyle is included for free with Windows XP.

Thanks for that Marc.I did'nt think you'd actually mind,and I will own up to the fact that the rest of the site
is all my own work.
Just to confirm the font I have is also called Eurostyle Extended Bold.Strange you think by now they would re-named it the UFO font.

Mark UK

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> Just to confirm the font I have is also called Eurostyle Extended
> Bold.Strange you think by now they would re-named it the UFO font.

I see that font used all over the place, so it's certainly not just
a UFO font. The font was designed in 1962 (and was originally spelled
Eurostile), and was based on an all-caps version of the font designed
in 1952 called Microgramma.

The font was also used in Space:1999 -- see this page on Space:1999
fonts:

http://www.space1999.net/~eagle/graphics/typefaces.htm

Marc

Where if any can you download the fonts from?
Steve Christensen

> Where if any can you download the fonts from?
> Steve Christensen

There are several places you can download the
(supposedly) freeware font MicrogrammaDBolExt,
which is a TrueType font.

Here's one...

http://www.angelfire.com/pa/radoxweb/

That first 92k zip file contains that font,
plus 2 others.

Marc

> There are several places you can download the
> (supposedly) freeware font MicrogrammaDBolExt,
> which is a TrueType font.

Note that I say "supposedly freeware" because
I see several sites where this font is available
for free, yet I also see several other sites where
money is being charged for this font.

Marc

On Tue, 24 May 2005 08:40:32 -0700
"Marc Martin" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> The font was also used in Space:1999 -- see this page on Space:1999
> fonts:
>
> http://www.space1999.net/~eagle/graphics/typefaces.htm
>

I love the first two fonts on that page. In fact that style was often used to
denote items from the future in science fiction, notable in IDENTIFIED,
where it's used as the banner font for Virginia Lake's copy of the Daily
Express, as seen aboard Seagull X-Ray.

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