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Eurostile Alternatives

Stephen Coles
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Last edited October 11, 2016

Overused typefaces can lose their impact, especially in branding, advertising, and package design where originality is important. Here are some less common square sans serifs in the style of Eurostile by Aldo Novarese.

See also Square Sans Serifs.

brandy
guitarfishes
Misery loves bacon and cheese

Eurostile Next is Linotype's redrawn and expanded version of Aldo Novarese's 1962 design. This new version refers back to the original metal types and to its mid-century modern aesthetic of squarish characters and subtle curves. Eurostile Next brings back the gentle curves, which were lost in other digital versions, therefore regaining the spirit of the original design and its somewhat softer... Read More

rocket
fiddlesticks
Don’t treat me like a potato

FF Max is a Danish sans inspired by Aldo Novarese’s Eurostile (1962). The letter shapes in FF Max have rounder, friendlier forms, giving the typeface a certain human touch. FF Max works well as a headline face for magazines and newspapers, but sets text with surprising ability too.

replay
fiddlesticks
Come to the Dark Side, we have cookies

Based on square forms, FF QType successfully walks the difficult line between pure geometry and legibility. Achaz Reuss used his years of type design experience to flesh out a concept that could have been, in the hands of a student or amateur, a much less useful result. Five subfamilies make up the whole (Compressed, Condensed, Semi Extended, Extended and Square) each in five weights (Extra... Read More

brandy
bureaucratic
Mind the static electricity

Eurostile Candy is a fun spinoff from Akira Kobayashi's Eurostile Next family. As the name implies, it is based on Eurostile but with many striking new features. Most obviously, the corners and joints have been rounded off to give it a more friendly and softer feel. On top of those changes, the main skeleton of many characters have been modified. Any extra strokes have been removed - such as in... Read More

always
fiddlesticks
Life is too short to follow the rules

When designers pick FF Cube for their work, they probably already have a pretty good idea of what to expect just from the name alone. FF Cube does not disappoint. This constructed sans has the industrial design look of a Eurostile or similar typeface, but its apertures are more open. A very large x-height helps give the family a compact appearance, too. In the lowercase, strokes hold on to a... Read More

Akira Kobayashi, Aldo Novarese, Linotype Design Studio and Terrance Weinzierl
Linotype 2008

The Foundry
Morten Rostgaard Olsen
FontFont 2003
Achaz Reuss
FontFont 2004
Akira Kobayashi and Aldo Novarese
Linotype 2008
Dmitry Kirsanov
ParaType
Jan Maack
FontFont 2008
John Roshell
Comicraft 2010