Exocet (typeface)

Infobox font
name = Exocet


style = Display
date = 1991
creator = Jonathan Barnbrook
foundry = Emigre
sample = |

Exocet is a typeface designed by Jonathan Barnbrook for the Emigre foundry in 1991. It was used extensively for product designs in the 1990s, most notably for Tazo Tea. It can be seen in the 1993 movie "Demolition Man" where it is used extensively in the museum scene. [cite newsgroup
title=Demolition Man Font
author=Jonathan Barnbrook
date=1996-12-07
newsgroup=comp.fonts
id=[e-mail] |url=http://groups.google.com/group/comp.fonts/browse_thread/thread/c3b2907e20c791b6
accessdate= 2007-07-15 ] It was also used in the film "Dogma", the Dungeons and Dragons campaign setting Planescape, the English translation of the Korean manhwa "Priest", the Diablo computer game series and the Sony PlayStation scrolling shooter game Einhänder. The stylized "Q" logo from the Quake (series) of videogames is thought to be a modification of the exocet "Q"

The font is inspired by ancient incised Greek and Roman letter carvings, with geometric shapes used for the main construction. [http://www.fontshop.com/features/fontmag/002/02_virus/index.cfm]

It is an all-capitals font, with different capital glyphs shown for both lowercase and capital letters, as evidenced by the T/t difference in the image. It is available in “light” and “heavy” varieties. There is no italic.

A sans version of the font from the same designer, called Patriot, was released in 1997 and is available from [http://www.virusfonts.com/ Virus] .

See also: Samples of display typefaces

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