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Exocet is a typeface designed by the British typographer 
The font is inspired by ancient incised Greek and Roman letter carvings, with geometric shapes used for the main construction. For example, its stylized ''Q'' is based on
It was used extensively for product designs in the 1990s, most notably for the American tea company Tazo. It was also used on the album cover of
Jonathan Barnbrook
Jonathan Barnbrook (born 1966), is a British graphic designer, film maker and typographer. He trained at Saint Martin's School of Art and at the Royal College of Art, both in London.
Work
Barnbrook designed the cover artwork of David Bowie's ...
for the Emigre foundry
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in 1991. It was originally designed for the European annual series ''Illustration Now''.
The font is inspired by ancient incised Greek and Roman letter carvings, with geometric shapes used for the main construction. For example, its stylized ''Q'' is based on qoppa
Koppa or qoppa (; as a modern numeral sign: ) is a letter that was used in early forms of the Greek alphabet, derived from Phoenician qoph (). It was originally used to denote the sound, but dropped out of use as an alphabetic character in fav ...
, an ancient form of ''Q''. The ''O'' with a cross () is an early form of theta
Theta (, ; uppercase: Θ or ; lowercase: θ or ; grc, ''thē̂ta'' ; Modern: ''thī́ta'' ) is the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet, derived from the Phoenician letter Teth . In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 9.
Gr ...
.
It is an all-capital font, but with different capital glyphs for both lowercase and capital letters. However, the only letter that have visually distinct forms is ''T'', with the lowercase ''t'' being a cross.
Variants
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.Notable uses
It was used extensively for product designs in the 1990s, most notably for the American tea company Tazo. It was also used on the album cover of Donald Fagen
Donald Jay Fagen (born January 10, 1948) is an American musician best known as the co-founder, lead singer, co-songwriter, and keyboardist of the band Steely Dan, formed in the early 1970s with musical partner Walter Becker. In addition to his w ...
's 1993 album ''Kamakiriad
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''. It can be seen in the 1993 movie ''Demolition Man'' where it is used extensively in the museum scene. It was also used in the film ''Dogma'', the film ''Star Trek Nemesis
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'', the ''Dungeons and Dragons
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'' campaign setting ''Planescape
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'', the English translation of the Korean manhwa
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''Priest'', the '' Diablo'' computer game series, the '' Double Switch'' full motion video
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game, and the Sony PlayStation
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scrolling shooter
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game ''Einhänder
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''.
See also
*Samples of display typefaces
This list details display typefaces used in typesetting and printing.
See also
*List of monospaced typefaces
* List of sans serif typefaces
* List of script typ ...
References