Exocet (typeface)
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| Category | Display |
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| Designer | Jonathan Barnbrook |
| Foundry | Emigre |
| Date created | 1991 |
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Exocet is a decorative serif typeface designed by the British typographer Jonathan Barnbrook for the Emigre foundry in 1991. It was originally designed for the European annual series Illustration Now.[1]
The font is inspired by ancient incised Greek and Roman letter carvings,[1] with geometric shapes used for the main construction. For example, its stylized Q is based on qoppa, an ancient form of Q. The O with a cross (
) is an early form of theta.
It is an all-capital font, but with different capital glyphs for both lowercase and capital letters. However, the only letter that has visually distinct forms is T, with the lowercase t being a cross.
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.
