Handel Gothic


Handel Gothic is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed in 1965 by Donald J. Handel, who worked for the graphic designer Saul Bass.
Handel Gothic was an instant success when first released. The typeface was originally distributed in film format by FotoStar and was reissued in the 1980s by Robert Trogman.
The typeface was popular in the 1980s, due to its futuristic design, and even today is used to signify the future; it has been used in the credits of both Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as well as the logo for Close Encounters of the Third Kind and the menu text for the 2000 Nintendo 64 game Perfect Dark. Handel Gothic was widely used in the 2001 video game Halo: Combat Evolved, especially in its title screen and UI.
Handel Gothic was also used for the end credits on CBS' The Price Is Right from 1972–1981. Handel Gothic was also used for the end credits of Sesame Street. Handel Gothic was also used for the album cover of Jamiroquai's 1994 album The Return of the Space Cowboy. It was also the typeface of choice for designer Robert Dawson's title sequence for the 1984 science fiction film Trancers, and more recently the credits font of Pixar's Elio. A modified version of Handel Gothic was used for the logo of the second incarnation of Viacom from 2006 to 2019.
Handel Gothic is also featured on all the Volvo cars.
The Elsner+Flake, Linotype and URW++ versions use a curved leg on uppercase R, a horizontal tail on the uppercase Q, a curved lower leg on the lowercase k, and a trident-like lowercase w.
The Bitstream and Tilde SIA versions, however, use a thicker 1, a straight leg on the uppercase R, a straight lower leg on the lowercase k, and a double-v w.
Christian Schwartz designed the Simian Display typeface, inspired from the Handel Gothic typeface, used by American science fiction media franchise Planet of the Apes and available in 3 weights named after primates.
Thai type designer Anupap Jaichumnan designed the Flatory typeface, which also was inspired from the Handel Gothic typeface; it is available in four versions.

ITC Handel Gothic (2008)

It is a re-proportioned version designed by Rod McDonald, released in March 2008 by International Typeface Corporation.
The original release includes 5 fonts in 5 weights. OpenType features include fractions, ligatures, ordinals, stylistic alternates and subscript/superscript. Italic versions of the fonts were introduced with release of ITC Handel Gothic Pro.

ITC Handel Gothic Pro (2010)

It is a version of ITC Handel Gothic with complementary italic designs, support of Adobe Central Europe character set, addition of ligatures and alternate characters.
Additional OpenType features include localized forms, stylistic set 1.

ITC Handel Gothic Arabic (2015)

It is a version of ITC Handel Gothic for Arabic, Persian and Urdu languages, designed by Nadine Chahine of Monotype Imaging, based on Kufic script.
The font family includes 5 fonts in 5 weights, without italics.

URW++ Handel Slab (2009)

A slab-serif counterpart to URW++ Handel Gothic with three weights and obliques styles to complement them.

Corporate identity uses

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