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15-560: Fenice may refer to: Fenice, a font designed by Aldo Novarese (1977) La Fenice , an Italian opera house in Venice, one of the most famous theatres in Europe Fenice Energy , an Indian distributed clean energy solutions company See also [ edit ] Phoenice , a town and Catholic titular bishopric in Greece, whose Italian name

30-467: A bold condensed variant, and an ultra narrow design he called Eurostile Compact. Microgramma is almost always used in its extended and bold extended forms (pictured). Initially, it was a titling font with only uppercase letters. Later versions, by Linotype and URW/ Nebiolo , contain a lowercase as well, making it functionally identical to Eurostile. These digital versions also include accented Latin characters, mathematical symbols, and Latin ligatures. In

45-457: A different weight, styled from a different font family, and is not shadowed. Science fiction films and TV programmes quickly started using the typeface. A number of Gerry Anderson productions in the mid/late-1960s applied the Microgramma font decals to the featured futuristic vehicles. Microgramma and its related variations are used throughout the original Alien franchise films, as well as

60-463: A favourite of graphic designers by the early seventies, its uses ranging from publicity and publication design to packaging, largely because of its availability as a Letraset typeface. Early typesetters (like the AM Varityper) also incorporated it. Novarese later developed Eurostile in 1962, (a normal and condensed typeface variant) very similar to Microgramma. Eurostile added lower-case letters,

75-623: A freelance type designer and worked all over the world for important companies such as Tygra, ITC, VCG, Mecanorma, Berthold. He also wrote two important didactic books: Alfabeta in 1964 and Il Segno Alfabetico in 1971. Novarese designed more than a hundred typefaces, at the beginning for the Fonderia Nebiolo in Turin -Italy, then for dry transfer companies such as Reber R41 and Mecanorma, phototype industries and traditional Foundries such VCG, ITC Tygra, Berthold and more. One of his most famous designs

90-443: Is Fenice Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Fenice . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fenice&oldid=1230046913 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

105-544: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Aldo Novarese Born in 1920, he entered the G.B. Paravia Typographic School in Turin, where he obtained a diploma. In 1935 he joined the Design Studio of The Nebiolo Foundry in Turin where he collaborated with Alessandro Butti on faces such as Athenaeum, Quirinus, Normandia, Augustea, Microgramma, Fluidum and Rondine. In 1952, giorni in recognition of his uncommon talent he

120-449: Is probably Eurostile , a geometric sans-serif design. It utilized shapes based on subtly curved rectangles with rounded corners, reflecting the modern designs that were gaining popularity at the time, influenced by the subtly curved shape of a cathode ray tube screen or aeroplane windows. It became very popular as a typeface that evokes technology (it can be seen on the speedometers on many cars and vehicles, particularly older models). This

135-467: The 2016 WWE Brand Extension Draft and WWE Battleground 2016 , WWE Raw unveiled a new logo which used Microgramma font, as did all title cards and graphics. The following night, WWE SmackDown Live also unveiled a new logo - although it did not use Microgramma, all title cards and graphics did. According to MasGrafx Racing Graphics, Microgramma is the font of several NASCAR numbers used by Richard Childress Racing and Dale Earnhardt, Inc. , such as

150-461: The URW/Nebiolo version, there are also extended Latin, subscripts and superscripts, and extended Latin ligatures. Microgramma OnlyShadow is a variant of Microgramma Bold that contains only the shadows of Microgramma Extended Bold, designed by URW Studio and Aldo Novarese in 1994. Although Alessandro Butti died in 1959, URW credited him as the designer of the new font. The Euro sign in the font has

165-591: The more recent reincarnations. Weyland-Yutani , the primary corporate conglomerate within both the earlier and recent Alien films (including the recent genre crossover Alien vs. Predator franchise films), features use of Microgamma and its Bold Extended typeface in its corporate logo, although not exclusively. The Microgramma Bold Extended typeface was used extensively in the Star Trek universe, such as Franz Joseph 's The Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual. The font, in both its original and various altered forms,

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180-558: The “Ecole de Lure”. This classification defines ten basic styles, in which the many thousand faces of the western world may be grouped. This work, which deserved the favourable opinion of international criticism, illustrates the Italian viewpoint on such a long-debated subject. Aldo Novarese retired from Nebiolo in 1972 and spent almost two years as a consultant of Reber R41 , a dry transfer producer; after that period, while keeping his close relationship with Reber R41 he started his career as

195-464: Was an expansion and development of the earlier design Microgramma typeface (designed in a project led by Alessandro Butti ), an all-caps design. Microgramma (typeface) Microgramma is a sans-serif typeface which was designed by Aldo Novarese and Alessandro Butti for the Nebiolo Type Foundry in 1952. It became popular for use with technical illustrations in the 1960s and was

210-547: Was appointed Director of Nebiolo Art Studio . Since then he designed many new typefaces, among others Cigno, Egizio, Ritmo, Fontanesi, Juliet, Slogan, Garaldus and Recta. At the Scuola Tipografica in Turin, where he taught drawing from 1949 to 1953, he started a class for the study of typefaces, with the aim of intensifying research work about the ancient Italian tradition in typeface design. Aldo Novarese published an Italian classification of typefaces which he presented at

225-678: Was incorporated into numerous displays and on ship exteriors in six of the Star Trek motion pictures , as well as depictions of "earlier technology" display screens, particularly for the Enterprise "prequel" series, during the four later television series . A modified version of Microgramma Bold Extended (sometimes called Starfleet Bold Extended) was used for the main hull registry number for Starfleet ships beginning with Star Trek: The Motion Picture in 1979. Some characters were modified, and all characters have red piping outlining them. Following

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