Handel Gothic is a geometric sans-serif typeface.
The typeface was designed in the mid-1960s by Donald J. Handel (1936-2002), who worked for the famous designer Saul Bass. It was used in the 1973 United Airlines logo developed by Bass.
Handel Gothic was an instant success when first released. The typeface was originally distributed in film format by PhotoStar and got re-issued in the 1980s by Robert Trogman.
It was a popular font in the 1980s due to its futuristic design, and even today is used to signify the future.
The Bitstream version uses a rounded downward leg on R instead of the diagonal legged R.
Read more about Handel Gothic: Handel Gothic Cyrillic, ITC Handel Gothic (2008), Popular Uses, Corporate Identity Uses
Famous quotes containing the words handel and/or gothic:
“Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in many materials to many temporary ends. Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakspeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. Painting was called “silent poetry,” and poetry “speaking painting.” The laws of each art are convertible into the laws of every other.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object.”
—Roland Barthes (1915–1980)