A photo typeface of unknown origin. Shown on a specimen poster
by typesetting service Conways from January 1974 as
Zephyr. Shown by Formatt as Mirage. [1974
catalog] Shown in Monsen’s Super Display Types 3
catalog (1976/1982) as Chariot or M-22.
[Oka]
Shown as Zephyr in a Lettergraphics catalog from 1976,
and as Zopper with note “similar to Zephyr” in
Castcraft’s Encyclopedia catalog (1978). Reproduced as
Zephyr in Dan X. Solo’s Art Deco Display
Alphabets (Dover, 1982). It’s not clear what the original
name was. Used for the TIE Fighter targeting computers in Star Wars: A
New Hope (1977). [EC Henry]
Digitized as Nexxus (WSI, 1992) and by Dick Pape as
DXS Zephyr (2009/2010), based on the showing in
Art Deco Display Alphabets. Lucas Liccini made a
another digitization in 2020 as part of his Revivals & Renditions
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A photo typeface of unknown origin. Shown on a specimen poster by typesetting service Conways from January 1974 as Zephyr. Shown by Formatt as Mirage. [1974 catalog] Shown in Monsen’s Super Display Types 3 catalog (1976/1982) as Chariot or M-22. [Oka] Shown as Zephyr in a Lettergraphics catalog from 1976, and as Zopper with note “similar to Zephyr” in Castcraft’s Encyclopedia catalog (1978). Reproduced as Zephyr in Dan X. Solo’s Art Deco Display Alphabets (Dover, 1982). It’s not clear what the original name was. Used for the TIE Fighter targeting computers in Star Wars: A New Hope (1977). [EC Henry]
Digitized as Nexxus (WSI, 1992) and by Dick Pape as DXS Zephyr (2009/2010), based on the showing in Art Deco Display Alphabets. Lucas Liccini made a another digitization in 2020 as part of his Revivals & Renditions student project at UdK Berlin, based on the showing by Daylight Fonts ( unreleased). Sienar AF and Sienar AF Chariot are all-caps digitizations made by Ender Smith of AurekFonts in 2021, based on the Star Wars use.
