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Futura, the typeface favored by the likes of filmmakers Stanley Kubrick and Wes Anderson was also used extensively for NASA’s Apollo 11 mission (along with an American knock-off of Futura called Spartan).
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This is mostly likely not Futura, but a US-made ‘remake’ called International, if I remember correctly. Copyright + typefacedesign = difficult relationship.
International has a less refined appearance than the original — never mind the fact that the later versions of Futura differ a lot from the proto-version by Paul Renner (who supervised and worked on those later versions, so no Qualms there…).
Add: I don’t think it is Spartan.
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