Interesting article in today’s Guardian about Kubrick�s archive.

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�It's Futura Extra Bold,� explains Tony. �It was Stanley's favourite typeface. It's sans serif. He liked Helvetica and Univers, too. Clean and elegant.�

�Is this the kind of thing you and Kubrick used to discuss?� I ask.

�God, yes,� says Tony. �Sometimes late into the night. I was always trying to persuade him to turn away from them. But he was wedded to his sans serifs.�

Tony goes to his bookshelf and brings down a number of volumes full of examples of typefaces, the kind of volumes he and Kubrick used to study, and he shows them to me. �I did once get him to admit the beauty of Bembo,� he adds, �a serif.�

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