Designed by Jonathan Barnbrook and Marcus Leis Allion, Echelon is a retro font published by Barnbrook Fonts.

Echelon is based upon 1970s Eastern European ‘pipe-style’ typefaces. This style of Communist consumer typography came from what, at the time, seemed like a bizarre mirror universe: Existing alongside the West, similar-but-different, essentially unknowable. Even though the letterforms had the same historical origins as their Western equivalents, they also had their own bizarre fashionable/unfashionable aesthetic.

Font Family: Echelon Regular