A photo typeface of unknown origin. Shown on a specimen poster by typesetting service Conways from January 1974 as Zephyr. Used already in 1973. Shown by Formatt as Mirage [Formatt 1974]. Shown in Monsen’s Super Display Types 3 catalog (1976/1982) as Chariot or M-22 [Oka]. Shown as Zephyr by Lettergraphics [Lettergraphics 1968–1975] [Lettergraphics 1976] and as Zopper with note “similar to Zephyr” by Castcraft [Castcraft 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 Alan Prescott as Zephyr (1996, three weights in three widths, all with sloped and upright styles). Dick Pape made 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.