with an x-height between the original and the ITC digitisation in 9 weights with italic styles to complement them. Another distinction that Neue Kabel has are stylistic alternates such as lower-case letters "a", "g", "e" and "l", circular and 45° square tittles. Other Bhikkhu Pesala created the open-source revival Kabala, named after a Pāli word meaning 'a morsel of food' due to its intended use in Buddhist religious publications. This release is inspired by the ITC weight set and structure, but adds a number of features including italics, small caps and combined characters. Ray Larabie's Canada 1500 was based loosely on the original Kabel, with its low x-heights. Commissioned with a full set of characters to support the languages of Canada, he donated the original version, "Canada 150," to the government of Canada upon its 2015 completion for use in Canadian sesquicentennial celebrations, then released it into the public domain shortly before Canada Day 2017 (the day of the sesquicentennial) as what he described as a "birthday gift" to his native country. Finnish typeface designer, Tomi Haaparanta designed the Kaapeli typeface which inspired from the Kabel typeface. Prominent usage Kabel is used in the popular board game Monopoly. ITC Kabel Demi is used in the game Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric. The typeface was used in the opening credits for Yellow Submarine and Weird Science. Kabel Black in lower-case is used as the typeface in the logo for supermarket chain Piggly Wiggly. Kabel was famously used as a typeface for music video credit tags on MTV from 1981 to 2006. Google's corporate typeface, Product Sans, has some similarities to Kabel, in particular the angled 'e', but other features such as the 'M' and 'g' are very different, resembling Helvetica or Futura. Notes References Blackwell, Lewis. 20th Century Type. Yale University Press: 2004. . Fiedl, Frederich, Nicholas Ott and Bernard Stein. Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques Through History. Black Dog & Leventhal: 1998. . Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and A.F. Johnson. The Encyclopædia of Type Faces. Blandford Press Lts.: 1953, 1983. . Macmillan, Neil. An A–Z of Type Designers. Yale University Press: 2006. . External links Elsner + Flake web page on Kabel Typowiki: Kabel Kabel MT font information (Monotype) Geometric sans-serif typefaces Typefaces and fonts introduced in 1927 Typefaces designed by Rudolf Koch