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However, it did far better in the US, where Americans appeared to be a lot more supportive of Queen's forays into dance music. The drastic change caused the single to stall at #25 on the UK charts. The usage and pronunciation of the arrows was never explained by any member of Queen, though the arrows did show up as part of the single's cover art and in its video, where they were painted on the bodies of models, while Freddie Mercury also wore shirts and a white leather jacket during the album's ensuing tour that had similar arrow designs.

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The full title of the song, as printed both on the single and Hot Space album sleeve, is 'Body Language в†‘в¬±'. The song was played every night on the U.S leg and the Japanese leg, where the song achieved more commercial success. It often got a lukewarm reaction, although the live arrangement was very different from the studio one. This song was played twice during the European leg of the Hot Space Tour, with the first performance being in Vienna on 13 May. The song's key feature was its minimal, sparse production, with the emphasis of 'suggestive' lyrics, a 'slinky' synth bass (played on an Oberheim OB-X), and writer Freddie Mercury's moans and groans. 'Body Language' is notable for its near lack of guitar atmospheric guitar chords sparingly dot the body of the song, while a brief two-note riff is heard during the fade out. 'Body Language' and its parent album Hot Space were the results of this change. The font comes not only in text and display versions, but a вЂDeckвЂ™ style for intermediate sizes.The massive success of ' Another One Bites the Dust' inspired Queen to temporarily abandon their glam roots in the early 1980s, and experiment with disco, funk and soul music. 'With contributions from H&FJ designer Jesse Ragan, the Mercury family has been expanded to include all the specialized characters needed for a complete newspaper: tabular figures for sports statistics, extended monetary symbols for financial listings and small caps for bylines. Because all four grades are built to the same set of character widths, they can be used interchangeably without affecting copyfit. Perhaps most importantly, Mercury was designed in вЂgrades,вЂ™ four progressively more robust versions which allow designers to fine-tune the appearance of their typography based on the local conditions of their pressroom. Mercury Text was designed not only to withstand the formidable constraints of newsprint-absorbent paper and slippery ink-but the environment of the news column itself, characterized by tight leading and narrow columns. 'In 1999, Tobias Frere-Jones revisited Mercury to create a vigorous family of news faces for Alexander Isley's redesigns for the New Times newspaper chain. Like foundry types, Mercury was designed from the inside out, with the non-printing 'counters' being drawn first. Though the final design has little in common with the style of Fleischman's baroque types, Mercury owes much to the Dutch tradition of punchcutting.

Originally conceived of as a revival of the work of eighteenth-century punchcutter Jean-Michel Fleischman, Mercury ultimately evolved into a thoroughly modern design.

'Mercury Display (1997) was commissioned by Robert Priest for the redesign of Esquire magazine. Mercury is a family of text and display faces for newspaper typography, the first collaboration between type designers Jonathan Hoefler and Tobias Frere-Jones.