Gold Past Life is the latest album of American rock band Fruit Bats, released in 2019 on Merge Records. The cover was designed by Daniel Murphy, with photography by Annie Beedy. The bottom-heavy script is Brandywine (or some digital version thereof), see Jeanette & Brandywine.

The album typography is also referenced in T-shirts and other merchandise.

I was fascinated with this album cover, not only for the image by Dutch photographer Scarlett Hooft Graafland, but for its interesting typography (design: Daniel Murphy). It appears that the font used is based off the metal type Augustea, which was desiged by Aldo Novarese and Alessandro Butti in 1951.

There’s a digital freebie version of this typeface named “Augustus,” which might be what the graphic designer used.

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