Kids, don’t try this at home: pairing two very similar typefaces can be tricky, all the more so when they belong to a peculiar genre. I wouldn’t bother to try and make two multiline faces work together on the same page, but the one and only Nolan Pelletier can pull it off.

For the cover of Divine Intervention, he used Neo Prisma for the band name, and Prisma for the title. The former is an early-1970s face designed by Nicola Russo and issued by Mecanorma. The latter is Rudolf Koch’s display companion to his Kabel, first cast by Klingspor in 1930. Drawn with multiple parallel lines, Prisma was a pretty novel concept at the time. While the original Prisma has strokes with four lines in the smaller sizes (20, 24, 28 pt) and fives lines in larger ones (36, 48, 60 pt), this version has three. Is this a homemade “Prisma Text”? Or did Nolan use Prismaset Three from Lineto’s massive revival and expansion, and beef up its strokes? Anyway, together with his signature style illustration featuring concentric circles and stars, everything falls into place.

Client Liaison is an Australian indie pop/electronica duo. Divine Intervention is their second studio album, released in October 2021.

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Cover for Every Scene Needs A Center, the fifth album by indie pop band Tullycraft from Seattle, Washington, released in 2007 on Magic Marker Records.

The typography references the 1970s, with ITC Souvenir and very tight spacing. Design and illustration by the band’s lead guitarist Corianton Hale.

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Phases is a compilation of B-sides from singer-songwriter Angel Olsen, released in 2017 on Jagjaguwar. Design by Miles Johnson, with cover photography by Lisa Businovski.

What may look like Letraset’s Stripes on first sight is in fact Harold Lohner’s Hardline. This digital typeface design was inspired by the 3-letter logo of United Staff Union. While its E is similar in feel to Tony Wenman’s linking multiline face, the A is more reminiscent of Aki Lines. The artist’s name appears to be lettering with similarities to ITC Avant Garde Gothic.

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“Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)” / “New Years” 7″, Dec. 2007.

Art direction, illustration, design and photography by Sean McCabe. The yellow letterforms spell out the band’s name in Japanese (アソビ・セクス).

Asobi Seksu was an American shoegaze/dream pop band based in New York City. Their music used a textured and effects-heavy vocal and guitar sound. The band primarily consisted of Yuki Chikudate (vocals, keyboards) and James Hanna (guitar, vocals). — Wikipedia

During their active years (2001–2013), the band used various typographic interpretations of the band name, but Motter Ombra in all caps was a recurring theme, in album art, on posters, and elsewhere.

Acoustic at Olympic Studios, tour-exclusive live album with metallic digipak, Feb. 2009, One Little Indian.
Art direction and design by Chronicallyaskew.

“Familiar Light” 7″, Feb. 2009

Stage decoration, 2010

Poster for two concerts in Busan and Seoul, South Korea, May 2012