Raymond Lefèvre and his Orchestra – Paris Cancan album art

Florian Hardwig — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 06:24:00 +0000

Contributed by Florian Hardwig

Staudel Xenotype K is based on an alphabet shown by J.M. Bergling in his Art Alphabets & Lettering from 1914. Photo-Lettering made the phototype adaptation as part of their Art Nouveau Xenotypes 1895–1905 series in 1962. Here it can be seen in use for the cover of an album by Raymond Lefèvre and his Orchestra, released by Monument Records in 1966. The group’s name is added in Inserat-Grotesk.

The French release on Barclay Records (see the last image) uses the same photograph – by Herman Leonard – and a similar typeface: this time, it’s Staudel Xenotype A, another of PLINC’s Art Nouveau Xenotypes for which I haven’t been able to find the original source yet. The s is more angular than in a 1971 specimen. This suggests that the glyph is either an alternate or was modified, or that the letterforms were taken from a different source, possibly even the original. The secondary text here is set in caps from Auriol.

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The back cover rearranges the name in Inserat-Grotesk and the title in Staudel Xenotype K in six stacked lines. Track names are set in Trade Gothic and the liner notes by Aaron Sternfield in Helvetica.

The French version with Staudel Xenotype A and Auriol was released by Barclay in their Super Panache series in 1966.

This post was originally published at Fonts In Use