The first British edition of A.R. Luria’s The Mind of the Mnemonist was published by Jonathan Cape in 1969. Mon Mohan’s jacket design with wrap-around art uses Caslon 540 Italic with swash caps, highlighting the alliteration in the title.

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“Pride (In the Name of Love)” is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the second track on the band's 1984 album, The Unforgettable Fire, and was released as its lead single in September 1984. The song was produced by Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. Written about the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., “Pride” received mixed critical reviews at the time, but it was a major commercial success for U2 and has since become one of their most popular songs, as well as being re-evaluated positively by many as one of the greatest popular rock songs of all time.

The artist and track titles are set in Bodoni Open, while the subtitle (“In the Name of Love”) and miscellaneous text use Caslon 540 Italic. The designer is uncredited, while the band photograph is by Anton Corbijn.

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Movie poster for the 1987 vampire film The Lost Boys, directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Keifer Sutherland, Jason Patric, Corey Feldman, Corey Haim, and Diane Wiest.

The title treatment is set in caps from Palatino (designed by Hermann Zapf), using a mix of sizes. The billing block is also set in Palatino.

The tagline is set in Caslon 540@ by the American Type Founders Company.

Poster for Thank You Very Much, a 2023 documentary film about Andy Kaufman directed by Alex Braverman. The poster design is credited to Teddy Blanks (aka Chips.nyc)

The late 1970s movie theater feel is evoked by setting the main titles in Cooper Black paired with Harry for smaller text. The film review quotes appear to be set in Cooper BT Bold.

Tousan was the name used by Allen Toussaint early in his career. This album with instrumentals was released by RCA Records in 1958. The cover photography is by Nolan A. Marshall.

The typography combines Caslon No. 540 Italic with what looks like Condensed Title Gothic No. 11. The tall gothic caps used for “WILD” are from an unidentified typeface.

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Hachette has launched Food Lovers Travel, a collection of travel guides dedicated to the best culinary spots worldwide. Fagostudio designed the covers for the first six books: Rome, Seoul, Paris, London, Montreal, and Amsterdam.

The layouts were designed by Hachette. They use My Creative Land’s Roca​​​​​ for the title of this collection, with FinalSix by Type-Ø-Tones for the subtitle and Very Cool Studio’s Gooper for the yellow stickers. The illustrations feature type, too – see the captions for details.

The concept is based on illustrated facades representing these major cities, highlighting their culinary identities, architectural details, local specialties, and lifestyles. Food Lovers Travel aims to turn every trip into a culinary adventure by featuring the best places to eat, whether restaurants, markets, or speciality shops. Eating well is an essential part of the journey.

Eat Amsterdam ft. ABC Gravity (“Wafels”), modified Courier (“Amsterdam”), and more Roca (“Oud Kaas”).

Eat Londres ft. Coney Island (big sign) and Komika Title (small sign)

Eat Montreal ft. ABC Diatype (“Bagels”) and more ABC Gravity (“Traditional Montreal”)

Eat Paris ft. Gooper Italic (“Le Petit Parisien”) and DIN Condensed (“Rue de Cornichon”)

Eat Rome ft. Zing Script Rust (“Trattoria”) and Vampiro (menu board)

Eat Séoul with Hangul lettering

Helena Zhang’s portfolio was designed by Tobias Fried in 2020. The website is inspired by newspapers, as highlighted in Tobias’ project info:

Helena put together a design inspired by newspapers, with dense columns of content and explicit hierarchies of information. We mixed in references to broadcast TV and other analog media to make an experience that felt simultaneously nostalgic and modern.

The website uses two fonts: Bitstream’s version of Cooper, and Maison Neue Mono by Milieu Grotesque. Both fonts are available on MyFonts.

Project infos

Banner for Phosphor app for Android, which is included in the website

Helena Zhang’s Dribbble snapshots with a noise footer

Broadway Bouquets is a 1965 album with film music arranged by Percy Faith, performed by The Percy Faith Strings (here credited as “The Magnificent Strings of Percy Faith”). The blue and red text use Caslon Oldstyle Italic No. 540 with swashes. The green italic sans-serif caps for the song titles are from Univers, with the corresponding film titles in black added in News Gothic.

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The legendary jazz pianist’s 1968 concert at Palo Alto High School, recorded by a janitor and shelved for decades, captures some of the fiercest, most spirited versions of his quartet’s core repertoire. The design reflects the raw, unfiltered energy of the live performance, encapsulating both the spontaneity and brilliance of Monk’s playing.

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It’s Olio – where flavour, fun, and 100% South Australian organic extra virgin olive oil come together in a squeezable bottle! We’re proudly independent, with olives lovingly grown by family and crafted in small batches to bring you top-notch quality and unbeatable health benefits.

Reuben and DIN Condensed were used in combination to create a fun, playful and vintage italiano feel.

NadineCorp. is an open-source accounting tool created for designers affiliated with the Maison des Artistes, the national body managing the social security system for visual artists in France. In 2020, CRC Studio collaborated with Guillaume Bonneau to design and develop NadineCorp.’s branding, UI, social media presence, and full functionality.

On the website, Helvetica is substituted with Nimbus Sans.

The NadineCorp logo pairs Helvetica with Redaction and kana from Mondwest. The division logos use Cooper BT, M PLUS Rounded, STHupo, Microsoft YaHei and Stick. The social media brand logos additionally use Cooper Black, Eurostile, and ITC Avant Garde Gothic.

The fonts used for the fictional partners and sponsors are not listed under this post’s typeface credits, but they are Frankfurter Highlight. Gill Kayo, Frankfurter, NaN Jaune, and Nympha.

Assorted social media posts. The script fonts featured on some of them are Astenia and Ultra System Script.

At Domaine La Bosque, Olivia and Maxime, passionate winemakers, bottle their craft wine spirits, Limoncello and Gin. Their bottles feature elegant labels, primarily typographic, centered around the Audoux typeface created by and available from Studio Asensò.

Audoux is a vernacular geometric typeface inspired by the recurrent character designs found on the famous facades of cooperative wineries in Languedoc-Roussillon. It is a true revival of the drawings by the architect Roger Audoux, who designed nearly a dozen wineries that are as original as they are rational in their conception, much like the typefacs used on them.

An album with George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess as performed by Robert “Bob” Trendler (1912–2011) and His Orchestra, released on Grand Award Records in 1955 (G.A. 33-304).

The cover art, titled “Bess”, is by David Stone Martin (1913–1992). Martin served an art director for the United States Office of War Information during World War II. He is best known for designing more than 500 records covers, as well as a series of cover illustrations for TIME magazine.

Chances are that Casper Pinsker, Jr., the label’s art director, took care of the layout and typography. The extended extrabold is Nubian, designed by Willard T. Sniffin and issued by ATF in 1928. The “Grand Award” logo uses Caslon 540 Italic, with roman capitals.

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Pociąg do Hollywood (“Train for Hollywood”) is a 1987 Polish comedy film directed by Radosław Piwowarski and starring Katarzyna Figura as the “Polish Marilyn Monroe”.

For the Czechoslovak release in 1988, Zdeněk Ziegler designed a poster that shows the title on a steep angle, with letters from alternating typefaces set on a bouncing baseline. Is this a typographic depiction of a derailing train?

The star of the show is the Y from Astral, here in a four-color rendition. The title starts and ends with Caslon 540 Italic. The H probably is from Comstock Condensed, the L from Stencil, and the O’s from something similar to Thorne Shaded – maybe a version of Figgins Shaded? The small print with the credits is set in what looks like Universal Grotesk.

I just learned that Zdeněk Ziegler passed away a year ago, on April 18, 2023. He was 90. RIP.

Almost an entire font catalog on an album cover! This 1973 record compilation of UK television show theme music features at least 14 unique typefaces, each a logotype of a different TV program.

I see Bookman Swash, Stop, Amelia… and a bunch more that I look forward to learning about. The title in particular is one I don’t think I’ve seen before.

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Briefing for a Descent into Hell is a psychological thriller by the British novelist Doris Lessing. It was first published in 1971 and shortlisted for that year's Booker Prize.

First edition, published by Alfred A. Knopf.

Author's name and novel's title on front panel and spine of the dust jacket are set in Green Buzzard C, with blue, red and yellow colored fills. The setting on the spine has been simplified to more basic letterforms and rendered in yellow and blue. For the gilt-decorated white cloth hardcover, the front board features the author's initials set in Caslon 540 Swash Italic and the spine features the author's name and novel's title set in Perpetua, which is also featured on the interior title page.

Jacket design by John Gerbino.

Front panel and spine of dust jacket

Back panel and spine of dust jacket

Front board and spine of the gilt-decorated white cloth hardcover

Title page

Howard A. Trafton’s Cartoon in use for Grand Award’s Musical History of Jazz, “featuring 22 all time jazz ‘greats’”, with commentary by Wally Cox. The narration was written by George T. Simon.

The illustration titled History of Jazz was painted by David Stone Martin (1913–1992). The “Grand Award” logo uses Caslon 540 Italic, with roman capitals. The layout and typography probably is by the label’s art director, Casper Pinsker, Jr..

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Why call a magazine “No Go Zone”? In 2015, American TV Channel Fox News decided to call the suburbs of Paris “no go zones” which they deemed too dangerous to visit. This magazine aims to appropriate this designation and give the alternative point of view – written by people who actually live in these “no go zones” – of a new neighbourhood for each issue. It gathers photographic, artistic, journalistic, and poetic cotributions.

This second issue was designed with black markups as layout and very visibly edited photography, aiming to put the reader at a critical distance from the content.

The magazine is distributed locally in a small network of libraries in Seine-Seint-Denis, France, as well as in protests.

Sharp Grotesk by Sharp Type in its Black 11 style was chosen for the titles and the markups, and DIN Condensed by Paratype for the subheads. Swear by OH no Type Co. in its Text Medium style is used for the main text.
20×30 cm, 76 pages

Songs for Swingin’ Lovers is an album from American vocalist Frank Sinatra, released in 1956 on Capitol Records.

Both artist name and title are set in Caslon 471/540 on the front cover, with the title broken up and set at varying angles. For the back cover, a mix of Futura and Textype Italic are used.

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The back cover

Some pressings feature the same basic design, but with a different portrait in the background, with Sinatra looking at the swingin’ lovers. The added track names are in News Gothic, the lines at the top in Microgramma.

Caslon No. 540 in italic caps and roman for Roman Accordion, an album by Italian-American musician Charles Magnante (1905–1986), produced by Enoch Light and released on Command Records.

Cover design by George Giusti, with art direction by Charles E. Murphy.

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