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    <title>Filmotype Free in use</title>
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Digitized and expanded as Latitude Sans (used for sample).</description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Anri – Bi・Ki・Ni album art]]></title>
      <link>https://fontsinuse.com/uses/64481/anri-bikini-album-art</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Contributed by <a href="/contributors/69602/mrrifleman">MrRifleman</a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/64481/anri-bikini-album-art"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/use-media-items/244/243666/upto-700xauto/675307c6/t1048106170-1.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="https://aucfan.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aucfan.com</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span>License: <span class="fiu-attribution__license">All Rights Reserved</span><span>. </span></span></i><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/115265/filmotype-free"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/renders/326/115265/400/4/69a6ae41/filmotype-free.png"/></a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/35/franklin-gothic"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/samples/8/7745/440/4/600bc9f1/franklin-gothic.png"/></a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/6089/century-no-1"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/renders/7/6089/400/4/69a9c5e1/century-no-1.png"/></a><br/><br/><p>This is the fourth studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anri">Anri (Eiko Kawashima)</a>. The album cover is photographed by <a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%8A%E3%81%8A%E3%81%8F%E3%81%BC%E3%81%B2%E3%81%95%E3%81%93">Hisako Okubo</a> and designed by Tomio Watanabe. The first half of the album (Disco Side) is written and produced by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiki_Kadomatsu">Toshiki Kadomatsu</a>, while the latter half (Sea Side) is jointly written and produced by Anri and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi_Kobayashi">Takeshi Kobayashi</a>.</p>

<p>The album title is manually italicized using <strong><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/115265/filmotype-free">Filmotype Free</a></strong>. The typeface used in the album title is also used to set the names of each side on the back cover. The tracklist, musicians, and staff personnel are all set in <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/35/franklin-gothic"><strong>Franklin Gothic</strong></a>. Lastly, the quote on the right portion is set in a bold italic variant of <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/6089/century-no-1"><strong>Century No. 1</strong></a>.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/743323-%E6%9D%8F%E9%87%8C-BiKiNi-%E3%83%93%E3%82%AD%E3%83%8B">[More info on Discogs]</a></p><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/64481/anri-bikini-album-art"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/use-media-items/244/243667/upto-700xauto/67530755/t1048106170-2.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="https://aucfan.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aucfan.com</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span>License: <span class="fiu-attribution__license">All Rights Reserved</span><span>. </span></span></i><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/64481/anri-bikini-album-art"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/use-media-items/244/243668/upto-700xauto/675308d0/t1048106170-6.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="https://aucfan.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">aucfan.com</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span>License: <span class="fiu-attribution__license">All Rights Reserved</span><span>. </span></span></i><br/><br/>This post was originally published at <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/64481/anri-bikini-album-art">Fonts In Use</a><hr/>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2024 10:47:15 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Smash Hits magazine logos (1978, 1980, 1982, 1985)]]></title>
      <link>https://fontsinuse.com/uses/14687/smash-hits-magazine-logos-1978-1980-1982-1985</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Contributed by <a href="/contributors/9573/blogmywiki">Giles Booth</a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/14687/smash-hits-magazine-logos-1978-1980-1982-1985"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/use-media/45387/upto-700xauto/581caf2f/1/jpeg/8422488194_695b12fdfd_o_d.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/51106326@N00/8422488194/in/album-72157632625390273/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.flickr.com</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span><span class="fiu-attribution__credits fiu-text--captioning">Like Punk Never Happened – a Smash Hits archive</span>. </span><span>License: <span class="fiu-attribution__license">All Rights Reserved</span><span>. </span></span></i><br/><br/><p>The cover of the <cite>Smash Hits</cite> prototype issue from September 1978 featured Plastic Bertrand and a logo in Antique Olive Nord Italic with dramatic drop shadow. The official No.<span class="nbsp"> 1 from November 1978</span> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51106326@N00/4656949654/in/album-72157624174640754/">credits Ross George with the design</a>.</p><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/10857/allegro"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/samples/11/10290/440/4/62ef76a2/allegro.png"/></a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/1267/volta"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/renders/13/1267/400/4/6962707b/volta.png"/></a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/20406/grecian"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/renders/24/20406/400/4/68dab765/grecian.png"/></a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/8382/antique-olive-nord"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/renders/8/8382/400/4/6936d7d5/antique-olive-nord.png"/></a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/115265/filmotype-free"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/renders/326/115265/400/4/69a6ae41/filmotype-free.png"/></a><br/><br/><p>The British pop music magazine <cite>Smash Hits</cite> ran from 1978 to 2006. From <cite><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/smashhitsmagazinemainsite/">Smash Hits Remembered</a>:</cite></p>

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<p><cite>Smash Hits </cite>was founded in 1978 by Nick Logan, who had previously edited the <cite>New Musical Express</cite> during one of its most creative periods and went on to create ’80s fashion bible <cite>The Face</cite>. […] The backbone of the magazine in its early years, and one of its major early selling points, was the publication of Top 20 song lyrics. […] During this period, appearing on the cover of <cite>Smash Hits</cite> was a sign that an act had finally ‘arrived’. […] For most of the 1980s and early 1990s it was the first choice magazine for many teenagers, at its peak selling half a million copies every bi-weekly issue. A record breaking issue in 1989, featuring Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan, sold more than a million copies!</p>
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<p>This post documents the first four versions of the magazine’s logo, spanning the publication’s most influential years — from italic <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/8382/antique-olive-nord"><strong>Antique Olive Nord</strong></a> (1978) to equally heavy <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/4/futura">Futura</a>-like caps (1980) [edit: apparently it’s <strong><a target="_self" class="entity-link" href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/115265/filmotype-free" data-entity-code-id="115265" data-entity-code-type="TypeEntity">Filmotype Free</a></strong>, see comments], to the iconic combination of <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/10857/allegro"><strong>Allegro</strong></a> and <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/1267/volta"><strong>Volta</strong></a> (1982), and finally the angular condensed letterforms of <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/20406/grecian"><strong>Grecian</strong></a> (1985) which remained in use until September 2000.</p>

<p>All images courtesy of Brian McCloskey of <a href="http://likepunkneverhappened.blogspot.com"><cite>Like Punk Never Happened</cite></a>, the definitive <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51106326@N00/collections/72157622124067234/"><cite>Smash Hits</cite> archive</a>. He adds a new issue every fortnight, always on the thirtieth anniversary of the original publication date.</p><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/14687/smash-hits-magazine-logos-1978-1980-1982-1985"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/use-media/45386/upto-700xauto/623ad6ed/1/jpeg/4795190602_4a56dd251c_o_d.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/51106326@N00/4795190602/in/album-72157624496771374/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.flickr.com</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span><span class="fiu-attribution__credits fiu-text--captioning">Like Punk Never Happened – a Smash Hits archive</span>. </span><span>License: <span class="fiu-attribution__license">All Rights Reserved</span><span>. </span></span></i><br/><br/><p>Antique Olive had to make way for shaded caps similar to Futura Extra Bold (but with vertical terminals on the ‘S’ [edit: apparently it’s <a target="_self" class="entity-link" href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/115265/filmotype-free" data-entity-code-id="115265" data-entity-code-type="TypeEntity">Filmotype Free</a>, see comments], paired with a handwritten “Smash”) from Vol. 2, No. 20 (October 2, 1980) on. Steve Bush was the magazine’s Design Editor at that time. Cover: Gary Numan by Dick Wallis/Rocktography.</p><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/14687/smash-hits-magazine-logos-1978-1980-1982-1985"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/use-media/45384/upto-700xauto/581caf2f/1/jpeg/7845037202_73d5b8ea93_o_d.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/51106326@N00/7845037202/in/album-72157631208817176/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.flickr.com</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span><span class="fiu-attribution__credits fiu-text--captioning">Like Punk Never Happened – a Smash Hits archive</span>. </span><span>License: <span class="fiu-attribution__license">All Rights Reserved</span><span>. </span></span></i><br/><br/><p>The Allegro/Volta cover logo was introduced with Vol. 4, No. 21 from October 14, 1982. It had already appeared in the <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51106326@N00/7482005466/in/album-72157630376581378/">interior of the previous issue</a>. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51106326@N00/7845187640/in/album-72157631208817176/">Design Editor: Steve Bush. Design: David Bostock, Kimberley Leston</a>. Cover: Culture Club by Eric Watson.</p><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/14687/smash-hits-magazine-logos-1978-1980-1982-1985"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/use-media/45385/upto-700xauto/581caf2f/1/jpeg/18562808593_f217c9b490_o_d.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/51106326@N00/18562808593/in/album-72157654688971419/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.flickr.com</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span><span class="fiu-attribution__credits fiu-text--captioning">Like Punk Never Happened – a Smash Hits archive</span>. </span><span>License: <span class="fiu-attribution__license">All Rights Reserved</span><span>. </span></span></i><br/><br/><p>Vol 7, No. 16 from August 14, 1985 was the last one to feature this type combination.<br />
Cover: Billy Idol by Retna.</p><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/14687/smash-hits-magazine-logos-1978-1980-1982-1985"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/use-media/45401/upto-700xauto/581f3f62/1/jpeg/18995792100_df6fd24620_o_d.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/51106326@N00/18995792100/in/album-72157655112913515/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.flickr.com</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span><span class="fiu-attribution__credits fiu-text--captioning">Like Punk Never Happened – a Smash Hits archive</span>. </span><span>License: <span class="fiu-attribution__license">All Rights Reserved</span><span>. </span></span></i><br/><br/><p>The logo in Grecian was introduced in Vol. 7 No. 17 (August 28, 1985), and would last for 15 years. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/51106326@N00/19157322316/in/album-72157655112913515/">Editor: Steve Bush. Assistant Editor (Design): David Bostock. Design: Vici MacDonald</a>. Cover: Simon le Bon and Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran, by Denis O’Regan/Idols.</p><br/><br/>This post was originally published at <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/14687/smash-hits-magazine-logos-1978-1980-1982-1985">Fonts In Use</a><hr/>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2016 15:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>Giles Booth</author>
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