Manna was a Christian folk band from Downers Grove in DuPage County, Illinois. The cover of their only known album release features two Filmotype typefaces. The title is set in all caps using Filmotype Zingo, with the band name written in Filmotype Checker. “Stereo” in the bottom right corner uses Alfereta.

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Artwork for Catch-Wave, an album of solo improvisations for violin, electronics, and voice by Fluxus artist Takehisa Kosugi. The cover features a vibrating op art treatment of a photo by Tamotsu Fujii designed by Aritsune Terada & Shizuo Ishizuka. Released on CBS/Sony Records in 1975.

The title is set in caps from the left-leaning Alfereta. The artist’s name uses Futura Bold.

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“Sounds speeding on lights” appears to be Trade Gothic. The other fonts on the back cover including the Japanese ones are unidentified.

Alfereta, a bottom-heavy, left-leaning cursive designed by William F. Capitain for the National Type Foundry in 1894, on the sleeve of the Dutch pressing of “Love’s Theme”. The typeface had been revived for phototypesetting by Photo-Lettering before 1971, who licensed it to Mecanorma, the European manufacturer of dry transfer lettering.

This soul/disco track was the biggest hit of the Love Unlimited Orchestra, “a 40-piece string-laden orchestra, formed by American singer-songwriter Barry White, that served as a backing unit for White and female vocal trio Love Unlimited.” “It is one of the few instrumental and purely orchestral singles to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.”

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Environments was a long running series of field recordings meant for therapeutic effects. With sounds of the seashore or maybe a lush forest, it would take the listener into distant lands and give rise to all kinds of wonderful psychedelic effects. The front cover is fairly standard for 1969, so I suggest we turn to the smörgåsbord of phototype on the back instead. A typophile’s therapy!