Hard hitting… Ebony Magazine editor examines “Black Establishment” and “Liberal” Whites in the Negro revolution and predicts massive confrontation of Black and White….

The Negro Mood is a book by Lerone Bennett Jr. (1928–2018), African-American scholar, author, social historian, and long-time executive editor of Ebony magazine. First published in 1964 by Johnson, this is the cover of Ballantine’s paperback edition from 1965 (U5045).

The text is set in Bulletin Typewriter, mostly in all caps, and spiced up with a mix of Zephyr and Gem for the title. Lines and individual words are shown in cut out strips, possibly in reference to ticker tape, alluding to the urgency of the matter. Cover artist unknown.

Vol. 1, May 1968 [More info on Discogs]

In 1968, Reprise Records released a two-volume compilation of greatest hits by Dean Martin (1917–1995). For the first volume, art director Ed Thrasher specified Tempo Black for the title, paired with Futura for the song names. Tempo was Ludlow’s response to Bauer’s Futura. Its Black weight is even heavier than Intertype’s Futura Extra Bold.

For Volume 2, which followed half a year later, he didn’t rehash the design, but came up with a variation: this time the titling face is Filmotype Gem, an extrabold sans with straight-sided rounds. The track list is shown to the left and right of Martin’s portrait, set in Franklin Gothic Extra Condensed.

What unites the two cover designs are the photographic portraits of smiling Dean Martin with his signature bow tie, the color palette with red white and blue, and a typography that uses two sans serifs in all caps.

Vol. 2, Aug. 1968 [More info on Discogs]

Filmotype Gem on the cover of Israeli Folk Dances (Third Series), featuring Martha Schlamme, Mort Freeman, Rachel Hadass, Theodore Bikel, recorded by the Israel Folk Dance Orchestra with conductors Elyakum Shapira and Amitai Ne’eman, and released by the Israel Music Foundation, Cedarhurst, New York, in 1957.

Additional typefaces include Franklin Gothic Condensed, Alternate Gothic No. 3, Century Bold Condensed Italic and Bold Italic, and an unidentified sans with similarities to Akzidenz-Grotesk or Gothic No. 578, used in all caps for “Israel Folk Dance Orchestra” [edit: it’s Venus, see comments].

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A whole lot of bold caps on the cover of a record from around the mid 1960s, released on Diplomat Records. The track names are in Futura Display, separated by big square middle dots. The title and the band name are set in Filmotype Gem.

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Filmotype Gem, set on a circle, with fanned letterforms. See Nick’s overview of adjustments made to letters on a curve and Photo-Lettering’s Circoflair Techniques, both included in the dedicated Flickr group, Text on a Curve.

Gem is part of Filmotype’s “G series” of Grotesques, issued in 1953. A digital version was made by Mark Simonson in 2011.

Movie poster for Human Desire, a 1954 black-and-white film noir directed by Fritz Lang, starring Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame. It is loosely based on Émile Zola's novel La Bête humaine. — Wikipedia

Cover for Don Rickles’s 1968 comedy album, Hello Dummy!, with art direction by Ed Thrasher, via Bart Solenthaler on Flickr.

“DON RICKLES” is set in Filmotype Gem, but “HELLO DUMMY” is harder to identify. Other than the slightly high-waisted Y, it could be any number of Helvetica-like substances.

See also the type-centric ad for Hello Dummy!, posted previously on Fonts In Use.

Launched in February 2000, truth is an organization backed by the American Legacy Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based national public health organization devoted to tobacco-use prevention and education. “FinishIT” is their 2014 campaign against underage smoking which cites statistics showing the declining numbers of teens who smoke.

One of several online advertising videos for the #FinishIT campaign.