Shown as Busk (outline) and Busk Solid
in an undated
pre-1979 specimen by Alphabet
Photosetting, without designer credits. The outlined style was
copied by Castcraft as Bone Shaker and is shown in a
1981 booklet. [Fontastique
Faces via email]
Bush
Hollyhead (1949–2020) of Nicholas Thirkell Associates (NTA) is
credited for the lettering of
a 1973 album which could have inspired the typeface (or vice
versa). Similar lettering was used by Peder Bundgaard for a
1974 album. The earliest known direct use of the typeface is
from 1975. [via
Lira, Larabie]
Busk was most famously adapted for the logo of
heavy metal band Iron
Maiden, used from 1977 on. Ray Larabie extrapolated the logo
into a font named Metal Lord (1996, without lowercase). After
learning about additional uses incl. the poster for the 1976 movie
The Man who More…
Shown as Busk (outline) and Busk Solid in an undated pre-1979 specimen by Alphabet Photosetting, without designer credits. The outlined style was copied by Castcraft as Bone Shaker and is shown in a 1981 booklet. [Fontastique Faces via email]
Bush Hollyhead (1949–2020) of Nicholas Thirkell Associates (NTA) is credited for the lettering of a 1973 album which could have inspired the typeface (or vice versa). Similar lettering was used by Peder Bundgaard for a 1974 album. The earliest known direct use of the typeface is from 1975. [via Lira, Larabie]
Busk was most famously adapted for the logo of heavy metal band Iron Maiden, used from 1977 on. Ray Larabie extrapolated the logo into a font named Metal Lord (1996, without lowercase). After learning about additional uses incl. the poster for the 1976 movie The Man who Fell to Earth, he revised Metal Lord in 2012. In 2021, Fontastique Faces commissioned a private digital revival directly based on specimens of the original Busk and including the lowercase, named Iron Man (not available for licensing, used for sample).
