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    <title>France in use</title>
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    <description>France in use. Shown by Photoscript as an “Exclusive Royalty” face as early as 1970. [Photoscript 1970] No lowercase.</description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Wild Blue – No More Jinx album art and “Fire With Fire” single]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Contributed by <a href="/contributors/65839/i-f">Ian Fine-Free</a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/72179/wild-blue-no-more-jinx-album-art-and-fire-wit"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/use-media-items/268/267828/upto-700xauto/69b60f50/wildblue1.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/126508527222" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.ebay.com</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span>License: <span class="fiu-attribution__license">All Rights Reserved</span><span>. </span></span></i><br/><br/><p><em>No More Jinx</em> (Chrysalis Records, 1986) [<a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/240634-Wild-Blue-No-More-Jinx">More info on Discogs</a>]</p><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/194015/france"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/samples/17/16618/440/4/68d12d60/france.png"/></a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/1768/friz-quadrata"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/renders/2/1768/400/4/6a1c0438/friz-quadrata.png"/></a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/1745/eras"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/renders/13/1745/400/4/69fa6011/eras.png"/></a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/4/futura"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/renders/1/4/400/4/6a24799a/futura.png"/></a><br/><br/><p>From <cite>Billboard</cite> magazine (<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=VyQEAAAAMBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">June 28, 1986</a>, p. 18):</p>

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<p>Chicago-based band Wild Blue is playing Midwest dates through July supporting its Chrysalis debut album, “No More Jinx.” The album’s first single, “Fire With Fire,” is also the theme song for <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091053/">the Paramount Pictures' movie of the same name</a>.</p>
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<p>From <cite>Billboard</cite> magazine (<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=qyQEAAAAMBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false">July 19, 1986</a>, p. N-5)</p>

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<p>Noting that Chrysalis spent the first half of of 1986 developing bands like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icehouse_(band)">Icehouse</a>, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_of_Noise">Art of Noise</a>, and Wild Blue, [Fran] Musso says, “It might take longer to break new acts, but I think labels are still definitely open to getting new talent across.”</p>
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<p>Unfortunately for <a href="https://www.discogs.com/artist/1784775">Wild Blue</a>, their brush with a national audience did not last much beyond 1986. However, this brief foray with major label exposure did provide us with examples of Photoscript’s <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/194015/france"><strong>France</strong></a> in use as their band logo.</p>

<p>Art direction and design for the <em>No More Jinx</em> album is credited to <a href="https://riaimages.com/">Ria Lewerke</a>. No design credits are given on the “Fire With Fire” single.</p><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/72179/wild-blue-no-more-jinx-album-art-and-fire-wit"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/use-media-items/268/267872/upto-700xauto/69b60f50/wildblue2.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><span>License: <span class="fiu-attribution__license">All Rights Reserved</span><span>. </span></span></i><br/><br/><p>Close-up of band logo from their album's record sleeve.</p><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/72179/wild-blue-no-more-jinx-album-art-and-fire-wit"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/use-media-items/268/267853/upto-700xauto/69b60f50/wildblue3.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/155412422663" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.ebay.com</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span>License: <span class="fiu-attribution__license">All Rights Reserved</span><span>. </span></span></i><br/><br/><p>“Fire With Fire” single. (Chrysalis Records, 1986) [<a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/389368-Wild-Blue-Fire-With-Fire">More info on Discogs</a>] The other fonts present beside France, from top to bottom, are <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/1768/friz-quadrata"><strong>Friz Quadrata</strong></a>, <strong><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/1745/eras">Eras</a></strong>, and <strong><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/4/futura">Futura</a></strong>.</p><br/><br/>This post was originally published at <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/72179/wild-blue-no-more-jinx-album-art-and-fire-wit">Fonts In Use</a><hr/>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2025 19:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>Ian Fine-Free</author>
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