This entry combines two similar typefaces from the phototype
era, Village and Orbit.
Village appears in PLINC’s
Psychedelitypes (1968) as Pyschedelitype
5788/5789 and, with more widths and shadow variants in
Alphabet
Yearbook 1969. Shown in Alphabet Thesaurus,
Vol. 3 and One Line (1971) as Village, in
nine variations: 5783/V. East (open shade right),
5784/Other V. (shade right), 5785/V. Stocked (contour),
5786/V. Mainliner
(double outline), 5787/V. Gate (outline),
5789/V. Narrow,
5790/V. Wide,
5792/V. West (open
shade left), 5793/V. Chicurel (shade left). No designer credited, but included in a feature on
Ed
Benguiat in
Typographic i (1978).
Orbit is a common variation with no flaring, and a
vertical-legged ‘R’ and tailed ‘T’. It probably originated at
Lettergraphics who showed it in 1970. [Lettergraphics 1970] Also appears in a
Fürst catalog (1970, w/ Inline style), a More…
This entry combines two similar typefaces from the phototype era, Village and Orbit.
Village appears in PLINC’s Psychedelitypes (1968) as Pyschedelitype 5788/5789 and, with more widths and shadow variants in Alphabet Yearbook 1969. Shown in Alphabet Thesaurus, Vol. 3 and One Line (1971) as Village, in nine variations: 5783/V. East (open shade right), 5784/Other V. (shade right), 5785/V. Stocked (contour), 5786/V. Mainliner (double outline), 5787/V. Gate (outline), 5789/V. Narrow, 5790/V. Wide, 5792/V. West (open shade left), 5793/V. Chicurel (shade left). No designer credited, but included in a feature on Ed Benguiat in Typographic i (1978).
Orbit is a common variation with no flaring, and a vertical-legged ‘R’ and tailed ‘T’. It probably originated at Lettergraphics who showed it in 1970. [Lettergraphics 1970] Also appears in a Fürst catalog (1970, w/ Inline style), a Letterphot Vario ad (1971), in catalogs by Mecanorma (1973), Berthold’s E1 (1974, with Facsimile Fonts credits), and Haber (1981), as well as in Solotype’s Art Deco Display Alphabets (1982). Lettering Inc. showed Orbit as Flair [c.1975 catalogs]. A variant with filled-in bottom apertures (‘AHKMNRWX’) is shown in catalogs by Formatt (1974, Orbit with O. Rimmed and O. Shaded) and Hollenstein (1974, as Foto Orbit Solid).
Orbit was digitized by Dick Pape as DXS Orbit (2010). Humberto Gillan made a freebie digitization based on Village (but without the flaring), and included Orbit’s ‘R’ and ‘T’ as alternates (OutsideInside Fonts, 2017).
