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The Holy Modal Rounders – The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders album art

Contributed by Garrison Martin on Sep 13th, 2016. Artwork published in .
The Holy Modal Rounders – The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders album art
Source: www.flickr.com Elektra Records. License: All Rights Reserved.

Art direction by William S. Harvey, with cover art by Gene Szafran.

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  • West Cooper Nouveau

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5 Comments on “The Holy Modal Rounders – The Moray Eels Eat The Holy Modal Rounders album art”

  1. I think this is actually the Lazybones Font.

  2. Hi Vince, this cover design (and also the one for the Gordon Lightfoot album) indeed use Cooper Nouveau. This family by Photo-Lettering spans 3 styles; an upright weight, and two italic weights known as Cooper Nouveau Swash. Our typeface sample shows the lighter weight of the latter, which is the only one that is currently available in digital form. The covers feature the bold one, though.

    Letraset’s Lazybones is very similar to this bolder weight, and was probably conceived as a me-too release. Note that it was issued only in 1972, a few years after these albums were released.

  3. Does anyone know if there exists somewhere a complete character set sample of Cooper Nouveau Swash bold weight?

  4. Robert, not that I know of, alas. Photo-Lettering’s Alphabet Thesaurus Vol. 2 from 1965 includes (partial and tiny) glyph sets, but Cooper Nouveau Swash was released in 1966, and later specimens don’t include full glyph sets. I’d assume that the original plate is part of the assets acquired by House Industries in 2003. They digitized the lighter weight, but not the more popular bold one, assumably because Lazybones is already available in digital form. Between the various in-use samples that we documented, one might be able to compile a sample that covers most letterforms plus some ligatures and alternates. Numerals etc., not so much.

  5. Thanks for the information, Florian—I appreciate it! Cooper Nouveau Swash bold has such a nice design that I think there would be a market for it—maybe House will release it someday.

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