All Time Greek Hits by The Skyros Greek Musicians and Singers
This compilation of Greek folk music was published by Diplomat Records. It features “Zorba’s Dance” from the motion picture Zorba the Greek (1964), starring Anthony Quinn.
The big type is Paul Renner’s Futura Display (1932), which was named Futura Schlagzeile (“Headline”) in Germany. In the US, it also circulated as Airport Tourist. This copy made by Baltimore was cast from electrotyped mats derived from the German foundry type. [McGrew] The script typeface is Filmotype Zephyr, originally made in 1952 and digitized in 2012 by Alejandro Paul together with the related Yukon (1958).
The small sans serif appears to be News Gothic Extended. This wide variant was made in two weights by Intertype in 1961 and seems to be unavailable in digital form. Linotype’s Trade Gothic Extended (1959) is largely identical. In ATF’s matrix of gothics, the light wide position was covered by Monotone Gothic, which is less wide than Intertype’s addition.
![The text on the record label is set in Vogue [see comments].](https://original.fontsinuse.com/fontsinuse.com/use-images/86/86455/86455.jpeg)
The text on the record label is set in Vogue [see comments].
5 Comments on “All Time Greek Hits by The Skyros Greek Musicians and Singers”
That’s Vogue, not Bernhard Gothic.
Of course! Thanks for the correction, Mark.
No sample for News Gothic Extended? I have a feeling it’s a lost font?
I’ve added a sample now.
What is your definition of a “lost font”? News Gothic Extended was – to my knowledge – never digitized. But that’s true for many typeface designs. Intertype is long defunct; their fonts are no longer produced, but they do live on in some letterpress workshops.
Intertype’s News Gothic Extended (1961) is a close follower of Linotype’s Trade Gothic Extended (1959). The latter is available in digital form. Apart from the Q, the differences between the two are minute (there are a few more distinctive details in the Bold). I can’t recall what made us decide on tagging News Gothic Extended for this album cover. It might have been the bar in t: it appears to be a tad more centered in the Intertype version, at least in some size.
Though it’s not a literal revival of News Gothic Extended, the lighter weights of HEX Franklin’s Wide styles were based partly on News Gothic Extended (as well as Monotone Gothic), and are intended to serve a similar function as those styles did in the larger multiverse of ATF gothics and their descendants (Franklin Gothic, News Gothic, Lightline Gothic, etc).
So even though HEX Franklin doesn’t offer a digital style exactly matching the proportions of News Gothic Extended (for example: it has a notably larger x-height), I like to think it captures a similar spirit in a subset of its designspace.
HEX Franklin also includes an alternate simplified g, like the one in the sample of Trade Gothic Florian shared. That form of g was offered by ATF in other widths of News Gothic (as well as adaptations of ATF’s other gothics offered by other companies).