The Candy Bar and the Spearmint Twist album art
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This record for twist parties in the kid’s room was recorded by the Candy Men. It’s not the group of the same name that performed as the backing band of Roy Orbison, though. The Candy Bar And The Spearmint Twist was released in 1959 by Peter Pan Records.
“Candy Bar” is set in Portly, an extended variant of Metro. It was added to the Filmotype library in 1955. “Spearmint” is another Filmotype face used in all caps: It’s Zingo – with added stripes. “Hi-fi for small fry” pairs Flash (1939) and Futura Bold (1928). “Twist” and “and the” are in two rather generic grotesques, and can be a lot of things. The glyphs at hand are probably not enough to pinpoint the typefaces.
4 Comments on “The Candy Bar and the Spearmint Twist album art”
“Twist” might be using Filmotype Garnet; just like Portly and Zingo, it was carried by Filmotype.
That’s a reasonable suggestion! Thinking along these lines, the wide sans then could be Filmotype Fortune.
Yeah, speaking of which, I think Johann Bold seems to have another alternate version where it uses most of the glyphs from the original Filmotype Metro/Portly Font. Here are some examples:
In the Infant version, the lowercase a and g are modified to make them single-story. However, in the original, they’re double-story.
And here is some more of the Johann Bold font.
And as always, this font is a digital font, which means it can be typable. It is hard to find that font nowadays in PDFs.