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The face is unfamiliar, but it’s always me.
Fonts In Use readers be like: “The face is familiar! That’s another fairly early Use of Checkmate.” Here it’s used for the author name (mixed case) and the title (all caps), stacked and justified. The notch in U has been closed, for a firmer baseline.
Flux was published in June 1974 as part of Ron Goulart’s Barnum System series. Cover art by Jack Gaughan.