Christmas with The Lennon Sisters (Ranwood, 1968) album art
Contributed by Florian Hardwig on Dec 26th, 2020. Artwork published in
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Two VGC originals, Davida and Jana, both from 1965, used in all caps for a Christmas album by the Lennon Sisters. Originally issued by Dot Records in 1960, this is the cover of a reissue on Ranwood from 1968. Bookman Italic is used for “with The”, and Filmotype Ranger for the song names. The Ranwood logo uses Fantail.
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That Filmotype Ranger looks kinds of similar to Filmotype Rodgers a bit
Unlike some later typesetting devices, the Filmotype machine wasn’t capable of distorting letterforms, like slanting or stretching them. That’s why they had to draw all the variations individually. They gave each style a distinct name, but would use the same initial letter for a certain genre. The letter R stood for “Serif”, as you can see in a specimen from around 1958.
The styles don’t really form a cohesive family, and you can find small differences in the treatment of certain details. But yes, they are related to some extent. Rodgers may be described as a bolder and less condensed variant of Ranger. While Ranger’s a has a round “belly”, the bowl–stem transition of this letter is different in Rodgers.