Camp Fire Sing Along album art
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This album with twenty-seven folk songs credited to the “Sing-Along Singers” was released in 1959 by Celebrity Records in New York. The wide geometric sans used in caps is Twentieth Century Ultrabold Extended. This style was unique to Monotype’s copy of Futura. Chances are the song names sandwiched between the two big lines aren’t in Paul Renner’s original either, but in the regular style of Twentieth Century.
Design by Sam Suliman.
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Long before Fontstand launched an app for renting digital fonts, Monotype offered a rental program for matrices to be used with their typesetting machine.
Twentieth Century Ultrabold Extended was advertised as new in the Handy Index of ‘Monotype’ Rental Matrices from 1955: