Roxette – Joyride album cover
Contributed by Thomas Evensson
on May 28th, 2021. Artwork published in
March 1991
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Mattias Edwall. License: All Rights Reserved.
Their third album in Sweden, but second in the rest of the world, Joyride established Roxette as a real band. Designed by EMI in-house designer/producer Kjell Andersson with help from Roxette. Kjell was very into Futura at this period – here using the Bold in all lowercase –, and considering none of this was made in Photoshop it really is a masterpiece! It was released on vinyl, CD, MC, DCC and MD, with all sleeves being the same except for the cassettes where they cropped it in portrait mode of course.
8 Comments on “Roxette – Joyride album cover”
The logo is actually using Futura Bold; the extra bold weight is heavier.
Right you are, my bad. Thanks for the correction.
I like how they had to use an uppercase J for the joyride part on the album cover art. They probably encountered a problem when they saw that the lowercase j looked like an i since the creator intentionally never put a tail on the j when the font was published in 1927.
Good observation, Emmanuel!
Thanks, Florian,
The logo is actually using Futura No. 2 D Bold.
The liner notes and back cover use a combination of regular, italic, and bold of the Linotype/Adobe cut of Futura.
Oooh! So not a repurposed uppercase J after all. Thanks, Barry – excellent.
Here’s Linotype’s Futura Bold (top) compared to URW’s Futura No. 2 D Bold:
Good one Barry!