Wganda Kenya – Cartagena Caribe album art
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Cartagena Caribe is the final album by Wganda Kenya, a “Colombian latin afrobeat funk band from Medellin, set up during the 1960s by Discos Fuentes”, released in 1987.
The album art of both the vinyl and the cassette release features open and shaded caps that combine slab-serif top halves with bifurcated bottom ones. It appears to be a derivative of a 19th-century design that is known under various names, including Bracelet, Romantiques No. 5, and Tuscan Ornate. It’s not clear if they were custom drawn, or existed in prefabricated form, for example as dry transfer lettering alphabet. The band’s name is in ITC Souvenir. Most of the smaller text is printed in two widths of the IBM Selectric version of Univers.
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Here’s the album title compared to a resetting in Dieter Steffmann’s Romantique, a freebie digitization of the ornamented typeface. It’s clear to me that the former was derived from this general design, but I don’t know of such a readily available typeface without the ornamentation.
VGC had Celtic Ornate, which is a stripped down version of Doric Shade, but that’s not it.