Jean-Jacques Perrey – Les Folles Aventures d’Omer et de Jacques Courtois EP
Contributed by Bryson Stohr
on Jan 28th, 2024. Artwork published in
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Les Folles Aventures d’Omer et de Jacques Courtois (“The Wacky Adventures of Omer and Jacques Courtois”) is a late 1950s 7″ EP by Jean-Jacques Perrey (a rather well-known electronic musician and one of the earliest, 1929–2016) that’s based off of a then-popular ventriloquist called Jacques Courtois (b. 1928), whose acts included playing a puppet boy named Omer.
“Omer et Synovie” uses Gill Kayo, the ultrabold display companion to the Gill Sans family. It’s accompanied with typefaces that were more common in the French typographic vernacular back then: Futura (also known as Europe by Deberny & Peignot) and a condensed style of Berthold-Grotesk [edit: it’s Europe Gras Étroit, see comments].
2 Comments on “Jean-Jacques Perrey – Les Folles Aventures d’Omer et de Jacques Courtois EP”
Well, I just realized that the “condensed style of Berthold-Grotesk” is actually Europe Gras Etroit.
Ha! You’ve already stumbled upon the new page that we’ve recently created, following Nick’s discovery of the outlined Mont-Blanc. It’s now finished – turns out Europe Gras Étroit is a version of Kristall-Grotesk schmalfett.