The Seekers – “Kumbaya” / “This Train” German single cover
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German sleeve for a single by Australian group the Seekers, with two songs from their 1963 debut album Introducing the Seekers, “Kumbaya” and “This Train”.
The band name is shown in caps from Ludlow Black, a follower of Cooper Black. The song names appear to be in the breit fett (bold extended) style of Akzidenz-Grotesk, with its alternate a. The wide r doesn’t match the glyph in Berthold’s foundry version – it might be custom made by trimming an n [edit: no, see comments].
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The unruly alignment suggests that the letters were applied one by one. I’m not aware of a dry transfer adaptation of Akzidenz-Grotesk breit fett, though. Maybe the letters were cut from some printed template and pasted individually. Working with scissors would also explain the non-standard r.
Correction: the wide r is not a custom creation. While it isn’t shown on the Schriftenkartei index card, it does appear in Berthold’s Probe No. 476. There, it’s presented as the default form, with the space-saving one as one of three alternates (alongside a and g), “only supplied additionally on special request”.