Toronto Symphony Orchestra – The Planets by Gustav Holst album art
Aldo Novarese (1920–1995) worked for Nebiolo for thirty-seven years. After the foundry in Turin ceased its type design activities, the Italian type designer turned to new publishing partners and found them in ITC, Berthold, and Linotype. In addition, he released nearly a dozen typefaces with Visual Graphics Corporation (VGC), the Florida-based manufacturer of the Photo Typositor.
One of these designs is Andromeda, released in 1978 in two weights. The capitals are basically a revision of those for his earlier Spazio, with wider proportions and slightly angled instead of vertical terminals. Andromeda’s lowercase is funkier, though, and introduces forms for a e h m q that resemble capital letters, yielding a caps-with-small caps look. It’s also reminiscient of Cassandre’s Peignot, especially the h that looks like a scaled-down cap with elongated left stem.
In this application, we only get to see the uppercase. It’s the album cover for The Planets as performed by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra conducted by Andrew Davis (1944–2024) at the Centre in the Square, Kitchener, Ontario, on 20 January 1986.
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