Gene Autry’s Country Music Hall of Fame Album
Contributed by Stephen Coles on Jan 22nd, 2015. Artwork published in
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Republic is a very early Photo-Lettering release that continued to appear in catalogs until at least 1982, but isn’t well known today because it didn’t make it into an ITC release, or digital fonts. The large family is quite similar to VAG Rounded but beat it by at least 30 years.
Despite its long life, there aren’t many examples of Republic out there, so it was exciting to find it on this Columbia Records sleeve. The designer, Ron Coro, was a big fan of soft, geometric sans serifs. Besides Republic he used Chwast Blimp multiple times and drew his own rounded sans, Coro Moon.
