The Best of Ray Stevens album art

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This double LP with the best of Ray Stevens (b. 1939) was released by K-Tel in 1980. The name of the singer-songwriter and comedian is shown in Parsons, a typeface designed in 1917 by Will Ransom. Parsons came with a couple of alternate swash caps and select glyphs with extra long ascenders and descenders. It didn’t have descending forms for R V S, though. Richard Flair a.k.a. Puritan Flair is a phototype version with more alternates, but it likewise lacks the glyphs seen here.

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The Parsons Series as it was advertised by Barnhart Brothers & Spindler in the November 1917 issue of the Inland Printer

This post was originally published at Fonts In Use

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