Françoise Hardy – Tous les garçons et les filles album art
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Françoise Hardy’s debut album came out in November 1962, when the French singer-songwriter was 18 years old. Most of the songs were written by Hardy together with Roger Samyn (1923–2011). Originally released without a title, it later was referred to as Tous les garçons et les filles, after the title of the popular opening song, in order to distinguish it from other untitled albums.
The cover typeface appears to be Matterhorn, a condensed sans with straight-sided rounds and vertical contrast, issued by Headliners around 1960. It’s here used with contoured letterforms set on a bouncing baseline. I wonder how one would go about using a phototypeface from New York in Paris at the time. Typographie Internationale (Typinter) was a typesetting studio on 5 Rue des Reculettes. It acted as exclusive agent for Headliners, but my understanding is that this company wasn’t established before 1970.
No designer is credited. The photo is by Jean-Marie Périer (b. 1940), and the sleeve was produced by Paris-based printer Dillard et Cie.
Françoise Hardy died this week at the age of 80. RIP.
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The design of the back cover is more mundane, and exclusively typographic. Hardy’s name is set in blue caps from (a version of) Kristall-Grotesk schmalfett. The line below features two weights of Chambord. The track list and liner notes is in Gill Sans with its Futura-like alternates for a, g etc.
This post was originally published at Fonts In Use