Halloween Monster by Catherine Stock
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The title typeface for this Halloween-themed children’s book is a design by Aldo Novarese that didn’t come up on Fonts In Use before: Oscar is an upright face of wide proportions, with a handwritten feel; its only serifs are the triangular entry strokes at the top left. It was first cast as metal typeface by Nebiolo in 1966. In the specimen for Oscar, the type foundry points out that, despite its originality, the design harks back to the past (translated from the Italian):
We notice a certain similarity with the semi-uncial-insular scripts of the 8th century, which contributed greatly to the evolution of humanistic writing that was to take place many centuries later.
VGC offered a version for phototypesetting. Bitstream made a digitization named Formal 436 in the early 1990s.
Halloween Monster is one of six books in Catherine Stock’s The Festive Year collection. First published by Bradbury Press in 1990, the images shown here are from the Aladdin Books edition issued in 1993. The book design was provided by the author herself, who specified Palatino for the text. From the back cover:
Everyone’s excited about Halloween. Everyone, that is, except Tommy. Tommy doesn’t want to go trick or treating… in fact, the idea of being out with all those ghosts and witches has him scared!
But with a little help from his good friend Billy, Tommy overcomes his fear, and becomes the scariest monster ever—just in time for Halloween!
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