The Kandy Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby by Tom Wolfe, Pocket

Contributed by Florian Hardwig


Source: www.abebooks.com A Cappella Books. License: All Rights Reserved.

The Kandy Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby is the first book by Tom Wolfe, originally published in 1965 with a jacket design by Janet Halverson featuring colorful script lettering. The paperback edition by Pocket Books initially used script lettering, too, albeit in black and in a less elaborate rendering.

Starting around the 10th printing from 1973, it was superseded by a typographic solution using Bauhaus Prisma. Ed Benguiat multiline extension of his Bauhaus Geometric comes in sixteen variants. The one used here, Bauhaus Prisma N, has bold solid letterforms decorated with a pair of hairlines. The latter were separated and printed in tangerine red, thus resembling the stripes on candy canes.

This post was originally published at Fonts In Use

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