Rita Pavone – “Bonjour la France” single cover

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Fonts from the Flea Market #1309

This sleeve for a 1972 single by Italian-Swiss singer Rita Pavone (b. 1945) features two typefaces with roots in the 19th century. They were both available at the time from French phototype provider Hollenstein:

Italian Print was shown in 1877 in a book of alphabets compiled by Frederick S. Copley. Unlike the original Italians from the early 1800s, this variant is not fully inverse stressed, but rather purely horizontally stressed, and has an extra contour around the capitals.

Smoke is a 20th-century trade name for a backslanted bottom-heavy design with round bottom terminals that was first made in wood by William H. Page around 1856.

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