The Cactus Garden by Robert Ward

Contributed by Florian Hardwig


Source: www.ebay.com Between the Covers. License: All Rights Reserved.

Hardback edition, 1995. “A novel” is in Futura Extra Bold.

Template Gothic in use for The Cactus Garden, a novel by Robert Ward published in 1995 by Pocket Books. On the jacket, Barry Deck’s iconic sans inspired by vernacular letterforms is used in all caps, black on dark grey, with a bright green drop shadow.

Matt Galemmo designed the book jacket. The lizard with a lipstick kiss on its back is by Mark and Stephanie Gerber.

Source: www.abebooks.com Idler Fine Books. License: All Rights Reserved.

Template Gothic is also used for the text on the inner flap, togeher with Futura Condensed. The title page is set in Forte, with hideous faux small caps.

Source: www.abebooks.com Sklubooks. License: All Rights Reserved.

On the cover of the paperback edition from 1996, the caps from Template Gothic are shown in green and apparently embossed. The blurb is added in (regular-wide) Futura.

This post was originally published at Fonts In Use

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