The Ventures – “Superstar Revue” / “Live And Let Die” German single cover

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Fonts from the Flea Market #1346

Released by Letraset in 1974, Bob Newman’s Penny Farthing was a popular choice on single sleeves. The design team of United Artists Records was particularly fond of the typeface. Here’s an early example from 1975 for a release by The Ventures. It exclusively uses the large caps without any of the small nested glyphs, and mostly the narrow letter variants.

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This post was originally published at Fonts In Use

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