Varsity Singers – Songs of America including Cowboy Favorites album art

Photo(s) by Bart Solenthaler on Flickr.


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Long before Edwin Shaar at Intertype added an Extra Bold to Paul Renner’s Futura series in 1952, Baltotype realized that there is potential in a heavyweight geometric sans. While most of their Airport series is a direct copy of Futura, Airport Black is an original addition, cut about 1943.

On this album cover from 1954, it’s used together with Franklin Gothic and less bold style from Futura (technically, it’s probably Airport, too). The song names are shown inside the cowboy’s lasso noose.

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