Go Computer Now! How Sphere Corporation Invented the Modern Microcomputer—Then Disappeared is a reported nonfiction book about one of the first manufacturers of integrated desktop personal computers. Sphere operated outside of Salt Lake City, Utah, from 1975 to 1977.

The book was written by Ben Zotto (me) and published in 2026. The design (interior and cover) is by Sophie Wietlisbach, who brings a refinement and clarity to Sphere’s rough-around-the-edges technology and marketing.

Wietlisbach uses Optimo’s Media77 (the digital revival of Media) for the text, an effective nod to the mid-late-1970s era covered by the narrative. Captions are set in Media77 Condensed (as are the notes and index of the book, for higher information density).

My own Signetics CRT is deployed for the page numbers and dust jacket cover. This font was created for the book by starting with the bitmap letterforms produced by the Signetics 2513 character generator chip, then extruding the horizontal “pixels” to reflect the way that cathode ray tube video output appears on the screen of Sphere computers.

The cover text and the foil stamp on front board use a variable version of the Signetics font that subtly “jitters” the horizontal strips in the same way an imperfectly calibrated video circuit did in the 1970s, giving that text a less “perfect” and slightly more organic feel.

More information about the book can be found on gocomputernow.com. For more information about Sphere computers, see sphere.computer. The typography of Sphere’s corporate branding is covered in a previous post on Fonts In Use.

These posters were created for Ignite, the opening event of SparkFest ’26 featuring Afro-Cuban jazz duo Okan. It uses Sundose throughout, taking advantage of the typeface’s bold forms and retro character at large sizes. Oversized headlines, layered shadows, and bright contrasting colors make the typography the dominant visual element, helping communicate the energy of the live music event.

Hotel Ziggy is a boutique hotel in West Hollywood. Its brand thrives on unpretentious rebellion, capturing the counter-culture grit and rock-and-roll history of Sunset Strip.

The branding by FINE Design leans heavily into socialization, highlighted by West Hollywood’s largest saltwater pool, DJ sets, and the rock-inspired B-Side Pizza joint. The logotype uses Molenilo, with modified glyphs for G and Y. The supporting sans is Halis Grotesque.

The script on the compact disc uses Amithen.

In JapanEasy Kitchen, Tim Anderson shares easy recipes, centred on a selection of go-to Japanese ingredients.

See also JapanEasy, Vegan JapanEasy and JapanEasy Bowls & Bento from the same series.

Alias Harbour is used for cover type. The Japanese font is Hiragino Kaku Gothic.

TT Neoris Pro has become part of the brand identity for Supersuite: our expressive font is used on the company’s website and product packaging.

​Supersuite is an American perfume and body care brand. The simultaneously clean and original TT Neoris Pro perfectly complemented the vibrant, modern design without overwhelming it. It is paired with the condensed Bebas Neue and a custom script logotype.

Fairy Skate Princess Island is an animated island as seen in “Skate Night”, an episode of the critically, and commercially, unsuccessful Cartoon Network series Out of Jimmy’s Head, which was based on the live-action 2006 film Re-Animated, and was advertised as Cartoon Network's first live-action series (though, that honor goes to Big Bag in 1996).

In the episode, Dolly transports Jimmy to a magical place where everyone’s a princess, and Jimmy was humiliated from wearing a dress in cartoon form. But, Dolly wanted to teach Jimmy how to skate well to win Robin’s heart.

The fonts used for the title card are Musicals, a font produced by Brain Eaters Font Co., and Heartland. Musicals is used for “Fairy Skate Princess”, while Heartland is used for “Island”.

From Wikipedia:

Bodies and Souls is the seventh studio album by The Manhattan Transfer, released in September 1983 on the Atlantic Records label.

This album took the Manhattan Transfer in a different direction from their previous releases, offering a new, revised style of their music. There were several collaborations on this album, including with Stevie Wonder, Rod Temperton, and Jeremy Lubbock. Frankie Valli appears as a guest artist on the song “American Pop”.

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Music of Ketelbey is an album with music composed by Albert W. Ketèlbey, performed by the New Symphony Orchestra of London under conductor Stanford Robinson. This album was released in 1961 by Richmond, a budget label of London Records.

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Hitori + Kaiso 1998–2001 is Casino Versus Japan’s fourth album and first compilation of unreleased tracks. The album was released on January 30, 2004, via Attacknine.

Century Gothic is used for the artist name on the front cover with a slight drop-shadow. In the bottom right corner, the album name is set in Arial. There is heavy tracking used on most text.

The track list on the back cover uses Arial Bold, also with heavy tracking.

The cover design/concept is credited to Hologramrinse/Erik Alwell, who is a cofounder of the Attacknine label

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Psyko Ferret was an unsuccessful pilot for a potential Nickelodeon TV series, produced by Klasky Csupo in 2000. Suburban was used for the Psyko Ferret logo, as well as both the opening and end credits.

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The Wondrous World of Whimsical Willy is a fictional children’s TV show, starring Whimsical Willy in the magical fantasy land of Daydream Lane. The show is created by a bunch of criminals who manipulate their impressionable child audience (and the Mayor) into giving them money. It appeared in the Powerpuff Girls episode “Neighbor Hood”.

This show is a parody on Soupy Sales, a 1950s children’s TV show, infamous for an episode where they scammed children into taking money from their parents and sending it to the show's address. The creator of the show claimed that when they scammed the kids, it was only a joke, not meant to be taken seriously, but he didn’t account for how impressionable his young audience was. As such, he made a rough estimate of $60,000 off of the stunt, and got in lots of trouble with his superiors.

The font used for this show is Action Is, designed by Jeff Levine and digitized by his friend Brad O. Nelson at Brain Eaters Font Co.. Cartoon Network used the Action Is font since the late 1990s, and throughout most of the 2000s.

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Good‑bye, Curtis is a children’s picture book written by Kevin Henkes and published by Greenwillow Books. The story follows Curtis, a neighborhood mail carrier, on his final day of work after 42 years of service. As he makes his last rounds, he is met with gifts, hugs, and a surprise community party. The narrative highlights themes of gratitude, community, and everyday dedication. Illustrations by Margaret Dyer add warmth and charm to the farewell scene.

The cover typography uses the Equinox typeface. Its clean, geometric letterforms provide a modern and approachable design that complements the book’s tone.

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West Bubble Gum’s Blockshadow style in bichromatic use for a matchbook by Holiday Inn, probably from around the mid-1970s: the slogan “Get that holiday feeling” was introduced in late 1974 by J. Walter Thompson.

“Get that” is set in squeezed Romana. “The World’s Innkeeper” uses PLINC’s Standard Intermediate Extended, a slightly narrower version of Akzidenz-Grotesk breit on the matchbook shown above. The ones below use the similar Venus Extended.

Witchcraft in America Today is a book by Emile C. Schurmacher (1903–1976), an author from North Salem, New York.

The witch in the cover art is depicted with several of the stereotypical insignia, like red hair, black coat, pointed hat, and steaming cauldron – but no black cat familiar. Still, there’s a feline present: the title is set in yellow Pussycat. This amorphous face was drawn by Charles Papirtis for Photo-Lettering. Two of its three all-caps styles, Black and Swirl, were shown in their 1969 Alphabet Yearbook.

From the back cover:

In expensive Park Avenue apartments and Harlem tenements, in the farms of Pennsylvania and the swamps of Florida, people are casting spells, preparing charms, burning magic candles, and attending nude Black Masses.

Witchcraft in America Today is a fascinating survey of the varieties of magic currently being practiced, from the black Pope of San Francisco to the swinging coven of politically prominent people in Washington, D.C.

What are their goals? What powers do they possess? Why are they increasing in number? The answers—startling, strange and frightening—are all here in Witchcraft in America Today.

Typo American was used for the promotion of the TV series The Watcher.

Netflix’s The Watcher is a mystery thriller series following the Brannock family, who invest their life savings to buy a luxurious suburban home in Westfield, New Jersey. Shortly after moving in, they are terrorized by sinister, threatening letters sent by an anonymous stalker who calls themselves “The Watcher”. The series follows the couple as they spiral into intense paranoia, suspecting their eccentric neighbours and private investigators while trying to uncover the stalker’s identity.

The Human Centipede: First Sequence is a 2010 Dutch trilingual* exploitation horror film directed by Tom Six and produced by him and Ilona Six. The movie uses hyper-realistic fake gore on the surgery scenes where a “human centipede” is being created. The main typeface used in the poster is Trajan, designed in 1989 by Carol Twombly for Adobe. Its monumental letterforms were partly sliced for the title. Since Trajan is an all-caps typeface, Times New Roman was added to set the actors’ first names in mixed case. The credit block uses Bee.

*) Original languages are English, German and Japanese.

After The College Dropout, Kanye West released his second studio album Late Registration on August 30, 2005. From Wikipedia:

Late Registration is the second studio album by the American rapper Kanye West. It was released on August 30, 2005, through Roc-A-Fella Records and Def Jam Recordings. West recorded the album over the course of a year during sessions held at studios in Hollywood and New York City, in collaboration with Jon Brion. The album features guest appearances from Adam Levine, Jamie Foxx, Common, Brandy, Lupe Fiasco, Jay-Z, and Nas, among others. […]

The art direction and music packaging design for Late Registration were both handled by Brooklyn graphic design studio Morning Breath, Inc, while Louis Marino served as creative director. The photography was done by Sarah A. Friedman and Kris Yiengst, the latter of which also did art coordination. Styling and grooming were handled by Charlene Roxborough and Ibn Jasper, respectively, for the company Partos, while Doug Joswick was responsible for package production. Similar to the cover art of The College Dropout, the artwork features West’s “Dropout Bear” mascot, showing it at a child’s size and stood in the center of two large wooden doors at Princeton University.

From Wikipedia:

Lost Continents: The Atlantis Theme in History, Science, and Literature is a study by L. Sprague de Camp that provides a detailed examination of theories and speculations on Atlantis and other lost lands, including the scientific arguments against their existence. It is one of his most popular works. It was written in 1948 and first published serially in the magazine Other Worlds Science Fiction in 1952–1953; portions also appeared as articles in Astounding Science Fiction, Galaxy Science Fiction, Natural History Magazine, and the Toronto Star. It was first published in book form by Gnome Press in 1954; an updated edition was published by Dover Publications in 1970.

The shown cover is for the 1975 paperback edition by Ballantine Nonfiction (24379), featuring two styles of Eightway in chromatic use, set on a circle. Cover artist unknown.

The Moraine – Home is Where the Mountains Are

Getting up and out in Colorado: less than 30 minutes from Boulder, Colorado, and in the foothills of the majestic Rocky Mountains, The Moraine brings together urban convenience and breathtaking outdoor access. Watson was tasked with creating a name and a brand that would attract active individuals and families seeking to live, hike, bike, climb, and ski in pristine nature without giving up the urban amenities that the cities of Boulder and Longmont have to offer.

Grounded in a strategy centered on living close to nature, the brand identity draws directly from Colorado’s rugged landscape. The logo abstracts a rock and a house into a distinctive M mark, creating a visual connection between the buildings and the natural environment. The angular geometry of the symbol establishes the foundation for the typographic system. Type moves throughout the compositions with the same rugged, geometric character, creating a cohesive and expressive visual language.

The overall identity remains intentionally restrained, allowing the landscape to remain the hero. A minimal black-and-white palette, paired with a Swiss graphic design–inspired typographic system, introduces references to sports and outdoor culture while maintaining a refined and contemporary character.

From NYU Press:

The experiences of a diverse range of progressive theater and performance makers in their own words. Curated stories from over 75 interviews and informal exchanges offer insight into the field and point out limitations due to discrimination and unequal opportunity for performance artists in the United States over the past 55 years.

Alias Cactus is used for cover type.