The cover for Bob Seger’s sixth studio album, Back in ’72 (1973), uses hairline lettering based on Futura, embellished by a long black shade. Chances are it’s inspired by PLINC’s Futura Fineline. It’s not a perfect match, though: compared to a 1971 specimen, A and C are narrower, the diagonals in K meet in a point, and the S spine curves more.

The music within—recorded at the legendary Muscle Shoals Sound Studios—is a gritty blend of swampy rock and soul. This album contains the original studio version of “Turn the Page.” It was the first album released through Palladium Records (owned by Punch Andrews, Bob Seger’s manager), a division of Reprise Records.

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Jacket design for a 1971 collection of essays by Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), radical poet, playwright, writer, and founder of the Black Arts Movement.

Kathy McCord is the debut album by American folk/jazz singer Kathy McCord (1952–2015), released in March 1970. It was the first album issued on Creed Taylor’s CTI Records. The cover was designed by Tony Lane, with photography by Price Givens (some sources credit Pete Turner who contributed to many other CTI releases). The typeface appears to be Futura Fineline, an ultralight variant of Futura made at Photo-Lettering, Inc., see also Diary of a Century. (Via Stephen’s comment and Shin Oka/Daylight Fonts)

Dustjacket 1

A very beautiful (and hard to photograph) cover for 1970's Diary of a Century by Jacques-Henri Lartigue probably featuring PLINC’s Futura Fineline [see comments] The book is a collection of some of the 20th Century's greatest photography (up until that point). Edited and afterword by Richard Avedon. Designed by the legendary Bea Feitler. This foil version was the first run by Viking Press.

Dustjacket 2

Without Dustjacket

Paperback.

Inside paperback.