Ramsey Lewis – The Groover album art
Contributed by Ian Lanius on Nov 7th, 2019. Artwork published in
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Type doesn’t get set this tight on accident.
The Groover is a live album by the Ramsey Lewis Trio which was recorded at the Lighthouse in 1965 at the same performances that produced the album Hang On Ramsey! but not released on the Cadet label until 1972. [Wikipedia]
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6 Comments on “Ramsey Lewis – The Groover album art”
Nice one! I’ve adjusted the font ID. ITC Bookman wasn’t released before 1975. It’s distinguished from other Bookmans by a “true italic” with cursive forms (round e, monocular a). This is one of the older phototype versions of Bookman with slanted roman letterforms, probably PLINC’s Bookman Italic Swash, see this previous post. It doesn’t seem to match in all details, but keep in mind that there’s always the possibility of manual customization.
Very nice! Saw this cover yesterday on music nerd and Ad Age editor Brian Braiker's IG story. Great addition!
Everything about this typography is superb!
The Bookman “Th” ligature is my new spirit animal.
Why wasn’t this labeled as Bookman Swash
I’ve adjusted the typeface credit now.
There were two reasons. Firstly, we didn’t always have a separate typeface page for Bookman Bold Swash on Fonts In Use. Chances are that this post was published before we introduced it.
Secondly, Bookman Bold Swash is a specific design. Not every Bookman with swashes is Bookman Bold Swash. We currently have dedicated pages for some one them, for example for Bookman Meola or the digital Bookmania. Unknown versions or such without a dedicated page are tagged with Bookman.
As mentioned above, I think the font used here is PLINC’s Bookman Italic Swash, which is different from Bookman Bold Swash in a number of details, including the wider e seen here. I have now widened the focus of Bookman Bold Swash to include this variant.
I made a new collective entry for a number of semi-related Bookmans by Photo-Lettering, called PLINC Bookman Swash. Font ID adjusted.