The booklets from this volume exemplify the dominance of ITC for display typography in the United States in this period. There are nine different typefaces from the library of the International Typeface Corporation, including less common ones such as ITC Uptight Neon (1970) and ITC Quorum (1977).
Letraset (the company that would acquire ITC in 1986) was also influential: There are two originals by the British manufacturer of dry transfer lettering sheets, Compacta (1963) and Cathedral (1978). Many other faces were available from Letraset (as well as from various phototype providers), too, among them revivals like Harrington, Tintoretto, Dynamo, and Peignot, or adaptations of designs that originated in phototype like Tonight, Yagi Double, Checkmate.
Yes! Thanks, Jay. I think it’s not only similar, but a direct copy. In their early years, Mecanorma adopted several Filmotype faces, without giving credit. This included Filmotype Quentin (as Gay Nineties) and Filmotype Quaker (as Jet). Filmotype Quilt has an entry now.
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The Mecanorma Circus appears to be similar to Filmotype Quilt: https://www.flickr.com/photos/28813954@N02/9144581042/in/album-72157634337086325/
Yes! Thanks, Jay. I think it’s not only similar, but a direct copy. In their early years, Mecanorma adopted several Filmotype faces, without giving credit. This included Filmotype Quentin (as Gay Nineties) and Filmotype Quaker (as Jet). Filmotype Quilt has an entry now.
And I notice Wedge Bold might be in a VGC Alphabet Library catalogue book published around 1976, which at least catalogues this face as OR-367.
Top notch (pardon the pun)! I adjusted the publisher credits and added a sample. Thanks, Jay.
Was the catalog published in 1976, or around 1976? Does it state a date?
The spine identifier on the University of Manitoba’s acquired copy shows: