Dave Newman – Fathead Comes On album art
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
on Jul 4th, 2026. Artwork published in
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Black Letter came up here on Fonts In Use before: Loring Eutemey picked it in 1964 for the cover of an album by Bent Fabric. Two years earlier, he already used it for Fathead Comes On by Dave Newman (1933–2009).
Armin Haab’s variation of Futura Black didn’t exist as a font for phototypesetting or dry transfer lettering. It’s rather an alphabet distributed in the form of a book: it was reproduced in Lettera 2 from 1961. Compared to Paul Renner’s 1929 design, it’s distinguished by boxier rounds in CDO etc. and pointed forms for AMVW, among other things.
The cover photography is by Lee Friedlander.
Liner notes by Mort Fega
