Willie Nelson – Willie Nelson & Family album art
Contributed by Stefan Perkins on Apr 16th, 2023. Artwork published in
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Photo: Stefan Perkins. License: All Rights Reserved.
Fun use of an outlined Mansard that appears to be hand-drawn, for this Willie Nelson album from 1971. The closest digital font I can find seems to be HWT Archimedes, which is missing some of the fun nuances (for example, the lower-case i and the ampersand).
Cover photo by Jimmy Moore. No designer is credited.
Photo: Stefan Perkins. License: All Rights Reserved.
Photo: Stefan Perkins. License: All Rights Reserved.
1 Comment on “Willie Nelson – Willie Nelson & Family album art”
Several of the versions of Mansard did come with a contour. Here’s Mansard Shaded a shown in a c. 1873 specimen by James Conner & Sons:
For versions from the mid-20th century, Photo-Lettering carried a Mansard with contour, too, as Xenotype 3794, but that one has a different a, without a spur to the left of the bowl. And Slim Dandy by Lettergraphics didn’t have a lowercase, as far as I can tell.